Deficient Heart Blood TONGUE: thin, pale, slightly dry PULSE: choppy or Fine SIGNS/SYMPTOMS: palpitations - more at night, dizziness, insomnia, poor memory, dream-disturbed sleep, easily startled, pale lips, dull-pale complexion. SOME COINCIDENT WESTERN MEDICINE DISEASES: insomnia,...

From the TCM perspective, the main physiological functions and indicators of the heart includes (1) the domination of blood and vessels, and facial complexion, (2) control of the mind; and (3) opening into the tongue. The heart has an exterior (biao) and interior (li) relationship with the small...

TCM holds that the human body realized the integral connection by taking the "heart" as its master and the five storing viscera as its center associated with the six excreting viscera, formal body and organs and the orifices, through the connection of the meridians and the flow of qi and blood,...

The heart, Lungs, spleen, liver and kidneys are together known as the five zang-organs, whose common physiological function is preducing and storing essence-qi. They store but not eliminate essence-qi. 1. Heart 1.心 The heart is situated in the chest, above the Diaphragm, and is enveloped by...