Miscellaneous discussion on the use of yu mei decoction for fever

Mr. Ye Tianshi in the “warm fever theory” mentioned: if the spot out of the heat does not resolve, the stomach Jin dead also, the main to sweet cold, heavy as the Jade Lady decoction; light is pear skin, cane syrup and so on. Or the person’s kidney water deficiency, although the disease has not yet reached the lower jiao, every much first from the wandering, this must be checked in the tongue, such as sweet cold in the addition of salty cold, to ensure that the first security is not affected by the evil place, fearing that they fall into the ear. Mr. Wang Mengying, when commenting on this passage, put forward his own view that it should be Bai Hu plus Di Huang, and that Yu Niu Decoction is inappropriate and should be Ye’s provincial text. In fact, combined with the following, and other references to Yu Niu Decoction in the treatise, we can see that Ye’s use of Yu Niu Decoction is undoubtedly true.