✵Dryness and fire syndromes: This classification of diseases mainly introduces diseases and syndromes related to pathogenic dryness and fire. These include dryness diseases, consumptive thirst syndromes, as well as fire diseases, and so on.
Dryness diseases: The dryness syndrome is a kind of syndrome that causes the exhaustion of body fluid, insufficiency and lacking of blood, and the obstruction of Qi and blood, and a person feels dryness of body; It is also known as zào zhèng (dryness disease or dryness syndrome) or shāng zào zhèng (hurting from dryness syndrome).
Consumptive Thirst (Wasting Thirst) syndromes
Consumptive thirst (Wasting thirst): The consumptive thirst is also known as wasting thirst or Xiao Ke; its main symptoms are frequent drinking and urination. The consumptive thirst or wasting thirst is mainly caused by eating and drinking without temperance (a lack of self-control in eating and drinking), alcohol addiction, consumption, and intemperate sexual intercourse.
Fire diseases
Fire diseases: Fire disease or fire syndrome, also known as huǒ zhèng (fire syndrome), are diseases caused by the harm and injury from the ministerial fire. Fire as a pathogenic factor is known as pathogenic fire (huǒ xié). This article introduces various types of fire diseases.