Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns (Part XVII)

Purging Pattern Identification

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“When in an illness that the person has bad for two to three days, the pulse is weak, there is neither a great yang nor a Xiao Chai Hu Tang pattern, and there is vexation and agitation, and hardness below the heart, then at four or five days, although the person is able to eat, one can give a very small amt. of Xiao Cheng Qi Tang to harmonize and quiet.  If there is inability to defecate for six or seven days and scant urination, although the person will not accept food and there is only stool that is hard at the beginning and then sloppy, it is not yet formed and hard, and if one attacks, there will be sloppy stool.  There must be uninhibited urination and hard formed stool, then one can attack and therefore, Da Cheng Qi Tang is appropriate.”

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