A Study 'On the Diagnosis and Treatment of Jaundice According to the Morbid Pulse' in the Chapter 15 of Synopsis of Golden Chamber
Dept. of Oriental Medcine Classics, Won Kwang University
Jeong Heon-young·Kim Myeong-Soo·Ahn Jun-mo·Cho Gyeong-jong
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Jaundice According to the Morbid Pulse in the Chapter 15 of Synopsis of Golden Chamber sets forth the classification, symptom, method of treatment, formula, prognosis of jaundice. The contents of this chapter can be induced by(from) yellowing and jaundice These two disease patterns assume various aspects of disease cause, pathomechanism, symptom, prognosis, and treatment.
Jaundice was at first classified into liquor jaundice,dietary irregularly jaundice, black jaundice, and sextual taxation jaundice, later classified into liquor jaundice, dietary irregularly jaundice, black jaundice, sextual taxation jaundice, and yellow sweat. The disease cause and pathomechanism of jaundice are said to be due to the damp-heat, which is attacked with the evil of wind and dampness to affect the spleen-stomach and the liver. and to the inveterate drinking, damage by food, sextual taxation jaundice, sextual taxation, and vacuity taxation. This chapter mainly refers to jaundice as damp-heat, so that it lays down fundamental principles of clear heat and disinhibit dampness. In the prognosis of jaundice, inhibited urination shows symptoms of jaundice, and neither inhibited urination nor damp-heat develops symptoms of jaundice. And jaundice with thirst is difficult to cure, and that the symptoms of the abdominal fullness is also difficult to cure, while jaundice without thirst is ease to cure. Of the 18 days of suffering from jaundice, the symptoms of jaundice get better before and after 10 days. I think, however, that getting worse of its symptoms makes more meaningful clinically.