三焦辨证 Triple Burner Wen Bing Patterns

Question 1

Severe aversion to cold, mild fever or absence of fever, a heavy sensation in the head as if it were tightly wrapped by a cloth, heaviness of the limbs and trunk, a stifling sensation in the chest, absence of thirst, dull facial expression, epigastric fullness and distension, poor appetite, borborygmus, loose stools
T: white, sticky tongue coating P: soft, slowing-down pulse

Answer 1

CAM: Damp Heat in Upper Jiao

Question 2

Heat indistinct at first touch but becomes pronounced after being felt for a rather long time; or fever which recurs after reduced by sweating; or fever which is more pronounced in the afternoon, heaviness of the limbs and trunk, distension and fullness in the chest and epigastrium, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, thirst with desire to drink only a little, scanty and deep-yellow urine, loose but hesitant stools; and in severe cases, dull facial expression with few words said or mental cloudiness T: sticky white coating + yellow tinge P: soft, rapid pulse

Answer 2

CAM Damp Heat in Middle Jiao

Question 3

Retention of urine, thirst with desire to drink only a little, constipation, hardness and fullness in the lower abdomen T: sticky yellow or white coating P: Soft, rapid

Answer 3

CAM Damp Heat in Lower Jiao

Question 4

Fever, aversion to cold, headache, sore throat, slight sweating, runny nose with yellow discharge, swollen tonsils, body aches, slight thirst T: Red in the front or sides with a thin white coating P: Floating-Rapid pulse

Answer 4

FCM Wind Heat in LU Wei level

Question 5

Fever, sweating, cough, breathlessness, thirst, feeling of oppression and pain of the chest T: Red tongue with yellow coating, P: rapid, overflowing

Answer 5

FCM LU heat Qi level

Question 6

High fever at night, a burning sensation of the epigastrium, cold limbs, delirium, aphasia T: Deep-red and Stiff tongue without coating
P: Fine and Rapid

Answer 6

FCM Heat in PC Ying Level

Question 7

High fever that is worse in the afternoon, no aversion to cold, feeling of heat, intense thirst , profuse sweating T: Red with Yellow Coating P: Overflowing, rapid.

Answer 7

FCM Heat in Yang Ming

Question 8

Fever, epigastric fullness, a feeling of heaviness of the body and head, nausea, vomiting. T: Red tongue with sticky yellow coating. P: Soggy, Rapid

Answer 8

FCM Damp Heat in SP

Question 9

Fever in the afternoon and evening, five palm heat, dry mouth and throat, night sweating, deafness, lassitude T: deep red without coat P: floating empty and rapid

Answer 9

FCM Heat in KD

Question 10

High fever at night, coma, convulsions, clenched teeth T: Deep red tongue without coating P: wiry, fine, rapid

Answer 10

FCM LV Heat Stirs Wind

Question 11

Low-grade fever, cold limbs, dry and black teeth, dry and cracked lips, convulsions, tremor of limbs T: Deep red without coating P: Deep, Fine, Rapid

Answer 11

FCM LV Empty WInd