Heat depression

A condition that arises when any persistent depression (damp depression, qì depression, etc.) transforms into heat, and that is characterized by clouded head and dizzy vision, thirst with desire for fluid, dry lips and tongue, yellow or reddish urine, and a rapid sunken pulse. Sometimes the flesh is scorching hot to the touch. Qì depression is the underlying cause of all of the six depressions and is attributed to constrained affect-mind causing depressed liver qì. Whatever other forms of depression liver qì depression causes, it can always transform into heat.

Medicinal therapy: Use Heat Depression Decoction (热郁汤 rè yù tāng).