Summer Heat

Summer Heat TCM Pattern Connections

Below you will find various relationships to the concept of and potential approaches for summer heat.

Content Related to Summer Heat

Summer Heat is one of many possible underlying factors from a TCM perspective for health issues such as .

The above issues are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of issues intermixed from a variety of causal patterns in TCM terms. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

General TCM Diagnostic Signs

Tongue: Red.
Pulse: Rapid, Empty.

Treatment approaches are often akin to unravelling an onion, with the goal of resolving the root factor involved in the constellation of resulting issues. The current and historical array of issues and signs must be taken into consideration as well as the timing of the onset of each individual aspect.

• View LI 11 (Pool at the Bend)
  
      At the lateral end of the transverse cubital crease midway between LU 5 and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.
  
      Reduction of high fevers, patients with the 4 bigs, combine with LI 1, LI 2 or LI 4. Damp Heat skin diseases, red, itchy, oozing & inflamed (hives, herpes zoster, acne), may be used with UB 40 for any skin disease. ST Excess Issues, …
• View UB 40 (Bend Middle)
  
      Midpoint of the transverse crease of the popliteal fossa, between the tendons of biceps femoris and semitendinosis.
  
      As the Lumbar Command Point, useful for all lumbar related issues: acute low back pain, sprain, muscle spasms, etc. Main point for heat conditions such as summer heat, heatstroke and heat exhaustion.  Nightsweats in some cases from defici…