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waist as if girthed with rope

The sensation that the waist is bound tight with a cord or rope. Waist as if girthed with rope is attributable to disease of the girdling vessel or to liver channel damp-heat.

walking bone

Synonyms: crane's-knee wind.

The larger of the two bones of the lower leg.

wandering knee wind

Synonyms: red and white wandering wind.

wandering wind

warm

Mildly hot. Of a nature tending to create mild heat. See four qi. Of a nature tending to create heat~effusion. See warm disease. (In physiology) to keep warm. (Through treatment) to restore warmth to. See warming.

warm acrid exterior resolution

warm disease

Any of various heat (febrile) diseases characterized by rapid onset and shifts, pronounced heat signs, and a tendency to form dryness and damage yin. The concept of warm disease was first mentioned in The Inner Canon. For example, Elementary Questions states, ``Damage by cold in winter necessarily engenders warm disease in the spring.'' Zhang Ji (Zhong-Jing) of the Han Dynasty in On Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases mentions warm disease, stating, for example, ``Greater yang disease with heat~effusion and cough and without aversion to cold is warm disease. If sweating is applied, and there is generalized heat~effusion, this is wind warmth.'' However, the concept of warm disease was not central to his systematic presentation of externally contracted disease which placed the emphasis on wind and cold as the major causes of these diseases. Zhang Ji's theories centuries after in the Sung Dynasty were to become the focus of the cold damage school, whereas the concept of warm disease was to become the focus of a rival school, the warm disease school. In the Sui-Tang Period, The Origin and Indicators of Disease mentions warm diseases, their causes, patterns, and major principles of treatment. Successive generations of doctors wrote about warm disease, and in the Ming Dynasty writings on the subject became more prolific. This development is attributable on the one hand to the opening up of the south of China where febrile diseases tended to be of a different nature than in the north, and on the other to pestilences arising as a result of wars. In this period, Wu You-Xing in On Warm Epidemics explained in detail the laws governing the origin, development and pattern identification of warm epidemics. Notably, he posed the etiological notion of a contagious perverse qi ( li4 qi4). This notion represented a break away from the traditional conception of febrile diseases being caused by climatic influences (e.g., the wind and cold of the cold damage school), and made a great contribution to the foundation of the doctrine of warm diseases that developed later. In the Qing Dynasty, a comprehensive doctrine of warm diseases began to emerge. Ye Tian-Shi, in On Warm Heat, introduced the four-aspect (construction, qi, construction, and blood) pattern identification system. Xue Xue, in Systematized Identification of Damp-Heat, described in detail damp-heat disease patterns. Wu Ju-Tong, in Systematized Identification of Warm Diseases, posed the notion of triple-burner pattern identification in the treatment of warm and damp-heat diseases. Finally, Wang Shi-Xiong, in Warp and Weft of Warm Heat, brought together all the theories of his predecessors in a complete doctrine of warm diseases. The doctrine of warm diseases considers warm disease to embrace all externally contracted heat (febrile) diseases. All such diseases have heat as a common feature and consequently they show a tendency toward dryness formation and a resultant damage to yin. Although the doctrine identifies many different diseases, the major classifications are wind warmth, damp warmth, and warm heat. (1) Wind warmth is characterized by heat~effusion, and signs of exuberant lung or stomach heat such as cough, rapid breathing, flaring nostrils, and thirst. (2) Damp warmth is characterized by persistent heat~effusion and signs of obstruction and stagnation caused by dampness, such as oppression in the chest, nausea, diminished appetite, abdominal distention, constipation or diarrhea, and slimy tongue fur. (3) Warm heat is characterized by high fever, red complexion, thirst, maculopapular eruptions, heart vexation and, in severe cases, clouded spirit. Defense, qi, construction, and blood are the four aspects used for identification and treatment of warm disease patterns. They are used to explain the origin and development of externally contracted heat (febrile) diseases; like the six channels of the doctrine of cold damage, they explain the degree of penetration, severity, and acuteness of diseases. In On Warm Heat, Ye Tian-Shi states, ``The general conception of the doctrine of warm diseases is that qi comes after defense and that blood comes after construction. When disease affects defense, sweating can be administered. Only when it reaches the qi aspect can qi-clearing treatment be prescribed. When it enters construction, treatment involves outthrusting heat to the qi aspect. Finally, when it reaches blood and causes depletion and frenetic movement, treatment involves cooling and dissipating the blood.'' These lines represent the general outline of the four-aspect pattern identification and treatment system of the doctrine of warm diseases. See entries listed below. See also four-aspect pattern identification; triple burner pattern identification. Warm Disease spring warmth wind warmth summerheat warmth latent summerheat damp warmth winter warmth warm epidemic warm toxin warm malaria autumn dryness latent qi warm disease late emergence

warm dryness

Synonyms: scourge epidemic.

Disease caused by contraction of the warm dryness evil and resultant scorching of pulmonary liquid; autumn dryness with marked heat signs. Warm dryness begins with headache, heat~effusion, dry cough without phlegm, expectoration of thin sticky phlegm, qi counterflow panting, dry throat, sore throat, dry nose and lips, oppression in the chest and rib-side pain, tongue red at the margins with thin white tongue fur.

Medication: Clear the lung and moisten dryness. Use Mulberry Leaf and Apricot Kernel Decoction for mild cases and Dryness-Clearing Lung-Rescuing Decoction for severe cases. See autumn dryness; dryness evil invading the lung.

warm epidemic

warm evil

Any evil causing warm heat disease, including spring warmth, wind warmth, summerheat warmth, latent summerheat, damp warmth, autumn dryness, winter warmth, warm epidemic, warm toxin, warm malaria. On Warm Heat states, ``Warm evil contracted in the upper body first invades the lung.''

warm evil invading the lung

Warm heat disease characterized by cough, heat~effusion, thirst, sometimes a sore swollen throat, a tongue that is red at the margins or tip, and a rapid floating pulse.

warm heat

Warm evil. Warm disease characterized by the presence of heat signs and the absence of dampness signs.

warm heat disease

Any warm disease or heat disease. Warm disease pattern of wind combined with warmth. Warming warming the center and dissipating cold returning yang and stemming counterflow warming yang and disinhibiting water warming the channels and dissipating cold

warm malaria

Malaria characterized by generalized heat~effusion, with aversion to cold less pronounced than heat~effusion, headache, thirst with taking of fluids, constipation and reddish urine, inhibited sweating, joint pain, red tongue with yellow fur, and a rapid stringlike pulse.

Medication: Clear heat and resolve the flesh; dispel evil and interrupt malaria. Use White Tiger Decoction Plus Cinnamon Twig plus sweet wormwood (Artemisiae Apiaceae seu Annuae Herba) to dispel evil and interrupt malaria, and bupleurum (Bupleuri Radix) to harmonize.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, PC, SI, and LI. Select GV-14 (Great Hammer), GV-13 (Kiln Path), PC-5 (Intermediary Courier), SI-3 (Back Ravine), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), and LI-4 (Union Valley); needle with drainage. For principles and methods of treatme

warm needling

Synonyms: expelling cold and opening the orifices.

Burning moxa on the handle of an acupuncture needle inserted in the body. This method, whereby the needle conducts the heat into the flesh, is appropriate for vacuity cold diseases and wind-damp impediment patterns. Warm needling is done by first inserting the needle and placing a small piece of paper or aluminum foil around the needle. (Make a hole in the center of the piece of paper.) Moxa wool is then wrapped around the wire handle and lit. The paper will catch any ashes. The moxa is allowed to burn completely, and when no more heat radiates from the handle, the paper and moxa can be removed, and the needle withdrawn. One common practice is to snip a small cylindrical piece of moxa pole, and press a pointed object such as a pencil into the center of the cylinder, thus forming a hole that allows the moxa to be placed on the handle of the needle. This latter method is safer and more convenient because the ash is firmer and less likely to fall from the handle.

warm opening

warm precipitation

A method of precipitation applied to cold-natured accumulation and stagnation forming interior repletion patterns often referred to as cold bind, and characterized by constipation, with abdominal fullness, cold extremities, white slimy tongue fur, and sunken stringlike or slow sunken pulse.

Medication: Warm precipitation makes use of warm precipitating medicinals like croton (Crotonis Semen), or uses warm or hot medicinals in combination with cold ones, such as aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale) and asarum (Asiasari Herba cum Radice) with rhubarb (Rhei Rh

Acupuncture: Base treatment on the alarm, back transport, and lower uniting points of LI, and on CV, SP, KI, and other back transport points. Select BL-25 (Large Intestine Transport), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot), ST-37 (Upper Great Hollow), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), KI-6 (Shining

warm toxin

Any febrile disease attributable to contraction of warm evil and heat toxin, usually occurring in the winter or spring. Warm toxin is characterized by sudden high fever and shivering, headache, nausea, vexation and agitation, thirst, red or crimson tongue with yellow fur, and a surging rapid pulse. As it continues its development, a red swollen head and face, swollen jowls, sore swollen throat with white putrescence, or maculopapular eruptions may be observed.

Medication: Clear heat and resolve toxin with formulas such as Universal Aid Toxin-Dispersing Beverage, Three Yellows and Gypsum Decoction, or Coptis Toxin-Resolving Decoction. If heat enters construction-blood, cool the blood and resolve toxin with Scourge-Clearing

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LI, ST, and LU. Select GV-14 (Great Hammer), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), LI-4 (Union Valley), TB-5 (Outer Pass), BL-40 (Bend Center), ST-43 (Sunken Valley), and LU-10 (Fish Border); needle with drainage, and prick the Twelve Well Po

warming

Synonyms: warming and supplementing the life gate.

One of the eight methods. The method of treating cold patterns. Warming involves the use of warm or hot medicinals to supplement yang qi and expel cold evil. Medicinals used in the method of warming are usually referred to as interior-warming medicinals. These are listed below. Warming is used in the treatment of interior cold patterns. (1) Cold evil invading the interior, and inhibiting yang qi, and causing retching and diarrhea, cold and pain in the stomach duct and abdomen, cold limbs and aversion to cold, and other signs of spleen-stomach vacuity and interior cold are treated by warming the center and dissipating cold. (2) Yang collapse with aversion to cold and curled-up lying posture, reversal cold of the four limbs, sweating, somber white complexion, and a faint fine pulse or rapid vacuous pulse is treated by returning yang and stemming counterflow. (3) Water-damp flood from yang qi vacuity, characterized by water swelling, is treated by warming yang and disinhibiting water. Interior-Warming Medicinals aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale) white sliced aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale Album) black sliced aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale Denigratum) cooked aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale Conquitum) salted aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale Salsum) aconite main tuber (Aconiti Tuber) wild aconite (Aconiti Tsao-Wu-Tou Tuber) cinnamon bark (Cinnamomi Cortex) dried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Exsiccatum) blast-fried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Tostum) evodia (Evodiae Fructus) asarum (Asiasari Herba cum Radice) zanthoxylum (Zanthoxyli Pericarpium) lesser galangal (Alpiniae Officinarum Rhizoma) zanthoxylum seed (Zanthoxyli Semen) clove (Caryophylli Flos) galangal fruit (Alpiniae Galangae Fructus) clove fruit (Caryophylli Fructus) pepper (Piperis Fructus) litsea (Litseae Rhizoma et Radix) long pepper (Piperis Longi Fructus) cubeb (Cubebae Fructus) fennel (Foeniculi Fructus) star anise (Anisi Stellati Fructus) (4) Cold evil invading the channels, causing pain in the sinews and bones, and hypertonicity with inhibited bending and stretching is treated by freeing and warming the channels. In acumoxatherapy, warming is achieved through moxibustion. Warming methods are listed above, and warming medicinals are listed below.

warming and supplementing kidney yang

Synonyms: warming and supplementing kidney yang; warming the kidney; warming the water viscus.

warming and supplementing the life gate

A method of treatment used to restore (spleen and) kidney yang qi in the treatment of insufficiency of the life gate fire with early morning diarrhea, abdominal pain and rumbling intestines, cold limbs, pale tongue with white fur, and slow sunken pulse.

Medication: The method of warming and supplementing the life gate employs yang-invigorating fire-supplementing medicinals. Appropriate formulas include Four Spirits Pill and Right-Restoring Life Gate Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on KI, GV, back transport points, and CV. Select BL-23 (Kidney Transport), GV-4 (Life Gate), CV-4 (Pass Head), and KI-3 (Great Ravine); needle with supplementation and add moxa.

warming and transforming

Synonyms: warming the lung and transforming rheum.

Warming and transforming is the principle for treating phlegm-rheum. Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer states, ``Disease of phlegm-rheum should be harmonized with warm medicinals.'' See warming yang and transforming rheum, warming the lung and transforming rheum, warming and transforming water-damp.

warming and transforming cold phlegm

Synonyms: warming the lung and transforming rheum.

warming and transforming cold rheum

warming and transforming static blood

warming and transforming water-damp

A method of treating phlegm-rheum, water swelling, impediment patterns and cold-damp leg qi arising when vacuous yang fails to transform water and dampness forms with cold. Warming and transforming water-damp uses hot acrid medicinals that warm and free yang qi, such as cinnamon twig (Cinnamomi Ramulus) and aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale), combined with an appropriate amount of dampness-disinhibiting medicinals such as poria (Poria) and ovate atractylodes (Atractylodis Ovatae Rhizoma) to eliminate water-damp. Representative formulas include Fish Poison Yam Clear-Turbid Separation Beverage, Poria (Hoelen), Cinnamon Twig, Ovate Atractylodes, and Licorice Decoction, Licorice, Dried Ginger, Poria (Hoelen), and Ovate Atractylodes Decoction, Spleen-Firming Beverage, and True Warrior Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV and back transport points. Select CV-9 (Water Divide), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-23 (Kidney Transport), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), and BL-39 (Bend Yang); needle with drainage and a

warming heart yang

A method of treatment used to address heart yang vacuity characterized by lassitude of spirit, dizziness, heart palpitations or fearful throbbing, and pronounced cold signs, such as gray or green-blue or purple complexion and reversal cold of the limbs.

Medication: Formulas that warm heart yang include Cinnamon Twig, Licorice, Dragon Bone, and Oyster Shell Decoction to which ginseng (Ginseng Radix) and aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale) can be added in severe cases.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, CV, and HT. Select BL-15 (Heart Transport), CV-14 (Great Tower Gate), CV-17 (Chest Center), and HT-7 (Spirit Gate); needle with supplementation and add moxa.

warming the blood

Synonyms: warming the center and dissipating cold.

A method of treatment used to address cold in the blood aspect. It includes warming and nourishing the blood aspect and warming and transforming static blood.

warming the center and dispelling cold

Synonyms: warming the center and dispelling cold; warming the spleen.

warming the center and dissipating cold

Synonyms: warming the channels and dissipating cold.

A method of treatment used to treat cold in constitutional yang vacuity, spleen-stomach vacuity cold, or external cold entering the interior, characterized by a moist white tongue fur, moderate soggy or slow sunken pulse, physical debilitation and fatigued spirit, aversion to cold, diarrhea, abdominal pain that likes pressure and heat, and stomach pain and vomiting of clear fluid.

Medication: Treatment is based on center-warming medicinals such as dried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Exsiccatum), blast-fried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Tostum), lesser galangal (Alpiniae Officinarum Rhizoma), and zanthoxylum (Zanthoxyli Pericarpium), combined with m

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV and ST. Select as main points CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-21 (Stomach Transport), and CV-4 (Pass Head); needle with supplementation and add moxa. For pronoun

warming the channels and dispelling cold

Synonyms: warming the channels and dispelling cold.

warming the channels and dissipating cold

A method of treatment used to address wind-cold-damp impediment with pronounced cold signs, such as pain in the joints relieved by warmth and inhibited bending and stretching, using channel-warming medicinals such as aconite main tuber (Aconiti Tuber), cinnamon twig (Cinnamomi Ramulus), scorpion (Buthus), and duhuo (Angelicae Duhuo Radix). In cases with longer history, combinations include blood-quickening stasis-transforming medicinals as well as bone and sinew strengthening medicinals. Patients with weak constitutions may be given combinations that include blood-nourishing qi-boosting medicinals such as tangkuei (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), white peony (Paeoniae Radix Alba), astragalus (Astragali (seu Hedysari) Radix), and codonopsis (Codonopsitis Radix). Commonly used channel-warming cold-dissipating formulas include Aconite Main Tuber Decoction and Tangkuei Counterflow Cold Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on ouch points, or select points on the affected channel. Use moxa, needle retention, or warm needle technique.

warming the gallbladder and quieting the spirit

Synonyms: warming and supplementing kidney yang.

A method of treatment used to address gallbladder vacuity causing vacuity vexation and insomnia.

Medication: Gallbladder-Warming Decoction.

warming the kidney

warming the kidney and disinhibiting water

A method of treatment used to address kidney yang vacuity water swelling. When the kidney is vacuous, the transformative action is inhibited; hence water-damp collects internally causing swelling of the limbs, somber white complexion, cold aching lumbus, short voidings of urine, pale tongue with thin white fur, and sunken fine weak pulse.

Medication: A representative kidney-warming water disinhibiting formula is Life Saver Kidney Qi Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, CV, GV, and KI. Select BL-23 (Kidney Transport), GV-4 (Life Gate), CV-9 (Water Divide), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), KI-7 (Recover Flow), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), and SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection); needle with supplementa

warming the kidney to promote qi absorption

warming the liver

Synonyms: warming the lung and transforming rheum.

A method of treatment used to warm and supplement the liver and kidney and to move qi and expel cold in the treatment of liver-kidney yin cold with smaller-abdominal pain or mounting qi . A commonly used liver-warming formula is Liver-Warming Brew.

warming the lung and expelling rheum

Synonyms: warming the lung and transforming rheum.

warming the lung and transforming phlegm

Synonyms: warming the lung and expelling rheum; warming the lung and transforming phlegm; warming and transforming cold phlegm; warming and transforming cold rheum.

warming the lung and transforming rheum

A method of treatment used to address cold rheum lying latent in the lung characterized by cough, counterflow panting with fullness that prevents the patient from lying down, copious foamy white phlegm, and swelling of the face and instep, occurring in episodes brought on by exposure to cold.

Medication: A representative lung-warming rheum-transforming formula is Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction. Others include Poria (Hoelen), Licorice, Schisandra, Ginger, and Asarum Decoction, Belamcanda and Ephedra Decoction and Phlegm-Rheum Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, ST, and LI. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-9 (Great Abyss), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), and LI-4 (Union Valley); needle with even supplementation and drainage and large amount

warming the spleen

A method of treatment used to address spleen vacuity cold, characterized by abdominal distention, reduced food intake, and possibly diarrhea or generalized water swelling, or, in women, copious thin white vaginal discharge.

Medication: A representative spleen-warming formula is Center-Rectifying Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, SP, and ST. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-21 (Stomach Transport), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), and SP-4 (Yellow Emperor); needle with supplementation

warming the stomach

A method of treatment used to address stomach cold, characterized by distention and cold pain exacerbated by drinking cold drinks, by vomiting of clear water, or vomiting after eating, and by a glossy white tongue fur and forceless fine sunken pulse.

Medication: Stomach-warming medicinals include lesser galangal (Alpiniae Officinarum Rhizoma), fresh ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) or dried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Exsiccatum), evodia (Evodiae Fructus), aquilaria (Aquilariae Lignum), cyperus (Cyperi Rhizoma),

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV and ST. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), and BL-21 (Stomach Transport); needle with supplementation and large amounts of moxa. Compare warming the center and dissipating cold.

warming the stomach and checking vomiting

Synonyms: warming the stomach.

A method of treatment used to address vomiting due to stomach qi vacuity cold. See cold vomiting.

warming the stomach and dissipating cold

warming the stomach and fortifying the center

A method of treatment used to address stomach qi vacuity cold with dull stomach duct pain that lessens after eating, vomiting of clear water, diarrhea, pale tongue, and fine pulse.

Medication: A representative stomach-warming center-fortifying formula is Astragalus Center-Fortifying Decoction. For pronounced cold, cooked aconite (Aconiti Tuber Laterale Conquitum), dried ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Exsiccatum), evodia (Evodiae Fructus), lesser ga

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, back transport points, and ST. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), CV-4 (Pass Head), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), and BL-21 (Stomach Transport); needle with supplementation and large amount

warming the water viscus

Synonyms: promoting qi transformation and disinhibiting water.

Warming and supplementing the life gate fire. See water viscus.

warming yang and disinhibiting dampness

A method of treatment used to address yang qi obstructed by water-cold causing inhibited urination. When a patient has internal collection of water-damp and cold in the exterior, yang qi is blocked by water-cold, causing inhibited urination, headache, mild heat~effusion, heart vexation, thirst, vomiting of ingested fluids, a slimy white tongue fur and a floating pulse.

Medication: Use Poria (Hoelen) Five Powder, which makes use of cinnamon twig (Cinnamomi Ramulus) to warm yang and promote qi transformation, and Poria (Hoelen) Four Powder to move dampness and disinhibit water.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, back transport points, SP, and ST. Select BL-11 (Great Shuttle), LI-4 (Union Valley), CV-9 (Water Divide), BL-22 (Triple Burner Transport), SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring) and ST-36 (Leg Three Li); needle with drainage.

warming yang and transforming rheum

Synonyms: kidney channel malaria.

A method of treatment used to address phlegm-rheum ( flowing rheum) in the stomach and intestines marked by reduced appetite, emaciation in normally obese people, rumbling intestines, sloppy stool, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and vomiting of foamy drool.

Medication: Use formulas such as Poria (Hoelen), Cinnamon Twig, Ovate Atractylodes, and Licorice Decoction or Golden Coffer Kidney Qi Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV and ST. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), BL-43 (Gao-Huang Transport), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot), and CV-6 (Sea of Qi); needle with supplementation and large amounts of moxa.

warmth

Synonyms: heat toxin; seasonal toxin.

The quality or state of being warm. warm evil. One of the four qi (heat, cold, warmth, coolness) of medicinals, used in the treatment of cold patterns.

warring states

The name of a dynastic period (475--221 ).

wart

From The Magic Pivot. A skin-colored, white or dirty yellowish nonsuppurating growth up to the size of a soybean, like the center of a daisy or similar flower in texture, dry and light in substance, slightly painful under pressure, tending to bleed easily when knocked or grazed, and occurring singly or multiply on the back, the back of the fingers, or scalp; attributed to wind evil contending in the skin or to liver vacuity and blood dryness and sinew qi lacking in luxuriance.

Medication: Rub with chicken's gizzard lining (Galli Gigerii Endothelium) or crushed brucea (Bruceae Fructus).

Acupuncture: Treat with moxa.

washing

To remove earth or unwanted parts by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water. With the exception of flowers, whose active constituents are easily lost in water, most materials are washed before use. The main aim of washing is to remove earth: materials should not be left in water too long otherwise they lose their active constituents. Light, soft materials in particular should be washed as quickly as possible. See processing of medicinals.

wasted blood

Static blood that has not been discharged from the body.

wasted blood surging into the heart

One of the three postpartum surges. Spirit-mind derangement, mania, or withdrawal stemming from retention of the lochia, and attributed to upsurge of retained lochia.

wasted blood surging into the lung

One of the three postpartum surges. A critical postpartum condition characterized by oppression in the chest, vexation and agitation, red face, rapid breathing, counterflow panting, or nosebleed.

Medication: Treat with Two-Ingredient Ginseng and Sappan Beverage, adding mirabilite (Mirabilitum) in particularly severe cases.

wasted blood surging into the stomach

One of the three postpartum surges. A postpartum condition of bloating, oppression, nausea, vomiting, abdominal fullness, distention, and pain attributed to retention and upsurge of the lochia.

Medication: Treat with Stomach-Calming Powder or Return Again Elixir.

water

The clear liquid of streams and rivers. Any form of fluid, in particular ingested fluids (such as in the expression sea of grain and water), and waste fluids or urine (as in waterways). Specifically, fluid accumulation refers to fluid accumulations in the form of water swelling attributable to morbidity of the lung, spleen, or kidney. Water in this context is often known as water qi. Distinction is made between yin water and yang water. Yin water patterns are ones of vacuity or cold patterns that develop slowly and are difficult to cure. Yang water patterns are ones of repletion or heat patterns that develop rapidly and can be eliminated swiftly. See water swelling. In the doctrine of the five phases, the water phase, to which the kidney corresponds. An alternate name for the kidney (and its corresponding bowel, the bladder), as in the phrase ``water failing to moisten wood.''

water by nature flows downward

Synonyms: water qi chest bind; water-heat chest bind.

The nature of water as described in the doctrine of the five phases. In the body, water-damp tends to flow downward causing diarrhea and fatigue and water swelling of the lower limbs.

water chest bind

A condition attributed to water-rheum binding in the chest and rib-side, and characterized by pain and oppression in the chest and rib-side, a gurgling sound in the chest in response to pressing, fearful throbbing below the heart, and sweating from the head.

Medication: Transform water-damp and quiet the heart spirit using formulas such as Minor Pinellia Decoction Plus Poria (Hoelen).

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, PC, LR, SP, and HT. Needle with drainage at PC-6 (Inner Pass), LR-3 (Supreme Surge), CV-17 (Chest Center), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring), BL-15 (Heart Transport) and HT-7 (Spirit Ga

water counterflow

From On Cold Damage, which states, ``Wind-damage with heat~effusion failing to resolve in six or seven days, with heart vexation and exterior signs, thirst and drinking of water with immediate vomiting of water ingested is called ``water counterflow.'' Later physicians referred to any vomiting of clear water or thirst and drinking of water with immediate vomiting of ingested water as ``water counterflow.'' Counterflow water is attributed to the presence of deep-lying rheum.

Medication: Free yang and disinhibit water with Poria (Hoelen) Five Powder. If there is qi vacuity, use Six Gentlemen Decoction plus oven earth (Terra Flava Usta).

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on BL, TB, CV, ST, and SP. Select BL-11 (Great Shuttle), BL-64 (Capital Bone), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), TB-3 (Central Islet), PC-6 (Inner Pass), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), CV-9 (Water Divide), and SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring); needle with even supple

water diarrhea

Diarrhea characterized by watery stool; observed in damp diarrhea, cold diarrhea, and heat diarrhea.

water distention

Synonyms: water gu; water drum distention.

water swelling. Abdominal distention with gradually developing water swelling.

water drum

Synonyms: water drum.

A disease pattern characterized by abdominal distention which gurgles when the patient moves. Water drum is usually caused by excessive consumption of liquor that impairs free coursing of the liver, with resultant liver depression damaging the spleen causing impaired movement and transformation that causes water-damp to collect. It is associated with a withered-yellow facial complexion, rib-side pain, red speckles on the body (spider nevi), and sometimes jaundice. In persistent cases, there is scant urine and generalized swelling that pits when pressed.

Medication: Boost qi and supplement the blood; nourish yin and disinhibit urine. Use Spleen-Firming Beverage plus tangkuei (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) and toosendan (Toosendan Fructus). For pronounced water-rheum, add cinnamon twig (Cinnamomi Ramulus), polyporus (Poly

Acupuncture: Two groups of points may be applied. (1) CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), CV-9 (Water Divide), and ST-44 (Inner Court). (2) SP-15 (Great Horizontal), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), SP-6 (Three Yin In

water drum distention

Synonyms: fire and water failing to aid each other.

water failing to help fire

water failing to moisten wood

Kidney yin vacuity (water) causing insufficiency of liver yin (wood). In the five phases, the kidney belongs to water and the liver belongs to wood. Water failing to moisten wood manifests as low fever, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, aching lumbus, seminal emission, and dry throat. When insufficiency of liver yin stirs internal wind, there may also be wriggling of the extremities or even jerking. See enriching water to moisten wood.

water failing to transform into qi

A disturbance of normal distribution and discharge of water in the body characterized by inhibited urination and water swelling. Normally, water (fluid in the body) is subject to qi transformation, in which the lung, spleen, and kidney are involved. When the transformative action of qi is impaired, and especially when kidney yang is vacuous, free flow through the waterways of the triple burner is jeopardized and water fails to turn into steam (transform into qi) and spread around the body. See qi transformation.

water gu

Synonyms: water chest bind.

From The Origin and Indicators of Disease. Abdominal distention due to the gathering of water toxin qi. See water drum.

water mounting

Painful swelling and periodic sweating of the scrotum attributed to water-damp pouring downward or to contraction of wind, cold, and damp evils. In some cases, the scrotum is greatly enlarged and translucent; sometimes there is itching and discharge of yellow fluid; sometimes pressing the abdomen produces a sound of water.

Medication: Expel water and move qi using variations of Poria (Hoelen) Five Powder for mild cases, and Water Controller Yu Powder for severe cases.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LR, ST, and SP. Select LR-8 (Spring at the Bend), ST-28 (Waterway), SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring), CV-3 (Central Pole), LR-4 (Mound Center), and LR-1 (Large Pile); needle with drainage. Add moxa for cold patterns.

water panting

Panting attributed to water-rheum invading the lung, and occurring when the kidney allows water to collect and the spleen fails to transform dampness and the resulting water qi ascends to the lung impairing depurative downbearing. Signs include qi counterflow rapid panting, oppression and fullness in the chest, abdominal distention, fearful throbbing, and swelling of the head, face, and limbs.

Medication: Treatment can be directed at the root or tip according to need. To treat the tip, expel water and disinhibit dampness, and diffuse and downbear lung qi. To treat the root, move the spleen and warm the kidney. If panting precedes distention, focus treatmen

Acupuncture: If panting precedes distention, base treatment mainly on LU, back transport points, and CV. Select Panting Stabilizer, LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), BL-13 (Lung Transport), BL-22 (Triple Burner Transport), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), SP-9 (Yin Mound S

water pill

A preparation made by mixing the finely ground materials with cold water, yellow wine, vinegar, fresh herb juice, as the formula stipulates, before forming pills either by hand or by machine.

water processing

Any of various methods of treating medicinal materials with clean water to remove impurities, foreign bodies, unwanted elements (such as sand, earth, salt, unpleasant odors), to increase suppleness to facilitate cutting, to refine minerals, and to reduce toxicity. Methods must be carefully chosen to prevent loss of active constituents. See washing; steeping; long rinsing; covered moistening; water-grinding. See processing of medicinals.

water qi

Synonyms: water chest bind.

Pathological excesses of water in the body and, specifically, water swelling provoked by it. The main cause is impairment of movement and transformation of water due to spleen-kidney yang vacuity.

water qi chest bind

water qi intimidating the heart

Upsurge of water qi causing disturbances of the heart. Spleen-yang vacuity and impairment of qi transformation causing water to be retained in the body and thereby causing water qi, which can manifest as phlegm-rheum or water swelling. When the water surges upward and lodges in the chest and diaphragm, it can cause devitalization of heart yang and disquieting of heart qi manifesting in the form of heart palpitations and hasty breathing. This is what is known as water qi intimidating the heart. The chief signs are heart palpitations, panting with inability to lie flat, generalized puffy swelling, and a bright white facial complexion. Other signs include flusteredness, lassitude of spirit and fatigue, fear of cold and cold limbs, and short voidings of scant clear urine.

Medication: Warm yang and disinhibit water. Use True Warrior Decoction or Poria (Hoelen) Five Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, back transport points, HT, and PC. Select BL-15 (Heart Transport), PC-6 (Inner Pass), PC-4 (Cleft Gate), HT-7 (Spirit Gate), CV-17 (Chest Center), CV-9 (Water Divide), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), BL-23 (Kidney Transport), BL-20 (Spleen

water rampart

water swelling

Swelling of the flesh arising when organ dysfunction (spleen, kidney, lung) due to internal or external causes allows water to accumulate. Water swelling stands in contradistinction to toxin swelling, which denotes a localized swelling due to the local presence of toxin as in the case of welling-abscess , flat-abscess , boils , clove sores , and other sores.

Medication: Warm the kidney, fortify the spleen, boost qi, and free yang. Use formulas such as Spleen-Firming Beverage or Golden Coffer Kidney Qi Pill. patterns are attributed to the invasion of external evils impairing diffusion of lung qi, the triple burner's gover

Acupuncture: cardiogenic edema, nephrotic edema, hepatogenic edema, nutritional edema, and endocrinologic edema. Water swelling patterns have been classified in different ways. For example, Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer distinguishes between wind wate

water toxin

A disease spoken of in ancient literature attributed to poisoning of water by malign worms at the source of rivers and said to be marked by aversion to cold, slight headache, pain in the eye sockets, heart vexation, rigidity of the joints of the lumbus and back, knee pain, desire only for sleep, and counterflow cold of the limbs up to the knees and elbows. Water toxin was also said to cause sores in the lower areas that are neither painful nor or itchy, and that suppurate and burst, dampness pouring downward, failure to eat, manic speech, and passage of bloody matter like a mashed liver.

water viscus

The kidney. The kidney is sometimes referred to as the water viscus (e.g., in the phrase ``warm the water viscus'') because it is ascribed to water in the five phases and because it governs water. See kidney governs water; viscus of fire and water.

water wheel

Synonyms: sniveling nose.

The pupil of the eye; related to the kidney.

water-cold shooting into the lung

A pattern that occurs in patients suffering from phlegm-rheum or water swelling when they contract cold evil. Cold evil stirs the water-rheum and both evils rise into the lung counterflow, causing nondiffusion of lung qi. The chief signs are cough, hasty panting with inability to lie down and puffy swelling of the lower limbs. Other signs include copious thin white phlegm-drool, fullness and oppression in the chest and rib-side, distention and fullness in the lesser abdomen, cold pain in the lumbar region, cold knees and lower legs, and scant urine. In some cases, there may be aversion to cold with heat~effusion, absence of sweating, and generalized pain. The tongue fur is thin, white, and glossy, or white and slimy. The pulse is tight and floating or tight and stringlike.

Medication: Warm the lung and transform rheum; assist yang and disinhibit water. Use Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction combined with True Warrior Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, ST, CV, and back transport points. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-9 (Great Abyss), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), LI-4 (Union Valley), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), and CV-17 (Chest Center), to warm the lung

water-damp

Synonyms: outpour diarrhea.

Any water or dampness as an actual or potential cause of disease. The term ``water-damp'' is commonly used in the context of the spleen, especially regarding its function of governing the movement and transformation of fluids and its intolerance of dampness.

water-grinding

Fine grinding of medicinal materials in water. The materials are first roughly crushed. They are then placed in a porcelain mortar, covered with water, and ground until the grating sound of rough lumps ceases. At this point, more water is mixed in, and the water that contains suspended particles is poured off and reserved. More water and materials are added to the mortar, and the process is repeated. The reserved suspension is allowed to stand until the particles have settled, and the excess water is poured off. The remaining sludge is sun-dried, after which it is ready for use. This method is used for minerals and shells. Its advantage over dry grinding is that fine particles do not blow away or get lost, and that impurities dissolved in the water are (at least partly) removed. The much finer power it produces makes for greater assimilation of orally taken medicinals and reduces irritation in topical applications. Cinnabar (Cinnabaris), talcum (Talcum), smithsonite (Smithsonitum), and realgar (Realgar) are treated in this way for laryngeal insufflation, topical eye medication, or for coating pills. See water processing.

water-heat chest bind

water-rheum

Fluid exuded by diseased organs. Clear thin fluid is known as ``water,'' whereas thin sticky fluid is known as ``rheum.'' These differ in name and form, but are in essence the same; hence the compound term.

water-soaking sore

Synonyms: water; water qi; water distention.

A sore, usually of the hand, attributable to long soaking in water and local friction. A water-soaking sore starts with swelling, white putrefaction, and wrinkling, that with continued friction and soaking becomes painful and itchy.

Medication: Treat by washing in a decoction of alum (Alumen). Indigo Powder can be applied if the skin is ruptured.

watery sniveling

waving fish pulse

waxing and waning of yin and yang

Many yin-yang paired phenomena alternate their strength and prevalence. For example, daytime activity alternates with nighttime rest, and bursts of energy and enthusiasm are often followed by lethargy and disenchantment.

weak pulse

A pulse that is sunken and without force. A weak pulse is associated with vacuity of qi and blood.

weak stomach malign obstruction

Malign obstruction (vomiting in pregnancy) arising from spleen-stomach vacuity. In pregnancy, thoroughfare vessel qi is exuberant and in women suffering from spleen-stomach vacuity, it can impair stomach harmony and downbearing, causing oppression in the stomach duct and abdominal distention, vomiting and reduced food intake, or immediate vomiting of ingested food.

Medication: Fortify the spleen and harmonize the stomach; regulate qi and check vomiting. An appropriate formula is Six Gentlemen Decoction with the addition of loquat leaf (Eriobotryae Folium), agastache/patchouli (Agastaches seu Pogostemi Herba), inula flower (Inul

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, PC, SP, and back transport points. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), PC-6 (Inner Pass), SP-4 (Yellow Emperor), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-21 (Stomach Transport), and LR-13 (Camphorwood Gate); needle with supplementation.

weak stomach qi

Synonyms: limp wilting lumbus and knees.

Poor appetite; poor spleen-stomach function. See stomach qi.

weak wilting lumbus and knees

wear

Describes gradual loss of, or damage to (the blood, fluids, etc.) associated with enduring illness. See exuberance and debilitation.

weeping canthus

A disease pattern characterized by discharge of pus from the canthus on application of pressure, or, in severe cases, a red hot swollen lump at the inner canthus that refuses pressure, and that turns into a sore or a fistula. Weeping canthus is attributed to depressed heat in the heart channel or wind-heat attacking the inner canthus.

Medication: Course wind, clear heat, drain fire, and resolve toxin. Take Three Yellows Decoction orally and apply Agreeable Golden Yellow Powder topically.

wei

Synonyms: wilting.

The name of a dynasty ( 220--265).

wei

Synonyms: external welling-abscess. internal welling-abscess.

well point

welling-abscess

A large suppuration in the flesh characterized by a painful swelling and redness that is clearly circumscribed, and that before rupturing is soft and characterized by a thin shiny skin. Before suppuration begins, it can be easily dispersed; when pus has formed, it easily ruptures; after rupture, it easily closes and heals. It may be associated with generalized heat~effusion, thirst, yellow tongue fur and a rapid pulse. A welling-abscess results from congealing and stagnation of qi and blood arising when damp-heat and fire toxin block the channels. This pathomechanism can usually be traced to excessive consumption of rich foods or to toxin contracted through unclean wounds. The term welling-abscess is often used in contradistinction to flat-abscess, and the difference between them is pointed out in The Inner Canon: ``welling-abscesses are shallow and light; flat-absceses are deep and heavy; welling-abscess effuse from the six bowels; flat-abscess effuse from the five viscera.'' Orthodox External Medicine explains the difference in greater detail: ``welling-abscess means congestion; it is yang; it is ascribed to toxin of the six bowels prevailing in the outer; it appears suddenly and is floating [i.e., superficial or buoyant] and shallow. Because it originates from the yang aspect, and because yang qi is light, clear, and floating, it the welling-abscess rises high, easily swells, easily forms pus, easily putrefies, and easily closes, and does not damage the sinew and bone, and is easy to treat. Flat-abscess, meaning obstruction; marsh, is yin; it is ascribed to toxin of the five viscera attacking the inner body; it develops slowly and its location is deep. Because it originates from the yin aspect, and because yin-blood is heavy and turbid, it the flat-abscess is sinking in nature, damages the sinew, erodes the bone, and is difficult to cure.'' A suppuration in the chest or abdomen affecting the organs; probably so called because it shares many of the yang qualities of external welling-abscess, except for its location in the body. They include intestinal welling-abscess, pulmonary welling-abscess, liver welling-abscess, and stomach welling-abscess, which correspond roughly to appendicitis, pulmonary abscess, liver abscess, and pathologies of the stomach respectively in Western medicine. Compare flat-abscess.

welling-abscess of the liver

Synonyms: pulmonary welling-abscess.

A welling-abscess affecting the liver. It is attributed either to liver depression transforming into fire, qi stagnation and blood stasis, or to accumulated dampness engendering phlegm. It starts with dull pain at LR-14 (Cycle Gate), followed by the gradual development of distending pain in the right rib-side that refuses pressure and prevents the patient from lying on the right side. There is often aversion to cold and heat~effusion, and the pulse is wiry and rapid. As the condition progresses, the pain becomes more acute, and a persistent heat~effusion is present. If it continues, unless successfully treated, it can burst, giving rise to coughing and vomiting of pus or the passage of pus in the stool.

Medication: In the initial stage, when due to liver fire, clear the liver and drain fire with Bupleurum Liver-Coursing Powder; when due to damp phlegm, rectify qi and transform phlegm using Qi-Clearing Phlegm-Transforming Pill plus cyperus (Cyperi Rhizoma), tangkuei

welling-abscess of the lung

Synonyms: welling-abscess of the stomach duct.

welling-abscess of the stomach

Synonyms: welling-abscess of the stomach; stomach duct welling-abscess; stomach welling-abscess; internal welling-abscess of the stomach duct.

welling-abscess of the stomach duct

A welling-abscess arising in the stomach duct. The Gateway to Medicine attributes it to ``depressed fire arising from diet and the seven affects that becomes isolated by externally contracted cold qi, filling the stomach duct.'' It starts with dull pain and slight swelling at CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), a sunken fine stomach pulse, generalized heat~effusion, and dry skin. The local area becomes hard with pain stretching into the heart. Abatement of the heat~effusion and pain are favorable signs; spreading of pus that causes the stomach and intestines to rot is an unfavorable sign. An external welling-abscess located at CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct). For treatment, see external welling-abscess.

Medication: In the initial state, free the bowels and drain heat, move stasis and dissipate binds. Use Rhubarb and Moutan Decoction. When pus has formed, move stasis and expel pus with medicinals such as rice bean (Phaseoli Calcarati Semen), coix (Coicis Semen), fan

welling-abscess of the testicle

A welling-abscess growing on the testicle. Two patterns are observed:

welling-abscess of the throat

A welling-abscess within the throat. Welling-abscess of the throat is attributable to disharmony among the organs and qi and blood and to wind evil lodging in the throat. It develops swiftly, often being associated with aversion to cold and high fever, phlegm-drool congestion, and labored breathing.

Medication: Course the exterior and resolve toxin; clear heat and disperse swelling. Use Throat-Clearing Diaphragm-Disinhibiting Decoction as oral medication and Borneol and Borax Powder applied by insufflation. Lancing may be performed after formation of pus. A deco

welling-abscess swelling

The swelling of welling-abscess.

western former han

The name of a dynasty (206 -- 24).

western jin

The name of a dynasty ( 265--316).

western wei

The name of a dynasty ( 535--556).

western zhou

The name of a dynasty (approx. 11th cent. to 771 ).

wet spreading sore

A sore small sore that easily spreads by scratching. A wet spreading sore when first appearing on the skin is about the size of grain of millet. It itches incessantly, and when scratched, spreads very quickly. In severe cases, it is associated with generalized heat~effusion. It is attributed to congealing stagnating heart fire and spleen dampness that after further contraction of external evil becomes depressed in the skin.

Medication: Dispel wind and overcome dampness; clear heat and cool the blood. Take Wind-Dispersing Powder. Apply Indigo Powder or Three Stones Powder. Alternatively, use powdered coptis (Coptidis Rhizoma).

wheat-grain intradermal needle

A small needle about 1 cm long, continuous with and in the same plane as a circle of wire that forms the head. A small intradermal needle with a handle the shape of a grain of wheat, used in the embedded needle method. A wheat-grain intradermal needle is inserted transversely into the skin to a depth of about 1 cm and the handle is then held flat against the skin by adhesive tape. See needle implantation.

wheezing

Hasty rapid breathing with phlegm rale in the throat. Indispensable Medical Reading states ``Wheezing is similar to panting, but does not have as much opening of the mouth and expelling of air, and is characterized by a wheezy sound.'' The Orthodox Tradition of Medicine states, ``Hasty panting with frog rale in the throat is wheezing.'' See wheezing patterns.

wheezing and panting

wheezing patterns

Ailments characterized by paroxysmal phlegm rale and rapid panting. The phlegm rale is like the rasping sound of a saw, and in severe cases there is gaping mouth and raised shoulders, distended and protruding eyes, somber white facial complexion, and green-blue or purple lips and nails, with sweating as in desertion. Repeated attacks lead to debilitation of lung qi and wearing of the true origin. Wheezing patterns are treated by supplementing spleen and kidney, and, during attacks, by dispelling evil, diffusing and downbearing lung qi, flushing phlegm and calming panting. In vacuity-repletion complexes, treatment to support right and dispel evil can be given together. Wheezing patterns include the following: cold wheezing; heat wheezing; salt wheezing; phlegm wheezing; kidney wheezing. Compare panting.

when blood is despoliated, there is no sweat; when sweat is despoliated, there is no blood

From The Magic Pivot. Because blood and sweat are of the same source, drastic loss of the blood reduces sweat, and drastic loss of sweat reduces the blood. For this reason, patients that have bled should not be allowed to sweat, and in patients that have sweated, nothing should be done that causes wear on the blood. See heart governs sweat; heart governs the blood and vessels.

when cold prevails there is swelling

From Elementary Questions. When cold prevails, yang qi is insufficient. Congealing cold and stagnant qi affect the movement of blood and water-damp collects. The swelling associated in Western medicine with chronic nephritis is usually a pattern of cold qi and spleen-kidney yang vacuity.

when dampness prevails, there is soft stool diarrhea

Dampness causes diarrhea. The spleen is averse to dampness and likes dryness. Exuberant damp qi in the inner body obstructs spleen yang, impairing movement and transformation. Hence there is abdominal distention and oppression accompanied by diarrhea.

when dampness prevails, yang is debilitated

Dampness damages yang qi. Dampness is a heavy, turbid, sticky evil, and obstructs the activity of yang qi, especially that of the spleen, causing a white complexion, oppression in the chest, abdominal distention, glomus and fullness, diarrhea, and, in severe cases, water swelling. In treating dampness, attention must be paid to safeguarding yang qi, to disinhibiting urine, and to avoiding excessive use of cold or cool medicinals.

when dryness prevails, there is aridity

Dryness qi causes dry signs. Dryness qi causes damage to the fluids, causing dry mouth and nose, dry lusterless skin, dry cough without phlegm, short scant voidings of urine, and dry bound stool.

when evil qi is exuberant, there is repletion

From Elementary Questions. In the course of disease, exuberance of evil qi and the violent reaction of right qi manifests as a repletion pattern. Vigorous heat~effusion, absence of sweating, vexation and agitation, mania, abdominal pain that refuses pressure, constipation and reddish urine, and forceful slippery rapid pulse are all repletion signs attributable to exuberant evil qi.

when heat prevails, there is swelling

Prevalence of yang heat can cause local pain and swelling. When heat lies depressed in the flesh, skin, and interstices, then qi and blood become congested, causing sores characterized redness, swelling, heat, pain, and suppuration.

when qi is vacuous, there is cold

Insufficiency of yang qi gives rise to yin cold. When yang qi is insufficient, it fails to warm and nourish the bowels and viscera, and gives rise to signs such as aversion to cold and cold limbs, lassitude of the spirit and lack of strength, bland taste in the mouth and lack of thirst, white facial complexion and pale tongue, clear urine and sloppy stool, and a slow sunken pulse or fine weak pulse. Elementary Questions states, ``When yang is vacuous, there is external cold.''

when the kidney is full, marrow is replete

when the stomach is in disharmony, there is unquiet sleep

From The Inner Canon. When the stomach is in disharmony as observed in phlegm-fire harassing the upper body or spleen-stomach vacuity, there may be poor sleep or insomnia.

Medication: Harmonize the stomach, transform dampness, and dispel phlegm. Use formulas such as Two Matured Ingredients Stomach-Calming Powder plus acorus (Acori Rhizoma) and pumice (Pumex), or plus gardenia (Gardeniae Fructus) and coptis (Coptidis Rhizoma). If the s

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on HT, SP, ST, and CV. Main points: Alert Spirit Quartet, HT-7 (Spirit Gate), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), and PC-6 (Inner Pass). Selection of points accor

when there is stoppage, there is pain

Pain arises when the free movement of qi and blood is inhibited, as in qi stagnation, blood stasis, and cold.

when wind prevails, there is stirring

From Elementary Questions. Wind evil can cause disease characterized by physical movement such as tremor, convulsions, deviated eyes and mouth, squint, arched-back rigidity, and clenched jaw, and apparent movement such as dizziness and wandering pain. See viscus of wind and wood; liver.

when yang abates, yin hides

From Elementary Questions. Yin responds to a contraction, recession, or weakening of yang qi by a corresponding tendency to become latent or disappear. See yin and yang are rooted in each other.

when yang arises, yin grows

From Elementary Questions. Yin qi can only grow when yang qi has its normal power to work engendering transformations. See yin and yang are rooted in each other.

when yang is exuberant, there is external heat

External evils cause yang qi that defends the outer body to become exuberant and put up a fierce fight that manifests in heat~effusion. Elementary Questions states, ``When the upper burner is inhibited, the skin becomes tight, the interstices become blocked, the mysterious mansions i.e., sweat pores become stopped, and defense qi fails to be discharged; hence there is external heat.''

when yang is vacuous, there is external cold

From Elementary Questions. Yang vacuity, i.e., qi vacuity or insufficiency of the life gate fire manifests in cold signs such as bright white facial complexion, aversion to cold, cold limbs, and tendency to catch colds.

when yang network vessels are damaged, blood spills out

When the yang network vessels (i.e., those of the upper or outer body) are damaged, there is bleeding. This refers to expectoration of blood, nosebleed, or bleeding gums due to damage to the network vessels by exuberant lung-stomach heat.

when yang prevails, there is heat

When yang qi is especially strong, febrile conditions develop.

when yang prevails, yin ails

From Elementary Questions. Exuberant yang gives rise to illness involving damage to yin humor. See damage to fluids.

when yin is calm and yang is sound

Synonyms: when yin prevails, there is cold.

Health expressed in terms of yin and yang. When yin is undisturbed by hyperactive yang, it is calm. When yang is exuberant, it performs its normal securing function of protecting the body against external evils, and retaining yin essence in the body. Elementary Questions says, ``When yin is calm and yang is sound, essence-spirit is in order.''

when yin is exuberant, there is cold

when yin is exuberant, there is internal cold

When yin evil is exuberant, the qi transformation of the bowels and viscera is disturbed, there is congealing stagnation in the blood vessels, and cold-type pathoconditions such as water qi, phlegm-rheum, or swelling and distention arise. Elementary Questions states, ``What is yin exuberance engendering internal cold?... Reverse qi ascends counterflow. Cold qi accumulates in the chest and fails to drain away, and when it fails to drain away, so warm qi disappears leaving only the cold and the blood congeals causing stoppage in the vessels and making the pulse large exuberant and rough; hence this is center cold.'' See when yin prevails, there is cold.

when yin is vacuous, there is internal heat

Synonyms: when yin is exuberant, there is cold.

From Elementary Questions. (Originally) taxation fatigue damaging the spleen, causing spleen vacuity heat~effusion. (Nowadays) depletion of yin humor gives rise to internal heat characterized by tidal heat~effusion, or vexing heat in the five hearts, as well as night sweating, dry mouth, red tongue, and a rapid fine pulse.

when yin prevails, there is cold

From Elementary Questions. When yin qi prevails, yang qi is debilitated; hence cold signs appear. See when yin is exuberant, there is internal cold.

when yin prevails, yang ails

Exuberant yin gives rise to disease involving damage to the yang qi of the body.

white

Synonyms: snake lice.

The color of unsullied snow, or any color approaching or tending toward it. In the five phases, white is associated with metal, an association that may derive from the color of metals such as iron and silver. It possibly derives from the purifying frost of autumn, although winter, the season of snow, is associated through water with the color black. In the body, the white of the eye, or qi wheel, is associated with lung-metal. In the diagnosis of disease, a white (i.e., pale) complexion indicates vacuity or cold, whereas a white tongue, if significant, indicates cold. White vaginal discharge is associated with spleen vacuity or kidney vacuity. The associations of the color white are thus related to those of purity and clearness described in Elementary Questions: ``all disease with watery humors that are clear, pure, and cold is ascribed to cold.'' The lung. In the term White-Draining Powder, ``white'' refers to the lung. white turbidity.

white crust

Synonyms: white eye.

A skin disease characterized by red macules, papules or plaque covered in scales. White crust affects the extensor surface of the limbs, especially the elbows, knees, and shins, or the scalp and trunk, often occurring symmetrically. It is attributed to wind-cold invading from outside and the consequent disturbance of construction and defense, or to wind-heat lying depressed in the skin for a long time and transforming into dryness.

Medication: Dispel wind and moisten dryness; clear heat and resolve toxin. Ledebouriella Sage-Inspired Powder can be given as oral medication. Apply Oxhide Lichen Medicinal Paste.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LI, SP, and ouch points. Select LI-4 (Union Valley), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), SP-10 (Sea of Blood), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), and ouch points; needle with drainage. In addition, the affected areas (ouch points) can be tapped

white dry eye

Dryness of the eyes with blurring of the vision without redness or swelling or other objective signs. White dry eye is attributed to vacuity fire flaming upward that stems either from insufficiency of lung yin or from liver-kidney yin vacuity, or to brewing damp-heat with deep-lying fire in the qi aspect.

Medication: For insufficiency of lung yin with vacuity fire flaming upward, use Yin-Nourishing Lung-Clearing Decoction. For liver-kidney yin vacuity with vacuity fire flaming upward, use Lycium Berry, Chrysanthemum, and Rehmannia Pill plus tangkuei (Angelicae Sinensi

white dysentery

Synonyms: white dry eye.

Dysentery characterized by pus in the stool. See dysentery.

white eye

Synonyms: white facial complexion.

white face

white facial complexion

Any pale complexion, generally indicating cold or vacuity. Distinction is made between different forms of white: pale white means general pallor; bright white means pronounced lack of color observed, for example, when blood temporarily leaves the face; somber white is white with a tinge of gray or blue. A bright white complexion with facial vacuity edema generally indicates yang qi vacuity and occurs after massive bleeding, in chronic nephritis, or in wheezing and panting patterns. A pale white lusterless complexion, together with general and facial emaciation, normally points to blood vacuity. The Magic Pivot states, ``Blood desertion is characterized by a white, perished, and sheenless complexion.'' The sudden appearance of a somber white complexion in acute diseases is usually attributable to fulminant yang qi desertion. However, somber white may also be observed in cases of externally contracted wind-cold diseases characterized by aversion to cold, shivering, and severe abdominal pain due to interior cold.

white flesh

The white flesh of the palmar aspect of the hand and arm or plantar aspect of the foot in contradistinction to the red flesh, i.e., the sun-tanned flesh of the dorsal aspect. The outer layer of flesh that is white in color (fat).

white flood

Profuse white vaginal discharge of sudden onset. White flood is attributed to heart-spleen taxation damage from excessive anxiety and thought or to extreme vacuity cold taxation damaging the network vessels of the uterus.

white lai

A disease characterized by gradually whitening of areas of skin, numbness of the limbs, heat in the joints, lack of strength in the extremities, needling pain, hoarseness of the voice, and unclear vision.

white leak

From A Thousand Gold Pieces Prescriptions. A persistent watery thin white discharge from the vagina.

Medication: Supplement the spleen and lung with Center-Supplementing Qi-Boosting Decoction or Ginseng Construction-Nourishing Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GIV, CV, back transport points, and SP. Select GB-26 (Girdling Vessel), BL-30 (White Ring Transport), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-13 (Lung Transport), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), SP-9 (Y

white membrane invading the eye

Synonyms: qi wheel.

A disease of the eye characterized by the appearance of small gray-white vesicles at the border between the dark and white of the eye that gradually spreads into the dark of the eye. In severe cases, the vesicles join up, and after healing leave a nebulous screen. Other signs include aversion to light, pain, and tearing. The condition often repeatedly returns after clearing. It is caused by exuberant liver-lung heat or effulgent yin vacuity fire.

Medication: Repletion patterns are treated by draining liver and lung fire with Gentian Liver-Draining Decoction plus mulberry root bark (Mori Radicis Cortex), lycium root bark (Lycii Radicis Cortex), and scrophularia (Scrophulariae Radix). Effulgent yin vacuity fire

white of the eye

The sclera and conjunctiva.

white ooze

Synonyms: white patch wind.

Semen in the urine or persistent vaginal discharge. Seminal efflux (i.e., loss of semen while awake), especially when severe. Severe seminal turbidity.

white patch

Synonyms: white patch.

white patch wind

White patches on the skin attributed to disharmony of the blood arising when wind evil assails the exterior, causing the interstices to loose their tightness. White patch wind is most common in youth and the prime of life. It is characterized by creamy white macules of varying size, clearly distinguishable from the normal skin coloring. Any hair growing in the patches also turns white. Some of the patches have a brown or pale red papule in the center. The condition is associated with neither pain nor itching. It is of gradual onset, and often persists for a long period.

Medication: Dispel wind and overcome dampness; quicken the blood and rectify qi. Take White Patch Tablet orally, and apply Psoralea Tincture topically.

Acupuncture: The following two methods should be used in tandem. (1) Select ouch points as the main points, and tap lightly with a cutaneous needle and pole for 30 minutes once every other day. (2) Select distant points on the affected area: For the face, add LI-4 (Un

white perverse crop

Synonyms: head-wind white scaling.

white scaling wind

A scaling skin disease of the neck, which can spread over the face, nose, and ears. White scaling wind, is attributed to wind-heat that after invading the body through the pores, lies depressed for a long time and gives rise to blood dryness that deprives the skin of nourishment. It occurs after puberty, and is more common in males than females. The scales are easily removed by scratching or combing, and develop again. Sometimes some of the scales are yellow and oily, and crustlike. Sometimes there are itchy papules that produce a sticky or bloody fluid when scratched. The condition may be associated with hair loss in the affected areas.

Medication: Dispel wind, moisten dryness, and clear heat. Take Wind-Dispersing Powder orally, and rub on Flesh-Moistening Paste or Reversal Powder prepared as a wash with 1.5~g each of finely powdered raw rhubarb (Rhei Rhizoma Crudum) and sulfur (Sulphur) mixed into

white tiger joint running

white tongue fur

The clinical significance of a white tongue fur is fourfold. (1) Clean, moist, thin white fur is normal and healthy, but may also appear at the onset of sickness indicating that the evil has not yet entered the interior and right qi remains undamaged. (2) Glossy white fur indicates cold. If thin, it indicates external wind-cold or interior cold; if thick, it indicates cold-damp or cold-phlegm. (3) Dry white fur indicates transformation of cold evil into heat. An extremely dry thin white fur indicates insufficiency of fluids. A thick dry white fur indicates transformation of dampness into dryness. A mealy white fur with a red tongue body indicates ``dampness trapping hidden heat,'' which is treated by first transforming the dampness to allow the heat to escape rather than with excessive use of cool medicinals. (4) Thick slimy white fur indicates phlegm-damp and is usually accompanied by a slimy sensation in the mouth, oppression in the chest, and torpid intake. White fur occurs in a variety of diseases. A thick white fur is mainly associated with hypertrophy of the corneal layer of the filiform papillae for unknown reasons. A white mold-like coating covering the tongue and the whole of the surface of the oral cavity, sometimes with small patches of mucosal erosion known as erosion speckles, is termed oral putrefaction. A loose, crumblike fur is called a bean curd fur (tofu fur). These signs indicate the development of sweltering damp-heat in patterns of stomach vacuity and damage to yin. This generally occurs in enduring or serious illnesses and indicates complex patterns that are difficult to treat.

white turbidity

Murky urine that is white in color. See urinary turbidity. Discharge of a murky white substance from the urethra, associated with inhibited urination with clear urine. See essence turbidity.

white vaginal discharge

A discharge from the vagina of sticky white matter. White vaginal discharge is normal in some women, and may naturally increase before and after menstruation or during pregnancy. Only copious flow, especially when associated with abdominal pain or lumbar pain is viewed as pathological. White vaginal discharge is attributed to the girdling vessel failing to ensure retention, and insecurity of the controlling vessel resulting from spleen vacuity, liver depression and spleen vacuity, or damp-heat pouring downward.

white wandering wind

white-face sand

Synonyms: white face.

Erupting measles characterized by a somber white complexion, associated with improper eruption, cold limbs, and purple lips, and attributed to major depletion of center qi and nonmovement of spleen yang. Clinically, it is understood to be related to great sweating, diarrhea, or constitutional weakness.

Medication: Treat by upraising and boosting qi with variations of Center-Supplementing Qi-Boosting Decoction.

whiteworm disease

Synonyms: tip-abscess.

One of the nine worm diseases of The Origin and Indicators of Disease. inch whiteworm.

whitlow

Synonyms: cormorant cough; epidemic cough; hundred day cough; long-bout cough; hen cough.

whooping cough

A children's disease readily identifiable by the characteristic whoop of the cough. The whooping sound is similar to the sound made by a hen after laying an egg, hence the alternate name hen cough. Whooping cough is attributed to contraction of a seasonal evil, which causes phlegm turbidity to obstruct the airways and inhibit lung qi. If the cough continues, it can damage the network vessels of the lung and give rise to expectoration of blood.

Medication: For initial-stage evil invading the lung, treat by transforming phlegm with warm acrid medicinals and by downbearing qi. Use Belamcanda and Ephedra Decoction. In the middle stage, where the evil is lodged in the lung, treat by clearing heat and diffusing

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, and back transport points. Main points: LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-4 (Union Valley), BL-12 (Wind Gate), and BL-13 (Lung Transport). Selection of points according to stage of progression: For initial-stage evil invading the

wild-duck bones

Synonyms: atony ; wei .

The Golden Mirror of Medicine states, ``The wild-duck bones are the side ribs of the lower chest.'' Modern sources say that these are the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth ribs, which form the arch of the ribs.

wilting

Weakness and limpness of the sinews that in severe cases prevents the lifting of the arms and legs accompanied by the sensation that the elbow, wrist, knee, and ankle are dislocated. In advanced cases, atrophy sets in. In clinical practice, the condition is mainly found to affect the legs, preventing the patient from walking, hence it is also called crippling wilt. Wilting patterns include withering and paralysis of the limbs in neonates and infants after high fever, which Western medicine attributes to poliomyelitis. The pathomechanism of wilting has been explained in different ways over the centuries. Elementary Questions discusses five forms of wilting: skin and body hair wilting, due to lung qi scorching the lobes resulting from loss or unfulfilled hopes; vessel wilting, due to heart qi heat that develops excessive sorrow and grief; sinew wilting, due to liver qi heat resulting from unfulfilled hopes, incontinent desires, and excessive sexual activity; flesh wilting, due to spleen qi heat resulting from being soaked with water, working with water, or living in damp places; bone wilting, due to kidney qi heat resulting from walking long distances and thirst after exposure to great heat. The Inner Canon also suggests that, at the time, the yang brightness was important in the treatment of wilting patterns, and that it was therefore important in the etiology. Elementary Questions explains this importance in the following way: ``Yang brightness is the sea of the five viscera and six bowels, and governs the moistening of the ancestral sinews (see ancestral sinew), which leash the bones and allow the hinges (i.e., the major joints) to move uninhibitedly. The thoroughfare vessel is the sea of the channel vessels; it governs irrigation of the ravines and valleys, and unites with the yang brightness at the ancestral sinews The yin and yang (the thoroughfare vessel and yang brightness) converge at the ancestral sinews... They home to the girdling vessel and net the governing vessel. Thus, when yang brightness is vacuous, the ancestral sinews are slack and the girdling fails to conduct; hence the legs become wilted and useless.'' Over the centuries, wilting has generally been considered more commonly to be due to internal damage than to external evils, more commonly due to cold than heat, and more commonly to vacuity rather than to repletion. Nowadays, the view prevails that it is due to lung heat scorching the lobes, which spreads to the other viscera. When the heat affects the yang brightness (stomach) channel's ability to ``moisten the ancestral sinew,'' the sinews are scorched by the heat and become wilted. Liver-kidney depletion also plays a role. When the kidney is depleted, the bones become desiccated and the marrow is reduced. When the kidney fails to nourish the liver, the sinews are deprived of nourishment. Liver-kidney depletion is considered to be sufficient in itself, without lung-stomach heat, to cause wilting. Wilting patterns, according to modern texts, primarily include lung heat with damage to liquid, soddening by damp-heat, spleen-stomach vacuity, and liver-kidney depletion. See also the entries listed below.

wilting pattern

Synonyms: wind evil.

wilting-impediment

Synonyms: wilting.

A general term denoting wilting and impediment.

wind

One of the six qi; any natural movement of air. See aversion to wind; tearing on exposure to wind. One of the six excesses; wind as a cause of disease, a yang evil. The nature of wind as an evil and its clinical manifestations are similar to those of the meteorological phenomenon from which it derives its name: it comes and goes quickly, moves swiftly, blows intermittently, and sways the branches of the trees. ``Wind is swift and changeable,'' and its clinical manifestations as an evil have the following characteristics: Rapid onset and swift changes in condition. Convulsions, tremor, shaking of the head, dizziness, and wandering pain and itching. Invasion of the upper part of the body and the exterior, e.g., the head (the uppermost part of the body), the lung (the uppermost of the major organs), and the skin and body hair. Facial paralysis and hemiplegia. Note that although wind is associated with movement, by causing stiffness and clenched jaw, it can also be seen to have the power to check normal movement, as in facial paralysis. Internal wind, i.e., wind arising within the body by the following pathomechanisms: liver wind stirring internally, which occurs when liver yang and liver fire transform into wind, manifesting in dizziness, tremor, and convulsions; extreme heat engendering wind, arising in externally contracted diseases such as fright wind and manifesting in convulsions, stiffness of the neck, arched-back rigidity, etc.; blood vacuity engendering wind, arising when great sweating, great vomiting, great diarrhea, major loss of blood, damage to yin in enduring illness, or kidney-water failing to moisten liver-wood causes desiccation of the blood that deprives the sinews of nourishment and insufficiency of liver yin that leaves yang unsubdued and allows liver wind to scurry around internally. Vacuity wind stirring within is marked by dizziness, tremor, worm-like movement in the extremities, or clouding collapse. See also viscus of wind and wood; liver; fright wind. Any of various diseases ascribed to wind or bearing attributes of wind; occurs in disease names such as lip wind, white patch wind, goose-foot wind, head wind, thunder head wind, crane's-knee wind, joint-running wind, great numbing wind, scrotal wind, childbed wind, wandering wind, nipple wind, lost heart wind, green wind internal obstruction, and yellow wind internal obstruction.

wind and dampness contending with each other

Interaction between wind and dampness evils after they have entered the body. Wind is a yang evil and mobile and penetrating; dampness is a yin evil, and tends to stagnate and impede the movement of qi and blood. When the two combine, they cause generalized pain in the joints and flesh. On Cold Damage states, ``When wind and dampness contend with each other, the joints are affected by vexing and pulling pain that prevents bending and stretching and is exacerbated by touching. There is sweating, shortness of breath, inhibited urination, aversion to wind with disinclination to remove clothing, and in some cases mild generalized swelling. It is treated with Licorice and Aconite Decoction.''

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GB, GV, TB, and LI. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), TB-5 (Outer Pass), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), LI-4 (Union Valley), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), and SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring), as the main points. Needle with drai

wind and fire fanning each other

Exuberant evil heat in febrile disease scorching the liver channel and causing internal stirring of liver wind characterized by clouded spirit and fright reversal.

wind bar

One of the three bars of the finger. See infant's finger examination.

wind can overcome dampness

From Elementary Questions: ``wind overcomes dampness.'' In the natural environment, wind can dispel dampness; when the wind blows, things dry. In Chinese medicine, this analogy is used to explain the ability of wind-dispelling medicinals to treat dampness. Although in this context, wind refers to wind-dispelling medicinals (medicinals opposed to wind), rather than wind itself, it is observed that many wind medicinals are dry. Medicinals such as ledebouriella (Ledebouriellae Radix), notopterygium (Notopterygii Rhizoma), duhuo (Angelicae Duhuo Radix), ligusticum (Ligustici Rhizoma), Chinese lovage (Ligustici Sinensis Rhizoma et Radix), and vitex (Viticis Fructus) are commonly used to overcome dampness. The ability of wind medicinals to overcome dampness is reflected in formula names such as Notopterygium Dampness-Overcoming Decoction and Bupleurum Dampness-Overcoming Decoction.

wind choke

A condition occurring after sudden clouding with inability to recognize people, stiff tongue preventing speaking, and blockage of the throat sometimes attended by a characteristic ``ee ee'' sound. It falls within the scope of visceral stroke in wind stroke.

wind constipation

Dry bound stool and difficult defecation arising when wind contends with the lung and is transmitted to the large intestine, where it causes or exacerbates dryness of the fluids. Wind constipation is observed most commonly among the weak and elderly, and those predisposed to wind disease.

Medication: Course wind, harmonize the blood, and moisten the intestines. Use formulas such as Hemp Seed Pill or Intestine-Moistening Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on alarm, back transport, and lower uniting points of LI, and on LU. Select BL-25 (Large Intestine Transport), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot), ST-37 (Upper Great Hollow), BL-12 (Wind Gate), GB-20 (Wind Pool), LU-9 (Great Abyss), and LI-4 (U

wind convulsions

Synonyms: wind damage cough.

Shaking of the extremities attributable to exuberant heat and effulgent liver with stirring wind and phlegm congestion. The tremor prevents the holding of objects and impedes normal walking, and is attended by open eyes and mouth that continuously twitch, night heat~effusion, generalized dryness and itching, and in some cases dizzy vision or arched-back rigidity. umbilical wind.

Medication: Calm the liver and extinguish wind. Use Antelope Horn and Uncaria Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, LR, and GB. Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), GV-16 (Wind Mansion), GB-20 (Wind Pool), LR-3 (Supreme Surge), GV-14 (Great Hammer), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), KI-1 (Gushing Spring), and ST-40 (

wind cough

wind damage

Synonyms: wind cough.

From Incisive Light on the Source of Miscellaneous Disease. Common cold. From On Cold Damage. Greater yang wind stroke. See wind stroke.

wind damage cough

Cough due to wind evil damaging the lung. Wind damage cough is accompanied by aversion to cold and spontaneous sweating or aversion to cold and heat~effusion, nasal congestion and runny nose, heavy voice, itchy throat, and a floating pulse.

Medication: Course wind, diffuse the lung, transform phlegm, and relieve cough. Use formulas such as Cough-Stopping Powder, Rough and Ready Three Decoction and Inula Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, and GB. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-4 (Union Valley), GB-20 (Wind Pool), BL-12 (Wind Gate), CV-22 (Celestial Chimney), and ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge); needle with drainage and moxa.

wind diarrhea

Diarrhea characterized by discharge of clear water, attributed to contraction of wind evil, and accompanied by aversion to wind, spontaneous sweating, headache, heat~effusion, and a floating pulse.

Medication: Use atractylodes (Atractylodis Rhizoma) and ledebouriella (Ledebouriellae Radix), or Schizonepeta and Ledebouriella Toxin-Vanquishing Powder plus tangerine peel (Citri Exocarpium) and ovate atractylodes (Atractylodis Ovatae Rhizoma).

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GB, LI, CV, ST, and SP. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), BL-12 (Wind Gate), LI-4 (Union Valley), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), and SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring); needle with drainage.

wind disablement

Synonyms: wind dizzy head.

wind dispersion

Synonyms: wind dizziness.

A disease name mentioned in Elementary Questions denoting heat~effusion and general emaciation due to dissipation of the heart spirit through preoccupation and frustration. In women there may also be menstrual block or blood spillage, whereas in men there may be blood collapse and seminal loss.

Medication: Course the liver and resolve depression; regulate and nourish the heart and spleen. Free Wanderer Powder or Spleen-Returning Decoction may be used.

wind dizziness

Dizziness due to wind evil invading the brain in constitutional vacuity. Wind dizziness is characterized by dizzy head and vision, retching, limb pain, and, in severe cases, reverse-flow, and occurs at irregular intervals. epilepsy.

Medication: Support right and dispel wind using formulas such as Ligusticum Powder or Duhuo Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, GB, ST, and SP. Needle with drainage at GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-16 (Wind Mansion), GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), and PC-6 (Inner Pass), and with supplementation at BL-20 (Spleen Transport), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-36 (Le

wind dizzy head

wind dormant papules

wind dysentery

Dysentery arising after contraction of wind evil; characterized by diarrhea turning into dysentery, rumbling intestines, abdominal pain, passage of pure blood, and tenesmus.

wind ear

wind epilepsy

Synonyms: Wind as disease-causing entity. See wind.

Epilepsy characterized by tremor of the extremities, shaking of the head, and clenched jaw. A condition occurring in febrile disease, equivalent to fright wind. Child epilepsy characterized by highly varied signs. Convulsions due to externally contracted wind evil. See epilepsy.

wind evil

wind evil assailing the exterior

Wind-cold or wind-heat entering the body and giving rise to exterior patterns.

wind evil dizziness

wind evil invading the lung

wind flat-abscess

Synonyms: gan of the liver.

A persistent sore occurring on the lower leg or ankle that is characterized by pain and itching and that exudes yellow fluid when ruptured and is attributed to damp-heat stagnating in the skin or in the blood and blood vessels.

Medication: Clear and disinhibit dampness using Wind-Dispersing Powder or Mysterious Three Pill as oral medication, and applying Indigo Powder topically.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, LI, ST, and SP. Needle with drainage at GV-14 (Great Hammer), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), and with supplementation at BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport), SP-10 (Sea of Blood), ST-

wind gan

Synonyms: tongue blister.

wind gan of the mouth

wind heart pain

From A Thousand Gold Pieces Prescriptions. Heart pain attributable to wind-cold evil qi exploiting vacuity to cause internal disturbance, causing heart pain (stomach duct pain), rumbling and movement under the ribs, fullness in the chest, shortness of breath, and ejection of drool.

Medication: Warm and dissipate using Cyperus and Perilla Powder.

wind impediment

An impediment pattern attributed to wind-cold-damp invading the limbs and channels and characterized by wandering pain, which indicates that wind is the dominant evil.

Medication: Treat primarily by dispelling wind and secondarily by dispelling cold and disinhibited dampness. Blood-supplementing medicinals are often used. Applicable formulas include Ledebouriella Decoction.

Acupuncture: Main points: GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-16 (Wind Mansion), BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport), SP-10 (Sea of Blood), and SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection). Apply a shallow needling with drainage, or tap with a cutaneous needle. For selection of points according to affect

wind lichen

Synonyms: wind stroke.

Lichen attributed to wind-cold settling in the skin and contending with qi and blood. Wind lichen is characterized by clearly circumscribed elevations of the skin that are round or oval in shape and scale when scratched. When they persist, the skin thickens.

Medication: Lichen Medicinal Water or Tincture of Golden Larch (root) Bark.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LI, ST, GB and ouch points. Pole ouch points (affected area) for 30--60 minutes. Select LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), LI-4 (Union Valley), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), GB-20 (Wind Pool), and TB-5 (Outer Pass); needle with drainage. For prono

wind malaria

Malaria attributed to contraction of wind due to excessive consumption of cold foods and beverages. Wind malaria is characterized by mild aversion to cold followed by pronounced heat~effusion, headache, heat~effusion and agitation.

Medication: If there is aversion to wind without sweating, it is treated by coursing wind and resolving the exterior with Apricot Kernel and Perilla Powder plus bupleurum (Bupleuri Radix). If there is aversion to cold with sweating and heat vexation, it is treated by

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, SI, PC, GV, and BL. Main points: GV-14 (Great Hammer), GV-13 (Kiln Path), SI-3 (Back Ravine), and PC-5 (Intermediary Courier). If there is aversion to wind without sweating, add BL-11 (Great Shuttle), BL-12 (Wind Gate), BL-13

wind medicinal

Any medicinal that treats disease attributed to wind.

wind papules

wind sand. dormant papules.

wind qi stirring internally

Dizziness, convulsions, and clouding collapse resulting from disturbances of the bowels and viscera when qi and blood flow chaotically counter to their normal direction and the sinews are deprived of nourishment. Elementary Questions states, ``When wind prevails, there is stirring.'' Elementary Questions states, ``all fulminant rigidity is ascribed to wind.''

wind rampart

Synonyms: wind red sore disease.

wind red sore

A disease of the eyelid or eyelid rim characterized by redness, blisters, erosion, and soreness, itching, and ulceration. Wind red sore is caused by spleen-lung wind-heat, damp-heat congestion, or by wind-fire attacking the upper body.

wind red sore disease

Synonyms: wind papules.

wind red sore.

wind sand

A contagious disease characterized by a papular eruption seen in children under five years of age in the winter and spring; attributed to externally contracted wind-heat lying depressed in the fleshy exterior and manifesting in small pale red papules that appear quickly and disappear without scaling or scarring.

Medication: Clear heat and resolve the exterior with Lonicera and Forsythia Powder with Five-Ingredient Toxin-Dispersing Beverage plus cicada molting (Cicadae Periostracum).

wind scrofula

Small itchy scrofula attributed to wind. See scrofula.

wind strike

Synonyms: wind strike.

wind stroke.

wind stroke

The sudden appearance of hemiplegia, deviated eyes and mouth, and impeded speech that may or may not start with sudden clouding collapse (loss of consciousness). In The Inner Canon, the term zhong4 feng1 is used in the general sense of contracting wind evil, and terms such as major reversal, sudden reversal, hemilateral withering, disablement, and deviated mouth most closely match what is now called wind stroke. It was Zhang Ji (Zhang Zhong-Jing) who in Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer first used the term in the sense intended here. Zhang Ji attributed wind stroke to contraction of wind evil, and distinguished between network stroke, channel stroke, bowel stroke, and visceral stroke on the basis of signs: ``When the evil is in the network vessel, the skin is insensitive; when it is in the channels, the body is heavy and unwieldy; when it is in the bowels, [the patient] does not recognize people; when in the viscera, the tongue has difficulty in speaking and the patient drools at the mouth.'' Wind stroke continued to be attributed to external wind until the Northern Song (900--1127), when fire, phlegm, and vacuity also came to be identified as causes. In the Yuan Dynasty (1271--1368) Wang L" u (Wang An-Dao) made a clear distinction between true wind stroke, i.e., wind stroke attributed to externally contracted wind and wind-like stroke which is attributed to internal wind or other causes. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Zhong-Zi (Li Shi-Cai) made the distinction between block patterns and desertion patterns (see ahead). In the modern view, wind-like stroke is much more common, and usually only mild cases are ever considered to be true wind stroke, although external wind may trigger wind-like stroke. Wind-like is said to occur a)~when depletion of yin essence or sudden anger causes hyperactivity of liver yang which stirs liver wind; b)~when, owing to a predilection for rich, fatty foods, phlegm heat congests in the inner body and transforms into wind; c)~when vacuity of qi and blood causes vacuity wind; or d)~when a patient suffering from internal vacuity suddenly contracts external wind. Zhang Ji's distinctions between network, channel, bowel, and visceral stroke were never fully clarified, and modern texts tend to make only a dual distinction between channel and network stroke on the one hand and bowel and visceral stroke on the other. is marked by the sudden appearance of deviated eyes and mouth, hemiplegia, and difficulty in speech, or sometimes only numbness, without clouding collapse. is marked by sudden clouding collapse that leaves the patient to regain consciousness with deviated eyes and mouth, hemiplegia, and sluggish or difficult speech or loss of speech. In other words, channel and network stroke is milder, involving physical impairment, whereas bowel and visceral stroke is more severe and involves serious permanent impairment of mental faculties. Channel and network stroke is considered to be true wind stroke if there are signs such as aversion to cold, headache and body pains, and hypertonicity of the limbs; if not, like bowel and visceral stroke, it is considered to be wind-like stroke. In bowel and visceral stroke patterns, distinction is made between desertion and block patterns. are those marked by open mouth, limp hands, open eyes, enuresis, snoring voice, and in some cases, by spontaneous sweating. are those characterized by clenched jaw and clenched hands. Among block patterns, distinction is made between yin and yang. patterns are characterized by white lusterless complexion, inactivity and absence of heart vexation, lack of warmth in the extremities, dull moist lips, respiration characterized by the gurgling sound of phlegm, a dark tongue with slimy white fur and a sunken slippery or sunken moderate pulse. patterns are characterized by tidal reddening of the face, agitation, warm hands and feet, dry red lips, rough breathing, red tongue with yellow slimy tongue fur, and stringlike slippery or stringlike rapid pulse. From On Cold Damage. An external wind contraction, one type of greater yang tai4 yang2 disease. On Cold Damage states, ``Greater yang disease, with heat effusion, sweating, aversion to wind, and a pulse that is moderate, is called wind stroke.''

wind stroke block pattern

wind stroke desertion pattern

wind stroke in pregnancy

From The Origin and Indicators of Disease. A disease due to strike by wind evil occurring in pregnancy when blood vacuity deprives the channels and network vessels and the bowels and viscera of nourishment. Channel and network vessel stroke is characterized by insensitivity of the skin, numbness of the extremities, deviated eyes and mouth, and, in severe cases, hemiplegia. Bowel and visceral stroke is marked by sudden collapse with phlegm-drool congestion and loss of consciousness.

Medication: Supplement vacuity, quiet the fetus, and dispel wind. Use Modified Eight Agents Decoction. For deviated eyes and mouth and stubborn impediment , treat by nourishing the blood and dispelling wind, assisted by quieting the fetus. Use Fangji Powder. For sudd

wind taxation

Vacuity taxation disease with repeated contraction of wind evil. The Wings of the Golden Coffer states, ``Wind taxation patterns are characterized by steaming flesh and bone heat~effusion, alternating heat~effusion and aversion to cold, phlegm cough, night sweating, parched body hair, bad breath... '' The Great Peace Sagacious Benevolence Formulary states, ``In people with taxation damage, the interior and exterior are mostly vacuous, qi and blood are debilitated, and the interstices of the skin are loose and leaky, easily allowing wind evil to invade, which then either wanders through the skin or sinks to cause stagnation in the bowels and viscera, giving rise to a variety of different illnesses depending on the place affected.'' If the body is weak and there is reduced food intake, emaciation, inhibition of the sinews, pain in the hands and feet, then formulas such as Ledebouriella Powder can be used. If qi and blood are insufficient and the bowels and viscera are vacuous and damaged, and the patient has vexing pain in the joints, lack of strength in the lumbus and knees, emaciation, a withered-yellow facial complexion, frequent voidings of copious urine, and night sweating as soon as he sleeps, formulas such as Large Gentian and Turtle Shell Powder can be used.

wind tetany

Tetany attributed to wind-cold-damp and characterized by repeated occurrence of signs similar to those of epilepsy such as sudden collapse, rigidity of the back, and clenched jaw. childbed wind.

Medication: Dispel wind, dissipate cold, and transform dampness with formulas such as Minor Life-Prolonging Decoction.

Acupuncture: Needle with drainage at GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-5 (Outer Pass), and GV-16 (Wind Mansion) to dispel wind; needle with supplementation and moxa at BL-23 (Kidney Transport), CV-4 (Pass Head), and GV-4 (Life Gate) to warm cold; and needle with even supplementat

wind tetany in pregnancy

wind ulceration of the eyelid rim

ulceration of the eyelid rim.

wind warmth

A warm disease due to the contraction of wind warmth evil. Wind warmth usually occurs in winter or spring. At onset, the disease is in the lung and defense, and signs include generalized heat~effusion, cough, heart vexation, and thirst, but it easily makes an abnormal passage to the pericardium causing clouded spirit, delirious speech, and tetanic reversal with convulsions.

Medication: When the evil is in the lung and defense, apply cool acrid exterior outthrust using Lonicera and Forsythia Powder, Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Licorice, and Gypsum Decoction, or Thousand Gold Pieces Phragmites Decoction. For abnormal passage to the pericardi

Acupuncture: From On Cold Damage. Greater yang disease with thirst and absence of aversion to cold that after sweating treatment gives way to scorching hot body, spontaneous sweating, heavy body and somnolence, and snoring from the nose.

wind warmth tetany

An infantile tetany pattern attributed to contraction of wind warmth.

Medication: When accompanied by cough, it can be treated with Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Beverage. When there is clouded spirit and delirious speech, it is treated by opening the orifices with aroma, using Palace-Clearing Decoction combined with Purple Snow Elix

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, GV, and LR. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), LI-4 (Union Valley), ST-44 (Inner Court), GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), GV-16 (Wind Mansion), LR-3 (Supreme Surge), and GV-8 (Sin

wind water

From Elementary Questions. External wind contraction with water swelling. Signs include rapid onset, floating pulse, pain in the joints, heat~effusion and aversion to cold, and swelling, particularly of the head and face (the upper part of the body being affected by wind evil). The disease is the result of impairment of lung qi's depurative downbearing by wind evil in patients suffering from spleen-kidney qi vacuity.

Medication: Course wind, diffuse the lung, and disinhibit water using Spleen-Effusing Decoction, Poria (Hoelen) Five Powder, or Fangji and Astragalus Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, back transport points, SP, ST, and GB. Select CV-9 (Water Divide), CV-6 (Sea of Qi), BL-22 (Triple Burner Transport), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), BL-13 (Lung Transport), BL-11 (Great Shuttle), GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-5 (Outer Pass), L

wind wheel

Cornea and iris; related to the liver.

wind yang

Wind as a yang evil; wind transforming from liver yang. See liver wind stirring internally.

wind-cold

Wind and cold disease evils combined, manifesting pronounced aversion to cold with mild heat~effusion, and such signs as headache, generalized pain, absence of sweating, nasal congestion and runny nose, cough, clear thin phlegm, absence of thirst. The tongue fur is glossy and white, and the pulse is floating and tight. Wind-cold is characterized by the presence of wind signs and pronounced cold signs, and therefore presents as an exterior cold pattern. * Wind-Cold--Dissipating Medicinals () ephedra (Ephedrae Herba) cinnamon twig (Cinnamomi Ramulus) perilla leaf (Perillae Folium) perilla (Perillae Folium, Caulis et Calyx) fresh ginger (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) perilla stem (Perillae Caulis) elsholtzia (Elsholtziae Herba) ginger skin (Zingiberis Rhizomatis Cortex) schizonepeta (Schizonepetae Herba et Flos) ledebouriella (Ledebouriellae Radix) notopterygium (Notopterygii Rhizoma) angelica (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix) chinese lovage (Ligustici Sinensis Rhizoma et Radix) xanthium (Xanthii Fructus) magnolia flower1 (Magnoliae Flos1) scallion white (Allii Fistulosi Bulbus) coriander (Coriandri Herba cum Radice) tamarisk (Tamaricis Ramulus et Folium)

wind-cold common cold

Common cold due to contraction of wind-cold. The main signs are heat~effusion, aversion to cold, headache, absence of sweating, nasal congestion, heavy voice, sneezing, itchy throat, cough, absence of thirst, a thin white tongue fur, and a tight floating pulse.

Medication: Warm acrid exterior resolution. Use formulas such as Scallion and Fermented Soybean Decoction or Schizonepeta and Ledebouriella Toxin-Vanquishing Powder. For pronounced exterior cold, add ephedra (Ephedrae Herba) and cinnamon twig (Cinnamomi Ramulus). For

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LI, LU, and BL. Main points: LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-4 (Union Valley), BL-12 (Wind Gate), and GB-20 (Wind Pool). For heat~effusion, add GV-14 (Great Hammer). For headache, add GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), Greater Yang, and SI

wind-cold cough

Cough attributed to wind-cold invading the lung, causing nondiffusion of lung qi. Wind-cold cough is associated with thin phlegm, nasal congestion and runny nose, heavy voice, headache, joint pain, heat~effusion and aversion to cold without sweating, white tongue fur, and a floating pulse.

Medication: Course wind and dissipate cold; diffuse lung qi. Use Inula Powder or Apricot Kernel and Perilla Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU and LI. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-4 (Union Valley), BL-12 (Wind Gate), CV-22 (Celestial Chimney), and ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge); needle with drainage and, if appropriate, add moxa. Apply moxibustio

wind-cold deafness

Deafness attributed to wind-cold fettering the exterior, congealing in the channels, and blocking the ear orifices. Wind-cold deafness is associated with headache, aversion to cold, heat~effusion, absence of sweating, nasal congestion, and tinnitus.

Medication: Dispel cold with warm acrid medicinals; open the orifices and effuse sweat. Formulas such as Nine-Ingredient Notopterygium Decoction may be used.

Acupuncture: Acupuncture: See deafness

wind-cold dizziness

Dizziness attributed to contraction of wind-cold. Distinction is made between wind evil dizziness and cold evil dizziness.

wind-cold fettering the exterior

Wind-cold causing an exterior pattern. The main signs are headache, generalized pain, and aversion to wind. Other signs include absence of sweating, absence of thirst, cough with expectoration of clear thin phlegm, glossy white tongue fur, and a tight floating pulse. This pattern is one form a common cold can take.

Medication: Resolve the exterior with warmth and acridity; dissipate wind-cold; diffuse lung qi. Use Ephedra Decoction and its variations for cough, rapid breathing, and absence of sweating, and Tea-Blended Ligusticum (Cnidium Root) Powder for especially severe head

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GB, LU, and LI. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), LI-4 (Union Valley), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), and TB-5 (Outer Pass); needle with drainage and add moxa. Selection of points according to signs: For headache, add GV-20 (Hundred Convergence

wind-cold fettering the exterior panting

wind-cold fettering the lung

Wind-cold invading the lung and causing nondiffusion of lung qi. The main signs are cough and aversion to cold. Other signs include nasal congestion and runny nose with clear snivel, itchy throat, and thin white phlegm. In some cases there may also be aversion to cold and slight heat~effusion without sweating. The tongue fur is thin and white. The pulse is tight and floating.

Medication: Effuse and dissipate wind-cold; diffuse the lung and suppress cough. Use Cough-Stopping Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GB, LU, and LI. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), GB-20 (Wind Pool), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-4 (Union Valley), and TB-5 (Outer Pass). Needle with drainage.

wind-cold headache

Headache caused by wind-cold assailing from outside. Wind-cold headache is characterized by pain that may stretch to the nape and back, aversion to cold, pain in the joints, nasal congestion and runny nose, a thin white tongue fur, and a tight floating pulse.

Medication: Course with and dissipate cold with Tea-Blended Ligusticum (Cnidium Root) Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on points of the three yang channels, GV and LU. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), Greater Yang, LI-4 (Union Valley), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), and SI-3 (Back Ravine). Needle with even supplementation and drainage

wind-cold panting

Panting attributed to wind-cold fettering the exterior. See wind-cold rapid panting.

wind-cold rapid panting

Panting attributed to externally contracted wind-cold lying depressed in the lung.

Medication: If there is heat~effusion and absence of swelling use Florid Canopy Powder to make the patient sweat. If there are also signs of lung vacuity, use Pulse-Engendering Powder plus ephedra (Ephedrae Herba), apricot kernel (Armeniacae Semen), pinellia (Pinelli

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, and CV. Select BL-12 (Wind Gate), BL-13 (Lung Transport), Panting Stabilizer, LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LI-4 (Union Valley), and CV-17 (Chest Center); needle with drainage and add moxa. For lung vacuity w

wind-cold rib-side pain

Rib-side pain attributed to wind-cold evils lodged under the rib-side, and accompanied by heat~effusion and aversion to cold, bitter taste in the mouth, dry retching, and a stringlike pulse.

Medication: Treat by coursing and harmonizing with variations of Minor Bupleurum Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, LR, and GB. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), BL-12 (Wind Gate), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), LI-4 (Union Valley), TB-5 (Outer Pass), LR-14 (Cycle Gate), TB-6 (Branch Ditch), and GB-34 (Yang Mound Spring); needle with drainage and add

wind-cold toothache

Toothache attributable to externally contracted wind-cold. See toothache.

wind-cold-damp

Synonyms: impediment.

A combination of wind, cold, and dampness evils. Elementary Questions states, ``When the wind, cold, and damp evils concur and combine, they give rise to impediment.'' See impediment.

wind-cold-damp impediment

wind-damp

Disease attributed to wind and dampness and characterized by pain in the joints; it falls within the category of impediment. Wind and dampness evil in combination.

wind-damp headache

Headache due to wind evil assailing from outside and damp turbidity clouding the upper body. Wind-damp headache is characterized by headache with heavy head as if swathed (bag-over-the-head sensation), heavy cumbersome limbs, oppression in the chest and abdominal distention, nausea and torpid intake, dry mouth with little fluid intake, slimy tongue fur, and a soggy or floating moderate pulse.

Medication: Dispel wind and transform dampness using formulas such as Notopterygium Dampness-Overcoming Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on points of the three yang channels, GV, and ST. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-16 (Wind Mansion), GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), Greater Yang, LI-4 (Union Valley), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), SI-3 (Back Ravine), SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring),

wind-damp impediment

From The Origin and Indicators of Disease, which states, ``When wind, cold, and damp evils concur and combine, they give rise to impediment. Impediment with more wind and damp qi than cold qi is wind-damp impediment.'' It is characterized by thickening of the skin, aching muscular pain. If it persists for a long time, voluntary physical movement may be affected.

Medication: Dispel wind and dampness. Use Erythrina Decoction or Notopterygium Dampness-Overcoming Decoction.

Acupuncture: The main points for dispelling wind and dampness are GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-16 (Wind Mansion), BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport), SP-10 (Sea of Blood), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring), and SP-5 (Shang Hill); needle wi

wind-damp lumbar pain

Lumbar pain that arises when, after lying in damp places and contracting wind, the evils stagnate in the channel. The contraction of wind and dampness is often encouraged by kidney vacuity. Wind-damp lumbar pain is characterized by hypertonicity of lumbus and back inhibiting movement, and a floating rough pulse. In some cases there may be heat~effusion and aversion to wind, or swelling.

Medication: Dispel wind and transform dampness with formulas such as Notopterygium Toxin-Vanquishing Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on BL, GV, SP, and GB. Select BL-23 (Kidney Transport), BL-40 (Bend Center), GV-3 (Lumbar Yang Pass), ouch points, GB-20 (Wind Pool), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), and SP-9 (Yin Mound Spring). Needle with drainage.

wind-dryness

Wind evil combining with dryness evil to cause disease; usually attributed to contraction of autumn dryness. Wind-dryness is characterized by headache, heat~effusion, aversion to cold, absence of sweating, nasal congestion, dry lips and pharynx, dry skin, dry cough, chest and rib-side pain, a thin white dry tongue fur, and a rough floating pulse.

wind-fire

Synonyms: fire eye; wind-heat eye; wind-heat red eye.

Externally contracted wind and fire (heat) or externally contracted fire (heat) stirring internal wind. See wind-heat; wind and fire fanning each other.

wind-fire eye

Sore red dry eyes with aversion to light, copious discharge, and hot tears, sometimes accompanied by heat~effusion and headache. Serious contagious cases caused by fulminant wind-heat with pronounced heat toxin signs are called epidemic red eye.

Medication: Course wind and clear heat. Use Wind-Expelling Heat-Dissipating Drink. Dandelion (Taraxaci Herba cum Radice) can be decocted to make a steam-wash.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on BL, LI, and GB. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), BL-1 (Bright Eyes), LI-4 (Union Valley), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), and TB-5 (Outer Pass); needle with drainage, and prick Greater Yang, GV-23 (Upper Star), and LU-11 (Lesser Shang), to ble

wind-fire scrofula

Scrofula characterized shiny red swollen nodes on the neck, often below the ear, attributed to the gathering and binding of wind-heat possibly combined with liver-gallbladder fire. In severe cases, there may be heat~effusion and aversion to cold and the nodes may be painful and suppurate.

Medication: Course wind, clear heat, and dissipate binds. Use a combination of bupleurum (Bupleuri Radix), arctium (Arctii Fructus), achyranthes (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix), unripe tangerine peel (Citri Exocarpium Immaturum), ledebouriella (Ledebouriellae Radix),

Acupuncture: Use the points given under scrofula, and needle with drainage at GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-5 (Outer Pass), GV-14 (Great Hammer), LI-4 (Union Valley), and ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge); prick LU-11 (Lesser Shang) to bleed to course wind

wind-fire toothache

Toothache attributable to externally contracted wind-heat. See toothache.

wind-heat

Externally contracted wind and heat. A combination of wind and heat (or wind and fire) gives rise to heat signs pronounced heat~effusion and mild aversion to cold, cough, thirst, tongue with red margins and tips, with slightly yelow fur, and a pulse that is floating and rapid. In severe cases, there may be dry mouth, red eye, sore throat, and spontaneous external bleeding. Compare wind-fire. Wind-Heat--Dissipating Medicinals mint (Menthae Herba) arctium (Arctii Fructus) cicada molting (Cicadae Periostracum) fermented soybean (Glycines Semen Fermentatum Insulsum) dried soybean sprout (Glycines Semen Germinatum Exsiccatum) mulberry leaf (Mori Folium) chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemi Flos) wild chrysanthemum flower (Chrysanthemi Indicae seu Borealis Flos) vitex (Viticis Fructus) pueraria (Puerariae Radix) bupleurum (Bupleuri Radix) cimicifuga (Cimicifugae Rhizoma) duckweed (Lemnae Herba) equisetum (Equiseti Herba)

wind-heat common cold

A common cold due to contraction of wind-heat. Wind-heat common cold is characterized by heat~effusion, headache, slight aversion to cold, spontaneous sweating, nasal congestion without snivel (nasal mucus), scorching sore throat, cough with thick yellow phlegm, thirst, red tongue with thin slightly yellowish white tongue fur, and a rapid floating pulse.

Medication: Cool acrid exterior resolution. Use formulas such as Lonicera and Forsythia Powder. For nasal congestion without snivel, add xanthium (Xanthii Fructus), angelica (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), mint (Menthae Herba), and houttuynia (Houttuyniae Herba cum Radi

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, and TB. Main points: LU-10 (Fish Border), GV-14 (Great Hammer), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), ST-44 (Inner Court), GB-20 (Wind Pool), and TB-5 (Outer Pass). For headache, add GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), G

wind-heat cough

Cough attributed to wind-heat invading the lung impairing depuration of the lung. Attendant signs include thick phlegm, generalized heat~effusion, sweating, aversion to wind, dry mouth and sore throat, yellow snivel (nasal mucus), thin tongue fur, and a rapid floating pulse.

Medication: Course wind and clear heat; diffuse lung qi. Variants of Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Beverage or Lonicera and Forsythia Powder can be used.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU and LI. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-14 (Great Hammer), LI-4 (Union Valley), and LI-11 (Pool at the Bend); needle with drainage. For sore pharynx, prick LU-11

wind-heat deafness

Deafness attributed to wind-heat attacking the upper body, inhibiting qi dynamic, and harassing the clear orifices. Wind-heat deafness is associated with headache, nasal congestion, ear pain, and tinnitus.

Medication: Treat by coursing wind and clearing heat assisted by opening the orifices with aroma. Variants of Lonicera and Forsythia Powder may be used.

Acupuncture: Acupuncture: See deafness.

wind-heat dizziness

Synonyms: wind-fire eye.

Dizziness due to externally-contracted wind-heat congesting the upper body. Wind-heat dizziness is characterized by dizzy clouded vision or spinning dizziness that brings the patient near to falling over, a constrained feeling in the chest, and vomiting.

Medication: Dispel wind and clear heat with Ledebouriella Sage-Inspired Powder.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, ST, GB, LU, and LI. Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), ST-8 (Head Corner), Hall of Impression, GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-5 (Outer Pass), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), LI-4 (Union Valley), and GV-14 (Great Hammer)

wind-heat eye

wind-heat fright palpitations

Fright palpitations that arises when wind evil invades to contend with heat congesting in the heart.

Medication: Clear heat and stabilize fright using Bovine Bezoar Fright-Settling Pill or Red-Abducting Powder varied to take account of vacuity or repletion.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on HT, PC, GB, and LI. Select HT-7 (Spirit Gate), PC-6 (Inner Pass), BL-15 (Heart Transport), PC-8 (Palace of Toil), HT-8 (Lesser Mansion), GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-5 (Outer Pass), and LI-4 (Union Valley); needle with drainage. For hig

wind-heat gan of the teeth and gums

Gan of the teeth and gums characterized in the initial stages by sore red swollen gums, heat~effusion, or alternating heat~effusion and aversion to cold, and in more advanced stages by ulceration and bleeding, and in some cases constipation, and retching and vomiting. Wind-heat gan of the teeth and gums is attributed to evil heat surging upward to lodge in the teeth and gums, occurring when wind-heat contends with heat brewing in the yang brightness .

Medication: Course wind and clear heat; drain fire and resolve toxin. Use Coptis Toxin-Resolving Decoction, Stomach-Clearing Powder, or Jade Lady Brew, which can be decocted with lonicera (Lonicerae Flos), licorice (Glycyrrhizae Radix), and mint (Menthae Herba) and u

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on ST, LI, and GV. Select LI-4 (Union Valley), ST-44 (Inner Court), TB-5 (Outer Pass), GB-20 (Wind Pool), and GV-14 (Great Hammer). Needle with drainage.

wind-heat headache

Headache due to wind-heat harassing the upper body. Wind-heat headache is usually associated with distention in the head, aversion to cold, and heat~effusion, and may be attended by such signs as nasal congestion and runny nose, toothache, red sore swollen eyes, thirst with intake of fluid, or constipation and reddish urine. The tongue fur is thin and yellow, whereas the pulse is floating.

Medication: Course wind and clear heat using formulas such as Clear Sky Paste or Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Beverage.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on the three yang channels and GV. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), Greater Yang, LI-4 (Union Valley), LU-7 (Broken Sequence), SI-3 (Back Ravine), GV-14 (Great Hammer), and LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), and needle

wind-heat invading the lung

Externally contracted wind-heat entering the lung and hampering its normal diffusion and depuration. The chief signs are cough with thick yellow phlegm and slight aversion to wind and cold. Other signs include nasal congestion with runny nose and yellow turbid snivel, dry mouth and throat, red eyes, slight thirst, and generalized heat~effusion. The tongue is red (or red at the tip) with a thin yellow tongue fur. The pulse is floating and rapid.

Medication: Use Lonicera and Forsythia Powder plus Zhejiang fritillaria (Fritillariae Verticillatae Bulbus), apricot kernel (Armeniacae Semen), and peucedanum (Peucedani Radix). For pronounced heat, add gypsum (Gypsum). For pronounced sore throat, add scrophularia (S

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU, LI, and TB. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LI-4 (Union Valley), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), TB-5 (Outer Pass), and LU-10 (Fish Border); needle with drainage. Selection of points according to signs: For nasal

wind-heat lumbar pain

Synonyms: wind-fire eye.

Lumbar pain attributed to wind-heat invading the kidney channel. Wind-heat lumbar pain is characterized by acute pain that stretches into the legs and knees, thirst, and a rapid pulse.

Medication: Course wind and clear heat with variations of Toxin-Vanquishing Powder or Minor Bupleurum Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on BL, LU, LI, and GV. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), GV-14 (Great Hammer), LI-4 (Union Valley), BL-23 (Kidney Transport), BL-40 (Bend Center), BL-54 (Sequential Limit), and ouch points; needle with drainage. Prick LU-11 (Lesser Shang) t

wind-heat red eye

wind-heat sore

A sore attributed to wind-heat lying depressed in the lung and effusing into the skin. Wind-heat sores start as papules on the limbs and chest and rib-side, which when scratched cause sores that exude fresh blood.

Medication: Treat with Wind-Dispersing Powder taken orally.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GB, LU, LI, GV, and SP. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-5 (Outer Pass), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LI-4 (Union Valley), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), GV-14 (Great Hammer), SP-10 (Sea of Blood), SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), GB-31 (Wind Market)

wind-heat throat impediment

Synonyms: moving impediment.

Throat impediment (a sore swollen throat with a feeling of blockage and difficulty swallowing) attributed to externally contracted wind-heat. Accompanying signs include heat~effusion, cough, hoarse voice, thin yellow tongue fur, and a rapid floating pulse.

Medication: Dispel wind, clear heat, and disinhibit the throat with Lonicera and Forsythia Powder plus isatis root (Isatidis Radix), belamcanda (Belamcandae Rhizoma), and scrophularia (Scrophulariae Radix).

Acupuncture: Base treatment on LU and LI. Prick LU-11 (Lesser Shang) to bleed; select LI-4 (Union Valley), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), PC-7 (Great Mound), and ST-43 (Sunken Valley), needling with drainage. For pronounced soreness, add SI-17 (Celestia

wind-induced deviation

Deviation of the cheeks and mouth, inability to close the eyes fully, in some cases, with tremor, dizziness, seeing one as two (double vision), red eyes, and tearing, and, in severe cases, outward turning of the lower lid, squint, and hemiplegia.

Medication: Dispel wind and free the network vessels using either Wind-Expelling Powder or Face-Righting Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GB, TB, LI, and ST. Select GB-20 (Wind Pool), TB-17 (Wind Screen), ST-4 (Earth Granary), ST-6 (Cheek Carriage), Pull Aright, LI-4 (Union Valley), GB-14 (Yang White), BL-2 (Bamboo Gathering), and ST-2 (Four Whites) to dissipate win

wind-like stroke

Wind stroke attributable to internal wind. Wind-like stroke arises when insufficiency of kidney yin, intense heart fire, and ascendant liver yang cause liver wind to stir or when congestion of damp phlegm transforms into heat and engenders wind. Other contributing factors include qi vacuity, qi counterflow, etc. Internal wind is the essential cause, although it may be brought on by external wind. The main signs are sudden clouding collapse that leaves the patient with hemiplegia, deviated eyes and mouth, and sluggish or difficult speech. In some cases, there is only deviation of the eyes and mouth. Any of various diseases like wind stroke. See fire stroke; vacuity stroke; dampness stroke; cold stroke; summerheat stroke; qi stroke; food stroke; malignity stroke.Distinction is made between channel and network stroke and bowel and visceral stroke. Deviated eyes and mouth, inhibited speech, and hemiplegia with no change in spirit-mind.

Medication: If caused only by internal wind, it is treated by calming the liver and extinguishing wind with Liver-Settling Wind-Extinguishing Decoction or Gastrodia and Uncaria Beverage. If brought on by external wind, it can be treated by dispelling wind and freein

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on hand and foot yang brightness LI/ST, assisted by greater yang and lesser yang . The principle of treatment applied is to free the channels and regulate qi and blood. Main formula: LI-15 (Shoulder Bone), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend), L

wind-phlegm

Disease pattern arising in patients ordinarily suffering from phlegm disease who contract wind evil or in whom wind-heat becomes depressed. Phlegm in the liver channel; characterized by a stringlike pulse, green-blue facial complexion, dizziness, fullness and oppression in the chest and rib-side, constipation and rough urination, periodic agitation and anger, and green-blue colored phlegm. According to Dan Xi's Experiential Methods wind-phlegm should be treated with wind-phlegm medicinals such as aconite/typhonium (Aconiti Coreani seu Typhonii Gigantei Tuber), gastrodia (Gastrodiae Rhizoma), realgar (Realgar), bovine bezoar (Bovis Bezoar), old scutellaria (Scutellariae Radix Veta), silkworm (Bombyx Batryticatus), and small gleditsia (Gleditsiae Fructus Parvus).

wind-phlegm dizziness

Dizziness attributed to wind-phlegm congestion. Wind-phlegm dizziness is characterized by dizzy head and flowery vision, with headache, hypertonicity of the shoulder and back, heavy body, tendency to sleep, oppression in the chest, heart palpitations, and vomiting of phlegm-drool.

Medication: Dispel wind and transform phlegm with formulas such as Pinellia, Ovate Atractylodes, and Gastrodia Decoction or Gastrodia Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on GV, GB, LR, ST, and LI. Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), GB-20 (Wind Pool), ST-8 (Head Corner), Hall of Impression, CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), PC-6 (Inner Pass), LI-4 (Union Valley), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), LR-3 (Supreme Su

wind-phlegm headache

Headache attributed to wind-phlegm harassing the upper body. The headache is accompanied by dizziness, desire to keep the eyes closed, laziness to speak, fatigued heavy body, oppression in the chest, nausea, and in some cases, green-blue or yellow cheeks, or phlegm-drool ejection.

Medication: Dispel wind and transform phlegm with formulas such as Pinellia, Ovate Atractylodes, and Gastrodia Decoction.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on CV, GB, ST, and LI. Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences), GB-20 (Wind Pool), PC-6 (Inner Pass) LI-4 (Union Valley), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), ST-8 (Head Corner), Greater Yang, LR-3 (Supreme Surge), and

wine

wine preparation.

wine preparation

Any preparation made by steeping medicinals in grain wine or liquor. There are two methods of making wine preparations, cold steeping and hot steeping. (1) Cold steeping: The medicinal materials are cut, crushed, or ground, and steeped in white liquor (liquor distilled usually from sorghum or maize) or yellow wine (wine made from rice or millet) in a sealed large stone jar. The preparation is stirred each day, either with a ladle or by joggling the jar. When ready to drink, which is after a minimum of 30 days, but ideally for most wines much longer, the clear wine near the surface may be removed and strained to be made ready for drinking. Grubs are almost inevitably brought out from the materials by the liquor. It suffices that these should be filtered out in process of straining. Some formulas allow the materials to be reused. (2) Hot steeping: The materials and wine are placed in a receptacle and brought to the boil either in a steamer or double-boiler before they are placed in the jar to steep. In this method, the clear wine may be removed and strained for use after 15--20 days. Medicinal wines promote flow in the blood vessels, and are used in wind-damp impediment patterns (rheumatism) and other chronic conditions.

winter warmth

From On Cold Damage. A new contraction warm disease occurring in winter due to unseasonable warmth. Winter warmth is associated with the same disease shifts as wind warmth. See new contraction warm disease; wind warmth.

wiry pulse

Synonyms: withdrawal disease.

stringlike pulse.

withdrawal

Synonyms: withdrawal.

Any pattern characterized by melancholy, indifferent expression, muttering soliloquy, abnormal laughing and weeping, hallucination and delusions, deranged speech, no sense of hygiene, no thought of food and drink, thin slimy tongue fur, and a slippery stringlike pulse; attributed to binding depression of phlegm and qi.

Medication: Withdrawal is treated by rectifying qi and resolving depression, transforming phlegm, and opening the orifices. Suitable formulas include Coptis Gallbladder-Warming Decoction, Alum and Curcuma Pill, or Qi-Normalizing Phlegm-Abducting Decoction, i.e., Phle

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, HT, PC, LR, and SP. Needle with supplementation at BL-18 (Liver Transport), BL-15 (Heart Transport), BL-20 (Spleen Transport), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge), and SP-6 (Three Yin Intersection), and with drainage a

withdrawal disease

Synonyms: dried-meat nose.

withered nose

Dryness and withering of the interior of the nose. Because the interior of the nose is dry and withered like cured meat, it is also called dried-meat nose. Withered nose is attributed to lung vacuity failing to nourish the nose.

Medication: Use Dryness-Clearing Lung-Rescuing Decoction minus gypsum (Gypsum).

withered-yellow facial complexion

A pale brownish yellow facial complexion, the color of withered leaves. A withered-yellow complexion is a lusterless brownish yellow facial complexion; it signifies vacuity or dampness. It is observed in the following situations: a)~in spleen-stomach qi vacuity in conjunction with poor appetite, abdominal distention after eating, fatigue and lack of strength, shortage of qi and laziness to speak, sloppy stool, a pale tongue with white fur, and a weak moderate pulse; b)~in spleen vacuity with damp obstruction with swelling of the face and limbs, cumbersome heavy limbs, reduced food intake, abdominal distention, fatigue and lack of strength, turbid heavy voice, scant urine and sloppy stool, pale enlarged tongue often with dental impression, glossy slimy tongue fur, and a forceless moderate pulse; c)~in insufficiency of construction blood with pale lips and tongue, dizzy head and vision, heart palpitations and insomnia, numbness of the limbs, scant menstrual flow, delayed periods or menstrual block, shortness of breath and low voice, and a faint fine pulse.

withering of the helices

Synonyms: uterus.

Dry shriveled ears; in enduring or serious illness, a sign of qi and blood depletion and impending expiration of kidney qi when observed in the course of enduring sickness.

womb

women's diseases

wood

Synonyms: exuberant fire tormenting metal.

(In the doctrine of the five phases) the phase associated with the season spring, the color green, the flavor sourness, and the color green-blue. In the body it is associated with liver and gallbladder and with related entities (eyes, sinews, and nails).

wood fire tormenting metal

Liver fire affecting the lung. Wood in the five phases is the liver, and metal is the lung. When liver fire becomes excessively effulgent, it can scorch lung yin, causing dry cough, chest and rib-side pain, heart vexation, bitter taste in the heart, red eyes, and, in severe cases, expectoration of blood. This is the manifestation of wood fire tormenting metal.

Medication: Use White-Draining Powder combined with Indigo and Clamshell Powder plus scutellaria (Scutellariae Radix), anemarrhena (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma), platycodon (Platycodonis Radix), unripe tangerine peel (Citri Exocarpium Immaturum), and tangerine peel (Citri E

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on LU and LR. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport), LU-5 (Cubit Marsh), LU-10 (Fish Border), LR-2 (Moving Between), and GB-34 (Yang Mound Spring); needle with drainage.

worm

worm accumulation

Any small animal that can inhabit the body. Any worm such as roundworm, or ich whiteworm in the body. Attributable to unclean food or damp-heat.

worm accumulation abdominal pain

Food accumulation due to worms in the digestive tract. Worm accumulation is characterized by yellow facial complexion, emaciation of the flesh, periodic vomiting of clear water or sour water, enlarged abdomen, and acute stomach duct pain and abdomen, sometimes specifically around the umbilicus. In some cases, there is a palpable accumulation lump.

Medication: Expel worms and disperse accumulation using Worm-Transforming Pill, Myriad Applications Pill, or Mume Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on back transport points and ST. Select BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-25 (Large Intestine Transport), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), Hundred Worm Nest, and CV-6 (Sea of Qi) (moxa) apply a strong needle stimulus and moxa. For palpable accumulat

worm disease resembling epilepsy

Abdominal pain due to worms in the stomach and intestine. Worm accumulation abdominal pain is associated with intermittent gripping pain, and in severe cases, with the vomiting of roundworm. Normally, there is clamoring stomach, predilection for strange foods, yellow face and emaciated flesh, worm macules on the face, blue speckles on the eyes, millet-shaped papules on the inside of the lips, and grinding of the teeth in sleep (bruxism).

Medication: Expel worms and disperse accumulations with formulas such as Quisqualis Powder, Worm-Expelling Pill, and Worm-Transforming Pill.

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, ST, and empirical points. Select BL-20 (Spleen Transport), BL-25 (Large Intestine Transport), ST-36 (Leg Three Li), Hundred Worm Nest, and ST-4 (Earth Granary). Use a strong stimulus.

worm distention

Signs similar to those of epilepsy such as forward-staring eyes, clenched jaw preventing speech, loud shouting and crying, drool foaming at the mouth, white or green-blue facial complexion, and rigidity of the extremities.

Medication: Use Bovine Bezoar Pill taken with a decoction of chinaberry root bark (Meliae Radicis Cortex). Alternatively, use Mume Pill prepared as a decoction.

worm drum

Synonyms: worm drum distention;

worm drum.

worm drum distention

worm distention. Distention due to toxin binding in the stomach and intestines. Worm drum is distention associated with pain and accompanied by mild swelling of the four limbs, and ability to eat. There is often a strange craving to eat tea leaves, salt, and earth. There are red speckles or lines on the face as if eroded by worms.

worm heart pain

worm drum.

worm macule

From A Thousand Gold Pieces Prescriptions. Pain in the heart region due to worm accumulation in patients with spleen vacuity and tendency to excessive consumption of sweet fatty foods. Worm heart pain is an intermittent pain associated with the gathering of a swelling. Sometimes there are yellow-white patches on the face. The complexion is now green-blue, now white. There is also vomiting and the inability to eat.

worrying tongue

Synonyms: snake tongue.

Grayish white patches on the skin in children; indicates roundworm infestation.

wrap-boiling

wrenched lumbus pain

Boiling medicinals wrapped cloth. Highly sticky seeds such as plantago seed (Plantaginis Semen) are wrap-boiled to prevent them sticking to the pot and burning. Some materials such as inula flower (Inulae Flos) are covered with a down that is hard to strain off and causes irritation to the throat if swallowed. Peach kernel (Persicae Semen) pounded to a paste, as well as dragon bone (Mastodi Ossis Fossilia) and oyster shell (Ostreae Concha), may be wrap-boiled to keep the decoction clear of unnecessary particles.

wrinkly foot

Lumbar pain attributable to lifting heavy weights or to twisting or falling. Wrenched lumbus pain is characterized by the inability to bend and stretch or or difficulty in turning, with any movement exacerbating pain.

Medication: Quicken the blood and soothe the sinews. Use Four Agents Decoction plus peach kernel (Persicae Semen), carthamus (Carthami Flos), cyathula (Cyathulae Radix), cinnamon bark (Cinnamomi Cortex), corydalis (Corydalis Tuber), frankincense (Olibanum), and myrr

Acupuncture: Base treatment mainly on BL, GV, SP, and ouch points. Select GV-26 (Human Center), GV-3 (Lumbar Yang Pass), BL-40 (Bend Center), BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport), SP-10 (Sea of Blood), LR-3 (Supreme Surge), BL-32 (Second Bone-Hole), and ouch points; needle wit

wrist pulse

Synonyms: inch opening; qi opening; vessel opening.

A form of swelling that occurs in late pregnancy, characterized by thick rough skin with a somber hue and not associated with any other discomforts. Wrinkly foot arises when the growing fetus inhibits qi dynamic. It usually disappears spontaneously after delivery. In women with qi-blood vacuity and insufficiency of the lower origin, with damp qi pouring downward to cause pain, it can be treated with Qi-Normalizing Blood-Nourishing Decoction. Compare brittle foot; swelling and distention in pregnancy.

wu

The pulse felt on the inner (palmar) face of the wrist, at a location described in modern anatomy as the styloid process of the radius. The wrist pulse is divided into three sections: inch , bar , and cubit . It is generally agreed that, on the left wrist, the inch pulse reflects the heart, the bar reflects the liver, and the cubit reflects the kidney, whereas on the right wrist, the inch reflects the lung, the bar the spleen and stomach, and the cubit the life gate.