Basic Shaoyang Disease Patterns (Part VI) [1]

Xiao Chai Hu [3] Tang Patterns

Contraindications fro Minor Bupleurum Decoction
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“When in an illness that the person has bad for six or seven days, the pulse is slow, floating, and weak, and there is aversion to wind and cold, and warm extremities, and the physician purge  two or three times, there is inability to eat, pain and fullness under the rib-side, yellowing of the eyes, face and body, stiffness of the neck and nape, and difficult urination.  After Xiao Chai Hu Tang is given, there will be rectal heaviness.  When originally there was thirst with retching following water intake, Xiao Chai Hu Tang should not be given, and when food is taken there will be hiccup.”

Key Words: Basic Shaoyang Disease Patterns, Xiao Chai Hu Tang Patterns