Chronic Disease Enters Collaterals
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CORE DEFINITION
Proposed by Ye Tianshi. Initially, disease is in the channels (large blood vessels); when chronic, it enters the collaterals (capillaries). In the late stage of chronic disease, pathogens burrow into the fine collaterals, forming blood stasis or phlegm nodules.
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Peripheral dredging strategy. For treating chronic patients (such as chronic bronchitis, arthritis), simply taking tonics or channel-dredging medicines is ineffective because the drug power cannot penetrate. Must use "insect drugs" (such as earth dragon, scorpion), which act like drills to open these fine dead ends.
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Proposed by Ye Tianshi in the Qing Dynasty: initially, disease is in the channels (qi aspect, large collaterals); when chronic, pathogens enter the collaterals (fine blood vessels), forming stasis or phlegm nodules. The mechanism is: prolonged illness depletes vital qi, blood and qi become sluggish, and drug power is hard to reach the fine collaterals; conventional channel-dredging and tonifying are ineffective, so one must use insect drugs that are good at moving and penetrating (earth dragon, scorpion, centipede) to search and clear the collaterals, opening the dead ends.
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