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Liver

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Liver meridian

Liver 1

Pain

  • Hypogastric pain
  • Pain of the umbilicus
  • Pain of the head of the penis

Affecting movement

  • Intermittent muscular spasms

Neurological

  • Epilepsy
  • Intermittent muscular spasms

Affecting temperature

  • Copious sweating
  • Heat of the lower abdomen

Color and swelling

  • Swelling and pain of the genitals
  • Swelling of the testicles

Lung

  • Sighing

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal distention and swelling
  • Heat in the lower abdomen
  • Constipation

Childhood and adolescence

  • Acute and chronic childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Excessive fright and little strength
  • Great fear as if seeing ghosts
  • Mania-depression
  • Worry and oppression

Energy and sleep

  • State of strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for long periods

Nose

  • Ceaseless nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Bitter taste in mouth

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Swelling and pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the head of the penis
  • Retraction of genitals
  • Swelling of the testicles
  • Painful retention of urine
  • Blood in the urine
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Involuntary urination
  • Frequent urination
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Ceaseless uterine bleeding
  • Abnormally heavy bleeding at menstruation
  • Abnormal bleeding from the uterus
  • Uterine prolapse

Other symptoms

  • Loss of consciousness

Liver 2

Pain

  • Headache
  • Redness and pain of the eyes
  • Pain and itching of the genitals
  • Lumbar pain with difficulty in flexing and extending the back
  • Distention and pain of the chest and lateral costal region
  • Pain of the chest and back
  • Pain below the heart
  • Pain of the inner aspect of the leg
  • Pain and swelling of the instep
  • Pain of the penis

Affecting movement

  • Contracted sinews
  • Deviation of the mouth
  • Intermittent muscular spasms
  • Lumbar pain with difficulty in flexing and extending the back

Neurological

  • Epilepsy
  • Intermittent muscular spasms

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the body
  • Heat in the skin
  • Burning heat in the face

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the knee
  • Pain and swelling of the instep

Obstruction

  • Throat painful obstruction

Skin

  • Dark green complexion
  • Death-like green color

Pathology

  • Malaria

Lung

  • Coughing blood
  • Much sighing
  • Inability to catch the breath all day long
  • Difficulty in catching the breath
  • Shortness of the breath

Heart

  • Palpitations
  • Hypertension

Gastrointestinal

  • Cold or damp diarrhea
  • Constipation
  • Abdominal distention
  • Lower abdominal fullness

Childhood and adolescence

  • Chronic and acute childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Propensity to anger
  • Sadness
  • Propensity to fright
  • Close eyes and has no desire to look
  • Excessive fright and little strength
  • Propensity to fear as if seeing ghosts
  • Madness

Energy and sleep

  • Insomnia

Eyes

  • Redness and pain of the eyes
  • Lacrimation
  • Eye diseases

Face

  • Burning heat of the face

Nose

  • Nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Deviation of the mouth
  • Bitter taste in the mouth

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction
  • Dry throat with agitation and thirst
  • Clutching sensation in the throat

Maternal

  • Difficult lactation

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Pain and itching of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis
  • Sudden involuntary erection
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Involuntary urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Difficult urination
  • White turbidity
  • Red and white vaginal discharge
  • Incessant uterine bleeidng
  • Abnormally heavy bleeding at menstruation
  • Inhibited menstruation
  • Early menstruation

Vomiting

  • Vomiting

Dizziness

  • Dizziness

Other symptoms

  • Thirst
  • Loss of consciousness

Liver 3

Pain

  • Headache
  • Breast pain
  • Distention and pain of the lateral costal region
  • Epigastric or abdominal pain
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Pain and fullness of the hypogastrium
  • Lumbar pain radiating to the lower abdomen
  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain of the inner and outer knee
  • Pain of the lower leg
  • Pain of the inner malleolus
  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes

Affecting movement

  • Spasm of the muscles causing backward arching of the head, neck and spine
  • Contraction of the sinews of the hands and feet
  • Deviation of the mouth
  • Intermittent muscular spasms
  • Flaccidity and weakness of the knees and feet
  • Contraction of the five fingers

Neurological

  • Spasm of the muscles causing backward arching of the head, neck and spine
  • Numbness of the head
  • Epilepsy
  • Intermittent muscular spasms

Affecting temperature

  • Cold feet
  • Internal heat with thirst
  • Low grade fever

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the axilla
  • Swelling of the elbow
  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes

Skin

  • Jaundice
  • Death like green complexion

Lung and airway related problems

  • Inability to catch the breath all day long
  • Sighing

Heart

  • Hypertension

Gastrointestinal

  • Epigastric or abdominal pain
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Pain and fullness of the hypogastrium
  • Constipation
  • Difficult defecation
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea containing undigested food
  • Diarrhead with thin stools
  • Bloody diarrhea and dysenteric disorder
  • Blood in the stools

Childhood and adolescence

  • Childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Easily fearful

Energy and sleep

  • Insomnia

Eyes

  • Blurred vision
  • Cloudy vision
  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Cracked lips
  • Swelling of the lips

Throat

  • Distention of the throat
  • Pain of the throat
  • Dry throat with desire to drink

Maternal

  • Ceaseless and profuse sweating after childbirth
  • Insufficient lactation

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Insufficiency of semen in men
  • Seminal emission
  • Swollen testicles
  • Retracted testicles
  • Unilateral sagging of the testicles
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Absence of menstruation
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Incessant uterine bleeding
  • Uterine prolapse
  • Involuntary urination
  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Painful urinary dysfunction

Vomiting

  • Vomiting
  • Vomiting blood
  • Nausea

Dizziness

  • Dizziness

Other symptoms

  • Abnormally thin or weak

Liver 4

Pain

  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain and swelling of the lower abdomen
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Pain and retraction of the genitals
  • Hypogastric pain
  • Pain of the medial aspect of the knee
  • Pain and swelling of the medial malleolus

Affecting movement

  • Contracted sinews
  • Heaviness of the body

Neurological

  • Numbness of the body

Affecting temperature

  • Cold inversion of the feet
  • Yellow body with low grade fever
  • Low grade fever

Color and swelling

  • Green complexion
  • Jaundice
  • Yellow body with low grade fever
  • Goitre
  • Pain and swelling of the medial malleolus

Skin

  • Green complexion
  • Jaundice
  • Yellow body with low grade fever

Pathology

  • Malaria
  • Goitre

Lung and airway related problems

  • Sighing

Gastrointestinal

  • Pain and swelling of the lower abdomen
  • Abdominal discomfort after eating
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Difficult defecation
  • No pleasure in eating

Energy and sleep

  • Diminished energy

Throat

  • Dry throat

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Seminal emission
  • Seminal emission with dreams
  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine

Liver 5

Pain

  • Lumbar pain
  • Cold and pain of the feet and lower leg

Affecting movement

  • Inflexibility of the back with inability to turn

Affecting temperature

  • Cold and pain of the feet and lower leg

Gastrointestinal

  • Much belching

Psycho-emotional

  • Depression
  • Fright palpitations
  • Fear and fright
  • Worry and oppression

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Itching, swelling and pain of the genitals
  • Sudden itching of the genitals
  • Sudden swelling and pain of the testicles
  • Incessant erection
  • Distention and fullness of the lower abdomen
  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Menstrual cramps
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Red and white discharge of mucus from the vagina
  • Prolapse of the uterus

Liver 6

Pain

  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Hypogastric pain

Affecting movement

  • Inability to walk
  • Flaccidity and emaciation of the legs
  • Cold sensation of the lower legs with inability to stand for long

Neurological

  • Numbness of the body
  • Numbness of the hands and feet

Affecting temperature

  • Cold sensation of the lower legs with inability to stand for long
  • Hot sensation of the soles of the feet

Gastrointestinal

  • Diarrhea

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Persistent flow of vaginal discharge after birth
  • Uterine bleeding

Liver 7

Pain

  • Swelling and pain of the knee
  • Pain of the inner aspect of the knee radiating to the patella
  • Abdominal pain
  • Pain of the throat

Affecting movement

  • Difficulty in flexing and extending the knee

Liver 8

Pain

  • Extreme pain of the body
  • Knee pain
  • Swelling and pain of the patella
  • Coldness and pain of the knee and lower leg
  • Pain of the inner thigh
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis
  • Pain of the abdomen and lateral costal region
  • Umbilical pain
  • Headache
  • Redness, heat, swelling and pain of the eyes

Affecting temperature

  • Coldness and pain of the knee and lower leg

Color and swelling

  • Swelling and pain of the patella
  • Swelling and itching of the genitals
  • Swelling of the hypogastrium
  • Redness, heat, swelling and pain of the eyes

Lung and airway related problems

  • Dyspnea

Gastrointestinal

  • Diarrhea conatining undigested food
  • Diarrhea containing blood and pus
  • Abdominal masses in women due to blood stasis
  • Masses of the hypogastrium
  • Swelling of the hypogastrium
  • Pain of the abdomen and lateral costal region
  • Umbilical pain

Psycho-emotional

  • Mania disorder

Eyes

  • Visual dizziness
  • Redness, heat, swelling and pain of the eyes

Nose

  • Nosebleed

Maternal

  • Infertility due to blood stasis

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Swelling and itching of the genitals
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis
  • Impotence
  • Seminal emission
  • Seminal emission associated with sexual taxation
  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Involuntary urination
  • Uterine prolapse
  • Absence of menstruation

Dizziness

  • Visual dizziness

Other symptoms

  • No pleasure in eating

Liver 9

Pain

  • Lumbo-sacral pain extending to the lower abdomen

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Irregular menstruation
  • Disorders of menstruation
  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Involuntary urination

Liver 10

Pain

  • Swelling and pain of the testicles

Color and swelling

  • Swelling and pain of the testicles

Gastrointestinal

  • Fullness of the abdomen
  • Fullness of the lower abdomen

Lung and airway related problems

  • Difficult respiration
  • Cough

Energy and sleep

  • Strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for long periods

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Involuntary urination
  • Itching of the genitals
  • Swelling and pain of the testicles

Liver 11

Pain

  • Pain in the inner thigh and knee

Maternal

  • Infertility

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Irregular menstruation

Liver 12

Pain

  • Pain of the hypogastrium
  • Pain of the inner thigh
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis
  • Swelling of the testicles
  • Uterine prolapse

Liver 13

Pain

  • Pain of the ribs
  • Cold and pain of the lumbar spine
  • Lumbar pain with inability to turn and bend the waist

Affecting movement

  • Rigidity of the spine
  • Lumbar pain with inability to turn and bend the waist
  • Inability to raise the arm and shoulder

Neurological

  • Epilepsy

Affecting temperature

  • Agitation and heat with dry mouth
  • Cold and pain of the lumbar spine

Skin

  • Abnormally thin or weak and jaundice

Lung and airway related problems

  • Sudden difficulty in breathing
  • Inability to catch the breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Cough

Gastrointestinal

  • Distention and pain of the abdomen
  • Abdominal masses
  • Esophageal constriction
  • Undigested food in the stool
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Constipation

Psycho-emotional

  • Propensity to anger
  • Propensity to fear
  • Mad walking

Energy and sleep

  • Weariness of the four limbs

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Agitation and heat with dry mouth

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Frequent urination with turbid white discharge

Vomiting

  • Vomiting

Other symptoms

  • No pleasure in eating
  • Abnormally thin or weak

Liver 14

Pain

  • Pain, distention and fullness of the chest
  • Pain in the lateral costal region
  • Distention and pain of the breast
  • Stiffness and pain of the head and neck

Affecting movement

  • Stiffness and pain of the head and neck
  • Intermittent muscular spasm

Neurological

  • Intermittent muscular spasm

Affecting temperature

  • Agitation and heat of the chest
  • Alternating chills and fever

Skin

  • Jaundice

Pathology

  • Malaria
  • Gallstones
  • Wasting and thirsting disorder

Lung and airway related problems

  • Much sighing
  • Cough
  • Dyspnea
  • Enlarged and hard abdomen with difficulty in breathing
  • Vomiting and hiccup

Gastrointestinal

  • Enlarged and hard abdomen with difficulty in breathing
  • Epigastric distention and pain
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Desire to eat despite difficult ingestion
  • Abdominal distention and watery diarrhea
  • Hardness of the epigastrium, hypogastrium and abdomen

Psycho-emotional

  • Manic raving

Eyes

  • Visual dizziness

Face

  • Red face

Mouth

  • Dry mouth

Maternal

  • Post-partum disorders

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Uterine bleeding

Vomiting and nausea

  • Vomiting and hiccup
  • Vomiting fluid after eating

Dizziness

  • Visual dizziness