(An inexpert self-diagnosis)
Pathology: Vision blurring… teeth loosening… floaters in my eyes… look closer… closer… closer still… the amoebous, drifting globules slowly take form… a myriad of microbial Smurfs rising up, up, up in their prismatic, blazing balloons… a shadow… a gargantuan pagan Phlegm-God swings his axe, beheads them all… greedily sucks up their marrow… and grinds to a halt as His ichorous blood congeals… eyes wide, He sticks out His purple tongue at me as He drops through the floor… a foreboding of imminent tsunami… and… squealing piglets scatter out of the hole, eyes rolling, plums lodged in their throats… helpless, magnetised, I plunge into the cracking pentacle ice hole and sink… a thousand gold coins in my belly… down, down, sinking down past groaning, balding, putrid corpses… through the yawning mystery gate… through web-like strands of drifting, nail-tapping ghosts… a deepening darkness… inexorably down… an abyss of unknowing… a presence… alien, familiar, violent, serene… I meet myself… an immense and silent embryo… silver, pupilless eyes flip open… its cavernous nostrils flare and smell my rancid, scorched flesh… exhales… and ten thousand shooting needles impale me, pin me to the ocean floor… and there I stagnate and rot… a shimmering octopus dances past, disinterested… algae drape my skull, blossom in my ears… listen… listen… a diabolical choir of tiny voices… growing louder… louder… and I am overwhelmed… a rushing cacophony of raging microbial Smurfs peel back my flesh… they invade my twisted, feeble veins and steal my straining sinews… snap my tendons and ligaments ping ping ping… ravening, the cackling blue spirits besiege my heart… their mouths open wide revealing serrated teeth… ecstatically they feast… devour me… become me… then… a high-pitched, constant tone… then… Nothing…
Aetiology: Idiopathic, insidious, internal, ineffable, iatrogenic, insane.
Pattern Diagnosis: Excess Chinese Medicine Revision Misting the Mind.
Treatment Principles: Smooth the Liver, Resolve Phlegm, Harmonise Qi, Subdue Yang, Calm the Shen, Open All Eight Extraordinary Vessels, Get a FuZang Grip. 😵💫
The Azure Dragon 