Female malaria

From Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet (金匮要略 jīn guì yào lüè, nüè bìng mài zhèng bìng zhì). Malaria in patients with yáng vacuity with the malarial evil lying in the lesser yīn (shào yīn) channel, characterized by pronounced shivering with little or no heat effusion, pale-white complexion, and regular episodes.

Medicinal therapy: Outthrust the evil with warm acrid medicinals using Bupleurum, Cinnamon Twig, and Dried Ginger Decoction (柴胡桂姜汤 chái hú guì jiāng tāng) plus dichroa leaf (Dichroae Folium, 蜀漆 shǔ qī).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on GV, hand and foot greater yáng (tài yáng) channels, and KI. Select GV-14 (Great Hammer, 大椎 dà zhuī), SI-3 (Back Ravine, 后溪 hòu xī), PC-5 (Intermediary Courier, 间使 jiān shǐ), GV-13 (Kiln Path, 陶道 táo dào), GB-39 (Severed Bone, 绝骨 jué gǔ), KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), and KI-4 (Large Goblet, 大钟 dà zhōng); needle with drainage and add moxa. For principles of treatment, see malaria.

Etymology

Chinese: 牝 pìn, female; 疟 nüè, malaria. Apparently so-called because of the preponderance of cold (yīn, female) signs.