感冒发烧，风寒暑湿燥之气仅在肌肤、表皮，内脏根本未生病，故称表证详见发烧的原因，汗出则愈，问题即可迎刃而解，但点滴液却不分风暑寒湿燥火之气，将风寒随着点滴引入未生病的内脏经络、脏腑。发烧虽是退了，但点滴液对身体的健康完全是引狼入室，它只是使人看不见发烧而已，却是后患无穷详见吃西药会伤胃，实际上是五脏六腑皆伤篇。
许多小儿科更是恐吓、诈欺、威胁齐用，孩子发烧即谓肺炎、△△炎而大打点滴液，为谋财施诈的伎俩，出了问题，烧退不了，就是转院证明书一出，推了责任。
血癌、尿毒症等的病患。心脏、肾脏都极衰弱，若感冒发烧，被用点滴液，则表证的风寒随着点滴液进入衰弱的心脏、肾脏而造成昏迷，甚至生命的危险，许多入不了解这点，医生会告诉病患，因尿毒造成昏迷，要赶快洗肾，或血癌的癌细胞已进入脑而发生危险，却不会告诉病患，因点滴液将表证的风寒引入衰弱的心、肾所造成。
洗肾虽能暂时将进入心脏血液的风寒水份过滤排除，但却没法使心脏的作用功能恢复，致病越陷越深，甚至死亡，重重的陷阱，重重的医疗欺骗，病患亦乐此不疲，花钱不能消灾，情何以堪？
若了解中医的医学，发烧只是皮肤毛孔被蔽塞，用一碗热稀饭加冰糖、生姜、或一杯热牛奶，服后汗出烧就退，没有点滴液，抗生素的后患无穷，更没有血癌、尿毒症。等危害的烦恼，何乐而不为呢？但许多人却作茧自缚，相信一个病人也治不好的科学，为什么呢？
常遇癌症或病情严重病患，治疗进展非常顺利，却因家属担心病患营养不良而请人来打营养针点滴液，一剂营养针过后，腰酸背痛西医所谓癌细胞蔓延到脊髓已痊愈的又再度复发，病情急剧变化，病患及家属对医疗的无知与干扰，实在令人痛心与气结，并非病之不能治，而是病患及家属的无知所致也。
身体虚的人容易感冒，感冒风寒邪气、病毒都在表皮肤，并未入里内脏器官，点滴液却将身体虚的人之感冒病毒从体表引入身体内部脏腑，腰酸背痛即感冒病毒从体表引入身体内部脏腑少阴心、肾经所造成，故点滴液是营养针还是催命针呢？
(六)冰枕是退烧利器，还是残害病患的毒药呢？
发烧的原因：
中医：鼻子在呼吸，皮肤的毛孔也在呼吸，当皮肤的毛孔呼吸被蔽塞住，皮肤无法呼吸就是发烧详见发烧篇，汗出烧即退。
今日的教科书上，老师告诉学生，发烧37℃－38℃就要看医生，39℃、40℃就要在病患的头部、心窝放冰枕以降低体温，因此许多家庭冰箱随时放着冰枕，以备万一。
常遇到在某些医院打点滴，用冰枕贴头部、心窝，发烧一两星期不退的孩子，年轻的父母已是精疲力竭，孩子亦是奄奄一息。甚至咳血，或检查白血球四、五万，两、三万的病患，笔者诊断不会口渴的患者，即在其肺经与膀胱经以樟脑油擦拭后，再用大棉被在病患身上闷盖，不到半小时，病患全身大汗，即以热毛巾将全身汗擦干，病患皆能实时烧退病愈，精神恢复，有的身子已虚，只有进补以恢复体力，有一发烧四年不能痊愈的孩子，笔者以此方法两次即告痊愈，愈后进补即不曾再犯。
有一七十余岁的阿婆，见住院两星期发烧不退的孙子，笔者治疗不到半小时即烧退病愈，精神恢复，且会玩耍，而怀疑的问：如果回家再发烧，是否还要用冰枕呢？笔者回答：汗出烧就退，你想想，冰枕可以使汗排得出来吗？阿婆回答：说得也有道理，汗出烧就退。
感冒发烧是皮肤毛孔被风寒暑湿之气蔽塞，致阳气不得逾越，故发烧时只要汗出烧就退，冰枕在降低发烧者的体温，使皮肤毛孔更难排汗。
皮肤毛孔被冰枕阻塞收缩无法排汗，皮肤表面的风寒之气又被点滴引入体内，更被消炎伤害心脏，致心脏衰弱，而风寒内侵，乃为脑炎、脑膜炎的主因，是冰枕与点滴液引狼入室所造成的结果，白血球数据的上升，乃因身体欲将此内侵的风寒与抗生素药物排出体外而产生的，故汗出烧退白血球数据亦随之自然下降。
大家可以感觉到发烧时，心脏剧烈跳动，目的即在增加其压力，促使阳元气上升，以促使毛孔张开来排汗，发烧温度越高，心脏跳动越厉害，今日医疗不思促使毛孔张开，反用冰枕封死毛孔，更用消炎药降低心脏的跳动之力，致病患心疲力竭，而疲惫不堪，乃致更加重病情。
常见发烧退后复来，即因被引入体内之风寒排解未尽，五脏调理五气仍未能均衡，而致发烧再起。
发烧时，病只在体表，或半表半里，并未进入体内，五脏六腑皆未受病伤害，阴症无汗，阴症无发热，即病毒、细菌进入内脏时，反而不会发烧，如今日的高血压即为风寒进入体内，糖尿病为燥气进入体内所造成。
许多发烧的病患，被冰枕、点滴液、抗生素消炎而无法退烧，许多不懂医学的医学权威，就玩欺骗病患的把戏－做抽取脊髓的穿刺检查，致腰受伤害，腰为肾之腑，肾主骨，骨主髓，脑为髓海，对肾脏的伤害即对心脏产生伤害，因心、肾同为少阴经，心脏因消炎致被风寒侵入，今日许多风湿性心脏病即因消炎，致风寒湿侵入心脏所造成。
风寒侵入心脏，随着少阴经侵入被脊髓穿刺而受伤的肾脏，肾脏受伤，外用点滴、冰枕大量引进风寒，乃为脑炎、脑膜炎、烧坏脑及血癌的真正主凶。
六、中风与脑中风中风、中湿、中寒、中暑、中气、中恶、卒中。皆会令人半身不遂、瘫痪。
(一)为什么会中风？
日光、清水和空气为生命的三要素，即国人俗称水、火、风，在人身为精、气、神。
风即俗称空气，空气因受温度日光与清水的作用而产生变化，即空气发生扩张、收缩、上升、下降与稳定的作用，是为木、火、土、金、水五行的作用，亦即天气风、暑、湿、燥、寒五气的变化，俗称风或空气或气候变化。
风－空气对我们的生命、身体分秒不能分离，身体调理五气正常，则百病不生，若调理不能均衡则百病丛生，而此产生病变分为三种情况：感冒：五脏仍能正常运行五气，只是五气不能协调产生的证状。因各脏腑、经络不同而表现不同的证状，称伤风、伤寒、伤暑、湿、燥火。等。
中风：五脏或某经络失去正常运作五气的功能，而呈瘫痪、偏枯或半身不遂的证状，称中经、中络、中脏、中腑、其因有中风、中湿、中寒、中暑、中气、中恶、卒中……等。
气在人体的作用，随饮食、气候、情绪而产生各种病变，俗称百病因风起，即各种大并恶病皆从小病演变而来，了解疾病的前因后果，才能将疾病治疗痊愈，以获取健康。
中风、伤风即空气风在人体生理精、气、神强盛、衰弱状况下，变化发生不平衡，产生伤害不同程度所表现的症状。
风是如何中、伤人体呢？
黄帝内经灵枢五变第四十六篇：黄帝问于少俞曰：余闻百疾之始期也，必生于风雨寒暑，必循毫毛毛孔而入腠理皮肤与肌肉的交界处，或复还、或留止、或为风肿消汗、或为消瘅疸、或为寒热、或为留痹、或为积聚奇邪淫溢，不可胜数，愿闻其故，或同时得病，或病此，或病彼又曰：人之善病风厥漉汁者常汗流浃背而因风卒倒，何以候之？少俞答曰：肉不坚，腠理疏，则善病风。又曰：善病消瘅者，何以候之？少俞答曰：五脏皆柔弱者，善病消瘅……夫柔弱者，必有刚强，刚强则多怒，柔弱者易伤……怒则气上逆，胸中蓄积，血气逆流，臗皮充肌，血肌不行，转而为热，热则消肌肤，故为消瘅。。
灵枢缪刺论第六十三：岐伯对曰：夫邪之客于形也，必先舍于皮毛，留而不去入舍于孙脉，留而不去入舍于络脉，留而不去入舍于经脉，内连五脏散于肠胃，阴阳具感，五脏乃伤，此邪之伤皮毛而入极于五脏之次也……。中风分别病情轻重为中经、中络、中脏、中腑因之而名。
体力强盛，风暑寒湿燥火之气对人体不能调适的现象在表皮经络，五脏经络运作正常，是为表证伤风、伤寒、伤暑湿热只名曰伤而不曰中是称感冒。
体力衰弱，经络脏腑对风暑寒湿燥火之气无力运作，而产生脏腑经络停止运作的故障现象是为中，身体的生长、发育之能衰弱，运作体力衰弱，是为病重入里之意为中风、中湿痰、中暑、中气、中寒、中恶、卒中……名为中风或类中风，皆称中风。
中风分为中经、中络、中脏、中腑。又分闭证、脱症，闭证为邪实证，治疗时可下、可清，脱症当温补是为虚脱证状。
中风时，邪在络则肌肤不仁，邪在经则重胜不能任地，邪入于腑则不识人，邪入于脏舌即艰言，口吐涎，却不见脑中风三个字。
中风事实上并非脑的问题，就像发烧并非脑中枢神经对体温失控所致的荒诞不稽详见发烧之学说。
事实上，脑中风三个字是在骂人的脑－思想停止运作、故障的意思，而不是医学上的名辞，几千年的中医学上都没有看到脑中风的医学记载。
今日西医不懂中医中风两字真义，而盗用中风两字且画蛇潻足加上脑字而名脑中风，用之以贻误病患，欺骗病患。详见：全世界的人都受害、受骗的医疗骗局－高血压、糖尿病篇
(二)中风的分类与辨别
感冒是伤风、伤寒、伤暑、湿、热……乃身体脏腑、经络皆强壮，有力运作，可将风、寒、暑、湿、燥不适之气自行调理，循正常途径由汗、小便排出体外，或积留体表无法内侵，故称表证，或称外中风。
中风则因脏腑、经络的衰弱，受风寒暑湿燥之气无力运作，致身体的生理状况如汽车拋锚，如河川、沟渠淤塞不通所致。或称内中风，即俗称中风。
真中风者－中时卒倒，皆因体气虚弱，荣卫血气失调，喜怒忧思悲恐惊，或酒色劳力所伤，以致真气耗散，腠理不密，风邪乘虚而入，乃其中也，有中腑、中脏、中经、中络、血脉、气虚、血虚之不同，而治法亦有异也，大抵中腑易治，中脏难治，亦有不治之证。
类中风者－有中寒、中暑、中湿、中火、中气、食厥、劳伤、房劳、痰厥、血晕、中恶、卒死等症，皆类中风者甚多，各有治法，不可作风治，如用风药，误之甚矣。
中风证治针灸、用药先贤经验，著述颇丰，对中风症的辨证论治分卒中期的闭证、脱证等，及后遗证的调理详细请参考医宗金鉴、万病回春等书－中风篇。
类中风－中寒、中暑、中湿……等致半身不遂，偏枯瘫痪……之证状，非从事中医者，鲜有听闻，兹略述于后：中寒者：谓冬月卒中寒气，寒邪直入三阴经，昏冒口噤，肢挛怕冷恶寒，脉浮紧，或口吐涎沫，重则四肢僵直，若不急治，死在旦夕，舌短囊缩而亡也。治疗应温中散寒或温灸而愈。俗称天气好冷，要预防中风，此中风实非中风而应正名为中寒，许多病患误被当中风治而不得痊愈。
中暑者：动而得之谓中热，静而得之谓中暑。谓夏月卒暴炎暑，昏冒痿厥倒仆，角弓反张，手足或发搐搦，或吐泻，或呕哕燥闷……此为暑风，不可当风治。治暑则瘫痪手脚即恢复灵活。详见万病回春中暑篇△俗称天气好热，要预防中风－此中风实非中风而应正名为中暑。
中湿者：多由湿土脾生痰，痰生热，热生风，有内中湿、外中湿之分，人之体虚，苟有不谨自然而中也。
外中湿者：感山岚瘴气，或被雨湿蒸气此类中风实名外中湿之人，在吹南风，墙壁或地潮湿时，特别痛苦或远行涉水、或久卧湿地、或汗衣湿鞋，则湿从外而中矣。
内中湿者：皆因生冷水食，或厚味醇酒过多停滞，脾虚不能运化，停于三焦，注于肌肉，渗于皮肤，则湿从内而中矣。
痰厥者：因内虚受寒，痰气阻塞，手足厥冷，麻痹眩晕欲倒，脉沉细，或胸背手足腰项筋骨牵引钓痛，走易不定，气脉不通，痰涎在胸膈上下，误为瘫痪，非也。
中气者：七情过急，气逆昏冒，或牙关紧急，其因与人相争，暴怒气逆而晕倒者，名中气。
气脉多沉，风脉多浮，风中身温有痰涎，气中身冷无痰涎。俗称气厥或气死人。
卒中暴厥者：因犯不正之气，忽然手足厥冷，肌肤栗起，头面青黑，精神不守，错言妄语，牙紧口噤，昏不知人，头旋晕倒，为中恶卒厥，客忤飞尸、鬼击、吊死问丧、入庙登场，多有此病也。俗称遇到神头。
左瘫右痪、半身不遂、颜面喎邪、昏厥……乃为五气在人身体运行故障不遂所造成，有中风、中湿、中寒、中暑、中气、卒中……等之区别，是为经络、脏腑之问题，而非脑的问题。
肝主血，肺主气，人身之气血，左肝右肺，男左女右，男主气，男性右半身气强，左半身血弱，故男性左半身瘫痪不遂的多于右半身。左半身不遂为肝阳上亢，治疗时以清肝，即能使左半身不遂者恢复手足的行动。而男性右半身不遂患者恢复效果较差。
In cases of common cold and fever, the pathogenic factors of wind, cold, summerheat, dampness, and dryness remain only in the skin and surface layers; the internal organs are fundamentally not diseased. Therefore, it is called Exterior Syndrome (a syndrome caused by pathogenic factors attacking the exterior of the body). As detailed in the section on causes of fever, sweating leads to recovery, and the problem can be resolved easily. However, intravenous infusion does not distinguish between wind, summerheat, cold, dampness, dryness, or fire pathogenic factors; instead, it introduces wind-cold along with the infusion into the meridians and viscera that were not originally diseased. Although the fever may subside, intravenous infusion is entirely like "inviting a wolf into the house" for physical health; it merely hides the visible fever but brings endless subsequent troubles (see the section on how Western medicine damages the stomach, actually injuring all five zang and six fu organs).
Many pediatric departments employ intimidation, fraud, and threats simultaneously. When a child has a fever, they are diagnosed with pneumonia or △△itis and subjected to heavy intravenous infusions as a trick for financial gain and deception. If problems arise and the fever cannot be reduced, they simply issue a referral certificate to shift responsibility.
Patients with leukemia or uremia have extremely weak hearts and kidneys. If they catch a cold and have a fever and are treated with intravenous infusion, the wind-cold from the Exterior Syndrome enters the weakened heart and kidneys along with the infusion, causing coma or even endangering life. Many people do not understand this point. Doctors will tell patients that coma is caused by uremia and requires immediate dialysis, or that cancer cells have entered the brain causing danger, but they will not tell patients that the coma was caused by the intravenous infusion introducing wind-cold from the Exterior Syndrome into the weakened heart and kidneys.
Although dialysis can temporarily filter out the wind-cold moisture that has entered the blood in the heart, it cannot restore the functional capacity of the heart. The disease sinks deeper, potentially leading to death. These are重重 traps and medical deceptions, yet patients persist in them. Spending money cannot ward off disaster; how lamentable is this?
If one understands Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), fever is merely caused by the blockage of skin pores. Drinking a bowl of hot rice porridge with rock sugar and ginger, or a cup of hot milk, induces sweating after consumption, which resolves the fever. Without intravenous infusion or antibiotics, there are no endless subsequent troubles, nor the worries of leukemia or uremia. Why not take advantage of this? Yet many people bind themselves like silkworms, believing in a science that cannot cure even one patient. Why?
It is often encountered that cancer patients or those with severe conditions are progressing well in treatment, but family members, worried about malnutrition, request nutrient intravenous infusions. After just one dose of nutrient infusion, lower back soreness and back pain reappear—conditions previously considered cured by Western medicine as metastasis to the spinal cord—and the condition changes drastically. The ignorance and interference of patients and families regarding medical care are truly heartbreaking and frustrating. It is not that the disease cannot be cured, but rather the result of the ignorance of the patients and their families.
People with weak constitutions are prone to catching colds. The wind-cold pathogens and viruses in a cold reside on the surface skin and have not entered the interior organs. However, intravenous infusion introduces these cold viruses from the body surface into the internal organs. Lower back soreness and back pain are caused by cold viruses being introduced from the surface into the internal organs, specifically affecting the Shaoyin Heart and Kidney meridians. Thus, is intravenous infusion a nutrient needle or a death sentence?
(VI) Is an ice pillow a fever-reducing tool, or a poison harming patients?
Causes of Fever:
TCM Perspective: The nose breathes, and the pores of the skin also breathe. When the breathing of the skin pores is blocked, the skin cannot breathe, resulting in fever (see the Fever section). Sweating causes the fever to subside.
Western Medicine Perspective: Fever is caused by the loss of control over body temperature regulation by the central nervous system in the brain due to viral infection.
Today's textbooks teach students that if the temperature is 37°C–38°C, one should see a doctor; at 39°C–40°C, an ice pillow should be placed on the patient's head and epigastrium to lower body temperature. Therefore, many households keep ice pillows in their refrigerators at all times for emergencies.
It is common to encounter children in certain hospitals who, while receiving intravenous infusions and having ice pillows applied to their heads and epigastria, have had fevers for one or two weeks without relief. Young parents are exhausted, and the children are near death. Some even cough up blood, or have white blood cell counts of 40,000–50,000 or 20,000–30,000. For patients diagnosed by the author as not feeling thirsty, applying camphor oil to the Lung Meridian and Bladder Meridian, followed by covering the patient tightly with a large cotton quilt for less than half an hour, induces profuse sweating throughout the body. Wiping the sweat with a hot towel allows the patient to immediately recover from the fever and illness, regaining spirit. Some bodies are already weak and require tonification to recover strength. A child who had a fever for four years without recovery was cured twice using this method; after recovery and tonification, the fever never recurred.
An elderly woman in her seventies, seeing her grandson hospitalized for two weeks with persistent fever, asked skeptically after the author cured him in less than half an hour, restoring his spirit and ability to play: "If he gets a fever again at home, do we still need to use an ice pillow?" The author replied: "Sweating makes the fever subside. Think about it, can an ice pillow allow sweat to be expelled?" The woman answered: "That makes sense. Sweating makes the fever subside."
Common cold and fever are caused by wind, cold, summerheat, and dampness blocking the skin pores, preventing Yang Qi from penetrating. Therefore, during fever, sweating resolves it. Ice pillows lower the body temperature of the febrile person, making it harder for skin pores to expel sweat.
When skin pores are blocked and constricted by ice pillows, unable to expel sweat, the wind-cold on the skin surface is further introduced into the body via intravenous infusion. Furthermore, anti-inflammatory drugs harm the heart, leading to heart weakness. Internal invasion of wind-cold is the main cause of encephalitis and meningitis. This is the result of ice pillows and intravenous infusions "inviting wolves into the house." The rise in white blood cell count is because the body attempts to expel the internally invading wind-cold and antibiotic drugs from the body. Therefore, when sweating resolves the fever, the white blood cell count naturally decreases.
One can feel that during fever, the heart beats violently to increase pressure, promoting the ascent of Yang Yuan Qi to open pores for sweating. The higher the fever temperature, the more violent the heartbeat. Modern medicine, instead of promoting pore opening, uses ice pillows to seal pores shut and uses anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce the heart's beating force, exhausting patients and worsening their condition.
It is common for fever to return after subsiding because the wind-cold introduced into the body has not been fully resolved, and the regulation of the Five Qi by the five zang organs remains unbalanced, causing fever to recur.
During fever, the disease is only on the body surface or in the Half-Exterior Half-Interior stage, not entering the interior. The five zang and six fu organs are not harmed. Yin Syndromes have no sweating and no fever. When viruses or bacteria enter the internal organs, fever反而 does not occur. Today's hypertension is caused by wind-cold entering the interior, and diabetes is caused by dryness entering the interior.
Many feverish patients cannot reduce their fever due to ice pillows, intravenous infusions, and antibiotic anti-inflammatories. Many medical authorities who do not understand medicine play deceptive tricks on patients—performing lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to extract cerebrospinal fluid, damaging the waist. The waist is the mansion of the Kidney; the Kidney governs bones, bones generate marrow, and the brain is the sea of marrow. Damage to the Kidneys causes damage to the Heart, as both belong to the Shaoyin Meridian. Due to anti-inflammatory treatments, wind-cold invades the heart. Many cases of rheumatic heart disease today are caused by wind-cold-dampness invading the heart due to anti-inflammatory treatments.
Wind-cold invades the heart and, following the Shaoyin Meridian, invades the Kidneys injured by spinal puncture. With Kidney injury, external use of intravenous infusions and ice pillows introduces large amounts of wind-cold. This is the true culprit behind encephalitis, meningitis, brain damage from fever, and leukemia.
VI. Stroke and Brain Stroke: Stroke, damp-stroke, cold-stroke, heat-stroke, qi-stroke, evil-stroke, and apoplexy all cause hemiplegia and paralysis.
(I) Why does stroke occur?
Sunlight, clear water, and air are the three essential elements of life, commonly known in China as Water, Fire, and Wind. In the human body, these correspond to Jing (Essence), Qi (Energy), and Shen (Spirit).
Wind is commonly known as air. Air changes due to the effects of temperature, sunlight, and water, undergoing expansion, contraction, rising, falling, and stabilizing actions. These correspond to the functions of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water in the Five Elements theory, and also to the changes of the Five Qi of weather: Wind, Summerheat, Dampness, Dryness, and Cold. Commonly referred to as wind, air, or climate change.
Wind—air—is inseparable from our life and body moment by moment. If the body regulates the Five Qi normally, hundred diseases do not arise. If regulation is unbalanced, hundred diseases emerge. Pathological changes arising from this are divided into three situations:
Cold: The five zang organs can still normally operate the Five Qi, but the Five Qi cannot coordinate, producing symptoms. Depending on different viscera and meridians, different symptoms manifest, called Shangfeng (Wind Injury), Shanghan (Cold Injury), Shangshu (Summerheat Injury), Shidu (Dampness Injury), Zaohuo (Dryness/Fire Injury), etc.
Stroke: The five zang organs or a specific meridian lose the normal function of operating the Five Qi, presenting symptoms of paralysis, hemiplegia, or half-body immobility. Called Zhongjing (Meridian Stroke), Zhongluo (Luo Vessel Stroke), Zhongzang (Zang Organ Stroke), Zhongfu (Fu Organ Stroke). Causes include Fengzhong (Wind Stroke), Shizhong (Damp Stroke), Hanzhong (Cold Stroke), Shuzhong (Heat Stroke), Qizhong (Qi Stroke), Ezhong (Evil Stroke), Zuzhong (Apoplexy), etc.
Qi Exhaustion: Exhaustion of the Qi of the five zang organs means death, where Qi activity in the body ceases.
The function of Qi in the human body produces various pathological changes depending on diet, climate, and emotions. It is commonly said that "hundred diseases arise from wind," meaning various major and malignant diseases evolve from minor illnesses. Understanding the causes and consequences of diseases is necessary to cure them and achieve health.
Stroke and Wind Injury refer to symptoms manifested due to imbalances in changes when the physiological Jing, Qi, and Shen are strong or weak under the influence of atmospheric wind.
How does wind injure or strike the human body?
Huangdi Neijing Lingshu Chapter 46 "Five Changes": Huangdi asked Shaoyu: "I have heard that the beginning of all diseases must arise from wind, rain, cold, and summerheat, entering through hair follicles and pores into the Couli (interstices between skin and muscle). They may return, stay, become wind swelling and sweat, become Xiao Dan Jaundice, become alternating cold and fever, become chronic obstruction, become accumulation and strange evils overflowing, countless in number. I wish to hear the reason. Do some get sick simultaneously, or sick here, or sick there?" He also said: "People prone to Feng Jue (Wind Revulsion) with profuse sweating fall suddenly due to wind. How can we diagnose this?" Shaoyu answered: "If flesh is not firm and Couli are loose, one is prone to wind diseases." He also said: "How can we diagnose those prone to Xiao Dan?" Shaoyu answered: "If the five zang organs are all soft and weak, one is prone to Xiao Dan... Soft and weak people must have rigid and strong counterparts. Rigid and strong people are often angry. Soft and weak people are easily injured... Anger causes Qi to reverse upward, accumulating in the chest. Blood and Qi flow counter-current, filling the skin and muscles. Blood stagnates, turning into heat. Heat consumes flesh and skin, thus becoming Xiao Dan."
Lingshu Miao Ci Lun Chapter 63: Qibo replied: "When evil resides in the form, it first settles in the skin and hair. If it stays and does not leave, it enters the Sun vessels. If it stays and does not leave, it enters the Luo vessels. If it stays and does not leave, it enters the Main Meridians, internally connecting to the five zang and scattering in the stomach and intestines. Both Yin and Yang are affected, and the five zang are injured. This is the sequence of evil entering from the skin and reaching the extreme of the five zang..." Stroke is named according to severity as Zhongjing, Zhongluo, Zhongzang, Zhongfu.
When physical strength is strong, phenomena of inability to adapt to wind, summerheat, cold, dampness, dryness, and fire appear only in the superficial meridians. The operation of the five zang meridians is normal. This is Exterior Syndrome, Shangfeng, Shanghan, Shangshu, Shidu. It is only called "Shang" (Injury) and not "Zhong" (Strike), hence called Ganmao (Common Cold).
When physical strength is weak, the meridians and viscera lack the power to operate against wind, summerheat, cold, dampness, dryness, and fire, resulting in malfunction and cessation of operation of the viscera and meridians. This is called "Zhong" (Strike). The weakening of the body's growth and development ability, and the decline in operational strength, indicates severe disease entering the interior. This is Fengzhong, Shizhong, Shuzhong, Qizhong, Hanzhong, Ezhong, Zuzhong... Named Fengzhong or Lei Fengzhong (Similar Stroke), collectively called Fengzhong.
Stroke is divided into Zhongjing, Zhongluo, Zhongzang, Zhongfu. It is further divided into Bi Zheng (Closed Syndrome) and Tuo Zheng (Collapse Syndrome). Bi Zheng is an excess syndrome of evil; treatment can involve purging or clearing. Tuo Zheng is a deficiency-collapse syndrome requiring warming and tonification.
During stroke, if evil is in the Luo vessels, the skin and muscles are insensible. If evil is in the meridians, heaviness prevents standing. If evil enters the Fu organs, the person does not recognize others. If evil enters the Zang organs, speech is difficult, and saliva is drooled. Yet, the term "Brain Stroke" does not appear.
Stroke is事实上 not a problem of the brain, just as fever is not absurdly caused by the brain's central nervous system losing control of body temperature (see the section on theories of fever).
In fact, the three characters "Brain Stroke" mean scolding someone's brain—meaning thought has stopped functioning or malfunctioned—not a medical term. There is no medical record of "Brain Stroke" in thousands of years of TCM history.
Today, Western medicine does not understand the true meaning of the two characters "Fengzhong" in TCM, steals these two characters, adds the character "Nao" (Brain) unnecessarily, and names it "Brain Stroke," misleading and deceiving patients. (See: The Medical Scam That Harms and Deceives Everyone Worldwide - Hypertension and Diabetes Section).
(II) Classification and Differentiation of Stroke
Ganmao (Common Cold) is Shangfeng, Shanghan, Shangshu, Shidu, Shre... It occurs when the body's viscera and meridians are strong and operate powerfully, allowing the body to self-regulate inappropriate wind, cold, summerheat, dampness, and dryness, expelling them through sweat or urine, or keeping them on the surface unable to invade internally. Thus, it is called Exterior Syndrome or External Fengzhong.
Fengzhong (Stroke) occurs due to the weakness of viscera and meridians, lacking the power to operate against wind, cold, summerheat, dampness, and dryness, causing the body's physiological state to fail like a broken-down car or blocked river channels. Also called Internal Fengzhong, commonly known as Stroke.
Stroke is divided into True Stroke and Similar Stroke.
True Stroke: Sudden collapse upon onset, all due to weak constitution, imbalance of Ying and Wei, Blood and Qi, emotional disturbances (joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, shock), or injury from alcohol, sex, and labor. This causes depletion of True Qi, loose Couli, and wind evil entering through deficiency. There are differences among Zhongfu, Zhongzang, Zhongjing, Zhongluo, Blood Vessel, Qi Deficiency, and Blood Deficiency, and treatments differ. Generally, Zhongfu is easy to treat, Zhongzang is difficult, and some are untreatable.
Similar Stroke: Includes Han Zhong (Cold Strike), Shu Zhong (Heat Strike), Shi Zhong (Damp Strike), Huo Zhong (Fire Strike), Qi Zhong (Qi Strike), Food Syncope, Labor Injury, Sexual Exhaustion, Phlegm Syncope, Blood Fainting, Evil Strike, Sudden Death, etc. There are many types of Similar Stroke, each with its own treatment. One must not treat them as wind diseases; using wind-dispelling herbs would be a great error.
There is abundant literature on acupuncture and herbal treatment experiences of sages for stroke. For detailed differentiation and treatment of stroke phases (Bi Zheng, Tuo Zheng) and post-stroke syndrome regulation, please refer to books such as *Yizong Jinjian* and *Wan Bing Hui Chun* - Stroke Section.
Similar Stroke - Han Zhong, Shu Zhong, Shi Zhong... causing hemiplegia, paralysis... are rarely heard of by non-TCM practitioners. Briefly described below:
Han Zhong (Cold Strike): Refers to sudden cold attack in winter. Cold evil directly enters the Three Yin Meridians. Symptoms include coma, locked jaw, limb spasms, aversion to cold, floating-tight pulse, or drooling. Severe cases have stiff limbs. If not treated urgently, death occurs soon, with short tongue and contracted scrotum. Treatment should warm the middle and dispel cold or use warming moxibustion to heal. Commonly, people say "it's cold, prevent stroke." This "stroke" is actually Han Zhong. Many patients are mistakenly treated as stroke and do not recover.
Shu Zhong (Heat/Summerheat Strike): Moving and getting it is called Zhong Re (Heat Strike); resting and getting it is called Shu Zhong. Refers to sudden intense summer heat causing coma, flaccidity, syncope, opisthotonos, convulsions of hands and feet, vomiting/diarrhea, or dry oppression... This is Shu Feng (Summerheat Wind), not to be treated as wind. Treating summerheat restores flexibility to paralyzed limbs. (See *Wan Bing Hui Chun* Summerheat Section. Commonly, people say "it's hot, prevent stroke." This "stroke" is actually Shu Zhong.)
Shi Zhong (Damp Strike): Mostly caused by Spleen generating phlegm from damp-earth, phlegm generating heat, heat generating wind. Divided into Internal Shi Zhong and External Shi Zhong. When the body is weak, negligence leads to natural occurrence.
External Shi Zhong: Contracting mountain miasma or rain/moisture vapor. Such people suffer particularly when south winds blow, walls/floors are damp, or when traveling through water, lying long on wet ground, or wearing sweaty clothes/shoes. Dampness enters from outside.
Symptoms: Heavy head, dizziness, body and joint pain, soreness/weakness of hands and feet, fatigue and numbness of limbs.
Internal Shi Zhong: Caused by raw/cold food or excessive rich flavors/alcohol stagnation. Spleen deficiency fails to transform and transport. Stagnation in the Sanjiao, pouring into muscles, seeping into skin. Dampness enters from inside.
Dampness injuring Spleen: Swelling, diarrhea, yellow body, choppy pulse.
Dampness injuring Lung: Cough, asthma, body heat, aversion to cold.
Dampness injuring Kidney: Heavy waist and legs, sore joints.
Dampness injuring Liver: Shortened/soft tendons, dim vision, hypochondriac pain.
Dampness entering Fu organs: Numbness and insensibility.
Dampness entering Zang organs: Difficulty bending and stretching.
Phlegm Syncope: Due to internal deficiency and cold, phlegm-Qi blockage. Cold extremities, numbness, dizziness, desire to fall, deep-thin pulse, or pulling pain in chest/back/hands/feet/waist/neck/joints/tendons, moving unpredictably, blocked Qi and pulses, phlegm-saliva above and below chest-diaphragm. Mistaken for paralysis, but it is not.
Qi Zhong (Qi Strike): Excessive seven emotions, Qi reversal causing coma, or tight jaw. Caused by arguing with others, sudden anger causing Qi reversal and fainting. Named Qi Zhong.
Qi pulse is mostly deep; Wind pulse is mostly floating. Wind strike: body warm, with phlegm-saliva. Qi strike: body cold, no phlegm-saliva. Commonly called Qi Syncope or "dying of anger."
Zu Po Jue (Sudden Apoplexy): Due to encountering abnormal Qi. Suddenly cold extremities, goosebumps, blue-black face/head, unsettled spirit, delirious speech, tight teeth, locked jaw, unconscious, dizzy and collapsing. This is Evil Apoplexy, Ke Wu, Flying Corpse, Ghost Strike, mourning visits, temple entries. Many have this disease. Commonly called encountering "God Head."
The above Similar Strokes are all not Stroke, provided for reference only.
Left hemiplegia, right paralysis, hemiplegia, facial deviation, syncope... are caused by faults in the operation of the Five Qi in the body. There are distinctions among Fengzhong, Shizhong, Hanzhong, Shuzhong, Qizhong, Zuzhong... These are issues of meridians and viscera, not the brain.
Liver governs Blood, Lung governs Qi. In the human body, Left is Liver, Right is Lung. Men are Left, Women are Right. Men govern Qi. Male right side Qi is strong, left side Blood is weak. Therefore, males have more left-side hemiplegia than right-side. Left-side hemiplegia is due to Hyperactivity of Liver Yang. Treatment involves Clearing the Liver, which restores hand-foot movement to those with left-side hemiplegia. Recovery effect for male right-side hemiplegia patients is poorer.