In general terms and by way of examples related to Yin conditions we have:

• Who wakes up at night with a headache, their headache is dominated by Yin.
• Infrequent urination and full bladder with prostate hyperplasia, is a state dominated by Yin with scant function.
• Hip osteoarthritis with pain at rest and morning stiffness that improves during the day.
• Cough and asthma that worsen at night, with dampness or cold.

Cold

• Feeling of cold.
• The symptoms worsen with cold
• Paleness.

Passivity

• Hypoactivity
• Heaviness or introversion.
• Symptoms worsen with rest and improve with activity.

Dampness

• Dampness, Phlegm, oedema and mucosidity.
• Symptoms worsen in humid climates and improve in dry climates.

Night

• Symptoms start at night, worsen during it and improve during the day.

Descending

• Symptoms in the lower part of the body (pelvis, pubis, genitals, legs and feet).

Contraction

• Movements from outside to inside.
• Hunched appearance.
• External (climatic) factors that cause internal conditions.
• Cramps, contracted muscles in cold times.

Nutrition

• Nutrition of the tissues:

Thin and sensitive skin: Lung-Yin deficiency Thick and fatty skin: Excess Yin of Lung

Substance

• Thickness of hair and skin; everything that can be quantified: amount of food, mucosidity, stools, urine, body weight.

Mucosidity: Excess Yin of Lung. Little hair: Kidney-Yin deficiency.