It is the uncomfortable sensation of feeling one's own heartbeats. Associated with restlessness and nervousness. It affects the Heart, and always indicates deficiency (although there are cases that are a mix of excess and deficiency).

Heart-Qi and Gall Bladder deficiency

See: Heart and Gall Bladder Restlessness

• Fearful, indecisive, shy person, gets scared easily.
• Palpitations associated with fright or startle.
• Tachycardia in attacks. Normal frequency or bradycardia at rest.
• Tiredness.
• Shortness of breath.
• Spontaneous sweating.
• Insomnia.
• Normal or pale tongue with thin normal coating.
• Thin and weak pulse.

Treatment

Tonify Heart-Qi and Gall Bladder-Qi

• BL-15, BL-14, BL-19 Back Shu of C, PC and GB
• CV-17, CV-14
• GB-24, GB-34
• HT-7, PC-6

Heart-Blood deficiency

Weak blood does not nourish the Heart properly

• Bradycardia, normal rhythm or extrasystole
• Tiredness, dizziness, vertigo
• Anemia
• Pale face and lips
• Insomnia
• Pale tongue with thin coating
• Weak, thin, slow or irregular pulse

Treatment

Tonify Heart-Blood and Spleen-Blood

• BL-20, SP-10, ST-36, CV-12
• CV-17, CV-14, BL-15, BL-14, HT-7, PC-6

Heart-Yang deficiency

Same as Heart-Qi deficiency but with cold symptoms

• Tiredness
• Breathlessness, chest oppression
• Pallor
• Normal rhythm, bradycardia or extrasystole
• Pale tongue with thin coating
• Weak, slow, irregular and thin pulse.

Treatment

Tonify Heart-Yang and Kidney-Yang

• Moxa: GV-9, GV-4, CV-4, BL-23
• CV-17, CV-14, BL-15, BL-14, HT-7, PC-6

Kidney-Yin deficiency with Heart-Fire

• Tachycardia or normal rhythm
• Insomnia, night sweating, heat in the five hollows
• Mouth ulcers, tongue ulcers
• Weakness of knees and lower back
• Tinnitus
• Red cracked tongue, redder at the tip
• Thin rapid pulse

Treatment

• Disperse: CV-17, CV-14, BL-15, BL-14, HT-7, PC-6 and PC-8
• Tonify Kidney-Yin: KI-3, SP-6, LU-7+KI-6

Heart-Blood stasis

Related to angina pectoris, myocardial infarction. The cause is Heart-Yang deficiency.

• Very intense pain
• Bradycardia or extrasystole
• Cyanotic or dark red tongue
• Thin, slow, arrhythmic, choppy pulse

Treatment

Take to Emergency in acute cases. Tonify Heart-Yang and move Blood.

• LR-3, LI-4, BL-17, SP-10 move Blood
• GV-26, PC-6, PC-9, CV-17

Accumulation of fluids in the Heart

Heart failure. It is a mix of excess (from accumulation) and deficiency (there is no correct distribution of fluids, lacking energy for it).

Causes

1. Spleen-Yang deficiency
2. Kidney-Yang deficiency
3. Lung-Qi deficiency
4. Heart-Qi deficiency

Symptoms

• Bradycardia, extrasystoles
• Cold
• Dizziness, nausea, vomiting
• Phlegm
• Edema in the legs
• Pale, swollen, wet tongue, thick coating
• Slippery, slow, deep, thin, weak and arrhythmic pulse

Treatment

Tonify Heart-Yang, Lung-Qi, Kidney-Yang, and Spleen-Yang

• Dispersion: CV-9 , GV-9
• Tonification BL-23, BL-15
• CV-17, CV-14, BL-14, HT-7, PC-6

Auriculotherapy

See: Auriculotherapy: C, R, B, VB, Shen Men, ID, Sympathetic nerve,