Basic Tai Yang Disease Patterns (Part XXXXXVI)

Chest Bind Patterns
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“Question:  There is a disease called chest bind, and there is one called storehouse (zang organ) bind.  What form does it take? Answer: If there is pain when pressure is applied, and the inch pulse is floating, and the bar pulse is sunken, this is called chest bind.”

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“When the disease springs from yang, yet purging is used, the heat enters the interior and causes chest bind.  When the disease springs from yin, yet purging is used, the evil causes a glomus.  Why the disease becomes chest bind is because purging was used too early.  In chest bind, with nape stiffness as in soft tetany, purge and then there will be harmony.  Da Xian Xiong Wan is appropriate.

Da Xian Xiong Wan

Da Huang half Jin
Ting Li Zi half Sheng (dry fry)
Mang Xiao half Sheng
Xing Ren half sheng (remove skin, tips dry fry till black)”

Key Words: Basic Tai Yang Disease Patterns, Chest Bind Patterns