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Chest Pain (Often Connected to the Heart)

Heart Qi Deficiency

Clinical manifestations

• Mild pain
• Neurosis, heart condition,
• Dull achy chest pain on one or both sides.
• Chest congestion, palpitations
• Spontaneous sweating, fatigue
• T: Pale
• P: Weak and thready

Treatment Principle

• Tonify Heart Qi

Formula

• Bao Yuan Tang

Cold accumulation (Yang deficiency) painful

Clinical manifestations

• Coronary Heart Disease
• Chest pain, usually on the left side which could radiate tot he right, back shoulder, and arm.
• Pale complexion, spontaneous sweating, cold extremities.
• T: Pale, swollen, teeth marks
• P: Deep, slow, knotty and intermittent

Treatment Principle

• Tonify heart Yang, promote circulation of blood

Formula

• Gua Luo Xie Bai Bai Jiu Tang

Heart Blood Stagnation (still a form of Yang deficiency)

Clinical manifestations

• Typical Angina pectoris. Intense pain that can make the patient lose consciousness due to its intensity
• Spontaneous cold sweating, fear, fatigue
• T: Pale purple
• P: Deep, thready, choppy, knotty, intermittent

Herb:

• Dan Shen for chest pain

Formula

• Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
• Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang

• Phlegm accumulation (Involving the Lungs)

  Clinical manifestations

  • Cough
  • Excess phlegm, pain with cough

Chest Congestion Formula

Opens & Clears the Chest

Heart Formula

Supports Healthy Heart Function
 

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Huo Xue Tong Mai Wan

Relieves Chest Oppression & Pain

Enduring Youth  Tablets

A Special Formula that Nourishes and Balances the Body

Ancient Treasures Tea

A Calming, Cleansing & Circulating Tea