Tongue
Dry, thick yellow or black coat
Pulse
Deep, full
Key Symptoms
Overview
Heat binding with dry stool in the Intestines. Shang Han interior organ-form — not an exterior pattern.
Relationship to Heat in the Large Intestine. Same organ, different frame. Heat in the Large Intestine is the Zang-Fu name for dry bound stools with heat. Yang Ming Fu is the Shang Han name and requires the fu picture: tidal fever, worse-with-pressure fullness, and a deep excess pulse. Load both. Do not treat them as copies. Use Yang Ming Fu when the case is a febrile interior excess; use Heat in the Large Intestine when the case is chronic or Zang-Fu constipation-heat without a Shang Han course.
Differentiate from
- Yang Ming Jing
- Food Stagnation without high fever
Treatment Principle
Drain Heat; purge accumulation.
Representative formulas. Da / Xiao / Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang — chosen by severity.
Representative points. ST-25, ST-37, LI-11, SJ-6, ST-44.
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