True Excess Falsely Looks Like Deficiency
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The true condition is an extreme excess syndrome (such as severe food stagnation or blood stasis), but because the stagnation obstructs the flow of qi and blood, the exterior appearance shows extreme deficiency (such as being quiet and listless, or feeling heavy in the body). That is, 'true excess with false deficiency.'
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Anti-deception protocol. When seeing a patient who is weak and unable to move, do not rush to tonify. Feel the abdomen: is it hard? Is the tongue coating thick? If so, this is like a 'major traffic jam' causing the car not to move, not running out of fuel. At this time, one must use strong medicine to clear the blockage (purgation), and the person will become spirited.
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A term in traditional Chinese medicine pathology, referring to when pathogenic excess is internally bound extremely, qi and blood cannot reach the exterior, and instead manifest false deficiency signs such as fatigue and cold limbs (true excess with false deficiency). The mechanism is that if mistakenly treated with tonification, it will assist the pathogen.
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