Yáng brightness (yáng míng) bowel pattern

Also intestinal heat bowel pattern. A disease pattern arising when in externally contracted febrile disease, evil enters the yáng brightness (yáng míng) channel, causing tidal heat, delirious speech, a hard, full, distended abdomen with pain that refuses pressure, constipation, burnt yellow or old yellow tongue fur, and a strong, sunken, replete pulse. This is often referred to as heat binding in the stomach and intestines or heat bind.

Medicinal therapy: Treat by draining-precipitation using cold bitter precipitants to flush the gastrointestinal heat accumulation. The principal formula is Major Qì-Coordinating Decoction (大承气汤 dà chéng qì tāng).

See yáng brightness (yáng míng) disease.