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TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE INTERNAL

ORGAN SYNDROMES

By Bill Schoenbart, Ellen Shefi

Inside this Article1. Introduction to Internal Organ Syndromes

2. Lung Syndromes

3. Spleen Syndromes

4. Heart and Pericardium Syndromes

5. Liver Syndromes

6. Kidney Syndromes

7. See More

8. See All Natural Medicine Articles

Internal organ syndromes require a practitioner to first make a general diagnosis before treatment can

commence. In this way,traditional Chinese medicine is similar to Western medicine. However, a

practitioner uses different methods to make a diagnosis -- taking into account the eight parameters, the

vital substances, and the pernicious influences.

Once a practitioner establishes a general diagnosis, the next step is to determine which organ systems

are affected. This logical procedure leads to a final diagnosis that is specific enough to enable the

physician to prepare a focused treatment plan.

For example, a patient may have chronic night sweats, irritability, and thirst -- general signs

ofyindeficiency -- but the practitioner still does not know which organ system to nourish at this point.Keeping in mind the normal functions of the organs, the practitioner might find further symptoms

ofpalpitations,insomnia, and poor memory, concluding that the yin deficiency affects mostly the heart.

The treatment plan would then include an herbal formula to nourish heart yin.

It is rare when all of the classic symptoms of a typical syndrome are present. In fact, it is more common

for just a few symptoms to occur, and these often arise from two or three simultaneousdisease patterns.

For example, a person might have chronic spleenqi deficiency with symptoms of only poor appetite and

loose stools. The same person could also have liver qi stagnation with the only symptom

being premenstrual syndrome once a month. If this person catches a cold on top of these underlying

disorders, her symptoms would involve three separate patterns of disharmony.

Early-stage and mild versions of syndromes may have very subtle symptom patterns; these require thediagnostic skills of an experienced practitioner. It is important to remember that the functions of organs

in traditional Chinese medicine may overlap those of their Western counterparts, but they also have

totally unrelated functions. For this reason, it is dangerous to attempt to find a standard correspondence

between the two.

For example, a chest cold might be diagnosed as a lung condition under both systems,

but asthmamight be a kidney condition in traditional Chinese medical diagnostics. Both medical

systems stand on their own strengths, but an attempt to artificially link the two can often make them

less effective. Attempting to treat the flu simply with Chinese herbs that have antiviral qualities is less

effective than getting an accurate diagnosis -- wind heat, for example -- and using a traditional formula

for that wind heat.On the following pages, read more about syndromes that affect specific organs and the various

conditions of imbalance that make up the foundation for an effective traditional treatment plan. Please

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keep in mind that many of these descriptions are for severe versions of the syndromes. The description

of each pattern lists the full range of severity, from a mild set of symptoms to life threatening disease. If

intervention takes place at the early stages, it is possible to restore balance before the symptoms

become more severe.