[1] Master Zhang Ji has another name: Zhang Zhongjing. In Chinese, family name is the first, given name is the second. There is no middle name usually.

[2] Qi means something as air, as gas, as vapour, as something you can feel its function but hard to see its shape or mass. There are different Qi in the body. The Qi that works to maintain the body normal function is called Zhengqi. The Qi that causes a disorder or a disease is called a Xieqi. The Xieqi can be a bacteria, a virus, a fungers, or simply a climate change, a cold temperature, a high temperature, a wind weather, a raining, a humidity environment, etc. So, a Xieqi in the Chinese Medicine is a very broad concept. Whenever there is no proper English word to express the TCM meaning, we will use the Chinese Pingyin but not a Chinese character to mean it. In addition, the Xieqi is translated into evil in some TCM book. We don’t think this is a proper word. The Xieqi can be wind, cold, hot, fire, wet, dryness, etc. They are normal and ordinary nature factors. They do not cause disease normally, unless they come into the body in the improper time, either when the body defense system is weak, or when they selves are too strong. They are not always “evil”. Therefore, only after they come into the body and caused disease, they are called the Xieqi. Xieqi is also called Xie, for example, Wind Xie, Cold Xie, Wet Xie, Hot Xie, Fire Xie, Dry Xie. Different Xieqi could cause different clinic manifestations, which are very important to tell the nature of the disease and to decide a proper treatment principle. Identification of the Xieqi is a very basic requirement to a TCM doctor.

[3] Weiqi moves outside of the blood vessels, works as the first level of defense system for the body. Rongqi transports inside of the blood vessels and works as the inside defense system of the body.

[4] In clinic, to feel hot does not mean a fever. Fever means a high body temperature, but a person could feel hot but the body temperature is not high. Such condition can be seen in person with menopause syndrome and in many other conditions. In this book, to feel hot does not mean an increase in body temperature. If it is fever, it means a higher body temperature. Similarly, that people feel chilly does not mean that their body temperature is low, but rather, their body temperature is usually high. If we say that a person feels cold, his body (or hands or feet) also feels cold by touch. Patient with chilly or shaking wants to cover himself with more clothes or other coverings. More covering can not reduce his chilly. At this movement, his temperature is high or will pretty soon much high. A dislike cold feeling also needs to be separated with the Jue condition feeling. Many people can feel cold in hands and feet, that suggests that they are not at all in the Taiyang stage, but in others, mostly in Shaoyin and Jueyin stage. We will introduce it in later chapters. Readers should pay attention in this book whenever we mean “feel chilly” or “feel cold”. It bears different meaning. In most of times, TCM pay much attention to the person’s feeling, not the exact body temperature measured.

Dislike wind and dislike cold are also different. For dislike wind, one does not want to stay in wind weather or in an environment with strong air moving (such as in an air-conditioned car or room). He will feel ok when he stays in a room without air conditioning. For dislike cold, one does not want to stay in a cold room. He cares more about the room temperature not the air moving. He could like the warm air moving, such as warm fan.

[5] This paragraph is very important. It tells how to diagnose and recognize Taiyang stage of the Shanghan disease. Furthermore, no matter what disease when people come to you, if he feels chilly with pain and tight on the neck from beginning, you should know that his current disease is in an early stage, the Taiyang stage. Pay attention to the condition here: pulse first. The pulse should be floating. If one feels headache, tight and pain on neck but the pulse is deeper and thin and weak, it suggests that the disease is no longer in the Taiyang stage, it might be in other deeper and severe stage, such as in Shaoying stage now. Second, it did not indicate the fever as the necessary condition for the diagnosis of Taiyang stage.

Different disease has difference clinic manifestations in the early Taiyang stage. The floating pulse, tight and pain on neck and chilly is common for the invasion of Wind and Cold. This book mostly focuses on the introduction of the clinic diagnosis and treatment for the invasion of Wind and Cold (Wind and Cold come into body alone or in a combination).

There are several other diseases that need distinguish with the Shanghan disease. One of them is the Ye disease, in which the invaded Xieqi is the Hot in summer.  In the Ye disease, one feels fever, very thirsty and pulse is weak, though he also feels chilly. For Ye disease, its Taiyang stage is very short.

Another disease is the Wen disease, in which the invaded Xieqi is Wet. In the Wen disease, the person feels fever and extremely tired, pulse is big but with flash cold, or in most case there is no chilly feeling.

So, follow me to remember the principle to make the diagnosis of  Shanghan Taiyang: floating pulse, tight and pain on the neck and chilly. In future, whenever we mention the Taiyang stage, it means that the person haa such clinic conditions. Chilly is very important since the severity of chilly is parallel to the severity of the Cold in the body surface.

Readers should also know that, to diagnosis the Taiyang stage of  Shanghan, only floating plus, or only a chilly feeling, or only the pain and tight on the neck is not enough to establish the diagnosis. Floating pulse can be seen in other diseases, such as in a Wind-Wen disease. Tight and pain on neck can be seen in Shaoyang stage (of any disease), so does the chilly feeling. More than two conditions should trigger us to consider the Taiyang stage of Shanghan disease, under the condition that there are no more evidences for other kind of diseases.  

[6] The Taiyang stage is separated into two types: Wind-invasion type and Cold-invasion type. For the Wind-invasion, one furthermore feels fever, sweat, dislike wind and pulse becomes slow (floating-slow). For the Cold-invasion type, one furthermore feels pain in the body (mostly on the back of the body, back of the neck, leg), burping, nausea (even vomiting), with floating-tight pulse, no matter he has fever or not. Pay attention that in both types, no strong thirsty (not as in the Ye disease or in Wen disease), and not very tired and no abnormal tongue covering  (not as in Wen disease – see blow).   

[7] In TCM, the pulse should be felt by three levels: light touch, middle press touch, and the deeper (harder touch). If the pulse is easy to be felt with the light touch, it suggests the disease is in the body surface, not severe yet. If the pulse is felt with hard press to the bottom (to the bone), it means the Yin pulse and suggests that the disease is in later stage, the inner organ and meridian system.

  Although commonly the pulse on the wrist is felt by doctor, the Master asked not to forget to touch the pulse on the neck and front of ankle for collecting more pulse for the information to establish diagnosis.

[8] Here, a clinic manifestation as mild hot, sweat, chilly, dislike wind, nausea, stiff nose and floating pulse indicate the use of Guizhi Tang. So, all of these clinic phenomenon are called Guizhi Tang condition. Basically if a person has most or all of such symptoms and clinic findings (pulse and tongue and others), the herb Guizhi Tang is strongly suggested to use. This book emphasizes such condition diagnosis. This is different from the regular Yin, Yang, Qi, Blood or Wei, Qi, Yin, Blood, of the five element diagnosis system in the current TCM textbooks.  This is actually the most useful and most simple way in the TCM practice, whereas you find more evidence towards the use of a herbal formula, your successful rate will be higher. In our experience, the herbal formula introduced in the Shanghan Lun work as to open a door by its key – very quick if the proper herbal formula is used. So, you are now following me to learn the herb parameter diagnosis system.

[9] Tang here means herbal formula that need to be cooked with water. Then the collected water supernatant is to drink for the treatment. English word close to the “Tang” is decoction. We insist to use the Chinese word “Tang” because it will be easier for a communication between the English-speaking people with the Chinese-speaking doctor when they mean the same thing during conversation. In this book, once a word, even if it is an original English word, bears special meaning if its first letter is a big letter.

[10] The dose for the herb ingredients in the <<Shanghan Lun>> has been a question for a long time. One of the major reasons that later doctors stop to use the herbal formula in this book is that they did not use the correct dose. The [Shanghan Lun] book is written 2000 years ago. The scale this book, say, one “liang” is equal to 15.625 gram, whereas it in the later 1000 years in China is about 3 gram. Therefore, doctors nowadays use 9 gram for the herb Guizhi in this formula, whereas according to the book itself, it should be more than 45 gram!  It has been well tested in our clinic and by others that when we apply the dose according to each “liang” is equal to 15.625 gram, the clinic healing effect becomes much fantastic. This result also triggers us to believe that the later doctors apply more and more kinds of herb ingredients in their herb prescriptions, for the fact that, for one reason, they wouldn’t be able to reproduce the marvelous effects by using the herbal formula in the book Shanghan Lun. In another words, the good clinic healing effect by using the herbal formula in this book, for one reason, is due to the higher dose (a proper dose) used, so there is no need to use more herbal ingredients in the formula (in this book, most herbal formula contain only less than 6 ingredients). The dose we translated here refers to the dose, one “liang” is equal to 15.625 gram.

For the names of the herbs in the herbal formula, we prefer to use the Chinese pingyin, rather than English or their Arabic names, for the consideration that, once it is listed as the English or Arabic names, even we ourselves cannot understand what do you mean when you ask question about the herbal formula. Anyway, for readers speaking English, we have a list of the herb names in both Chinese pingyin and Arabic names for your reference. 

Readers should know that, one herbal formula may be used in various disease stages. They may be used in the Taiyang stage, Taiyang-Shaoyang stages, or Shaoyin stage or others. They may also be used in other diseases rather than the Shanghan diseases. Here you need to remember in which clinic condition the herbal formula Guizhi Tang is to be used.

[11] Any herb should be chopped into small pieces before cooking unless it is indicated clear not to do so. Drink the water part of the cooked herbs (you can call it decoction or herbal tea) after cooling down for a while. This is principle for the herbal tea preparation. It will not be reminded in the future for other herbal formula unless it is reminded.

Most of the herbal tea does not need the drink of rice soup as the Guizhi Tang here. However, Guizhi Tang has other functions, rather than the sweat therapy here. If it is used for other healing pursers, it is not needed to drink the rice soup. Again, the rice soup should not be replaced with chicken soup or other kind of vegetable soup. Their healing property is not the same. If there is no way to cook a rice soup, you can break down bread into hot water. Keep it for 10 min to drink and eat the bread-water soup instead. There is ways to use some other herbs in the Guizhi Tang, to replace the rice soup drink. We will introduce it in later higher level of herbal therapy class.

Although we introduce the classical herbal tea preparation, in current clinic and in our clinic too, we used already-cooked herbal granule for the treatment. It means that you can buy the Guizhi Tang in a granule form that does not need any cooking process any more. Simply take several tea spoons of the herbs and mix it with water and then drink it. It is pretty simple and easy to use. On our experience, it works as well as the classical fresh cooked herbal tea. If you are TCM practitioner, you can buy it from herb distributor in your area.

Basically we do not explain the function of each herbal ingredient in the herbal formula. One of the reasons for doing this is that the understanding of the herbal function in a herbal formula is different among the TCM practitioner/doctor. Our understanding of their pharmaceutical function is different from those explained in TCM text book. We will introduce the herbal function in later advanced learning course.

[12] Yes, wait for 40 to 50 min and do not drink the rice soup right after drinking the herbal tea, though some doctor and the current TCM text book interprets to drink the rice soup right after the herbal tea.

[13] Heavy sweat after drinking the Guizhi Tang will exhaust the body Yang Qi, so tends to make the disease lasted longer with more disorders. This is because the fact that people need the Guizhi Tang is those who are Wind person whose physical condition are not strong enough to endure heavy sweat therapy.

Guizhi Tang is one of the most important herbal formula in TCM. The clinic application can cover from common cold to asthma, various allergic reactions, bronchitis, chronic fatigue, chronic sweat, hot flash, skin rash, urticaria, shoulder stiff, lower back pain, night urine, eczema, dizziness, and many more. It is also the most important stem herb formula that many other herbal formula are developed from.    

[14] In the Guizhi Tang condition, the Rongqi is weak but the Weiqi is strong. That’s the reason to cause the sweat.   

[15] For the fact that menopause syndrome shows hot flash and sweat, the Guizhi Tang can be considered.

[16] This paragraph is hard to understand.

[17] Basically if the disease is in Taiyang stage,  the person’s pulse is floating, he does not feel emotional. Now if he starts to feel annoyed (emotional), it suggests the cure of the disease after soon-coming self sweat. It reminds that the annoyed feeling does not suggests the worse of the disease. Doctors should know this and not to give over-treatment. If the disease further develop, it comes into Yangming stage, in which, one feels fever, heavy sweat with strong annoyed feeling (irritable in emotion and body too), but the pulse turns to big, no longer floating. The distinguish between these two stages are very important by carefully feeling of the pulse.

[18] This paragraph tells another clinic situation that a disease may cure by itself, even if the person feels annoyed and tight in mouth that makes him hard to speak. The floating pulse in both wrist and ankle position is important. Theoretically, pulse should be touched in the wrist, the neck and the ankle positions for diagnosis.

[19] In original version, it is the face, not the eye lids.

[20] The answer from Master Zhang Zhongjing.

[21] Normally, when we touch the pulse, we use three fingers to touch the pulse on the wrist (neck and front of the ankles). The finger close to the patient’s hand is called Chun pulse, followed by the Guan pulse and then the Chi pulse that is close to the arm pitch of the patient.

[22] In clinic, the pulse feeling on the Chun, Guan and Chi position are not so evenly the same, therefore a healing is needed.

[23] Yang means the Xieqi comes from surface to deeper of the body. Many kinds of common cold, infectious diseases belong to this group. Yin means the disease shows up from the deeper stage, such as from the Taiyin, Shaoyin or Jueyin stage. Many diseases, if they are due to exhaust of body energy, wear of the body function, belong to this.  

[24] It can be understand this way: the reason for a disease occurs in the middle of night is too much Yin invaded in the body  (night belongs to Yin), therefore, at noon, when the Yang is the most during the day, the disease will be balanced by the influence of Yang. For the same reason, if a disease is get at noon, it will be better at night. This is a very important concept in TCM.

[25] Here means the six meridian/stage: Taiyang, Yangming, Shaoyang, Taiyin, Shaoyin and Jueyin. Typical circle of the Shanghan disease is one day in each stage. The stage is correlated to the meridian. Once the disease in a given stage, it means that it is also in the meridian of the same name. For example, if a disease is in Taiyang stage, it also means that it affects the Hand Taiyang meridian and/or Feet Taiyang meridian. The neck is the body surface where the Hand Taiyang and Feet Taiyang meridian meet very close. So, no matter the Cold or Wind invades in the body through the Hand Taiyang meridian or through the Feet Taiyang meridian, they all could cause tight and pain on the neck.

That the disease circled whole stages/meridians does not mean that the body has necessarily shown the clinic manifestation in each stage.

[26] In TCM, when a disease is in a stage, it also means that the disease is in the same meridian. For example, when a disease is in Taiyang stage, it also means the disease is in Taiyang meridian. Because the Yangming stage follows the Taiyang stage, the Master tells to stimulate the Yangming meridian to stop the pass of the Cold/Wind from the Taiyang stage to the Yangming stage.

[27] Wind person refers to one who is easy to be invaded by Wind to cause health trouble. This Wind person is usually thin in body ship, easy to have sweat, running nose or cough or skin rash. They also have less tolerance to the fluctuation in temperature or emotional stimulation, e.g. they can not tolerate hot weather neither cold weather, and sensitive to emotional stimulations, etc. Such Wind person can mostly be seen in young girls.

[28] There are different opinions how to understand the function of muscle losing function of Guizhi Tang.

[29] Floating and tight pulse, fever without sweat suggests the use of Mahuang Tang (see bellow).

[30] Wine person means person who drink lots of wine or liquor. Such person also tends to feel hot with sweat. It seems that Guizhi Tang is also evidenced to be used to his condition, but it should not.

[31] Vomiting after drinking of Guizhi Tang (but the person do not vomit when drink other herbs or medicine), suggests the presence of hot and toxic inside of the body. Guizhi Tang is warm in nature. It may disturb the inside hot and toxic to vomit. In this case, stop to use the Guizhi tang. 

[32] Sweating therapy means a herbal therapy that creates sweat. Sweat is one of the ways Chinese medicine use it to expel Xieqi out of body. Many herb formula work as a sweating therapy. Guizhi Tang is among the most commonly used.

[33] Continuous sweat after sweat therapy suggests the person is weak inside and his body cannot tolerate ordinary extent of sweat therapy. The involvement of herb Fuzi here is to support the body condition.

[34] Jia here means to add and to include in.

[35] San here means herb powder.

[36] This paragraph reminds what may happen with extensive sweat therapy.

[37] Yes, the dose is very little, only 1 gram each time.

[38] If one has too much urine but not in the Taiyang stage, the frequent urine may be due to some other reasons. So the person in the Taiyang stage should not drink too much water in the Taiyang stage.

[39] Commonly one does not feel very thirsty in the Taiyang stage. If the person drinks too much water, the blood circulation volume is expanded but it cannot be distributed evenly to the body surface (the body surface now is pressed/chocked by the invaded wind), therefore the heart has to work hard to cause palpitation. If the person has little urine, it suggests that the disease has invaded in the urine bladder to cause urgent feeling during urination.  Readers should know that the Hand Taiyang meridian is associated

[40] After sweat, no strong fever and no dislike cold, suggests that the disease is no longer in the Taiyang stage; sweat but no dislike hot suggests that the disease is not in Yangming stage. Athma with sweat only suggests that the disease is in Taiyin (lung) stage.

Remember: asthma followed bowel-cleansing therapy when the disease is in Taiyang stage needs Guizhi-plus-Houpo Xingren Tang; if in this case, the person has asthma, sweat, diarrhea with fast pulse, Gegen Huanglian Huangqin Tang is needed. Now, asthma with sweat but no apparent fever needs Mahuang Xingren Cancao Shigao Tang. This is pretty commonly used herbs for asthma. 

[41] Here clearly indicated that the Mahuang Xingren Shigao Gancao Tang can be used for the treatment of asthma: asthma, sweat, but not strong fever, after sweat therapy or after bowel-cleansing therapy. In practice, even if the person has no history of sweat therapy or cleansing therapy but has asthma and sweat, this herb formula can be tried. If one has asthma but no sweat, herb Xiao Qinglong Tang is commonly used.

[42] In original version, it is “diarrhea”.

[43] In another version of the book, it is diarrhea.

[44] If there is original water accumulation in the stomach, the attach of the disease will cause nausea, Xiao Qinglong Tang is indicated. If the person has nausea, vomiting, dry mouth and hard in urine, Wuling San is needed. Both herbal formula work to solve the surface and the inside disease. The Shi Zao Tang here is used after the surface disease has been improved or is no longer the main problem but the inside trouble is the major problem. The person suitable for the Shi Zao Tang should be strong. Shi here means number ten. Zao means Chinese date. So Shi Zao Tang means ten Chinese date herb formula. Another formula is similar to the Shi Zao Tang. It is Guizhi qui Shao jia Baishu Fuling Tang that is used for fever, headache, nausea, full in stomach, but no sweat.

Shi Zao Tang belongs to very strong herbal formula. Most doctors are now hesitated to use it but in many clinic condition, it works much better than most other herbs. The most common clinic condition indicating the use of the Shi Zao Tang is water accumulation in the chest, e.g. hydrothorax, a condition that is very difficult for conventional medicine.

[45] Most importance parameter to tell the exist of disease in the surface of the body is the feeling of chilly. If there is such chilly feeling, the bowel-cleansing therapy should not be used. This is principle.

[46] In original version, the pulse is urgent pulse, not the floating pulse.

[47] In original version, the pulse here is floating pulse.

[48] Jiexiong is a TCM concept, referring to the fullness and pain the upper or whole stomach area.

[49] The disease turns into Yangming stage.

[50] The disease turns into Taiyin stage. It needs Ganjie Tang or Tongmai Sini Tang to treat.

[51] The disease turns deeper into the Shaoyang stage.

[52] The disease turns into Yangming or still in Taiyang stage.

[53] The disease turns deeper into Yangming stage. 

[54] The disease turns deeper into Yangming stage.

[55] If the Taiyang stage is treated by a wrong way – the bowel-cleansing therapy, there could be various worse conditions happen, depending on the person’s body health situation before the treatment. The possible consequence can be told from the pulse.

[56] Hot-diarrhea: one has diarrhea, urgent feeling to have bowel movement, hot in the anus area, or spasm pain the stomach before and during the bowel movement. He may have fever and the stool may have bleeding in it.

This paragraph introduced another clinic situation after mis-use of bowel-cleansing therapy in the Taiyang stage.

[57] If in this situation, the pulse is not weak, Gancao Xiexing Tang can be considered.

[58] In original version, there is no word “sweat”.

[59] Improper use of bowel-cleansing therapy in this Taiyang stage will deplete the body Yang Qi, so person feels bloating in the chest with faster pulse. Dislike-cold feeling suggests the depletion is too much, so herb Fuzi should be furthermore added. 

[60] Remember we said before that, if the person has asthma and diarrhea, Gegen Huangqin Huanglian Tang is considered?

[61] Person with long history of asthma is called Asthma person.

[62] For Taiyang stage, asthma and cough without sweat needs Mahuang Xingren Shigao Gancao Tang; asthma with sweat: Guizi jia Houpo Xingren Tang; cough without sweat: Xiao Qinglong Tang; there is cough but no asthma in Shaoyang stage: Xiao Chaihu Tang; or Xiao Chaihu Tang jia Ganjiang and Wuweizi; there is asthma but no cough in Yangming stage: it needs Da Chengqi Tang. Yangming stage, asthma with diarrhea: Gegen Huangqing Huanglian Tang;

For the three Yin stages, only in the Shaoyin stage, is there either cough or asthma. In this case, asthma needs Sini Tang jia Ganjiang and Wuweizi; cough needs Zhenwu Tang jia Ganjiang and Wuweizi. Couth and asthma with diarrhea: Zhuling Tang.

[63] Reverse pushing feeling: one feels as an air or gas pushing from stomach to chest or to the throat.

[64] For Jiexiong syndrome, one feels hardness, fullness and pain in the stomach; whereas in the Pi syndrome, one feel fullness, slight pain in the stomach. When press the Jiexiong area, it feels hard. When press the Pi area, it feels soft, not very hard.

[65] Da here means big, or great. Xiao means small in Chinese when we use it in the name of herbal formula. This formula is called Da Xianxiong Tang, there is another herbal formula called Xiao Xianxiong Tang.

[66] For the Small Xianxiong Tang condition, one feels fullness and hard in the upper stomach. He feels pain when touch, but no pain if no touch. This condition is less severe than the Da Xianxiong Tang. In clinic, they need to be distinguished.  Note: for Pi syndrome, the person also feels fullness and hard, but no pain even if at touch.

[67] This paragraph tells that the Big Jiexiong condition can happen without mis-use of bowel-cleansing therapy too. Note: the pulse turns deep and tight now, no longer floating.

[68] In original version, it is Xiao Jiexiong Tang.

[69] Jiexiong condition has both hot and cold conditions. The previous paragraph talks about the hot Jiexiong, in which the person feels hot and thirsty. Here talks about cold Jiexiong, in which one does not feel thirsty or fever. The stomach situation is pretty much the same: fullness. In clinic, the Xianxiong Tang may be used regardless of it hot or cold nature. If it does not work, Zhishi Lizhong Tang is used. It works as such in most situations.

[70] San means number three; Wu: material, mass, stuff; Bai: white color; and San: powder. So the meaning of this herb formula is: three white color herbal powder.

[71] The rice soup should not be replaced with water.

[72] Here introduces a new kind of Jiexiong syndrome: Water-condensing type of Jiexiong syndrome, in which one feels slight sweat only on head, as well as typical fullness and hardness in the upper stomach area.

[73] Jing syndrome means a syndrome with muscle spasm. For people in Taiyang stage, it is called Severe (Strong) Jing syndrome if the person has fever, not sweat, but dislike cold. It is called Mild (soft) Jing syndrome if the person feels fever, sweat but not dislike cold. If the one is in the Taiyang disease and has fever, but his pulse is deep and thin, it is called Yin Jing syndrome. Here the Master remind to distinguish the Jiexiong syndrome with the various Jing syndromes. With the Jing syndrome, the person’s arms, legs, neck, all tend to stretch out (hard to bend), whereas in the Jiexiong, mostly the neck is hard to bend.

[74] Note: it is Da Xianxiong Wan. Wan here means pills. It is different from the Da Xianxiong Tang.

[75] The Jiexiong syndrome with floating pulse suggests the disease remains partly in the surface Taiyang stage. Bowel-cleansing therapy will bring the disease deeper to cause more trouble. Only if the pulse is floating on the Chun position but deep in the Guan position, the bowel-cleansing therapy can be used.  

[76] This paragraph should be understood together with the previous one: if the one with floating and big pulse, together with annoyed, he may die, unless proper treatment is used. One with the Jiexiong syndrome is in a very danger stage of life. The bowel-cleansing therapy is the most effective way to save the life, But tt is apparently very important when to use this therapy.

[77] Here continue the distinguish between the Jiexiong and Zangjie. A white, thick and slippery tongue covering suggests there is no hot in the chest, if one with Zangjie, it could still be solved with warming therapy. The tongue covering is in harmony with the Yin condition inside the body. If it happens in Jiexiong syndrome, more bowel-cleansing therapy will make the person much weaker.

[78] No hot/fever, the disease (Zangjie) is not in Taiyang stage; no cold-hot repeat, it is not in Shaoyang stage; and the one is calm, not annoyed or irritable emotionally or physically, it is not in Yangming stage either. Zangjie syndrome is hard to treat, but does not mean no treatment.

[79] Suggests he feels chilly and so the disease is still in the Taiyang stage.

[80] Wenhe is also named Wubeizi.