Liver fire

Also intense liver fire. A fire pattern developing from excesses of the seven affects, liver yáng transforming into fire, or heat or damp-heat brewing in the liver channel. Liver fire is characterized by red facial complexion, red eyes, dizziness, bitter taste in the mouth, impatience, agitation, and irascibility, red tongue margins, and rapid stringlike pulse. When the upper body signs are pronounced, as is usually the case, it is called liver fire flaming upward.