Damp-Heat in the Liver
Damp-Heat in the Liver describes a full pattern in which dampness and heat accumulate in the traditional Liver channel and related lower-body regions. Its conceptual role is to connect constraint, heaviness, sticky sensations, bitter taste, and inflammatory-seeming surface manifestations within a damp-heat framework. Study defining presentations and traditional differentiation context in this educational pattern record.
Key reference facts
- Nature
- Full
- Organ affinity
- Liver, Gallbladder, Spleen
- Defining presentations
- Hypochondrium fullness; Abdominal fullness; Hypogastrium fullness; Bitter taste in the mouth; sticky taste
- Treatment principles
- Drain dampness in traditional terms; Clear heat from the Liver-channel framework; Regulate qi where constraint accompanies damp-heat; Separate full damp-heat from deficiency-heat presentations
Related library records
Source reference: Me & Qi - TCM Patterns Database