Inflammation is a normal bodily response to any sort of wound or infection. Imagine when you cut your finger. Normally, within a short time, the tissue around the cut swells up and turns red-classic signs of inflammation. The immune system in your body is producing special cells to rush to the site of the wound and implement repairs. Sometimes this can help speed along the healing process, but other times, inflammation can be very dangerous. Myocarditis is a disease marked by the inflammation of heart muscle, the "myocardium," which is the muscular layer of the heart wall. This muscle is responsible for contracting and releasing to pump blood in and out of the heart and to the rest of the body. When this muscle becomes inflamed, it can no longer pump blood as well, causing problems like an irregular heartbeat, trouble breathing, and in extreme cases, blood clots, heart attack, stroke, or damage to the heart.

Symptoms of Myocarditis in TCM
1. Deficiency Yin of kidney
Main symptoms: Fever, irritability, stuffy nose, sore throat, night sweating, chronic bronchitis, dark urine, dry mouth, dry stools, dry lips, rapid pulse.

2. Heart Blood Stasis
Main symptoms: angina, irritability, heart pain at night, palpitations, swelling, spontaneous sweating, scanty urine, diarrhea, pale complexion, purplish tongue; deep pulse  

3. Dificiency of Liver Yin
Main symptoms: choking sensation in chest, dull pain in precordium, palpitation, shortness of breath, weakness, nausea, dizziness, thin pulse.