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Spleen meridian

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Spleen meridian

Spleen 1

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the chest
  • Fever with absence of sweating
  • Cold feet
  • Cold sensation in the lower leg
  • Febrile disease with nosebleed

Color and swelling

  • Sudden swelling of the four limbs

Lung and airway related

  • Dyspnea
  • Sighing

Gastrointestinal

  • Blood in stool
  • Abdominal distention
  • Sudden diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • No desire to eat or drink
  • Difficult ingestion

Childhood and adolescence

  • Chronic childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Agitation
  • Sighing
  • Propensity to sadness
  • Mania-depression
  • Excessive dreaming
  • Chronic childhood fright

Nose

  • Nosebleed
  • Febrile disease with nosebleed

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Uterine bleeding
  • Heavy menstrual bleeding
  • Blood in urine

Vomiting

  • Vomiting blood

Other symptoms

  • Loss of consciousness

Spleen 2

Pain

  • Lumbar pain with inability to turn
  • Heaviness of the body with pain of the bones
  • Epigastric pain

Affecting movement

  • Heaviness of the body with pain of the bones

Affecting temperature

  • Febrile disease with absence of sweating
  • Febrile disease that does not disperse
  • Heat sensation in the soles of the feet

Color and swelling

  • Sudden swelling of the four limbs
  • Swelling of the limbs

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal distention
  • Epigastric pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Constipation
  • Agitation when hungry and dizziness when full

Psycho-emotional

  • Agitation

Energy and sleep

  • Insomnia

Dizziness

  • Agitation when hungry and dizziness when full

Other symptoms

  • Disorders of the big toe

Spleen 3

Pain

  • Pain of the knee and thigh
  • Lumbar pain
  • Joint pains
  • Pain of the forehead
  • Pain of the abdomen
  • Cutting pain in the abdomen
  • Pain of the epigastrium
  • Heaviness of the body with pain of the bones
  • Borborygmus with stabbing pain

Affecting movement

  • Heaviness of the body with pain in the bones
  • Febrile disease that begins with heaviness of the head
  • Febrile disease with fullness and oppression and inability to lie down
  • Atrophy disorder

Affecting temperature

  • Febrile disease with fullness and oppression and inability to lie down
  • Febrile disease that begins with heaviness of the head
  • Heat in the body with agitation and fullness

Gastrointestinal

  • Borborygmus
  • Borborygmus with stabbing pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Undigested food in stool
  • Diarrhea with pus and blood
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Constipation
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Cutting pain of the abdomen
  • Pain of the abdomen
  • Distention of the abdomen
  • Pain of the epigastrium

Vomiting

  • Vomiting

Spleen 4

Pain

  • Pain of the heel
  • Epigastric pain
  • Distention and pain of the abdomen
  • Distention and pain of the umibical region
  • Cutting pain in the intestines

Affecting movement

  • Much sighing

Neurological

  • Epilepsy

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the soles of the feet

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the head and face
  • Edema

Skin

  • Jaundice

Pathology

  • Epilepsy
  • Malaria

Gastrointestinal

  • Epigastric pain
  • No pleasure in eating
  • Esophageal constriction
  • Distention and pain of the abdomen
  • Distention and pain of the umibical region
  • Cutting pain in the intestines
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Undigested food in stool
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Blood in the stool
  • A continual or recurrent inclination to evacute the bowels

Pyscho-emotional

  • Mania-depression
  • Manic raving

Energy and sleep

  • Insomnia and restlessness

Maternal

  • Retention of the placenta and lochia

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Irregular menstruation
  • Gynecological disorders

Vomiting

  • Vomiting

Spleen 5

Pain

  • Ankle pain
  • Pain of the inner thigh
  • Bone painful obstruction
  • Heavy body  with painful joints
  • Pain and contraction of the sinews
  • Stiffness and pain of the root of the tongue

Affecting movement

  • Stiffness and pain of the root of the tongue
  • Lockjaw
  • Heavy body with painful joints
  • Hemiplegia

Affecting temperature

  • Cold pain in the epigastrium
  • Chills and fever with vomiting
  • Cold body with much sighing

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the face

Obstruction

  • Bone painful obstruction

Skin

  • Jaundice
  • Yellow face

Lung and airway related problems

  • Coughing and diarrhea in children with no desire to eat
  • Cough

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal distention
  • Borborygmus
  • Watery diarrhea
  • Undigested food in stool
  • Constipation
  • Cold pain in the epigastrium
  • Excessive eating
  • Coughing and diarrhea in children with no desire to eat
  • Haemorrhoids

Childhood and adolescence

  • Chronic childhood fright
  • Childhood fright epilepsy

Psycho-emotional

  • Mania-depression
  • Agitation with thirst
  • Excessive thinking
  • Propensity to laughter
  • Nightmares
  • Melancholy
  • Chronic childhood fright
  • Childhood fright epilepsy

Energy and sleep

  • Avoidance of activity or exertion (laziness)
  • A state of strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unsually long periods
  • A lack of energy and enthusiasm with desire to lie down
  • Nightmares

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Stiffness and pain of the root of the tongue

Speech

  • Impaired speech

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Infertility

 

Spleen 6

Pain

  • Unbearable pain below the umbilicus
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis
  • Leg pain
  • Atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of the lower limbs
  • Shin pain

Affecting movement

  • Heavy body with heaviness of the four limbs
  • Yawning
  • Atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of the lower limbs
  • Hemiplegia

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the soles of the feet
  • Cold in the abdomen
  • Counterflow cold of the foot and hand

Color and swelling

  • Edema

Obstruction

  • Atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of the lower limbs

Skin

  • Eczema
  • Urticaria

Heart

  • Palpitations
  • Hypertension

Gastrointestinal

  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Undigested food in the stool
  • Abdominal distention
  • Cold abdomen
  • Unbearable pain below the umibilicus
  • No desire to eat or drink
  • Vomiting of fluid after eating

Psycho-emotional

  • Sudden fright disorder in children

Childhood and adolescence

  • Sudden fright disorder in children

Energy and sleep

  • Heavy body with heaviness of the four limbs
  • Insomnia

Eyes

  • Blurred vision

Ear

  • Tinnitus

Maternal

  • Restless fetus syndrome
  • Delayed labor
  • Prolonged or difficult labor
  • Retention of lochia
  • Retention of dead fetus
  • Post-partum dizziness

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Irregular menstruation
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Uterine bleeding with dizziness
  • Heavy menstrual bleeding or prolonged
  • Abnormal absence of menstruation.
  • Bleeding with dizziness
  • Thick, whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge
  • Uterine prolapse
  • Infertility
  • Seminal emission
  • Seminal emission with dreaming
  • Sexual hyperactivity in men
  • Impotence
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Pain of the penis
  • Contracted testicles
  • Difficult urination
  • Repeated inability to control urination
  • Cloudy urine

Dizziness

  • Dizziness
  • Uterine bleeding with dizziness
  • Bleeding with dizziness

Vomiting and nausea

  • Vomiting of fluid after eating

 

Spleen 7

Affecting movement

  • Paralysis of the legs

Swelling

  • Edema
  • Swelling of the ankle

Obstruction

  • Painful obstruction of the knees

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal fullness
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Painful belching
  • Wasting of the muscles and flesh despite normal eating and drinking

Psycho-emotional

  • Sadness

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Difficult urination
  • Seminal emission

Spleen 8

Pain

  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain of the abdomen

Swelling

  • Edema

Gastrointestinal

  • Distention of the abdomen and lateral costal region
  • Pain of the abdomen
  • Poor appetite
  • Diarrhea with thin stool
  • Dysenteric disorder

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Irregular menstruation
  • Menstrual cramps
  • Difficult urination
  • Thick, whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge
  • Seminal emission

Spleen 9

Pain

  • Pain of the lower abdomen
  • Cutting pain in the middle of the intestines
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain and swelling of the knee

Affecting temperature

  • Cold and pain of the abdomen
  • Heat in the chest
  • Unremitting chills and fever

Color and swelling

  • Edema
  • Swelling of the lower limbs

Obstruction

  • Painful obstruction of the leg

Skin

  • Jaundice

Lung and airway related problems

  • Dyspnea with inability to lie down

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal distention
  • Cold and pain of the abdomen
  • Pain of the lower abdomen
  • Cutting pain in the middle of the intestines
  • No desire to eat
  • Diarrhea
  • Sudden diarrhea with undigested food in the stools
  • Dysenteric disorder

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Retention of urine
  • Difficult urination
  • Repeated inability to control urination
  • Seminal emission
  • Pain of the genitals
  • Thick, whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge

Spleen 10

Pain

  • Pain of the inner aspect of thigh
  • Pain and itching of the genitals

Skin

  • Urticaria
  • Eczema
  • Herpes zoster

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Irregular menstruation
  • Menstrual cramps
  • Abnormal absence of menstruation
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Uterine bleeding containing clots
  • Sudden uterine bleeding
  • Ulcerations and itching of the scrotum
  • Pain and itching of the genitals
  • Thick, whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge

 

Spleen 11

Pain

  • Pain of the lower abdomen
  • Pain and swelling of the inguinal region
  • Painful urinary dysfunction

Color and swelling

  • Pain and swelling of the inguinal region

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Retention of urine
  • Obstructed urination
  • Repeated inability to control urination
  • Eczema of the scrotum
  • Damp itching of the external genitalia

Spleen 12

Pain

  • Abdominal pain
  • Pain of hemorrhoids
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of lower limb

Affecting movement

  • Atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of lower limb

Affecting temperature

  • Cold in the abdomen with fullness
  • Heat in the body

Obstruction

  • Atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of lower limb

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal pain
  • Cold in the abdomen

Maternal

  • Difficult lactation

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Difficult urination
  • Retention of urine
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Thick, whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge
  • Pain of hemorrhoids

Spleen 13

Pain

  • Abdominal fullness and pain
  • Pain of hte lateral costal region
  • Pain of the thigh

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal fullness and pain
  • Constipation

Spleen 14

Pain

  • Periumbilical pain

Affecting temperature

  • Diarrhea due to cold in the abdomen

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough

Gastrointestinal

  • Diarrhea and dysenteric disorder
  • Diarrhea due to cold in the abdomen
  • Abdominal distention and constipation

Spleen 15

Pain

  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Cold and pain of the lower abdomen

Affecting movement

  • Inability to raise and move the four limbs
  • Sighing

Affecting temperature

  • Cold and pain of the lower abdomen
  • Sensation of heat in the hypogastrium with sighing
  • Copious sweating

Gastrointestinal

  • Cold and pain of the lower abdomen
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Constipation
  • Sensation of heat in the hypogastrium with sighing

Psycho-emotional

  • Propensity to sadness

Spleen 16

Pain

  • Periumbilical pain

Affecting temperature

  • Cold of the abdomen

Gastrointestinal

  • Periumbilical pain
  • Cold of the abdomen
  • Undigested food in stool
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Stool containing pus and blood
  • Constipation

Spleen 17

Pain

  • Ceaseless pain of the lateral costal region
  • Esophageal pain
  • Pain of the diaphragm

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the breasts

Skin

  • Jaundice

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal distention
  • Esophageal pain
  • Belching
  • Vomiting immediately after eating
  • Undigested food in stool
  • Borborygmus

Spleen 18

Pain

  • Fullness and pain of the chest and lateral costal region

Color and swelling

  • Breast abscess

Lung and airway related problems

  • Shortness of breath
  • Cough
  • Rattling of phlegm in the throat
  • Hiccup

Throat

  • Rattling of phlegm in the throat

Maternal

  • Failure of breast milk to flow
  • Insufficient lactation

Spleen 19

Affecting movement

  • Inability to turn over when lying down

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Shortness of breath

Spleen 20

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Coughing with copious phlegm or pus
  • Shortness of breath

Gastrointestinal

  • Difficult ingestion

Other symptoms

  • Desire to drink fluids

Spleen 21

Pain

  • Pain of the whole body
  • Chest pain
  • Pain in the chest and lateral costal region on respiration

Affecting movement

  • Weariness of the four limbs
  • Flaccidity of the limbs

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Dyspnea
  • Pain in the chest and lateral costal region on respiration