4 levels

Question 1

These include fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, cough, headache, a dry mouth with slight thirst, no sweating or a small amount of sweat- ing, possibly swelling and pain of the throat, possibly chest oppression and pain, red on the sides and tip of the tongue, a thin white fur and a floating and rapid pulse.

Answer 1

WIND-WARM EXTERIOR PATTERN

Question 2

Signs
These include aversion to cold, fever, lack of sweat, headache, an extremely fatigued body, oppression of the stomach duct, heart vexation and thin and slimy tongue fur.

Answer 2

SUMMERHEAT-DAMP EXTERIOR PATTERN

Question 3

Signs
These include fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, headache, a small amount of sweating, cough with slight phlegm that is sticky and diffi- cult to expectorate, a dry nose and throat, thirst, possibly cough that results in chest pain, a red tongue with thin, white and dry tongue fur and a large and rapid pulse on the right.

Answer 3

AUTUMN DRYNESS EXTERIOR PATTERN (WARM DRYNESS

Question 4

Signs
These include high fever, copious sweating, thirst with a preference for cold fluids, a red face, heart vexation, a red tongue with dry, yellow fur and a surging, large and rapid pulse.

Answer 4

Ql ASPECT HEAT EXUBERANCE

Question 5

Signs
These include body heat, sweating, a vexing thirst, panting, yellow, sticky phlegm that is difficult to expectorate, possibly chest oppression and pain, a red tongue with yellow fur and a rapid pulse.

Answer 5

HEAT EVIL OBSTRUCTING THE LUNG

Question 6

These include incessant body heat, vexation and agitation, scorching heat of the chest and diaphragm, constipation, burnt lips, a dry mouth with a desire for fluids, dryness in the center of the tongue and red sides, yellow and white tongue fur and a rapid pulse.

Answer 6

HEAT SCORCHING THE CHEST AND DIAPHRAGM

Question 7

These include fever, late afternoon tidal fever, vexation and agitation; sometimes there is delirium, and in extreme cases there may be clarity of the spirit-mind or picking at the bedclothes, fear and lack of peace, bound stools or water-like diarrhea, abdominal distention, fullness, hardness and pain that refuses pressure, tongue fur that is yellow and dry or burnt yellow with prickles, and a deep, replete pulse.

Answer 7

BINDING HEAT IN THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES

Question 8

These include tidal fever, constipation, a dry mouth, cracked lips, a red tongue with little fur and a vacuous and rapid pulse.lack of fluids to full the vessels

Answer 8

YIN VACUITY DRYNESS BIND

Question 9

Signs
These include headache, aversion to cold, heavi- ness and pain of the body, a pale, yellow facial complexion, chest oppression, latent body heat or afternoon tidal fever, a dry mouth with no desire for fluids, white and slimy tongue fur and a soggy and moderate, or string-like, fine and soggy pulse.

Answer 9

DAMP-W ARM AT THE QI ASPECT,DAMP STRONGER THAN HEAT

Question 10

Signs
These include high fever that does not retreat, a
red face, hasty breathing, thirst, sweating, heavi- ness of the body, chest glomus, yellow and slightly slimy tongue fur and a surging, large and long pulse.

Answer 10

DAMP-W ARM AT THE QI ASPECT,HEAT STRONGER THAN DAMP

Question 11

Signs
These include fever, steaming, sweating, thirst, headache, body heaviness, fatigue, soreness of the limbs, chest oppression, abdominal distention, possibly rib-side pain, short and red urine, possibly swelling of the lower cheeks, sore throat, yellowness of the body and eyes and yellow and slimy tongue fur.

Answer 11

DAMP-WARM AT THE QI ASPECT,DAMP-HEAT CRITICAL PATTERN

Question 12

Signs
At the onset, there is aversion to cold, fever, scorching swelling of the head and eyes, swell- ing and pain of the throat, swelling in front of and behind the ears, swelling of the cheeks, true redness of the face, thirst and yellow tongue fur. In extreme cases, there also may be deafness.

Answer 12

WIND WARMTH SEASONAL TOXINS

Question 13

Signs
These include fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, headache, no sweating or slight sweating, thirst, yellow urine, a red tongue with yellow fur and a rapid pulse.

Answer 13

SIMULTANEOUS DISEASE OF DEFENSE AND QI

Question 14

Signs
These include severe fever at night, heart
vexation and sleeplessness; sometimes there is delirious speech, the appearance of maculopapular eruptions, no thirst, a crimson and dry tongue and a fine and rapid pulse.
fine and rapid pulse.

Answer 14

HEAT DAMAGING THE CONSTRUCTION YIN

Question 15

Signs
These include scorching fever, clouded spirit, delirious speech, possibly clouding with an inability to speak, a retracted tongue, reversion of the limbs, and a tongue body that is fresh crimson or crimson, dry and dusky, without spirit.

Answer 15

HEAT BLOCKING THE PERICARDIUM

Question 16

Signs
These include fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, headache, slight sweating, a dry mouth, no thirst, heart vexation and a crimson tongue without fur.

Answer 16

SIMULTANEOUS DISEASE OF THE DEFENSE AND CONSTRUCTION

Question 17

Signs
These include high fever, agitation, clear emergence of maculopapular eruptions, vomiting of blood, nosebleeds, blood in the stools, in the urine and in the sweat, and, in extreme cases, clouding mania and delirious speech, a deep crimson tongue and fine and rapid pulse.

Answer 17

BLOOD HEAT REPLETION PATTERNS

A. BLOOD LOSS

Question 18

Signs
These include hard fullness and pain in the lesser abdomen, uninhibited urination, consti- pation, a spirit-mind that is manic and chaotic, but sometimes clear, stasis macules on the tongue and a deep and replete pulse.

Answer 18

BLOOD HEAT REPLETION

B. BLOOD AMASSMENT

Question 19

Signs
SKIN MANIFESTATION IN THE SKIN ,LIVER WIND(TENDONS AND LIGAMENTS)
These include high fever, vexation and agitation, chest oppression, clear eruptions of macules and papules on the chest, abdomen and four limbs or over the entire body, a deep crimson tongue and a fine and rapid pulse.

Answer 19

BLOOD HEAT REPLETION

C. MACULES AND PAPULES

Question 20

Signs
These include vigorous fever, dizziness, distention and pain of the head, agitation of the hands and feet, in extreme cases clonic convulsions, mania, tetanic reversal, a crimson and dry tongue and a string-like, fine and rapid pulse.

Answer 20

BLOOD HEAT REPLETION

D. STIRRING LIVER WIND

Question 21

Signs
These include vigorous body fever, thirst, vexation and agitation, possibly maculopapular eruptions, in extreme cases vomiting of blood and nosebleeds, a crimson tongue with yellow fur and a rapid pulse.

Answer 21

BLOOD HEAT REPLETION

E. BLAZING OF BOTH QI AND BLOOD

Question 22

Signs
These include aversion to cold, fever, splitting headache, clouding and blurring of the eyes, possibly clouding mania and delirious speech, a dry mouth, a sore throat, vexing pain of the joints, lower back pain, possibly vomiting of blood or nosebleeds, possibly purple-maculopapular eruptions, prickles on the tongue, possibly tongue fur like slimy powder, a floating, large and rapid pulse, or a deep and rapid pulse, or deep, fine and rapid at the six pulses.

Answer 22

F. HEAT AT THE DEFENSE, QI, CONSTRUCTION AND BLOOD (HEAT IN ALL FOUR ASPECTS)

Question 23

Signs
These include body heat that is not severe but lingers and does not recede, with palms and soles hotter than the back of the hands and feet, a dry mouth and throat, possibly spirit fatigue, ringing in the ears, a crimson and dry, or dark purple and dry, tongue, and a vacuous and large, a bound, or a regularly interrupted, pulse.

Answer 23

2. YIN VACUITY

A. LIVER AND KIDNEY YIN DAMAGE

Question 24

Signs
These include deep heat and deep reversal, a dry tongue, black teeth, cracked lips, a deep, fine and rapid pulse, wriggling and stirring of the hands and feet, stirring of the heart and possibly tetanic reversal and a clouded spirit, a short tongue, vexation and agitation, possibly spirit fatigue or clonic convulsions, a vacuous pulse, a crimson tongue with little fur, and possibly desertion.

Answer 24

VACUITY WIND STIRRING INTERNALLY