Blood-aspect pattern

Any warm disease pattern arising when an evil enters the blood aspect. Signs include a deep crimson tongue coloring and signs of frenetic movement of the blood such as bleeding and purple maculopapular eruptions. The tongue may, in addition to being crimson, be bare and smooth like a mirror, indicating damage to yīn and fluid desertion. Such a condition may include signs of vacuity stirring internal wind such as convulsions of the limbs or tetanic reversal. These latter signs are nevertheless differentiated from the tetanic reversal and convulsions associated with extreme heat engendering wind. The accent in blood-aspect patterns may be on repletion signs such as frenetic blood movement; or it may be on vacuity of right with a lodged evil, where signs such as desiccated tongue and teeth, dry pharynx and mouth, heart vexation, and a rapid fine pulse indicate that although the heat has abated, the evil is still present and yīn humor is severely damaged.

Treatment: See cooling the blood.