{ "patterns": [ { "slug": "blood-deficiency", "name": "Blood Deficiency", "pinyin": "Xue Xu", "chinese": "血虚", "organ": "Heart, Liver, and Spleen", "family": "blood-deficiency", "summary": "Not enough blood to feed the whole body. A pale dull face, pale lips and nails, dizziness on standing, blurry vision, numb limbs, dry skin, light sleep, and a light or late cycle. It is wider than anemia: the body can test normal and still show every sign.", "key_signs": [ "Pale, dull face; pale lips, nails, and eyelids", "Dizziness, especially on standing", "Blurry vision, dry eyes, floaters", "Numb or tingling hands and feet", "Light, late, or absent periods" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/blood-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/blood-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "blood-stasis", "name": "Blood Stasis", "pinyin": "Xue Yu", "chinese": "血瘀", "organ": "Any organ; often Liver, Heart, or the uterus", "family": "blood-stasis", "summary": "Blood that has stopped moving and silted up. Pain that is sharp, stabbing, and fixed in one spot, worse at night; dark clotted periods; a dull purple complexion; lumps and masses; spider veins; and a purple or spotted tongue. Qi stagnation that went on long enough to thicken.", "key_signs": [ "Sharp, stabbing, fixed pain, worse at night", "Dark periods with clots, cramps that ease when clots pass", "A dull, dark, or purple complexion, dark lips", "A purple tongue or purple spots on it", "Lumps, masses, or old swellings" ], "formula_count": 2, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/blood-stasis", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/blood-stasis" } }, { "slug": "damp-heat-lower-burner", "name": "Damp Heat in the Lower Burner", "pinyin": "Xia Jiao Shi Re", "chinese": "下焦湿热", "organ": "Bladder, Intestines, and the reproductive organs", "family": "dampness", "summary": "Hot, sticky, foul dampness that has settled in the lower body. Burning, urgent, frequent urination; yellow smelly discharge; genital itch or rash; diarrhea that burns; hemorrhoids that bleed; and a thick yellow greasy coat at the back of the tongue. Wet and hot at the bottom of the body.", "key_signs": [ "Burning, urgent, frequent urination", "Yellow, thick, smelly vaginal discharge", "Genital itch, rash, or swelling", "Diarrhea or dysentery that burns, with mucus", "A thick yellow greasy coat at the back of the tongue" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/damp-heat-lower-burner", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/damp-heat-lower-burner" } }, { "slug": "spleen-dampness", "name": "Dampness in the Spleen", "pinyin": "Pi Xu Shi Sheng", "chinese": "脾虚湿盛", "organ": "Spleen", "family": "dampness", "summary": "A weak Spleen has let dampness pile up. Everything is heavy and sticky: a heavy head and limbs, a full bloated stomach, nausea, no appetite, loose sticky stools, puffy ankles, and a thick greasy white coat on the tongue. The tiredness of being waterlogged.", "key_signs": [ "Heavy head, heavy limbs, a foggy feeling", "Bloating and fullness after meals", "Nausea, a sticky mouth, no appetite", "Loose, sticky stools", "A thick greasy white tongue coat" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/spleen-dampness", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/spleen-dampness" } }, { "slug": "exterior-deficiency-spontaneous-sweating", "name": "Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating", "pinyin": "Wei Qi Bu Gu", "chinese": "卫气不固", "organ": "Lung", "family": "qi-deficiency", "summary": "The body's outer guard, the defensive qi, has thinned. You sweat in the daytime for no reason, dislike wind and drafts, catch every cold going, and feel tired and pale. The screen between you and the weather has holes in it.", "key_signs": [ "Sweating in the daytime for no reason, worse with mild effort", "Dislike of wind and drafts", "Catching every cold, one after another", "Tiredness, a pale face", "Hay fever or a runny nose that flares with wind" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/exterior-deficiency-spontaneous-sweating", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/exterior-deficiency-spontaneous-sweating" } }, { "slug": "food-stagnation", "name": "Food Stagnation", "pinyin": "Shi Ji", "chinese": "食积", "organ": "Stomach and Spleen", "family": "food-stagnation", "summary": "Food that went in faster than the Stomach could handle it and is now sitting there. Fullness and bloating, sour belching, acid, nausea, no wish to eat, foul gas, and loose foul stools or constipation, with a thick greasy coat. The simplest pattern there is, and the most common one after a holiday.", "key_signs": [ "Fullness and bloating that started after a big meal", "Sour or rotten belching, acid", "Nausea, sometimes vomiting undigested food", "No appetite, aversion to the thought of food", "A thick greasy tongue coat" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/food-stagnation", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/food-stagnation" } }, { "slug": "heart-and-kidney-not-communicating", "name": "Heart and Kidney Not Communicating", "pinyin": "Xin Shen Bu Jiao", "chinese": "心肾不交", "organ": "Heart and Kidney", "family": "mixed", "summary": "The Heart is fire and the Kidney is water, and at night they are supposed to meet: the water rises to cool the fire, the fire sinks to warm the water. When the Kidney water is too low to rise, the Heart fire burns alone. Insomnia with a hot restless mind, palpitations, night sweats, a dry mouth, and a sore back all at once.", "key_signs": [ "Insomnia with a hot, restless mind, waking between one and three", "Palpitations and anxiety at night", "Night sweats, hot palms and soles", "Dry mouth and throat at night", "Sore low back, weak knees, ringing ears" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/heart-and-kidney-not-communicating", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/heart-and-kidney-not-communicating" } }, { "slug": "heart-and-spleen-deficiency", "name": "Heart and Spleen Deficiency", "pinyin": "Xin Pi Liang Xu", "chinese": "心脾两虚", "organ": "Heart and Spleen", "family": "blood-deficiency", "summary": "The Spleen is too weak to make enough blood, and the Heart has too little blood to settle at night. You are tired, you worry, you sleep badly, you forget things, and anything that bleeds, from gums to a period, oozes pale and slow.", "key_signs": [ "Tired, especially after eating, with a poor appetite", "Hard to fall asleep, light sleep, dream-filled nights", "Worry that runs in circles, poor memory", "Palpitations when anxious", "Pale gums, pale lips, pale face, with gums that ooze a little rather than bleed red" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/heart-and-spleen-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/heart-and-spleen-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "heart-blood-deficiency", "name": "Heart Blood Deficiency", "pinyin": "Xin Xue Xu", "chinese": "心血虚", "organ": "Heart", "family": "blood-deficiency", "summary": "The Heart does not have enough blood to rest in at night. Sleep is light and full of dreams, the mind startles easily, memory slips, the heart flutters when you are anxious, and the face and lips are pale. Digestion is often fine, which is what separates it from the Heart and Spleen picture.", "key_signs": [ "Hard to fall asleep, light sleep, many dreams", "Palpitations, especially when anxious or tired", "Easily startled, anxious, forgetful", "Pale face, pale lips, pale eyelids", "Dizziness on standing" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/heart-blood-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/heart-blood-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "heart-fire", "name": "Heart Fire", "pinyin": "Xin Huo Kang Sheng", "chinese": "心火亢盛", "organ": "Heart", "family": "heat", "summary": "Full heat in the Heart. Mouth and tongue ulcers that burn, a red face, agitation and insomnia, a bitter mouth, thirst, and dark burning urine, because the Heart's heat drains through the Small Intestine into the bladder. A red tongue tip is the flag.", "key_signs": [ "Mouth and tongue ulcers that burn", "Agitation, restlessness, insomnia", "Red face, a feeling of heat in the chest", "Dark, scanty, burning urine", "A red tongue tip" ], "formula_count": 2, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/heart-fire", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/heart-fire" } }, { "slug": "heart-yin-deficiency", "name": "Heart Yin Deficiency", "pinyin": "Xin Yin Xu", "chinese": "心阴虚", "organ": "Heart", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The Heart has lost the cool, quiet fluid that lets it rest. Insomnia with a hot restless mind, palpitations, night sweats, a dry mouth, mouth ulcers, and a red tongue tip. The warm, dry version of Heart blood deficiency, and the usual sleep pattern of a dry, overworked person.", "key_signs": [ "Trouble falling asleep with a hot, busy mind", "Palpitations, worse at night", "Night sweats, hot palms", "Dry mouth, mouth ulcers", "A red tongue tip" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/heart-yin-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/heart-yin-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "kidney-essence-deficiency", "name": "Kidney Essence Deficiency", "pinyin": "Shen Jing Bu Zu", "chinese": "肾精不足", "organ": "Kidney", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The deepest reserve of the Kidney, the one that builds bones, teeth, marrow, hair, and the brain, has worn thin. Teeth loosen early, bones weaken, hair greys and thins, memory slips, and in a child growth runs slow.", "key_signs": [ "Teeth that loosen or fall out early, gums that pull back", "Weak or brittle bones, a stooped back, easy fractures", "Hair that greys or falls out early", "Poor memory, slow thinking, or dizziness", "Weak knees and a sore low back" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/kidney-essence-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/kidney-essence-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "kidney-yang-deficiency", "name": "Kidney Yang Deficiency", "pinyin": "Shen Yang Xu", "chinese": "肾阳虚", "organ": "Kidney", "family": "yang-deficiency", "summary": "The Kidney's pilot light has burned low. The whole body runs cold: a cold aching low back, cold knees and feet, a pale face, clear urine that comes often and at night, low drive, and an exhaustion that is worse in winter. This is the opposite temperature from Kidney yin deficiency, and it needs the opposite formula.", "key_signs": [ "Cold, aching low back and knees", "Cold hands and feet, a cold lower body", "Frequent clear urine, waking at night to urinate", "Low sex drive, impotence, or infertility with a cold pattern", "Exhaustion, worse in winter and in the morning" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/kidney-yang-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/kidney-yang-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "kidney-yin-deficiency", "name": "Kidney Yin Deficiency", "pinyin": "Shen Yin Xu", "chinese": "肾阴虚", "organ": "Kidney", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The Kidney's cooling, moistening reserve has run low. The body dries out and warms up from the inside: dry mouth at night, a sore low back, loose teeth, ringing ears, and a tiredness that sleep does not fix.", "key_signs": [ "Dry mouth and throat at night, with a wish for small sips", "Sore or weak low back and knees", "Loose teeth or gums that pull back slowly", "Ringing in the ears, or hearing that fades", "Tired in a deep way, worse with late nights" ], "formula_count": 5, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/kidney-yin-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/kidney-yin-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "kidney-yin-deficiency-with-empty-heat", "name": "Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat", "pinyin": "Yin Xu Huo Wang", "chinese": "阴虚火旺", "organ": "Kidney", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "Kidney yin has run so low that heat flares up with nothing to hold it down. It is not a true fever. It is the heat of an empty pot left on the stove: night sweats, hot palms and soles, a dry mouth that wakes you, red cheeks in the afternoon, and loose or bleeding gums.", "key_signs": [ "Night sweats", "Hot palms, hot soles, a warm chest in the evening", "Dry mouth at night that wakes you for water", "Loose teeth, with gums that are a little red or bleed", "Red cheeks or a flush in the afternoon" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/kidney-yin-deficiency-with-empty-heat", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/kidney-yin-deficiency-with-empty-heat" } }, { "slug": "liver-gallbladder-damp-heat", "name": "Liver and Gallbladder Damp Heat", "pinyin": "Gan Dan Shi Re", "chinese": "肝胆湿热", "organ": "Liver and Gallbladder", "family": "dampness", "summary": "Hot sticky dampness in the Liver channel, which runs from the groin to the ribs to the eyes. Pain and fullness under the ribs, a bitter sticky mouth, nausea, yellow eyes or skin, genital itch or herpes outbreaks, yellow discharge, burning urine, and a red tongue with a yellow greasy coat.", "key_signs": [ "Pain or fullness under the ribs, often the right side", "Bitter, sticky mouth; nausea; no appetite", "Yellow eyes or skin", "Genital itch, swelling, discharge, or herpes outbreaks", "Burning, dark urine" ], "formula_count": 2, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-gallbladder-damp-heat", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-gallbladder-damp-heat" } }, { "slug": "liver-and-kidney-yin-deficiency", "name": "Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency", "pinyin": "Gan Shen Yin Xu", "chinese": "肝肾阴虚", "organ": "Liver and Kidney", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The Kidney feeds the Liver, so when the Kidney's cooling reserve runs low the Liver dries out with it. You get the Kidney signs, a sore back and dry mouth and ringing ears, plus the Liver's: dry tired eyes, blurry vision, brittle nails, numb limbs, and a short temper that flares in the afternoon.", "key_signs": [ "Dry, tired, blurry eyes, floaters", "Sore low back and weak knees", "Dizziness and ringing in the ears", "Dry mouth and throat at night", "Irritable in a dry, hot way, worse late in the day" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-and-kidney-yin-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-and-kidney-yin-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "liver-blood-deficiency", "name": "Liver Blood Deficiency", "pinyin": "Gan Xue Xu", "chinese": "肝血虚", "organ": "Liver", "family": "blood-deficiency", "summary": "The Liver stores the blood, and its store is low. The face, lips, and nails are pale, the eyes are dry and tired, vision blurs, limbs go numb or cramp, periods are light or late, and sleep is thin. It is the pale, cool cousin of Liver yin deficiency.", "key_signs": [ "Pale face, pale lips, pale brittle nails", "Dry, tired eyes, blurry vision, floaters", "Numb limbs, muscle cramps or twitches", "Light, late, or absent periods", "Dizziness, especially on standing" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-blood-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-blood-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "liver-fire", "name": "Liver Fire", "pinyin": "Gan Huo Shang Yan", "chinese": "肝火上炎", "organ": "Liver", "family": "heat", "summary": "Full, blazing heat in the Liver going straight to the head. A splitting headache, red sore eyes, rage, a bitter mouth, ringing ears or sudden deafness, nosebleeds, and a thick yellow coat. Loud, hot, and forceful, with nothing empty underneath.", "key_signs": [ "Splitting headache, often one-sided or at the top of the head", "Red, sore, or swollen eyes", "Rage, outbursts, a feeling of pressure in the chest", "Bitter taste, dry mouth, thirst", "Sudden ringing ears or hearing loss" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-fire", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-fire" } }, { "slug": "liver-overacting-on-spleen", "name": "Liver Overacting on the Spleen", "pinyin": "Gan Pi Bu He", "chinese": "肝脾不和", "organ": "Liver and Spleen", "family": "qi-stagnation", "summary": "A stressed Liver bullying a weak digestion. Bloating, cramping, and loose stools that follow stress, arguments, or deadlines; alternating constipation and diarrhea; a knotted stomach when upset; tiredness and poor appetite. The gut that reacts to the mood.", "key_signs": [ "Bloating and gut pain that follow stress", "Loose stools or diarrhea after an upset, often with cramping", "Alternating constipation and diarrhea", "A knotted stomach, sighing, tight ribs", "Tiredness, poor appetite, moodiness" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-overacting-on-spleen", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-overacting-on-spleen" } }, { "slug": "liver-qi-stagnation", "name": "Liver Qi Stagnation", "pinyin": "Gan Qi Yu Jie", "chinese": "肝气郁结", "organ": "Liver", "family": "qi-stagnation", "summary": "The Liver's job is to keep everything flowing, and stress has jammed it. You feel tense and moody, your ribs and chest feel tight, you sigh a lot, you bloat, your digestion swings, and in women the cycle is irregular and the breasts hurt before it. It is the most common pattern in a stressed modern life.", "key_signs": [ "Tense, irritable, moody, quick to snap or to cry", "Tightness or fullness under the ribs or in the chest", "Frequent sighing", "Bloating and digestion that changes with mood", "In women, breast tenderness, an irregular or painful cycle, premenstrual moods" ], "formula_count": 5, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-qi-stagnation", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-qi-stagnation" } }, { "slug": "liver-qi-stagnation-with-heat", "name": "Liver Qi Stagnation Turning to Heat", "pinyin": "Gan Yu Hua Huo", "chinese": "肝郁化火", "organ": "Liver", "family": "heat", "summary": "Stress that has sat long enough to heat up. The moodiness of Liver qi stagnation becomes real anger, the face flushes, the mouth is dry and bitter, sleep is restless, acne flares, and periods come early or heavy. A dammed river that has started to steam.", "key_signs": [ "Irritability tipping into anger, outbursts", "Red face, hot flashes, a feeling of heat in the chest", "Dry mouth, bitter taste", "Restless sleep, waking hot and angry", "Early, heavy, or painful periods; acne before them" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-qi-stagnation-with-heat", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-qi-stagnation-with-heat" } }, { "slug": "liver-yang-rising", "name": "Liver Yang Rising", "pinyin": "Gan Yang Shang Kang", "chinese": "肝阳上亢", "organ": "Liver", "family": "heat", "summary": "Liver and Kidney yin are too low to hold the Liver's yang down, so it rushes to the head. A pounding or throbbing headache, dizziness, a red face, ringing ears, a hot temper, and often high blood pressure, on top of a sore back and a dry mouth. Loud above, empty below.", "key_signs": [ "Throbbing headache at the temples or top of the head", "Dizziness, a feeling of pressure in the head", "Red face and eyes, a hot temper", "Ringing in the ears", "High blood pressure" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-yang-rising", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-yang-rising" } }, { "slug": "liver-yin-deficiency", "name": "Liver Yin Deficiency", "pinyin": "Gan Yin Xu", "chinese": "肝阴虚", "organ": "Liver", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The Liver has lost its cooling moisture. The eyes are dry and gritty, the nails brittle, the muscles twitchy or crampy, the mood dry and short, and there is a dull ache under the ribs. It is a warmer, drier cousin of Liver blood deficiency and often sits on top of Kidney yin deficiency.", "key_signs": [ "Dry, gritty, tired eyes", "Brittle nails, dry hair", "Muscle twitches, cramps, or stiffness", "Dull ache under the ribs, worse with tiredness", "Short-tempered in a dry, hot way" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/liver-yin-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/liver-yin-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "lung-qi-deficiency", "name": "Lung Qi Deficiency", "pinyin": "Fei Qi Xu", "chinese": "肺气虚", "organ": "Lung", "family": "qi-deficiency", "summary": "The Lung is too weak to breathe deeply or guard the surface. A quiet voice, shortness of breath on effort, a weak lingering cough, sweating in the daytime for no reason, and catching every cold that passes. Pale, tired, and easily winded.", "key_signs": [ "Shortness of breath on effort, shallow breathing", "Weak voice, no wish to talk", "Catching every cold, slow to recover", "Daytime sweating for no reason", "A weak cough that lingers after an illness" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/lung-qi-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/lung-qi-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "lung-yin-deficiency", "name": "Lung Yin Deficiency", "pinyin": "Fei Yin Xu", "chinese": "肺阴虚", "organ": "Lung", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The Lung has lost its moisture. A dry cough that drags on for weeks, a dry tickly throat, a hoarse voice, little or sticky phlegm, and in a worn-down person, night sweats and afternoon warmth. It often follows a long illness, a dry climate, or years of smoking.", "key_signs": [ "Dry cough with little or no phlegm, lasting weeks", "Dry, tickly, or sore throat, hoarse voice", "Sticky phlegm that is hard to bring up, sometimes streaked with blood", "Dry mouth, wanting small sips", "Afternoon warmth, red cheeks, night sweats" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/lung-yin-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/lung-yin-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "phlegm-damp", "name": "Phlegm Damp", "pinyin": "Tan Shi", "chinese": "痰湿", "organ": "Spleen and Lung", "family": "dampness", "summary": "Dampness that has thickened into phlegm. A wet cough with lots of white phlegm, a full chest, nausea, a heavy foggy head, dizziness, soft weight gain, and a greasy white coat. Made in the Spleen, stored in the Lung, and felt everywhere.", "key_signs": [ "Cough with lots of white phlegm that is easy to bring up", "Fullness or a lump feeling in the chest", "Nausea, a sticky mouth", "Heavy foggy head, dizziness", "A greasy white tongue coat" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/phlegm-damp", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/phlegm-damp" } }, { "slug": "phlegm-heat", "name": "Phlegm Heat", "pinyin": "Tan Re", "chinese": "痰热", "organ": "Lung, Stomach, and Gallbladder", "family": "dampness", "summary": "Phlegm that has heated up. In the chest: a loud cough with thick yellow phlegm, a rattling breath, and chest pain. In the gut and mind: nausea, a bitter taste, agitation, poor sleep, and a thick yellow greasy coat. Wet and hot at the same time.", "key_signs": [ "Cough with thick yellow or green phlegm", "A rattling or wheezing chest", "Bitter taste, nausea, a sticky mouth", "Agitation, anxiety, restless sleep", "A thick yellow greasy tongue coat" ], "formula_count": 2, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/phlegm-heat", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/phlegm-heat" } }, { "slug": "qi-and-blood-deficiency", "name": "Qi and Blood Deficiency", "pinyin": "Qi Xue Liang Xu", "chinese": "气血两虚", "organ": "Spleen, Heart, and Liver", "family": "blood-deficiency", "summary": "Both the energy and the blood have run low. Tired and pale at the same time: short of breath, a weak voice, dizzy on standing, palpitations, poor appetite, pale lips and nails, and a light or late cycle. The usual state after a long illness, surgery, childbirth, or a long stretch of overwork.", "key_signs": [ "Tiredness with pallor", "Shortness of breath, weak voice", "Dizziness on standing, blurry vision", "Palpitations", "Pale lips, nails, and face" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/qi-and-blood-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/qi-and-blood-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "qi-deficiency-with-sinking", "name": "Sinking of Spleen Qi", "pinyin": "Zhong Qi Xia Xian", "chinese": "中气下陷", "organ": "Spleen", "family": "qi-deficiency", "summary": "Spleen qi so weak it can no longer hold things up. Exhaustion with a dragging, bearing-down feeling, prolapse of the uterus, rectum, or bladder, hemorrhoids, chronic diarrhea, frequent urination, and a low fever that comes with tiredness. Things sag because the qi that holds them has sunk.", "key_signs": [ "A dragging or bearing-down feeling in the lower belly", "Prolapse of the uterus, rectum, bladder, or stomach", "Hemorrhoids that sag, varicose veins", "Exhaustion, worse on standing and with effort", "Chronic diarrhea or frequent urination" ], "formula_count": 2, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/qi-deficiency-with-sinking", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/qi-deficiency-with-sinking" } }, { "slug": "spleen-and-kidney-yang-deficiency", "name": "Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency", "pinyin": "Pi Shen Yang Xu", "chinese": "脾肾阳虚", "organ": "Spleen and Kidney", "family": "yang-deficiency", "summary": "Both fires are low: the stove in the gut and the pilot light in the Kidney. Diarrhea at dawn, a cold belly and a cold back, cold limbs, swelling, frequent clear urine, exhaustion, and a pale puffy face. The deep cold pattern of old age, long illness, or a lifetime of cold food.", "key_signs": [ "Diarrhea at dawn, the cock-crow diarrhea", "Cold belly and cold low back together", "Cold limbs, dread of cold", "Swelling of the legs or face", "Exhaustion, a wish to sleep" ], "formula_count": 4, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/spleen-and-kidney-yang-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/spleen-and-kidney-yang-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "spleen-qi-deficiency", "name": "Spleen Qi Deficiency", "pinyin": "Pi Qi Xu", "chinese": "脾气虚", "organ": "Spleen", "family": "qi-deficiency", "summary": "The digestion is too weak to turn food into energy. You are tired, especially after eating, bloated, loose in the stool, pale, and your limbs feel heavy. In Chinese medicine the Spleen is the kitchen of the whole body, and this is the kitchen running on half power.", "key_signs": [ "Tired, worse after meals", "Bloating and a sense of fullness after eating", "Loose stools or stools that are soft and unformed", "Poor appetite", "Heavy, weak limbs" ], "formula_count": 6, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/spleen-qi-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/spleen-qi-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "spleen-yang-deficiency", "name": "Spleen Yang Deficiency", "pinyin": "Pi Yang Xu", "chinese": "脾阳虚", "organ": "Spleen", "family": "yang-deficiency", "summary": "Spleen qi deficiency that has gone cold. The belly is cold and aches, it loves a hot water bottle, the stools are watery with undigested food, the hands and feet are cold, and everything is worse in winter and after cold food. A cold stove instead of a weak one.", "key_signs": [ "Cold belly that aches and likes warmth and pressure", "Watery stools with undigested food, often early in the morning", "Cold hands and feet", "Worse after cold or raw food", "Tiredness and bloating" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/spleen-yang-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/spleen-yang-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "stomach-fire", "name": "Stomach Fire", "pinyin": "Wei Huo", "chinese": "胃火", "organ": "Stomach", "family": "heat", "summary": "Real, full heat in the Stomach that rises up its channel into the gums and mouth. The gums are red and swollen and bleed easily, the breath is sour or foul, you are hungry and thirsty for cold drinks, and the tongue coat is thick and yellow.", "key_signs": [ "Red, swollen gums that bleed when brushed", "Bad breath, sour or foul", "Toothache that throbs, worse with heat, better with cold", "Big thirst, wanting cold drinks", "Hungry all the time, or hungry soon after eating" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/stomach-fire", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/stomach-fire" } }, { "slug": "stomach-yin-deficiency", "name": "Stomach Yin Deficiency", "pinyin": "Wei Yin Xu", "chinese": "胃阴虚", "organ": "Stomach", "family": "yin-deficiency", "summary": "The Stomach has lost its moisture, usually after a fever, a long run of Stomach heat, or years of irregular eating. The mouth is dry but you do not want to drink much, there is no real appetite, a dull burning after meals, dry stools, and a tongue that has lost its coat in the middle.", "key_signs": [ "Dry mouth and lips, with no wish to drink much", "No appetite, or hungry but unable to eat", "Dull burning or discomfort in the stomach after eating", "Dry stools, constipation", "A tongue with the coat peeled off in the middle" ], "formula_count": 3, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/stomach-yin-deficiency", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/stomach-yin-deficiency" } }, { "slug": "wind-heat", "name": "Wind-Heat", "pinyin": "Feng Re", "chinese": "风热", "organ": "Lung", "family": "wind", "summary": "A hot cold. It starts with a sore throat, a fever with only slight chills, a headache, thirst, and a cough, and the tongue tip is red. Wind-heat moves fast and goes for the throat and chest, so the formula is taken in the first day, not the third.", "key_signs": [ "Sore, red throat at the start", "Fever with slight or no chills", "Headache, thirst", "Cough, dry or with yellow phlegm", "A red tongue tip" ], "formula_count": 2, "_links": { "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/wind-heat", "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/wind-heat" } } ], "total": 36, "_links": { "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/patterns/", "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/patterns", "formulas": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/formulas" } }