Can be accompanied with Heart-Yin deficiency or with Lung-Qi deficiency

Symptoms

• Palpitations and tachycardia
• Chest oppression
• Shortness of breath and fatigue, worse with exertion
• Slight depression and apathy (does not nourish shen)
• Mental slowness
• Spontaneous sweating
• Pale face
• Pale tongue with soft coating
• Fine, weak pulse (empty)

Causes

1. Aging
2. Excessive sweating (from febrile disease, for example)
3. Constitution
4. Sadness
5. Heart-Blood deficiency

Treatment

• BL-15; CV-17
• Tonifies the energy: CV-6; ST-36; LU-9; LI-4
• HT-7: Source
• HT-5: Connecting
• HT-9: mother, tonification.

See Penetrating vessel