Explanation of the term "Golden Chamber"
1. The evil wind of politeness: Being a guest from outside is evil, and being unrighteous is evil. Abnormal climate from outside that invades the human body can cause disease, which generally refers to external pathogenic factors.
2. Arriving before arrival: The first "arrival" refers to the season, and the second "arrival" refers to the climate. "Arriving before it arrives" means that the (rain) season has not arrived but the (warm) climate has arrived, which means the climate is too high (yang prosperous).
3. Five evil evils: refers to the causes of disease, namely wind, cold, dampness, fog, and diet, which invade the human body.
4. Treat the disease before it’s too late: In a broad sense, treating the disease before it’s too late means preventing the disease before it’s already there; treating existing diseases early; and preventing the spread of existing diseases. In a narrow sense, treating pre-disease refers to treating pre-disease organs to prevent the spread of disease.
5. Strengthening the spleen: It means to regulate and replenish the spleen. It is said to regulate and strengthen the spleen. The general idea is that by regulating and nourishing the spleen, you can resist the invasion of liver evil.
6. Xiali Qinggu: Xiali is a collective name for dysentery and diarrhea. Clear the grain, but the grain will not be transformed. Li Qinggu means diarrhea with clear and watery feces containing undigested food. This is caused by deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, excessive yin and cold, and loss of transportation and transformation.
7. Clear stool and self-regulate: "Qing" is the same as "圊", here it is used as a verb. Clear stool and self-regulate means that the stool has returned to normal.
8. Zhongxuan: It means heat damage. It is the evil caused by summer heat. The main symptoms are fever, heavy body weight, sweating, polydipsia, and weak Qi and pulse.
9. Baimaiyizong: Baimai generally refers to the blood vessels of the whole body; Zong means the origin; Baimaiyizong means that the human body’s hundreds of meridians come from the same source, that is, they return to the heart and lungs as one. Zong. This is also the pathogenesis of lily disease, that is, heart and lung yin deficiency, internal heat, and disharmony of the pulses.
10. Hoarseness: hoarseness in speech, caused by heat and damp insect poison corroding the throat. Treat with Licorice Xiexin Decoction to clear away heat and dry dampness, and neutralize and detoxify.
11. Too bad or too low: It means that if the pulse is stronger than normal, it is too high, and if it is weaker than normal, it is not good enough. Too much of a master of evil, not as good as a master of righteousness and emptiness.
12. Thunderous and cutting pain: Severe bowel sounds, like thunder; severe abdominal pain, like a knife cutting, are called cutting pain. It is one of the symptoms of abdominal fullness syndrome in which the middle Jiao is deficient and cold and stops drinking water.
13. Liver Zhu: Zhu has the same sound and meaning, and its original meaning is attachment and dependence. This extension means to stay. Liver syndrome refers to the disease name caused by stagnation of Qi and blood in the liver meridian and failure to function. The main symptoms are chest and hypochondriac tightness, distension, pain or tingling.
14. Kidney Zhu: Zhu, doing again, meaning to stay attached. This refers to cold-dampness numbness being attached to the waist. The waist is outside the kidney, so it is called kidney-affected. The main clinical manifestations are severe cold pain in the waist and below, unfavorable side turning, aggravated by rain, and often accompanied by abdominal weight loss.
15. Chest and hypochondrium fullness: That is, there is a feeling of fullness and support in the chest area. It is the main symptom of phlegm-drinking disease. The evil of water drinking invades the lungs and liver, causing the lungs to lose their circulation, and the liver to lose their circulation, resulting in fullness of the chest and hypochondrium branches.
Knowledge points of the Golden Chamber
1. "Jingui Synopsis Prescriptions" is the miscellaneous disease part of "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" written by Zhang Ji, a famous physician in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is also the earliest extant in my country. A monograph on the diagnosis and treatment of miscellaneous diseases with complete theoretical methods and prescriptions.
2. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing wrote sixteen volumes of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases"; Wang Shuhe of the Western Jin Dynasty compiled ten volumes of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", but the miscellaneous diseases section was not found; Wang Zhu of the Northern Song Dynasty discovered "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber and Jade Letters" "Prescriptions"; Lin Yi of the Northern Song Dynasty compiled "Jingui Yaoluo Prescriptions".
3. The teacher said: When treating a person who is not sick, if he sees liver disease and knows that the liver transmits to the spleen, he should first strengthen the spleen. If the spleen is strong in all seasons and is free from evil, then do not supplement it. It is said that Zhong Gong didn't know that when he saw liver diseases, he didn't know how to strengthen the spleen, but only treated the liver.
4. If a husband has a chronic disease and then suffers from chronic disease, he should treat the chronic disease first and then treat the chronic disease.
5. The syndrome of Taiyang disease is that the body is strong, sometimes or suddenly, and the pulse is slow and slow. This is spasm, and Guilou Guizhi Decoction treats it.
6. For those with rheumatism, floating pulse, heaviness, sweating, and aversion to wind, Fangji Huangqi Decoction can be used.
7. The theory says: Lily disease is caused by one of the hundreds of pulses. Can't eat when I want to eat, often silent, can't lie down when I want, can't walk when I want, sometimes when I eat and drink, sometimes when I don't smell bad food, like cold but not cold, like heat but not heat, bitter mouth, red urine, etc. The medicine cannot cure it, but if you take the medicine, you will experience severe vomiting and vomiting, like a person with a spirit, with a harmonious body shape and a weak pulse.
8. If lily disease occurs in Yin, use Yang methods to rescue it; if it appears in Yang, use Yin methods to rescue it. When yang attacks yin, sweating returns, this is reverse; when yin attacks yang, sweat returns, which is also reverse.
9. Lily disease, where there is no vomiting, diarrhea, or sweating, and the symptoms remain the same as before, Lily Dihuang Decoction can treat this disease.
10. The fox is sick, the symptoms are like typhoid fever, silently wanting to sleep, unable to close the eyes, restless when lying down or standing up, the skin is eroded in the throat, the yin is eroded in the fox, no desire to eat, aversion to the smell of food, His face is sometimes red, sometimes black, and sometimes white. If it is in the upper part, you will drink. Licorice Xiexin Decoction is the main remedy.
11. The treatment method for fox disease affecting the front yin: taking Licorice Xiexin Decoction orally, and externally using Sophora Sophora Decoction to fumigate the front yin; the treatment method for the disease affecting the back yin: taking Licorice Xiexin Decoction orally, realgar Fumigation and cleansing of the posterior vagina.
12. The evil lies in the collaterals, and the skin is unkind; the evil lies in the meridians, which means it is heavy; the evil enters the house, and it means that people cannot recognize people; the evil enters the Tibet, and the tongue becomes difficult to speak, and the mouth vomits.
13. Pain in all limbs and joints, general weakness of the body, swollen feet as if they were falling off, dizziness, shortness of breath, warmth and desire to vomit, Guizhi Shaoyao Anemarrhena Decoction can treat this.
14. For medical history, inability to bend or stretch, pain, Aconitum Decoction is the treatment.
15. Consumption is a general term for chronic debilitating diseases caused by fatigue.
17. Blood paralysis, both yin and yang are weak, the mouth is closed slightly, the middle part of the ruler is tight, and the external syndrome is unkindness of the body, like wind paralysis, Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Decoction can treat it.
18. The treatment for infertility due to fatigue: Guizhi plus Longgumu Decoction.
19. Consumption, tenesmus, palpitations, epistaxis, abdominal pain, dreaming of sperm loss, sore limbs, irritability and heat in the hands and feet, dry throat and mouth, Xiaojianzhong Decoction is the treatment.
20. Bawei Shenqi Pills are suitable for patients with low back pain due to fatigue, tightness in the lower abdomen, and difficulty in urination.
21. For fatigue, fatigue and inability to sleep, Suanzao Decoction can treat this problem. The pathogenesis is: insufficient heart and liver yin and blood.
22. For the syndrome of consumptive dryness and blood, use Dahuang Chong Wan.
23. Pulmonary impotence is weakness of lung qi, with the main symptoms being excessive salivation and shortness of breath. It is divided into two types: deficiency of heat and deficiency of cold. Pulmonary abscess is caused by wind evil heat and poison, which causes abscess and pus in the lungs. The main symptoms are cough, chest pain, and vomiting fishy and smelly purulent sputum.
24. Maimendong decoction is suitable for those who have fire going up and the qi going up, causing difficulty in the throat, and stopping the qi going down.
25. For patients with lung abscess and stagnation due to excess evil, Tingli Dazao Xiefei Decoction should be used.
26. Shegan Mahuang Decoction is suitable for coughing and shortness of breath and the sound of watery chicken in the throat.
27. For those with cough and phlegm that blocks the lungs, use honey locust pills.
28. For chest paralysis, wheezing and coughing, chest and back pain, shortness of breath, slow and heavy pulse at the mouth of the mouth, close the mouth tightly for a few seconds, the Jubei Xiebai Baijiu Decoction can treat it.
29. For patients with chest pain that prevents them from lying down and heartache that pierces their backs, Guanlou Xiebai Banxia Decoction is the main treatment.
30. For those with chronic chest pain, Coix and Aconite Powder can be used.
31. The patient has a full abdomen. If there is no pain when pressing it, it is considered as deficiency. If it is painful, it is true and the patient can take it. If the yellow tongue does not go down, the yellow color will go away on its own.
32. If you feel a lot of pain under your heart when you press it, this is a real problem. If you feel it right now, you should take Dabupleurum Decoction.
33. If the abdominal fullness does not reduce, and the reduction is insufficient, it should be treated with Dachengqi Decoction.
34. Severe cold and pain in the heart and chest, vomiting and inability to eat or drink, cold in the abdomen, skin rising upwards, head and feet appearing, pain up and down but not palpable, Dajianzhong Decoction is the treatment.
35. The representative prescription for treating cold accumulation and stagnation with a lower temperature agent: Dahuang Fuzi Decoction.
36. For cold hernia disease, blood deficiency and internal cold, use: Angelica, Ginger and Mutton Soup.
37. Kidney syndrome is not only found in the waist, but also often in the hips and legs.
38. In a broad sense, phlegm-yin can be divided into four categories: phlegm-yin, hanging-yin, branch-yin, and overflow-yin.
39. Those who suffer from phlegm and drink should be treated with warm medicine.
40. If there is phlegm in the heart, fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, and dizziness, Linggui Shugan Decoction can treat it.
41. For those who drink alcohol due to illness, Shizao Decoction is the main remedy.
42. Those who are sick and have excessive drinking should induce sweating. Da Qinglong Decoction and Xiao Qinglong Decoction are also suitable for this.
43. Xiao Qinglong Decoction is the treatment for coughing and reversing breathing.
44. If a man is thirsty and urinates profusely, he should drink one bucket and urinate one bucket, and Shenqi Pills can help.
45. If the person has trouble urinating, there is water vapor, and if the person is thirsty, Trichosanthes Qumai Pills can treat it.
46. For patients with floating pulse, fever, thirst for water, and difficulty in urination, Zhuling Decoction is suitable.
47. The teacher said: Diseases include Feng Shui, Skin Water, Zheng Water, Stone Water, and Yellow Sweat.
48. Question: Why does the disease contain water and blood? The teacher said: If the menstrual flow is cut off before and then the water is cut off, it is called hematuria. This disease is difficult to treat; if the water is cut off first and then the water is cut off, it is called water. This disease is easy to treat. Why? Remove the water and let the meridian flow from the bottom.
49. Menstruation is blood, and when blood is unfavorable, it is water, which is called blood.
50. The teacher said: For those with water and swelling below the waist, it should be used to facilitate urination; for swelling above the waist, it will be cured by sweating.
51. For Feng Shui, if the pulse is floating and the body is heavy, sweating is bad, Fengji Huangqi Decoction can treat it. For abdominal pain, add peony.
52. The bottom of the heart is as strong as a disk, and the sides are like a rotating disk. It is made by drinking water and controlled by Zhi Shu Tang.
53. Cunkou pulse is floating and slow. If it is floating, it is wind, and if it is slow, it is numbness. Bi is not a stroke, the limbs are painful and irritated, the spleen must be yellow, and blood stasis and heat are present.
54. However, the Huang family obtained it from wetness. The whole body is hot and yellow, the belly is hot, the heat is inside, and it is immediate.
55. "What the Huang family gets, it comes from dampness" emphasizes that the transformation of dampness from fire is an important reason for yellowing caused by dampness and heat; the formation of jaundice is related to spleen dampness.
56. Glutinous jaundice is a disease. If you do not eat when you are cold or hot, you will feel dizzy after eating, feel restless, and become yellow for a long time. This is glutinous jaundice, and Yinchenhao Decoction is the main treatment.
57. For alcoholic jaundice, feeling upset or having heat pain in the heart, Gardenia Rhubarb Decoction can treat it.
58. Jaundice with full abdomen, unfavorable and red urination, and spontaneous sweating is caused by external and internal symptoms. For immediate treatment, rhubarb and saltpeter soup should be used.
59. Jaundice is treated by Yinchen Wuling Powder. (Yunyinchen Decoction and Wuling Powder are combined together)
60. All diseases of the Huang family, but it can facilitate urination;
61. Insufficient heart qi, vomiting blood, and epistaxis , Xiexin Tang is the main medicine.
62. Bleeding occurs first in the stool and then blood. This type of distant blood is treated by Huangtu Decoction.
63. When bleeding occurs, the blood comes first and then the stool. This is close to blood, and red bean should be dispersed.
64. For those with vomiting, bowel sounds, and a bad heart, Pinellia Xiexin Decoction is the treatment.
65. For those with constipation of pus and blood, Peach Blossom Decoction is the best remedy.
66. For those with severe heat-induced effects, Pulsatilla Soup is the best remedy.
67. Treatment of intestinal abscess and pus: Coix, Aconite and Baijiang Powder.
68. Treatment of intestinal abscess and pus that has not yet been confirmed: Dahuang Mudan Decoction is the main treatment.
69. If a woman is pregnant and has abdominal pain, Danggui and Shaoyao Powder is the main remedy.
70. For postpartum abdominal pain, Danggui, Ginger and Mutton Decoction can treat abdominal cold, hernia, fatigue and deficiency.
71. The disease of women is due to deficiency, accumulation of cold, and stagnation of qi, resulting in the severance of menstrual fluids. Over the past few years, cold blood has accumulated, cold damage to the cell door, and meridians have become congealed.
72. If a woman has scallops in her throat, Banxia Houpu Decoction can treat it.
73. If a woman is impatient, feels happy or sad, and is about to cry, and her images are like those made by the gods, and her count cannot be extended, Ganmai Dazao Decoction is the main remedy.
74. Chong and Ren deficiency and cold, combined with blood stasis: Warm Meridian Decoction.
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