It is the first inner layer in the diagnosis of the four layers.
Very rare in clinical practice. The pathogenic factor Heat has already penetrated into the deepest part of the body and begins to consume Body Fluids Yin. It also begins to disturb the central neurological system (meningitis, ...).
The symptoms especially affect Pericardium and Heart.
Symptoms
- High fever
- Mental restlessness (verbal delirium, insomnia, ...)
- Fever rises at night
- Skin rashes (skin eruptions)
- Bleeding (nosebleed, etc.)
- Headache
- Dark red tongue
- Pulse: rapid and fine
- Shen agitated by heat and consumption of yin
Treatment
Herbal therapy (Qing Ying Tan - formula for cooling): very long formula of herbs...
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