Summer-heat Evil
Summer-heat belongs to the element of fire and is predominant during the summer season. Major symptoms of summer-heat are excess body heat, profuse sweating, mouth and throat dryness, constipation, and heart palpitations. When summer-heat combines with dampness, it produces fatigue, limb weakness, abdominal pains, diarrhea, nausea and intestinal spasms.
Characteristics of the Summer-heat evil
- Summer-heat belongs to a yang evil, which is hot in nature with typical signs like a feverish body, irritability, a red face and thirst;
- Summer-heat evil is characterized by ascension and dispersal; it can consume qi (vital energy) and impair body fluid. Summer-heat damages usually present breath shortness, fatigue, limb weakness, thirst and scanty urine;
- The summer-heat evil often mingles with dampness evil.
