<h2>TCM Symptom Checklist & Differential Builder</h2>

Select symptoms below to see which TCM patterns are most strongly represented.

</p>

<h3>Head / Location</h3>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shaoyang" data-score="3"> One-sided headache</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shaoyang" data-score="2"> Temporal pain</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverYang" data-score="2"> Vertex headache</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="taiyang" data-score="2"> Occipital headache</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="yangming" data-score="2"> Frontal headache</label>

</div>

<h3>Headache Quality</h3>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverYang" data-score="3"> Pounding / throbbing</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverQi" data-score="2"> Distending pressure</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="dampPhlegm" data-score="3"> Heavy / foggy</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodYinDef" data-score="3"> Dull / empty</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodStasis" data-score="3"> Sharp / fixed pain</label>

</div>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodYinDef" data-score="2"> Floaters</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodYinDef" data-score="1"> Blurry vision</label>

</div>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shaoyang" data-score="3"> Ear fullness</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shaoyang" data-score="3"> Muffled hearing</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverYang" data-score="2"> High-pitched tinnitus</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="kidneyDef" data-score="2"> Hearing loss</label>

</div>

<h3>Jaw / Neck / Muscular</h3>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverQi" data-score="2"> Jaw tension / clenching</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shaoyang" data-score="2"> SCM tension</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shaoyang" data-score="2"> Side-of-neck tightness</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="taiyang" data-score="2"> Suboccipital tension</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodStasis" data-score="2"> Chronic fixed muscular pain</label>

</div>

<h3>Stress / Mood / Nervous System</h3>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverQi" data-score="3"> Stress</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverYang" data-score="2"> Irritability</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shenDisturbance" data-score="2"> Anxiety</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="shenDisturbance" data-score="2"> Insomnia</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="liverQi" data-score="2"> Mood swings</label>

</div>

<h3>Fatigue / Deficiency / Dryness</h3>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="qiDef" data-score="2"> Fatigue</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodYinDef" data-score="2"> General dryness</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodYinDef" data-score="2"> Pale complexion</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="kidneyDef" data-score="2"> Low back weakness</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="bloodYinDef" data-score="1"> Dizziness</label>

</div>

<h3>Damp / Digestive</h3>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="dampPhlegm" data-score="3"> Brain fog</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="dampPhlegm" data-score="3"> Heaviness</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="dampPhlegm" data-score="2"> Sticky stools</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="qiDef" data-score="2"> Poor appetite</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" data-pattern="qiDef" data-score="2"> Bloating</label>

</div>

<button type="button" id="apw-reset-btn">Reset</button>

</div>

<h3>Pattern Scores</h3>

</div>

<h3>Evolving Differential</h3>

</div>

<h3>Interpretive Notes</h3>

</div>

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shaoyang: "Shaoyang Disorder / GB-SJ Obstruction",

liverYang: "Liver Yang Rising",

liverQi: "Liver Qi Stagnation",

bloodYinDef: "Liver Blood / Yin Deficiency",

dampPhlegm: "Damp / Phlegm Accumulation",

bloodStasis: "Blood Stasis",

qiDef: "Qi Deficiency / Spleen Qi Deficiency",

kidneyDef: "Kidney Deficiency",

taiyang: "Taiyang Channel Pattern",

yangming: "Yangming Channel Pattern",

shenDisturbance: "Shen Disturbance"

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shaoyang: "Often rises to the top when symptoms cluster around the side of the head, ear, jaw, and lateral neck.",

liverYang: "Often associated with pounding headache quality, irritability, rising tension, and eye involvement.",

liverQi: "Frequently linked with stress, jaw clenching, distending pain, and constrained movement.",

bloodYinDef: "Consider when dryness, floaters, pale complexion, fatigue, or dull empty pain are present.",

dampPhlegm: "Often suggested by heaviness, fogginess, sticky stools, and cloudy thinking.",

bloodStasis: "More likely when pain is fixed, sharp, chronic, and localized.",

qiDef: "Often appears with fatigue, bloating, poor appetite, and low overall resilience.",

kidneyDef: "Can underlie chronicity, hearing issues, low back weakness, and deeper depletion patterns.",

taiyang: "Think occiput, suboccipitals, posterior neck, and more exterior tension patterns.",

yangming: "Think frontal symptoms, face, jaw, sinus, and digestive involvement.",

shenDisturbance: "Often contributes when sleep, anxiety, agitation, or nervous system overactivation are prominent."

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