Forum - Article 110 / wrong treatment of exo illness with fire administration

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110. Exo yang illness, the patient is restless, but the doctor wrongly using hot press to heat the back of the patient, over induce sweating and weaken the stomach, the pathogenic heat attacked into the stomach system causing dehydration of stomach fluid. This resulted in restlessness, delirium and etc. After about 10 days, if the patient is shivering, diarrhea, this is the positive energy overcome the pathogenic one, the illness will be overcome. However, if after fire treatment the patient do not sweat below the waist but started to vomit, the sole of foot feel icy, stool harden, by right the urine should be frequent but now become less. Feel like passing the stool but difficult to discharge. After passing the stool, suffer severe headache and feel hot on the sole of the feet. This is energy of the fluid and grain in the food pushing downward.

Note: For exo yang syndrome, we should not use dry heat treatment. This will wrongly induce the sweat and causing dehydration in stomach system leading to many complications. Infra red, hot pebble and etc are dry fire treatment, should be applied with extra care in exogenous system. Now a day many therapist like to use infra red to treat pain in joints and external part of body, this is wrong treatment and always worsen the situation. Fire treatment is more suitable for weak metabolism and weak pulse patient. Fried mix ginger and leek pouch press is much better because ginger and leek are exogenous herbs, the heat will circulate more on the surface of the body than driving inward.