✵The Summer-heat affliction is a general term for various conditions cause by summer-heat, especially for mild cases of heatstroke and sunstroke.
✵Herbalist Zhang Zhongjing defined the Summer-heat affliction in 11 syndromes. These 11 syndromes are all defined in details by his famous works.
Summer-heat affliction (Shāng Shǔ).
[entry-01]. Summer-heat affliction, the lungs are affected first, the lungs are the Qì Fǔ (Qi-Fu viscera), the summer heat pathogen hurt the Yuán Qì (the original Qi), the cunkou pulse is weak, thirsty, sweating, loss of conscious (coma), short breath...
[entry-02]. Summer-heat affliction, fever, sweating, thirst, the pulse is floating and large, known as Zhòng Yē (heat stroke)...
[entry-03]. Summer-heat affliction, perspired yet, fever, dysphoria (fidgets, irritation), hoarseness (hoarse voice), contrary (to expectations), the pulse is floating and rapid, this is the Fèi Yè Shāng (lung-liquid affliction), ...
[entry-04]. Summer-heat affliction, pathogenic water (edema) stagnating under the heart (in the epigastrium), perspiring, cough, thirst and wants to drink water, immediate vomiting of ingested water, the pulse is weak and slippery, ...
[entry-05]. Summer-heat affliction, fever, adiaphoresis (no perspiration), for the reason that the pathogenetic water flows in the skin, the pulse is surely floating and slippery, ...
[entry-06]. Taiyang Zhòng Rè (Taiyang summer-heat affliction), is the syndrome of Yē (heat stroke), the patient perspiring, aversion to cold, bodily heat (general fever) and thirst, ...
[entry-07]. Taiyang Zhòng Rè (Taiyang summer-heat affliction), bodily heat (general fever), pain and heaviness, contrary (to expectations), the pulse is faint and weak, for the reason that hurt by cold water in months of summer, pathogenic water flows in the skin, ...
[entry-08]. Summer-heat affliction, uneasy in sleeping at night (insomnia, sleeplessness), dysphoria (fidgets, irritation), delirious speech (wild talks), red tongue (tongue is red), the pulse is rapid, this is the syndrome that the summer pathogen (summer heat pathogen) disturbing the heart, ...
[entry-09]. Taiyang Zhòng Rè (Taiyang summer-heat affliction), fever, aversion to cold, somatic heaviness (heavy body) and bodily ache and pains (ache and pains of the body), the pulse is wiry, thready, hollow and slow, after urination, hairs standing, cold in hands and feet; a little overwork then fever, open mouth, front teeth are dry. If perspiration is induced, then aversion to cold (fear of cold) extremely; acupuncture with warmed needle is applied, then fever turns extreme; purgative method is applied several times, then dripping extremely, ...
[entry-10]. Summer-heat affliction, the pulse is weak, thirst, profuse sweating, dizziness, ...
[entry-11]. Summer-heat affliction, no cephalea (no headache), headache is due to wind, heaviness of the head is due to dampness.
References:
1.Summer-heat affliction: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 Summer-heat affliction is a general term for various conditions cause by summer-heat, especially for mild cases of heatstroke and sunstroke.
