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When the Five Zang Organs are invaded by pathogens, each manifests as body heat, but the presentations vary. There are three methods for palpation: if heat is felt with light touch but not with heavy pressure, it indicates Lung Heat (Fei Re).

Lung Heat is detected by light palpation; slight pressure makes the heat disappear. The heat appears superficially on the skin and hair, worsening in the late afternoon (Ri Xi), representing heat at the level of the skin and hair.

Regarding Heart Heat (Xin Re), since the Heart governs blood vessels, slight pressure to the area below the skin and above the muscle allows detection with light touch; pressing slightly below the skin reveals heat, which intensifies with added force.

Spleen Heat (Pi Re) is not felt with light touch nor with deep pressure to the bones and sinews; the heat lies between light and heavy pressure, located in the muscle layer.

Liver Heat (Gan Re) is felt only when pressing deeply below the muscle and above the bone, worsening during the Yin and Mao hours (3:00-7:00 AM). The pulse is Wiry (Xian), accompanied by fullness and stuffiness in the four limbs and difficult defecation.

Kidney Heat (Shen Re) is not felt with light or heavy touch; only when pressing deeply to the bone level is a steaming heat like fire felt. The patient experiences bone soreness as if bitten by insects, with a sense of bone fatigue and heat.

The Liver stores Hun (Ethereal Soul), referred to as the "Minister Official." Hun refers to the spiritual activity that accompanies the Shen (Spirit); it is the essence stored in the Liver. The eyes are the opening of the Liver; Liver Qi connects to the eyes, and when harmonized, vision is clear... [Text missing].

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When people sleep, blood returns to the Liver. When the Liver receives blood, one can see; when the feet receive blood, one can walk; when the palms receive blood, one can grasp; when the fingers receive blood, one can hold.

The Liver belongs to Wood and pairs with the Gallbladder as its Fu organ. Its meridian is the Foot Jueyin, exterior-interior related to the Foot Shaoyang. Its pulse is Wiry, corresponding to the storage energy of Winter, and flourishing in Spring. In Spring, all things... [Text missing].

The Spring pulse is Wiry because Spring corresponds to the Liver, the East belongs to Wood, and it is the time when all things begin to grow. Thus, the Qi of Spring arrives soft, weak, light, void, smooth, straight, and long. This is called... [Text missing].

A complexion that is cyan-white and lusterless, with broken fingers, indicates death. A Spring pulse with a slight Wiry quality containing Stomach Qi is considered Normal (Ping); excessive Wiry with insufficient Stomach Qi indicates Liver Disease; a Wiry pulse without Stomach Qi indicates Death. If the pulse carries Hair-like qualities (Autumn pulse), disease will manifest in Autumn; if Hair qualities are severe, disease manifests immediately.

The Liver stores Blood, and Blood houses Hun. Sorrow moving within harms Hun. If Hun is harmed, madness occurs, essence fails to guard, leading to genital retraction and tendon contraction, with pain in the two hypochondriac regions... [Text missing].

When the Foot Jueyin meridian Qi perishes, tendons contract pulling the testicles and tongue. Jueyin is the Liver meridian; the Liver is the convergence of tendons, which gather at the genitalia and connect to the tongue... [Text missing].

The dead organ pulse of the Liver is floating and weak, feeling hard like a cord upon pressing, with irregular or curved flow, resembling a snake crawling; this indicates death. In Spring, when Liver Wood flourishes, a Wiry, thin, and long pulse is Normal.

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Due to blood stasis remaining under the hypochondrium, causing wheezing and counterflow qi. If wheezing is accompanied by a scattered and lusterless complexion, it should be treated as Overflowing Drink (Yi Yin). Overflowing Drink refers to... [Text missing].

Sudden excessive drinking causes fluid to overflow into the space outside the skin, muscles, and intestines/stomach. When the Cyan pulse arrives, it is long and flicks left and right, indicating accumulated Qi under the heart, named Liver... [Text missing].

Bian Que said: When the Liver has disease, the eyes lose brilliance (Mu Duo Jing); deficiency leads to cold, where Yin Qi becomes strong, dreaming of mountains and trees; excess leads to strong Yang Qi, dreaming of anger... [Text missing].

Color corresponds to Spring; diseases manifesting in color are treated using Ying (Spring) points.

Diseases originating in the Liver first cause dizziness, vertigo, hypochondriac pain, and distension; after one day, it transmits to the Spleen, causing blockage, body pain, and heaviness; after two days, to the Stomach, causing abdominal distension; after three days, to the Kidney, causing lower abdominal, lumbar, and spinal pain, and neck stiffness. If not cured in ten days, death ensues. If onset occurs before sunset in Winter or before morning meal in Summer... [Text missing].

Disease in the Liver improves at dawn (Hui), worsens in the afternoon (Shen/You hours), and calms at midnight (Jing).

If Liver disease moves westward, triggered by eating chicken, it will manifest in Autumn, specifically on Geng-Shen days. If there is a bloody death in the house, and a woman sees it... [Text missing].

Generally, Liver disease presents with pain in both hypochondria radiating to the lower abdomen, irritability, and anger. Deficiency causes blurred vision, deafness, fearfulness, as if being chased... [Text missing].

The Liver pulse is urgent on deep palpation and similarly so on superficial palpation. Symptoms include hypochondriac pain, Qi distension, radiation to lower abdomen, occasional difficulty urinating, dizziness, headache, lumbar/spinal pain, cold feet, occasional strangury, and amenorrhea or irregular menstruation in women. These often originate from falls or trauma in youth.

Liver disease presents with a cyan complexion, spasticity of hands and feet, hypochondriac fullness, occasional vertigo. A Wiry and long pulse indicates treatability. Suitable formulas include Fangfeng Zhuli Tang (Saposhnikovia and Bamboo Juice Decoction) and Qinjiao San (Gentiana Macrophylla Powder)... [Text missing].

Pathogen in the Liver causes hypochondriac pain, cold/evil invasion, internal blood stasis, spasms during walking, and intermittent swelling. Treat by needling Xingjian (LR2) to guide Qi from the hypochondrium, and tonifying Zusanli (ST36)... [Text missing].

Any fall or trauma leaving evil blood inside, combined with great anger causing Qi to rise but not descend, accumulating in the left hypochondrium, damages the Liver.

Liver Wind Invasion causes head/eye... [Text missing], hypochondriac pain, habitual stooping, craving for sweets, resembling pregnancy... [Text missing].

Liver Cold Invasion causes shivering chills, low-grade fever, facial redness... [Text missing], sweating, chest irritability.

Liver Cold Invasion causes inability to raise arms, dry tongue root, frequent sighing, chest pain, inability to turn sides, night sweats, cough, and regurgitation after eating... [Text missing].

Liver Injury causes emaciation, open-mouth sleeping, cyan hands/feet, eye dimness, and pupil pain, caused by damage to the Liver store.

Liver Water Disease presents with abdominal distension preventing turning, hypochondriac/abdominal pain, slight saliva production, and intermittent urination. Liver Distension presents with hypochondriac fullness... [Text missing].

Liver Fixation (Gan Zhuo) causes patients to desire having their chest stepped on; initially, they crave hot drinks.

Diagnosing Liver Accumulation shows a Wiry and fine pulse, hypochondriac pain, Qi moving to the epigastrium, cold calves, hypochondriac pain radiating to lower abdomen, hernia in men, and leukorrhea/dysuria in women... [Text missing].

Liver Disease presents with chest fullness, hypochondriac distension, anger/shouting, alternating fever/chills, limb paralysis, pale face, slippery body texture, and a Wiry-long pulse... [Text missing].

Individuals associated with the Jue (Ang) tone correspond to Liver sound. The Liver sound is calling, its pitch resembles the qin/zither, its emotion is anger, its meridian is Foot Jueyin. Jueyin reversing Shaoyang causes Wei and Ying obstruction... [Text missing].

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Cyan corresponds to the Liver, which governs tendons. Cyan like a kingfisher feather is auspicious. The Liver opens to the eyes, which are the surplus of the Liver. The person has a Wood constitution, compared to the Upper Horn shape, with a dark complexion, small head, long face, broad shoulders/back, straight body, small hands/feet, talent, mental labor preference, low physical strength, worry-prone, tire easily, tolerates Spring/Summer but not Autumn/Winter, getting sick from Autumn/Winter pathogens. Foot Jueyin pulse is Tuotuo Ran, wide hypochondrium, firm/crisp/upright indicates Liver correspondence, true Cyan. Fine texture indicates small Liver, stable, no hypochondriac disease; coarse texture indicates large Liver, deficient, cold pressing stomach/throat, epigastric/hypochondriac pain. Broad chest reverse... [Text missing] indicates high Liver, excess, Liver heat, supporting Feimen compressing hypochondrium, forming Xiben disease. He Xie Tu... [Text missing] indicates low Liver, pressing stomach, empty hypochondrium, susceptible to pathogen. Firm hypochondrial bones indicate firm Liver, stable/hard to injure; weak bones indicate brittle Liver, prone to Xiao Dan disease/injury. Good chest/abdomen alignment indicates upright Liver, harmonious/hard to injure; tilted hypochondrial bones indicate tilted Liver, unilateral hypochondriac pain. Depressions/elevations indicate disease. Gallbladder Shaoyang is the external department of the Liver, Qi connects internally and responds externally. Turbid/deep is internal, clear/floating is external. Color moving out-to-in means external disease arising, elevation; color moving in-to-out means internal disease arising, depression. Internal disease treats Yin first, Yang later; External disease treats Yang first, Yin later. Yang governs external, Yin governs internal. Life/death depends on Zang Shen deforming externally first. Pre-Liver disease, eyes lose color; pre-death, eyes lose essence. If Tianzhong midpoint color matches, death is certain/un-treatable. Adjust observations. Slow progression: death within 400 days; fast: within weeks/months. Liver disease slightly improving then sudden death: how to know? Cyan-white spot thumb-sized on cheeks indicates sudden death. Liver exhaustion dies in 8 days: how to know? Face cyan, eyes red, desire to lie prone, unable to see people, profuse sweating, dies in 1-2 days. Face black, eyes cyan: survival. Cyan like grass sprouts: death. Auspicious/inauspicious colors depend on sector alignment. Smooth appearance of cyan-white entering eyes indicates disease within the year. If not aligned with age, disaster in 3 years. Spring Wood/Liver, pulse/color cyan, governs Foot Shaoyang pulse. Spring takes Luo Mai and Fen Rou. Spring is Wood governing, Liver Qi generating. Liver Qi urgent, wind fast... [Text missing].

Qi is insufficient to penetrate deep, so take Luo Mai Fen Rou Qi. Pulse roots are in Qiaoyin, responding to Chuanglong (ear)... [Text missing].

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The three months of Spring govern Liver/Gallbladder Qing Jin Qian diseases. Origin from Shaoyin, involving Shaoyang Qi onset, Shaoyin Qi decline, Yin-Yang stagnation... [Text missing].

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Damaged by Yang Du, cold then heat, neck double tendons pulled, immobility, stiff neck/back, eye... [Text missing].

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Bian Que said: Moxibustion on Liver and Lung two acupoints treats Dan Du Qian Bing. Treat according to source, regulate Yang, reason Yin, Zang-Fu diseases will not arise.