↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
1. Damp-Warmth
Clinical manifestations: Afternoon fever or fever that worsens in the evening, heavy body and fatigue like wearing a wet coat, chest tightness and upper abdominal fullness, mental fogginess or dullness, loose yellowish stools.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: red body with a yellow greasy coating, slightly swollen,soggy and rapid, or in early stages fine and soggy
2. Damp-Cold
Clinical manifestations: Heaviness in the body and limbs, chills and aversion to cold with cold limbs, loose stools or diarrhea, poor appetite and bloating, cough with thin white sputum.
Tongue: A Pulse: r
Treatment principle: pale, swollen with teeth marks, thick white greasy coating that looks excessively moist,deep, slow, and slippery
Clinical manifestations: Cough with copious thick yellow or green sputum, chest oppression and fullness, shortness of breath or rapid breathing, fever with thirst, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: D Pulse: i
Treatment principle: red body, possibly swollen at the front, with a yellow greasy coating, red prickles may appear,slippery and rapid, strongest at the right forward position
4. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue and lack of strength, shortness of breath worsening with activity, dry mouth and throat with little desire to drink, night sweats, warm sensation in the palms, soles and chest, mental fogginess.
Tongue: N Pulse: o
Treatment principle: red or pale-red body with a thin or absent coating, possibly cracked and dry,fine and weak, often rapid
5. Toxic-Heat
Clinical manifestations: High fever, severe dyspnea (breathlessness), dark red tongue with thick dry yellow coating, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: red body with prickly thorns, dry yellow coating,rapid and forceful, often full or slippery