Basic Tai Yang Disease Patterns (Part XVI)

Contraindications for Ma Huang Tang

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“When a person who suffers from excessive sweating is again made to sweat, there will be abstraction and derangement and yin pain after urination.  Give Yu Yu Liang Wan.
Yu Yu Liang Wan.
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Line 89
“A patient who has cold and yet is made to sweat has cold in the stomach and will vomit round worms.”
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“When the pulse is floating and tight, as a rule there should be generalized pain and therefore, it is appropriate to resolve the illness by sweating.  However, if the pulse at the cubit is slow, one cannot promote sweating.  How does one know this? Because the construction qi is insufficient and the blood is scant.”
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“When the pulse is floating and rapid, as a rule there should be sweating and then recovery.  If purging is used, and there is generalized heaviness and heart palpitations, one cannot promote sweating; the person must sweat spontaneously so that the illness is resolved.  Why this is so is because the pulse at the cubit is faint, which indicates interior vacuity.  Exterior and Interior need to be made replete, so that liquid and humor will bring about recovery.”

Key Words: Basic Tai Yang Disease, Cold Damage Exterior Excess Patterns, Ma Huang Tang Contraindications