Grain Jaundice / Gu Dan
Updated 2026-08-01
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Grain jaundice (gu dan) is a Chinese medicine pattern in which eating brings dizziness, the chest feels restless and oppressed, and the body turns yellow. The cause lies in damp-heat in the spleen and stomach that impairs transformation, so food is not converted into blood and qi but ferments into damp-heat that surfaces as jaundice. The qualifier is that the fault is in the converter rather than in the food, and treatment clears damp-heat and restores transformation, classically with wormwood decoction.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Converter check: when input causes trouble, inspect the processing stage before blaming the input - Fermentation image: read the yellowing as material turning toxic because it was never converted - Clean the vessel: clear damp-heat and restore the transformation function rather than only removing the symptom
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Food must be transformed by the spleen and stomach before it becomes usable qi and blood. When damp-heat impairs that transformation, ingested grain is not converted and instead ferments, generating more damp-heat that stains the body yellow. The causal chain runs from impaired transformation to unconverted input to internal toxin. Clearing damp-heat removes the accumulated product, and restoring transformation prevents the next meal from repeating the failure.
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