Portrait of the Emaciated Cai Yong original: "Cai Yong Qu Tu" (蔡邕癯圖). Cai Yong (133–192 CE) was a renowned scholar, calligrapher, and musician of the Eastern Han dynasty. "Qu" (癯) means lean or emaciated; in traditional Chinese portraiture, this "gaunt" look often signaled a person’s intellectual dedication or spiritual refinement.

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Volume of... Wang original: "Wang" (王). Referring to Wang Kentang, the Ming Dynasty physician and author of the influential medical compendium "Standards for Diagnosis and Treatment."

Regarding the eruption of mumps-like swelling fazha original: "fazha" (發痄). This term was historically used to describe acute inflammatory swellings around the ear and jaw, closely corresponding to what is known today as mumps or acute parotitis., this is caused by wind-evil pathogens and accumulated toxins in the Hand Yang Brightness meridian original: "Shou Yangming Jing" (手陽明經). Also known as the Large Intestine meridian. In traditional Chinese medicine, this pathway travels through the neck and jaw; blockage here was believed to cause facial inflammation. lodging in front of the ear-conjunction and pouring into the area behind the jaw joint.

Its initial appearance is shaped like rice grains, which gradually becomes red and swollen. The patient suffers from intense heat-sores across the area, the tips of which contain pus and blood. This is accompanied by a sense of heaviness, exhaustion, and dizziness, as well as the onset of nausea and vomiting.

The method of treatment is as follows:

1. First, administer Angelica and Forsythia Powder original: "Danggui Lianqiao San" (當歸連翹散). A classic medicinal formula used to "clear heat" and neutralize toxins in the body..
2. Follow this with Detoxification Pills original: "Jiedu Wan" (解毒丸)..
3. One must first promote drainage original: "shuli" (疏利). A clinical strategy used to clear the body's internal pathways and eliminate "stagnant" toxins, often through the digestive system....