In the era of Wen Bing or warm diseases (think: smallpox) the introduction of epidemic heat toxins as a form of Du was concurrent with the idea of a latent (or even fetal) heat pathogen. The differences are subtle, but important:Du is characterized as a malignant spread of non-conscious and non-consciousness altering heat or fire […]
Pain is usually: physical (chronic or acute trauma), psychosomatic, referral, or undefined. Undefined pain needs a long discourse of its own. But separately there are two categories, Du (toxin) and Gu (parasite syndrome) which are under-diagnosed everywhere. Du is like rust on your truck. It crawls underneath the paint and spreads, getting everywhere. It is […]
