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Stone water
石水 〔石水〕shí shuǐ
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1. Water swelling that arises when liver-kidney yīn cold causes water qì to gather in the lower burner. Signs include enlarged swollen lesser abdomen that is a hard as stone, distension and pain under the rib-side, abdominal fullness without panting, and a sunken pulse.
2. Simple abdominal distension. Wherever there is a concretion, a conglomeration, an accumulation lump or glomus lump, this is the root of distension disease. With the passage of days and months, the abdomen becomes as large as a winnowing basket or stone jar. This is called simple abdominal distension... What [Zhang] Jing-Yue called
stone water
is precisely this.
3. Mounting-conglomeration (shàn jiǎ) type disease patterns.
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