Zheng classification | Characteristics for differentiation |
Qi stagnation Zheng | Abdominal distention, eructation, mobile gas pains, string pulse, normal tongue sign |
Blood stasis Zheng | Immovable mass in the right upper quadrant, fixed unpressable sharp pain, melena, dark complexion, scaly skin, violet oral lips and onyx, subcutaneous peliona, spider nevi, varicosity of abdominal wall, menostasis, dark purple tongue, unsmooth thin pulse |
Spleen-qi deficiency Zheng | Vague pain below xyphoid, tiredness, fatigue, loose stool, and poor appetite |
Liver-yin deficiency | Flank pain, dryness of eyes, dizziness and tinnitus, burning sensation of five centers, feverish dysphoria, dry pharynx, wriggling of limbs, amenorrhea or scanty menstruation, stringy, thin and rapid pulse, red tongue with sparse saliva and coat |
Kidney-yin deficiency | Sore waist and knees, skelasthenia, vertigo and tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess, postcoital protrusion or impotence or nocturnal emission in man, hypomenorrhea or menostasis even uterine bleeding in woman, emaciation, feverish night sweating, burning sensation of five centers, dry pharynx and red cheeks, juvenile leukotrichia, somniloquence and bruxism, frequency of micturition, dark yellow urine, dry stool, red tongue with sparse saliva, rapid and thready pulse |
Hepatochlic hygropyrexia Zheng | Hypochondrium distending pain, bitter taste of mouth and anorexia, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distention, discordant stool, scanty dark urine, jaundice, alternate chill and fever, eczema of scrotum, swelling testes, thermalgia, yellow and foul morbid leucorrhea, pruritus of vulva, red tongue with yellowish and greasy fur, and stringy, smooth and rapid pulse |
Evil toxin predominance Zheng | Acute onset of disease, feverish restlessness, yellowish skin, faces and sclera, hepatosplenomegaly, even obnubilation, convulsion, sweating, dark yellow urine, obstipation, foul morbid leucorrhea, purple-red tongue with yellow thick fur, rapid and floating pulse |