《伤寒论》

The pattern of Tai Yang disease is characterized by a floating pulse, stiff and painful head and neck, and aversion to cold.

When a Tai Yang disease presents with headache, fever, generalized body and lumbar pain, aching joints, aversion to wind, absence of sweating, and panting, Ma Huang Tang governs.

When after five or six days of Cold Damage or wind strike the patient presents with alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-sides, silent withdrawal with no desire to eat or drink, vexation of the heart with a tendency to retch — or any of the attendant variations: vexation in the chest without retching, thirst, abdominal pain, glomus and hardness below the rib-side, palpitations below the heart with inhibited urination, absence of thirst with slight generalized heat, or cough — Xiao Chai Hu Tang governs.

It was asked: What are the outward signs of Yang Ming disease? The reply: generalized heat, spontaneous sweating, and absence of aversion to cold — with aversion to heat instead.

The pattern of Shao Yang disease is characterized by a bitter taste in the mouth, dryness of the throat, and dizziness of the eyes.

The pattern of Shao Yin disease is characterized by a faint and fine pulse and a patient who only wishes to sleep.

The pattern of Jue Yin disease is characterized by wasting thirst, qi surging upward to assault the heart, pain and burning in the heart region, hunger without desire to eat, vomiting of roundworms upon eating, and — if erroneously purged — incessant diarrhea.