Guest guest Posted March 9, 2007 Report Share Posted March 9, 2007 Dear All, A common clinical feature of palpitations, Xiong Bi etc due to Heart Yang Xu is a rapid heart rate. Modern CM textbooks usually explain this by deferring to what I think is the more Western medical explanation of the heart compensating for a lack of circulating blood volume by an increase in heart rate eg Li & Zhao (Acupuncture Patterns and Practice p179). Would anybody, particularly those who are more steeped in classical literature than I am, be able to give a more classical CM explanation or mechanism for this clinical feature or point me to classical references that discuss this feature. Regards Derek High -- Version: 7.1.413 / Virus Database: 268.18.8/716 - Release 09/03/2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 " Internal medicine " from the thick Series of high quality teaching books on chinese medicine, PMPH Pathology of palpitation (xin-ji): .... 3)Heart Yang Xu: If after a fulminant or longterm disease the Yang-Qi is weakened or profuse sweating damaged the Heart-Yang, the Heart-Vessels (xinmai) fail to be nourished by means of warming and fail to move the blood, thus leading to palpitations. " Shang han ming li lun " - " On palpitation " : And if the qi is xu, that means the Yang-Qi is weak in the inner, the heart region is empty and xu, the zheng-qi agitates in the inner and causes palpitation. My internal medicine book cites Su wen - On the pathology of pain (Ju tong lun ) on this topic: Palpitations arise when the Heart is not supported, when the Shen is without integrity, when cogitation is undedicated, the Qi gets deranged. That`s my personal translation trying to catch the precise meaning. One printed version interpretes just that same sentence as: When one is in excessive anxiety, his heart will be injured and his spirit will become dull. (Yellow Empero's Canon Internal Medicine Englished by Nelson Liangsheng Wu and Andrew Qi Wu) ....just citing the title page Greetings, Tayfun. > A common clinical feature of palpitations, Xiong Bi etc due to Heart Yang Xu > is a rapid heart rate. Modern CM textbooks usually explain this by deferring > to what I think is the more Western medical explanation of the heart > compensating for a lack of circulating blood volume by an increase in heart > rate eg Li & Zhao (Acupuncture Patterns and Practice p179). > > Would anybody, particularly those who are more steeped in classical > literature than I am, be able to give a more classical CM explanation or > mechanism for this clinical feature or point me to classical references that > discuss this feature. > > Regards > > Derek High Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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