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1. Toxic-Heat
Clinical manifestations: High fever with a burning sensation, intense thirst with desire for cold drinks, restlessness and irritability, flushed face and red eyes, dark scanty urine.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: red body with prickly thorns, dry yellow coating,rapid and forceful, often full or overflowing
2. Blood Stagnation with Heat
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing pain in a specific location, pain worsens at night and with pressure, internal heat sensation especially at night, bleeding with dark-red or clotted blood, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: I Pulse: n
Treatment principle: reddish-purple body with stasis spots and distended sublingual veins, thin dry yellow coat,choppy and rapid, often wiry at the left middle position
3. Bright Yang Fire in Stomach and Intestines
Clinical manifestations: High fever (worse in the afternoon), constipation with dry hard stools, abdominal pain worsening with pressure, intense thirst with desire for cold drinks, bad breath and foul-smelling gas.
Tongue: V Pulse: i
Treatment principle: red body with prickly thorns and a thick, dry yellow coating that may crack,deep, forceful, and rapid
4. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Profound fatigue and physical weakness, shortness of breath worsening with exertion, dry mouth and throat with little desire to drink, night sweats, warm sensation in the palms, soles and chest.
Tongue: T Pulse: o
Treatment principle: red or pale-red body with little or no coating, dry surface, possibly cracks,fine, weak, and often rapid
5. Collapse of Yang
Clinical manifestations: Profuse cold sweating, ice-cold hands and feet extending past the elbows and knees, ashen-white or greyish complexion, complete mental apathy or loss of consciousness, watery diarrhea with undigested food.
Tongue: R Pulse: e
Treatment principle: pale, moist, flaccid body with thin white slippery coating,minute and on the verge of disappearing