↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
1. Qi Level Heat
Clinical manifestations: High fever without chills, intense thirst with desire for cold drinks, profuse sweating, irritability and restlessness, flushed face, dark scanty urine, severe headache.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: red body with a yellow, dry coating, possible prickles in the centre,overflowing and rapid, large and forceful
Clinical manifestations: High fever worsening at night, loss of consciousness or delirium, cold hands and feet despite fever, deep red stiff tongue, extreme restlessness and irritability, night sweats.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: deep red or crimson body, stiff with a prickly tip, coating dry yellow or scanty,fine and rapid, possibly wiry
Clinical manifestations: High fever with violent convulsions or seizure-like spasms, neck rigidity and arched-back spasm, eyes rolling upward and clenched jaw, loss of consciousness or delirium, red flushed face and intense thirst.
Tongue: C Pulse: o
Treatment principle: deep red or crimson body, dry with prickles, stiff, yellow dry coating,wiry, rapid, forceful, especially at the left middle position
Clinical manifestations: Mental confusion or dullness with a foggy sensation, rattling or gurgling sound in the throat, dizziness and heavy-headedness.
Tongue: S Pulse: c
Treatment principle: pale swollen body with a thick white greasy coating, may appear stiff,slippery and full
5. Damp-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Jaundice (yellow skin or eyes), heavy sluggish head and body sensation, chest and upper abdominal stuffiness, nausea and poor appetite, low-grade fever worsening in the afternoon.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: red body with a yellow greasy coating,slippery-rapid
6. Empty-Heat Caused by Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Low-grade fever worsening afternoons and evenings, night sweats, dry mouth and throat with desire to sip water, flushed cheekbones, restlessness and difficulty falling asleep, heat sensation in palms, soles and chest.
Tongue: N Pulse: o
Treatment principle: red, thin, dry body with cracks, little or no coating,fine and rapid