Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns (Part XVIII)

Purging Pattern Identification

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“When in Yang ming disease, there was originally spontaneous sweating and the physician again promoted sweating, and the exterior disease is already cured, yet there is still mild vexation that Has not been clearly resolved, this is because the stool is hard.  Due to liquid and humor collapse, the ST is dry and this makes the stool hard.  One should ask how many times a day the patient urinates.  If originally there was urination 3-4 times a day and now there is urination twice a day one knows the stool will issue soon.  Now, the urine is frequent and scant because the fluids are entering the ST; therefore, one knows defecation will occur soon.”

Contraindications for Purging
Line 204
“In cold damage with frequent retching, although there are yang ming signs, one cannot attack.”

Key wards: Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns, Purging Pattern Identification