Syndrome Differentiation of Rapid Heart Rate in TCM

According to TCM, the main causes of rapid heart rate include heart deficiency and timidity, deficiency of heart blood, excessive yin deficiency and fire, weakness of heart yang, water drinking in the heart, blood stasis blocking collaterals, etc. The treatment should be based on syndrome differentiation and individualized treatment. Usually guilty and timid, sudden panic, or emotional tension, palpitation and timidity, fatigue immediately, mostly paroxysmal, accompanied by shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating, fatigue and fatigue, thin tongue coating, thin pulse or knot generation. 2. Insufficient heart-blood: insufficient heart-blood, lack of nourishment, so palpitation and restlessness, unadorned complexion, listlessness and weakness, pale tongue, thin pulse. 3. Yin deficiency and fire excess: deficiency of kidney yin, failure to control heart-fire, or excessive five will, heart-fire burning inside, and kidney yin, resulting in yin deficiency and fire excess, disturbing the mind, so heart restlessness, palpitations, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess, soreness of waist and knees, red tongue with little fur, and thin pulse. 4. Heart yang weakness: Heart Yang deficiency is weak, sitting without power, also causing palpitations, and more often accompanied by cold limbs, pale face, pale tongue fur, weak or deep and thin pulse. Deficiency of spleen and kidney, inability to transport water and dampness, internal stagnation of water, upward circulation of the heart, disturbance of the mind, resulting in palpitation, chest tightness, dizziness, edema of the lower limbs, thirst and lack of desire to drink, nausea and saliva vomiting, white and slippery tongue coating, smooth or deep and thin pulse. Heart blood stasis, heart pulse is not smooth, so see palpitation, chest tightness tingling pain, pain in the shoulder back and inner arm, from time to time, purple tongue, ecchymosis, pulse deep astringent or knot generation. In short, TCM treatment of rapid heart rate should be based on specific conditions for syndrome differentiation, individualized treatment can achieve better results.