bubble_chart Indications

Treating facial redness and body heat, restlessness without irritation, and inability to drink water is called floating yang syndrome.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Dai Shi said: Dysphoria is present in both the yin and yang meridians. In the Yangming meridian, the stomach has dry stool, hence the irritability, and purgation is appropriate. In the taiyang meridian, if irritability occurs after sweating, Five Ingredients with Poria Powder is suitable. The Shaoyang meridian also experiences irritability, and Minor Bupleurum Decoction is recommended.
2. Note: Ancient sages treated dysphoria in various ways, some related to heat, others to cold. Treating irritability without restlessness often relates to heat, while palpitations with restlessness indicate deficiency cold; treating restlessness without irritability often relates to cold, except when caused by fire pathogen, which is heat. Yin irritability is mostly seen in the Shaoyin, caused by yang qi transferring to the yin meridians, where yin receives yang and becomes irritable. For irritability with spontaneous diarrhea, thirst, and insomnia, cinnabar Five Ingredients with Poria Powder is used. If not caused by yang qi transferring to yin, but by yin qi invading the yin meridians, with vomiting, diarrhea, and reversal cold of hands and feet causing irritability, the classics say it is due to yang deficiency and yin overpowering, hence cold, and also say yin exuberance causes restlessness, a desire to sit in a well, Evodia Decoction, and in severe cases, Cold-Extremities Decoction with Fistular Onion Stalk. There is also a condition of virtual irritability, where after illness the anus yang has not recovered, leading to occasional feverish irritability, Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction, for excessive phlegm and restless sleep, Spleen-Warming Decoction, and for vomiting, Tangerine Peel Decoction.