Four stages

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The Four Stages or Four Levels are from the book Discussion of Warm Diseases by Ye Tian Shi, written in the years 1667-1746.The stages are in order from surface to deep internal and from "light" sickness to death:
  • Wei level treated by releasing the exterior (diaphoresis)
    • wind-heat
    summer-heat
    damp-heat
    dry-heat
  • Qi level treated by dispelling heat and promoting body fluids
    • Lung heat (heat in chest and diaphragm)
    Stomach heat
    Intestines dry-heat
    Gall-bladder heat (heat in the lesser yang)
    Stomach and Spleen damp heat
  • Ying (Nutritive qi) level treated by cooling fire and tonifing the yin
    • Heat in Nutritive qi portion
    Heat in Pericardium
  • Blood level treated by tonifing the yin and qi and stopping bleeding.
    • Heat Victorious moves blood
    Heat victorious stirs wind
    Empty wind agitates in the interior
    Collapse of yin
    Collapse of yang
    Separation of yin and yang (Death)


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