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Any disease pattern that indicates disease of the interior.

1. Any disease of the internal organs, in contradistinction to externally contracted febrile disease, e.g., liver disease characterized by dizziness, rib-side pain; heart disease characterized by heart palpitation or fearful throbbing; spleen disease characterized by abdominal distension and diarrhea; and kidney disease characterized by lumbar pain and seminal emission.
2. In externally contracted febrile disease, an interior pattern arises when an evil that has caused an exterior pattern passes into the interior. Rarely, external evils may strike the interior directly; in most cases, they pass through the exterior. Hence febrile disease interior patterns are identified when aversion to wind or cold—which may or may not be accompanied by heat effusion or sweating—gives way to high fever or tidal heat, vexation and agitation, thirst, clouded spirit, abdominal pain or distension, diarrhea or constipation, short voidings of reddish urine or inhibited urination, dry yellow tongue fur, and a rapid sunken pulse.

See also interior cold; interior heat; interior repletion; interior vacuity.

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