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BEHÇET’S SYNDROME 85in the stools, add Xue Hai (Sp 10) and Shang Ju Xu (St 37).For anemia, add Gao Huang Shu (Bl 43). For reducedappetite, add Liang Men (St 21).REMARKS1. As with most chronic, enduring conditions, liver depressionqi stagnation typically plays a part in this disease eventhough no Chinese sources suggest a liver qi pattern of thisdisease.2. Treatment by corticosteroids may first cause yin vacuityand later cause yin and yang vacuity, while prolonged orexcessive treatment with antibiotics or bitter, cold Chinesemedicinals may cause damage to the spleen qi and, eventually,to kidney yang. In that case, Chinese medicinals prescribedbased on the patient’s total constellation of patternswhile on the Western medications may alleviate the sideeffects of those Western medicines as well as achieve a bettertherapeutic effect eventually leading to a reduction in dose ordiscontinuation of use of those Westerns medicines.3. This condition is more common in Asia than in the West.