Summary of pattern identification. 辨證要略 (2/3)
Summary of pattern identification. 辨證要略 (2/3)
20. dribbling or blocked urination with thirst is
related with heat, and without thirst is related with vacuous pattern.
21. if there is defecation with blood and haemorrhoids
at ordinary times, the person tends to have ministerial fire in the lower
burner, do not dry true yin and damage organs with dry herbs.
22. in case of sore, herbs which promote sweating, are
contraindicated, this should be treated with herbs which clear heat and nourish
blood, and eliminate wind.
23. if a person has sleepwalking and strangury disease,
the person is related with essence deficiency, herbs which promote sweating or
precipitate cannot be used.
24. sudden numbness of knees means leg qi (脚氣) and this can be cuased by stomach weakness. But prolonged and
graduall pain indicates kidney deficiency.
25. swelling pain of leg tends to be wind-damp, thin
and pain of leg indicate invading of damp-heat due to blood deficiency.
26. heat qi in the sole of the foot means that fire
stirs due to the deficiency of lower source, the pain of the tarsus is related
with heat due to kidney deficiency, and the cold of toes and the sole of the
foot is related with cold.
27. if there is aversion to cold and heat effusion
with pause, this is internal damage, if there is aversion to cold and heat
effusion without pause, this is external contraction, if there is aversion to
cold at day and heat effusion at night, this is related with stirring of fire
due to yin deficiency.
28. preference to cold food and drink indicates heat
in the middle, preference to heat food and drink indicates cold in the middle.
29. if one can eat food well but suffers from
indigestion, this means that the spleen is cold and the stomach is heat.
30. those who eat well can be treated easily but those
who do not eat well is not easy to be treated. Only in case of cold damage,
there is no damage even though eating is not good.
31. sweating in external contraction is related with
wind damge, absence of sweating in external contraction is related with cold
damage, spontaneous sweating in miscellaneous disease is related with yang deficiency.
32. night sweating in external contraction disease
indicates pathogenic evil in half exterior and half interior, night sweating in
internal damage disease indicates hidden fire in the blood due to yin
deficiency.
33. generalized pain in the joint and sinews due to
external contraction is cuased by pathogenic evil staying in the exterior part,
and if the pain is due to internal damage, this indicates that qi and blood
fail to move, generalized heaviness with pain is due to being with damp.
34. if a disease is light at day and severe at night,
this means blood disease, if a disease is severe at day and light at night,
this indicates qi disease.
35. if menstrual periods become faster, this means
blood heat, if slower, this means blood deficiency and cold.
36. aversion to cold and heat effusion after
childbirth tend to be related with external contraction, abdominal pain tends
to be related with static blood or accumulation of food,. But tidal heat is due
to great deficiency of qi and blood, cough and panting is due to static blood
invading the lung, this is difficulty to treat.
37. gererally when original qi is scant, the body
becomes cold, and when blood is weak, skin gets hard.
38. those who drink water well tent to belong qi
pattern, and those who do not drink water well, tend to belong blood pattern.
39. yang deficiency is related with cold in the
exterior, yin deficiency is related with heat in the interior.
40. something in the left indicates blood
accumulations and something in the right indicates food accumulations and qi
depression.