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From Plain Questions (素问 sù wèn, yīn yáng bié lùn).

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. Axioms of Medicine (医门法律 yī mén fǎ lǜ, zhàng bìng lùn) states, Wherever there is a concretion, a conglomeration, an accumulation lump or glomus lump, this is the root of distension disease. Withthe 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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