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Pericardium

心包 〔心包〕xīn bāo

Also pericardiac network [vessel]. The outer covering of the heart. It is traditionally held that evils invading the heart first affect the pericardium so that conditions such as clouded spirit (stupor) and delirious mania due to high fever were termed heat entering the pericardium. By contrast, mental derangement due to phlegm-damp was termed phlegm turbidity (the turbid aspect of phlegm) clouding the pericardium. Both these conditions are in reality heart diseases.

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