Lung and Heart Qi Deficiency
Lung and Heart Qi Deficiency
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Diagnostic Signs
Pale
Empty (Xu)
Diagnostic Considerations
Key characteristic symptoms of this pattern are the spontaneous sweating, pale face, fatigue and emotional problems such as sadness and grief.
Causes & Pathology
Common Causes
Heart Qi Deficiency can be the result of emotional problems such as sadness or grief, while Lung Qi Deficiency is often the consequence of worry.
Heart and Lungs' Qi can be greatly consumed by overwork, especially for these who need to speak a lot over a long period of time. It will become Yin Deficiency eventually.
Pathological Mechanism
In terms of typical manifestations, Heart Qi Deficiency and Lung Qi Deficiency share many common ones such as spontaneous sweating, fatigue and pale face. The combined Deficiency of both Organs is quite common to be seen as a result of emotional stress such as sadness, grief and worry.
Other than that, palpitations are the typical symptom for Heart Deficiency, while slight short of breath and slight coughing are due to Lung Deficiency, because the Lung Qi fails to descend properly. Also, the Lungs control the voice by influencing the Gathering Qi, therefore impaired Lung Qi makes the patients dislike speaking due to a weaker voice.
The patients also don't like cold and is more likely to catch cold or flu due to Lung Deficiency. It is because the Lungs fails to disperse Defensive Qi in the space between skin and muscles and the body is more vulnerable to external Pernicious Evils.
Treatment Approach
Treatment Principle
Tonify Qi, strengthen the Heart and the Lungs, calm the Mind.
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