Forum - Article 115 / wrong fire treatment for excessive exo-yang syndrome

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115. Float pulse, high fever, this is excessive exo-yang, should be treated with exogenous sweat induction technique. However, if wrongly treated with warm moxa, this is wrongly treat the excessive syndrome as deficient syndrome, the pathogenic fire energy attacked inside, exhaust the blood and dehydrate the body fluid, resulted in dry throat, vomit blood.

Note: When heat attacked inside, upper body will lead to vomit of blood, lower body will lead to bleeding in stool. It is said the heat has enter the blood stage, this is serious and if not treated, can lead to dead. Treatment of heat disease is in intero-yang chapter, not covered in this exo-yang chapter. You will learn about it in future articles.