Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment
1. Warm Pathogenic Factor Attacking the Lung and Damaging Yin
Chief Manifestations: Sore throat, fever, cough without sputum, or blood-stained sputum, short breath, chest pain, rash, pruritus, emaciation, fatigue, night sweating, red dry tongue, thin and yellow coating and thready pulse.
Therapeutic Methods: To nourish yin, clear away heat, moisten the lung to promote fluid production.

2. Middle Energizer Deficiency with Heat Retention in the Stomach and Intestines
Chief Manifestations: Lingering fever, emaciation, short breath, lassitude of limbs, abdominal pain, diarrhea, yellow and thin stools sometimes with pus and blood, tensemus, nausea, vomiting, white and greasy tongue coating, and soft-superficial, thready pulse.
Therapeutic Methods: To replenish qi, invigorate the spleen, clean the intestines and dissipate dampness.

3. Excessive Heat and Phlegm Causing Coma
Chief Manifestations: Fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, coma or restlessness and delirium, stiff neck, convulsion, or dementia, or epileptoid seizure, yellow and greasy tongue coating, thready and rapid pulse or smooth and rapid pulse.
Therapeutical Methods: To clear away heart fire for resuscitation, cool the liver and stop wind.

4. Deficiency of Spleen Yang and Kidney Yang
Chief Manifestations: Fever or lingering low fever, emaciation, lassitude, palpitation, short breath, dizziness, soreness and pain of loins and knees, impaired appetite, nausea, frequent hiccup, frequent diarrhea or morning diarrhea, continuous abdominal pain, cold body and limbs, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, lusterless hair and complexion, pale nails, rash, pruritus, or thrush, deep thready pulse or thready rapid pulse, pale swollen tongue or with petechia, thin and white coating or with white patches.
Therapeutic Methods: To invigorate the spleen, lift lucid yang, warm the kidney and astringe the intestines.