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Chinese patterns
Liver Fire Blazing Upward
Diagnoses

definition and etiology

» conventional diagnoses: hypertension; migraine; otitis; labyrinthitis; acute conjunctivitis; hayfever

» etiology: "transformation of depressed Liver Qi into Fire" (EAMSS, p. 235), i.e., chronic anger (esp. repressed), frustration and/or resentment, which cause Qi to stagnate and implode, giving rise to heat; excessive dietary consumption of alcohol, fried foods and meat (esp. beef and lamb)

signs and symptoms

signs and symptoms:

irritability

• impatience

• violent anger

• dream-disturbed sleep

• impairment of hearing, sudden deafness or tinnitus

• dizziness

• distended sensation in the head

• splitting headache, esp. temporal

red face and eyes

• epistaxis

• dry mouth with bitter taste

• vomiting of sour or bitter fluid

• hematemesis

• hemoptysis

• uterine bleeding

• constipation with dry stools

• dark yellow, scanty urine

» pulse: wiry, rapid and full; often slippery

» tongue: red body, redder on sides, with dry yellow coating

course and prognosis

» principle of treatment: sedate the Liver; disperse Fire; tonify Liver Yin

differential diagnosis

footnotes