Volume I · Tài Yáng
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Clauses 1–178, grouped by formula family. 178 are written; the tracker below shows which are at full editorial depth and which are still in revision. Read the front matter first — method, scheduling notice and citation rules.
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- The Tài Yáng outline 太陽病提綱 · 1–1111/11
- The Guì Zhī Tāng family 桂枝湯類 · 12–3019/19
- The Má Huáng Tāng family 麻黃湯類 · 31–5727/27
- Mistreatment and transmuted patterns 太陽病變證 · 58–9538/38
- The Shào Yáng overlap 少陽兼證 · 96–13035/35
- Chest bind and epigastric focus 結胸與痞證 · 131–17848/48
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The Tài Yáng outline
太陽病提綱1–11
The defining signs of a Tài Yáng presentation, the split between wind-strike and cold damage, and how to read heat, chills and thirst before you commit to a formula.
1The three signs that define a Tài Yáng presentation — and why aversion to cold is the one that decides it.
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2Wind-strike: the sweating, draught-averse presentation with a soft pulse.3Cold damage: no sweating, body aches, tight pulse — the excess counterpart to clause 2.4Using the pulse and internal agitation to predict if a Tài Yáng pattern will stay at the surface or move deeper.5The absence of specific stage-related symptoms indicates the pathogen remains in the Tài Yáng exterior.6The exit clause: thirst plus no aversion to cold means stop treating this as cold damage.7Distinguishing Yáng and Yīn beginnings by the presence of fever and their expected recovery times.8The natural seven-day cycle of a Tài Yáng exterior pattern and the use of acupuncture to prevent internal progression.9The peak window for recovery in Tài Yáng patterns, corresponding to late morning and early afternoon.10The extended recovery time required for patients with a constitutional tendency toward Wind patterns.11Differentiating true versus false cold and heat by observing the patient's preference for clothing.The Guì Zhī Tāng family
桂枝湯類12–30
Exterior deficiency with sweating. The single most-modified formula in the book, and the template for how Zhòng-Jǐng adjusts a base prescription.
12Guì Zhī Tāng — the harmonising of the nutritive (yíng) and defensive (wèi) layers, and the template for the whole treatise.Guì Zhī Tāng
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13The stripped-back indication: four signs are enough to prescribe Guì Zhī Tāng.Guì Zhī Tāng14Stiff nape and upper back on a sweating patient: add Gé Gēn to the base formula.Guì Zhī Jiā Gé Gēn Tāng15Using the 'upward rushing Qì' sign to identify when a Tài Yáng exterior pattern persists after a purging error.Guì Zhī Tāng16Defining 'deteriorated disease' and reinforcing the contraindication of Guì Zhī Tāng for excess cold-damage.Guì Zhī Tāng17Contraindication for Guì Zhī Tāng in patients with internal damp-heat from alcohol consumption.Guì Zhī Tāng18Adapting Guì Zhī Tāng for patients with pre-existing lung sensitivity or chronic wheezing.Guì Zhī jiā Hòu Pò Xìng Zǐ Tāng19A warning that vomiting after Guì Zhī Tāng indicates hidden internal heat.Guì Zhī Tāng20Over-sweating that will not stop: yáng collapse at the exterior. Includes a Schedule 4 herb.Guì Zhī Jiā Fù Zǐ Tāng21Managing chest fullness and skipping pulse after an incorrect purgative in Tài Yáng.Guì Zhī qù Sháo Yào Tāng22Adding Fù Zǐ to support failing Yáng when exterior cold signs persist after purging.Guì Zhī qù Sháo Yào jiā Fù Zǐ Tāng23A complex lingering exterior pattern where a small sweat is required to resolve itching and facial flushing.Guì Zhī Má Huáng gè bàn Tāng24Managing irritability and stagnation after initial treatment by clearing the channels before re-administering the formula.Guì Zhī Tāng25Using a modified proportion of Guì Zhī and Má Huáng for lingering exterior patterns with mild paroxysms.Guì Zhī èr Má Huáng yī Tāng26The transition from a Tài Yáng exterior pattern to Yáng Míng interior heat due to fluid loss.Bái Hǔ Jiā Rén Shēn Tāng27Managing a complex exterior pattern where heat predominates but the underlying Yáng is insufficient for strong sweating.Guì Zhī èr Yuè Bì yī Tāng28When exterior signs persist alongside fluid stagnation in the epigastrium, focus on the Tai Yang Fu organ.Guì Zhī qù Guì jiā Fú Líng Bái Zhú Tāng29A masterclass in clinical rescue: correcting the cascade of errors when Yīn and Yáng are depleted by wrong treatment.Gān Cǎo Gān Jiāng Tāng30A complex cautionary tale regarding misdiagnosis, yáng collapse, and the sequential restoration of fluid and yáng.Gān Cǎo Gān Jiāng TāngThe Má Huáng Tāng family
麻黃湯類31–57
Exterior excess without sweating, the two dragons, and the point where scheduling law in Australia changes how these clauses are used in practice.
31Same stiff neck as clause 14, but with no sweating — the excess version.Gé Gēn Tāng32Using Gě Gēn Tāng to lift the qì and resolve the exterior when Tài Yáng and Yáng Míng symptoms overlap.Gě Gēn Tāng33Addressing upward-rebellious qì in a combined Tài Yáng and Yáng Míng pattern.Gě Gēn jiā Bàn Xià Tāng34Managing an exterior pattern forced inward by incorrect purging, leading to concurrent heat and diarrhoea.Gé Gēn Huáng Qín Huáng Lián Tāng35The archetypal exterior excess pattern: closed pores, deep aching, wheeze.Má Huáng Tāng36Prioritising the exterior when Tài Yáng and Yáng Míng overlap, specifically when lung Qi is obstructed.Má Huáng Tāng37Determining if a lingering pathogen has resolved, moved to Shào Yáng, or remains in the Tài Yáng stage.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng38Exterior cold with trapped interior heat — the restless, agitated, unsweating patient.Dà Qīng Lóng Tāng39Managing heavy interior heat with exterior constraint where the body feels heavy rather than aching.Dà Qīng Lóng Tāng40Exterior cold plus thin watery phlegm — the streaming, wheezing, clear-sputum picture.Xiǎo Qīng Lóng Tāng41Addressing exterior cold with interior thin mucus and the prognostic sign of thirst.Xiǎo Qīng Lóng Tāng42Reinforcing the use of Guì Zhī Tāng for unresolved exterior patterns with a deficient pulse.Guì Zhī Tāng43Managing exterior-driven wheezing following a mistreatment by purging.Guì Zhī jiā Hòu Pò Xìng Zǐ Tāng44A fundamental prohibition against purging while exterior signs persist.Guì Zhī Tāng45The pulse as the ultimate guide to location after multiple treatment failures.Guì Zhī Tāng46When the exterior is tightly locked for over a week, resolution might occur through a nosebleed instead of sweat.Má Huáng Tāng47A concise confirmation that a nosebleed can resolve a locked exterior cold-damage pattern.48The dangers of incomplete sweating and the confusion that arises when Tài Yáng and Yáng Míng overlap.49Managing iatrogenic damage where a floating pulse masks an underlying interior deficiency caused by purging.50A warning against sweating patients with a floating, tight pulse when the proximal pulse indicates blood deficiency.51The minimalist definition of an exterior cold-excess pattern requiring a strong diaphoretic.Má Huáng Tāng52Confirming the exterior excess pattern where a rapid pulse indicates a more intense struggle at the surface.Má Huáng Tāng53Explaining why we use a 'sweating' formula for someone already sweating — it is about harmony, not just opening pores.Guì Zhī Tāng54Addressing intermittent exterior symptoms by timing the treatment to the Defensive qì (wèi qì)'s rhythm.Guì Zhī Tāng55Nosebleeds as a form of natural resolution when the exterior is blocked and internal pressure builds.Má Huáng Tāng56Using urine colour to distinguish between an interior blockage and a lingering exterior pattern.Guì Zhī Tāng57Managing a relapse or incomplete resolution of the exterior after initial treatment.Guì Zhī Tāng
Mistreatment and transmuted patterns
太陽病變證58–95
What happens when you purge, sweat or vomit a patient who shouldn't have been — and how the classical corrections map to modern iatrogenic pictures.
58The body's inherent capacity to return to a state of balance once the pathological pressure is removed.59Recognising when symptoms like inhibited urination are due to fluid depletion rather than a new pathology.60The physiological collapse that occurs when both the interior and exterior are depleted by improper treatment.61A collapse of Yáng following mistreatment, where daytime restlessness masks a deep internal cold.Gān Jiāng Fù Zǐ Tāng62Body aches following sweating that signal a depletion of fluids and blood rather than a lingering exterior pathogen.Guì Zhī jiā Sháo Yào Shēng Jiāng gè yī liǎng Rén Shēn sān liǎng Xīn Jiā Tāng63Heat constrained in the Lungs causing panting and sweating, requiring a shift from exterior releasing to clearing internal heat.Má Huáng Xìng Rén Gān Cǎo Shí Gāo Tāng64Heart yáng deficiency following excessive diaphoresis leading to palpitations relieved by pressure.Guì Zhī Gān Cǎo Tāng65Lower burner fluid congestion and heart yáng deficiency threatening to ascend as 'running piglet'.Fú Líng Guì Zhī Gān Cǎo Dà Zǎo Tāng66Post-sweating spleen and stomach deficiency leading to abdominal distension and qi stagnation.Hòu Pò Shēng Jiāng Bàn Xià Gān Cǎo Rén Shēn Tāng67Water rheum obstructing the ascent of clear yang following improper treatment, leading to dizziness and instability.Fú Líng Guì Zhī Bái Zhú Gān Cǎo Tāng68Post-diaphoretic yang and yin deficiency presenting as persistent aversion to cold and possible cramping.Sháo Yào Gān Cǎo Fù Zǐ Tāng69Severe depletion of yang and yin following maltreatment, leading to restless agitation (fán zào).Fú Líng Sì Nì Tāng70Differentiating post-diaphoretic deficiency from a shift into Yáng Míng excess.Tiáo Wèi Chéng Qì Tāng71Thirst that drinking does not fix, with scant urination: water accumulation, not fluid loss.Wǔ Líng Sǎn72Using Wǔ Líng Sǎn when sweating fails to resolve the exterior and causes fluid stagnation.Wǔ Líng Sǎn73Thirst as the key differentiator between bladder-level and stomach-level fluid stagnation.Fú Líng Gān Cǎo Tāng74Water reversal pattern where the exterior remains unresolved while fluid metabolism in the interior has failed.Wǔ Líng Sǎn75Physical signs of heart yang and kidney qi deficiency following excessive diaphoresis.76Addressing heat lingering in the chest and diaphragm following improper treatment.Zhǐ Zǐ Chǐ Tāng77The result of mistreating an exterior pattern with sweat or purging, leading to constrained heat in the chest.Zhī Zǐ Chǐ Tāng78Using Zhī Zǐ Cubit position (chǐ) Tāng when purging fails to resolve heat and results in focal pain in the epigastrium.Zhī Zǐ Chǐ Tāng79A combination of constrained heat and Qi stagnation in the abdomen following purging.Zhī Zǐ Hòu Pò Tāng80Heat lingering in the chest and cold in the middle after an inappropriate purge.Zhī Zǐ Gān Jiāng Tāng81A contraindication for Gardenia formulas in patients with Spleen deficiency.Zhī Zǐ Chǐ Tāng82Severe Yang deficiency and water overflowing after excessive sweating.Zhēn Wǔ Tāng83A warning that pre-existing dryness of the throat indicates fluid deficiency, making sweating a dangerous strategy.84Sweating a patient with chronic urinary issues risks damaging the lower Jiao and causing haemorrhage.85Patients with chronic skin lesions have depleted blood; sweating them can trigger severe neurological symptoms.86A warning against sweating patients with chronic nosebleeds due to the exhaustion of blood and fluids.87Sweating is contraindicated for blood-deficient patients as it induces a collapse of Yáng.88Managing the mental confusion and urinary pain caused by over-sweating a patient who already sweats too much.Yǔ Yú Liáng Wán89The consequence of forcing sweat when the interior is already cold.90The priority of treatment: exterior first, interior second.91Prioritising the rescue of the interior when purging causes a collapse of Yáng.Sì Nì Tāng92When exterior signs appear with a submerged pulse, the interior collapse takes priority over the surface.Sì Nì Tāng93The consequences of dual mismanagement and how the body recovers through spontaneous exterior resolution.94Using pulse positions to determine if a lingering pattern requires sweating or purging.Tiáo Wèi Chéng Qì Tāng95The mechanism of sweating in Tài Yáng wind-strike and the rationale for using Guì Zhī Tāng.Guì Zhī Tāng
The Shào Yáng overlap
少陽兼證96–130
Half-exterior, half-interior. Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng and its relatives — the clauses most used in contemporary integrative practice.
96The four cardinal Shào Yáng signs, and the most-used formula in modern integrative practice.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng
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97The mechanism of Shào Yáng pivot dysfunction and the classic presentation of Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng98Mistreatment by purging leading to jaundice and the contraindications for Chái Hú Tāng.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng99The transition from Tài Yáng to Shào Yáng where exterior signs persist alongside emerging interior signs.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng100Distinguishing between abdominal pain from deficiency-cold and pain from Shào Yáng gallbladder-stomach disharmony.Xiǎo Jiàn Zhōng Tāng101The single most liberating line in the treatise: one decisive sign is enough.102Addressing early-stage heart palpitations and vexation caused by middle burner deficiency.Xiǎo Jiàn Zhōng Tāng103Differentiating between the standard pivot pattern and the more severe, interior-clumping presentation of Dà Chái Hú Tāng.Dà Chái Hú Tāng104Correcting the misuse of harsh pills in a Shào Yáng pattern and addressing secondary interior heat.Chái Hú jiā Máng Xiāo Tāng105Identifying true interior excess (dry stool) disguised by 'false' diarrhoea from mismanagement.Tiáo Wèi Chéng Qì Tāng106Blood stasis and heat binding in the lower burner causing mental agitation and local pain.Táo Hé Chéng Qì Tāng107A complex pattern of interior heat, water stagnation, and unsettled spirit following incorrect purging.Chái Hú jiā Lóng Gǔ Mǔ Lì Tāng108Wood overacting on Earth presenting with Yáng Míng-like symptoms.109Internal complications arising from Wood-Earth-Metal imbalance, resolved by spontaneous fluid discharge.110Mistreatment by heat (ironing) leading to fluid exhaustion and eventual resolution through shivering and stool.111Severe fire-forced sweating leading to systemic collapse; urination is the final prognostic indicator.112Heart Yáng collapse with fright and mania resulting from inappropriate fire therapy in a floating pulse pattern.Guì Zhī Qù Sháo Yào Jiā Shǔ Qī Mǔ Lì Lóng Gǔ Jiù Nì Tāng113Distinguishing true cold damage from a vacuity pattern to avoid fire-induced delirium.114The consequences of failed fire therapy leading to internal restlessness and haemorrhage.115The danger of using heat therapy on an exterior heat pattern, leading to reckless movement of blood.116The systemic damage caused by fire therapy on exterior patterns and the process of spontaneous resolution.117Treating 'running piglet' qi caused by fire-needle mistreatment with Guì Zhī Jiā Guì Tāng.Guì Zhī Jiā Guì Tāng118Managing heart yáng deficiency with floating spirit caused by improper heating or purging treatments.Guì Zhī Gān Cǎo Lóng Gǔ Mǔ Lì Tāng119The risk of using heat to force a sweat in a cold-excess pattern, leading to heart spirit disturbance.120How inappropriate vomiting therapy damages the stomach qì and alters the Tài Yáng presentation.121Mistreatment by vomiting leads to internal heat and vexation, shifting the pattern away from the exterior.122A rapid pulse can indicate 'guest heat' overlying internal cold after excessive sweating.123Distinguishing between Shào Yáng and internal disharmony caused by purging, using Tiáo Wèi Chéng Qì Tāng for specific presentations.Tiáo Wèi Chéng Qì Tāng124Interior blood stasis and heat causing mania, distinguished from fluid accumulation by the state of urination.Dǐ Dāng Tāng125Distinguishing between jaundice from damp-heat and mania from blood stasis in the lower burner.Dǐ Dāng Tāng126Using a pill form for a slower, moderated purge of lower burner blood stasis.Dǐ Dāng Wán127How excess fluid intake during an exterior pattern creates different types of internal pathology based on urination.128Defining Chest bind (jié xiōng) (chest bind) through physical palpation and the specific pulse disparity of the inch position (cùn) and bar position (guān)s.129Differentiating Organ bind (zàng jié) (organ bind) from chest bind by the presence of deficiency, cold, and a poor prognosis.130Differentiating organ bind (zàng jié) from chest bind (jié xiōng) and the warning against purgation in cold accumulations.Chest bind and epigastric focus
結胸與痞證131–178
Jié xiōng, pǐ patterns and the xiè xīn tāng group. Where the treatise turns toward the digestive complaints that fill a modern clinic.
131How mistreatment creates chest binding or glomus, and the use of Dà Xiàn Xiōng Wán for high-positioned binding.Dà Xiàn Xiōng Wán132A lethal contraindication: when a floating pulse warns that the exterior is not yet resolved.133A warning on the prognosis of chest bind when the body's internal coherence begins to fail.134How mistreatment of an exterior pattern leads to the physical hardness of chest bind or the development of jaundice.Dà Xiàn Xiōng Tāng135The physical confirmation of a 'heat-excess' chest bind through palpation and pulse.Dà Xiàn Xiōng Tāng136Distinguishing between Shào Yáng interior heat knots and the more severe water-heat knotting of chest bind.Dà Xiàn Xiōng Tāng137The severe consequence of mistreating Tài Yáng with excessive drainage, leading to a full-abdomen chest bind.Dà Xiàn Xiōng Tāng138The presentation of Minor Chest Bind: localised epigastric pain and a phlegm-heat pulse.Xiǎo Xiàn Xiōng Tāng139Mistreatment of a cold-constitution patient leading to bound chest or coordinated heat diarrhoea.140A diagnostic guide to various complications following the incorrect use of purging in Tài Yáng.141Managing heat constrained by cold water and the treatment of cold-excess bound chest.Wén Gē Sǎn142Managing concurrent exterior and pivot patterns while avoiding the damage caused by inappropriate diaphoresis.143Heat entering the blood chamber during menstruation leading to interior excess and mental disturbance.144Alternating chills and fever due to heat entering the blood chamber, treated via the Shào Yáng pivot.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng145Heat entering the blood chamber during menstruation, causing nocturnal delirium and phantom visions.146The bridge between Tài Yáng and Shào Yáng, treating lingering exterior pain alongside interior binding.Chái Hú Guì Zhī Tāng147A complex pattern of shao yang heat and tai yin cold, typically following mistreatment with purging.Chái Hú Guì Zhī Gān Jiāng Tāng148Distinguishing the complex 'slight yang binding' from Shǎo Yīn through the presence of head sweat and exterior signs.Xiǎo Chái Hú Tāng149Fullness without pain under the sternum: the cold-and-heat complex that runs modern digestive practice.Bàn Xià Xiè Xīn Tāng150The disastrous result of purging a concurrent Tài Yáng-Shào Yáng pattern, leading to chest binding and fluid loss.151Distinguishing Focal fullness (pǐ) from Chest bind (jié xiōng) following inappropriate purging.152Differentiating between exterior wind strike and internal fluid congestion (suspension rheum) requiring a harsh attack.Shí Zǎo Tāng153The cumulative damage of incorrect sweating, purging, and fire needling, and how to gauge the remaining vitality.154Differentiating heat-based glomus from physical accumulation through palpation and pulse.Dà Huáng Huáng Lián Xiè Xīn Tāng155Heat clogging the epigastrium coupled with a yang deficiency that cannot secure the exterior.Fù Zǐ Xiè Xīn Tāng156When focal distention does not respond to bitter clearing, look to fluid metabolism and the bladder.Wǔ Líng Sǎn157Stomach Qi exhaustion leading to undigested food, stagnant water, and borborygmus.Shēng Jiāng Xiè Xīn Tāng158Mistreatment leads to severe stomach deficiency and rebellious qi, resulting in focal fullness (pǐ), diarrhoea, and restlessness.Gān Cǎo Xiè Xīn Tāng159Diarrhoea from lower burner instability requires astringents rather than middle burner tonics.Chì Shí Zhī Yǔ Yú Liáng Tāng160Severe fluid and blood depletion from over-treatment leading to internal wind and eventual atrophy.161Managing rebellious stomach qi and focal distension remaining after the exterior has cleared.Xuán Fù Dài Zhě Tāng162When heat has moved from the surface into the lungs, manifesting as sweating and panting.Má Huáng Xìng Zǐ Gān Cǎo Shí Gāo Tāng163Treating a simultaneous exterior pattern and interior cold-deficiency diarrhoea caused by mistreatment.Guì Zhī Rén Shēn Tāng164The clinical priority of resolving the exterior before addressing interior focal distension.Guì Zhī Tāng165Managing a complex presentation of Shào Yáng and Yáng Míng where interior pressure causes digestive revolt.Dà Chái Hú Tāng166Identifying phlegm or food stagnation in the chest that mimics an exterior pattern and requires emetic therapy.Guā Dì Sǎn167The definition of visceral binding, where deep internal stagnation meets a terminal prognosis.168Using Bái Hǔ Jiā Rén Shēn Tāng for interior heat that has exhausted the fluids following mistreatment.Bái Hǔ Jiā Rén Shēn Tāng169Recognising internal heat even when the external fever is absent, marked by back-coldness and thirst.Bái Hǔ Jiā Rén Shēn Tāng170A warning against clearing internal heat while the exterior remains locked, and the indicator for using Bái Hǔ Tāng.Bái Hǔ Jiā Rén Shēn Tāng171Managing concurrent Tài Yáng and Shào Yáng through acupuncture while avoiding the danger of purging.172Treating heat-driven diarrhoea and vomiting in combined channel patterns.Huáng Qín Jiā Bàn Xià Shēng Jiāng Tāng173Heat above and cold below manifesting as abdominal pain and nausea, requiring a complex cooling and warming approach.Huáng Lián Tāng174Severe wind-dampness causing immobility, with a modification for when dampness is trapped in the muscles and the bowels are dry.Guì Zhī Fù Zǐ Tāng175Acute wind-damp-cold bi syndrome with sweating and exterior deficiency, where even touch is intolerable.Gān Cǎo Fù Zǐ Tāng176A problematic phrasing of heat and cold that actually describes the transition into interior heat excess.Bái Hǔ Tāng177Irregular pulse with palpitations after illness: qi and blood both depleted.Zhì Gān Cǎo Tāng178Distinguishing between the knotted and intermittent pulses as signs of declining yīn and qì.
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Also available: Volume II — Yáng Míng & Shào Yáng, clauses 179–272; Volume III — Tài Yīn, Shào Yīn & Jué Yīn, clauses 273–398.