Manifestations of Damp-Heat in the Upper Jiao

The clinical manifestations of Damp-Heat in the Upper Jiao are cold (fear of cold), mild fever, or no fever, or fever in the afternoon, heavy head, heavy limbs (limb weakness, fatigue), tightness in the chest, no sweating, dullness of consciousness, epigastric plumpness, dullness of the epigastric plumpness (lack of appetite, reduced food intake), mucus in the mouth and lack of thirst, or loose intestinal sounding stools (sparse and unshapely feces), white greasy fur of the tongue and a slow and moistened pulse. Damp-heat in the Upper Jiao is mainly due to the feeling of dampness, which is trapped in the muscle surface and caused by the internal spleen qi. Damp trapped in the muscle surface, Wei Yang (in the muscle surface of the yang) is depressed, so the cold is heavy and no sweat; Damp heat vaporization, so the afternoon fever; Damp trapped in the upper, the head is heavy as a wrap; Damp obstruction of the muscle surface, then the limbs heavy; Damp curbing thoracic yang, the qi is not smooth (the human body gas does not run smoothly), so the chest is stuffy. Dampness obscures the clear yang, so the spirit is dull; dampness is full of fluid, so the mouth is sticky and not thirsty; dampness is trapped in the spleen and stomach (dampness stays in the spleen and stomach), acceptance (acceptance of containment), transportation and transformation is not normal, so the chest plumps and stagnation, intestinal tinnitus and loose stools; dampness and turbidity are not very hot, so the tongue is white and greasy, the pulse is moist and slow. Clinical manifestations of dampness-heat in the upper Jiao are recommended to seek medical advice from a Chinese medicine practitioner for diagnosis and treatment.