According to ZHANG Zhong-jing, the main reason for the stroke was the "exogenous wind", and the most important pathogenesis was the "deficiency of qi and exogenous pathogenic factor". Three methods are stressed to cure the stroke: the equal treatment focused on the liver and the spleen, the use of tranquilizing medicine to stop the "wind", and the use of strengthening body resistance to get rid of the exogenous pathogenic factors. While YE Tian-shi considered that the main reason for stroke was the deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin. The chief pathogenesis in stroke was the "yang transform...
