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The *Classic of Medicine* states: The Gallbladder is a middle-clear organ, known as the "General," from which decision-making arises. It can regulate joy, anger, rigidity, and softness, and stands in exterior-interior relationship with the Liver; the Foot-Shaoyang (Lesser Yang) Meridian is its channel. When deficient, it is susceptible to cold pathogens, manifesting as fear, aversion to cold, dizziness, and inability to lie down alone; when excess, it is susceptible to heat pathogens, manifesting as palpitations, mental restlessness, inability to maintain spiritual focus, restless sitting and lying, onset of edema (Xuan Shui), with the root of the disease in the Gallbladder. Furthermore, if Liver-cough persists, pathogenic factors transmit into the Gallbladder, causing vomiting of green bile. Additionally, if water retention exists in the Gallbladder, swelling occurs from head to foot. Disease of the Gallbladder manifests as frequent sighing, bitter taste in the mouth, vomiting of retained fluids, a sense of inner apprehension and fear as if being hunted, and a sensation of obstruction in the throat with frequent spitting. Moreover, pain may occur under the hypochondrium during sleep, accompanied by bitter taste and frequent sighing. When pathogenic factors lodge in the Gallbladder, dreams of fighting and litigation occur. The pulse located at the left Guan position, felt upon superficial palpation, indicates this region. Gallbladder excess-heat leads to loss of mental focus. Gallbladder heat tends to cause swelling, while Gallbladder cold tends to cause somnolence. Furthermore, a weak Yang pulse at the left Guan position indicates Gallbladder deficiency; a rapid Yang pulse indicates Gallbladder excess; a depleted Yang pulse indicates Gallbladder exhaustion. The above constitute the methods for determining pulse and symptom patterns regarding deficiency, excess, cold, heat, life, and death.

The *Zhu Zhi Bei Yao* states: When the meridian undergoes change, disease manifests as bitter taste, frequent sighing, chest and hypochondriac pain, inability to turn the body, and in severe cases, a dusty complexion, lack of luster in the body, and reversed heat in the lateral aspect of the foot, termed Yang Jue (Yang Reversal). Diseases primarily governed by the Gallbladder include headache, submandibular swelling, pain at the outer canthus of the eye, swelling in the supraclavicular fossa, axillary swelling, Hashimoto's neck (Ma Dao Jia Ying - referring to scrofula or lymphadenopathy associated with thyroid enlargement), sweating with chills, malaria, and pain in the chest, ribs, hypochondrium, thigh, knee, extending outward to the tibia, Juegu point, anterior to the lateral malleolus, and all joints. The *Mai Jue* states: The left Guan position is where the pulses of the Liver and Gallbladder originate. First, using light pressure reveals the Gallbladder pulse, belonging to the Exterior; subsequently, using heavy pressure reveals the Liver pulse, belonging to the Interior. The Liver governs tendons, and the Liver meridian circulates along the channels. In pulse diagnosis, applying pressure equivalent to twelve beans, pressing until level with the tendons, if the vessel feels tight like a zither string, it is a Xian (Wiry) pulse; if the vessel feels long and continuous, it is a Chang (Long) pulse. This Wiry and Long quality represents the state of a healthy Liver. The primary location of the Liver pulse is at the tendons; if the pulse appears above the tendons, visible between the skin and blood vessels, it is Fu (Superficial); if it sinks below the tendons, visible above the bone, it is Chen (Deep). One must carefully deduce these principles when treating patients, which is the way to infer ten things from one example.