Tongue
Pale, white coat
Pulse
Tight, soggy, or wiry
Key Symptoms
Joint or muscle pain worse with cold and dampLimited rangeWind-Bi: pain that movesCold-Bi: severe fixed pain better with heatDamp-Bi: heavy, swollen, fixed
Overview
Painful obstruction from Wind, Cold, and Damp. Subtype by which factor dominates.
Differentiate from
- Heat Bi (red hot swollen joints)
Treatment Principle
Expel Wind; scatter Cold; resolve Damp; unblock the channels.
Representative formulas. Juan Bi Tang; Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang when Kidney and Blood are also weak; Xiao Huo Luo Dan for stubborn cold-phlegm in the channels.
Representative points. Local points plus LI-4, SJ-5, GB-31, SP-9, BL-12; moxa for Cold-Bi.
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