Wind Patterns & Symptoms

Question 1

Clinical manifestation of Wind

Answer 1

Rapid onset and changes in symptoms.
Symptoms move from place to place.
Tremors, convulsions, stiffness, paralysis, numbness, tingling, itching.
Affects top part of body, skin.
Lungs (external), Liver (internal).

Question 2

Wind-Cold symptoms

Answer 2

Aversion to cold, sneezing, cough, runny nose with white watery mucus fever, severe occipital stiffness and ache, absence of sweating, lack of thirst, Floating-Tight pulse, tongue body colour unchanged, thin white coating.

Question 3

Wind-Heat symptoms

Answer 3

Aversion to cold, fever, sneezing, cough, runny nose with slightly yellow mucus, occipital stiffness and ache, slight sweating, itchy throat, sore throat, swollen tonsils, thirst, floating-rapid pulse, tongue body colour red on the tip or sides, thin white coating

Question 4

Wind-Dampness

Answer 4

Aversion to cold, fever, swollen neck glands, nausea, sweating, octal stiffness, body aches, muscle ache, a feeling of heaviness of the body, swollen joints, floating slippery pulse

Question 5

Wind-Dryness

Answer 5

Slight aversion to cold, fever, slight sweating, dry skin, nose, mouth and throat, dry cough, sore throat, dry tongue with white thin coating, floating rapid pulse

Question 6

Wind-Water

Answer 6

Aversion to cold, fever, oedema, especially on the face, swollen face and eyes, cough with profuse white and watery mucus, sweating, like a thirst, floating pulse

Question 7

Invasion of wind

Answer 7

Channels of the face: peripheral facial paralysis, Bell’s palsy. Stomach and large intestine main channels. If numbness, affects only the connecting channels of the face.

Painful obstruction syndrome: when external wind invades the channels and settles in the joints.

Affliction of the liver channel by external wind: stiff neck (also affects the gallbladder channel). Aggravates condition of liver yang rising and needs to headache and migraines.

Wind in the skin: intense generalised itching, skin rashes appearing suddenly and spreading rapidly, small red papules in top part of body.

Question 8

Internal wind

Answer 8

Tremors, ticks, severe dizziness, vertigo and numbness. In severe cases: convulsions, unconsciousness, opisthotonus, hemiplegia and deviation of the mouth.

Patterns: extreme heat (febrile disease), liver Yang rising, liver fire, liver blood or liver yin deficiency.

Question 9

How does Liver-Wind arise?

Answer 9

Extreme heat: when heat enters the blood portion and generates wind. High fever, delirium, convulsion, coma and opisthotonos. Frequently seen in meningitis due to wind in the liver and heat in the pericardium.

Liver Yang rising: severe dizziness, vertigo, headache, tremors, ticks and irritability.

Liver fire

Deficiency of liver blood or liver yin or both: deficiency of blood creating an empty space within the blood vessels, which is taken up by interior wind. Numbness, dizziness, blurred vision, ticks and slight tremors.