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Table 3 Terasawa’s Qi, blood, and water scoring system

From: Acupuncture and moxibustion for stress-related disorders

Qi deficiency

Qi stagnation

Qi flowback

Blood deficiency

Water retention

Symptom

Score

Symptom

Score

Symptom

Score

Symptom

Score

Symptom

Score

General fatigue

10

Depressive mood

18

Cold constitution and hot flush

14

Retardation of thought

6

Heaviness of body

3

Hypobulia

10

Heavy-headed feeling

8

Palpitation attack

8

Early-morning awakening

6

Systaltic headache

4

Easy fatigability

10

Unpleasant sensation of laryngopharynx

12

Sporadic headache

8

Asthenopia

12

Heavy-headed feeling

3

Hypersomnia

6

Chest oppression

8

Vomit

8

Dizziness

8

Carsickness

5

Anorexia

4

Hypochondrial oppression

8

Cough

10

Cramp

10

Dizziness

5

Vulnerability to cold

8

Abdominal fullness

8

Abrupt abdominal pain

6

Slight menorrhea

6

Dizzy feeling on standing up

5

Scariness

4

Counterchanging of symptoms

8

Scariness

6

Pale complexion

10

Watery rhinorrhea

3

Objective hollow voice

6

Difficulty in uprising

8

Impatience

8

Alopecia

8

Ptyalism

3

Pale tongue

8

Abdominal wind

6

Flush

10

Xeroderma

14

Foamy sputum

4

Vacuous pulse

8

Burping

4

Palpations above the umbilicus

14

Ungual incisure

8

Nausea

3

Flaccid abdomen

8

Sense of residual urine

4

Crural chills

4

Paresthesia

6

Rugitus

3

Uterine prolapse

10

Tympanicity

8

Palmar and plantar diaphoresis

4

Rectus abdominis spasm

6

Arthral tightening

7

Lower abdominal numbness

6

      

Edema

15

Diarrhea

4

      

Effusion

15

        

Palpations above the umbilicus

5

        

Watery diarrhea

5

        

Oliguria

7

        

Polyuria

5