Hu Xishu’s Study Notes on Treatise on Typhoid – 373

373. For those who want to drink water because of the heat, Pulsatilla Decoction is the master.

This article refers to the heat benefit, that is, the patient has a lot of heat in the body, the heat presses the large intestine, so the lower benefit, the heat damages the body fluid, so the patient wants to drink water, and the patient will have anal burning, body heat, upset, etc. , The pulse is also smooth and powerful. For the treatment of upper clearing heat, purging fire and stopping benefit, consider using Baitouweng decoction. This kind of heat is more serious and belongs to the category of Yangming disease.

At the same time, every disease has both ends of yin and yang. It is because of the heat, but also because of the cold, but it is less. For example, in the case of Shaoyin disease and Taiyin problem, there may be thirst to drink water at this time. Typical Taiyin disease Xiali is not thirsty, but when Shaoyin disease is the main disease, the patient will want to drink water, and also It is the content discussed in Article 282, “Those who are thirsty for their own benefit for five or six days belong to Shaoyin, and they are deficient, so they can divert water to save themselves. p>