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| Pattern Names |
| Liver Wind from Extreme Heat • 热极生风 • Rè Jí Shēng Fēng |
| Classification |
| Category: Zang Fu |
Syndrome: Liver |
| Symptoms |
| Tongue: red with dry yellow coating |
Pulse: wiry, rapid, large, surging |
| Indications: Stiff neck, High fever, Convulsions, Tremors, Lockjaw, 4 Bigs, Delirium, Opisthotonos, Coma [34] • High fever, irritability, fidget, coma, spasm and convulsion, and stiff neck. Or opisthotonus, lock jaw, upward or straight staring eyes. A deep red tongue with dry yellow coating, and a wiry and rapid pulse [32]
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| Keywords |
| High temperature, convulsions, stiff tongue [35]
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| Treatment |
| drain heat, soothe Liver |
| Acupuncture |
| DU8, DU14, GB20, GB34, LI4, LI11, LV2, LV3 |
| Herb |
| Ling Jiao Gou Teng Tang |
| Etiology |
| Due to extreme heat consumes body fluid, leads sinews /tendons spasm because of lack of nourishment. Or extremely heat invade into the pericardium reversely during the course of exogenous febrile disease.[Qiao] |
| Notes |
| Falls under the umbrella Internal LIVER WIND. LV Wind Extreme Heat is pure excess. LV Wind Blood deficiency is pure deficiency. LV Wind LV Yang Rising is a mixture of both. Key for Extreme Heat is high fever and opisthotonus (cooked hot dog shape). Key for Blood deficiency is milder symptoms like limb numbness, tic, head shaking, limb tremors. Key for LV Yang Rising has no high fever or opisthotonus. Has tongue stiffness, aphasia, headache, vertigo, convulsion. [35] |
