“Nervous” stomach

Mentally alert, quick

Acid foods upset

Dry mouth-eyes-nose

Extremities cold, clammy

Cold sweats often

Pulse speeds after meal

Heart pounds after retiring

Fever easily raised

Keyed up – fail to calm

Are your symptoms made worse by emotional stress?

Perspire easily

Vomiting frequently

Joint stiffness after rising

Muscle-leg-toe cramps at night

Difficulty swallowing

Circulation poor, sensitive to cold

Eyelids swollen, puffy

Constipation, diarrhoea alternating

Subject to colds, asthma, bronchitis

Indigestion soon after meals

Digestion rapid

Are your symptoms made worse by physical stress?

Afternoon headaches

Heart palpitations if meals missed or delayed

Crave sweets or coffee in afternoons

Get shaky if hungry

Eat when nervous

Abnormal cravings for sweets or snacks

Faintness if meals delayed

Awaken after a few hours’ sleep, hard to get back to sleep

Bruise easily, ‘black and blue’

Swollen ankles, worse at night

Hands and feet go to sleep easily, numbness

Sigh frequently, ‘air-hunger’

Muscle cramps, worse during exercise

Tendency to anaemia

Aware of breathing heavily

Shortness of breath on exertion

Tension under breastbone / tightness worse on exertion

Opens windows in closed rooms

Dull pain in chest or spreading to left arm, worse on exertion

Susceptible to colds and fevers