Clinical Manifestations
High fever, feeling of heat, restlessness, thirst, vomiting after drinking, cough, breathlessness,
pain in the chest, coughing of profuse amounts of yellow-sticky sputum, a feeling of oppression
of the chest, nausea, dry stools, dark urine.
Tongue: Red with a sticky-yellow coating.
Pulse: Slippery and Rapid.
This pattern is similar to the previous one in so far as there is Lung-Heat but also Phlegm-Heat.
Treatment Principle
Clear Lung-Heat, resolve Phlegm, restore the descending of Lung-Qi and prevent injury of Yin.
Acupuncture
General Prescription
LU-5 Chize, LU-1 Zhongfu, ST-40 Fenglong, Ren-22 Tiantu, P-6 Neiguan, SP-6 Sanyinjiao,
Du-14 Dazhui. Reducing method except on SP-6 which should be reinforced.
Explanation
- LU-5 resolves Phlegm-Heat from the Lungs.
- LU-1 clears Lung-Heat.
- ST-40 resolves Phlegm.
- Ren-22 resolves Phlegm and stimulates the descending of Lung-Qi.
- P-6 opens the chest.
- SP-6 helps to clear Heat by nourishing Yin.
- Du-14 clears Heat and is used if there is a high fever.
Herbal Treatment