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When treating Taiyang disease for six or seven days, if the exterior syndrome persists, the pulse is faint and deep, and there is no thoracic accumulation, but the patient becomes manic, it indicates that heat is in the lower energizer. If there is hardness and fullness in the lower abdomen and the urine is normal, there must be blood stasis, causing forgetfulness. This is because the taiyang channel's stagnant heat is internally trapped.

bubble_chart Supplementary Formulas

1. This prescription reduces ten leeches and five gadfly peach kernels, divided into four pills. Each pill is boiled in water, named the Resistant and Withstanding Pill, to treat the disease without forgetfulness or madness. [Leech, also known as horse leech, is salty and cold, toxic, a blood-sucking insect that can clear liver meridian blood stasis, very hard to kill, even when roasted into powder, it revives with water. If ingested, it can breed inside the body, causing harm. Field mud mixed with water can be used for purgation. Gadfly, also known as mosquito, is used to treat blood disorders because it sucks blood. These two medicines are potent and rarely used by people, hence the alternative Resistant and Withstanding Decoction was developed. Wu He-gao said: The ancients used gadfly and leech to treat blood stasis because they are good at sucking blood. If bat feces, which are transformed from eating mosquitoes, can also treat blood stasis, materia medica claims it can expel dead fetus, so there is no doubt about its ability to attack blood clots.]
2. Appendix: Substitute Resistant and Withstanding Pill, Rhubarb Rhizoma [four taels], Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Tail of Chinese Angelica, Peach Kernel Pangolin Scales, Xuanming Powder [each one tael], honeyed pill. [Peach Kernel, Tail of Chinese Angelica, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root moisten to clear, Cassia Central Bark heats to move, Rhubarb Rhizoma and Xuanming Powder, bitter and salty cold, to push and sweep, with Pangolin Scales to guide it to the site of stasis.]