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Liv er Wind covers a range of health

hazards that occur suddenly and
potentially lethally .
Understanding it enables us to take
precautions and even prevent it
happening.
There are three categories, with
different symptoms and different
causes, but some symptoms are
common to all.

What is Liver Wind?

Chinese medicine is wonderfully visual. Liver Wind shows itself
by seeming to push upwards, so it affects the upper parts of the
body.
If you wonder about the use of the word 'Wind', think what wind in
the trees looks like. They move, the leaves flutter, the tree is
restless and its stance, off to one side, is urgent and pressing.
The higher the wind, the more the tension in the tree and the more
urgently the leaves try to fly away.
What this image doesn't suggest is the heat. But usually, in

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C hinese
medicine,
if
something
pushes
upwards,
it
has
a
Yang-heating effect. This
is more noticeable in
healthy,
plethoric
people, like children.

T heory
Qi
Blood
J ing E s s enc e

In older people, it is
usually more gentle, but
can be more chronic.

8 P rinc iples
Y in and Yang

Healthy
Children

Y in and or Yang

Small

C hronic D is eas e

If
you
have
small
children then you may
already have seen Liver
Wind happening to your
children. This
usually
happens during a fever,
perhaps
induced
by
catching a bug. Read below - both the general
symptoms, plus those
from Heat generating
Wind.

Four L evels
Six Stages
C hong M o
Ren M o
Suppres s ion
Yang defic ienc y
Yang D efic ienc y

Older people in poor

health

Y in D efic ienc y
Y in D ef'y C aus es
P ain Relief
RP F
P uls e D iagnos is
Tongue diagnos is

Methods
A c upunc ture
A uric ulotherapy
C hines e H erbs
C upping
M as s age
M oxibus tion

Or perhaps you have an

older relative, perhaps
fallen on hard times, not
well
nourished
and
weakened by chronic disease, who begins to get what looks like
Parkinsons disease - a tremor? Followed by dementia as they get
restless and wander around. Read - below - about how Liver Blood
deficiency can be a cause.
But for older people who, perhaps, are also prone to irritability and
bad sleep (and as you get older this becomes completely
understandable!), especially habitually, then what Western
medicine causes a 'stroke' becomes possible and if the symptoms
fit, it may be what C hinese medicine calls Liver Wind from Liver Yin
deficiency.
Subject to extreme Climactic Heat
Anyone who is caught in a long very hot drought without the
means to cool themselves properly or take enough fluid. Heat
works like an inferno, heating up so much that suddenly like hot
air, the Liver Wind rushes up in side. Read below about Heat
Generating Wind.

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General Symptoms of Liver Wind

Fever
Dizziness
Restlessness
Tremor
Numbness

C offee
Fis h for Y in
H ealthy Weight
H ot Foods

Tics in the eyes

Seizures
Neck rigidity
Thirst
Flushed face and red eyes

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Often also:
M editation
Self- H elp
Supplements
Wake U p?
Weight L os s

Problems
A llergy I nduc ed
A ntibiotic s
A nxiety

Dark Urine
C onstipation

Extra symptoms from Heat generating Wind

high fever and thirst
convulsions
opisthotonos (rigidity, body arching backwards, head thrown
back)
coma
upward staring of eyes
Tongue : deep-red colour and a thick yellow coating
Pulse : wiry, rapid and full

A s thma C aus es
Bac k P ain
Birth C ontrol
Breathles s nes s

Treatment of Liver Wind caused by Heat generating Wind:

C lear Heat, control Wind and relax the Liver.

Extra Symptoms from Liver Yang rising due to

long-term Liver Yin deficiency

C FS/M .E .

sudden unconsciousness and convulsions

C os metic

deviation in the face eg of mouth or eye

C ough
D epres s ion
E pileps y
Fibromyalgia

hemiplegia
aphasia, slurred or difficult speech
Tongue: may be deviated and peeled red
Pulse: floating and empty, or sometimes wiry, fine and rapid
The immediate trigger which makes Liver Yang rise is often
emotional, with Liver Qi stagnation caused by ongoing anger or
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frustration.
Treatment if caused
by Liv er Yang rising:
C ontrol Liver Yang,
restrain Wind and
nourish Liver Yin.

Extra Symptoms
from Liver Blood
Deficiency
numbness of the
limbs
tics in the eyes
tremor
Tongue : pale and
deviated
Pulse : choppy
Treatment if caused
by Liv er Blood
Deficiency :
Subdue Wind and tonify
Liver Blood. However, in
addition, one must clear
phlegm from the Heart
and calm the Shen the
spirit.
All these symptoms may
appear at different times or together. This means that treating this
condition may require use of different treatment methods.

Table of Types of Liver Wind

M eridians
L uo c hannels
L oc ate P oints
Body P oints
L ung C hannel
Stomac h C hannel

Syndromes
Syndromes

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Blood Stas is
C old
D amp
D amp- H eat
Food Retention
H eat
L atent H eat
M ing M en
P hlegm
Q i Stagnation
Wind

Xang-fu
Zang- Fu
H eart
H eart Blood
H eart Fire
H eart P hlegm Fire
Kidney func tion
Kidney s yndromes
L ung Q i
L ung D amp
L ung Y in
L iver Func tions
L iver Q i

Aetiology
From 'HEAT'
Transmission of what is called pathogenic heat from the exterior to
the interior, attacking Liver Blood. This Heat generates Wind.

L iver Fire
L iver C old
L iver Wind
L iver Yang

If prolonged, this invasion of heat consumes the Yin of the Liver,

and deprives the tendons and muscles of nourishment, leading to
spasms, convulsions and numbness. This often occurs in the acute
stage of febrile disease, such as during measles, epidemic
meningitis or encephalitis-B.
It can also occur in very hot conditions, especially in the old,

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L iver Blood
L iver Y in

whose Liver Yin is reduced - see below.

Treatment: clear Heat and subdue Wind.

From severe Liver

Yin Deficiency

L ung H eat
G allbladder

This occurs when the

conditions for Liver Yang
rising have developed
which takes place over a
period of time.
Generally speaking it
occurs when either
Kidney Yin or Kidney
Yang is deficient, both of
which can lead to Liver
Yin deficiency.

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Kidney deficiency (either

of Yin or Yang, or both)
occurs mostly as you
grow old and weaker. It
can also happen after
severe illness.

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There is then some

event which stimulates
Liver Yang beyond the
ability of (the
weakened) Liver Yin to
restrain it.

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This trigger could be an

event causing or
exacerbating Liver Qi
Stagnation, or a period

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of great heat in the environment.

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From severe Liver Blood deficiency

Here the coma doesnt arise from the Wind itself but from invasion
of the Heart and Pericardium by pathogenic Heat. This is why coma
is listed here, even though it doesnt arise from Liver dysfunction
itself.
Treatment: because both Liver and Heart may be involved, both
must be treated. The aim is to subdue Wind and nourish Liver
Blood, but also to clear phlegm from and calm the Heart.

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Usually the symptoms of Liver Blood deficiency would have been

apparent for a while however.

Other Liver syndromes

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