Class: Harmonize
Subclass: Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
Actions:
Disperses and drives out pathogenic influences
Regulates the Spleen
Soothes Liver-Qi
Indications:
Yang or hot-type collapse, which is most commonly due to Heat entering the Interior where it constrains the Yang Qi. This inhibits the spreading of Yang Qi to the extremities, causing cold extremities (fingers and toes), anguish, pain of the abdomen (in contrast to devastated Yang, where the entire limb is cold), and a warm body.
Possible symptoms and diseases:
Cholecystitis
Cold fingers and toes, although the body is warm
Costal pain
Discomfort
Fibrocystic breast
Fullness of the chest
Fullness of the epigastrium
Gallstone
Gastritis
Hepatitis
Hernia due to lingering Heat
Intercostal neuralgia
Mastitis
Pain of the abdomen
Pancreatitis
Peptic ulcer
Acute appendicitis
Biliary ascariasis
Diarrhea
Intestinal obstruction
Schistosomiasis
Severe diarrhea
Red tongue, yellow coating
Wiry pulse (Xian)