英語訳
## [General Principles of Emesis and Purgation Therapy]
### General Principles of Emesis (Inducing Vomiting)
It further says: As a general rule (*ōmune*, the overarching principle), in **spring**, emesis (inducing vomiting) is appropriate.
As a general rule, in all diseases where the illness is located within the chest (*kyōchū*), emesis is appropriate.
As a general rule, if after taking a decoction (*tō*) the patient vomits, this means the medicine has struck (*atatta*) the disease; one may then stop, and it is not necessary to finish the entire preparation (*zai*).
Those for whom emesis is appropriate — [the indications are]: *nue* (虐, malaria-like intermittent fever) and *shōkan* (傷寒, cold-damage fever illness) with fullness in the chest (*kyōman*); accumulated phlegm (*shakutan*) or dry retching (*kan'ō*, nausea without vomiting); also phlegm-heat (*tannetsu*) in the chest and diaphragm region; *tenshō* (転嗽, coughing — fanqie reading: *sōzō-han*); and *haiyō* (肺癰, lung abscess) with expectoration of pus — all of these alike are appropriate for emesis.
As a general rule, if undigested food (*shukushoku*, retained food) is present in the gastric tract (*ikan*, the stomach and its passageway), one should cause the patient to both vomit and purge (*hakikudashi*, emesis and downward purgation).
It further says: As a general rule, persons with *shigyaku* (四逆, reversal cold of all four limbs) must not be made to vomit.
As a general rule, persons who are *kyorui* (虚羸, vacuous and emaciated, weak and wasted) must not be made to vomit.
As a general rule, persons who have recently given birth (*shinsan*, newly postpartum) must not be made to vomit.
As a general rule, persons in whom *kakke* (脚気, leg qi, beriberi) surges upward (*jōshō*) and thrusts into the heart region (*mune*, chest) must not be made to vomit.
As a general rule, if a sick person has an aversion to cold (*nikumu*) and does not wish to bring clothing close (i.e., wants to remove their clothing), they must not be made to vomit.
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### General Principles of Purgation (Inducing Downward Evacuation)
It further says: As a general rule, in **autumn**, purgation (*kudasu*) is appropriate.
As a general rule, when taking a decoction (*tō*) that purges downward, if it strikes the disease, one should stop, and must not finish the entire preparation (*zai*).
As a general rule, when a disease flares up (*hossa*) and there is profuse sweating, urgently purge it.
As a general rule, when a disease has persisted for five or six days, the abdomen is full, and there has been no bowel movement, urgently purge it.
As a general rule, after a major purging, if after six or seven days there is still no bowel movement, the distress (*wazurawashisa*, vexation) does not resolve, and the abdomen is painful and full — this is because there are *sōshi* (燥屎, dry, desiccated stools). This is because there was originally retained food (*shukushoku*) present. It is appropriate to purge with **Jōki-tō** (承気湯, Order-Restoring Decoction, *Chéng Qì Tāng*).
> **Interlinear note:** "This note is absent in the Uji manuscript (*Uji-bon*). The formula (*hō*) is found below (*shimo*)."
As a general rule, when a sick person has difficulty urinating (*shōben furi*), and the bowel movements are sometimes difficult and sometimes easy, and from time to time there is a slight fever, and the stomach is "boiling" (agitated, seething), and the patient is unable to lie down — this is because there are dry stools (*sōshi*, desiccated feces). It is appropriate to purge.
As a general rule, for those in whom purgation is appropriate, a decoction (*tō*, liquid preparation) is superior to pills (*gan*).
When there is localized pain below the ribs (*waki no shita*, hypochondrium, one side), and the patient has fever — this is a cold condition (*kan*, cold pathogen). One should purge using warm/warming medicines (*onyaku*, thermally warm medicinals). Even in cold-induced abdominal distension (*kanchō*, distension due to cold), one must still purge.
As a general rule, [in all of the following conditions]: difficulty in defecation (*taibin jū*, constipation) in various diseases; abdominal fullness (*fukuman*) in the various *shōkan* (cold-damage) illnesses; abdominal fullness in *nue* (疟, malaria-like fever); *kochō* (鼓脹, drum-like abdominal distension); *suichō* (水脹, water-swelling, abdominal dropsy); and constipation (*taibin futsū*, inability to defecate) — [for those requiring urination to be facilitated] — *ōbyō* (黄病, yellowing disease, jaundice) and *suibyō* (水病, water disease, edema/dropsy)…