Comparisons

When Yin and Yang get out of balance from each other, if there is an excess or deficiency there will be differences in symptoms.  Here's a chart comparing heat signs.

	Full Heat	Empty Heat
Face	Whole face red	Cheeks red
Thirst	Desire cold water	Desire warm water or Cold water in small sips
Eyelid	Red all over inside of eyelid	Thin red line inside eyelid
Taste	Bitter taste	No bitter taste
Feeling of Heat	All day	Afternoon or evening
Fever	High fever	Low grade in afternoon
Mind	Very restless and agitated	Vague anxiety, fidgeting
Bowels	Constipation, abdominal pain	Dry stools, no abdominal pain
Sleep	Dream disturbed, very restless	Waking up frequently during the night or early morning
Pulse	Full-Rapid-Overflowing	Floating-Empty Rapid
Tongue	Red with yellow coating	Red and peeled or thin
Treatment	Clear Heat	Nourish Yin, clear empty heat

Similarly, there is a difference between full cold and empty cold.  Here's the chart:

	Full Cold	Empty Cold
Face	Bright White	Sallow White
Pain	Sharp, worse on pressure	Dull, better with pressure
Bowels	Better after bowel movement	Worse after bowel movement
Pulse	Full, Tight, Deep	Weak, Slow, Deep
Tongue	Thick White Coating	Thin white coating

Clinical manifestations of False Heat and False Cold

	True Cold, False Heat	True Heat, False Cold
Looking	Red cheeks, but red color is like powder, rest of face white, irritability but also listlessness, desire to lie with body curled up, pale wet tongue	Dark face, bright eyes with “spirit”, red-dry lips, irritability, strong body, tongue-body color red-dry
Hearing	Breathing quiet, low voice	Breathing noisy, loud voice
Asking	Thirst but no desire to drink, or desire to drink warm fluids, body feels hot but likes to be covered, sore throat but without redness or swelling, pale urine	Thirst with desire to drink cold liquids, scanty dark urine, constipation, burning sensation in anus
Feeling	Pulse Rapid, Floating but Empty	Pulse Deep, full, cold limbs but chest is hot

Signs of Collapse of Yin

• Abundant perspiration
• Skin hot to touch
• Hot limbs
• Dry mouth, with desire to drink cold liquids in sips
• retention of urine
• Constipation
• Floating, Empty Rapid pulse
• Red, peeled, short and dry tongue

Signs of Collapse of Yang

• Chilliness
• Cold limbs
• Weak breathing
• Profuse, but oily sweating
• No thirst
• Frequent, profuse urination or incontinence 
• Loose stools or incontinence
• Minute Deep pulse
• Pale, wet swollen short tongue

Rebellious Qi Types

Organ	Normal Qi Direction	Pathological Qi Direction	Symptoms and Signs
Stomach	Downwards	Upwards	Belching, hiccup, nausea, vomiting
Spleen	Upwards	Downwards	Diarrhea, prolapse
Liver	Upwards	Excessive Upwards	Headache, dizziness, irritability
		Invades Stomach	Nasea, belching vomiting
		Invades Spleen	Diarrhea
		Invades Intestines	Dry stools
		Downwards	Burning Urination
Lungs	Downwards	Upwards	Cough, Asthma
Kidneys	Downwards	Upwards	Asthma
Heart	Downwards	Upwards	Mental restlessness, insomnia

Comparison between Stagnation of Qi and Stasis of Blood

	Stagnation of Qi	Stasis of Blood
Pain/distension	More distension than pain	More pain than distension
Location	Moving pain	Fixed pain
Character	Distending pain, feeling of fullness	Boring or stabbing pain
Abdominal masses	Appearing and disappearing	Fixed
Skin	Not appearing on the skin	May have purple blotches or bruises
Face	May be unchanged	Dark color or bluish-green
Tongue	Normal color, slightly purple	Definitely purple and possibly with purple spots
Pulse	Slightly wiry	Wiry, Firm or Choppy