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Asthenic disease.
✵The Asthenic disease is also known as consumption, deficiency and impairment of Yin, Yang, Qi and blood in zang-fu organs, usually due to non-infectious factors. Zang-Fu deficiency, Primordial Qi weak, lead to this type of chronic deficient syndrome, also known as consumption.
✵ The Asthenic disease, is known due to various pathogenic reasons, in the TCM system, known including inherent defect, nutritional deficiency due to spleen-stomach dysfunction and weakness, internal lesion caused by overexertion, Qi and blood Yin and Yang could not recover after serious disease, loss of blood, after childbirth, etc.
✵ Common Asthenic disease introduced are mainly: Qi deficiency(deficiency of vital energy), Blood asthenia(blood-insufficiency), Yang-deficiency(deficiency of yang,lack of vital energy), Deficiency of yin(yin deficiency), etc.
Qi deficiency(deficiency of vital energy).
✦The Qi deficiency(deficiency of vital energy), is also known as Asthenia of Qi deficiency type, is a type of Asthenia or Consumption due to the Qi deficiency. The Asthenia of Qi deficiency could be classified into Asthenia of Lung-Qi deficiency and Asthenia of Spleen-Qi deficiency.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of Lung-Qi deficiency type, are commonly known including shortness of breath, sweating, fatigued and tired, pale complexion(pale face, looks pale whitish), fever or chills regularly, easy to catch a cold, pale tongue and tender tongue.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons for Asthenia of Lung-Qi deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly from the deficiency of Lung-Qi.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of Spleen-Qi deficiency type, are commonly known including no appetite(no food intake), or poor appetite(low food intake), clear thin stool, fatigued and tired, sore and soft limbs, sallow complexion(sallow yellow facial complexion, looks yellow and sallow), pale tongue and thin tongue coating.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons for the Asthenia of Spleen-Qi deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly from the deficiency of Spleen-Qi.
Blood asthenia(blood-insufficiency).
✦The Blood asthenia(blood-insufficiency) is also known as asthenia of the blood deficiency type. The Asthenia of blood-insufficiency could be classified into Asthenia of heart blood-insufficiency and Asthenia of liver blood-insufficiency.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of heart blood-insufficiency type, are commonly known including emptiness in heart, fearsome, palpitation and uneasy, forgetful, absent-minded(forget this, that and the other), insomnia and dreaminess(loss sleep,dream-disturbed sleep,much dream),sallow complexion(sallow yellow facial complexion), pale tongue, etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of heart blood-insufficiency type are known from various origins, mainly because of the blood deficiency in the heart.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of liver blood-insufficiency type, are commonly known including easy frightened in the heart, dizziness, dazzled(dazzled the eye), blurred vision(unclear vision), tinnitus(ear ringing as cicada), flutter of muscle and vein, involuntary muscle beating, skin dryness as fish scale, scant menstrual flow, or menostasis for women, sallow complexion(sallow pale yellow facial complexion), etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of liver blood-insufficiency type are known from various origins, mainly because of the liver blood-insufficiency, etc.
Yang-deficiency(deficiency of yang,lack of vital energy)
✦The Yang-deficiency is also known as Asthenia of Yang, or deficiency of yang, or lack of vital energy. The Asthenia of Yang or Yang-deficiency could be classified into Asthenia of Spleen-deficiency, or Asthenia of Kidney-deficiency.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of Spleen-deficiency type, are commonly known including poor appetite and tastelessness(low food intake, bland taste in the mouth), aversion to cold and fatigue, short and shallow breaths, no desire to talk, clear thin stool without proper shape, defecate several times a day, diarrhea if take greasy food, the stool mostly composed of undigested food, borborygmus(bowel sounds) and abdominal pain, pain will be relieved when heat and massage, tender pale tongue and fat.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of Spleen-deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly because of the spleen deficiency.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of Kidney-deficiency type, are commonly known including aversion to cold, cold in limbs(cold in hands and feet), defecate in dawn time, stool is mainly composed of undigested food, polyuria(and nocturia,much urine at night), frequent micturition, uracratia(urinary incontinence), cold pain in the lumbar spine(cold pain in waist,low back, and lumbar spine area),impotence and seminal emission for man, leucorrhea dripping for women, hypaphrodisia(poor sexual desire), big fat tongue body and pale tender tongue, teeth marks around the tongue.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of Kidney-deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly because of the kidney deficiency, etc.
Yin deficiency(Deficiency of yin)
✦The Yin deficiency is also known as Asthenia of Yin, or deficiency of Yin. The Asthenia of Yin or Yin deficiency could be classified into different types: Asthenia of Lung-Yin, Asthenia of heart-Yin, Asthenia of spleen-stomach Yin, Asthenia of liver-Yin, Asthenia of kidney-Yin, etc.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of Lung-Yin type, are commonly known including dry mouth and dry throat, dry cough and hemoptysis(spit blood), hoarseness(hoarse voice), night sweat(perspire during sleep), perspire stop when waking up, red tongue, dry on tongue coating.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of Lung-Yin type are known from various origins, mainly because of the Yin deficiency of the lung.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of heart-Yin type, are commonly known including irritable in heart, heart heat, vexation, and insomnia(upset, irritable, loss of sleep), night sweat(perspire during sleep), perspire stop when waking up, red tongue and no tongue coating, tongue boil.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of heart-Yin type are known from various origins, mainly because of the Yin deficiency of the heart.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of spleen-stomach Yin type, are commonly known including dry mouth and dry lips, no appetite(no food intake),dry tongue and not moistening, dry stool and hard to defecate(constipated,defecate is dry), dysemesia(dry retching), hiccup(hiccough, hiccup singultation), etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of spleen-stomach Yin type are known from various origins, mainly because of the Yin deficiency of the spleen and stomach.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of Liver-Yin type, are commonly known including irritable in heart, irritability(irascibility,testiness), tinnitus(ringing in the ears), cephalea(headache),dizziness and giddiness(vertigo blackout), dim eyesight(blurred vision), tongue red and dry.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of Liver-Yin type are known from various origins, mainly because of the Yin deficiency of the liver.
✧ The symptoms of the Asthenia of kidney-Yin type, are commonly known including aching lumbus and limp legs, spermatorrhea(nocturnal emission,seminal emission), odontoseisis(loosening of the teeth), alopecia(hair loss), hair white, burst fever or hectic fever(bone steaming),dry pharynx(dryness of the throat), pharyngalgia(sore throat),hectic cheek(red cheeks), tinnitus(ringing in the ears), deaf(hearing loss), dizziness, tongue dry red and not moistening, etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Asthenia of kidney-Yin type are known from various origins, mainly because of the Yin deficiency of the kidney.
✵To help clients and TCM fans know better with the common knowledge of ancient TCM and syndrome differentiation, there comes the online knowledge database in classified categories.
