Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns (Part XIX)

Purging Pattern Identification

Line 205
“When in yang ming disease, there is hard fullness below the heat, one cannot attack, for attacking will cause incessant Diarrhea, and the person will die; but if the diarrhea stops, the person will recover.”

Line 206
“When in yang ming disease, there is redness of the whole face, one cannot attack, otherwise there will be fever and yellowing.  In such cases the urine is inhibited.”

Line 189
“In yang ming wind strike with bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, abdominal fullness, slight panting, fever, aversion to clod, and a pulse that is floating and tight, if purging is used there will be abdominal fullness and difficult urination.”

Line 194
“When in yang ming disease, there is inability to eat, attacking the heat will result in hiccup.  Why this is so is because there is vacuity cold in the ST.  Because the person was originally vacuous, there will be hiccup when the heat is attacked.”

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