» conventional diagnoses: depression; neurosis; impatience; anger which explodes after periods of repression; nervous and emotional disorders; plum-pit globus; stroma; scrofula; chest and rib pain and distension; tightness in chest; mastitis; fibrocystic and other breast masses; liver and gallbladder diseases; jaundice; ulcerative diseases; gastrointestinal disorders; menstrual disorders
» etiology: chronic frustration, anger or resentment; unexpressed emotions in general; lack of exercise; Invasion of Exogenous Damp-Heat; Liver Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency), which deprives Liver of nourishment; sequelae of surgery, esp. hernia or vasectomy (Matsumoto)
signs and symptoms
signs and syptoms:
headache
moodiness
sighing
depression
feeling "stuck" frustration
anger without a cause
feeling of a lump in the throat
sensation of difficulty in swallowing
nausea
vomiting
poor appetite
sour regurgitation
belching
pain and/or distension along the course of the Liver channel, in the chest, hypochondrium and lower abdomen
premenstrual breast distension
borborygmi
diarrhea
premenstrual pain and irritability
menstrual pain or irregularity
formation of lumps
» pulse: wiry, esp. on left side
» tongue: often normal; even in more severe cases may be purplish
course and prognosis
» principle of treatment: disperse the Liver; stimulate and regulate the flow of Qi
differential diagnosis
footnotes