Refers to the state and sensation of the body.
Cold
Person sensitive to cold. Feeling of cold, aversion to cold. The person wears many layers and seeks warmth. Pain is relieved by heat.
- Yang Deficiency
- Attack of Exterior Cold (chills are characteristic of an attack on the Tai Yang layer). Full-Cold.
Heat
- Full-Heat: High fever, feeling of heat, red face, thirst with desire to drink, profuse sweating, overflowing pulse. Heat in Yang Ming.
- Damp-Heat: worsens in the afternoon. With feeling of heaviness, abdominal distension, oppression of the chest. Greasy tongue coating. You touch the skin and notice nothing at first, but after a moment you feel it burning. Poor appetite. Sticky sweat.
- Heat from Yin deficiency: hot flushes, heat in 5 centres (palms of the hands, soles of the feet and sternum), red cheekbones. Night sweating. Restlessness. Worse in winter and at night.
- Low-grade fever: slight heat, temperature slightly elevated without reaching fever. Sensation of mild fever. The exterior has heat but the interior has cold. Preference for warm drinks. Weight loss, red cheekbones. Also characteristic of Yin deficiency.
- The exterior cold, interior heat: pallor, exhaustion, diarrhea, haemorrhage, pale lips. Related to Spleen-Qi deficiency or sinking of Central Qi. Liver not expanding.
Alternating Cold / Heat
Sometimes the patient feels very hot and sometimes very cold, with chills. Bitter mouth, dry throat, restlessness. Poor appetite. Palpitations. Anguish. Diarrhea or abdominal pain. Wiry pulse.
- Half-interior half-exterior. Pathogenic factor in Shao Yang.