Forum - Article 111 / wrong fire treatment for exo yang illness can lead to severe dehydration

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111. Weak exo yang illness, wrongly induce sweating by fire treatment, circulation of blood and energy are disturbed, wind and fire mutually affecting the body, leading to bad circulation in liver system, resulted in jaundice like syndrome where the patient skin turn yellow, the heat will surge up causing bleeding of nose, severely dehydrate the body and leading to short and less urination. The energy and blood of the body will be depleted and thus do not nourish the body sufficiently, resulted in dryness of the body. Only the head till the neck will sweat. Strong yang heat and lack of yin fluid, leading to bloating of stomach, slight panting, dry mouth and ulcer in the throat, or constipation. If without proper treatment, after some time may resulted in delirium, hiccup, restlessness in limbs, dangerous symptoms like twisting the cloth and searching along the edge of the bed. If urination is smooth, it indicate the body fluid is still not totally depleted, we can still treat the patient.

Note: Wind is an exogenous pathogenic factor that causing exo-illness especially in lung, stomach and kidney systems. There are many types of dehydration, in this article it is focus on dehydration complicated with heat and lack of body fluid. When come to the last and risky stage, the patient become weak and confuse, then he will twist his cloth without realizing it or searching the edge of the bed aimlessly, if not treated, he will die.