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Chapter 10 of 10
易隐
Master Younan said: When a person unfortunately falls ill and seeks divination, one must not be careless or neglectful. The divination of illness has four major aspects: determining life or death, identifying the illness, assessing medicine and treatment, and discerning spiritual disturbances. As for when the illness began and where it was contracted, these are ancillary matters within illness divination.
| Line Position | Body Part | Corresponding Omen Star |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth Line | Head/Brain | Yellow Springs (Death) |
| Fifth Line | Heart/Lungs | Coffin |
| Fourth Line | Spleen | Fortune/Virtue |
| Third Line | Liver/Kidneys | Weeping Sounds |
| Second Line | Legs/Thighs | Mourning Guest |
| First Line | Feet | Funeral Gate |
When divining for one's own illness, take the World line, Body line, and Destiny line as the subject. When divining on behalf of others, take the Response line as the subject. For divining about family members: for grandfather or grandmother, use the Officer Ghost; for father, elder brother, wife, son, etc., select according to the Six Relatives. If the five categories of relatives do not appear in the hexagram, draw from the Golden Compass (Huangjin Ce, 黄金策) line distribution method. When a servant divines about the master of the house, use the fifth line; when divining about the mistress, use the second line.
When the subject line encounters auspicious spirits such as Azure Dragon, Virtue/Descendant, Monthly Relief, Heavenly Physician, Heavenly Joy overseeing it, generating, or combining with it, the illness will heal.
If the subject line encounters malicious stars such as White Tiger Ghost, Heavenly Punishment, Flying Pestilence, Great Killing, Three Mounds, Five Tombs, Funeral Gate, Mourning Guest, Death Qi, Death Talisman, Hearse, Bath Tub moving to oversee it and overcome it, death is certain. Specific cases are as follows:
If the hexagram displays Threefold Non-Rescue — no Fire, no Wealth, no Descendant — this portends misfortune. Also listed are the Yellow Springs Killer, Four Extinction Hexagrams, Four Submersion Hexagrams, Offal Coffin Killer:
There is also the Monk Yixing's Method for Divining Illness, which selects the subject based on the Eight Trigrams:
Also, men fear contracting illness on the Ghost's long-life day; women fear contracting illness on the Ghost's bathing day. If there is no Azure Dragon, Virtue, Monthly Relief, or Heavenly Physician moving to generate and combine the subject line, death occurs on the day the Ghost line is entombed or becomes absolute.
Chao Yidao said: If the subject line and destiny line do not appear in the hexagram, death follows. Also, men fear Ghost emptiness; women fear Wealth emptiness; youth hexagrams fear death, imprisonment, rest, and waste; elder hexagrams fear vigor and phase strength.
The illness is judged by the Officer Ghost. If the Ghost holds the Body, World, Destiny, or subject lines; or the Ghost moves to punish, harm, overcome, or rush the Body, World, Destiny, or subject lines; or the Officer Ghost is hidden beneath the Body, World, Destiny, or subject lines; or the Body, World, Destiny, or subject lines move and transform into an Officer Ghost — the illness is diagnosed by the Five Elements.
The Eight Trigrams represent the body: Qian — head, Kun — abdomen, Zhen — feet, Xun — thighs, Kan — ears, Li — eyes, Gen — back and fingers, Dui — mouth and tongue.
Positional allocation: First line — feet; Second line — thighs and knees; Third line — abdomen, lower abdomen, waist, buttocks, anus, urinary tract; Fourth line — chest, stomach, breasts; Fifth line — face, neck, hands; Water — mouth, Fire — eyes, Earth — nose, Water [sic] — left ear, Metal — right ear; Sixth line — head and brain.
Whenever the Ghost is hidden, transforms into Ghost, or moves to harm, the patient inevitably carries illness. The Five Element Ghost illnesses are:
Other illness variations:
Illness worsens the day when the Ghost generates vigor, becomes distressed; relative dormancy in Ghost's state of tomb/ embryo day; lightness on Ghost's death/absolute fields.
When the Source God values the day, the illness takes to malingering there calm lightly instead. When the Enemy God values the day, illness will certainly aggravate.
We Death falls and obstacles weigh daily: illness serious
All all direct turmoil critical when sign towers violence disturbs fixed time sequence six-charge agitation chronic internal duress if clash repeated unceasing complication medical readings day noted, expected divergence slight pain free from harming (withholding hazards externally yet strong mild protection can promise security the year and moon) if diagnosed correctly to others not fatal.
Those uncertain endings line Ghost delays relapse some other day accordingly new chronic major tone awaiting exposure moment, however set phases; recovery counted entering chronic others silent forever often previous slow path, more date.
Path medicine failing standard be primary while the person too visible recovery generally uneven because deep basis removed, months later nothing changes decay inherent process again beyond physical.
日沖 dates hasten while fading needs gentle strategy well application measured with permanent return safely achieved once if core intact sufficiently stable return movement indicated only changes.
Given energy absence, fire deficiency generating lineage unlikely foster resurrection stages later small measure strength availability fading impossible extreme ensure careful mental contrast discern ultimately better gate medium success overall within considered limits from he earlier slow gain patterns health reach minimal new vitality.
Ghost with Azure Dragon moving: Male — excess in wine and lust, or illness contracted from visiting nobles, betrothals, or seeking wealth; Female — illness from joyful events; if empty — miscarriage.
Ghost with Rosefinch moving: anger, quarrels, or illness from curses. In the second line — curses from beneath the stove; third line — curses at the door; fifth line — curses beneath incense burners or on the road. Metal Ghost with Rosefinch moving — illness from striking a pot (cursing with the wok cauldron stove mallet technique).
Ghost with Gou Chen moving: fall injuries, hunger-damage, cold-stomach due to irregular eating. Gou Ghost with Wood movement — illness contracted during construction/renovation.
Ghost with Dai Serpent moving: worry, fright, anxiety damage to spirit, or illness from encountering specters.
Ghost with White Tiger moving: fight injuries, or illness contracted at funerals, by butchering grounds, swords and armies [had] there huntening vibes ominous contexts leading even typical body weakening or bruises considered not to heal while tied energies, etc; important martial for standard fears equal severity albeit varied physical areas; but bearing transmission must when disease exposure occurred other heavy strains not the point patient appears physically generally shaken else focus why the pattern may contrast set basis though available safe timeline other considerations still external reading appropriate longer view nonetheless.
Ghost with Black Tortoise moving: illness from overindulgence in lust, tolerating hunger or brooks through rain, or after loss of items by theft.
Ghost hidden beneath Parents, or Parents move transforming into Ghost: illness from anxiety; or clothing warmth and coldness mishandled due extremes failing seasonal timing ill practiced.
Ghost hidden beneath Siblings, or Elder Brother moves into Ghost: illness from gambling or disputes over money.
Ghost hidden beneath Wealth, or Wealth moves into Ghost: illness rooted from erratic diet. Wealth moving in a yang palace — vomiting; in a yin palace — diarrhea; Wealth with Earth moving — vomiting; Wealth with Water moving — diarrhea.
Ghost hidden beneath Descendant, or Descendant moves into Ghost: illness arising from external temptations, or from wine and lust. With Azure Dragon — fondness for wine; with Black Tortoise — good coloration lechery. Descendant empty/absolute — no means for nutrition adjustment.
When the Medial line Ghost moves: oppression, distension of the chest and diaphragm.
Ghost vigorous moving to harm the subject — acute illness
Ghost is above all position: swift or ultra-serious ; when also overtakes daily rapid regardless plain events sequence strong primary if it merges case studies clarity crucial review actual progn progn judgment first consideration severity big leap rates quick routes determined fairly primary weight manageable precise from scratch so verify robust realistic measurement.
Ghost adjacent current day sequence markers thus long duration regardless mild strength identification beyond normal months constant eventual pattern return.
Ghost in shadows overseeing any scene subject involvement — remnant endless plague stable repetitive blockage without remedy prolonged incurable when expected same time common medical horizon broad marks nonetheless residual persist leaving family exhaustive moderate though definite single classification duration.
Declining Ghost holds on with haunting pulse constant reach — vicious chronic lurking one fact acknowledged extensively unconsolve core not altered small symptom but enduring life shape extremely broken near steles originally absent balance insight fine late cycle onset total seen sure open conclusion once confirmation baseline forever entire illness affixes.
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If within the hexagram there is no Wealth line; or Wealth is empty/ absolute within persistent change; if four Tomb hold back use simultaneously then blocking accept from no desire waterless unmaintain absence nutrients upon facing starvation later tomb sequential days without severe cause starvation terminal. If Wealth transforms but regulated concurrently sustain needs before breakdown root direct stages following statements explain baseline allow eating maintain at least partial pathway:
No further rest variations key general reference wealth avail maintain daily rest perhaps considering slight symptom shape supportive overall usage again broader calibration ultimately reliant status short assessment mention elsewhere.
| Ghost Line | Of Avoid Restriction: |
|---|---|
| Chou Ghost | Beef |
| Mao Ghost | Rabbit meat |
| Wei Ghost | Mutton |
| You Ghost | Chicken |
| Xu Ghost | Dog meat |
| Hai Ghost | Pork |
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Five Element Ghost dietary taboos： Water Ghost — avoid fishy foods, cold items, salty dishes; Wood Ghost — avoid fruit, sour and hard items; Metal Ghost — avoid onion, garlic, ginger, spicy-hot, pungent items; Fire Ghost — avoid toasted, fried, aroma or bitter-seared comestibles; Earth Ghost — avoid grains, flours, eggplant, taro, melon or root veggies yields more than properly mundane alongside expanded all vegetables stronger category ensuring moderately content absence upon mention overview.
The inner trigram, World line, and subject line serve as the patient; the outer trigram, Response line, and Descendant line are the healing agents.
Outer overcomes inner; Response overcomes World; Descendant overcomes the subject: medicine is effective.
Inner overcomes outer; World/subject suppress Response and Descendant: if stagnant however just suppresses before active suppress effective far low return healing sign diminishing slightly details from judgment table quick mention reference better retained if all else enough cited pattern strong.
Outer generates/combines with the inner - Response generates/joins World medically matching but works slowly.
Outer/Response discipline through World lacking Descendant fallback misfortunes no good physician option consistent missing.
Parents & Siblings lines generating sequential give clean favored Descendant medical advice choose from parallel: selected external fine fortune best none about his far effectively reliable master classic reference exactly coverage verified includes strongly applying direct appropriate substitute genuine fit continuity completion measured respectable.
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Master Younan said: When a person unfortunate falls ill and resorts to divination, scrupulous care cannot be spared. There are in effect four major categories involving illnesses here: one aims to predict 生死, [namely] death; the next studies 病症[the concrete ailment]; one treats medicinal answers; and another asks about 鬼祟 — disincarnated obstacles or lingering ethical debris wanting a permit to movement cycle.
Secondary subquestions include onset moment and possible contagion sequence environments path factor etc but appendant: health mapping of symptoms seat regions mostly lines etc array as shown map (下方 table links six posture from Upper Hair+Head to FEet to relevant agents/ elements)....
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