Fever ⁽³⁾

Chinese and Western medicine understand fever in a complementary "microscopic mechanism vs. macroscopic pattern-differentiation" relationship. Western medicine takes "pyrogen → thermoregulatory set-point → fever" as its causal chain, focusing on precise localization of the cause and quantitative grading; Chinese medicine takes "external evil invasion →…

The Yixue Rumen (Introduction to Medicine) contains a formula called Cangqin Wan (Atractylodes-Scutellaria Pill). Its composition: Cangzhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma) 5 qian (15 g), Pianqin (i.e. Huangqin, Scutellariae Radix) 3 qian (9 g), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix) 1.5 fen (4.5 g). Preparation: grind the three herbs together…

Leukemia and neuroblastoma are regarded as two different diseases in Western medicine, but their clinical syndromes overlap: in the acute phase both present fever, anemia, bleeding and pain. In the spirit of TCM pattern differentiation, such symptoms represent alternating or concurrent occurrences of excess evil-qi…