病人要死并不是这么简单，医疗不当、用药不当才是造成病患死亡的主因，高血压、糖尿病Ｂ型肝炎……等等文明病为十大死亡排行榜的前几名，皆因每发明一种检查，一种新仪器而称医学新知，更大力推销预防，将人治死了，而称为文明病对人体的危害造成死亡。
血压计的发明，就像声波测量器的发明，声波测量器测到了声波频率的高低，大小是几个分贝，如某人大叫一声，此声音为几个分贝。
拿根针在某人脚上扎一下，则其哇哇叫，此哇哇叫的声音是几个分贝？
拿刀在某人背上砍一刀，则此人亦哇哇叫，此哇哇叫的声音是几个分贝？
某人中爱国奖券第一特奖，高兴得哇哇叫，则此哇哇叫的声音是几个分贝？
用针刺、用刀砍、用火烧、中特奖都能令人哇哇叫发出声音，此声音都能用声波测量器测出哇哇叫的声音是几个分贝，此声波测量器测出的科学数据是从声带产生的频率，非常正确，非常科学，故称为原发性声波、本态性声波。
治疗哇哇叫的声波，降低其频率的药物、方法，是要用针线缝住其嘴巴呢？或用压舌板压住其舌根以降低其声波的频率，而作有效的控制呢？还是要在声带上动手术以根除其病根呢？还是要拿掉脚上的那根针、那把刀、还是那把火呢？
倘若声波测量器能拿来做骗钱的工具，则降低声波的药物，将源源不断的自科学实验室发明、创造而推销，謦波测量器又腥风血雨的创造出一个文明病，而此文明病又将在十大死亡排行榜占上一席之地。
运动、情绪、饮食、气候风暑寒湿燥火之气……各种原因皆会造成血压的升高，就像发烧之有各种原因造成发烧，当寻找出其原因，以解决疾病的问题，而不能降血压，天下并没有高血压这种病，却只是为了血压计的发明，刻意的推销，而传遍天下，误导大众对健康的认知，残害了多少人的健康。
健康检查，本来什么病都没有，医生却会告诉你，高血压有一点！糖尿病有一点！自从大众在日夜接受高血压、糖尿病的信息以后，若身体有任何风吹草动，大家都会怀疑是否高血压问题来了，是否糖尿病问题来了！天天都在为高血压、糖尿病的问题心惊胆颤，终于心想事成，如愿以偿的一生受用不尽，终生奉行，死而不已的成为科学祭品。
慢跑、运动会促使血压升高。
照道理，运动时会使高血压病人的血压更形升高，有恒的运动、慢跑即有恒的促使高血压病患的血压更形的升高，最后却会使高血压病患的血压下降而恢复为正常的血压，这是为什么呢？
服降血压药物的病患，几年下来，不但没有把血压问题解决，反而血压更容易升高，且问题越多，病情更形复杂严重，且全身都是降血压药物造成的并发症，为什么呢？
复健即是半身不遂、身体无法自己行动的病患，被用机械式强加在病患身上的运动，以提高其血压，促使心脏加强跳动，促进血液的循环，以使半身不遂的病患恢复健康。
做复健即是加强升高血压的作用，为什么不在患病之前即做有恒的运动，来防范半身不遂的发生，却在用降血压药物伤害心脏呢？
许多医院一边对病患做复健－升高血压，一边在服降血压药物，这种矛盾的医疗行为，不知要到何年何月才能终止呢？
空气分分秒秒必须要进入我们的身体，我们的身体亦分分秒秒必做空气的调适，运动，有恒的运动－即有恒的升高血压，可以使汗排出，使身体循环的障碍排除，以加强身体对空气的调适－血压正常。
是以被量到高血压的病患，其血压是要更加提升，还是要降血压呢？血压不够－低血压照样有许多病患得到半身不遂－中风。
常听到人人量血压，控制血压的广告：常见报章、杂志、医学专题报导，高血压一直是引发脑中风、狭心症、心肌梗塞、肾功能衰竭、尿毒症等的危险因素，从大多数因脑中风、心脏病死亡者，都患有高血压的事实中，可得到印证，故拥有无形杀手的称号。
中风两个字和脑中风三个字，在中医学所讲的是什么意思呢？笔者曾问过十名以上的西医医师或药剂师，竟没有一个西医医师、药剂师能回答得出来，中风和脑中风三个字的真正意义，或只支吾不清的说：中风就是半身不遂，脑中风就是脑血管阻塞、破裂、栓塞或蜘蛛网膜破裂翻过中医经典，书籍并没有脑中风的记载，身为医疗专业人员、权威，不懂中医学所讲的中风详见中风篇，却盗用、滥用中医中风两字来误导大众对医学的认识，吹嘘其骗人、误人、恐吓病患的科学－脑中风。
今日大众常听西医说，感冒没药好治，就是因为西医不懂感冒分为伤风、伤寒、伤暑、湿、燥火五气伤何经络，而只知道一味消炎，致越消炎身体越虚而越感冒，故感冒怎么会有药好治呢？详见孩子为什么会常感冒治不好篇发烧不是脑的问题详见发烧篇大众都在怕脑烧坏了，高血压不是脑的问题，大众都在担心脑中风的问题。
西医不懂感冒伤风、伤寒、伤暑湿燥、伤何经络、更不懂中风、中湿痰、中暑、中气、中寒、卒中、中恶……皆会令人半身不遂，而只知道一个病人都治不好的高血压，难怪今日大众将半身不遂或未半身不遂的病患送到医院，只有缴钱和抬尸回家的占大多数，很少能全身健康恢复而退的。
若能使大众了解中国医学的脏象学说、十二经络病变、疾病的六经传变，分别五气风暑寒湿燥火伤何经络脏腑，以暑为例：戴原礼曰：暑病有冒、伤、中三者轻重之分：冒暑者：腹痛、水泄、胃与大肠受之，恶心者，胃口有痰饮也，可与黄连香茹饮。
伤暑者：身热头痛疼、燥乱不宁，或身如针刺，此为暑热伤肉分，当解毒，用白虎汤加柴胡，虚加人参。
中暑者：咳嗽发寒热，盗汗不止，脉数，热伤肺经，火乘金也，此为中暑，宜清肺汤，柴胡天水散之类。
半身不遂、瘫痪、昏迷仆倒当区别为中风、中湿痰、中寒、中暑、中气、卒中、中恶……中何经络，伤何脏腑当分清中经、中络、中脏、中腑以辨证论治，则许多半身不遂、瘫痪、昏迷仆倒的病患，皆能恢复健康正常的手足运作，与常人无异。
原因不明的高血压，不分风暑寒湿燥火，不辨喜怒哀乐，不分食物酸苦甘辛咸，臊焦香腥腐，不辨经络脏腑而一味的降血压，降血压造成心脏、血管的弹性疲乏、心脏功能不足，无力将气血循环障碍排除，降血压对人体健康的危害，才是引起中风、心脏病肾功能衰竭的真正元凶。并不是高血压所造成，本末倒置的科学，要待何日才能让大众认清呢？
降血压造成心、肾的衰竭，更夺得了十大死亡率排行榜的前茅，没有中华民国推销防高血压协会的大力推销预防高血压，以伤害国人的心肾，国人又如何能夺得世界第一的脑血管病变之头衔呢？
让我们从中医学来斩断这无名杀手真正元凶的双手吧！
(四)认识中医所说中风两字的意义：
人从出生到六十岁为一甲子，身体以任、督脉为主轴，运行十二经络之气的循环，以调节人体生命的运作。
阳为气的上升、扩张，阴为气的下降、收缩，阴阳经络气的运行，称为六阴六阳，或称三阴三阳，各为十天干与十二地支－天干三阴三阳、地支三阴三阳而运作手足，随时间、气候、年龄、情绪而产生变化，其变化产生对身体不适的现象而生病变。
从出生到三十岁是为身体生长、发育即阳气旺盛的上升、扩张阶段，其气生长、发育的电磁场强弱，依次为少阳、阳明、太阳是为阳经经络循环，即三阳经络的循环。
从卅岁到六十岁是为身体停止生长、发育即阳上升到极点而开始下降、收缩阶段，其气衰弱、下降、收缩的电磁场强弱，依次为少阴、太阴、厥阴是为阴经经络的循环，即三阴经经络的循环。
阴阳经络循环周而复始、如环无端，上升、下降、扩张、收缩与稳定称为五行相生相克，以火、水、木、金、土为五行表示代号。
五行相生相克不能平衡即是生病，即风暑寒湿燥火之气不调为生病，不调之气从阳经经络从汗而排，或虽入阴经经络，仍足以回阳经经络排除，称为感冒。在伤寒论中称感冒为中风，实为伤风之例甚多，如：仲景曰：太阳病，发热汗出恶风，脉缓者，名为中风。
太阳病，或已发热，或未发热，必恶寒体痛，呕逆，脉阴阳俱紧者，名曰伤寒，寸口脉浮而紧，浮则为风，紧则为寒，风则伤卫，紧则伤营，营卫俱病，骨肉烦疼，当发其汗。
太阳中风，脉浮紧发热恶寒，身疼痛，不出汗而烦燥者，大青龙汤主之。
太阳中风，下痢呕逆，表解者，乃可攻之，其人汗出，发作有时，头痛，心下痞硬引胁下痛，干呕短气，汗出不恶寒者，此表解里未和也，十枣汤主之。
太阳中风，阳浮阴弱，阳浮热自发，阴弱汗自出，濇濇恶寒，淅淅恶风，翁翁发热，鼻鸣干呕者，桂枝汤，发汗已，身犹灼热，脉浮自汗，身重多眠、鼻鼾、语言难出，不可下，不可火。
阳明中风，口苦喉干，腹满微喘，发热恶寒，脉浮而紧，若下之，则腹满，小便难也。
阳明中风，脉弦浮大而短气，腹部满，胁及心痛，久按之，气不通，鼻干不得汗，嗜卧，一身及面目皆黄，小便难，有潮热，时时哕，耳前后肿，刺之小差，外不解，病过十日脉弦紧者，与小柴胡汤，脉但浮，无余症者，与麻黄汤，若不尿，腹满，加哕者不治。
少阳中风，两耳无所闻、目赤、胸中满而烦者，不可吐下，吐下则悸而惊。
伤寒五六日，中风，往来寒热，胸胁下痞鞭，或心下悸小便不利，或不渴身有微热，或咳者，小柴胡汤主之。
妇人中风，发热恶寒，经水适来，得之七八日，热深而脉迟，身凉，胸胁下满，如结胸状，谵语者，此为热入血室也，当刺期门，随其实而泻之。
妇人中风七八日，续得寒热，发作有时，经水适断，此为热入血室，其血必结，故始如疟状，发作有时，小柴胡汤主之。
中风的风字即空气，蕴含风暑湿燥寒火，运作五脏六腑，偏胜、偏虚失调产生病变对身体的伤害以表证、里证区别治疗，是为感冒所生之证，伤寒论皆以中风言，皆未使经络之运作停止，皆从表解－发汗、解肌即得痊愈。
若身体虚弱，表证的风暑寒湿燥火之邪，侵入经络身体无力排除，令五脏六腑或某经络无力运作或停止运作的现象，即半身不遂、偏枯、昏晕仆倒不省人事，名为中风、中湿痰、中暑、中气、中寒、卒中、中恶……详见中风、中湿、中寒、中暑、中气、卒中、中恶……皆会令人半身不遂篇。
常听说：那个人跌倒中风了。实际应是那个人中风，跌倒了，因中风才造成跌倒，而不是跌倒造成中风。
俗说中风即为半身不遂、偏枯、瘫痪或不醒人事，乃五脏六腑或其经络无力运作风暑寒湿燥火之气，即五气进入体内五脏经络、致经络循环障碍，无力排出与体表外空气作平衡的交换作用。
气的上升作用为火属心，气的下降作用为水属肾，气的扩张作用为木属肝，收缩作用为金属肺，稳定作用为土属脾。
运动，复健能加强心火脏的作用，即加强气的上升以加强与体外空气的交换，亦即加强升高血压，即加强心火脏的上升作用，使五气从汗排出，达到五脏气的均衡。
消炎－造成心脏的衰弱，降血压在降低心火脏气的上升作用，郁扼气的上升，利小便使水从小便出，而不从汗排，治非所治，消炎、降血压，致越降心火上升之力越弱，长期的降血压，即长期的伤害心、肾，致身体水份无法从汗排出。
身体水分无法从汗排出，空气中的水分冬天可见呼吸时白茫茫的水气，夏天的汗分分秒秒必须进入身体，与身体进行循环的呼吸作用，降血压的利尿剂，血管扩张剂，自律神经抑制剂，肾活素转化。抑制剂，钙离子阻断剂。在在都造成心、血管的弹性疲乏，心肾的衰弱，致水份无法从汗，或呼吸排出，水分凝聚在心下胃口，或致全身水肿，皆心脏衰弱，水火不能即济，火无力化水成气排出而凝聚，即今日的尿毒症详见尿毒症篇皆拜降血压药使水分从小便强制排出伤心、肾所赐。
The death of a patient is not so simple. Medical malpractice and improper medication are the main causes of patient mortality. Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), diabetes mellitus, Hepatitis B, and other "civilization diseases" rank among the top ten causes of death. This is because every time a new examination method or instrument is invented, it is hailed as new medical knowledge, and vigorous promotion of prevention occurs, which actually leads to patients being treated to death. The harm caused by these treatments to the human body results in death, yet this is attributed to the dangers of "civilization diseases."
The invention of the sphygmomanometer (blood pressure monitor) is like the invention of a sound wave meter. A sound wave meter can measure the frequency and amplitude of sound waves in decibels. For example, if someone shouts loudly, how many decibels is that sound?
If a needle pricks someone's foot, causing them to scream, how many decibels is that scream?
If a knife cuts someone's back, causing them to scream, how many decibels is that scream?
If fire burns someone, causing them to scream, how many decibels is that scream?
If someone wins the first prize in a lottery and screams with joy, how many decibels is that scream?
Whether pricked by a needle, cut by a knife, burned by fire, or winning a jackpot, all can cause people to scream. These sounds can be measured by a sound wave meter to determine their decibel level. The scientific data obtained from the sound wave meter reflects the frequency generated by the vocal cords, which is very accurate and scientific; thus, it is called primary sound waves or intrinsic sound waves.
To treat this screaming sound wave and lower its frequency, should one use drugs or methods such as sewing the mouth shut with needles and thread? Or using a tongue depressor to press down the root of the tongue to lower the sound wave frequency for effective control? Or performing surgery on the vocal cords to eradicate the root cause? Or simply removing the needle, the knife, or extinguishing the fire?
If a sound wave meter can be used as a tool for fraud, then drugs to lower sound waves will be continuously invented, created, and marketed from scientific laboratories. The sound wave meter will create another "civilization disease" amidst bloodshed, and this civilization disease will take a place in the top ten causes of death.
Exercise, emotions, diet, and climatic factors such as wind, summer-heat, cold, dampness, dryness, and fire can all cause blood pressure to rise, just as fever is caused by various reasons. When the cause is identified and the disease problem is resolved, healing occurs; one cannot merely aim to lower blood pressure. There is no such disease as "hypertension" in nature. It only spread worldwide due to the invention of the sphygmomanometer and deliberate marketing, misleading the public's understanding of health and harming countless people.
During health checks, when there is no illness, doctors may tell you: "You have a little hypertension!" "You have a little diabetes!" Since the public has been bombarded day and night with information about hypertension and diabetes, any minor physical change makes everyone suspect if hypertension or diabetes is developing. Day after day, they live in fear of these conditions. Eventually, their wishes come true, and they suffer endlessly, becoming sacrifices to science forever.
(3) Does hypertension cause stroke?
Jogging and exercise promote an increase in blood pressure.
Logically, exercise should cause the blood pressure of hypertensive patients to rise further. Consistent jogging and exercise continuously raise the blood pressure of hypertensive patients, yet eventually, it causes their blood pressure to drop and return to normal. Why is this?
Patients taking antihypertensive drugs find that after several years, their blood pressure problems are not solved; instead, their blood pressure becomes easier to elevate, with more complications arising, making the condition more complex and severe. Their whole bodies suffer from side effects caused by antihypertensive drugs. Why?
Rehabilitation involves mechanically imposing exercises on patients with hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body) who cannot move themselves, to raise their blood pressure, stimulate stronger heartbeats, and promote blood circulation, thereby helping hemiplegic patients recover.
Doing rehabilitation strengthens the effect of raising blood pressure. Why not engage in consistent exercise before illness to prevent hemiplegia, instead of harming the heart with antihypertensive drugs?
Many hospitals simultaneously perform rehabilitation—raising blood pressure—and prescribe antihypertensive drugs. This contradictory medical practice, when will it end?
Air must enter our bodies every second, and our bodies must adjust to air every second. Exercise, specifically consistent exercise—which constantly raises blood pressure—induces sweating, removes obstacles in bodily circulation, and strengthens the body's adaptation to air, resulting in normal blood pressure.
Therefore, for patients diagnosed with hypertension, should their blood pressure be raised further or lowered? Insufficient blood pressure—hypotension—also causes many patients to suffer from hemiplegia—stroke.
Advertisements frequently urge everyone to measure and control blood pressure. Newspapers, magazines, and medical reports often state that hypertension is a risk factor for cerebral stroke, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, renal failure, and uremia. This is corroborated by the fact that most deaths from stroke and heart disease involve patients with hypertension, earning it the title of "invisible killer."
What do the terms "Zhong Feng" (Stroke/Wind Strike) and "Nao Zhong Feng" (Cerebral Stroke) mean in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)? I have asked more than ten Western medicine physicians or pharmacists, yet none could answer. They might vaguely say: Zhong Feng means hemiplegia, and Nao Zhong Feng means cerebral vessel obstruction, rupture, embolism, or subarachnoid hemorrhage. Consulting TCM classics reveals no record of "Nao Zhong Feng." As medical professionals and authorities, failing to understand the TCM concept of "Zhong Feng" (see Chapter on Zhong Feng), they steal and abuse the term to mislead the public, promoting a deceptive, erroneous, and frightening science called "Cerebral Stroke."
Today, the public often hears Western medicine say there is no cure for the common cold. This is because Western medicine does not understand that the common cold is divided into injuries by Wind, Cold, Summer-Heat, Dampness, Dryness, and Fire affecting different meridians, and instead relies solely on anti-inflammatories, making the body weaker and more prone to colds. Thus, how can there be a cure for the common cold? (See chapters on why children get frequent colds and Fever is not a brain problem). The public fears brain damage from fever, but hypertension is not a brain problem; the public worries about cerebral stroke.
Western medicine does not understand which meridians are injured by Wind, Cold, Summer-Heat, Dampness, or Dryness in colds. Nor do they understand that Zhong Feng, Zhong Shi Tan (Damp-Phlegm Strike), Zhong Shu (Summer-Heat Strike), Zhong Qi (Qi Strike), Zhong Han (Cold Strike), Cu Zhong (Apoplexy), and Zhong E (Evil Strike) can all cause hemiplegia. Knowing only that they cannot cure hypertension, it is no wonder that when the public sends patients with or without hemiplegia to hospitals, most end up paying bills and carrying corpses home, with few recovering fully.
If the public could understand the Zang-Fang theory, the pathology of the twelve meridians, and the transmission of diseases through the Six Stages in Chinese Medicine, distinguishing which of the Five Qi (Wind, Summer-Heat, Cold, Dampness, Dryness, Fire) injures which meridian and organ, we could treat effectively. Taking Summer-Heat as an example: Dai Yuanli stated: Summer-heat diseases have three levels of severity: Mao (Encountering), Shang (Injuring), and Zhong (Striking).
Mao Shu (Encountering Summer-Heat): Abdominal pain, watery diarrhea, affecting the Stomach and Large Intestine. If accompanied by nausea, there is phlegm-fluid retention in the stomach area; treat with Huang Lian Xiang Ru Yin.
Shang Shu (Injuring Summer-Heat): Fever, headache, restlessness, or sensation like needle pricks. This indicates Summer-Heat injuring the muscle layer; detoxify using Bai Hu Tang plus Chai Hu, adding Ren Shen for deficiency.
Zhong Shu (Striking Summer-Heat): Cough with chills and fever, continuous night sweats, rapid pulse. Heat injures the Lung Meridian, Fire overacts on Metal. Treat with Qing Fei Tang or Chai Hu Tian Shui San.
Zhang Congzheng stated: Summer-Heat injuring the Five Zang organs presents differently:
If Summer-Heat enters the Heart: Throat obstruction, dizziness, coma, loss of consciousness.
If it enters the Liver: Vertigo, numbness, and bi-syndrome.
If it enters the Spleen: Coma-like sleep, unawareness.
If it enters the Lung: Sneezing, wheezing, flaccidity, weakness in both legs, or frog-leg posture.
If it enters the Kidney: Xiao Ke (Wasting-Thirst). Many soldiers sunbathing are often misdiagnosed with diabetes or leukemia.
Hemiplegia, paralysis, coma, and sudden collapse should be distinguished as Zhong Feng, Zhong Shi Tan, Zhong Han, Zhong Shu, Zhong Qi, Cu Zhong, Zhong E... One must clarify which meridian is struck and which Zang-Fu is injured, distinguishing between invasion of Jing (Channels), Luo (Collaterals), Zang (Organs), and Fu (Hollow Organs) for syndrome differentiation and treatment. Then, many patients with hemiplegia, paralysis, coma, or collapse can recover normal limb function, indistinguishable from healthy individuals.
Idiopathic hypertension, ignoring Wind, Summer-Heat, Cold, Dampness, Dryness, and Fire, disregarding emotions, food flavors (Sour, Bitter, Sweet, Pungent, Salty), odors, and meridian/organ differentiation, blindly lowers blood pressure. Lowering blood pressure causes fatigue in the elasticity of the heart and blood vessels, insufficient cardiac function, and an inability to resolve Qi-Blood circulation obstacles. The harm of lowering blood pressure to human health is the true culprit behind strokes, heart disease, and renal failure, not hypertension itself. How long must the public wait to recognize this inverted science?
Lowering blood pressure causes heart and kidney failure, ranking high in mortality statistics. Without the vigorous promotion of hypertension prevention by associations in the Republic of China, harming citizens' hearts and kidneys, how could citizens claim the world's highest rate of cerebrovascular lesions?
Let us use Traditional Chinese Medicine to sever the hands of the true culprit behind this nameless killer!
(4) Understanding the Meaning of "Zhong Feng" in TCM:
From birth to sixty years old constitutes one Jiazi cycle. The body uses the Ren Mai (Conception Vessel) and Du Mai (Governing Vessel) as the main axis, circulating Qi through the twelve meridians to regulate life functions.
Yang represents the rising and expanding nature of Qi; Yin represents the descending and contracting nature. The operation of Yin-Yang meridian Qi is called Six Yin and Six Yang, or Three Yin and Three Yang, corresponding to the Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches. The hands and feet operate according to these cycles, changing with time, climate, age, and emotions. These changes cause discomfort and disease.
From birth to thirty years old is the stage of growth and development, where Yang Qi is vigorous, rising, and expanding. The strength of the electromagnetic field of growing Qi corresponds sequentially to Shao Yang (Lesser Yang), Yang Ming (Bright Yang), and Tai Yang (Greater Yang), representing the circulation of Yang meridians (Three Yang).
From thirty to sixty years old is the stage where growth stops, Yang reaches its peak, and begins to descend and contract. The weakening, descending, and contracting Qi corresponds sequentially to Shao Yin (Lesser Yin), Tai Yin (Greater Yin), and Jue Yin (Terminal Yin), representing the circulation of Yin meridians (Three Yin).
Yin-Yang meridian circulation repeats endlessly like a ring. Rising, descending, expanding, contracting, and stabilizing are described as the Mutual Generation and Restriction of the Five Elements, represented by Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, and Earth.
Imbalance in the Mutual Generation and Restriction of the Five Elements leads to illness. Disharmony of Wind, Summer-Heat, Cold, Dampness, Dryness, and Fire causes illness. Disharmonious Qi is expelled through sweat via Yang meridians, or even if entering Yin meridians, returns to Yang meridians for expulsion. This is called Gan Mao (Common Cold). In the *Shang Han Lun* (Treatise on Cold Damage), Gan Mao is referred to as Zhong Feng (Wind Strike), which is essentially injury by Wind. Examples abound: Zhang Zhongjing stated: In Tai Yang disease, with fever, sweating, aversion to wind, and a slow pulse, it is named Zhong Feng.
In Tai Yang disease, whether fever has appeared or not, there is always aversion to cold, body pain, vomiting/reversal, and tight pulses at both cun and chi positions. This is named Shang Han (Cold Damage). The pulse at Cun Kou is floating and tight; floating indicates Wind, tight indicates Cold. Wind injures Wei (Defensive) Qi, Tight injures Ying (Nutritive) Qi. With both Ying and Wei diseased, causing bone and flesh pain, sweating should be induced.
----This Zhong Feng is equivalent to Shang Feng (Wind Injury), distinguishing it from Shang Han.
Tai Yang Zhong Feng, with floating-tight pulse, fever, aversion to cold, body pain, no sweating, and irritability, is treated with Da Qing Long Tang.
Tai Yang Zhong Feng, with dysentery, vomiting/reversal, after the exterior is resolved, internal purgation may be used. If the patient has constant sweating occurring at times, headache, epigastric fullness/hardness radiating to the hypochondrium, dry retching, shortness of breath, sweating without aversion to cold, this indicates the exterior is resolved but the interior is unharmonized; treat with Shi Zao Tang.
Tai Yang Zhong Feng, with floating Yang and weak Yin pulses, spontaneous heat from floating Yang, spontaneous sweating from weak Yin, slight aversion to cold and wind, mild fever, nasal congestion, and dry retching, is treated with Gui Zhi Tang. After inducing sweat, if the body remains hot, pulse floats with spontaneous sweating, heaviness, excessive sleepiness, snoring, and difficulty speaking, downward purgation and moxibustion/fire therapy are contraindicated.
Yang Ming Zhong Feng, with bitter taste, dry throat, abdominal fullness, slight wheezing, fever, aversion to cold, floating-tight pulse. If purged, abdominal fullness and difficult urination result.
Yang Ming Zhong Feng, with wiry-floating-large pulse, shortness of breath, abdominal fullness, hypochondriac and heart pain, unrelieved pressure, dry nose, inability to sweat, lethargy, jaundice of the whole body and face, difficult urination, tidal fever, occasional hiccups, swelling around ears. Acupuncture provides slight relief. If exterior symptoms persist beyond ten days and the pulse is wiry-tight, give Xiao Chai Hu Tang. If the pulse is only floating with no other symptoms, give Ma Huang Tang. If there is no urination, abdominal fullness, and added hiccups, the condition is untreatable.
Shao Yang Zhong Feng, with hearing loss, red eyes, chest fullness and irritability. Vomiting and purging are contraindicated; doing so causes palpitations and fright.
After five to six days of Shang Han or Zhong Feng, with alternating chills and fever, hypochondriac fullness/stiffness, or epigastric palpitations/difficult urination, or no thirst/mild fever/cough, Xiao Chai Hu Tang is indicated.
Tai Yin Zhong Feng, with painful limbs, faint Yang pulse and choppy-long Yin pulse, indicates impending recovery.
Shao Yin Zhong Feng, with faint Yang pulse and floating Yin pulse, indicates impending recovery.
Jue Yin Zhong Feng, with faint-floating pulse indicates impending recovery; non-floating indicates not yet recovered.
For women with Zhong Feng, fever, aversion to cold, menstruation starting, developing after seven to eight days, deep heat with slow pulse, cool body, hypochondriac fullness resembling Jie Xiong syndrome, and delirium, this is Heat entering the Blood Chamber. Prick Qi Men point to drain excess.
For women with Zhong Feng for seven to eight days, continuing chills and fever occurring at times, menstruation stopping, this is Heat entering the Blood Chamber, causing blood coagulation. Initially resembling malaria with periodic attacks, treat with Xiao Chai Hu Tang.
Each of the Six Stages of Zhong Feng has specific symptoms, serving as the basis for syndrome differentiation and treatment.
The "Feng" (Wind) in Zhong Feng refers to air, containing Wind, Summer-Heat, Dampness, Dryness, Cold, and Fire. It operates the Five Zang and Six Fu organs. Imbalance in excess or deficiency causes pathological harm. Treatment distinguishes between Exterior and Interior syndromes. These are manifestations of Gan Mao. The *Shang Han Lun* refers to all these as Zhong Feng, noting that meridian operations never stop completely, and recovery is achieved through exterior resolution—inducing sweat or releasing the muscles.
If the body is weak, exterior pathogens (Wind, Summer-Heat, Cold, Dampness, Dryness, Fire) invade the meridians, and the body lacks the strength to expel them. This leads to the Five Zang and Six Fu or specific meridians losing strength or stopping operation, resulting in hemiplegia, partial wasting, dizziness, collapse, and unconsciousness. This is named Zhong Feng, Zhong Shi Tan, Zhong Shu, Zhong Qi, Zhong Han, Cu Zhong, Zhong E... (See chapter on how these cause hemiplegia).
It is often said: "That person fell and had a stroke." Actually, the person had a stroke and then fell. The stroke caused the fall, not the fall causing the stroke.
Colloquially, Zhong Feng means hemiplegia, partial wasting, paralysis, or unconsciousness. This occurs because the Five Zang and Six Fu or their meridians lack the strength to circulate Wind, Summer-Heat, Cold, Dampness, Dryness, and Fire. These Five Qi enter the internal Zang-Meridians, causing meridian circulation obstacles, unable to expel them or balance exchange with external air.
The ascending function of Qi is Fire, belonging to the Heart. The descending function is Water, belonging to the Kidney. The expanding function is Wood, belonging to the Liver. The contracting function is Metal, belonging to the Lung. The stabilizing function is Earth, belonging to the Spleen.
Exercise and rehabilitation strengthen the Heart Fire organ's function, i.e., strengthening Qi ascent to enhance exchange with external air. This also raises blood pressure, strengthening the Heart Fire's ascending action, allowing the Five Qi to be expelled through sweat, achieving equilibrium among the Five Zang Qi.
Anti-inflammatories cause heart weakness. Lowering blood pressure reduces the ascending action of Heart Fire Qi, suppressing Qi ascent. Diuretics make water exit via urine rather than sweat. This is incorrect treatment. Anti-inflammatories and blood pressure lowering weaken the Heart Fire's ascending power. Long-term blood pressure lowering harms the Heart and Kidneys, preventing body fluids from exiting via sweat.
When body fluids cannot exit via sweat, atmospheric moisture (visible as white breath in winter, sweat in summer) must enter the body every second for cyclic respiratory exchange. Antihypertensive diuretics, vasodilators, autonomic nervous system inhibitors, ACE inhibitors, and calcium channel blockers all cause fatigue in cardiovascular elasticity and heart/kidney decline. Fluids cannot exit via sweat or respiration, accumulating in the epigastrium/stomach area or causing generalized edema. All stem from heart weakness, failure of Water and Fire to interact, and Fire's inability to transform Water into Qi for expulsion. Today's uremia (see Uremia chapter) is largely due to antihypertensive drugs forcing water out via urine, damaging the Heart and Kidneys.
Having invented the sphygmomanometer, yet ignorant of the meaning of "Zhong Feng," they force interpretations claiming Zhong Feng causes health damage.