External fever Chinese medicine identification is mainly based on the pediatric fever pattern. For example, the child cold and heat, fever, there is no chills, or mixed with a series of symptoms. Then corresponding changes in the pulse, fingerprint changes, to determine the cause of external fever. In addition, the nature of external fever should be determined by the combination of the time of the day and the season. In addition, the factors that cause external fever usually include wind-cold, wind-heat, summer-dampness, wind-dryness, and so on.