Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Night Sweats

Chronic qi stagnation over time will produce counterflow of qi and depressive heat. This depressive heat may cause sweating. Don't confuse this with yin vacuity. Diagnosis! Diagnosis!

I just saw a patient who was incorrectly diagnosed as having yin vacuous heat when she had depressive heat. The patient was given the incorrect herbal formula Da Bu Yin Wan.