Zeng's wife. She usually has a slight phlegm wheezing syndrome. In the twelfth month of the Gengyin year, she contracted an external contraction, fever, aversion to cold, menstruation just arrived, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, fullness and pain in the chest and flanks, unable to turn over, and it triggered her usual phlegm wheezing, rising of qi making it hard to breathe. Doctors seeing her panting, all used cultivated purple perilla fruit, Pinellia, Aquilaria, Dried Tangerine Peel, and northern apricot, a group of descending qi and resolving phlegm ingredients. The patient became even more anxious, and developed delirious speech, with hallucinations and illusions. That day also coincided with the Great Cold (24th solar term) festival, the whole household was in a panic, preparing for the funeral arrangements.
I diagnosed and said: The phlegm wheezing is an old illness, the external contraction is a new illness, it is appropriate to treat the new illness first, and only after it is cured can the old illness be treated. Now with fever, aversion to cold, Jingshui just arrived, external pathogens take advantage of the deficiency to enter the thoroughfare vessel, hence the delirious speech, hallucinations, and illusions. Following the ancient method of heat entering the uterus, treat it with Minor Bupleurum Decoction. After three doses, the external symptoms were resolved, then with Guiling Ganshu Qiang Xinwei Xia, treat the phlegm wheezing to complete the cure.