The causes of cerebral apoplexy include pathogenic factors of wind, fire, phlegm, blood stasis, deficiency. The patho- genesis is the imbalance between yin and yang, disorder of qi and blood. The nature of disease is mostly deficient root and excess superficial manifestations. The location of disease is the brain, but it has close relationships with the heart, kidney, liver, spleen and lung. There are not only mutual generation, restriction and rooting relations among the five zang-organs, but also mutual in- fluential in physiology and pathology. The treatment of cerebral apoplexy should be g...
