Acute illness: Shen month, Xin-Mao day
Acute illness: Shen month, Xin-Mao day. Question: Acute illness. Read the source locator, reproducible chart, historical author's interpretation, reported outcome and site review boundaries separately.
Entry
Acute illness
Month 申 · Day 辛卯
Source location
Author: Yehe Laoren (野鶴老人)
Zengshan Buyi (增刪卜易)
Chapter 29: Advancing and retreating branches (進神退神章第二十九)
Edition: Chinese Text Project transcription (中國哲學書電子化計劃校錄本)
「申月辛卯日占病，得澤天夬卦變大壯」條
Reproducible chart
Hexagram 43 夬 → Hexagram 34 大壯
Changing lines: 5
7 7 7 7 9 8
Original author’s interpretation summary
Fifth-line You Metal Descendants occupies the host position and changes to Shen Metal, a retreating pair. The author stresses that both original and changed lines retain strength in autumn’s Metal season and that the question concerns the near term, rather than making an adverse judgment solely from the retreat marker.
Outcome reported in the book
The text says the author predicted meeting a skilled physician on a Chen day, followed by recovery after needle treatment the next day. This is a historical medical-related report, with no independent medical record for verification by the site.
Site review boundaries
- Old yang at line five changes Guai to Dazhuang, matching the text.
- The production algorithm detects fifth-line You-to-Shen retreat. This structural label does not itself mean illness receding or medication being ineffective.
- Needle treatment, a skilled physician and a recovery date cannot replace modern diagnosis or treatment. Seek timely medical care for real illness.
Reading boundaries
Reported outcomes represent the original author’s account, not independent historical verification. This case is not an automatic interpretation template for a user’s present result.
Topic tags identify structures involved in this case, not divinatory efficacy verified by the site.
Working translation of the site’s Chinese editorial case review, not a translation of the classical source. Native-language review is pending; original source names and locators remain in Chinese.
Retreating branches
Fixed branch-pair implementation
Retreating branches use fixed branch changes in the opposite direction to advancing branchs. The site follows the seven pairs explicitly listed in Zengshan Buyi and compares Bushi Zhengzong and Yilin Buyi, without adding Earth-phase branch pairs absent from the adopted text.
A retreating branch describes only the direction of a changing line’s branch change. It does not imply inevitable decline, failure or delay.
Month and day branches
Calendrical structure implementation
The month reference uses the branch of the solar-term month; the day reference uses the day branch for the selected time-zone date. Zengshan Buyi and Yilin Buyi both use these references in subsequent discussions of strength, generation, control, clashes and combinations. The site calculates them with its calendar engine and cross-checks the month and day recorded in each case.
Month and day are chart references, not independent fortune judgments. A classical case without a year cannot identify a unique Gregorian date.