It does not nourish the Shen and does not hydrate, so there will be some nervousness and dryness. It is often accompanied by Kidney-Yin deficiency.
Symptoms
- Palpitations, tachycardia
- Chest pain and oppression
- Anxiety
- Nervousness
- Restless sleep or insomnia + abundant dreams
- Memory loss
- Dry mouth and throat in the afternoon or evening
- Night sweating
- Thirst without desire to drink
- Dark and scanty urine
- Normal or red tongue (if there is heat) without coating or with rootless coating. May be redder at the tip
- Fine pulse (and if significant emptiness: floating-empty pulse), rapid if there is heat.
Causes
- Injury from the Seven Emotions: trigger fire that consumes the yin.
- Stress, overwork and insufficient rest. (anxiety, insomnia).
- Sequela of febrile disease, for example pneumonia.
- Chronic disease consumes body fluids.
- Medications that dry.
Treatment
Nourish the Yin. Calm the Shen to help sleep (sleeping well at night regenerates the yin)
- BL-15; BL-43
- KI-7; KI-6(opens Yin Qiao Mai which nourishes the yin and treats sleep problems)
- SP-6: potentiates Yin
- GV-26: sympathetic switch, if there is anxiety
- PC-7: Ghost Point
- PC-5; PC-8 (PC-7 + HT-7: anxiety)
- Calm Shen: GV-24 (towards GV-23): if there is agitation. Yin Tang; An Mien
- HT-6: night sweating