THIRST AND DRINK

THIRST AND DRINK

Chapter contents

ABSENCE OF THIRST

INCREASED SALIVATION

THIRST

Interrogation, Chapter 32

Stomach-Heat

Thirst with a desire to drink cold fluids, foul breath, sour regurgitation, burning epigastric pain, nausea, excessive hunger, a feeling of heat, Red tongue with a yellow coating, Overflowing-Rapid pulse.

Liver-Fire

Thirst, bitter taste, red face, dizziness, tinnitus, headache, irritability, propensity to outbursts of anger, constipation, dark urine, Red tongue with redder sides and dry yellow coating, Wiry-Rapid pulse.

Heart-Fire

Thirst, mouth and tongue ulcers, palpitations, mental restlessness, a feeling of agitation, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, a feeling of heat, red face, bitter taste, Red tongue with redder tip and yellow coating, Overflowing-Rapid pulse.

Damp-Heat in Stomach and Spleen

Thirst with no desire to drink, sticky taste, a feeling of fullness and pain of the epigastrium and lower abdomen, poor appetite, a feeling of heaviness, nausea, loose stools with offensive odour, a feeling of heat, dull-yellow complexion, Red tongue with sticky yellow coating, Slippery-Rapid pulse.

Damp-Heat in Liver and Gall-Bladder

Thirst, bitter taste, fullness/pain of the hypochondrium, abdomen or epigastrium, poor appetite, nausea, a feeling of heaviness of the body, yellow vaginal discharge, vaginal itching, mid-cycle bleeding/pain, burning on urination, dark urine, yellow complexion and eyes, vomiting, Red tongue with redder sides and unilateral or bilateral sticky yellow coating, Wiry-Slippery-Rapid pulse.

Phlegm-Heat in the Lungs

Thirst without desire to drink, barking cough with profuse, sticky yellow or green sputum, shortness of breath, wheezing, a feeling of oppression of the chest, a feeling of heat, insomnia, a feeling of agitation, Red and Swollen tongue with a sticky yellow coating, Slippery-Rapid pulse.

Heart-Yin deficiency with Empty-Heat

Thirst with desire to slip fluids that is more pronounced in the evening, dry mouth and throat, palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, poor memory, anxiety, propensity to be startled, mental restlessness, a feeling of heat in the evening, malar flush, night sweating, five-palm heat, Red tongue that is redder on the tip with no coating, Floating-Empty and Rapid pulse.

Stomach-Yin deficiency with Empty-Heat

Thirst with a desire to drink in small sips that is more pronounced in the evening, dry mouth and throat especially in the afternoon, dull or burning epigastric pain, a feeling of heat in the afternoon, constipation (dry stools), a feeling of hunger but no desire to eat, a slight feeling of fullness after eating, night sweating, five-palm heat, bleeding gums, Red tongue (or Red centre only) without coating in the centre, Floating-Empty and Rapid pulse.

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