Wu Ling San is sometimes prescribed by TCM practitioners to treat Yin Excess. This pattern leads to symptoms such as no thirst, forceful but slow movement, epigastric pain worsen by pressure and profuse urination. Patients with Yin Excess typically exhibit slippery (Hua), tight (Jin), wiry (Xian) or full (Shi) pulses as well as Pale with white wet and/or creamy think coating.

Excess Yin is a Full Yin state pattern. It creates Cold symptoms which are similar to these of Yang Deficiency, such as feeling of cold, cold limbs, profuse but clear urination, pain that gets worse by pressure but relieved by warmth. It is because Yin is cooling in nature and the excessive... read more about Yin Excess

Wu Ling San is sometimes prescribed by TCM practitioners to treat Kidney Yang Deficiency with Water overflowing. This pattern leads to symptoms such as oedema especially of the legs and ankles, cold feeling in the legs and the back, abdominal distention and fullness and soreness of the lower back. Patients with Kidney Yang Deficiency with Water overflowing typically exhibit deep (Chen), slow (Chi) or weak (Ruo) pulses.

This pattern is a severe case of Kidney Yang Deficiency and necessarily a very chronic condition. This is both a Deficiency and Excess pattern, the Excess part being the accumulation of Fluids.

It occurs when Kidney Yang fails to transform Body Fluids (since the Kidneys "rule Water") which... read more about Kidney Yang Deficiency with Water overflowing

Wu Ling San is sometimes prescribed by TCM practitioners to treat Greater Yang Accumulation of Water. This pattern leads to symptoms such as aversion to cold, fever, urinary retention and slight thirst. Patients with Greater Yang Accumulation of Water typically exhibit rapid (Shu) or floating (Fu) pulses.

This is one of the four patterns of the Greater Yang stage, the third stage of the Six Stages theory.

In this pattern, on top of being in the Exterior, the External Pathogen has invaded the Bladder.

Symptoms of the Exterior attack include the aversion to cold due to the obstruction of the space... read more about Greater Yang Accumulation of Water

Wu Ling San is sometimes prescribed by TCM practitioners to treat Phlegm-Fluids. This pattern leads to symptoms such as abdominal distention and fullness, vomiting of watery fluids, feeling of heaviness of body and shortness of breath. Patients with Phlegm-Fluids typically exhibit wiry (Xian) pulses.

Both Phlegm and Fluids here are the pathological fluid wastes that fails to be expelled or drained out of the body. Then they can accumulate and settle down in any body parts, such as the Organs, Channels, joints, limbs and etc. If these Body Fluids store between the skin and muscle, they are... read more about Phlegm-Fluids

Wu Ling San is sometimes prescribed by TCM practitioners to treat Phlegm. This pattern leads to symptoms such as feeling of oppression of the chest, muzziness of the head, dizziness and nausea. Patients with Phlegm typically exhibit slippery (Hua) or wiry (Xian) pulses as well as swollen tongue with sticky coating .

Phlegm has a great importance in Chinese Medicine as it is both a condition in and of itself as well as a cause for other diseases.

The main cause for the formation of Phlegm is Spleen Deficiency since the Spleen rules the transformation and transportation of Body Fluids. If this function is... read more about Phlegm