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Headache –

头痛 tou tong

acute headache, pain may extend to the nape of the neck and back regions (Tai Yang areas) it is violent, boring and tight pain; headache is aggravated by exposure to wind and relieved by warmth; chills and fever, floating pulse

excess type

Headache

Differentiation

Symptoms

Formula

E x t e r i o r	Wind-cold attack	excess type	acute headache, pain may extend to the nape of the neck and back regions (Tai Yang areas) it is violent, boring and tight pain; headache is aggravated by exposure to wind and relieved by warmth; chills and fever, floating pulse	no sweating	tight pulse	Ge Gen Tang or Ma Huang Tang
					white greasy tongue coat, weak pulse	Ren Shen Bai Du San
		deficiency type		sweating, aversion to wind, a slightly weak pulse		Gui Zhi Tang
	Tai Yang syndrome complex with Yang ming and Shao Yang syndromes		frontal (Yang Ming ) and occipital area headache, dry nose, body aches, irritability, insomnia, fever, and slight chills; thin yellow coat, floating and rapid pulse			Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang
	Wind-heat attack		acute headache with severe distended pain; fever and aversion to wind, red face and eyes, sore throat; thirst with desire to drink cold water; floating and rapid pulse			Sang Ju Yin Yin Qiao San
Interior/Exterior		Shao Yang syndrome	temporal headache (Shao Yang region) which may radiate to the ear; dizziness, possible alternating chills and fever; bitter taste in mouth, dry throat, nausea, vomiting, hypochondriac pain and distention; a wiry pulse			Xiao Chai Hu Tang

Headache, cont.

Differentiation

Symptoms

Formula

I n t e r i o r	e x c e s s	Liver	Yang rising	throbbing headache and dizziness or vertigo which is aggravated by emotional stress; irritability, restlessness, insomnia, red face and eyes, tinnitus, red tongue with greasy coating, wiry pulse	a sensation of heat rushing to the head, numbness, twitching and spasms, or hemiplegia		Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin
			excess fire		thirst, yellow urine, bitter taste, constipation		Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
			Qi stagnation	headache which is aggravated by emotional stress; fullness and distention in the hypochondria and chest, wiry pulse			Si Ni San, or Xiao Yao San
		Blood Stagnation		chronic persistent headache with pain that is sharp and fixed in nature, hair loss, darkness around the eyes, purple tongue with dark spots on the sides, choppy or wiry pulse			Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang modified
		Wind-cold-damp with blood stasis stagnated in channels		chronic persistent headache or migraine, may be accompanied by numbness or hemiplegia, purple tongue with greasy coat, slippery or wiry pulse			Xiao Huo Lou Dan
		Wind-phlegm		headache which is dull and heavy, frequent attacks, aggravated by cloudy or rainy weather; nausea, profuse sputum, stifling sensation in the chest, slippery pulse			Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang
		Water retention		headache, possibly accompanied by dizziness and nausea; fever, restlessness; thirst which is followed immediately by vomiting after drinking; difficult urination, body heaviness, white tongue coating, slippery and floating pulse			Wu Ling San
	d e f i c i e n c y	Qi deficiency		persistent headache which is a slight ache or dull and empty pain; worse in the morning and after exertion; low energy, fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools, pale tongue, weak and deficient pulse			Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
		Blood deficiency		slight headache with dizziness, pain at temples and surrounding the eyebrows; aversion to light, aggravated by blood loss such as menses; worse in the afternoon or evening; low energy, insomnia, five center heat, pale tongue, weak and thin pulse			Si Wu Tang modified
		Kidney deficiency	Yin	chronic headache which feels dull, distended and empty; dizziness, low pitch tinnitus, spermatorrhea, low sex drive, weak back and knees, thin pulse		night sweats, five center heat, red tongue body	Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, modified
			Yang			cold limbs, aversion to cold, pale tongue	Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan, modified
		Deficiency cold in the Liver/ Stomach		vertex headache (Jue Yin region) accompanied by a sensation of cold; dry heaves or spitting of clear fluids, cold limbs, aversion to cold, slow and wiry pulse			Wu Zhu Yu Tang