A warm-heat disease occurring in the summer. Summerheat warmth is a highly varied condition whose basic traits are vigorous heat [effusion], spontaneous sweating, thirst, red facial complexion, scantness of breath, and a large left-wrist pulse.
Biomedical correspondence: epidemic encephalitis and similar diseases.
Medicinal therapy: Clear summerheat and discharge heat; boost qì and yīn; constrain fluids. Appropriate formulas include White Tiger Decoction (白虎汤bái hǔ tāng), White Tiger Decoction Plus Ginseng (白虎加人参汤bái hǔ jiā rén shēn tāng), Wáng’s Summerheat-Clearing Qì-Boosting Decoction (王氏清暑益气汤wáng shì qīng shǔ yì qì tāng), and Pulse-Engendering Variant Powder (加减生脉散jiā jiǎn shēng mài sǎn). If clouded spirit, convulsions, and arched-back rigidity are observed, the pattern is one of summerheat epilepsy.
Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on PC, LI, ST, GV, KI, and SP. Select PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān), LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend, 曲池 qū chí), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), GV-14 (Great Hammer, 大椎 dà zhuī), SI-3 (Back Ravine, 后溪 hòu xī), KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), KI-2 (Blazing Valley, 然谷 rán gǔ), KI-6 (Shining Sea, 照海 zhào hǎi), and SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo); needle with drainage. For extreme heat causing coma and convulsions see summerheat epilepsy.