Basic Shaoyang Disease Patterns (Part V)

Xiao Chai Hu Tang Patterns

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“When cold damage has lasted for five or six days, and there is sweating from the head, mild aversion to cold, cold extremities, fullness below the heat, absences of desire to eat, hard stool, and a pulse that is fine, this means mild yang bind; there must be exterior signs as well as interior signs.  A pulse that is sunken means the evil is in the interior.  Sweating means mild yang bind.  If there is pure yin bind, there can no longer be any exterior signs since everything has entered the interior, where as the pattern of minor yang bind is half in the interior and half in the exterior.  Although the pulse is sunken and tight, it does not indicate lesser yin disease.  Why this is so is because with yin disease there will be no sweating and now, in the present case, sweat issues from the head; therefore, one knows this is not lesser yin disease.  One can give Xiao Chai Hu Tang and if the pattern does not clearly resolve, once the stool passes, there will be resolution.”

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