FEVER

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache due to Wind attack
  • Headache in any part of the head
  • Fever and chills
  • Dizziness
  • Nasal congestion
  • Stuffy nose
  • Clear or white nasal discharge
  • Sneezing
  • Body aches
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Vertigo
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Copious sputum
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Mild, or severe chills
  • Fever which may be persistent
  • Uneasiness from fever
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Headache
  • Nausea
  • Nasal irritation
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Tendency to snore
  • Itchy throat
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial and slow or Moderate and maybe weak
Treatment Principle
  • Create sweat to relieve the Exterior and expel Wind
  • Harmonize Ying and Wei to protect digestion and nourish Wei Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Chills and fever
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough with expectoration of clear, or white sputum.
  • Asthma
  • Shortness of breath
  • Sore throat with phlegm
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and greasy or Sticky white
  • P: Floating and weak or Floating and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Stop cough
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Relieve the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe chills
  • Mild or no fever
  • Headache
  • Generalized discomfort
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Body aches
  • Joint ache
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hiccups
  • Anhidrosis
  • Gasping
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Maybe low back pain
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Maybe dyspnea
  • Maybe epistaxis (severe)
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
  • Disperse the Lungs
  • Stop asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever or
  • Fever with no thirst
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Mild or severe gasping
  • Hiccups
  • Fullness in chest
  • Vomiting
  • Heaviness of the body
  • Edema
  • Dysuria
  • Maybe thirst
  • Maybe diarrhea
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • Maybe lower abdominal fullness
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Floating and slippery or tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
  • Disperse the Lungs
  • Stop asthma
  • Expel water or Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills
  • Maybe fever only
  • Achiness
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to cold
  • Edema
  • Thirst
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Constipation
  • Sometimes dry achy eyes
  • T: Normal or red
  • C: Yellow or white
  • P: Floating and tight or rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Wind
  • Disperse Cold
  • Cool Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Chest and/or gastric distension
  • Gastric pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea (acute)
  • Abdominal pain
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Tonify the Spleen and Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Slight fever
  • Strong chills
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Cold extremities
  • Fatigue with a constant desire to lie down
  • Drowsiness
  • Pale face
  • Lassitude
  • Low voice
  • Weak voice
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Floating, big and forceless or Deep and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yang
  • Augment Qi
  • Release the Exterior
  • Induce sweating
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills with fever increasing and chills decreasing
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Stiffness and pain of the extremities
  • Orbital pain
  • Eye pain
  • Shoulder and neck tension
  • Dry nasal passages
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Constipation
  • Abdominal fullness
  • Tenesmus
  • Vomiting
  • Thirst
  • Epistaxis
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and slightly flooding
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Release the muscle layer
  • Clear Interior Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Red, sore eyes
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Nasal congestion and infection
  • Thick, sticky nasal discharge and saliva
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dry mouth
  • Focal distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Stifling sensation in the chest and diaphragm
  • Manic behavior
  • Carbuncles
  • Heat rash
  • Headache
  • Acne
  • Chills
  • High fever
  • Restlessness
  • Urticaria
  • Sore throat
  • Swelling of the throat
  • Coughing
  • Reddish urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Vertigo
  • Severe aversion to Cold
  • Skin rashes
  • Skin ruptures or ulcers
  • Tense abdomen
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • Numb extremities
  • Fatigue
  • Constipation
  • Dysuria with reddish urine
  • Dark, rough urination
  • Obesity
  • Fullness of the abdomen
  • Fullness of the epigastrium
  • Heaviness in the head
  • T: Red
  • C: White or Yellow and greasy
  • P: Flooding and rapid or Wiry and slippery or Floating, smooth and rapid or Floating, slippery, rapid and wiry or Floating, slippery, rapid and overflowing
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Release the Exterior
  • Drain Heat
  • Unblock the bowels
Herb Formulas
Points
  • General points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Headache
  • Joint pains
  • Severe diarrhea
  • Epigastric distention
  • Perspiration
  • Cold body and extremities
  • Weakness of the extremities
  • Upper abdominal palpitations
  • Cold feet
  • Dysuria
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Warm the Interior
  • Tonify Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Great thirst with a desire to drink
  • Dry mouth
  • Abdominal pain and distention
  • Dryness
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Anxiety
  • Feverish body parts
  • Red face
  • Reddish eyes
  • Coughing fits with chest pain
  • Dry stools
  • No constipation
  • No aversion to Cold
  • T: Red, dry
  • C: Dry yellow
  • P: Rolling and rapid (gigantic)
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Expel pathogens
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever (sometimes rises and falls, worse in the afternoon)
  • Great thirst
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Dyspnea
  • Red face
  • Red eyes
  • Abdominal pain (worse with pressure)
  • Abdominal distension and fullness
  • Dryness
  • Constipation (hard dry knots) or
  • Liquid, foul-smelling diarrhea
  • Dislikes pressure
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Mental disturbance:
    Mentally unclear
    Delirious speech
  • T: Red and dry, or black and moist
  • C: Thick yellow or dry yellow
  • P: Deep, strong, forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Purge
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • History of Yang Ming Jing or Fu
  • Cold extremities
  • Hot skin on the chest and abdomen
  • Thirst (prefers cold drinks)
  • Fever
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Abdominal distension and hardness
  • Maybe constipation
  • Bad breath
  • Bleeding gums
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick, dry and yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Drain Stomach Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Anorexia
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Occasional vomiting
  • Headaches (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Rib pain
  • Achiness
  • Ear infection
  • Hearing difficulty
  • Red eyes
  • Blurred vision
  • Dizziness
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Normal with bumps or dots on side
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Liver and Gall Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever (not so likely)
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Continuous vomiting
  • Headache (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Epigastric pain
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Digestive disruption
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Burning diarrhea or
  • Constipation
  • Menstrual problems
  • Dry throat
  • Heart pain with vomiting
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin yellow
  • P: Wiry, forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Liver and Gall Bladder
  • Purge Internal Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Fullness and focal distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Pain in the chest and diaphragm with pressure
  • Thick, sticky, difficult-to-expectorate Phlegm
  • Panting
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chest pain with coughing or on deep inhalation
  • Anorexia
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Expand the chest
  • Release the Shao Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Fullness and focal distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Pain in the chest and diaphragm with pressure
  • Thick, sticky, difficult-to-expectorate Phlegm
  • Panting
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chest pain with coughing or on deep inhalation
  • Anorexia
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Expand the chest
  • Release the Shao Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Joint pain with a crackling sensation
  • Epigastric pain
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Headache
  • Heaviness in the head
  • Fever
  • Moderately severe chills
  • Distension beneath the Heart
  • Periumbilical or lower abdominal pain
  • Tenseness around the pubic bone
  • Subcostal pain
  • Epigastric fullness
  • Nausea
  • Mild vomiting
  • Mild thoraco-costal discomfort
  • Costal distress
  • Tension in the rectus abdominus
  • Chest distension
  • Abdominal pain
  • Abdominal distension
  • Constipation
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Repeated loss of spinal alignment due to muscular tension
  • P: Floating and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior and muscle layer
  • Harmonize and release the Shao-Yang
  • Harmonize the Liver, Spleen and Intestines
  • Dispel Water Accumulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Abdominal fullness and distention
  • Constipation
  • Cannot purge easily due to lack of Qi
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Fever
  • Cold extremities
  • Hernia
  • Abdominal pain
  • T:  Normal
  • P:  Rolling and forceful or Tight and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Purge Cold retention
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry throat and/or mouth
  • Chronic sore throat (not acute)
  • Restlessness
  • Malar flush
  • Insomnia
  • Disturbed speech
  • Low grade fever, worse in afternoon
  • Yellow urine
  • Irritability with a sensation of Heat in the chest
  • Palpitations with anxiety
  • Sores in the mouth or on the tongue
  • More Heat than in Yin Deficiency (chronic low grade fever)
  • T: Red, deep red
  • C: None
  • P: Deep, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Delirium
  • Heat in upper body
  • Cold in lower body
  • Sensation of Qi rushing to the chest
  • Vomits worms
  • Persistent thirst
  • Feverishness
  • Anorexia (hungry but can't eat)
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Cold extremities
  • Maybe edema
  • Vertex headache
  • Vomits food
  • Cardiac Heat with pain
  • T: Red or pink or pale and flabby
  • C: Thick and greasy or thin
  • P: Deep, thready and weak or wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear worms
  • Clear Heat (Do not purge, create diaphoresis, or create emesis)
  • Revive Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cold extremities
  • Body hot and feverish due to lack of harmony of Liver Qi
  • Thirst
  • Abdominal distention
  • Fever
  • Dark yellow urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reverse reversals
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Inflammation of throat and/or tongue
  • Fever and chills with more fever than chills or
  • High fever
  • Perspiration
  • Cough with sticky yellow sputum
  • Aversion to Wind and Heat
  • Yellow nasal discharge
  • Thirst with desire for cold drinks
  • Red bumps around mouth and lips (herpes simplex)
  • Headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Sore, swollen throat
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Dry mouth
  • Rapid breathing
  • Maybe constipation
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Clear the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry, hacking cough or
  • Cough with thick, sticky, hard to expectorate sputum
  • Dry skin
  • Dry nose
  • Dry painful throat
  • Thirst
  • Little or no sweat
  • Fever and chills with more fever than chills
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Moisten Dryness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Tidal fever
  • Cold extremities
  • Abdominal distention
  • Thirst
  • Sweat
  • Anxiety
  • Stifling sensation of Heat in the chest
  • Restlessness
  • Disturbed speech
  • Gastric disturbances:
    Heaviness
    Nausea
    Severe diarrhea
  • Dark, scanty urine
  • Maybe loss of consciousness
  • Maybe convulsions
  • T: Red tip and edges or Dark red and dry
  • C: Greasy white or yellow
  • P: Rapid and soft or Flooding and rapid or Thready and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Damp
  • Open the Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Tidal fever in the morning or evening which is mainly seen in summertime diseases in children
  • Fever
  • No aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • A red facial complexion
  • Coarse breathing
  • Chest oppression
  • Vexation
  • Agitation
  • Anorexia
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Profuse sweating
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Short voiding of red urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Dry and yellow or Slimy
  • P: Surging and rapid or Soggy and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Summerheat
  • Drain Heat
  • Augment Qi
  • Generate Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse sweating
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • Restlessness
  • Fatigue
  • Fatigued limbs
  • Shortness of breath
  • Apathy
  • T: Pale or Red
  • P: Deficient and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Summerheat
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache (wrapping)
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Chills with afternoon fever or
  • No chills
  • Heavy extremities
  • Heavy or painful sensations in the body
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Gastric and abdominal distension
  • Sticky mouth
  • No thirst or
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Stomach glomus
  • Anorexia
  • Short voidings of red urine
  • Loose stools which are difficult to pass
  • T: Normal or Red
  • C: Greasy and white or Greasy and yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Soft and slow or Wiry thin and soft or Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Damp-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A history of Wei Stage invasion (fever and chills for the first few days)
  • High fever
  • Delirium
  • Maybe coma
  • Maybe convulsions
  • Maybe hemorrhage anywhere
  • T: Dark red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid maybe forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Heat from the Pericardium
  • Resuscitate
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • No chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • A sore throat
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath
  • Thick yellow Phlegm
  • Flaring nostrils
  • Coarse breathing
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick and yellow, maybe dry and sticky
  • P:  Rapid, maybe slippery, maybe forceful or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Lungs
  • Strengthen when weak or elderly
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever or
  • Fever
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness (neither activity nor resting brings relief)
  • Heat sensation in the chest
  • Thirst
  • Has urge to vomit but cannot
  • May have dark yellow urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid or Forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Remove Obstructions
Herb Formulas
  • Zhi Zi Chi Tang
  • If after 2-3 days the patient displays restlessness with accumulation of Phlegm and sputum, chest distension and nausea, but no other Middle Jiao symptoms: Gua Di San
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Profuse sweat
  • Dry mouth
  • Great thirst with desire to drink
  • Painful swelling of the gums with erosion and bleeding
  • No chills
  • Irritability
  • Coughing fits with chest pain
  • Distending abdominal pain, worse with pressure
  • Dryness
  • Restlessness
  • Anxiety
  • Red face and eyes
  • Dry stools
  • No constipation
  • No aversion to Cold
  • Rough breathing
  • Dark yellow urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Dry, yellow
  • P: Rolling, gigantic and rapid or Flooding, rapid and big
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish Body Fluids
Herb Formulas
  • Bai Hu Tang modified
  • With Qi and Body Fluid Deficiency with a flooding and hollow pulse, copious sweating, slight dyspnea and in severe cases flaring and scorching of the nostrils:
    Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tan
    Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang
  • Note:  If the pulse is scattered, it is considered an emergency. Double the dose of Ren Shen.
  • Note: If there is no sweat, a floating, tight and thready pulse or a deep pulse, do not use Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang
  • If Qi and Blood are both affected: Yu Nu Jian modified
  • Chinese Patent Medicine:
    Zi Xue San
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever - sometimes tidal
  • Profuse sweat
  • Great thirst with desire to drink
  • Acute constant abdominal pain
  • Worse with pressure
  • Distension and fullness in the Stomach and abdomen
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Red face and eyes
  • Dryness
  • Restlessness
  • Excess symptoms
  • Constipation with dry knots
  • Sweat
  • Mental disturbance
  • Delirium
  • T:  Red or Dark red
    Severe: Gray or Black
  • C: Thick, yellow or Dry, yellow
  • P:  Forceful and deep or Deep and slow or Deep, rapid and strong
Treatment Principle
  • Purge
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Rib pain (doesn't like touch)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hypogastric pain and distension
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve Gall Bladder Heat
  • Pacify the Liver and Gall Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever with agitation
  • Purple-black rashes
  • Hemoptysis
  • Epistaxis
  • Clouded Spirit
  • Delirious raving
  • Severe:
    Convulsions of the four limbs
    Opisthotonis
    Phlegm gurgling in the throat
  • T: Crimson
  • C: Charred
  • P: Forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Cool the Blood
  • Resolve toxicity
  • Clear the Heart
  • Open the Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Pressure headache - like a bandage
  • Gastric distension
  • Poor appetite
  • Heaviness
  • Body aches
  • Chest distension
  • Diarrhea
  • Dysentery
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Soft and slow or Wiry thin and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Clean Damp-Heat and toxins
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Sweating
  • Anxiety
  • Restlessness
  • Wide-spread rash
  • T: Dark red
  • C: Yellow
  • P:Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Cool the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
  • LI-4, LI-11, PC-3, SP-6, SP-10, UB-40
  • For parotitis: LI-4, LI-11, SJ-5, SJ-17, ST-6
  • For erysipelas: LI-4, LI-11, PC-3, UB-40
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever, worse at night
  • Maybe no fever during the day
  • Anxiety
  • Restlessness
  • Agitation
  • Dry mouth with no desire to drink
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Mild thirst
  • Mental disturbance
  • Dysphoria
  • Maybe delirium
  • Maybe mania
  • Maybe loss of consciousness
  • Speech disturbance
  • Red, dry, painful rashes
  • T: Deep red or Purplish red
  • C: Little or None or Peeled
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Reduce Heat in the Ying
  • Detoxify
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever worse at night
  • Thirst
  • Insomnia
  • Major mental problems
  • Dramatic change of personality
  • Delirium
  • Speech difficulty
  • Aphasia
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Maybe fainting
  • Maybe coma
  • Feverish extremities
  • T: Deep red
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Pericardium
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Confusion of mind
  • Delirium
  • Mania
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Excessive skin rashes all over body
  • Hemorrhage:
    Hematemesis
    Hemoptysis
    Epistaxis
    Hemafecia
    Hematuria
  • T: Deep red, dry or Purple red
    C: None
    P: Rapid or Thready and rapid or Thready and feeble
Treatment Principle
  • Cool the Blood
  • Dispel Heat and Toxins from the Xue Stage
  • Promote Blood Circulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Confusion of mind
  • Delirium
  • Mania
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Excessive skin rashes all over body
  • Hemorrhage:
    Hematemesis
    Hemoptysis
    Epistaxis
    Hemafecia
    Hematuria
  • Stiffness
  • Convulsions:  
    Clenched jaws
    Clenched fists
    Shaking
  • Opisthotonis
  • Stiff neck
  • Semi-consciousness
  • T: Deep red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Subdue Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish Yin
  • Stop convulsions
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low grade fever
  • Purple skin rash
  • Malar flush
  • Night sweats every night (gets progressively drier)
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Short, sunken, dry gums
  • Thirst
  • Hearing loss
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Disturbed speech
  • Emaciation
  • Red face
  • Tired spirit
  • Tendon problems
    a. Twitching
    b. Jumping
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Dry
  • P: Empty and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Cool the Blood
  • Extinguish Wind
  • Nourish Yin and Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low grade fever
  • Purple skin rash
  • Malar flush (deep red cheeks - dangerous)
  • Night sweats every night (gets progressively drier)
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Hearing loss
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Short, sunken, dry gums
  • Thirst
  • Five sole heat
  • Emaciation
  • Collapse of Yin:
      a. Moist skin
      b. Sticky with sweat
      c. Extreme thirst
      d. Tired spirit
      e. Shortness of breath
      f. Extreme disorientation or confusion
  • T: Deep red and scorched
  • C: Dry
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Jing
  • Nourish the Liver and Kidney
  • Tonify the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low grade fever in the evening or night
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Localized pain or swellings on the limbs and/or the body
  • Sandpaper-like, dark colored nails (severe)
  • Blackish or dull complexion
  • Bluish lips and nails or
  • Petechiae
  • Red and dry
  • C: Dry
  • P: Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Expel Blood masses
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Migrating pain in the joints especially the :
    Shoulders
    Elbows
    Knees
    Wrists
    Fingers
    Upper back and neck
  • Multiple joints
  • Pain quality changes
  • May move from soreness to numbness to aching
  • Sensitivity varies
  • Pain often appears abruptly, acutely or paroxysmal and then disappears
  • Limited range of motion
  • Chills and fever
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Symptoms are worse in windy weather
  • Sore throat
  • General body aches
  • Maybe perspiration
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white or Sticky and yellow
  • P: Superficial and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Eliminate Wind
  • Warm Cold
  • Expel Damp
  • Clear the Channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic fever with swelling of the extremities
  • Numbness and heaviness of the extremities
  • Soreness and fixed pain of joints
  • Stiffness or numbness of the muscles or skin
  • Pain worse on cloudy or rainy days
  • Maybe peripheral or systemic edema
  • Pain is alleviated by pressure and warmth
  • Pain lingers and is recalcitrant to treatment
  • Worse during cloudy or wet weather
  • Limited movement
  • Edema
  • Maybe a stifling sensation in chest
  • Maybe anorexia or indigestion
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Maybe loose or semi-liquid stools
  • T: Pink or Pale
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Slow, moderate and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Damp
  • Clear the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever (more chills than fever)
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stiff neck
  • Generalized aches and pains
  • Slight thirst
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Floating
Treatment Principle
  • Induce sweating
  • Expel Wind-Cold
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Drain Interior Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Arthralgia involving one or several joints of the extremities
  • Knee swelling is frequent
  • Local redness and Heat
  • Swelling with excruciating pain
  • Severe limitation of movement
  • Pain better during the day and worse at night
  • The pain is relieved by Cold
  • Fever
  • Sometimes slight chills and fever
  • Thirst
  • Dryness of the mouth and tongue
  • Irritability
  • Nervousness
  • Restlessness
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Desire for Cold drinks
  • dark urine
  • T: Pink or Red
  • C: Thin and yellow or Dry yellow
  • P: Rolling and rapid maybe slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Relieve toxicity
  • Activate the Blood
  • Clear the channels
  • For Wind-Damp-Heat Bi:
    Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry cough with little or no sputum
  • Sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dry or sore throat
  • Hoarse voice
  • Dry lips and mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dryness in nose
  • Epistaxis
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Constipation
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Superficial, maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Moisten Dryness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with expectoration of copious thick, purulent, yellow-green sputum or blood-flecked, foul-smelling pus (as in Lung abscess)
  • Dyspnea
  • Asthma
  • Pain in the ribs
  • Maybe chills and fever
  • T: Scarlet
  • C: Yellow and smooth
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Counteract Toxin
  • Transform Stasis
  • Drain Pus
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • (The use of Clear Heat / Counteract Toxin herbs and the principle of "Draining Pus" are only relevant when foul-smelling pus is being expectorated such as in pulmonary abscess)
  • Soothe asthma in case of asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Soft, weak cough with clear thin sputum
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Occasional chills and fever
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Shortness of breath
  • Pale face
  • With Wei Qi Deficiency:
    Spontaneous perspiration (daytime)
    Low resistance to common cold
    Tendency to a blocked nose
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Lungs
  • Strengthen Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe, dry hacking cough
  • No sputum expectorated
  • Small amounts of difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Blood tinged sputum (when Yin Deficiency Fire is present)
  • Afternoon fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush (especially in afternoon)
  • Five sole Heat
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Itching in throat
  • Hoarse voice, low voice or loss of voice
  • Emaciation
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Unproductive cough or
  • Scanty, sticky phlegm or
  • Sometimes blood-streaked sputum
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Low back and knees sore and weak
  • "Steaming Bone" tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush
  • Maybe hoarse voice
  • Maybe pain in shin, foot, and heel
  • Sterility
  • Spermatorrhea
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever or infantile tidal fever in the afternoon
  • Knotted constipation or
  • Watery, thin diarrhea
  • Burning hot sensation in the anus
  • Abdominal distention and pain (dislikes pressure)
  • The abdomen is hard and Excess
  • Hands and feet dripping with perspiration
  • Constipation
  • Dry stools
  • Vomiting
  • Irritating thirst
  • Vexation
  • Agitation
  • Delirium
  • T: Pink, maybe prickles or Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and dry or Black
  • P: Deep and Excess or Deep, Excess and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Excess Heat with bitter, cold, strong purgative herbs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Diarrhea with tenesmus which intensifies after defecation
  • Frequent stools which are small in quantity
  • Stools are yellow or brown, thin, watery, with foul smell or sticky and pasty like jam or sticky fluid or containing pus and Blood
  • Burning hot sensation in anus
  • Abdominal pain
  • Urine short and red
  • Sustained fever despite profuse perspiration or
  • Raging fever in the afternoon
  • Mouth dry but no desire to drink
  • Body heavy
  • Limbs tired
  • Fullness in chest
  • Lump in epigastrium
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Severe cases:
    High fever and coma
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Dampness
  • Stop dysentery
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain in the lower right abdomen; refuses pressure
  • Pain may be severe, boring, and in a fixed position or without fixed location
  • Constipation or
  • Mild diarrhea
  • Maybe fever
  • Maybe nausea and vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • T: Red
  • C:Thick, yellow and greasy or sticky
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Dampness
  • Invigorate Blood circulation
  • Conduct Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal distention and discomfort
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Epigastric mass
  • Maybe abdominal pain on palpation
  • Yang jaundice (sclera and skin are bright yellow)
  • Dislike of oily foods
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Lassitude
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • Maybe thirst or thirst with no desire to drink
  • Diarrhea with foul smell or
  • Constipation
  • Fever
  • Sweet sticky taste or bitter taste in mouth
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, yellow and greasy (maybe sticky)
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Benefit Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Tidal fever in the morning or
  • Low-grade fever which is worse in the morning or with exertion
  • No desire to speak
  • Sallow complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • No desire for food and drink
  • Frequent belching
  • Borborygmus
  • Loss of sensation of taste
  • Stools not solid
  • Urine clear and abundant
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Empty, thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen and Stomach
  • Benefit Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Intermittent fever, worse with exertion
  • Fatigue
  • Prolapse of one or more organs
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Weakness
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Cold limbs
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even or Soft and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sallow or pale complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose or unformed stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Functional Uterine Bleeding
  • Intermittent fever, worse with exertion
  • Purpura
  • Epistaxis
  • Hemafecia
  • Hematuria
  • Menorrhagia
  • Metrorrhagia
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit Qi
  • Conserve Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild constant epigastric pain; relieved by warmth and pressure
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain and fullness after meals
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Loose, unformed stools
  • Excessive salivation
  • Cold limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Sallow or pale, dull complexion
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe scanty urination
  • Maybe clear, watery, copious vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Burning Heat and pain in the epigastrium
  • Irritating thirst: drinks copious fluids and prefers cold drinks
  • Excessive appetite: hungry again quickly after eating (as if food vanishes)
  • Fever
  • Swelling, pain, ulceration and bleeding of gums
  • Foul breath
  • Toothache
  • Maybe vomiting right after eating
  • Vomiting acid or undigested food
  • Constipation
  • Maybe scanty, red urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and dry
  • P: Slippery, big, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and Purge Stomach Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • No appetite or
  • Famished but with no desire to eat
  • Abdominal distention after meals
  • Dry stools
  • Irritability with low grade fever
  • Maybe dry retching or
  • Hiccups
  • T: Red
  • C: Little and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry throat
  • Thirst
  • Hacking cough with scanty sputum
  • Low grade fever
  • Epigastric pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Little, maybe dry
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Stomach and Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Stabbing pain in the anterior region over the Heart
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Maybe drawing pain down the internal aspect of arm (especially the left arm)
  • Pain (in chest and/or arm) tends to be severe and intermittent
  • Severe cases:
    Cold limbs
    Cyanosis of lips and nails
  • T: Dark red with purple spots or Purple body
  • C: Little
  • P: Minute (scarcely perceptible) and thready or Knotted
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Palpitations
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Severe cases:
    Incoherent speech
    Crying and laughing without reason
    Manic agitation with irrational behavior
    May physically attack or abuse others
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery, Excess, rapid and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Heart
  • Break through Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden collapse with loss of consciousness
  • Fever
  • Lockjaw (trismus)
  • Eyes open
  • Both fists clenched
  • Retention of urine
  • Constipation
  • Stiffness and spasm of limbs
  • Red face
  • Body feels hot
  • Coarse breathing
  • Bad breath
  • Restlessness
  • Involuntary movements
  • Usual sequelae of C.V.A. such as:
    Hemiplegia
    Aphasia
    Facial paralysis
  • T: Pink
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery, wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Phlegm
  • Open the Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations, easily brought on by fright
  • Startles easily
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Waking with palpitations or panic attacks and anxiety
  • Poor memory
  • Poor concentration
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Restlessness
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • Thirst
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Malar flush
  • Low back pain
  • Dry stools or
  • Constipation
  • Possible mouth or tongue ulcers
  • T: Red, dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Reinforce Heart
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Anxiety
  • Flushed face
  • Constipation
  • Abdominal distention
  • Delirious speech
  • Epigastric distention
  • Jaundice
  • Gastric distention
  • Dysenteric disorders
  • Hematemesis
  • Epistaxis
  • Red, swollen, painful eyes
  • Chest oppression
  • Red, swollen ears
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Thirst
  • Dark, concentrated urine
  • Tinnitus
  • Hemoptysis
  • Vomiting
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • Bleeding
  • Diarrhea
  • Suppurative skin infection
  • Tongue and mouth ulcerations
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Fire
  • Relieve toxicity
  • Dispel noxious Heat and toxins from the Heart and Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Eye dizziness
  • Both eyes dry and rough
  • Twitching of the eyes
  • Pain in the ribs and flanks
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Stiffness and spasms of the tendons
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular, scanty menses
  • T: Pale and thin
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready, choppy and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Blood
  • Conceal Yang
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Spermatorrhea with erotic dreams
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Palpitations
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth
  • Red cheeks
  • Urine short and red
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Fire
  • Make Heart and Kidney communicate
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low-grade fever
  • Warm skin when touched
  • Malar flush
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow complexion
  • Copious, pale menses
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Pale
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the heart and Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • Gas
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Women:
    Irregular menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Invigorate the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Epigastric pain (worse when emotionally upset)
  • Belching with acid regurgitation
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Epigastric distention
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Headache
  • Vertigo
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dizziness
  • Frequent sighing
  • Epigastric pain and distention
  • Flatulence
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Breast distention
  • Lassitude
  • Insomnia
  • Shoulder and back pain
  • Rib pain
  • Tightness or fullness in the chest
  • Cold extremities
  • Pain in the arms and legs
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Night sweats
  • Bloating and pain at the umbilicus and abdomen
  • Diarrhea alternating with constipation
  • Five sole heat
  • Palpitations
  • Malar flush
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Increased desire to sleep
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin white or yellow
  • P: Wiry and Deficient or Wiry, tight and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Invigorate the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe, splitting headaches with dizziness
  • Sudden tinnitus or
  • Sudden deafness
  • Flushed face
  • Red, swollen, painful eyes
  • Irascibility with violent angry outbursts
  • Dry mouth
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Thirst
  • Vomiting sour or bitter liquid
  • Insomnia
  • Restlessness
  • Constipation or dry stools
  • Maybe rib pain
  • Maybe fever
  • In severe cases:
    Mania
    Hemoptysis
    Hematemesis
    Epistaxis
  • Liver Fire Attacks the Lungs:
    Hemoptysis
    Rib pain which is severe when coughing
  • Liver Fire Attacks the Stomach:
    Hematemesis
  • T: Red tip and edges
  • C: Thick, yellow, dry and rough
  • P: Wiry, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Liver
  • Purge Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Contractures
  • Spasms
  • Neck stiffness
  • Convulsions
  • Oculogyric crises
  • Opisthotonos
  • Coma
  • Possibly death
  • T: Red or Deep red
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Cool the Liver
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness and vertigo to the point of falling over
  • Headache with a drawing sensation
  • Numbness and tremor of limbs
  • Twitching and involuntary writhing of hands and feet
  • Dysphagia
  • Unsteady gait
  • With Wind-Stroke:
    Sudden loss of consciousness
    Tongue stiffness with aphasia
    Facial paralysis
    Hemiplegia
  • Maybe coma
  • Sometimes death
  • T: Red
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pale complexion
  • Pale lips
  • Blurred or failing vision
  • Spots before eyes
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Pale nail beds
  • Irritability
  • Frightens easily
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Tinnitus
  • Numbness of limbs
  • Tremor, spasms or involuntary movements (chorea)
  • Involuntary shaking of head
  • Light menses or amenorrhea
  • Late menses
  • Tic or tremor of hands and feet
  • Maybe trismus
  • T: Pale
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pale complexion
  • Pale lips
  • Blurred or failing vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Sporadic fever and chills
  • Pale nail beds
  • Irritability
  • Frightens easily
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Tinnitus
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Light menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Late menses
  • T: Pale
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Liver
  • Reinforce the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Thirst
  • Yang jaundice (sclera and skin bright yellow)
  • Pain and fullness in ribs on both sides
  • Maybe pain in the right hypochondrium
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Nausea
  • Epigastric fullness
  • Abdominal distention
  • Vomiting sour and bitter fluids
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe alternating chills and fever
  • Concentrated, dark urine
  • Abdominal distention
  • Women:
    Yellow vaginal discharge with foul smell
    Pruritis vulvae
  • Men:
    Pain, swelling and burning sensations of testicles
  • T: Pink or Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy or sticky
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Dampness
  • Purge Heat from Liver and Gall Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Coughing fits with hemoptysis
  • Burning pain in chest and sides
  • Dizziness
  • Face and eyes red
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Dry lips
  • Short-tempered
  • Irascibility
  • Restlessness
  • Maybe dark urine
  • Maybe constipation
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Liver Fire
  • Purge the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial complexion pale and sallow
  • Both cheeks slightly red
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Numbness of limbs
  • Flaccid paralysis (Wei syndrome), weakness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Low back and knees sore and painful
  • Throat dry and painful
  • Five sole Heat
  • Low-grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Stools difficult to pass
  • Constipation
  • Men:
    Spermatorrhea
  • Women:
    Irregular menses or
    Scanty menses or
    Amenorrhea
    Vaginal discharge
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and Reinforce the Liver and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the leg and heel
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Night sweats
  • Five sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • Dry stools and/or
  • Constipation
  • Urine short and red
  • Heightened libido
  • If Heart Fire also Flares:
    Insomnia
    Frequent dreams
    Palpitations
  • If Liver Yang also Rises:
    Dizziness
    Blurred vision
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Subdue Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus that worsen at night
  • Dizziness
  • Hypoacusis (elderly people)
  • Blurred vision
  • Fever
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Hard of hearing
  • Ocular pain
  • Red eyes
  • Thirst
  • Auditory depression
  • Poor hearing
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Weak, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Blood of the Liver and Kidneys
  • Improve hearing
  • Clear Heat 
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary frequency
  • Urinary urgency
  • Painful urination or
  • Continuous dripping of urine or
  • Sudden interruption to the urinary stream
  • Turbid urine or
  • Pus and blood in the urine or
  • Sand and stones in the urine
  • In Damp-Heat Pouring Downward there may also be:
    Fever
    Thirst
    Dry mouth
    Low back pain
  • In Damp-Heat Crystallizes in Urinary Bladder there may also be:
    Colicky pain in the low back, possibly radiating to the groin
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Eliminate Dampness by diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low-grade fever in the evening or
  • Nightly fever
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Steaming bone fever
  • Anxiety
  • Restlessness
  • Night sweats
  • Insomnia
  • Excessive dreams
  • Dry mouth and throat with a desire to drink
  • Scanty, yellow urine
  • Constipation
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Tidal fever in the afternoon or at night
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Bone steaming
  • Amenorrhea with gradual onset
  • Soreness of the lower back
  • Abdominal pain
  • Emaciation
  • Achy and uncomfortable flesh and bones of the hands and feet
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Dizziness
  • Light headedness
  • General disquietude
  • Gradually worsening afternoon fevers
  • T: Red
  • C: Scanty
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills
  • Slightly warm limbs or
  • Cold limbs
  • Cold body
  • Pale complexion
  • Vertigo
  • Desire to lie down
  • Inability to get warm
  • Loose stools
  • Profuse clear urine
  • Fever in head and extremities
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Lassitude
  • Sore and painful low back and knees
  • T: Pale, swollen and tender with teethmarks
  • C: Moist and white
  • P:Floating, big and weak or Deep, thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and reinforce Kidney Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Body hot but desires warm bedclothes
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Sore throat
  • Feeling of thirst with no desire to drink
  • Vomiting immediately after drinking
  • Agitation
  • Face and cheeks flushed
  • Watery stools with undigested food
  • Cold limbs
  • P: Minute (on the point of collapse)
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Return Yang
  • Clear Communication between the Inside and Outside
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Bleeding gums
  • Spasmatic cough
  • Radiating chest and lateral-costal pain
  • Red tinged Phlegm
  • A dry mouth
  • Irritating Heat
  • Epistaxis
  • Abdominal glomus and pain
  • Black colored stools
  • Dizziness
  • Tidal fever
  • Short, red urination
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Calm the Shen
  • Open the Channels
  • Descend Qi
  • Transform Stasis
  • Clear Heat
  • Cool the Blood
  • Stop bleeding
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Perspiration
  • Anxiety
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • Exanthema
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in the Qi and Xue Stages
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Fever, worse with fatigue
  • Loose stools
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Malaise
  • Pale face
  • Shortness of breath
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Catches cold easily
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Empty
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A low-grade fever that appears mostly after exertion or
  • A normally low temperature but is occasionally high and accompanied by
    Vertigo
    Weakness
    Spontaneous sweating
    Catches cold easily
    Shortness of breath that makes speech difficult
    Anorexia
    Soft stools
  • Fatigue
  • Loose stools
  • Poor appetite
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • Maybe chills and fever or
  • Low grade fever
  • T: Pale or Pale, thin and dry
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak or Thin and choppy or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic low-grade fever or
  • Tidal fever in the afternoon or at night
  • No thirst or
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • Pain that is fixed, stabbing and/or severe
  • Stabbing pain in the head or chest
  • Pain is worse with pressure
  • Dark complexion
  • Fixed, palpable masses
  • Lumps in the abdomen
  • Bleeding with clots
  • Purple lips
  • Purple nails
  • Dry, scaly skin
  • Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas
  • Dark rings around the eyes
  • Varicose and spider veins
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  • T: Purple, possible purple or red spots
    Red purple if there is Heat
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy or Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low-grade fever
  • Warm skin when touched
  • Malar flush
  • Bright white face
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Thirst or
  • A dry mouth
  • Pale lips and nails
  • Weakness
  • Anorexia
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Fatigue
  • Scanty periods
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin, white and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Blood
  • Tonify the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Acute high fever
  • Chills
  • Flushed face
  • Dry nose and mouth
  • Extreme thirst
  • Listlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Dryness of the teeth
  • Irritability
  • Oliguria with reddish urine
  • Anhidrosis
  • Severe headache
  • Delirium
  • Skin eruptions
  • Epistaxis
  • Hemorrhage
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Large and rapid or Smooth and rapid or Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Cool Heat
  • Relieve inflammation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Tidal hectic fever in the afternoon which does not abate with sweating
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Chest oppression
  • Stomach glomus
  • Nausea
  • A heavy, painful body
  • Anorexia
  • Short, reddish urine
  • Loose stools which are difficult to defecate
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and slimy
  • P: Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Eliminate Dampness
  • Clear Heat
  • Expel pathogenic factors
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Shivering in severe cases
  • Fever
  • Swelling
  • Heat and pain in the affected area
  • Dark urine
  • Constipation
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Surging and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Drain Fire
  • Resolve toxicity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Heavy pressure headache
  • Anorexia
  • Mental dullness
  • Cough with white Phlegm
  • Severe chills
  • Slight fever
  • Maybe no fever or
  • Afternoon fever
  • Heavy head and extremities
  • Anhidrosis
  • Chest distention
  • A sluggish feeling
  • A sticky mouth
  • Diarrhea or
  • Loose stools
  • Borborygmus
  • Sticky saliva
  • No thirst
  • Epigastric distention
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Greasy and white
  • P: Soft or Floating and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Dry Damp
  • Warm the body
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Heaviness of head and extremities
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst - cannot drink
  • Afternoon fever
  • Slight fever
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy white or yellow
  • P: Soft, maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Disperse Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lethargy
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe jaundice
  • No thirst or
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Afternoon fever
  • Body aches
  • A sallow complexion
  • Scanty urination
  • Diarrhea
  • Chest discomfort
  • Epigastric pain and distention
  • Dull appearance
  • Maybe disorientation
  • Loose stools
  • Maybe skin vesicles
  • Heavy extremities
  • T: Pink
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Damp and turbidity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • More Heat symptoms than Damp symptoms
  • Thicker Fluid
  • Feverish
  • Chest discomfort
  • Cough
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white or Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery and maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lower abdominal distension
  • Excruciating abdominal pain
  • Mania
  • Delirious speech from extreme pain
  • Afternoon fever
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst - likes to drink
  • Amenorrhea
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Black stools
  • Neurosis
  • Hard stools
  • Acute pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Retention of lochia
  • Intestinal obstruction
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Normal or Yellow
  • P: Sinking and choppy or Sinking and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Dispel Blood stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Heaviness
  • Swollen extremities
  • Pain in the extremities
  • Sluggish urination
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Cough
  • Asthma with Phlegm
  • T: Swollen
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Tight and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Benefit water
  • Dispel exogenous pathogens
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sticky, yellow, difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Rapid breathing with a harsh voice
  • Restless fever
  • Sore throat
  • Constipation
  • Dry stools
  • Mania
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Chest and/or epigastric fullness
  • Pain in the ribs
  • T: Scarlet
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy or Yellow and smooth
  • P: Rapid and smooth or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sticky phlegm
  • Maybe bloody
  • Dry, hacking cough with little or no sputum
  • Flushed face
  • Sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Restlessness
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Hiccups
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dyspnea
  • Dry or sore throat
  • Upper respiratory tract infection
  • Hoarse voice
  • Asthma
  • Dry lips and mouth
  • Fever
  • Shortness of breath
  • Hemoptysis
  • Constipation
  • Thirst
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Dryness in nose
  • Sensation of fullness in chest
  • Epistaxis
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Irritability
  • Itching
  • T: Red tip, dry
  • C: Thin, yellow, or White and dry, or None
  • P: Big and weak or Deficient, big and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Moisten Dryness
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A sensation of Heat in the body
  • Anxious restlessness
  • Unstable fever which varies with the emotional state of the patient
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • A quick temper
  • A sensation of distention and fullness in the chest and flanks
  • Frequent sighing
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Painful breast distention linked to menstruation
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Liver Qi
  • Undo the knots
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A sensation of Heat in the body
  • Anxious restlessness
  • Unstable fever which varies with the emotional state of the patient
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • A quick temper
  • Anorexia
  • Fullness and masses in the chest and abdomen
  • A sensation of distention and fullness in the chest and flanks
  • Frequent sighing
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Painful breast distention linked to menstruation
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow, thick, slimy and greasy
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Liver Qi
  • Undo the knots
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Eliminate Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A sensation of Heat in the body
  • Anxious restlessness
  • Unstable fever which varies with the emotional state of the patient
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • A quick temper
  • Low grade fever at night
  • Five-Sole-Heat
  • Low back pain
  • Painful thighs
  • A sensation of distention and fullness in the chest and flanks
  • Frequent sighing
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Painful breast distention linked to menstruation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Wiry, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Liver Qi
  • Undo the knots
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A sensation of Heat in the body
  • Anxious restlessness
  • Unstable fever which varies with the emotional state of the patient
  • Nervousness
  • A red face and eyes
  • Irritability
  • A quick temper
  • A sensation of distention and fullness in the chest and flanks
  • Frequent sighing
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Painful breast distention linked to menstruation
  • Red, burning urination
  • T: Crimson
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Liver Qi
  • Undo the knots
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fullness in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Heartburn
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • A greasy mouth cavity
  • Coughing with sputum
  • Difficulty expectorating
  • Alternating chills and fever as that in malaria every other day
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and rough
  • P: Taut and slippery or Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Dissolve Phlegm
  • Eliminate pathogenic factors from pleurodiaphragmatic interspace (membrane source)
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Habitual miscarriage
  • Afternoon fever
  • Five sole heat
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Cold abdominal pain
  • Infertility
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Chronic pelvic inflammation
  • Menopause
Treatment Principle
  • Warms the vessels
  • Comforts the Womb
  • Nourishes and invigorates the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Consumptive fever
  • Slow and gradual onset
  • Weak and flaccid lower limbs
  • Muscle twitching
  • Soreness and weakness of the lower back and spine
  • Emaciation of the muscles and flesh
  • Inability to stand for a long time
  • Total loss of mobility and severe loss of muscle mass can result with exacerbation
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Hair loss
  • Dry throat
  • Tinnitus
  • Fatigue
  • Heart vexation
  • Five-Sole-Heat
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Enuresis
  • Fecal and urinary incontinence
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Maybe night sweats
  • With Liver Wind:
    Pronounced muscle spasms
    Spasms and contractures of the four limbs
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid or Wiry, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Liver and Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish Jing
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Boost the marrow
  • Settle and extinguish Liver Wind
  • Nourish the sinews and bones
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Red, painful warm swelling of the face and head
  • Painful edema of the throat
  • Appearance of dense eruptions on the body
  • Restlessness
  • Anxiety
  • Sensation of Heat and fullness in the chest and epigastrium
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve toxins
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Bones and joints painful
  • Occasional vomiting
  • Continually hot, never cold
  • Muscles and flesh waste away
  • Parched mouth
  • T: Variable
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Overflowing
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever at regular intervals
  • Hot and Cold simultaneously
  • Stomach obstructed and full
  • Dislikes food
  • Putrid breath
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery, wiry and full
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever all day long
  • Weak Spleen and Stomach Qi
  • Hot and Cold simultaneously at regular intervals
  • Tired limbs
  • Slight fluctuation in temperature
  • Perspiration
  • Dyspnea
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Empty
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points