Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency
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At a glance
Preliminary reading: What is a pattern?
Diagnosis
Common symptoms: Palpitations Aversion to cold Shortness of breath Attraction to warmth Weakness and stiffness and one other symptoms
Pulse type(s): Fine (Xi), Slow (Chi), Weak (Ruo)
Tongue coating: Thin white coating
Tongue color: Pale
Treatment
Common formulas: Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang
Pathology
Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency is a pattern of disharmony in Chinese Medicine.
Chinese Medicine views the human body as a complex system that tends toward harmony. A pattern of disharmony is a disorder that prevents that harmony from occurring.
Patterns give rise to symptoms that may at first glance seem unrelated from a Western standpoint but that actually make a lot of sense when one understands Chinese Medicine theory. For instance here Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency gives rise to such diverse symptoms as heavy and painful sensations in the lower back and lower extremities, weakness and stiffness, aversion to cold and attraction to warmth (as well as two others).
To diagnose a pattern, analyzing a patient's pulse as well as their tongue is common practice. In the case of Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency patients tend to exhibit fine (Xi), slow (Chi) or weak (Ruo) pulses as well as a pale tongue with thin white coating.
Patterns aren't exactly the Chinese Medicine equivalent to Western diseases, they're rather the underlying causes behind diseases or health conditions. Here Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency is thought to sometimes induce conditions such as eczema, rheumatoid arthritis or lumbar disc disease (as well as five others).
Diagnosing Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency
Diagnosing a pattern in Chinese Medicine is no easy feat and should be left to professional practitioners. In particular one has to know how to differentiate between different types of pulses and tongue coatings, shapes and colors as well as learn to read from a long list of seemingly unrelated symptoms.
Pulse type(s): Fine (Xi), slow (Chi) or weak (Ruo)
Tongue coating: Thin white coating
Tongue color: Pale
Main symptoms: Palpitations Aversion to cold Shortness of breath Attraction to warmth Weakness and stiffness Heavy and painful sensations in the lower back and lower extremities
Treating Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency
Herbal formulas used to treat Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency
Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang
Source date: 650 AD
Number of ingredients: 15 herbs
Key actions: Anti-rheumatic, clears Wind, Cold and Damp Stagnation. Strengthens the function of the Liver and Kidney. Tonifies Qi and Blood.
Formula summary
Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang is a 15-ingredient Chinese Medicine formula. Invented in 650 AD, it belongs to the category of formulas that dispel Wind-Damp.
Related conditions
Please keep in mind that a Western Medicine condition can be caused by several Chinese Medicine patterns of disharmony and vice versa. As such a patient suffering from one of the conditions below will not necessarily be suffering from Painful Obstruction with Liver and Kidney Deficiency, it is just one pattern that's commonly associated with the condition. Click on a condition to learn what other patterns it's associated with.
Eczema Rheumatoid arthritis Lumbar disc disease Periarthritis of the shoulder Sciatica Osteoarthritis Chronic lower back pain Temporomandibular joint dysfunction