Febrile Disease and Cold-induced Disease according to Shang Han Lun.
✵Febrile Disease and Cold-induced Disease, or heat diseases of the six channels, with entries from the book Shang Han Lun (the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases) are introduced with its outlines and explains.
A brief introduction about the diseases from Shang Han Za Bing Lun (the Treatise on Cold-induced and Miscellaneous Diseases) by herbalist Zhāng Zhòngjǐng.
Warm disease (Wēn Bìng)
Warm disease:also known as seasonal febrile disease, acute externally contracted febrile disease caused by warm pathogens, clinically manifested chiefly as fever.
Summer-heat affliction (Shāng Shǔ)
Summer-heat affliction:a general term for various conditions cause by summer-heat, especially for mild cases of heatstroke and sunstroke.
Febrile disease (Rè Bìng)
Febrile disease:(1).Disease due to exogenous pathogenic factgors with fever as its main manifestation;(2).one of the cold-induced diseases;(3).febrile disease caused by summer heat.
Dampness disease (Shī Bìng)
Dampness disease:any disease caused by dampness, usually with symptoms such as distending pain and swelling of joints, heaviness sensation of the body, watery diarrhea, or edema.
Dryness disease (Shāng Zào)
Dryness disease:also known as dryness-induced disease, it is any disease caused by dryness pathogen, usually with symptoms fever with dry throat, dry cough, dry skin, and other symptoms of dryness.
Wind affection (Shāng Fēng)
Wind affection:(1).syndrome of Taiyang meridian affected by wind;(2).Common cold.
Cold disease (Hán Bìng)
Cold disease,also known as cold-induced disease, is a general term for various externally contracted febrile diseases; Sometimes it is only used for cold affection, a condition caused by cold, manifested as chills and fever, an absence of sweating, headache, floating and tense pulse.
Taiyang disease (Greater Yang syndrome)
Taiyang disease (Greater Yang syndrome): Disease (or syndrome) characterized by the attack of pathogenic wind-cold to the body surface and struggle between the normal and pathogenic factors at the exterior portion of the body.
Yangming disease (Yangming Syndromes)
Yangming disease (Yangming Syndromes): Syndrome marked by exuberant yang and dryness-heat in the stomach and intestines occuring in the course of cold-induced febrile disease.
Shaoyang disease (Lesser Yang Syndrome)
Shaoyang disease (Lesser Yang Syndrome):Disease or syndrome in which the pathogenic heat exists between the exterior and interior of the body, marked by alternate fever and chills, fullness and choking feeling in the chest and hypochondriac region, dry throat, and taut pulse..
Taiyin disease (Greater Yin Syndrome)
Taiyin disease (Greater Yin Syndrome):Disease or syndrome characterized by decline of spleen yang with production of cold-damp in the interior, and manifested by abdominal fullness and sometimes abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, anorexia, sunken and relaxed or weak pulse.
Shaoyin disease (Shaoyin Syndrome)
Shao Yin disease (Shaoyin Syndrome):Syndrome occuring at the late stage of a cold-induced disease marked by general decline of Yin and Yang..
Jueyin Disease (Reverting Yin Syndrome)
Jue Yin Disease (Reverting Yin Syndrome): One of the syndromes of the six meridians occuring at the late stage of a cold-induced disease characterized by interweaving of cold and heat or yin and yang, manifested by fever or a burning sensation in the epigastrium with cold limbs, hunger but no desire to eat.