Yin Deficiency can have symptoms of empty heat: feeling of heat at night, red cheekbones, tip of nose more red

Symptoms

• Tiredness
• Poor appetite
• Difficult digestion
• Nausea
• Hungry but eats little, feels full with little food
• Epigastric Pain
• Dry stools or constipation
• Dry mouth and thirst, dry lips
• Dry skin
• Emaciation
• Night sweating
• Slightly red tongue, without coating, very cracked, peeled
• Fine, weak and empty pulse

Causes

1. Inadequate diet: poor schedule, excessive food, very yang, alcohol...
2. Yin deficiency of ST
3. Chronic illness
4. Liver-Qi stagnation in the long term, produces fire
5. Exhaustion of Kidney-Essence

Treatment

Tonify Kidney-Yin: KI-6 + KI-7; if there is heat: KI-2;

• Nourishes Kidney-Yin Jing: KI-3;
• Tonifies Spleen: BL-20; ST-36; SP-3; SP-6;
• If exhaustion BL-43!!; SP-4;
• Constipation: SP-3; SP-6; ST-25; TE-6 (if lacking fluids); KI-6; SP-3; LR-13 (Mu of Spleen: favors peristalsis); ST-36; GB-34