Latent qì warm disease

Any warm disease attributable to external evil that has lain latent and brewed in the interior for some time or internal heat that is made to emerge by a new contraction. Plain Questions (素问 sù wèn, yīn yáng yìng xiàng dà lùn) mentions such diseases in the following terms: Damage by cold in winter inevitably gives rise to warm disease in the spring. Latent qì warm disease differs from exterior patterns of initial contractions in that they are associated with pronounced signs of internal heat or transformation into dryness and scorching of yīn, and manifest as qì or blood aspect patterns. Signs include a fine rapid pulse or a sunken rapid agitated pulse, a thick slimy tongue fur, or a red tongue without fur, reddish urine, thirst, and heat effusion.

Medicinal therapy: Clear interior heat, paying attention to the need to safeguard the fluids. See warm disease; spring warmth; warm malaria; late emergence.