✵The Febrile disease is a general term for (1).Disease due to exogenous pathogenic factors with fever as its main manifestation;(2).one of the cold-induced diseases;(3).febrile disease caused by summer heat.
Febrile disease (Rè Bìng): disease due to exogenous pathogenic factors with fever as its main manifestation. According to Zhongjing's works, it is introduced:
Febrile disease (Rè Bìng): Among Taiyang diseases, febrile, is the Yē syndrome, sweating and aversion to cold, fever and thirst. Zhongjing defined it as Yē syndrome.
✵Herbalist Zhang Zhongjing defined the Febrile disease and its syndromes in details by his famous works.
Febrile disease (Rè Bìng).
[entry-01]. Febrile disease, there are types caused by exogenous pathogens, and types caused by endogenous pathogens. Those syndromes due to exogenous pathogens could be dispelled, those syndromes caused by endogenous pathogens has certain locations, not follows the order of channels, host at where it enters, similar to the warm disease, but are different from the pathogenic reason.
[entry-02]. Febrile disease, red face, rotton mouth, heartache (pain in the heart), wants to vomit, the pulse is surging and rapid, this is the syndrome that heat pathogen (Rè Xié:pathogenic heat) disturbing the heart.
[entry-03]. Febrile disease, general fever (heat of the body), pain in the left hypochondrium, insane babbling (delirious speech, wild talks) in severe condition, the pulse is wiry and rapid, this is the syndrome that heat pathogen (Rè Xié:pathogenic heat) subujgating the liver.
[entry-04]. Febrile disease, abdominal pain (pain in the abdomen), could not press down, heavy body (somatic heaviness), could not pitch, constipated (difficult defecation), the pulse is rapid and large, this is the syndrome that heat pathogen (Rè Xié:pathogenic heat) subujgating the spleen.
[entry-05]. Febrile disease, thirst, asthma (pant for breath), cough, dragging pain in the chest, hard to breathe from its depths, the pulse is short and rapid, this is the syndrome that heat pathogen (Rè Xié:pathogenic heat) subujgating the lung.
[entry-06]. Febrile disease, dryness in pharynx (dry throat), lumbago (low back pain), heat on the underside of the feet (heat in the planta pedis), the pulse is sunken and rapid, this is the syndrome that heat pathogen (Rè Xié:pathogenic heat) transmit to kidneys.
References:
1.Febrile disease:an introduction.
2.Shang Han Za Bing Lun:the Treatise on Cold-induced and Miscellaneous Diseases.By Zhāng Zhòngjǐng.
3.Shang Han Lun:the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases.By Wáng Shūhé.
4.Zhong Jing Quan Shu:the Complete Book of Zhongjing.By Zhào Kāiměi.
✵The Febrile disease is a general term for (1).Disease due to exogenous pathogenic factors with fever as its main manifestation;(2).one of the cold-induced diseases;(3).febrile disease caused by summer heat.
