WEI LEVEL WIND-HEAT Fever, aversion to cold, headache, sore throat, slight sweating, runny nose with yellow discharge, swollen tonsils, body aches, slight thirst, tongue red in the front or sides with thin white coat, floating-rapid pulse. LI4, LI11, SJ5, DU14, UB12 (+cupping), LU11 Yin Qiao San
Sang Ju Yin
WEI LEVEL SUMMER-HEAT Fever, aversion to cold, sweating, headache, a feeling of heaviness, an uncomfortable sensation in the epigastrium, irritability, thirst, tongue red in the front or sides with a white sticky coating, soggy or rapid pulse. LI4, LI11, SJ5, DU14, DU26, UB40, PC9 Qing Luo Yin
WEI LEVEL DAMP-HEAT Fever that is worse in the afternoon, body that is hot to touch, aversion to cold, swollen glands, headache, a feeling of heaviness, a feeling of oppression of the epigastrium, sticky taste, thirst but no desire to drink, sticky white tongue coating, soggy pulse. LI4, LI11, SP9, SP6, REN12, REN9 Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San
WEI LEVEL DRY-HEAT Fever, slight aversion to cold, slight sweating, dry skin, nose, mouth, and throat, dry cough, sore throat, dry tongue with thin white coating, floating-rapid pulse. LI4, LI11, SJ5, SP6, LU9, REN12, ST36 Xing Su San
Sang Xing Tang
QI LEVEL LUNG HEAT High fever, a feeling of heat, no aversion to cold, thirst, cough with thin yellow sputum, shortness of breath, sweating, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery-rapid pulse. LU5, LU10, DU14, LI11, LU1, UB13 Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
Xie Bai San
Qing Qi Hua Tan Tan
Wu Hu Tang
QI LEVEL STOMACH HEAT High fever that is worse in the afternoon, no aversion to cold, a feeling of heat, intense thirst, profuse sweating, red tongue with yellow coating, overflowing-rapid pulse. ST44, ST34, ST21, ST43, LI11, ST25 Bai Hu Tang
QI LEVEL INTESTINE DRY-HEAT High fever that is higher in the afternoon, constipation, dry stools, burning in the anus, abdominal fullness and pain, irritability, delirium, red tongue with thick yellow dry coating, deep-full-rapid pulse. LI11, ST25, SP15, ST37, ST39 Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang
QI LEVEL GALLBLADDER HEAT Alternating hot and cold feeling with a prevalence of heat, a bitter taste, thirst, dry throat, hypochondrial pain, nausea, a feeling of fullness in the epigastrium, red tongue with unilateral sticky yellow coating, wiry-rapid pulse. GB34, GB43, SJ6, SJ5 Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang
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