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Pattern Names

Wei Level • 卫分证 • Wèi Fèn Zhèng

Classification
Category: 4 Levels	Syndrome: Wei Level

Symptoms
Tongue: Red tongue tip and side, thin white or slightly yellow coat	Pulse: Superficial, rapid
Indications: Location: Lung, skin, and hair • Heat invades Lung, injures throat, fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, mild chills, headache, cough, headache, a dry mouth with slight thirst, no sweating or slight sweating, sore throat, possibly chest oppression and pain. Red on the tip and side of the tongue, a thin white coating, superficial and rapid pulse. [Qiao]

Keywords

Fever, mild aversion to wind and cold, sore throat, red tip and side tongue, superficial and rapid pulse. [Qiao]

Treatment

Relieve exterior by acridity and coolness [Qiao]

Acupuncture

Herb

Yin Qiao San [Qiao]

Etiology

Wind Heat: Initial stage of warm disease, which is caused by exogenous pathogens attacking the exterior of the body.

Notes

WEN BING: Exogenous disease(except Wind Cold), fever is the main symptom, impairing Yin • Wind warm, spring warm, summer warm, damp warm, autumn dryness, warm toxic (mumps, diphtheria, etc), dysentery, jaundice, measles, etc. • All kind acute infectious and contagious disease such as scarlet fever, mumps, epidemic encephalitis B, Epidemic hemorrhagic fever, Measles, whooping cough, Typhoid, yellow fever, SARS, flu, Ebola, COVID-19 etc.) –Various kind acute infection disease such as pneumonia, UTI, cholangitis, septicemia, etc. –Sun stroke, summer heat, etc.[Qiao] [Qiao]

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