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Hot/ Cold Pathology

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Main signs • Aversion to wind or cold • Headache and painful stiff nape • Floating pulse • Divided into two main types • Greater yang wind strike • Greater yang cold damage Greater Yang channel disease
• Heat effusion • Aversion to wind • Spontaneous sweating • Noisy nose • Dry retching Tongue: Pulse: floating, moderate Greater Yang Wind Strike (太阳中风) T/P: Harmonize construction and defense
• Aversion to cold • Heat effusion • Headache • Soreness and pain of the limbs and body • Lack of sweating • Panting Tongue: Pulse: floating, tight Greater Yang Cold Damage (太阳伤寒) T/P: Release exterior, promote sweat, diffuse lung, calm wheeze
• Heat effusion • Aversion to cold • Fullness in the lesser abdomen • Inhibited urination • Thirst • Vomiting immediately after the intake of fluids Tongue: Pulse: Floating or floating, rapid Greater Yang Water Amassment T/P: Release exterior, transform qi, disinhibit urine
• Tense bound lesser abdomen or fullness and distention of the lesser abdomen • Uninhibited urine (urine flow is normal) • Mania or mania-like signs • Black stool; lacquer-colored stool • Forgetfulness Tongue: Pulse: Sinking rough or sinking bound Greater Yang Blood Amassment T/P: Expel stasis, discharge heat
General Signs • Generalized heat effusion • No aversion to cold but aversion to heat • Spontaneous sweating Tongue: Pulse: Large Yang brightness disease
• Great generalized heat effusion • Great sweating • Great thirst desiring cold fluids • Heart vexation and agitation • Rough breathing resembling panting • Red facial complexion Tongue: dry yellow coat Pulse: surging, large Yang Brightness Channel disease T/P: Clear heat, drain fire OR Clear heat, resolve yang brightness
• Late afternoon tidal heat effusion • Drizzly sweating of the extremities • Distention fullness and pain in the navel and abdomen • Pain refusing pressure • Bound stool • Clouding of the spirit and delirious speech • Manic derangement and insomnia Yang Brightness Bowel Disease T/P: Clear heat, purge accumulation
• Bitter taste in the mouth • Dry throat • Vertigo • Alternating heat [effusion] and [aversion to] cold • Bitter fullness in the chest and rib-side • Nausea and lack of desire to eat or drink • Heart vexation and a desire to retch Tongue: Pulse: w Lesser Yang Disease 少阳病 T/P: Harmonize the Lesser Yang
• Aversion to cold • Fever • Painful body • Lack of sweat • Vexation and agitation Tongue: yellow coat Pulse: Floating and tight Exterior repletion complicated by internal heat T/P: Release exterior cold, clear internal heat
• Fever • Sweating • Panting • Cough • Thirst Tongue: yellow coat Pulse: rapid Lung Heat Panting Cough T/P: Clear heat, diffuse lung, downbear lung qi and stop panting
• Fresh yellow skin and eyes, yellow-red and scant urine • Fever, thirst, sweat • Heart vexation • Stomach-duct glomus, nausea and vomit • Bound stools Tongue: yellow and slimy coat Pulse: wiry and rapid OR slippery and rapid Damp-heat jaundice T/P: Clear and resolve damp-heat
• Slight aversion to wind and cold • Headache or dizziness • Neck stiffness • Vexing soreness of the joints of the four limbs • Propping binding or hardness below the heart Tongue: white coat Pulse: floating or wiry Lesser yang and greater yang T/P: Release exterior, harmonize and resolve
• Alternating fever and aversion to cold • Bitterness and fullness in the chest and rib-side, bitter taste in mouth • Tenseness and pain / hardness and glomus in the upper abdomen • Bound stools, tidal fever or diarrhea Tongue: dry, yellow or thick Lesser yang and yang brightness T/P: Harmonize and resolve the lesser yang, purge accumulation (bowels)
• Heat effusion • Slight aversion to wind or cold • Headache • Cough • Slight thirst • Throat pain Tongue: red-tipped, yellow coat Pulse: floating rapid Defense Aspect 卫分证 Wind Warmth T/P: Release exterior, cool heat
• Slight wind and cold aversion, fever, small amount of sweat • Headache • Cough with sticky phlegm • Dry nose, throat, thirst Tongue: Red, thin, white coat, dry Pulse: Large, rapid Defense Aspect 卫分证 Warm Dryness T/P: Moisten dryness, cool heat and outthrust from lung
• Aversion to cold, fever, lack of sweat • Headache • Fatigued body, heaviness in the body • Stomach duct oppression, nausea, dry throat Tongue: Thin, slimy coat Pulse: floating, slippery Defense Aspect 卫分证 Summerheat-damp/ Damp Warmth T/P: Clear summerheat, transform dampness OR Course exterior, dissipate cold, clear summerheat and transform dampness
• Cough and panting with chest pain, sticky yellow sputum • Vexation and anguish, unquiet sleep Qi Aspect Heat Evil Obstructing the Lung / Lung Stomach Heat / Lung Heat T/P: Clear heat, diffuse the lung
(Yang Brightness Channel) • Great generalized heat effusion • Great sweating • Great thirst desiring cold fluids • Heart vexation and agitation • Rough breathing resembling panting • Red facial complexion Tongue: dry yellow coat Pulse: surging, la Qi Aspect Heat Exubernace / Great Heat in the Qi Aspect /Stomach Heat T/P: Clear heat, engender fluids OR àClear heat, drain fire
• Fire in the chest and diaphragm, extreme thirst, constipation • Body heat, vexation and agitation Qi Aspect Heat Scorching the Chest and Diaphram T/P: Course wind above, clear heat below
(Yang Brightness Bowel) • Late afternoon tidal heat effusion • Drizzly sweating of the extremities • Distention fullness and pain in the navel and abdomen • Pain refusing pressure • Bound stool • Clouding of the spirit and delirious speech • Man Qi Aspect Binding Heat in Stomach and Intestines / GI heat bind/ Intestines Dry Heat T/P: Clear heat, purge accumulation
(Lesser Yang Channel + damp) Bitter taste in the mouth • Dry throat • Vertigo • Alternating heat [effusion] and [aversion to] cold • Bitter fullness in the chest and rib-side • Nausea and lack of desire to eat or drink • Heart vexation and a desi Qi Aspect Damp-heat in the triple burner / Gall Bladder Heat T/P: Harmonize the Lesser Yang, clear Gall Bladder Heat OR Harmonize and resolve the Lesser Yang
• Generalized heat effusion that is worse at night • Absence of thirst • Heart vexation and insomnia • Possibly clouded spirit and delirious speech • Faint maculopapular eruptions Tongue: crimson red without coat Pulse: fine, rapid Construction Aspect Heat damaging the construction-ying T/P: Clear constructon, clear heart, resolve toxin, outthrust to qi
• Scorching, high fever • Reversal cold of the limbs • Heart vexation and insomnia • Clouded spirit and delirious speech • Faint maculopapular eruptions Tongue: crimson red without coat or dry and dusky, possible retraction Pulse: fine, rapid Construction Aspect 营分证 Heat blocking the pericardium T/P: Clear construction, clear heart, resolve toxins, open orifices
• Generalized heat effusion that is worse at night • Vexation and agitation • Clouding, mania, and delirious speech • Dark purple maculopapular eruptions • Vomiting blood, nose bleeds • Bloody stools, bloody urine T: dark crimson P: fine, rapid, wi Blood Aspect Disease 血分证 Blood Heat Repletion / Blood Aspect – Blood Loss T/P: Clear heat from blood, resolve toxins
Tense bound lesser abdomen or fullness and distention of the lesser abdomen • Uninhibited urine • Mania or mania-like signs / vexation; forgetfulness • Black stool; lacquer-colored stool • Frank bleeding P: deep, replete T: stasis macules Blood Aspect Disease 血分证 Blood Heat Repletion – Blood Amassment T/P: Attack below, discharge heat, invigorate blood, expel stasis
• Convulsions • Rigidity of the neck and nape, arched-back rigidity, tight closed jaw • Reversal cold of the limbs Blood Heat Repletion – Heat Stirs Liver Wind T/P: Cool liver, quell wind
• Vexation and heat of the five hearts • Lassitude and desire to sleep • Emaciation and tinnitus • Wriggling of the extremities, tugging and slackening Yin Vacuity – Liver and Kidney Yin Damage T/P: Foster yin, nourish liquid OR Nourish yin, engender fluids
• Fever, Slight aversion to wind and cold • Headache • No sweat or slight sweat • Thirst • Yellow urine Tongue: red with yellow coat Pulse: Rapid Simultaneous Defense and Qi T/P: Resolve exterior, clear heat
• Fever, slight aversion to wind and cold • Headache • Slight sweat • Dry mouth • No thirst • Heart vexation Tongue: crimson with no coat Pulse: thin, rapid Simultaneous Defense and Construction T/P: Resolve exterior, clear construction
• Vigorous fever • Thirst • Vexation and agitation • Maculopapular eruptions • (Vomiting of blood, nosebleeds) Tongue: crimson, yellow coat Pulse: rapid Simultaneous Qi and Blood T/P: Clear qi, cool blood
• Aversion to cold AND Fever • Split headache, joint pain, low back pain • Clouding and blurring of eyes • Clouding mania and delir speech • Dry mouth, sore throat • (Vomit blood, nosebleeds, purp macula erupts) T: prickles, slimy, red Simultaneous Defense, Qi, Construction, and Blood • Aka Heat in all Four Aspects T/P: Clear heat, downbear fire, cool blood, resolve toxins
• Mild evening fever, with chills • Aversion to cold • Slight to no sweating • Headache, body aches • Slight thirst • Runny nose, yellow nasal discharge Tongue: red tip and borders, thin white or yellow coat Pulse: floating, rapid Upper Burner Warmth T/P: Release the exterior, cool heat, diffuse the lung
• Fever, especially in afternoon, aversion to cold • Sweating • No thirst • Cough, yellow phlegm • Shortness of breath, wheezing • Chest oppression , heavy head Tongue: red, slimy white or yellow coat Pulse: rapid, flooding Upper Burner Damp-Heat T/P: Activate and scatter exterior damp
Great fever, OR evening cyclic fever, aver to heat • Gr sweating, red eyes and face • Sallow complex • Heavy head • Thirst, inability drink • Scanty urine, poss. constipation • Mental confusion T: red with white, sticky coat P: rapid, flooding Yang Brightness Warm Disease T/P: Clear heat, resolve damp, engender fluids
• Unsurfaced fever • Sweat with no resolution • Sallow complex • Epigastric and abdominal fullness or distention • Stuffiness of the chest (glomus) • Sloppy stool • Nausea, vomit, lack of appetite T: red, yellow sticky or greasy coat P: mod, soggy Middle Burner Damp Warmth T/P: Aromatically transform damp, clear heat
• Abdominal fullness and vomiting • Inability to hold down food • Abdominal pain • Diarrhea • Lack of thirst • Cold limbs Tongue: white slimy coat Pulse: deep moderate Greater Yin disease T/P: Warm center, fortify spleen
• No heat effusion but aversion to cold • Desire only to sleep • Reversal cold of the limbs • Clear-food diarrhea • Retching inability to eat or vomit upon ingest food Tongue: pale, lilac, wet, white coat Pulse: Fine minute, on the verge of expiry Lesser Yin Disease 少阴病 Cold transformation T/P: Boost yang, restrain yin
• Heart vexation and insomnia • Dry mouth and throat Tongue: red Pulse: Fine rapid Lesser Yin Disease 少阴病 Heat transformation T/P: Nourish yin, clear heat
• Wasting-thirst • Qi rushing upward to the heart • Pain and heat within the heart • Hunger with no desire to eat • Vomiting of roundworms after eating • Reversal cold off the limbs • Alternating heat and cold* Tongue: red Pulse: small, frail Reverting Yin Disease 厥阴病 T/P: Warm viscera, drain liver, calm stomach, calm roundworms OR Dispel exterior cold, clear heat
• Diarrhea • Distention and oppression in the abdomen and stomach duct, lingering abdominal pain • Fever, aversion to cold • Headache Tongue: white coat Pulse: floating and moderate Greater yang and greater yin T/P: Warm the center, resolve the exterior
• Dark and dusky yellow eyes, skin, urine • Fear of cold • Huddled body • Oppression in the stomach duct and abdominal distention • Sloppy stools Tongue: pale, white and glossy coat Pulse: deep and slow Cold-damp jaundice T/P: Warm the center, dispel cold, fortify spleen
• Fever • Aversion to cold • Headache • Lack of sweat • Cold feet Tongue: pale, thin, white coat Pulse: deep Lesser yin with an exterior pattern T/P: Warm the interior, outthrust the exterior
• Vexation, inability lie down (sleeplessness) • Linger fever or low-grade fever, 5-center heat • Thirst, unable to drink • Lassitude • Deafness • 5 center heat, dry mouth and throat, night sweat T: red, yellow coat P: fine rapid OR floating empty Lower Burner Warmth Disease T/P: Clear vacuity heat, nourish yin
• Diarrhea or constipation, foul or burning • Lower abdominal pain, worse with pressure • Scanty/ blocked, drk urine, burning • Thirst, small sips • Dizziness • Vaginal discharge (yellow, foul) T: red, dirty. Slimy, yellow coat P: deep, soggy,rapid Lower Burner Damp Heat T/P: Dispel damp through the urine
Constant diarrhea, bleeding, yellow stool, watery, bright red blood p;Fine, rapid t:Crimson, no coat, dry Qi and Yin Vacuity Clear heat, nourish yin, stop diarrhea
Stool with dark purplish clots p; Deep, wiry, choppy t: Dark purple, stasis macules thick coat Static Blood Abdominal Pain Invigorate blood, transform stasis, move qi, stop pain
Watery diarrhea, foamy mucus, borborygmous, sloshing sounds p: Wiry OR Soft and slippery t: Pale, white, wet coat Tan Yin / Phlegm Rheum Warm and transform phlegm rheum
Intermittent bouts of diarrhea, mucus, some blood, worse with oily foods Moderate OR fine and weak Spleen Stomach Vacuity Fortify the spleen, boost qi, harmonize center, resolve dampness
Pus and blood in stool, burning sensation, tenesmus, foul smell p: Slippery, rapid t: Red, slimy yellow coat Damp heat brewing in the intestines Clear heat, dry dampness, regulate the qi, harmonize the blood
Diarrhea with emotions, pain is better after defecation, may have mucus in stool p: Fine and wiry t: Large, lilac, white coat Liver O/A on Spleen with Damp Course the liver, resolve stagnation, fortify the spleen, resolve dampness
Frequent, fearful dreaming, easily wakes, prone to fright, SOB, fatigue p:Pale, thin white coat t:Thin and wiry Heart and Gall Bladder Qi Vacuity Supplement the qi, suppress fright, quiet the spirit, stabilize the mind
Frequent dreaming, and easily awakening slight sleep, forgetfulness P: weak, fine, thin t: Pale, thin white coat Heart and Spleen Vacuity Supplement the heart and spleen, promote qi and blood production
Tinnitus, palpitations, forgetfulness, nocturnal; emissions; frequent dreams or lack of sleep p: Rapid, fine, thin t: Red body, very little coat Yin Vacuity with Fire Nourish kidney yin, downbear heart fire, quiet the spirit
Aversion to food, reflux, heavy head; difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, fearful dreams p: Rapid, slippery t: Red body, yellow, slimy coat Phlegm-Fire Clear heat, transform phlegm, harmonize the stomach, quiet the spirit
Irritability, blood shot eyes, headache; fearful dreaming and restless sleep p: wiry t: Red body, yellow coat Liver Fire Soothe liver, clear heat, calm the spirit
Tingling and numbness on one side (right) of the body, soft and weak muscles p: Empty t: Pale, thin white coat Vacuity of Primal Qi
Numbness, heaviness, one-sided p: Slippery t: Swollen, greasy coat Phlegm in the Channels Disperse phlegm, unblock channels
Numbness and tingling, better with movement, worse when inactive p: Weak OR choppy t: Purple, thin white coat Qi Stagnation and Blood Stasis Invigorate qi and blood
Unilateral numbness in a limb, tingling, tremors p: Wiry and slippery t: Stiff or deviated and swollen, white coat Wind Phlegm Quell wind, expel phlegm
Unilateral numbness in limb, vertigo, tics p: Wiry t: Deviated or quivering white coat Internal Wind Quell wind
Tingling, dizziness, etc. p: Choppy or fine t: Pale, thin white coat Liver Blood Vacuity Enrich liver blood
Profuse white or yellow, sticky, no odor p:Wiry t: Slightly red sides Qi Stagnation Soothe Liver move qi strengthen Spleen
Profuse yellow, blood-streaked, smelly p: Slippery, rapid t: Red, sticky yellow or brown, red spots Toxic Heat Clear heat, resolve toxin, resolve dampness, stop discharge
Profuse yellow or brown, sticky smelly p: slippery t: Sticky yellow root, red spots Damp-heat Clear heat, resolve dampness
White, dilute, consistency p: Rapid, Thin t: Red, no coat Kidney Yin Vacuity Nourish yin, strengthen kidneys, clear heat, consolidate essence
Profuse, white, dilute (like water or egg-white) p: weak T: pale, wet Kidney Yang Vacuity Supplement and Warm KD, Consolidate Chong, Stop Discharge
Excessive, sticky, slightly yellow, no smell, persistent p: weak, soggy t: Pale, sticky-white coat Spleen Qi Vacuity Strengthen SP, Supplement Qi, Raise Yang, Resolve Damp
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