Every instance of illness has a unique configuration and requires unique (not fixed) treatment. To relieve the suffering of the times, there is no greater path than Chinese medicine. Within it, nothing is more effective than prescriptions of herbs and materials for each individual’s condition.
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The Shānghán lùn 傷寒論, known as the treatise on cold injury or cold damage disorders, is a Chinese medical text compiled by Zhang Zhongjing 张仲景 around the end of the Han dynasty period. It is one the oldest completed medical books in the world. The Shānghán lùn has 398 chapters, 113 herbal prescriptions, and is organized by the six stages of disease.
Tai Yang 太陽, Greater Yang • A milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fever, stiffness, and headache.
Therapeutic Principle: Promote Sweating.
Yang Ming 陽明, Yang Brightness • A more severe internal excess yang condition presenting as fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation.
Therapeutic Principle: Cooling and Eliminating.
Shao Yang 少陽, Lesser Yang • A Shao Yang type person are most young adults in their prime, a medium body type that bounces back from extremes. Pathogenic factor is half outside, half inside; Half excess, half deficiency, presenting as chest discomfort, and alternating chills and fever.
Therapeutic Principle: Harmonizing.
Tai Yin 太陰, Greater Yin • A Tai Yin type person lacks tone, has flacid tissues, is pale, puffy, bigger on bottom than top, there is deficiency of Spleen Yang effecting proper digestion leading to overall dampness. Presents with chills, and distended abdomen with occasional pain.
Therapeutic Principle: Warming and Supplementing.
Shao Yin 少陰, Lesser Yin • A Shao Yin type person has not much muscle, flat chest, narrow hips. There is a deficiency of Yin (which controls Yang) resulting in Yin fire effulgence. Presents with weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, and cold extremities.
Therapeutic Principle: Warming and Supplementing.
Jue Yin 厥陰, Absolute Yin • Presents with signs of thirst, difficult urination, and physical collapse.
Therapeutic Principle: Warming and Supplementing.
Chinese herbal medicine, a vital aspect of Chinese medicine, relies upon collecting detailed information from a patient by means of questioning, visual examination, pulse and tongue diagnosis, and some bodily palpation to derive a specified diagnosis that is unique to each patient’s expression of what may seem by the primary symptoms surrounding the illness to be one and the same. However, by the traditional methods of pattern discrimination, TCM practitioners derive the particulars of how an individual generates and bears the disorder by their underlying interconnections. This is the basis of pattern discrimination according to TCM. 
From the pattern we derive the diagnosis, treatment plan, and prognosis. A formula of medicinals in their raw form is composed, or if a prepared medicine fits the pattern, it may be used. Additional formula modifications are taken into account that continue to address current and evolving patient experience and characteristics of their disease. This is in contrast to a single herb or herbal blend prescribed by cookbook-style symptom identification. Access to information regarding herbs and sundry home remedies is routinely taken out of context leading to adverse cumulative effects or none whatsoever with regard to conditions requiring resolution. If something has the ability to facilitate healing, it can also elicit harmful changes if used inconsistently with the unique roots of the condition. This is commonplace in philosophical health goals and self-diagnosis to identify and treat health problems. An experienced, licensed acupuncturist who is also a Chinese herbal medicine practitioner, is able to offer sound guidance in deriving results using herbal allies safely and effectively for an infinite array of health conditions.
