Treatment Based on Syndrome Differentiation
1. Summer Heat Attack Syndrome
Main Symptoms   It occurs often in summer and autumn, mostly in children, and it can be accompanied by fever, thirst, constipation, and scanty urine, reddened tongue, thin, yellowish and greasy tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse.
Therapeutic Methods  Clear away summer heat, disperse dampness and dissolve toxins.

2.Heat-Toxin Accumulation Syndrome
Main Symptoms  It is mostly seen in the patients with original internal heat, characterized by furuncles over the whole body. Or, although few, furuncles, they can attack repeatedly and are not easy to be cured. There are remarkable general symptoms, such as fever, dry mouth, foul breath, thirst with preference for cold drink, constipation, scanty and brown urine, reddened tongue with yellowish coating and rapid pulse.
Therapeutic Methods Clear away heat and dissolve toxins.

3. Syndrome of Lingering Toxins due to Deficient Constitution
Main Symptoms   It is often seen in the patients with mole cricket furuncle, or in the patients due to original deficient constitution, characterized by repeated attack of furuncles and tumefaction, with thin pus and difficulty in healing the wound, accompanied by the general symptoms of sallow complexion, low spirit and lassitude, poor appetite, loose stool, pale tongue with thin and whitish coating, and soft pulse.
Therapeutic Methods  Strengthen the spleen, harmonize the stomach, clear away and disperse damp heat.

Cautions:
This disease is mostly seen in children and related to the invasion of summer heat and infection after scratch on heat rash. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid direct exposure to sunlight in summer and autumn and to take more chill drinks, in order to reduce occurrence of the disease. For the patients with furuncle, it is necessary to pay attention to recuperation by diet and not to be indulged in sweet and greasy food. After sickness, it is not advisable to press and squeeze the furuncle, in order to avoid dispersion of pathogenic toxins to cause other infection. If the middle-aged or old patients are sick with this problem, it is necessary to exclude possibility of accompanying seizure of diabetes, in order to avoid delaying treatment.