英語訳
## [Section Three: The Proper Measure of Taking Medicine, Continued]
[Continuing from the previous page:] It is not necessarily required to take [a course of medicine] in its entirety; one need only ensure that the purging effect achieves its result over the successive doses. If, when one's *qi* and strength are sufficient to endure it, one exhausts the full course [too rapidly], then one will be unable to control the root source of the illness. In cases where it is appropriate to take a purgative medicine (*ri-yaku*, 利薬) and treat [the illness], to bring about a cure (*iyuru*, 除) one should, after taking the decoction (*tō*, 湯), proceed to use pills and powders (*gan-san*, 丸散). One should then take the decoction only occasionally, to assist the pills and powders.
Now, one who has recovered (*iyuru*, 差) by taking a purgative decoction (*ri-tō*, 利湯) should, from this point forward, be careful not to take a restorative decoction (*ho-tō*, 補湯) indiscriminately. If one receives the restorative [medicine], the force of the illness will then return and re-establish itself. Yet if one attempts to purge again, that person will become all the more severely weakened (*heishi*, 弊). If a person has just recovered and their *qi* and strength have not yet returned to their former state (*hei-fuku*, 平復), one should regulate and manage accordingly (*shō-soku*, 消息), and for those for whom taking medicine is appropriate, one should gently harmonize them with a mild, moderate medicine (*hei-wa no kusuri*, 平和の薬), following along at their own pace. As for one who is approaching full recovery and wishes to use restorative and tonifying pills or powders (*ho-eki no gan-san*, 補益の丸散), they may judge this for themselves according to their own judgment (*ryōryō*, 料量).
Now, a person who suffers from a chronic ailment, who is not hindered in their daily movements, and whose *qi* and strength have not yet declined, but who wishes to use pills or powders that supplement and benefit and regulate cold and heat — for such a person, it is appropriate to first take a purgative decoction (*ri-tō*, 利湯) to purge [the bowels], thereby removing the stagnant accumulations (*o-shaku*, 瘀積 — accumulated stagnant blood and blocked *qi*) and the phlegm-excess (*tan-jitsu*, 痰実 — phlegm and food accumulation as an excess pathogen) from within the chest and abdomen, and only thereafter to use a restorative medicine (*ho-yaku*, 補薬).
There are also those who are depleted (*kyo*, 虚) and have been taking restorative medicines for a long time, or who have been harmed by an excess of food (*jisshoku*, 実食 — overeating or food accumulation). For such persons, one should simply take a purgative medicine (*ri-yaku*, 利薬) and eliminate [the problem].
There are also those who are ordinarily robust and full (*hei-jitsu*, 平実) but who have suddenly become depleted and exhausted (*kū-ketsu*, 空竭 — suddenly drained of vital energy). For such persons, one should simply harmonize them with a mild restorative medicine (*bi-ho-yaku*, 微補薬 — a gentle tonic), and one must not supplement them suddenly (*ton*, 頓) all at once. When sudden depletion is treated with gentle supplementation, it is easy to return to a balanced state. If supplementation and nourishment are taken to excess, they will result in *hi-ketsu* (否結 — obstruction and constriction of *qi*), causing harm.
Now, it is said that for diseases of extreme depletion and extreme exhaustion (*goku-kyo*, 極虚; *goku-rō*, 極労), it is appropriate to take a restorative decoction (*ho-tō*, 補湯); and it is said that for wind ailments (*fū-byō*, 風病 — illness caused by the pathogenic wind), it is appropriate to take a wind-dispelling decoction (*chi-fū-tō*, 治風湯). Neither of these can be fully understood from merely three or five courses of treatment. [The text continues with a discussion of] *tai-fū* (滞風 — lingering wind) and *dō* (洞)…
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