Four stages
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The Four Stages or Four Levels are from the Traditional Chinese medicine book Discussion of Warm Diseases by Ye Tian Shi, written in the years 1667-1746.
The stages are in order from surface to deep internal and from "light" sickness to death:
- Wei level treated by releasing the exterior (diaphoresis)
- Wind-heat
- Summer-heat
- Damp-heat
- Dry-heat
- Qi level treated by dispelling heat and promoting body fluids
- Lung heat (heat in chest and diaphragm)
- Stomach heat
- Intestines dry-heat
- Gall-bladder heat (heat in the lesser yang)
- Stomach and Spleen damp heat
- Ying (Nutritive qi) level treated by cooling fire and tonifing the yin
- Heat in Nutritive qi portion
- Heat in Pericardium
- Blood level treated by tonifing the yin and qi and stopping bleeding.
- Heat Victorious moves blood
- Heat victorious stirs wind
- Empty wind agitates in the interior
- Collapse of yin
- Collapse of yang
- Separation of yin and yang (Death)
[edit] References
- Maciocia, Giovanni. The Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Text. ISBN 978-0443074899.
- Maciocia, Giovanni (1994). The Practice of Chinese Medicine. ISBN 978-0443043055.
- Tyme, L. Ac.. Student Manual on the Fundamentals of Traditional Oriental Medicine (2nd ed.).
