This condition can be divided into Yang jaundice and Yin jaundice: Patients with Yang jaundice due to dominance of heat pathogens over dampness pathogens may manifest a fresh yellow color of the eyes and skin, fever, thirst and passage of yellow urine in short streams; patients of Yang jaundice due to dominance of dampness over heat pathogens may manifest a dim yellow color of eyes and skin, no fever, no thirst, tastelessness in the mouth, poor appetite, abdominal distension or weakness, and heaviness of the head and body.
Patients with Yin jaundice due to blockage of cold and dampness pathogens may manifest a dark yellow color of the eyes and skin, poor appetite, distension of upper abdomen, cold body and limbs and loose stool; and patients of Yin jaundice due to blood stasis may manifest a dull yellow color of the eyes and skin, cyanotic complexion, masses in the subcostal region and black stool.
Jaundice is a symptom of viral hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, hemolytic jaundice and diseases of biliary tract in Western medicine.
Recipe 1: Water chestnut 500 g, willow leaves 6 g and an adequate amount of sugar.
Administration: The boiled water chestnuts are eaten and the decoction mixed with sugar is drunk as a tea for several days.
Indication: This recipe can clear heat, eliminate dampness and relieve Yang jaundice due to dominance of heat pathogens over dampness.
Recipe 2: Peach kernel 15 g, Jinqiancao (loosestrife) 20 g and rice 100 g.
Administration: The peach kernels are ground with water to produce a juice after the debris of the kernels is removed, and the Jinqiancao is boiled in water to prepare a decoction.
The peach kernel juice and Jinqiancao decoction are used to make a rice gruel for oral intake, twice a day.
Indication: This gruel can produce a satisfactory effect to treat dull jaundice due to blood stasis.
Recipe 3: Lily flower 30 g and loach 100 g.
Administration: The boiled fish in soup is taken by mouth, once a day.
Indication: This soup is used to treat Yang jaundice due to dominance of dampness over heat pathogens. A decoction of fresh lily flower 50 g may also produce an apparent effect.
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