Basic Tai Yang Disease Patterns (Part XXIV)

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“In dragover disease of the two yang, the disease begins in the Tai yang; sweating is promoted and the sweating is incomplete, which causes the disease to shift to the yang Ming and there is continuous slight spontaneous sweating & absence of aversion to cold.  If Tai yang disease pattern hasn’t ceased, one cannot precipitate, because purging would be an adverse treatment and in this case, one can promote sweating mildly.  If the facial complexion is continuously full red, the yang qi is depressed in the exterior and one should resolve the exterior and fume.  If sweating is promoted incompletely, that is to say insufficiently to speak of, the yang qi is depressed and cannot pass out so there should be sweating but there is not.  The person is agitated & vexed and does not know where the pain is located; now it is in the abdomen, now it is in the extremities, and when pressing, one cannot find it.  The person is short of breath and can only sit.  This is because sweating was incomplete and further promotion of sweating will lead to recovery.  How can one know that the sweating was incomplete? One knows because the pulse is rough.”

Key Words: Basic Tai Yang Disease