1 Cold syndrome
Cold syndrome refers to symptoms caused by yang asthenia or yin predomination due to invasion of cold pathogenic factors or various other factors. This syndrome is usually caused by internal exuberance of cold due to invasion of cold pathogenic factors or excessive intake of cold food, or by consumption of yangqi due to internal impairment and chronic disease. Cold syndrome may be further divided into external cold syndrome, internal cold syndrome, asthenic cold syndrome and sthenic cold syndrome according to the causes and location of pathological changes.
Clinical manifestations: The clinical manifestations vary with different types of cold syndromes. The usual ones are aversion to cold or aversion to cold with preference for warmth, cold limbs and huddling up in sleeping,pale or light colored complexion, moist mouth without thirst, thin sputum, saliva and snivel, clear and profuse urine, loose stool, light colored tongue with whitish moist and slippery fur, slow or tense pulse.
Analysis of symptoms: Attack by pathogenic cold and stagnation of yangqi or insufficiency of yangqi to warm the body lead to aversion to cold or aversion to cold with preference for warmth, cold limbs, huddling up in sleeping,light colored or pale complexion exuberant internal cold and non-consumption of body fluid account for moist mouth without thirst; failure of asthenic yang to warm and transform fluid leads to clear sputum, snivel, saliva and urine~ encumbrance of the spleen by pathogenic cold or asthenia of splenic yang causes loose stool. Light colored tongue with whitish slippery and moist fur and slow or tense pulse are the signs of yang asthenia and internal predominance of yin cold.
