Exterior pattern. It is seasonal: more characteristic of autumn, with hot and dry air.

Symptoms

• Dry cough that may be without phlegm, with viscous phlegm difficult to expectorate or blood-tinged phlegm
• Dryness of mouth and nose
• Hoarse voice or loss of voice
• Chest pain
• Dry skin
• Slight fever or aversion to cold
• Red tongue with thin, yellow and dry coating
• Superficial and fine pulse or fine and rapid pulse.

Causes

1. Lung-Yin deficiency
2. Attack of wind-heat or Wind-Dryness

Treatment

Moisten (similar to Lung-Yin Deficiency)

• Follow order: LU-7; KI-6; BL-43: nourishes Yin;
• BL-13: nourishes Yin;
• Chronic cough, loss of voice: LU-10; LI-18;
• Throat: LU-11; LU-9; LU-7.
• Release the exterior: BL-12; GB-20; GV-14