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Common Signs & Symptoms
ABDOMINAL DISTENSION
ABDOMINAL DISTENSION & PAIN
ABDOMINAL PAIN/DISTENSION
ABDOMINAL PAIN/DISTENSION-BETTER W/PRESSURE
ABSENCE OF TASTE
AFTERNOON FEVER
ALTERNATING CONSTIPATION & DIARRHEA
AMENORRHEA
ANOREXIA (LOW APPETITE)
APHASIA
ASTHMA
ASTHMA W/COPIOUS PHLEGM
AVERSION TO COLD
AVERSION TO WIND
BACK SORENESS/COLDNESS LUMBAR
BAD BREATH
BELCHING
BITTER TASTE IN MOUTH
BLAZING HT (FIRE + PHLEGM)
BLOATING
BLOOD IN URINE
BLOOD XU SIGNS
BLOOD-TINGED MUCOUS
BLURRED VISION
BONE ACHING
BORBORYGMUS
BREAST DISTENSION BEFORE PERIOD
BURNING EPIGASTRIUM
BURNING IN ANUS
BURNING URINATION
CAN LOOK LIKE OR ACCOMPANY APPENDICITIS
CHEST/SIDE DISTENSION/SORENESS
CHILLS
CHRONIC DIARRHEA
CLEAR FREQUENT URINE
COLD HANDS
COLD HANDS/FEET
COLD HANDS/FEET/NOSE
COLD HEADACHES
COLD/PAINFUL KNEES
COLDNESS & PAIN IN EPIGASTRIUM-SUDDEN ONSET
COLDNESS IN LEGS/BACK
COMA
CONFUSION
CONSTIPATION
CONSTIPATION OR MILD DIARRHEA
CONSTIPATION W/ DRY STOOLS
CONSTRICTION/OPPRESSION OF CHEST
CONTINUAL ANGER/FRUSTRATION + YIN XU = WINDSTROKE
CONVULSIONS
COPIOUS CLEAR DILUTE PHLEGM
COUGH
COUGH W/ THIN WATERY MUCOUS
DARK BLOOD IN STOOLS
DARK CLOTTED MENSES
DARK SCANTY CLOUDY URINE
DARK SCANTY URINE
DARK URINE
DEAFNESS
DEPRESSION
DEVIATION OF EYES & MOUTH
DIARRHEA
DIFFICULTY STARTING & STOPPING URINE FLOW
DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING
DISTENDING SENSATION IN HEAD (DISLIKES TOUCH)
DISTENDING THROBBING EMPTY HEADACHE-(OFTEN TEMPORAL & UNILATERAL)
DISTURBED SHEN SIGNS
DIZZINESS
DRIBBLING URINATION/INCONTINENCE (NOT FIRM)
DRY BLEEDING NOSE
DRY COUGH
DRY EYES FLOATERS
DRY ITCHY THROAT
DRY MOUTH
DRY MOUTH/LIPS
DRY STOOLS
EARLY A.M. DIARRHEA (COCKCROWS)
EASY BRUISING
EDEMA (ESP. FACIAL) HOT ABOVE / COLD BELOW
EDEMA - FACE & HANDS
EDEMA - LEGS & ANKLES
EDEMA POSSIBLE
EDEMA LEGS
EDEMA/RETENTION OF URINE
EMACIATION W/ DARK FACE
ENDOMETRIOSIS OR FIBROIDS (UTERIAN PROBLEMS)
EPIGASTRIC PAIN
EPIGASTRIC PAIN W/HEAT
EPIGASTRIC PAIN/DISTENSION
EXCESSIVE HUNGER / CONSTANT HUNGER
EXCESSIVE LIBIDO
EXCESSIVE THIRST - PREFERS COLD DRINKS
EXHAUSTED APPEARANCE
FATIGUE
FEELING COLD
FEELING WOUND UP
FEVER
FEVER - LOW GRADE & ONGOING
FIXED HARD ABDOMINAL MASSES
FIXED URGENT PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN - WORSE WITH PRESSURE
FOUL BELCHING/ACID REGURGITATION
FOUL-SMELLING STOOLS
FREQUENT/URGENT URINATION
FULL COUGH
FULL COUGH W/ YELLOW STICKY SPUTUM
FULLNESS AFTER BITE OR TWO
FULLNESS IN LOWER ABDOMEN
FULLNESS/DISTENSION IN ABDOMEN
FULLNESS/DISTENSION IN EPIGASTRIUM
FULLNESS/DISTENSION OF LOWER ABDOMEN
GAS
GAS - PAIN RELIEF BY PASSING GAS
GENERAL COLDNESS
HAIR-LOSS
HARDER TO BREATH WHILE LAYING
HEAD & BODY ACHES
HEADACHE (DAMP-TYPE)
HEADACHE (VERTEX / EXCESS)
HEARTBURN
HEARTBURN/SOUR REGURGITATION
HEAT IN LOWER ABDOMEN
HEAVINESS IN HEAD
HEAVY FEELING IN LOWER ABDOMEN/URETHRA
HEAVY SENSATION IN HEAD & LIMBS
HEMIPLEGIA
HEMMORHAGE - ESP. IN LOWER JIAO
HEMMORHOIDS
HI-PITCHED TINNITUS
HIGH FEVER
HOOKWORMS - DESIRE TO EAT STRANGE OBJECTS (DIRT / WAX / UNCOOKED RICE / TEA LEAVES)
HT FIRE BLAZING SIGNS
HT QI & YANG XU SIGNS
HYPERTENSION
HYPOCHONDRIAC PAIN/DISTENSION
IMPULSIVENESS
IN CHILDREN:LATE CLOSURE OF FONTANELS
IN CHILDREN:MENTAL DULLNESS/RETARDATION
IN CHILDREN:POOR BONE DEVELOPMENT
INABILITY TO DIGEST FATS
INCOHERENT SPEECH
INFERTILITY
INSOMNIA
INSOMNIA - FALL ASLEEP EASILY/WAKE OFTEN
INSOMNIA - HARD TO FALL ASLEEP
IRREGULAR PERIODS
IRRITABILITY
JAUNDICE
KI YANG XU SIGNS
LACK OF COURAGE
LACK OF DESIRE TO SPEAK
LACK OF INITIATIVE
LACK OF PERSPIRATION
LAUGHING/CRYING INEXPLICABLY
LETHARGIC STUPOR
LEUKORRHEA
LEUKORRHEA (WHITE)
LIGHT & YELLOWISH STOOLS
LIGHT SENSITIVITY
LOOSE STOOLS
LOOSE STOOLS OR CONSTIPATION
LOOSE STOOLS-STRONG ODOR
LOOSE TEETH
LOOSE TEETH / TEETH PROBLEMS
LOSS OF APPETITE
LOW BACK SORENESS
LOW HOARSE VOICE
LOW RESISTANCE TO INVASIONS
LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN/PRESSURE
LR YIN OR BLOOD XU SIGNS - DRY EYES / DRY MOUTH / NUMBNESS / TINGLING / ANGER / IRRITABILITY / FRUSTRATION
LUMP IN THROAT
MALNOURISHMENT
MANIC SYMPTOMS
MELANCHOLY
MENSTRUAL BLEEDING BETWEEN PERIODS
MENSTRUAL PERIOD WON'T STOP
MENTAL CONFUSION
MENTAL RESTLESSNESS
MOODINESS
MORE CATATONIC INWARD MANIFESTATIONS
MOUTH/TONGUE ULCERS
MUSCLE SPASMS OR CRAMPS
MUSCULAR WEAKNESS
MUTTERING
NASAL OBSTRUCTION
NAUSEA
NAUSEA & VOMITING
NAUSEA/VOMITING
NECK RIGIDITY
NEUROPATHY / NUMBNESS / TINGLING
NIGHTTIME URINATION (>1X/NIGHT)
NO APPETITE
NO THIRST OR THIRST W/OUT DESIRE TO DRINK
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS WITH DREAMS
NOSEBLEEDS
NOSEBLEEDS WITHOUT HEAT
OPISTHOTONUS (STIFFNESS / FRIGIDITY)
PAIN AFTER EATING
PAIN ALLEVIATED BY WARMTH
PAIN ALONG HT MERIDIAN
PAIN DOWN LEFT ARM/SHOULDER
PAIN IN TESTICLES
PAIN WORSE WITH PRESSURE
PAIN/BLOOD IN URINE
PAIN/CONTRACTURE IN SCROTUM/TESTES
PAINFUL DRY DEFECATION
PAINFUL FLANKS - ESP. RIGHT
PAINFUL PERIODS
PALE BRIGHT FACE
PALE SCANTY CLOUDY URINE
PALPITATIONS
PALPITATIONS - WORSE WHEN LYING DOWN
PALPITATIONS - WORSE WHEN UP
PERSPIRATION
PINWORMS - ITCHY ANUS ESP. AT NIGHT
PLEURISY
PMS
POOR APPETITE
POOR HEARING
POOR MEMORY
POSSIBLE BLOOD IN URINE
POSSIBLE FEVER
POSSIBLE HEMORRHAGE
POSSIBLE NAUSEA/VOMITING
POSSIBLE VOMITING
PREFERENCE FOR WARMTH
PREMATURE GRAYING
PROLAPSED ORGANS
PURPLE FACE / LIPS / NAILS
RED FACE
RED FACE & EYES
RED FLUSHED FACE
RED SORE SWOLLEN THROAT
RESTLESSNESS
ROUNDWORMS - ABDOMINAL PAIN / COLD LIMBS / VOMITING WORMS
SCANTY & DARK YELLOW URINE
SCANTY DARK YELLOW URINE
SCANTY MENSES
SCANTY MUCOUS
SEVERE BLOOD XU SIGNS
SHARP / STABBING EPIGASTRIC PAIN-WORSE W/ HEAT & PRESSURE
SHORTNESS OF BREATH
SHORTNESS OF BREATH - DIFFICULTY IN INHALATION / WORSE UPON EXERTION
SHORTNESS OF BREATH-WORSE W/EXERTION
SHOUTING
SHRINKING OF VAGINA
SIGHING
SIGNS OF HT QI XU + COLD
SIGNS OF QI XU + PALPITATIONS
SKIN ERUPTIONS WITH CLEAR FLUID
SLIGHT CHILLS
SLIGHT FEVER
SNEEZING AND HEADACHES
SOFTENING OF BONES
SORE BACK
SORE BACK & KNEES
SORE LOW BACK
SOUR REGURGITATION
SP QI XU SIGNS + COLD
SP QI/YANG XU SIGNS + BEARING DOWN SENSATION IN ABDOMEN
SPLITTING VIOLENT HEADACHES - OFTEN SUDDEN ONSET
SPONTANEOUS DAYTIME SWEATING
STABBING CHEST PAIN/ANGINA
STAGNANT BLOOD SIGNS
STARING AT WALLS
STOMACH CHURNING
STUFFINESS IN LOWER ABDOMEN/EPIGASTRIUM
STUFFINESS OF CHEST/EPIGASTRIUM-BETTER WITH WARMTH
STUFFINESS/DISCOMFORT IN CHEST
STUFFINESS/FULLNESS IN CHEST
SUDDEN TINNITUS OR DEAFNESS
SUDDEN UNCONSCIOUSNESS
SWEATING
SWOLLEN / PAINFUL / BLEEDING / ULCERATED GUMS
SWOLLEN TONSILS
TAPEWORMS - CONSTANT HUNGER
THIN MUSCLES
THIRST
THIRST (GULPS DRINKS)
THIRST W/ NO DESIRE TO DRINK
THIRST WITHOUT DESIRE TO DRINK
THIRST-DRINKING IN SIPS
TICS
TIMIDITY
TINNITUS
TIREDNESS
TIREDNESS/LETHARGY
TREMOR OF LIMBS
TREMORS OF LIMBS OR HEAD
TWISTING PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN - MAY GO THROUGH TO BACK
UNDIGESTED FOOD IN STOOLS
UNHAPPINESS
URINARY INCONTINENCE
URINE - ABUNDANT CLEAR OR SCANTY CLEAR
URINE - CLEAR & SCANTY
VAGINAL EMISSIONS
VIOLENT ANGER
VIOLENT BEHAVIOR
VIOLENT-STABBING ABDOMINAL PAIN
VISION PROBLEMS
VOMITING
VOMITING (CLEAR FLUIDS)
VOMITING DARK BLOOD
VOMITING OF BLOOD
VOMITING OF FECAL MATTER
WATER OVERFLOWING TO HT:PALPITATIONS / BREATHLESSNESS / COLD HANDS
WATER OVERFLOWING TO LU:THIN FROTHY SPUTUM / COUGH / ASTHMA / SORT OF BREATH ON EXERTION
WATERY NASAL DISCHARGE
WEAK COUGH
WEAK LEGS
WEAK LIMBS
WEAK RAPID BREATHING
WEAK VOICE
WEAKNESS OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY
WEAL KNEES/LEGS
WHEEZING / COUGHING / ASTHMA
WHEEZING/RATTLING
WITHERED BRITTLE NAILS
YELLOW BLOOD-TINGED SPUTUM
YIN XU SIGNS
YIN XU SIGNS (5 PALM HEAT / NIGHT SWEAT / SIPPING THIRST)
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Common Tongue Signs
CRACK TO TIP
CRACKED
DEVIATED
DRY
FLABBY
GREASY COAT
GREASY YELLOW COAT
MIDLINE CRACK TO TIP
PALE OR ORANGE SIDES
PEELED
PEELED (ESP. IN ST)
PEELED / CRACKED IN LU
PHLEGM RIDGE
POSSIBLE CRACK TO /AT TIP
PURPLE SPOTS
PURPLE. PALE
QUIVERY
RED
RED OR PALE
RED SIDES
RED TIP
SCALLOPED
STICKY COAT
STIFF
SWOLLEN
SWOLLEN IN LU
SWOLLEN TIP; YELLOW COAT
THICK
THIN
THIN COAT
WET
WHITE
WHITE COAT
WHITE COAT OR NO COAT
WHITE GREASY COAT
WORSE
YELLOW COAT
YELLOW COAT (ESP. IN ST)
BLOOD XU TONGUE
DARK RED/PURPLE W/ RED/PAPILLAE SPOTS
DEEP RED
HT QI XU TONGUE - WORSE
KI YANG XU TONGUE
NORMAL OR PALE W/MOIST/THICK COAT
NORMAL OR PALE; WHITE
NORMAL OR PALE; WHITE COAT
NORMAL OR PURPLE
NORMAL OR RED; YELLOW COAT
PALE
PALE PURPLE
PALE; RED SIDES; DRY
POSSIBLE RED DOTS
PURPLE
PURPLE (ESP. SIDES); PURPLE SPOTS IN LJ
QI XU TONGUE
RED & PEELED
RED (ESP. TIP)
RED WITH YELLOW COAT
RED; DRY YELLOW COAT
RED; GREASY YELLOW COAT
RED; RED
RED; THICK
RED; THICK GREASY YELLOW COAT
RED; YELLOW GREASY COAT
SAME AS SP QI XU/YANG XU - SP QI XU TONGUE(PALE/FLABBY/SCALLOPED/THIN/WHITE COAT) + SP YANG XU (WETTER/WORSE/THICK/WHITE COAT OR NO COAT)
SP QI XU TONGUE(PALE/FLABBY/SCALLOPED/THIN/WHITE COAT) + WETTER
THICK GREASY COAT
THICK YELLOW COAT
THIN WHITE COAT
ULCERS
YIN XU TONGUE
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Common Pulse Signs
CHOPPY
DEEP
DEFICIENT
DEFICIENT OR FULL IN SP/ST
EMPTY
EMPTY (THREADY) ESP. IN HT AREA
EMPTY ON SP
EMPTY)
ESP. IN HT AREA
ESP. IN LR
ESP. KI
ESP. LJ
FAST
FINE
FULL
KNOTTED
MINUTE
OVERFLOWING (ESP. IN HT)
RAPID
RAPID & FULL
RAPID & THIN
RAPID & WIRY
SLIPPERY
SLIPPERY (ESP. LJ)
SLOW
SOGGY
THIN & RAPID
TIGHT
TIGHT IN LU
TIGHT; MAYBE SUPERFICIAL
WEAK
WIRY
(RAPID/THIN)
DEEP & WEAK
EMPTY & THIN (IF BLEEDING)
FAST AND SUPERFICIAL/FLOATING OR NORMAL
FLOATING & TIGHT; (SUPERFICIAL)
FLOATING-EMPTY
FLOATING-EMPTY OR LEATHER
FULL. RAPID
RAPID; OVERFLOWING; LONG
SAME AS SP QI XU (EMPTY)/YANG XU (EMPTY/WEAK/SLOW/DEEP)
SLIPPERY & SLOW
SLIPPERY (FAST
SLOW & SLIPPERY
THIN
THIN & RAPID; FLOATING & EMPTY ESPECIALLY IN LU
THIN; NORMAL OR RAPID
WIRY & FULL
WIRY & SLIPPERY
WIRY ON LR
YIN XU PULSE
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