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Clinical manifestations: High fever with only mild chills, sore or painful throat, cough with thick yellow phlegm, yellow nasal discharge, thirst and dry mouth.
Tongue: D Pulse: i
Treatment principle: red tip with a thin yellow coating, body slightly red,floating and rapid, like a leaf on a fast stream
Clinical manifestations: Chills more prominent than fever, clear watery nasal discharge, cough with thin white watery phlegm, absence of sweating, generalized body aches and soreness, itchy throat.
Tongue: D Pulse: i
Treatment principle: normal or slightly pale body with a thin, white, moist coating,floating and tight, like a taut rope at the surface
3. Exterior Cold Invading with Interior Heat from Stagnation
Clinical manifestations: Strong chills with high fever, no sweating despite feeling hot inside, sore throat or thick yellow phlegm, restlessness and thirst for cold drinks.
Tongue: R Pulse: e
Treatment principle: red body with red edges, thin white coat turning yellow in patches,floating and tight with a rapid quality underneath
4. Heat in the Ying Level
Clinical manifestations: Fever worsening at night, mental restlessness or insomnia, confused or delirious speech, faint reddish skin rashes, dry mouth and thirst.
Tongue: C Pulse: o
Treatment principle: deep crimson body, dry, with little or no coating, may have red prickles at the tip,fine and rapid
5. Summer Heat with Dampness
Clinical manifestations: Fever with body heaviness and fatigue, stuffiness and fullness in the chest and upper abdomen, thirst with little desire to drink, nausea or vomiting and poor appetite, headache with a heavy or wrapped sensation.
Tongue: R Pulse: e
Treatment principle: red body with a white greasy coating, may shift to yellow greasy if Heat predominates,soggy and rapid, like pressing a wet cotton ball
6. Collapse of Yang
Clinical manifestations: Profuse cold sweating, ice-cold hands and feet, extremely faint or absent pulse, sudden drop in body temperature, ashen-white or pale face, extreme weakness and apathy.
Tongue: R Pulse: e
Treatment principle: pale, moist, flaccid body with a thin white slippery coating,minute, extremely faint, on the verge of disappearing