Complex Syndromes

Question 1

True cold/false heat

Answer 1

Red cheeks-looks like powder-rest of face is white, irritability, listlessness, desire to lie down with body curled up
Quiet breathing/voice
Thirst but no desire to drink, or prefer warm drinks, body feels hot-dislike being covered, sore throat but no redness or swelling, pale urine
T-pale and wet
P-rapid superficial, floating and big but empty

Question 2

True heat/false cold

Answer 2

Dark face, bright eyes with spirit, red dry lips, irritability, strong body, cold limbs
Loud breathing/voice
Thirst with desire to drink-cold fluids, scanty dark urine, constipation, burning anus
Cold limbs but hot chest
T-red and dry
P-deep, excess

Question 3

Cold exterior/heat interior

Answer 3

Pre-existing condition of interior heat, subsequent invasion of exterior W-C
Dormant heat combining with new invasion of W-C
Fever with aversion to cold, no sweating, HA, stiff neck, irritability, thirst
P-fine, rapid

Question 4

Heat exterior/cold interior

Answer 4

Pre-existing cold condition with subsequent invasion by exterior W-H
Fever, aversion to cold, sore throat, thirst, HA, loose stools, chilliness, profuse-pale urine
P-floating, rapid

Question 5

Heat above, cold below

Answer 5

Thirst, irritability, sour regurgitation, bitter taste, mouth ulcers
Loose stools, borborygmi, profuse pale urine
(Heat above diaphragm, cold in ST/LI

Question 6

Yin collapse

Answer 6

Sweat-sticky/abundant, feverish body, warm hands/feet, SOB, irritability, restless, thirst prefer cold
T-red dry
P-thready, rapid, weak, floating-empty

Question 7

Yang collapse

Answer 7

Sweat-oily/profuse/like pearls, coolness of body, cold hands/feet, feeble breathing, listlessness, absence of thirst, prefer hot drink
T- pale, moist
P-thready, minute, fading, deep