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Chinese patterns
Lung Invaded by Wind-Heat
Diagnoses

definition and etiology

» conventional diagnoses: common cold; acute or chronic bronchitis; pulmonary abscess; pneumonia.

» etiology: exposure to exogenous pathogenic influences, such as inclimate weather, esp. esp. wind, or stresses of sudden onset

signs and symptoms

signs and syptoms:

fever

aversion to cold

• redness

swelling and soreness of the throat

• cough or asthma with thick yellowish phlegm

• obstructed or runny nose with yellow mucous

• headache

• body ache

• perspiration

• thirst

• constipation

• dark urine

• slight chills

• epistaxis.

» pulse: fast, floating

» tongue: red with thin yellow coating

course and prognosis

» principle of treatment: pull Wind; disperse Heat

differential diagnosis

footnotes