Hu Xishu’s Study Notes on Treatise on Typhoid – 375

375. It will be more annoying after lowering the benefit. If you press your heart to lower it, it is considered to be vacuous and annoying.

“more annoying” It shows that the sick person had “annoyance” before, and it became more aggravated after Xia Li, so he said “more annoyance”.

This clause is to say that the patient will feel more upset after pressing the benefit, and pressing the lower part of the heart will soften it. It shows that there is no real evil stasis, so you can consider using the prescription of Gardenia Soybean Decoction.

“Heart moistening” means that the pressing is not hard, and there is no phlegm, blood stasis, dry feces, etc. Visible evil qi exists, so it is called “deficiency”. This kind of emptiness is not real weakness, it just means that there is no visible evil qi, but fire is real, and fire is real fire. Therefore, we can consider using gardenia to clear heat and purify. Fire medicine, if it is really weak, it needs to supplement, such as Xiaojianzhong Decoction syndrome, Fuling Sini Decoction syndrome, Suanzaoren Decoction syndrome, this is the real weakness.

“Yi Zhizhi Soup” indicates that it is possible to use gardenia soy soup, and if you have fatigue, you can also use Gardenia licorice soup, if there is still some diarrhea, you can use gardenia dried ginger soup, or even dried turmeric Huangqin Huanglian ginseng soup, etc., clinically flexible.

When Mr. Hu interprets this article, he believes that “after the lower profits” means “after the lower profits are stopped” , that is, the diarrhea has stopped, and the original text does not clearly state that the diarrhea may be cured, so use gardenia soy sauce.