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Child visiting hostility
小儿客忤 〔小兒客忤〕xiǎo ér kè wǔ
Also visiting hostility; strike-on-person. Crying, fright, disquietude, or even changes in complexion in infants brought on by seeing a stranger or strange sight, or being exposed to unfamiliar surroundings or circumstances. The condition often involves contention between wind and phlegm and affects the spleen and stomach’s functions of intake, movement, and transformation, giving rise to vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and convulsions similar to those of epilepsy.
Medicinal therapy: Use
Etymology
Chin 客 kè, visit, intrude, lodge; 忤 wǔ, hostility, unruliness.
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