This study was performed to investigate the cause, symptom, treatment, medicine of Wei symptom( a) through the literature of oriental and western medicine.
The results obtained were as follows:
1. Wei symptom is the symptom that reveals muscle relaxation without contraction and muscle relaxation occures in the lower limb or upper limb, in severe case, leads to death.
2. Since the pathology and etiology of Wei symptom was first described as "pe-yeol-yeop-cho" in Hung Ti Nei Ching, for enerations most doctors had have accepted it. but after Dan Ge, it had been classified into seven causes, damp-heat, phlegm-damp, deficiency of gi, deficiency of blood, deficiency of yin, stagnant blood, stagnant food. Chang Gyeng Ag added the cause of deficiency of source gi.
3. The concept of "To treat Yangming, most of all" was emphasized in the treatment of Wei symptom and contains nourishment of middle warmer energy, clearance of yangming-damp-heat.
4. Since Nei-ching era, Wei and Bi symptom is differenciated according to the existence of pain. After Ming era appeared theory of co-existence of Wei symptom and pain or numbness but they were accepted as a sign of Wei symptom caused by the pathological factor phelgm, damp, stagnancy.
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