Mainly Treated Diseases
Sudden Onset of Intense Heat and Headache

Rhyming Formula
Sudden intense heat and headache bring restlessness and annoyance,
Tinnitus, dry eyes, and wild babbling words.
Fengchi (GB20), Waiguan (SJ5), follow up with Hegu (LI4),
Touwei (ST8), Baihui (GV20) correspond to Yongquan (KI1).

Special Efficacy in Treatment
Sudden intense heat, headache

Special Efficacy Acupoints
Fengchi (GB20), Waiguan (SJ5), Hegu (LI4), Touwei (ST8), Baihui (GV20), Yongquan (KI1)

Introduction of Acupoints
Fengchi: Located at the lower part of Naokong (GB19), in the depression of the hairline. When pressed, it can cause a sensation leading to the ear.
Waiguan: Two cun behind Yangchi (SJ4), between the two tendons.
Hegu: In the depression between the first and second metacarpal bones of the hand.

Touwei: At the hairline of the frontal corner, 4.5 cun beside Shenting (GV24).
Baihui: In the middle of the head. When sitting upright, it can be located by going straight up from the tips of both ears.
Yongquan: In the depression of the sole of the foot, in the curved and curled part when the foot is flexed.

Analysis of Etiology and Pathogenesis
[Analysis 1]: According to the “Golden Mirror of Medicine”, the three yang channels refer to the Taiyang, Yangming, and Shaoyang channels. Headache and general body heat mean that in the headache of the three yang channels, there is body heat. The headache of the three yang channels should be treated according to the methods for the three yang channels. For the headache of the Jueyin channel, there is mostly cold reversal without heat, accompanied by vomiting of phlegm saliva, which is due to the Jueyin channel being invaded by cold evil and the evil qi rising upward. There is usually no headache in the three yin channels, and only the Jueyin channel has headache. There is usually no fever in the three yin channels, but the Jueyin and Shaoyin channels may also have fever, which is called skin fever. Symptoms such as restlessness, headache, wild babbling words, phlegm cough, chest tightness, dry mouth and tongue, and even shortness of breath often occur in autumn when the dry and intense qi prevails. People who are affected by it will fall ill. Or there is latent summer heat inside the body, and then they are infected by external pathogenic factors. Generally, when the dry qi injures people, it first attacks the lung, and then spreads to the stomach. When the dry pathogenic factor injures the lung, there will be phlegm, asthma, and chest tightness. In severe cases, there will be shortness of breath and coughing. If the lung heat is too excessive, the lung collaterals may rupture and cause hemoptysis.

Medical Cases
[Case 1]: Ms. Li, 51 years old, from Zhejiang Province, lives on Liu Mingchuan Road, Keelung City, Taiwan Province. She suffered from sudden intense heat and headache, with fever all over the body, red ears and face, and wild babbling words. On June 5, 1963 (the 52nd year of the Republic of China), she came to me for treatment. I applied acupuncture at Waiguan (SJ5), Baihui (GV20), Yongquan (KI1), Hegu (LI4), and Fengchi (GB20), and she recovered after continuous treatment.
[Case 2]: Ms. Ren, 29 years old, from Zhejiang Province, lives in the fifth section of Nanjing East Road, Taipei City. She suffered from sudden intense heat and headache, with high fever all over the body, red face, blurred eyes, headache all over the head, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and restlessness in sleeping. On June 15, 1967 (the 56th year of the Republic of China), she asked me for diagnosis and treatment. I applied acupuncture again at the previous acupoints, and her fever subsided and the headache stopped.

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