Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns (Part III)

Heat (Channel) Patterns

Line 170
“When in cold damage, the pulse is floating, and there is fever and sweating is absent, the exterior has not resolved; one cannot give Bai Hu Tang; if there is thirst with a desire for fluids and no exterior signs, Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang governs.”

Line 169
“When in cold damage great fever is absent and there is a dry mouth, thirst, heart vexation, and slight aversion to cold in the back, Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang governs.”

Line 168
“When in cold damage, if vomiting is used, or if purging is used and after seven or eight days there is no resolution, the heat is bound in the interior, with heat in both the exterior and interior, frequent aversion to wind, great thirst, dry tongue, vexation, and a desire to drink several sheng of water, then Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang governs.”

Line 222
“If there is thirst with desire to drink water, dry mouth, and dry tongue, then Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang governs.”

Key wards: Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns, Heat (Channel) Patterns