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MENTAL MODEL · M2742

Dysphagia-Occlusion / Ye Ge

Dysphagia-Occlusion / Ye Ge
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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Ye ge is a classical disease name in traditional Chinese medicine. Ye denotes food that catches and passes only with difficulty; ge denotes food that is refused at the throat and comes back up. The two are usually described together as a single pattern. Classical causes include constrained emotion, phlegm and qi blocking each other, blood stasis, and depletion of fluids, and the condition corresponds in modern terms to obstruction of the oesophagus, including tumours and spasm of the cardia. It is classed as difficult to treat because by the time it is marked, the blockage is usually structural as well as functional.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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- Deadlock detection: Read a flow that stops at a fixed point as a blockage to be located rather than as a general slowdown. - Cause before clearing: Identify whether the block is stagnation, stasis, or depletion before choosing how to open it. - Hard-block check: When a soft blockage resists every attempt, look for a structural obstruction underneath.

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Flow stops for two different reasons: the channel narrows structurally, or the medium becomes too thick and bound to pass. In ye ge the classical account describes the second, where constrained emotion, phlegm, and stasis accumulate until food cannot descend, and prolonged obstruction then damages the channel itself. That progression explains why early clearing works and late clearing does not: the model treats the blockage as a process with stages rather than as a single fixed obstacle.

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