【Classic Literature Reference】

Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Febrile Diseases, 206).

Compiler: Zhang, Zhong-jingo

【Indications】

Traditional:

1. Both qi and blood deficiency marked a knotted or intermittent pulse; palpitation emaciation; shortness of breath; and a dry, pal and shiny tongue with less saliva.

2. Consumptive Lung disease manifested by dry cough, scanty phlegm, or cough with bloody sputum, emaciation, shortness breath, restlessness, insomnia, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, dry mouth and throat, constipation, or tidal fever, and a feeble and rapid pulse.

Modern: Coronary heart disease, viral myocarditis, arrhythmia, angina pectoris hypotension, supraventricular arrhythmia rheumatic heart disease, mitral stenosis mitral valve prolapse, endocarditis, pulmonary tuberculosis, hyperthyroidism, emphysema and neurasthenia.^2,3

 

 

 

Pattern of Both Qi and Blood Deficiency

【Herbs & Actions】