It may involve a certain relative Yang excess, not of fullness. For example: post-menstrual headache, restlessness, anxiety. Liver-Blood is important for anchoring Yang.
Symptoms
- Depression
- Feeling of discouragement
- Dizzy sensation
- Numbness and tingling of the limbs, cramps
- Muscular weakness
- Insomnia
- Blurred vision, floaters, dry eyes
- Loss of night visual acuity
- Scanty menstruation or amenorrhoea
- Pale, dull, lustreless complexion, pale lips
- Brittle and withered nails
- Dry skin and hair
- Pale tongue
- Fine and choppy pulse
Causes
- SP/ST deficiency failing to produce Blood
- Haemorrhage
- KI Jing deficiency
- Chronic illness exhausting LR Xue