Hey, I'm so excited to come back to continue on part 3 of the previous subject.
So without delay, I'll write up the formula that I promised you for unblocking the Liver Qi stagnation.
So whether to use formula (a) or (b) depends on the clinical observation that you had gathered and know why, when and how to use the correct formula effectively.
I'll discuss these 2 formulas later so that you then would realise why is it so important to know the TCM fundamentals.
Now it's time to show How Ying, Wei, Zhang Fu and Jing Luo 4 Qi blend into the seasonal infections in Pediatric part three step by step.
TCM FUNDAMENTALS
Wind
Has the characteristics of which are:
- Yang's property. ( propelling and warm turn into heat in nature)
- Moving on swiftly
- Transfers from one to another rapidly
- Changes from heat to fire rapidly (Qi transportation theory)
- Effortlessly inducing liver wind in the TCM perspective
Normally, it would link up to a minimum of 3 types of seasonal virus-like cold with wind and wetness causing Arthralgia in children. The seasonal virus also commonly seen to affect, with the intake of dairy product, the body causing stomach flu ( cough, running nose, vomiting, bloated and diarrhoea.)
This would be the typical first TCM syndrome called:
- (1) Heat wind invades Lung {see attached diagram below}
Has the characteristics of which are:
- Yin's property (cooling down and contract to cause atrophy)
- Easily dominated over Yang Qi, and
- Consumption of cold food causing further cooling to affect the Lung Qi
- Result: wheezing sound in the lung leading to cold asthma. (feeling cold, cough, running nose, phlegm light, foamy, tongue coating white)
Cold affecting Spleen Yang directly result in :
- Cold loose stool, colour-- light, smelly,
- Abdominal pain,
- (Shen) looks indifferent,
- Urine light and plentiful, not dehydrated,
- Tongue light colour,
- (rare case= Neonatal scleredema.)
Delay treatment or recovery can lead to speedy transfer to kidneys causing (Shen) becoming indifferent, appearing pale and cold limb.
A cold usually lead to atrophy:
- followed by Blood Stagnation eg premature neonate with Yang Qi deficient,
- causing Yang Qi unable to warm the dermis layer to the surface
- further lower body temperature
- weak crying of the baby and hardening of the skin.
Has the characteristics of which are:
- Yang's property
- Easily transfer from heat to fire,
- Leads to high fever, coma and convulsion
Means heat turn into fire produce wind = intense wind =move phlegm=intense phlegm =seisure
This would be the typical third TCM syndrome called:
Has the characteristics of which are:
- Yin's property (cold and sticky)
- Stagnation usually cause the Spleen to become like-immobilised causing Spleen's Yang to be sluggish and
- So much so that when wetness is abundant then diarrhoea could be the resultant phenomena.
- When wetness combines with heat and affects the respective meridian, i.e. the usual spleen and stomach, the resultant phenomena =Atrophy.
- Dry cough,
- Little phlegm,
- Sore throat,
- Tongue red,
- Tongue coating yellow.
Fire
- hyperactive
- 5 lates
- 5 softs,
- dementia,
- stay small syndrome
- congenial foolishness

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