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In the Gengshen year, I briefly traveled to Xiling and sold medicine at the foot of Gexian Ridge. The green mountains were silent, and the cinnabar furnace was empty and bright; if Zhichuan (Ge Hong) had knowledge, he would surely laugh at my thousand years of futility.
My friend Shouqiao, in his youth, was obsessed with writing ci-fu (rhymed prose), and in his prime, he regretted practicing trivial literary skills. He lived on the third floor of Hongjing Pavilion, facing a bend of Yanhu Lake. On ordinary days, he spread out books to read, and sometimes leaned on an oar to boat. He entrusted himself between "useful and useless," hiding skill beyond the profound mystery. Alas, within a mere thirty li, appreciation and exchange were difficult; those precious words like jade chips and pearl showers were vainly given to the imagery of lingering clouds and falling moon.
At the beginning of the new year, the calls among friends were urgent, so I accompanied two or three old acquaintances to visit Shouqiao in a corner thatched cottage. After the accumulated rain cleared, the courtyard was filled with fresh greenery. After waiting for a long time, the bright moon gradually rose. We then poured osmanthus wine and opened exquisite book volumes, reading them in cycles. It penetrated the heart and spleen, and doubts from half a lifetime were suddenly resolved as ice melting. Oh, how fortunate! Recalling my friendship with Shouqiao, it has been nearly twenty years until now. Counting on fingers, old friends like Mr. Xuequan, Shifan, Ligu, etc., have all turned into other things (passed away). Yet, relying on stories like Jiran's seven prosperities and Shen Yue's one circumference (referring to life experiences), we can still talk about past traces like goose prints on snow mud. Although our temples are still black, gradually turning white like silk, this also shows the longevity of the two of us. Using Bai Mu Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome) and Ling Zhi (Poria) to regulate the body is by no means not a great method of freedom in the human world.
On the auspicious day of the second month, Shouqiao was going to serve as a Guangwen official (academic officer). Clouds emerge from the cave naturally without intent, but the apes and cranes of the old mountain await summoning. Therefore, at the time of the banquet hosted by various elders, I casually wrote down the sentiment of my younger colleague regarding poetry exchange. In the future, when spring breeze and peaches and plums bloom, after packing the medicine basket and retiring from the green shoes (recluse life), I will ask Shouqiao again about the news of Goulou (a place where Ge Hong refined elixirs and became immortal). I wonder if a smile across three lives truly has old affinities?
On the 26th day of the first month of the ninth year of Jiaqing, Shen, younger brother fellow student from Wujiang, bowed and added a postscript.

Rotting throat with rash is very common recently. If untreated in childhood, eight or nine out of ten cases will result in complications. Why? The root lies in smallpox vaccination. Infants nowadays have weak constitutions. To prevent too many spots from erupting, vaccinators use very light vaccine material. There may be dozens of spots, or just a few. However, the toxins of the innate zang-fu organs are not fully expelled. Once exposed to seasonal epidemic pathogens, they take the opportunity to erupt. If treated with cold-cooling agents, the pathogen must sink inward; if treated with exterior-releasing agents, the pathogen has not reached the surface while the root is already disturbed. The toxin accumulates in the throat, leading to ulceration and death. How can the danger be fully described! Reading the *Jin Gui Yao Lue* (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet), there is text stating: "Yang Du disease presents with a red face spotted like brocade patterns, sore throat, and vomiting pus and blood. It is treatable within five days, but untreatable after seven days. Shengma Biejia Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Turtle Shell Decoction) is the main prescription." This uses Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma) to release severe toxins, Biejia (Testudinis Carapax et Plastrum) to drain heat and preserve spirit, Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) to harmonize blood and regulate Ying-nutrient level, and Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) to purge fire and detoxify. This aligns with the principle in *Nei Jing* (Inner Canon): "When heat dominates internally, treat with salty-cold substances, assisted by bitter-sweet ones." Analyzing its meaning, it is indeed similar to this condition. However, the formula contains Shujiao (Sichuan Pepper) and Xionghuang (Realgar), which seem more appropriate for Yin Du formulas. This might be a transcription error. Physicians should ponder calmly, use ancient formulas without being bound by them, and find the turning point through flexible adaptation during clinical practice.
Li Yunpu said: For Rotting Throat Sha (Scarlet Fever-like illness), wind-heat types should be cleared and released; damp-heat types should be cleared and drained; phlegm-fire congealing types should be reduced and descended. Generally, when the pathogen is released, the sha rash emerges; when the sha rash emerges, the rotting stops. If cold-cooling agents are overused, the pathogen will inevitably sink inward, causing significant harm. However, this condition has treatable and untreatable forms. Bad breath indicates "returning yang"; colors ranging from pale yellow to deep yellow are caused by phlegm-fire and are treatable. If rotting extends to the uvula, nasal congestion, and blurry vision, it indicates deep-seated toxic gases and declining Yuan-qi, which are untreatable. White color like parchment skin is also untreatable.
Rotting throat with macules is half due to deficiency of Yuan-qi and abnormality, making one susceptible to seasonal pathogens. Severe cases use Zi Bei Fu Ping (Heterophyllous Water Primrose Herb) and Sheng Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) to release toxins and clear heat. Milder cases should only use Niu Bang Zi (Arctii Fructus), Sang Ye (Mori Folium), Xing Ren (Armeniacae Semen Amarum), Lian Qiao (Forsythiae Fructus), Jie Geng (Platycodonis Radix), Jing Jie (Schizonepetae Spica), Bi Xie (Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma), and Hua Fen (Trichosanthis Radix). These light and clear herbs clear pathogens and transform heat. One must not use Da Sheng Di (Rehmanniae Radix Preparata) or Mai Dong (Ophiopogonis Radix) early to cause cloying, nor absolutely use Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma) or Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix) which are too bitter and cold to suppress the pathogen. Such seasonal diseases progress rapidly and dangerously. One must carefully examine the pulse and observe the complexion to avoid misdiagnosis.
People in the South mostly suffer from warm-heat diseases and rarely true Shanghan (Cold Damage). Treatment cannot generally follow the Six Meridians theory. Shanghan transmits through six days and often has complicated changes. Warm-heat diseases linger in one meridian or enter the Ying-nutrient level. Whether following wind or dampness, one must investigate deeply. Observing the tongue color is particularly crucial. Ye Tianshi's senior work *Wen Re Lun Zhi* (Discussion on Diagnosis and Treatment of Warm-Heat Diseases) expounds previously unexplored ideas and is most essential. Students should follow its principles.
Wherever the pathogen gathers, the Qi must be deficient. Thus it is said: "If you cannot treat the deficiency, how can you ask about the rest?" However, one must not be rigid. Strong individuals, amidst thinking and socializing, may be attacked by licentious evil and thieving winds. Or, relying on strong Spleen, they overeat sweet, fatty, and roasted foods, brewing sticky phlegm and excess fire. In such cases, releasing the exterior and purging the interior is appropriate, just like Liu Hejian's method of eliminating the old and generating the new. What is wrong with that? If one hesitates and treats ineffectively, it will eventually damage healthy Qi. As stated: "Five Deficiencies lead to death, Five Excesses also lead to death." It is also said: "Do not tonify excess, do not reduce deficiency." If one does not distinguish between deficiency and excess and immediately uses tonics, clinging to the theory of supporting righteousness to transform evil, what is the difference from playing a fixed zither?
Malaria without sweat requires inducing sweat, which is correct. But regarding malaria with sweat requiring cessation of sweat, one must also deliberate. Although there are differences between deficiency and excess, the root is always internal storage of Summerheat evil and external binding of Yin evil. Summerheat is Yang evil, and Yang evil causes sweating, so malaria often presents with sweat. How can one early use exterior-consolidating drugs because of excessive sweating, causing the condition to recur? Thus, ancients only said that for chronic malaria, supporting righteousness is primary, never mentioning consolidating the exterior. I believe: if sweat is scant, it is fine to induce sweat again; if sweat is profuse, there is no need to induce sweat again. Treating with light, clear, and harmonizing methods is sufficient. Wei-Yang belongs to Yang, its Qi is fierce, so it moves fast; Ying-Yin belongs to Yin, its Qi is quiet and convergent, so it moves slowly. When Malaria evil attacks, occurring daily or every two days, the evil attaches to the Ying-nutrient level. Like the cycle of heaven, the Sun passes it, the Moon fails to reach it; this is also a division of Yin-Yin slowness and speed.
The method for treating epidemics prioritizes detoxification. Wu Youke specifically used Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) to drive out toxic filth. However, people nowadays have weak constitutions, making aggressive purging difficult. It is better to use Zhang Luyu's method of combining Ren Zhong Huang (Human excrement charred) with Cong Bai (Allii Fistulosi Bulbus) and Chi Dou (Sojae Semen Praeparatum) as a starting detoxifying formula. Ye Tianshi used Jin Yin Hua (Lonicerae Japonicae Flos) and Jin Zhi (Human feces juice) as cooling and resolving agents, which is the most stable. Yu Shi said: "Upper Jiao is like mist, ascend and expel it, assisted by detoxification; Middle Jiao is like fermentation, disperse and expel it, assisted by detoxification; Lower Jiao is like a drain, drain and expel it, assisted by detoxification." Looking at his intent, although the disease has upper, middle, and lower distinctions, he repeatedly emphasizes detoxification. Is this not a method urgent for detoxification?
Epidemics are foul and dirty Qi that infect each other. Wu Shi said: Entering through the mouth and nose, it occupies the Mo Yuan (Membrane Source). Since the mouth and nose inhale, and the Lung is the portal of entry, the Lung is invariably affected first. Epidemics are all Heat-Toxin, which the Metal of Lung fears. Often seeing this condition, fever begins with aversion to cold, indicating the Lung is diseased first. Subsequently, it fills the San Jiao, or goes directly to the Pericardium Meridian. This so-called severe Qi is nothing but stagnant heat. When the epidemic evil gradually resolves but residual heat remains in the Lung, symptoms like coughing, muscle fever, and spontaneous sweating often occur. This is clear evidence that the Lung was diseased first and not yet healed. Nowadays, people often encounter fever after sexual exhaustion and seminal emission, contracting wind-cold, and call it Yin Syndrome. Patients fear deficiency, doctors fear releasing the exterior. Regardless of current symptoms, they blindly use Shen (Ginseng Radix), Di (Rehmanniae Radix), Fu (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata), and Gui (Cinnamomi Ramulus) as harsh warming tonics. This first tonifies and solidifies wind-cold in the Kidney. How can the evil exit? The so-called Yin Syndrome refers to Cold Evil attacking the Three Yin Meridians. Even if it attacks the Kidney Meridian, one must first dispel wind-cold from Shaoyin. As in *Shang Han Lun* (Treatise on Cold Damage), for Shaoyin fever, Ma Huang (Ephedrae Herba) and Xi Xin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma) are still used to release the exterior. If it directly attacks the Three Yin, without high fever, but with aversion to cold, fatigue, lying down, cold extremities, and preference for warmth, one should first use warming dispersion, then gradually use tonification. This principle must be carefully distinguished.
Generally, treating those who eat rich food involves nourishment, while treating those who eat coarse food involves dispersal. However, bodies accustomed to rich food easily generate phlegm accumulation due to heavy flavors, so dispersal is also needed. Bodies accustomed to coarse food easily become thin due to light diet, so nourishment is also suitable. Human nature and physical principles cannot be applied rigidly.
Diseases located below may manifest symptoms above, such as Blood Stasis causing mania. Diseases located above may manifest symptoms below, such as Lung Qi obstruction causing frequent bowel movements; Lung Qi deficiency causing frequent urination. Diseases located in the Exterior may manifest symptoms in the Interior, such as Taiyang, Yangming, and Shaoyang combined disease causing diarrhea. Diseases located in the Interior may manifest symptoms in the Exterior, such as deep heat causing deep cold extremities, or false Yang floating on the face. Treatment requires careful observation.
Wei-Yang is Yang, Wind is Yang evil. Those suffering from Wind Strike have Yang deficiency failing to guard the exterior, attracting similar elements, thus showing Yang-heat symptoms. Treatment should seek the root of the disease, not merely use wind-dispersing drugs, which would further weaken the exterior.
*Shang Han Lun* states: "Those who can eat have Wind Strike; those who cannot eat have Cold Strike." Thus, for Shanghan with internal Wind Strike, eating is not prohibited. It also says: "For those wanting water, give it to them slightly." Generally, excess Fire causing thirst is relieved by water, and cold water is not prohibited. Yet, physicians, encountering such conditions, fear damaging the Stomach and forbid giving water. This contradicts the intent of the sages.
Yin deficiency means Yang has no attachment, Qi rises but does not descend. The method should use Yin-nourishing drugs as the sovereign, and astringent-descending drugs as assistants. If only descending Qi is used, turbidity may not descend, and clarity will follow the deficiency. Yang deficiency means Qi interruption, Qi descends but does not rise. The method should use Middle-Jiao-tonifying drugs as the sovereign, and ascending-lifting drugs as assistants. If only rising Qi is used, clarity may not rise, and turbidity will follow dryness. This is treating Yin-Yang partial deficiency. Besides, if Seven Emotions cause stagnation, or Qi-Blood, Diet, Phlegm obstruct the Middle Jiao, hindering the path of ascent/descent and entry/exit, and the person's Yuan-Qi is not depleted, ascending and descending are permissible. This is the principle of regulating postnatal tangible Qi-Blood. Regarding prenatal Yuan-Yin and Yuan-Yang, Yin deficiency leads to Yang thinning, Yang deficiency leads to Yin overpowering. One must strongly tonify; Yin-Yang has no time for ascent/descent calculations; these are superficial considerations.
Yang deficiency presenting with Yang-heat symptoms indicates True Fire lacking roots and escaping; Yin deficiency presenting with Yang-heat symptoms indicates Yin deficiency leaving Yang unattached; Yang excess presenting with Yin-cold symptoms indicates Yang excess rejecting Yin; Yin excess presenting with Yang-heat symptoms indicates Yin excess repelling Yang. If medication for these four is inappropriate, life and death depend on a flip of the palm.
The Kidney is the gate of the Stomach. Following Yang, it opens; following Yin, it closes. If Yang is too excessive, it opens leading to Xiao (Wasting-Thirst); if Yin is too excessive, it closes leading to Shui (Edema/Water swelling). This is clear. Zhang Zhongjing treated Edema primarily with Shen Qi Wan (Kidney Qi Pill), and also treated Xiao Ke (Wasting-Thirst) similarly. Does this not contradict Yang excess? However, this Xiao is due to Kidney Yang deficiency failing to consolidate; this Ke is due to Kidney Yin deficiency drawing water to save itself. Yu Shi said: Kidney water flows downward, hence Xiao; Kidney Qi fails to ascend, hence Ke. Using this pill to vaporize Kidney Qi might not necessarily be correct.
Most coughs are due to Fire overcoming Metal, called Thief Evil, hardest to cure quickly. Due to external Wind-Cold attack generating internal Excess Fire, immediate purging is needed. If neglected, it transforms into Phlegm over time. Misusing Yin-cooling drugs can lead to Lao Fei (Consumption). If it is Deficient Fire, the only method is strengthening Water (nourishing Yin). However, Yin-nourishing drugs often obstruct Qi and stagnate Phlegm. It depends on the practitioner's flexibility. Formulas like Sheng Mai Liu Jun Tang (Generate Pulse Six Gentlemen Decoction) and Jin Shui Liu Jun Jian (Metal-Water Six Gentlemen Decoction) are most appropriate.
Kidney deficiency causing water flooding as Phlegm includes Kidney Yang deficiency and Kidney Yin deficiency. Yang deficiency causes fluids to overflow, tasteless and foamy; treatment should tonify Qi to generate Yin, so upward flooding can descend. Yin deficiency causes coughing up saliva/phlegm, salty and sticky; treatment should benefit Water to submerge Yang, so coughing can calm. Treatments must not be mixed.
Gu (Drum distension) and Ge (Diaphragmatic obstruction) are difficult diseases. Gu is still treatable; Ge is untreatable. Gu is mostly Excess syndrome, whether Phlegm, Blood, Qi, Food, or Water congealing in the middle. If stagnation is purged first, followed by tonifying Stomach and Intestines, digestion can gradually recover. The Ji Shi Li (Chicken Dropping Wine) formula in *Nei Jing* is this treatment method. When arms become thin, umbilicus protrudes, blue veins surround the abdomen, palms and back are flat and full, Zang-Qi is exhausted, death is inevitable. If Ge syndrome starts with Liver Fire invading Stomach, Wood insulting Earth, it is called Thief Evil. Thus, bodies with inherent Liver Yin deficiency and insufficient fluids experience continuous vomiting/regurgitation, eventually becoming Ge, drying up Stomach juices, blocking with phlegm, unable to swallow food, vomiting it back. This disease is at the贲门 (Cardia), clearly distinct from Fan Wei (Regurgitation), where morning food is vomited at evening, evening food at morning, disease at the幽门 (Pylorus). Classics say: Grain enters the Stomach, transmits to the Lung, and all Zang-Fu receive Qi. Now, since food cannot enter, Zang-Fu Qi is exhausted. Seeing this disease, if some grain can be taken, death occurs within a year; if no grain can be taken, death occurs within half a year. Getting sick in Spring and dying in Autumn, or getting sick in Autumn and dying in Spring, occurs during times when Metal and Water overcome each other.
Heart and Kidney deficiency cause turbid urine; Middle Qi deficiency causes discoloration of urine and stool. Know that Metal decline leads to Water drying; Water drying leads to short, frequent, and turbid urine. Qi deficiency leads to easy stagnation; stagnation generates Heat; Heat generation turns urine yellow-red. Seek the root to treat. If one clings to "turbid urine belongs to Fire" and generally applies diuretic and heat-clearing drugs, it will inevitably worsen the disease.
Hong Kong Foot (Beriberi/Lower limb edema) is mostly due to Damp-Heat, as turbid evil affects the lower part first. Those eating rich food have internal Damp-Heat; those eating coarse food have external Damp-Heat invasion. Treatment should separate and drain Dampness. If Yin deficiency is extreme, unable to inhale Qi to return to Yuan; or Yang deficiency is extreme, unable to control Blood to return to meridians, Yin-Yang imbalance, ascent/descent dysfunction, then Yang floats alone above, Yin sinks alone below, feet swell and hurt by evening. Treatment should tonify Yin and benefit Qi. Do not generally apply diuretics to drain Dampness, which would severely injure Yin-Yang. This requires observing form and pulse to investigate carefully.
There are cases where overthinking damages the Spleen, Spleen deficiency fails to control Blood causing hemorrhage; there are cases where overthinking damages the Spleen, Spleen failure fails to digest Grain causing diarrhea. Hemorrhage must not use Blood-cooling drugs; diarrhea must not use Digestion-promoting drugs, which would further injure Spleen Qi. All should support and nurture Spleen Earth as the root, not merely treat the branch.
*Ping Mai* (Plain Pulse) states: "Shaoyin pulse does not arrive, Kidney Qi is slight and scarce, Essence and Blood rush, Qi is forced and hurried, entering the chest and diaphragm." The Shaoyin pulse not arriving indicates injury to prenatal Yuan-Yang and Yuan-Yin. Kidney is Prenatal; Spleen and Stomach are Postnatal. Once Prenatal is injured, it cannot generate Postnatal, so Spleen-Stomach Yin-Yang are also injured, unable to transform Grain-Water and generate Damp-Heat. Damp-Heat flows downward, Bladder Qi transformation fails, Turbid Qi ascends. Turbid Qi ascending blocks Lung Qi, stagnates Spleen Qi, forming Phlegm and Fluid, manifesting as Food Stagnation and Abdominal Distension. Shaoyang generating Qi is depressed and cannot rise, causing whole-body stabbing pain, vomiting, and acid regurgitation. Heart Master Yang is attacked by Turbid Yin, causing palpitations and anxiety. Thus, one Zang organ (Kidney) makes all Five Zang and Six Fu organs restless. Hence, nurturing life is best achieved by restraining desires. If one does not know this and only treats with Qi-moving, Phlegm-resolving, and Food-digesting methods, drying harms Yin, draining harms Yang, leading to distress. This speaks specifically of Kidney deficiency.
"All pains have no tonification," referring to Qi rebellion and stagnation. However, the strong recover when Qi moves; the weak develop disease when evil adheres. Those with deficient genuine Qi easily allow evils to adhere. Adherence causes rebellion, rebellion causes pain. In clearing and sweeping, tonifying substances are necessary. Merely attacking makes Zheng (Righteous Qi) more deficient, Xie (Evil) more adherent, and pain endless. So, Spleen-Stomach fluid loss, burning dryness like cutting, should use Di Huang (Rehmanniae Radix) to nourish Yin and moisten. Pulse Yang rough, Yin stringy, abdominal acute pain, should use Xiao Jian Zhong Tang (Minor Construct the Middle Decoction). Liver Blood deficiency, hypochondriac fullness, tendon tightness preventing deep sighing, cold extremities, heart-abdominal radiating pain, unclear vision, withered nails, blue face, should use Bu Gan Tang (Tonify Liver Decoction). Kidney-deficient and frail individuals, excessive sexual activity, often have hidden pain in chest-diaphragm. This is due to Kidney deficiency failing to constrain Qi, Qi deficiency failing to generate Blood, often stagnating and causing pain. Use Po Gu Zhi (Psoraleae Fructus), Yu Rou (Corni Fructus), Gou Qi (Lycii Fructus) to warm Kidney, Gui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Shao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) to nourish Blood. As for headache, whether Qi deficiency, Blood deficiency, or Kidney deficiency, tonification is indispensable.
Wind-Warmth and Warm-Malaria diseases originate in winter, struck by Wind-Cold, erupting upon warmth. Their Qi reaches from inside to outside, hence often sweating. This differs from Wind evil externally binding, closing Ying-Wei, requiring sweating and muscle-releasing. Thus, treatment using exterior-release is contrary, nor should one stop sweating due to existing sweat, causing other diseases. Strive for proper clearing and resolving.
Regarding Hematemesis (vomiting blood), Mi Shi said: There are three keys to treatment. Promote Blood circulation, do not stop bleeding. Blood not following meridians is due to Qi rebellion and congestion upstream. Promoting circulation allows blood to follow meridians, stopping bleeding naturally. Using hard-stopping agents causes blood coagulation; coagulated blood causes fever and aversion to food, making the disease chronic. Tonify Liver, do not attack Liver. Liver stores Blood; vomiting indicates Liver losing its function. Nourishing Liver calms Liver Qi and gives Blood a home. Attacking Liver makes Liver more deficient and bleeding worse. Descend Qi, do not descend Fire. Excess Qi becomes Fire. Descending Qi descends Fire; descending Fire prevents Qi from rising, so Blood follows Qi without overflowing upper orifices. Descending Fire first requires cold-cooling agents, which damage Stomach Qi. Damaged Stomach Qi means Spleen cannot control, and Blood returns to meridians even less. Blood floating in water indicates Lung Blood; sinking indicates Liver Blood; semi-floating/sinking indicates Heart Blood; red like sun indicates Kidney Blood. Lung Blood should protect Lung, not purge Lung; Liver Blood should nourish Liver, not attack Liver; Heart Blood should tonify Heart, not purge Heart; Kidney Blood should nourish Kidney, not cool Kidney. If prolonged bleeding causes severe Blood deficiency, use warming tonics to strengthen Spleen-Stomach, so harmonious Spleen can contain Blood. If sudden violent bleeding continues, urgently use large doses of Shen (Ginseng Radix) and Zhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) to urgently secure Yuan-Yang. Blood loss benefits Qi; Yang generation leads to Yin growth. If solely using Sheng Di (Rehmanniae Radix Preparata), Ling (Poria), Lian (Scutellariae Radix), Zhi (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma), Bai (Phellodendri Cortex), Hei Zhi (Charred Gardenia Fruit), cold-cooling and cloying substances to clear Fire, Spleen injury causes diarrhea, fever, and cough, inevitably leading to untreatable conditions.
Pediatric Jing (Convulsion) syndrome, since Yu Shi named it with Food, Phlegm, Wind, and Jing, greatly exposing previous errors, originally a correct theory, yet also incomplete. Recently, winter warmth leads to loss of storage; spring brings mixed cold and warmth. Children inhale this evil, first injuring Lung Meridian, starting with cold and fever, rough breathing prolonging, gradually entering Pericardium. Although slight sweat exists, there is much phlegm, nasal flaring, irritability, and coma. Families panic, claiming it turns into Jing Feng (Convulsive Wind). They use aromatic opening agents and recklessly administer metallic/mineral substances.