Clinical Patterns
This pattern features symptoms distributed across all three jiaos, including fever, chest oppression, epigastric fullness, and dark urine.
What is Damp-Heat Affecting the Three Jiaos (濕熱彌漫三焦證)?
This type of Sanjiao pattern results from warm pathogen invasion during hot, humid weather.
What is Damp-Heat Pattern?
Heaviness in limbs, greasy tongue coat, chest oppression, and yellow sputum suggest this pattern.
What is Damp-Heat in the Upper Jiao?
This Sanjiao pattern aligns with sepsis or viral infections involving multiple systems.
What is Damp-Heat Affecting the Three Jiaos?
This key symptom differentiates Damp-Heat in the Upper Jiao from Dry-Heat in the Upper Jiao.
What is productive (yellow) sputum vs. dry cough with no or blood-streaked sputum?
This upper jiao pattern includes dry cough, sore throat, and red dry tongue without sputum.
What is Dry-Heat in the Upper Jiao (上焦燥熱證)?
This upper jiao pattern arises when dry pathogens invade and consume Lung yin.
What is Dry-Heat in the Upper Jiao?
Dry mouth, dry cough, afternoon fever, and red tongue with no coating are characteristic of this.
What is Dry-Heat in the Upper Jiao?
Upper jiao damp-heat may present as this common respiratory illness.
What is bronchitis or pneumonia?
Both Middle Jiao damp-heat and heat accumulation cause GI upset. This symptom suggests Damp-Heat.
What is a greasy tongue coating and sticky/foul stool?
This middle jiao pattern presents with epigastric burning pain, dry stools, and a strong rapid pulse.
What is Heat Accumulating in the Middle Jiao (中焦積熱證)?
This pattern results from overconsumption of spicy, greasy food causing fire to accumulate in the GI tract.
What is Heat Accumulating in the Middle Jiao?
Bitter taste in mouth, sticky stool, poor appetite, and a slippery rapid pulse point to this.
What is Damp-Heat in the Middle Jiao?
Middle jiao damp-heat may correlate with this biliary condition.
What is cholecystitis?
Both Upper and Lower Jiao damp-heat patterns share fever. This symptom indicates Lower Jiao involvement.
What is burning urination or foul genital discharge?
A lower jiao pattern with fixed stabbing pain, irregular menstruation, and pelvic masses.
What is Stasis Obstructing the Lower Jiao (瘀阻下焦證)?
This lower jiao condition may result from chronic inflammation, emotional stress, or surgery.
What is Stasis Obstructing the Lower Jiao?
Dark, scanty urine, genital discharge, and abdominal heaviness occur in this jiao.
What is the Lower Jiao (下焦)?
The middle jiao heat accumulation pattern is analogous to this ulcer-related disorder.
What is peptic ulcer disease?
Both Stasis in the Lower Jiao and Damp-Heat may cause pelvic pain. This symptom suggests blood stasis.
What is fixed, stabbing pain worse at night with dark tongue?
This pattern presents with dark, painful urination, genital itching, and a red tongue with greasy yellow coat at the rear.
What is Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao (下焦濕熱證)?
This pathogen combination causes sluggish qi movement and sticky excretions.
What is Damp-Heat?
Fixed abdominal pain, menstrual clots, and palpable masses are hallmark signs of this pattern.
What is Blood Stasis in the Lower Jiao?
Stasis in the lower jiao can clinically resemble this gynecological condition.
What is endometriosis or uterine fibroids?
Middle Jiao heat accumulation and Yangming Fu Excess both have abdominal pain. This sign confirms Yangming Fu Excess.
What is constipation with abdominal fullness and resistance to pressure?