Angina

"Angina" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for angina.

Content Related to Angina

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "angina" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "angina" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Within TCM, "angina" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: blood stagnation, heart qi deficiency, heart yang deficiency, heart yin deficiency, and/or phlegm stagnation.

The above patterns are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

• View HT 7 (Spirit Gate)
  
      At the wrist crease, on the radial side of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon, between the ulna and the pisiform bones.
  
      Tonify deficiencies of the HT Qi, Blood, Yin and Yang. Emotional issues, especially those with related sleep or thinking manifestations - insomnia, muddled thinking. Heart and Phlegm fire leading to insomnia, anxiety, mania. Physical re…
• View PC 2 (Celestial Spring)
  
      2 cun below the end of the anterior axillary fold between the two heads of the biceps brachii muscle.
  
      Opens the chest and invigorates the blood - cardiac pain / angina, cough, localized pain in the chest / shoulder area. Calms the spirit - palpitations.
• View PC 3 (Marsh at the Bend)
  
      On the transverse cubital crease on the ulnar side of the biceps brachii tendon.
  
      Chronic angina - palpitations, anxiety, panic attacks, sensation of "pounding" heart particularly in the upper abdominal area. Tremors of the hand a/or arm, Parkinson's disease - localized pain in the elbow and arm. Gastrointestinal diso…