Cold damp painful obstruction mistakenly diagnosed as damp-heat painful
obstruction.
Shi a 28 year old male motor vehicle driver was hospitalised on Sept 13. Two days
previous, the patient did some heavy moving from one house to the next in the rain. That
night he had very painful sciatica along his right leg. It gradually became worse and he
went to the local hospital where he received an injection of a heavy painkiller and
diazepam, which took about two hours.(1)…