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20 THE TREATMENT OF MODERN WESTERN DISEASES WITH CHINESE MEDICINECOMMONLY USED ANTI-GU MEDICINALS ACCORDING TO MODERN STANDARD CATEGORIZATIONQI SUPPLEMENTS: Radix Astragali (Huang Qi), RadixGlycyrrhizae (Gan Cao), Rhizoma Polygonati (HuangJing), Radix Panacis Quinquefolii (Xi Yang Shen)BLOOD SUPPLEMENTS: Radix Angelicae Sinensis (DangGui), Radix Albus Paeoniae Lactiflorae (Bai Shao), RadixPolygoni Multiflori (He Shou Wu)HEAT-CLEARING MEDICINALS: Fructus Forsythiae (LianQiao), Flos Lonicerae (Jin Yin Hua), Flos Chrysanthemi(Ju Hua), Radix Sophorae Flavescentis (Ku Shen), HerbaArtemisiae Annuae (Qing Hao), uncooked RadixRehmanniae (Sheng Di), Radix Scrophulariae (XuanShen)QI-RECTIFYING MEDICINALS: Radix Auklandiae (Mu Xiang),Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae (Chen Pi), FructusToosendan (Chuan Lian Zi)BLOOD-QUICKENING MEDICINALS: Tuber Curcumae (Yu Jin),Squama Manitis (Chuan Shan Jia), Rhizoma Chuanxiong(Chuan Xiong), Rhizoma Curcumae (E Zhu),Rhizoma Sparganii (San Leng), Herba Lycopi (Ze Lan)EXTERIOR-RESOLVING MEDICINALS: Herba MenthaeHaplocalycis (Bo He), Folium Perillae (Zi Su Ye), RadixAngelicae Dahuricae (Bai Zhi), Rhizoma Ligustici (GaoBen), Rhizoma Cimicifugae (Sheng Ma), Radix Bupleuri(Chai Hu) 23INTERIOR-WARMINGXiang)MEDICINAL: Flos Caryophylli (DingYIN-SUPPLEMENTING MEDICINALS: Radix Glehniae (Bei ShaShen), Bulbus Lilii (Bai He)YANG-SUPPLEMENTING MEDICINALS: Fructus Cnidii (SheChuang Zi) 24DAMPNESS-ELIMINATING MEDICINALS: Poria (Fu Ling)WIND DAMPNESS TREATING MEDICINALS: CortexAcanthopancis (Wu Jia Pi)PHLEGM-TRANSFORMING, ORIFICE-OPENINGMEDICINALS:Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii(Shi Chang Pu)SECURING & ASTRINGING MEDICINALS: Fructus Terminaliae(He Zi), Fructus Mume (Wu Mei)BLEEDING STOPPING MEDICINALS: Flos Immaturus Sophorae(Huai Hua Mi), Radix Notoginseng (Tian San Qi),Lignum Dalbergiae Odoriferae (Jiang Xiang)WORM-DISPELLING MEDICINAL: Semen Arecae (Bing Lang)concept seemingly became the central one of a whole schoolof Chinese medicine by the Qing dynasty. Within contemporaryChinese medicine, gu are a species of chong or worms.However, they are unlike the more pedestrian form of wormsin Chinese medicine. Gu worms are, unlike roundworms,pinworms, and tapeworms, invisible and tend to causemulti-symptom, complex, chronic, and enduring diseases.Such gu worm diseases are hard to treat. They typically causea simultaneous combination of chronic digestive complaints,musculoskeletal complaints, and psychiatric and/or neurologicalcomplaints, and are often associated with dermatologicalconditions. The table on page 19 shows some of thekey characteristics of gu worm diseases.According to Heiner Fruehauf, many patients with intestinaldysbiosis, polysystemic chronic candidiasis, and intestinalparasitosis should be diagnosed as suffering from gu worms,and it is our experience that many patients suffering from anumber of the allergies and autoimmune diseases discussedin this book also suffer from polysystemic chronic candidiasisor intestinal dysbiosis at the least. Therefore, we believethat it is important to understand something about gu wormdisease when discriminating such patients’ patterns anderecting Chinese medical treatment plans.According to gu worm theorists, formulas for the treatmentof gu worm conditions should be made up of five groups ofChinese medicinals:1. Toxin-scattering medicinals2. Worm-killing medicinals3. Spirit-quieting medicinals4. Qi & blood supplementing medicinals5. Qi & blood moving & quickening medicinalsAlthough these five categories of medicinals sound very similarto modern standard Chinese medicinal categories, theyare not the same. Nevertheless, most of the medicinals inthese five categories are commonly used Chinese medicinalsin standard contemporary Chinese medicine. If one choosesmedicinals from all five of these categories of anti-gu Chinesemedicinals, one will typically wind up with what is alsoessentially a Li Dong-yuan yin fire protocol.Beginning with Zhu Dan-xi 21 and continuing up to today, 22the main disease mechanisms at work in gu worm diseasesare a marked spleen qi vacuity with dampness and/or dampheat and liver depression qi stagnation. Therefore, the maindisease mechanisms of gu worm disease are essentially thesame as Li Dong-yuan’s yin fire theory. However, as men-