Medical Notes 004: On Su Wen's Taiyin Yangming

On Taiyin Yangming discusses the relationship between the spleen meridian of Foot Taiyin and the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming, which has extremely important guiding significance in clinic.

Taiyin, foot Taiyin spleen meridian also; Yangming, foot Yangming stomach meridian also. They are connected by collaterals, which are both exterior and interior and focus. Yangming in Sanyang is Taiyin promoting qi, and Taiyin in Yin San is Yangming promoting qi. They interact and are inseparable.

Several relationships between Taiyin Yangming are mentioned here.

First of all, Qi Bo summed up "Yang flourishes and Yin declines" from the way of Yin and Yang.

1. The relationship between Yin and Yang.

Yangming is yang in the outside and yin in the Taiyin. Yangming refers to the viscera as yang, and Taiyin refers to the viscera as yin.

2. The relationship between reality and reality.

"The stomach is firmer and the spleen is weaker."

The stomach is the fu-organ, and the fu-organ dominates the transmission rather than hiding, so there are many syndromes of Yangming. Baihutang Yangming treats thirst, sweating and heavy pulse according to the syndrome, and Chengqi decoction Yangming treats fullness and dryness according to the syndrome.

Spleen and viscera are the main sources of storing essence, so there are many deficiency syndromes. Guipi decoction, etc.

Both are in the middle focus and interact with each other. "Actually, they are responsible for Yangming, while deficiency is responsible for Taiyin." Spleen deficiency requires purging the stomach (Xiehuang Powder, Saposhnikovia divaricata and Gardenia Pogostemon and Gypsum Gardenia mainly purge stomach heat), while stomach deficiency requires invigorating the spleen (Lizhong Decoction, Glycyrrhiza Radix Ginseng, Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Black Ginger are all medicines for warming and invigorating the spleen).

3. The relationship of disobedience.

What we are talking about here is the relationship between the direction of meridians. Bottom-up is inverse, and top-down is from.

Yin Qi from foot to head, from arm to finger; Yang goes from hand to head to foot. Here refers to the lunar upward from the foot, which is the inverse; Yangming walked from head to foot, in order to obey.

Yang patients go up and down, and Yin patients go up and down. What is said here is that if Yangming is ill, the disease will be located in the head and face (facial swelling, headache, itching of limbs, etc. ), but if he is seriously ill, it will also affect the lower body. Taiyin is a disease, and the disease is located in the lower part (edema, severe pain, swelling, etc. But if you are seriously ill, it will develop upward (there will be symptoms of "heavy moisture").

4. Internal and external relations

"Yang weather also, outside the Lord; Yin Qi is also inside the subject. So, Taoist Yang, vaginal deficiency. Therefore, those who commit thieves and evils are yang, and those who eat inappropriately are yin. "

Weather is the general climate of nature. A cold is an exogenous pathogen. If you are in the same spirit, you will be the first to commit Yangming. Therefore, "any thief who commits wind deficiency and evil will be subject to yang."

The qi of the earth is the qi of Shui Gu, and improper eating and living is an endogenous evil. Therefore, I will hurt the Moon first (I am determined to go to bed early tonight! )