Repletion pattern

Any condition in which the presence of an evil is resisted by the body; the opposite of vacuity pattern. Repletion patterns are attributed to external evils, water-damp, phlegm-rheum, static blood, worm accumulations, or food accumulations. They reflect the nature of the evil (e.g., cold being characterized by pale or green-blue complexion, clear thin cold fluids), and the location (e.g., stomach disease being marked by vomiting, belching, etc., or exterior disease being characterized by heat effusion, aversion to cold, and sweating). Most importantly, however, there are signs of right qì fighting the evil such as pulses that are forceful at the deep level (e.g., rapid surging pulses, slippery stringlike pulses, and large replete pulses), pain or discomfort that refuses pressure, and sudden onset of disease.