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Liver disease
肝病 〔肝病〕 gān bìng
Any morbidity affecting the liver. Most liver diseases arise through the following pathomechanisms: a) damage by the seven affects upsetting free coursing of the liver and causing depressed liver qì, which can transform into fire, causing stasis obstruction of the liver’s network vessels; b) insufficiency of yīn blood, hyperactivity of liver yáng, and liver wind stirring internally; c) damp-heat brewing internally; or d) cold congealing in the liver vessel. Signs of liver disease include rib-side pain and distension, dizzy head or dizzy vision, tinnitus, red eyes, irascibility, or susceptibility to fright and fear, blood ejection and spontaneous external bleeding, numbness of the limbs, convulsions and tetanic reversal, menstrual irregularities, and mounting qì (shàn qì).
See liver pattern identification.
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