Xue Yu, Blood Stasis 血淤

By: Joe Hing Kwok Chu

Xue yu (blood stasis) is a term used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Xue yu may indicate micro clots in the circulatory system.

Clinical symptoms may include:

• Amnesia.

• Anxiety, or uneasiness, fit of temper

• Bleeding: Coughing out blood, vomiting blood, blood in urine, blood in stool, heavy bleeding during menopause, nose bleeding, gum bleeding, general bleeding in some part of the body.

• Capillaries on nose and face showing

• Chronic chest pain

• Dementia.

• Depression

• Extremes of the body: fingers, toes, and lips show purple in color

• Fever (mild) gradually appears at dusk

• Fullness: Persistently feeling fullness in the head, eyes, body and limbs.

• Hiccups endlessly

• Insomnia

• Lips are dark or dark eyes

• Numbness in limbs and/or body.

• Palpitation

• Pain and aches, the pain feels as if pricking with needles and with fixed location

• Pulse reading: Traditional Chinese pulse reading is hong. (a most important item), uneven pulse or tight, tense pulse.

• Purpura

• Skin is rough and scaly.

• Tongue shows dark red, or dark blue or green color with bruise mark

• Tumors or swollen body parts

• Veins under the tongue puffy and twisted

Laboratory tests:

May show:

• High in platelet counts.

• Low in platelet counts.

• Blood cell coagulation.

• High or very low in prothrombin Time  test.

• High or very low in INR test

• Oversized red cells.

• Sickle shape red cells.

• High in homocysteine in blood.

• High in cholesterol.

• High in triglycerides.

• High in ESR

Note: not all symptoms or test results are present.

Warning: Unless you are well trained and have experience do not attempt to solve this condition by trial and error. Serious injuries can result from incorrect usage.