Qi Rebelling: against counter-flow of Qi. Men generally suffer more from Rebellious Liver-Qi than from Liver-Qi stagnation.
Symptoms
- Nervousness, irritability
- Pain and distension or erratic pain in the chest-hypochondrium-abdomen
- Loss of appetite
- Belching
- Nausea vomiting, sensation that "the stomach is churning"
- Diarrhea
- Tongue with thin white coating
- Wiry pulse
- In women: pain and swelling of the chest, dysmenorrhea
- Shortness of breath, asthma, hernia pain, syncope, ...
Causes
Emotional
Treatment
- Drain Liver: LR-3 or LR-2; BL-18;
- Symptoms in ST: ST-34 (Xi, treats visceral pain); CV-12, CV-14, CV-10;
- Emotion pain ST (somatizes): LR-14: from there penetrates and harmonizes ST and LR; LR-3; PC-6; PC-7:emotional;
- If Liver attacks Lung: LR-14+LU-10+LU-7+CV-12+LU-1 CV-17: asthmatic crisis from nervousness