Guest guest Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 And once again we come back to the original question. Is thick, white sputum heat or not. The Deng text says thick and yellow for heat- thin and white for cold. Do we split the difference? Not very much heat? Or a mixed cold and heat? If we don't have other signs, which is it? Having no other signs is surely just a text book exercise so I think the answer is that thick white can but not necessarily be heat. Shall we move on? doug > My question at this point to Alon would be- What is the treatment prinicple in Chinese medicine for treating a " constrained " heat that has no signs of heat? I think that you are making the mistake that you yourself warned against when you use modern technology to make observations that aren't in the Chinese framework. You may, of course, be advocating a course that integrates these new technologies into the diagnostic process but, by doing that, you may be coming up with faulty diagnoses from a classical Chinese point of view thus faulty treatment principles and less than satisfactory results. Why not just stick with the approach that says " if there are no signs of heat, then it isn't heat- call it zhong-3 (swelling) and proceed from there. > respectfully, > > Jason Robertson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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