Lily disease, Fox bewitching syndrome, Yin and Yang toxin syndrome:an introduction.
Lily disease,Fox bewitching syndrome,Yin and Yang toxin syndrome.
✵Lily disease, Fox bewitching syndrome, Yin and Yang toxin syndrome: The Lily disease is an ancient term with mental strain, listlessness, sleeplessness, anorexia, sham heat, and sham cold, bitterness in the mouth, yellow urine, rapid pulse, etc. It is so called because it can be effectively treated by administering Bulbus Lilii. Fox bewitching or throat-anus-genital syndrome is an ancient term for a disease resembling Behcet's syndrome. Yin and Yang toxin syndrome is two kinds of diseases known as Yin toxin syndrome and Yang toxin syndrome.
✵Herbalist Zhang Zhongjing defined the Lily disease in about 7 syndromes, defined Fox bewitching syndrome in 1 syndrome, defined the Yin and Yang toxin syndrome in 2 syndromes. These syndromes are all defined in details by his famous works:
Lily disease.
✦The Lily disease, various pulse manifestation all might lead to its condition. Desire to take food, but could not take food(have no appetite), always in silence, want to sleep but could not sleep, want to walk but could not walk, sometimes appetite good, sometimes do not want to smell the food, looks like cold but no cold, looks like fever but no fever, bitterness in mouth, red urine, various recipes could not treat it, once take decoctions will vomiting and diarrhea violently, seems there are spirits and supernatural things around, in case body shape harmonized, pulse slight rapid. Cases headache when passing urine, will be relieved in sixty days; cases no headache when passing urine, will be relieved in forty days; cases dizziness when passing urine, will be relieved in twenty days. Its symptoms might be observed before the syndrome attacks, or might be observed in four to five days after the syndrome attacks, or might be observed in twenty days or a month, according to its symptoms, treat with methods accordingly.
✦Lily disease, observed after perspiration, use...
✦Lily disease, observed after purgative method used(after diarrhea), use...
✦Lily disease, observed after vomiting, use...
✦Lily disease, not ever induced perspiration, emetic method or purgative method, its symptoms is as original, use...
✦Lily disease, cases not relieved in a month, tranmitted into thirst syndrome, use...Cases not relieved, use...
✦Lily disease, cases tranmitted into fever, use...
✦Lily disease, cases observed in Yin, save with Yang method; cases observed in Yang, save with Yin method. Cases observed in Yang and attack Yin, induced perspiration again, this is the case of reverse syndrome(syndrome with unfavorable prognosis); Cases observed in Yin and attack Yang, used purgative method again, this is also the case of reverse syndrome(syndrome with unfavorable prognosis).
Fox bewitching syndrome.
✦The Fox bewitching syndrome, its symptoms is similar to the cold-induced disease, silent and want to sleep, eyes could not be closed, uneasy in sleep or wake up. Cases attack the throat is the case of bewitching, cases attack the genital region is the case of Fox. Not desire to take food(no appetite), dislike food smells, complexion varies, suddenly red face, suddenly black face, suddenly white face. Cases attack the upper part lead to deaf and loss of voice, use...Cases attack the lower part observed dry throat, use...Cases attack the anus, fumigate with realgar.
✦Cases pulse rapid, no fever, slightly vexed, silent but want to sleep, sweating. In the initial stage three to four days, red eyes look like the eyes of turtledove; till the seven to eight days, four angles of eye turn black. In cases could take food(have some appetite), pus already formed, use...
Yin and Yang toxin syndrome.
✦The Yang toxin syndrome, complexion red with flecks and looks like damask patterns, pain in throat, spit pus and blood. Cases in five days could be treated, cases seven days could not be treated. use...
✦ The Yin toxin syndrome, complexion cyanotic and blue eyes, body pain as being caning, pain in the throat. Cases in five days could be treated, cases seven days could not be treated. use...
References:
1.Lily disease, Fox bewitching syndrome, Yin and Yang toxin syndrome:an introduction.
2.Shang Han Za Bing Lun:the Treatise on Cold-induced and Miscellaneous Diseases.By Zhāng Zhòngjǐng.
3.Jin Kui Yao Lue Fang Lun:the Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber.By Zhāng Zhòngjǐng,Wáng Shūhé,Lín Yì,Gāo Bǎohéng.
4.Zhong Jing Quan Shu:the Complete Book of Zhongjing.By Zhào Kāiměi.
✵Lily disease, Fox bewitching syndrome, Yin and Yang toxin syndrome: The Lily disease is an ancient term with mental strain, listlessness, sleeplessness, anorexia, sham heat, and sham cold, bitterness in the mouth, yellow urine, rapid pulse, etc. It is so called because it can be effectively treated by administering Bulbus Lilii. Fox bewitching or throat-anus-genital syndrome is an ancient term for a disease resembling Behcet's syndrome. Yin and Yang toxin syndrome is two kinds of diseases known as Yin toxin syndrome and Yang toxin syndrome.
