Full-Heat type: acute gastroenteritis or hepatitis
Symptoms
- Sensation of heat, fever
- Dull headache with sensation of heaviness in head
- Yellow complexion (mandarin peel), jaundice, yellow sclera
- Itching of skin or skin eruption
- Sensation of pain and oppression of epigastrium or abdomen
- Poor appetite
- Sensation of heaviness
- Thirst without desire to drink
- Bitter and dry mouth
- Nausea, vomiting
- Pasty stools with foul-smelling odor
- Burning sensation in anus
- Dark and scanty urine
- Sticky sweating
- Red tongue with yellow and viscous, thick coating
- Slippery and rapid pulse
Causes
- Invasion of external Damp-Heat (summer)
- Excess consumption of quantity, pungent, alcohol, fats, dairy products. Food poisoning.
- Spleen-Qi deficiency that transforms dampness into Phlegm, heat
Treatment
Eliminate dampness and heat: CV-12 (Mu of ST, meeting Fu, liberates center restores Qi of Middle Burner; ST-36; CV-9; CV-3; ST-25; SP-9;