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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 Soul-Quieting Decoction (安魂汤 ān hún tāng), which contains spiny jujube kernel (Ziziphi Spinosi Semen, 酸枣仁 suān zǎo rén), root poria (Poria cum Pini Radice, 茯神 fú shén), polygala (Polygalae Radix, 远志 yuǎn zhì), Chinese angelica (Angelicae Sinensis Radix, 当归 dāng guī), bile arisaema (Arisaema cum Bile, 胆星 dǎn xīng), and juncus (Junci Medulla, 灯心草 dēng xīn cǎo), with variations according to need. For cases of exuberant phlegm, see acute fright wind.

Etymology

Chinkè, visit, intrude, lodge; 忤 wǔ, hostility, unruliness.

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