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Line 1: Taiyang disease, pulse is floating, the nape and neck are stiff and painful and there is aversion to cold
Line 12: Taiyang wind strike, yang is floating and yin is weak, floating yang is spontaneous fever, weak yin is spontaneous sweat…Guizhi Tang governs.
Bing-Mai-Zheng-Zhi defines the Shanghan Lun style of practice. First, the practitioner discerns which of the conformations is involved (Bing). Next, in contrast with the TCM style, a classically based clinician analyzes the pulse (Mai).
In the TCM style, pulse is done last and is used to merely confirm the diagnosis that the practitioner arrived at primarily through inquiry. In the tradition of doctor Tian Heming, we are taught to look at the pulse in the beginning! Dr. Tian would spend a few minutes in a trance-like state analyzing the pulses in depth and then ask to confirm one or two symptoms. From this he would decide on a formula. Dr. Tian treated over 200 patients a day and consistently wrote effective formulas. The question arises, how did he do it?!?!
This is the style that is being taught by Dr. Arnaud Versluys at the Shanghan Lun seminars. What follows is a brief description of this system...