Yáng brightness (yáng míng) disease

A disease arising when externally contracted evil enters the yáng brightness (yáng míng) channel and exterior signs such as aversion to wind and cold give way to pronounced heat signs. yáng brightness (yáng míng) disease is characterized by generalized heat, sweating and aversion to heat, agitation, and thirst, or, in more severe cases, abdominal fullness and pain, constipation, and, in severe cases, delirious mania. The tongue fur is usually dry and old yellow in color. The pulse is generally surging and large, slippery and rapid, or sunken, replete, and forceful. yáng brightness (yáng míng) disease occurs in the exuberant heat effusion stage of externally contracted febrile diseases, and manifests, in terms of the eight principles, as interior heat or interior repletion. yáng brightness (yáng míng) disease is divided into channel and bowel patterns depending on the presence of constipation. In yáng brightness (yáng míng) channel patterns, the stomach liquid is damaged by exuberant heat, although there is no heat bind in the yáng brightness (yáng míng) bowels (the stomach and large intestine). yáng brightness (yáng míng) bowel patterns are so named because they arise when an evil binds with food accumulation or dry waste in the stomach or intestines, causing repletion heat. See yáng brightness (yáng míng) bowel pattern; yáng brightness (yáng míng) channel pattern.