Wind heat invading lung syndrome refers to the syndrome of the lung failing to disperse resulting from wind heat attacking the lung. This syndrome pertains to weifen syndrome in syndrome differentiation of wei, qi, ying and blood. It is often caused by invasion of wind heat into the lung.
 
Clinical manifestations:
Cough, yellowish thick sputum, stuffy nose with turbid snivel, fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, slight thirst, or sore-throat, reddish tongue tip, thin and yellowish tongue fur, floating and fast pulse, usually seen at the primary stage of various infectious diseases, such as upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, bronchitis, lung abscess, mumps, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, scarlet fever and measles, etc.

Analysis of symptoms:
Cough, yellowish thick sputum and stuffy nose with turbid snivel are due to wind heat attacking the lung, loss of depuration of the lung and adverse flow of pulmonary qi；sore-throat is due to wind heat disturbing the upper; slight aversion to wind and cold, slight thirst, reddish tongue tip, yellowish thin tongue fur and floating and fast pulse are due to wind heat attacking the superficies, stagnation of weiqi and consumption of body fluid by heat.

Key points for syndrome differentiation:
Cough, yellowish thick sputum, fever, slight aversion to wind and old, slight thirst and reddish tongue tip.