Abdominal patterns for SHL formulas

By Michael Max & Steven Clavey

There are a number of  schools of abdominal diagnosis, the two most prominent being the Nan Jing school and the Shang Han Lun school. That presented here is primarily that of the Shang Han Lun (Discussion of Cold Damage) school, in which certain abdominal configurations suggest the use of a particular classical herbal formula.