Heart-Fire

Key Insight

Physical connection
Physical Symptom
Illnesses

Palpitations, thirst, mouth and tongue ulcers, mental restlessness, feeling agitated, feeling of heat, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, red face, dark urine or blood in urine, bitter taste, Red tongue, tip redder and swollen with red points, yellow coating, Full-Rapid-Overflowing pulse

Psych (excess)
Psych (deficient)

Related Principle
More specific principle
Type
Specifics
Lesson

Emotional stress

Look for

Red tongue, tip redder and swollen with red points, yellow coating, Full-Rapid-Overflowing pulse

Questions to ask
Pulse
Full (Shi)Rapid (Shu)Overflowing (Hong)
Pulse position
Distal—Heart

Treatment Summary

HE-9 Shaochong, HE-8 Shaofu, HE-7 Shenmen, Ren-15 Jiuwei, SP-6 Sanyinjiao, KI-6 Zhaohai, L.I.-11 Quchi, Du-24 Shenting, Du-19 Houding

Treatment

Principle of treatment: clear the Heart, drain Fire, calm the Mind.

Acupuncture

Points: HE-9 Shaochong, HE-8 Shaofu, HE-7 Shenmen, Ren-15 Jiuwei, SP-6 Sanyinjiao, KI-6 Zhaohai, L.I.-11 Quchi, Du-24 Shenting, Du-19 Houding.

Method: All with reducing method, except SP-6 and KI-6 to be reinforced. No moxa.

Explanation

  • HE-9 and HE-8 clear Heart-Fire.
  • HE-7 calms the Mind.
  • Ren-15 calms the Mind and clears Heat.
  • SP-6 and KI-6 are used to promote Yin and cool Fire, even though there may be no

    • Yin deficiency.

  • L.I.-11 clears Heat.
  • Du-24 and Du-19 calm the Mind.

Full-versus Empty-Fire

Full-Fire

Red face and eyes, a pronounced feeling of heat, a dry mouth, a bitter taste, constipation, scanty dark urine, thirst, mental agitation, dark purple spots under the skin (macules), blood in cough, vomit, urine, stools, epistaxis, Red tongue with dry yellow coating, Full-Rapid pulse

Empty-Fire

Night sweating, a feeling of heat in the chest, palms and soles, red cheekbones, a dry mouth, afternoon feeling of heat, a Red tongue without coating and a Floating-Empty and Rapid pulse