Skin Symptoms-Dry Skin
Sources:
Patterns of Disharmony:
1.Lung Dryness
a.Clinical Manifestations
b.Pulse/Tongue
c.Treatment Principle
d. Treatment Strategy
e. Treatment Plan
f. Patient Education/ Recommendations
g. prognosis
2.Blood Deficiency
a.Clinical Manifestations
b.Pulse/Tongue
c.Treatment Principle
d. Treatment Strategy
e. Treatment Plan
f. Patient Education/ Recommendations
g. prognosis
Skin Symptoms-Acne/ red eruptions
Patterns of Disharmony
Heat in the blood
a.Clinical Manifestations
Maciocia, Giovanni. The Foundations of
Chinese Medicine.
1. Lung Dryness
2. Deficiency of Liver Blood
a. Dry couch, dry skin, dry throat, dry
mouth, thirst, hoarse voice
b. Pulse: empty, esp. on the right front
position Tongue: dry
c. Moisten the lungs, nourish fluids
d. empirical points to moisten the lung,
points to tonify kidney yin and nourish
fluids.
e. Lu-9, KD-6, SP-6, CV-12, tonifying
method
f.
g.
2. Deficiency of Liver Blood
a. dizziness, numbness of the limbs,
insomnia, blurred vision, “floaters” in eyes,
scanty menstruation or amenorrhoea, dullpale complexion, pale lips, muscular
weakness, muscle spasms, cramps,
withered and brittle nails, dry skin
b. Pulse: Choppy or fine Tongue: Pale
body especially on the sides which, in
extreme cases, can assume an orange color,
dry.
c. Tonify the Liver, Nourish the blood
d. back shu of the liver, back shu of the
spleen, back shu of the kidney, influential
point of blood, empirical points to tonify
liver blood
e. BL-18, 20, 23, and 17. LV-18; ST-36
and Sp-6; CV-4.
f. Eat a nourishing diet
g.
1. Heat in the blood
a. feeling of heat, skin diseases with red
eruptions, dry mouth, bleeding, other
b.Pulse/Tongue
c.Treatment Principle
d. Treatment Strategy
e. Treatment Plan
f. Patient Education/ Recommendations
e. prognosis
symptoms vary depend on organs involved.
If heat is in heart blood there will be
anxiety, if in liver blood there will be skin
diseases with itching, heat and redness.
b. Rapid pulse, Red tongue
c. Clear Heat in the Blood
d. empirical points to clear heat in the
blood (can add points for other organs
involved
e. LI-4, LI-11, ST-44
f. avoid spicy foods
e. n/a