Six Stages

Question 1

Slight aversion to cold, aversion to wind, slight fever, slight sweating, headache, stiff neck, sneezing, floating slow pulse

Answer 1

Tai yang channel pattern- Invasion of wind-cold (attack of wind)

Question 2

Aversion to cold, slight fever, no sweating, headache, stiff neck, sneezing, runny nose with white discharge, breathlessness, floating tight pulse

Answer 2

Tai yang channel pattern-Invasion of wind-cold with prevalence of cold, (attack of cold)

Question 3

Aversion to cold, fever, retention of urine, slight thirst, vomiting of fluids soon after drinking, floating, rapid pulse

Answer 3

Tai yang organ pattern- accumulation of water

Question 4

Hypogastric distention, fullness and urgency, blood in urine, mental restlessness, reddish purple tongue without coating, deep fine rapid or deep choppy pulse

Answer 4

Tai yang organ pattern- accumulation of blood

Question 5

Big thirst, big sweating, big fever, big pulse,

Answer 5

Yang Ming channel pattern

Question 6

High fever worse in afternoon, profuse sweating, sweating on the limbs, abdominal fullness, distention and hardness that doesn’t like pressure, constipation, dry stools, thirst, dark urine, red tongue with thick dry yellow coating and deep full slippery rapid pulse

Answer 6

Yang Ming organ pattern

Question 7

Alternating chills and fever, bitter taste, dry throat, fullness in the chest and rib side, no desire to eat or drink, retching, bitter taste in the mouth, blurred vision and vomiting, unilateral thin white coating, wiry, fine pulse

Answer 7

Shao Yang (Lesser yang)

Question 8

Abdominal fullness, a feeling of cold, vomiting, lack of appetite, diarrhea, absence of thirst, tiredness, pale tongue with sticky white coating and deep-weak, slow pulse

Answer 8

Tai Yin (Greater Yin)

Question 9

Chills, aversion to cold, generally there is no fever cuddled up in a ball lying prone, tiredness, cold limbs, diarrhea, no thirst or desire for warm drinks, frequent pale urination, pale-wet tongue, deep-weak, slow pulse

Answer 9

Shao Yin (Lesser Yin) cold syndrome

Question 10

Feeling of heat, irritability, insomnia, dry throat and mouth that is worse at night, dark urine, night sweating, red tongue without coating, fine-rapid pulse

Answer 10

Shao Yin Heat syndrome

Question 11

Upper body heat, lower body cold, hunger with no desire to eat, vomiting roundworms, burning sensation in the chest

Answer 11

Jue Yin (Terminal Yin)