4 Levels

Question 1

Wind heat

Answer 1

Defensive Qi level

Question 2

Summer-heat

Answer 2

Defensive Qi level

Question 3

Damp-heat

Answer 3

Defensive Qi level

Question 4

Dry-heat

Answer 4

Defensive Qi level

Question 5

Lung-heat

Answer 5

Qi level

Question 6

Stomach-heat

Answer 6

Qi level

Question 7

Intestines Dry-heat

Answer 7

Qi level

Question 8

Gall Bladder-heat

Answer 8

Qi level

Question 9

Damp-heat in Stomach/Spleen

Answer 9

Qi level

Question 10

Heat in Pericardium

Answer 10

Nutritive Qi level

Question 11

Heat victorious moving blood

Answer 11

Blood (Xue) level

Question 12

Empty victorious stirring Wind

Answer 12

Blood (Xue) level

Question 13

Empty Wind in the Interior

Answer 13

Blood (Xue) level

Question 14

Collapse of Yin

Answer 14

Blood (Xue) level

Question 15

Collapse of Yang

Answer 15

Blood (Xue) level

Question 16

Fever, slight aversion to cold, headache, red sore throat, no sweating or slight sweating, runny nose with yellow discharge, swollen tonsils, body aches, slight thirst, tongue is red in the front and/or sides with a thin white coating, floating-rapid pulse.

Answer 16

Wind heat (Defensive Qi level)

Question 17

Fever, aversion to cold, sweating, headache, feeling of heaviness and discomfort in the epigastrium, fatigue, irritability, thirst, red tongue in the front and sides, white sticky tongue coating, soggy-rapid pulse.

Answer 17

Summer heat (Defensive Qi level)

Question 18

Fever that is worse in the afternoon, body that is hot to the touch, aversion to cold, swollen glands, headache, feeling of heaviness, feeling of oppression in the epigastrium, sticky taste, thirst with no desire to drink, sticky white tongue coating, soggy pulse.

Answer 18

Damp heat (Defensive Qi level)

Question 19

Fever, slight aversion to cold, slight sweating, dry skin, nose, mouth and throat, dry cough, sore throat, dry tongue with thin white coating, floating-rapid pulse, etc.

Answer 19

Dry heat (Defensive Qi level)

Question 20

High fever, feeling of heat, no aversion to cold, thirst, cough with thin yellow sputum, shortness of breath, sweating, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery-rapid pulse.

Answer 20

Lung heat (Qi level)

Question 21

High fever that is worse in the afternoon, no aversion to cold, feeling of heat, intense thirst, profuse sweating, red tongue with yellow coating, overflowing-rapid pulse (4 Bigs)

Answer 21

Stomach heat (Qi level)

Question 22

High fever that is higher in the afternoon, constipation, dry stools, burning in the anus, abdominal fullness and pain, irritability, delirium, red tongue with thick yellow dry coating, Deep-full-rapid pulse.

Answer 22

Intestines Dry-heat (Qi level)

Question 23

Alternating hot and cold feeling with a prevalence of heat, bitter taste, thirst, dry throat, hypochondrial pain, nausea, a feeling of fullness in the epigastrium, red tongue with unilateral sticky yellow coating, Wiry-Rapid pulse.

Answer 23

Gallbladder heat (Qi level)

Question 24

Continuous fever that decreases after sweating but soon increases again, feeling of heaviness of the body and head, feeling of oppression of the chest and epigastrium, nausea, loose stools, thirst without desire to drink, red tongue with sticky yellow tongue coating, Soggy-rapid pulse.

Answer 24

Damp heat in the stomach and spleen (Qi level)

Question 25

Fever at night, dry mouth but with no desire to drink, mental restlessness, insomnia, delirium, incoherent speech or aphasia, macules, red tongue without coating, Fine-Rapid pulse.

Answer 25

Heat in the Nutritive Qi level

Question 26

Fever at night, mental confusion, incoherent speech or aphasia, delirium, body heat, cold hands and feet, macules, possible coma, red tongue without coating, Fine-rapid pulse.

Answer 26

Heat in the Pericardium (Nutritive Qi level

Question 27

Yin deficiency, bleeding, delirium or coma, macules

Answer 27

Blood level (Xue)

Question 28

High fever, mental restlessness, manic behavior, dark macules, vomiting of blood, epistaxis, blood in the stools, blood in urine, dark red tongue without coating, Wiry-rapid pulse.

Answer 28

Heat victorious moving blood (Blood (Xue) level

Question 29

High fever, fainting, twitching of the limbs, convulsions, rigidity of the neck, opisthotonos, eyeballs turning up, clenching of the teeth, dark red tongue without coating, Wiry-rapid pulse.

Answer 29

Heat victorious Stirring Wind (Blood level)

Question 30

Low grade fever, tremor of the limbs, twitching, loss of weight, malar flush, listlessness, dark red tongue without coating, Dry-fine-rapid pulse.

Answer 30

Empty Wind agitating in the interior (Blood level)

Question 31

Low grade fever, night sweating, mental restlessness, dry mouth with desire to sip liquids, five palm heat, malar flush, emaciation, dark red and dry tongue with no coating, Fine-rapid pulse.

Answer 31

Collapse of Yin (Blood level)

Question 32

Feeling of cold, cold limbs, bright white complexion, profuse sweating on the forehead, listlessness, pale swollen and short tongue, Hidden-slow-scattered pulse.

Answer 32

Collapse of Yang (Blood level)