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Jingui Yaolue · Essentials from the Golden Cabinet
8. Running-Piglet Qi · Pulses, Signs and Treatment
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The Master says: There are running-piglet illness, vomiting pus, fright and fear, and Fire pathogen. These four classes all arise from fright. Running piglet begins in the lower abdomen, rushes to the throat, feels fatal during the attack, then returns and stops. All comes from fright and fear.
Running-piglet qi rushing into the chest, abdominal pain and alternating cold and heat are governed by Bentun Tang.
Bentun Tang Formula
Gancao, Xiongqiong and Danggui 2 liang each; Banxia 4 liang; Huangqin 2 liang; fresh Ge 5 liang; Shaoyao 2 liang; Shengjiang 4 liang; white root bark of sweet plum 1 sheng.
Boil the nine ingredients in 2 dou water to obtain 5 sheng. Take 1 sheng warm three times by day and once at night.
After sweating, heated needling used to induce more sweat may expose the needle site to cold. A raised, red kernel there must bring running piglet, qi rising from lower abdomen to Heart. Apply one moxa cone to each kernel; Guizhi Jia Gui Tang governs.
Guizhi Jia Gui Tang Formula
Guizhi 5 liang; Shaoyao 3 liang; Gancao 2 liang, roasted; Shengjiang 3 liang; Dazao 12 fruits.
Boil the five ingredients over low heat in 7 sheng water to obtain 3 sheng. Strain and take 1 sheng warm.
After induced sweating, palpitations below the navel mean running piglet is impending. Fuling Guizhi Gancao Dazao Tang governs.
Fuling Guizhi Gancao Dazao Tang Formula
Fuling half a jin; Gancao 2 liang, roasted; Dazao 15 fruits; Guizhi 4 liang.
With ganlan water 1 dou first boil Fuling, reducing by 2 sheng. Add the others and boil to obtain 3 sheng. Strain; take 1 sheng warm three times daily.
Ganlan water method: Put 2 dou water in a large basin and scoop it up repeatedly until five or six thousand bead-like bubbles chase one another on the surface; use that water.
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