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Pattern Names

Tai Yang Disease • 太阳病 • Tài Yáng Bìng

Classification
Category: 6 Channels	Syndrome: Tai Yang Disease

Symptoms
Tongue: FU: purple tongue, bluish-black spots on tongue	Pulse: CHANNEL: Wind Attack (superficial/moderate); Wind Cold (superficial/tight) • FU: Water Retention (superficial/rapid); Blood Retention (deep/knotted/choppy)[Qiao]
Indications: CHANNEL: Wind Attack, 中风 (sweating, aversion to wind, headache, neck and back stiffness, superficial and moderate pulse), Wind Cold Attack, 伤寒 (no sweating, aversion to cold, fever, headache, body ache, joint pain, superficial and tight pulse) • FU: Water Retention, 蓄水 (fever/chills, sweating, edema, urinary difficulty, abdominal fullness and distension, thirst/want drink but vomit after drinking, superficial/rapid pulse), Blood Retention, 蓄血(Fullness in the lower abdomen, normal urination, thirst, restlessness, irritability, manic behavior, night fever, blood in urine, tar like stool, purple tongue, bluish-black spots on tongue, deep/choppy/ knotted pulse) [Qiao]

Keywords

CHANNEL: Wind attack(aversion to wind, fever, sweating, a superficial and moderate pulse); Wind Cold ((chills and fever, no sweating, a superficial and tight pulse ) • FU: Water Retention(chills and fever, difficult urination, superficial pulse); Blood Retention(Normal urination, abnormal pain, tar like stool, a deep or deep and choppy pulse)[Qiao]

Treatment

CHANNEL: Wind Attack (harmonize Ying and Wei systems); Wind Cold (diaphoretic to release exterior) • FU: Water Retention (release exterior, promote urination); Blood Retention (invigorate blood, remove blood stasis, clear heat).[Qiao]

Acupuncture

Herb

CHANNEL: Wind Attack: Gui Zhi Tang(sweating); Wind Cold Attack: Ma Huang Tang(no sweating) • FU: Water Retention: Wu Ling San; Blood Retention: Tao He Cheng Qi Tang

Etiology

Great yang, exuberant of yang qi, govern and contain ying/wei system, dominate body surface, serves as body shield; usually is the first channel attacked by pathogens • CHANNEL: A pattern results from exopathogenic wind cold attack the body surface, lead vital qi battle with exopathogenic factors, cause ying and wei system disharmony. It is the initial stage of the exogenous diseases.) • FU: When taiyang channel pattern are not resolve, the pathogenic factors may follow the channel penetrate into Tai Yang Fu organ, result the bladder not being performed its transform Qi function, causing water retention or Blood accumulation.)[Qiao]

Notes

ZANG FU ID: Wind attack (Wind attack the Lung); Wind Cold (Wind cold invade the Lung); Water Retention(Wind Cold attack the Lung with water retention in the UB); Blood Retention(Wind Cold attack the Lung with blood stagnation in the Lower Jiao) • EIGHT PRINCIPLE: Wind Attack (Exterior cold deficiency); Wind Cold (Exterior cold excess); Water Retention(Exterior Wind Cold with interior water retention. Excess in both exterior and interior); Blood retention (Exterior cold with interior blood retention, excess in both exterior and interior)

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