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Pretending to be sick: Chinese Medicine Cases

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📖 Doctor Zhang Jingyue (张景岳) Case

Foaming at the Mouth, Ice-Cold Limbs — but the Pulse Was Perfectly Calm? Doctor Zhang Jingyue's Feigned-Illness Case — One Look Exposed the Trick, and a Scare with Moxibustion Cured It Overnight

Medicine: Ai rong (moxa floss — mentioned only to frighten the patient; it was never actually applied), Vinegar (served as the 'medicine' to test whether she could swallow)