✵Blood-arthralgia, Consumptive Disease: The Blood-arthralgia is a disease caused by the deficiency of blood and Qi, sleep in wind, or wind caused in sweating due to taxation and result in obstacle of Qi and blood. The consumptive disease is a disease characterized by consumption, either infectious or non-infectious, the latter also known as consumption, the former also known as phthisis.
✵Herbalist Zhang Zhongjing discussed the Blood-arthralgia in about 2 entries, discussed the Consumptive Disease in about 14 entries. These syndromes are all defined in details by his famous works.
Blood-arthralgia.
[entry-01]. Asked: the disease of blood-arthralgia, how it developed? Master: those high-fed persons of obesity, weak in bones and flourishing in muscle and skin, for the reasons tiredness and perspiration again, shaking in sleep at times, blown by small wind (breeze), so one catch this disease. For the cunkou pulse slightly choppy (uneven), the guan pulse is small and tense, better apply acupuncture to guide Yang Qi, let pulse harmonized (normalized), when tense pulse disappears, and it will get relieved.
[entry-02]. Blood-arthralgia (blood impediment), faint in both Yin and Yang pulse, or cunkou pulse and guan pulse are faint, chizhong pulse is small and tense, exterior syndrome observed are numbness in body, symptoms similar to wind arthralgia (wind impediment), ...
Consumptive Disease.
[entry-01]. Normal man (healthy man), the pulse is large, it is known as consumptive disease (consumption), great asthenia syndrome is also known as consumptive disease (consumption).
[entry-02]. Man whose complexion is pale and lusterless face (looks white face, and lusterless complexion), main syndromes are thirst and loss of blood (blood collapse). Sudden panting and palpitation (sudden dyspnea and palpitation), the pulse is floating, it is the deficiency in the interior.
[entry-03]. Man whose pulse is empty, sunken and wiry (string-like), no coldness or fever, shortness of breath and abdominal urgency (abdominal pain, contraction of genital organ), inhibited urination (difficult urination), looks pale (complexion is pale while), close eyes and nose bleeding (epistaxis, or bleeding from five aperture or subcutaneous tissue) now and then, fullness of the lower abdomen, this syndrome and its symptoms are because of consumptive disease (consumption).
[entry-04]. Consumptive disease (consumption), its pulse manifestation is floating and large, vexation in hands and feet (restless fever of hands and feet, in palms and soles), turns severe in spring and summer, recovers some level in autumn and winter, coldness of the genitals (genital cold) and essence come out itself (seminal losses), aching pain, thinning and soreness of legs and feet, thus could not walk a long way.
[entry-05]. The pulse of man is floating, weak and choppy (uneven), is the syndrome of infertility, essence and Qi is clear and cold.
[entry-06]. The case that seminal losses, the Shaoyin pulse is wiry and tense, cold in the glans penis, giddiness (giddy, dim eyesight), hair loss (alopecia). If the pulse is extremely empty (feeble) and hollow and slow, will observe symptoms diarrhea with clear grains (pass undigested food with diarrhea), loss of blood (blood collapse), seminal losses;If the pulse is empty, throbbing, slightly tense, then man suffers from seminal loss, woman suffers from dreamed coitus (dreaming of sexual intercourse)...
[entry-07]. In healthy man, the pulse is empty, weak, thready (thin) and faint, is the syndrome that often suffers from night sweat (perspiring during sleep).
[entry-08]. One's age is in fifty or sixty years old, the pulse is large, suffers from arthralgia-synadrome along the back; If there is rumbling sound (borborygmus, bowel sounds), sabre-beadstring scrofulae, all because of the consumptive disease (consumption). If the pulse is small, sunken and slow (deep and slow), suffers from Tuō Qì (Qi prostration), panting and thirst if walks fast; If in the case that reverse cold in hands and feet (Jue), is also because of the consumptive disease (consumption).
[entry-09]. Consumptive disease, abdominal pain (contraction of genital organ), palpitation, nose bleeding (epistaxis, or bleeding from five aperture or subcutaneous tissue), pain in abdomen (abdominal pain), seminal losses in dream (nocturnal emission), aching pain in limbs (aching pain and soreness in arms and hands, legs and feet), dysphoria in hands and feet (vexation heat in hands and feet, palms and soles), dryness in throat (dry pharynx) and dry mouth (mouth parched), ...
[entry-10]. Consumptive disease, abdominal urgency (abdominal pain, contraction of genital organ), various deficiencies, ...
[entry-11]. Consumptive disease, backache (low back pain, lumbago), cramping sensation of the lower abdomen (spasm in the lower abdomen), inhibited urination (difficult urination), ...
[entry-12]. Consumptive disease, dysphoria (vacuity vexation, restlessness due to deficiency) and insomnia (sleeplessness), ...
[entry-13]. Five kinds of consumptive diseases (consumption of the lung, liver, heart, spleen, and kidney), extremely asthenia or extremely deficiency and emaciated, abdominal distention (fullness in abdomen) and no appetite (could not take food), dyspepsia (indigestion caused by improper diet or overeating), grief (sorrow, sadness), drinking impairment (hurt from drinking wine), sexual strain (sexual taxation, exhaustion due to sexual indulgence), hunger injury (hurt from hunger), taxation damage (internal lesion caused by overexertion), Qi exhaustion in channels and collaterals and exhaustion of Ying Qi and Wei Qi (nutritive Qi and defensive Qi), dry blood stasis in the interior, scaly dry skin (squamous and dry skin), blackish eyelids of two eyes, should relieve the middle energizer and replenish the deficiency, ...
[entry-14]. Woman consumptive disease (woman consumption), urinary bladder urgency, distension of lower abdomen (fullness in lower abdomen), yellowing of the whole body, black on the forehead, heat on the underside of the feet, distention in the abdomen and looks like edema, loose and black stool (sloppy stool and black stool), abdominal distention (fullness in the abdomen), it is difficult to treat....(excrement is black, urine is yellow, are its symptoms).
✵Blood-arthralgia, Consumptive Disease: The Blood-arthralgia is a disease caused by the deficiency of blood and Qi, sleep in wind, or wind caused in sweating due to taxation and result in obstacle of Qi and blood. The consumptive disease is a disease characterized by consumption, either infectious or non-infectious, the latter also known as consumption, the former also known as phthisis.
