Jueyin syndrome

Jueyin means that yin is on the verge of extinction, while yang is starting to grow, and that there is yang within yin. When Jueyin is diseased, the antipathogenic qi is exhausted, and there is derangement of the balance between yin and yang. Hence this manifests principally as a complicated syndrome of cold and heat. The main symptoms and signs are emaciation, thirst, feeling of a stream of air ascending to the chest region, a hot and painful sensation in the chest, hunger with no desire to eat, cold limbs, diarrhea, and vomiting or vomiting of round worms.

In this syndrome, there is heat in the liver and gallbladder, and cold and deficiency in the stomach and intestine. The syndrome is characterized by complication of cold and heat, disturbance of qi and poor transportation and transformation of food. Consumption of body fluids by pathogenic heat induces emaciation and thirst. Upward movement of yang heat gives rise to a feeling of a stream of air ascending and a hot and painful sensation in the chest. Hyper function of the liver in promoting the free flow of qi results in hunger. But the stomach and intestines are cold and deficient which does not allow normal digestion and transmission of food ; this explains hunger with no desire to eat. Disturbance of qi in the stomach and intestines may cause vomiting and diarrhea. When yang qi fails to reach the four limbs, there will be cold.

The warming method is combined with the method of clearing off heat in the treatment ; the method of simultaneous elimination and reinforcement is adopted. Points are selected from the Liver Meridian of Foot - Jueyin, Ren Meridian and Gallbladder Meridian of Foot - Shaoyang. Points of the Spleen Meridian of Foot - Taiyin are used in conjunction.