Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns (Part XXX) [1]

Differentiation of Vacuity and Excess Patterns

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“When the yang pulse is faint and scanty sweat issues, the exterior spontaneously harmonizes; when copious sweat issues, this is excess.  When the yang pulse is replete, it is because sweating was promoted and issued copiously that is excess.  Excess means cut-off yang in the interior and liquid and humor collapse, and accordingly, the stool is hard.”

Line 246
“When the pulse is floating and scallion stalk, floating is yang an scallion stalk is yin.  The floating and scallion-stalk qualities are indicative of heat and vacuity in mutual contention; the ST qi engender heat and yang will then be cut off.”

Line 196
“In yang ming, there should be copious sweating; but sweating is absent and the person has a feeling of worms moving in the skin, because of enduring vacuity.”

Key wards: Basic Yang Ming Disease Patterns, Differentiation of Vacuity and Excess Patterns