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On Cold Damage is a masterpiece by a master. A master from eons ago may be someone we look up to, but we needn’t do as he did without some critical thinking on our part. That’s exactly what many physicians kept doing since the Han era, with an upsurge after the Song era. Times have changed, people have changed and even the environment around us has changed.

The translations therein are mostly my paraphrasing of the material as I read them in Chinese. Often I realize some noun is not so translatable and so I take the word off Craig, Wiseman and Feng Ye’s Shanghanlun. Most ideas are from the Chinese material I get from around here, some from Huang Huang’s books on this subject, some from my teacher Zhao Mingfang. The rest, especially in interpretations from a Western medicine perspective, are my own.

Note: Do quote and leave a link if you use my material, which is free and available. Lots of labor has gone into writing the various articles.

On Dosage:

• Han Dynasty Measures of Quantity

On Greater Yang Disease:

• Definition of Greater Yang in Shang Han Lun (line 1)
• Definition of Wind Strike in Shang Han Lun (line 2)
• Definition of Cold Damage in Shang Han Lun (line 3)
• Definition of Warm Disease in Shang Han Lun (line 6a)
• Definition of Wind-Warmth in Shang Han Lun (line 6b)
• Foretelling Disease Progression (lines 4 and 5)
• Foretelling Disease Duration (line 7)

On Cinnamon Twig Decoction:

• What is Cinnamon Twig Decoction (LIne 12)
• What is Mr. Zhang’s Cinnamon Twig really?
• Cinnamon Twig Decoction Recalibrated
• Pulse Considerations for Cinnamon Twig Decoction (line 57)
• Cinnamon Twig Decoction for Nutritive-Defensive Balance (lines 53 and 54)
• CInnamon Twig Decoction treats an imbalanced constitution
• When not to use Cinnamon Twig Decoction (line 16b, 17 and 19)
• Variations on cinnamon decoction-type pattern (lines 14, 18, 43, 20, 21, 22, 62)

On Ephedra Decoction:

• The 8 Signs that define Ephedra Decoction (line 35)
• Ephedra Decoction Recalibrated
• When not to use Ephedra Decoction (lines 83 to 89)
• Greater Yang, then bloated chest: use of Ma Huang Tang or Xiao Chai Hu Tang (lines 36 & 37)

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3 variants on Ephedra Decoction:

On Pueraria Decoction and Variants:

• Pueraria Decoction (line 31)
• Using Pueraria
• Pueraria for Diarrhea
• Using a Pueraria Decoction base to treat Greater Yang and Yang Brightness Combination Diseas (line 32 and 33)
• Comparing: Pueraria Decoction vs Peony, Licorice and Aconite Decoction
• Comparing: Pueraria Decoction vs Cinnamon Twig Plus Pueraria Decoction
• Pueraria, Scutellaria and Coptis Decoction for Damp-heat Diarrhea with Panting (line 34)
• Comparing: Pueraria, Scutellaria and Coptis Decoction vs Magnolia Bark Seven Substances Decoction

On the Green-Blue Dragon Decoctions:

• Major Green-Blue Dragon Decoction in Shang Han Lun (lines 38 and 39)
• Comparing: Major Green-Blue Dragon Decoction vs Ephedra Decoction
• Major and Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction for Edema (from Jin Kui Yao Lue)
• Comparing: Major Green-Blue Dragon Decoction vs True Warrior Decoction (Shang Han Lun)

• Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction in Shang Han Lun (lines 40 & 41)
• Pattern Modifications for Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction (line 40)
• Formula Breakdown of Xiaoqinglong Decoction
• Xiaoqinglong Decoction for water beneath the heart
• Uses of Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction

On Ma Xing Shi Gan Decoction:

• Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang (lines 63 and 162)
• Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang for Intense panting on top of damp-heat diarrhea (Ge Gen Qin Lian Tang)
  

Amount of Ephedra, Cinnamon Twig and Gypsum used the Green-Blue Dragon Varieties

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Combining Cinnamon Twig Decoction and Ephedra Decoction:

• Combination prescriptions
• Ephedra and Cinnamon Twig Decoction – Half Half （line 23)
• Cinnamon Twig Two Ephedra One (line 25)
• Cinnamon Twig Two Yuebi One (line 27)

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Using Gardenia to clear heart heat:

• Using Gardenia to clear heart heat
• Gardenia and Prepared Soybean Decoction and its variants
• Using Gardenia and Prepared Soybean Decoction

For a weak heart:

• Cinnamon and Licorice Decoction and its variants
• The Greater Yang version of True Warrior Decoction (line 82)
• The Lesser Yin Version of Zhenwutang (line 316)
• Zhenwutang add-subtract (from line 316)

On Chest Bind and Glomus:

• What really is Chest Bind? (line 128)
• What are the three signs?
• Difference between Jiexiong and Pizheng
• Preparation of Heart Draining Decoctions (lines 154, 155, 149, 157,158))
• What is Rhubarb and Coptis Xiexin Decoction made up of (line 154)
• What is xiereli? (line 139)

Mr Zhang’s diuretics:

• What can Wulingsan treat?
• Wulingsan to treat Huo Luan (line 386)
• Huo Luan: Definition and Treatment (line 382)
• Greater Yang Water Amassment Patterns (lines 71, 72, 74)
• Wulingsan vs Zhen Wu Tang to treat dehydration

Moving Blood Beneath:

• Peach Kernel Qi-Coordinating Decoction (line 106)
• Dead-On Decoction (lines 124 & 125)
• Dead-On Pill (line 126)
• Dead-On Decoction vs Dead-On Pill
• Greater Yang vs Yang Brightness Blood Amassment

Lesser Yang Disease:

• What constitutes a Lesser Yang Disease?
• What constitutes a Chai Hu Pattern?
• Xiao Chai Hu Tang
• How to prepare Xiao Chai Hu Tang
• Examples of Xiao Chai Hu Tang in Use
• When not to use Xiao Chai Hu Tang
• Chai Hu Gui Zhi Tang (line 146)
• Chai Hu Gui Zhi Gan Jiang Tang (line 147)
• Da Chai Hu Tang (lines 103 & 165)
• Chai Hu Plus Mang Xiao Tang (line 104)
• Chai Hu Plus Long Mu Tang (line 107)

Greater Yin Disease:

• What is a tai yin disease? (line 273)
• How to tell if you’re recovering from taiyin disease (line 274)
• How to treat taiyin disease: Use warming treatment — si ni tang (line 277)
• Treating taiyin disease using gui zhi tang — how to making sense of it. (line 276).
• Treating taiyang disease that due to precipitation becomes taiyin (defined as abdominal pain) using modified gui zhi tang (add peony or add da huang). In effect, it’s about using gui zhi tang to solve a certain transmuted form of abdominal pain…. (line 279)
• Warning on the use of modified (adding peony or rhubarb) gui zhi tang for people with weak stomach qi…. (line 280)
• Difficult lines: line 278 and line 187

Summary: taiyin disease is treated using warming method. either use si ni tang (stronger) or gui zhi tang (weaker).  Add either shao yao or da huang for abdominal pain – the former for weak pain, the latter for strong pain.

Lesser Yin Disease:

• How to treat Lesser Yin Disease
• Lesser Yin and Diarrhea
• Greater Yin Diarrhea vs Lesser Yin Diarrhea
• Lesser Yin Diarrhea vs Jue Yin Diarrhea
• Hemp Seed and Apricot Pill
• When to use “downward propellation” method instead of Hemp Seed and Apricot Pill
• Halloysit in Peach Blossom Decoction
• Ni vs Jue

Reverting Yin Disease:

• Definition of Jue Yin Disease (line 326)
• Wu Mei Wan (line 338)
• Gan Jiang Qin Lian Ren Shen Tang (line 359)
• Ma Huang Sheng Ma Tang (line 357)
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• Treating Reversal (厥) using Si Ni Tang (line 353 and 354)
• Treating Reversal (厥) using Dang Gui Si Ni Tang (line 351)
• Treating Reversal (厥) using Dang Gui Si Ni jia Wu Zhu Yu Sheng Jiang Tang (line 352)
• Treating Reversal (厥) using Tong Mai Si Ni Tang (line 370)
• When to use Bai Tou Weng Tang (lines 371 and 373)

Retching:

• Wu Zhu Yu Tang to treat dry retching (line 378)
• Si Ni Tang to treat Retching accompanied by cold (line 377)
• Xiao Chai Hu Tang to treat retching accompanied by heat effusion (line 379)
• Retching secondary to purulent abscesses (line 376)

Note that his point here is to treat the root and the retching will cease.

Hiccups:

• Concept: Cold in Stoamch causes Hiccup (line 380)
• Check urine and bowel movement when treating hiccups (line 381)

Random Unsorted:

• Treating your bloated tummy
• Use of licorice in the treatment of Liver Diseases
• Treatment of Diarrhea using Chi Shi Zhi and Yu Yu Liang Decoction (line 159)
• Tai-shao combined exterior illness

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