Loss-of-luxuriance

Also loss-of-provisioning. A hard swelling on the neck. It starts with a slight swelling without any change in skin color, and slowly grows and becomes hard as rock. Loss-of-luxuriance is firmly fixed and hard to move. In the advanced stage, it becomes covered with purple patches and ulcerates to exude blood and water. At the same time, qì and blood become gradually debilitated and the patient becomes emaciated like a tree that has lost its splendor; hence the name.

Biomedical correspondence: It includes primary and secondary malign tumors.

Medicinal therapy: Boost qì and nourish provisioning, and disperse hardness. Use Provisioning-Harmonizing Hardness-Dispersing Pill (和荣散坚丸 hé róng sàn jiān wán). After rupture, use Free Wanderer Powder (逍遥散 xiāo yáo sǎn) with additional medicinals or Spleen-Returning Decoction (归脾汤 guī pí tāng).

Etymology

Chin 失 shī, lose; 荣 róng, luxuriance, glory, splendor. The name apparently derives from the general physical debilitation the condition leads to.