Blood amassment

1. A greater yáng (tài yáng) cold damage pattern in which evil heat enters the interior to contend with the blood, causing stasis heat amassing and binding internally and manifesting in the form of smaller abdominal pain and distension, heat effusion and aversion to cold, clear-mindedness in the daytime that gives way to delirious raving, mania, confused speech, and vociferation and violent behavior at night.

Medicinal therapy: Blood amassment is treated by offensive precipitation of static blood using Dead-On Pill (抵当丸 dǐ dàng wán), Peach Kernel Qì-Coordinating Decoction (桃核承气汤 táo hé chéng qì tāng), Infradiaphragmatic Stasis-Expelling Decoction (膈下逐瘀汤 gé xià zhú yū tāng), plus rhubarb (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, 大黄 dà huáng), or Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction (犀角地黄汤 xī jiǎo dì huáng tāng).

2. Any substantial or insubstantial blood stasis accumulation due to internal causes or to external injury.