A frozen shoulder is a good example. Summer heat Heart, this only occurs in the summer. It damages the yin and may progress to affect the level of consciousness. The symptoms are excessive body heat, profuse sweating, thirst, a dry mouth, dry red skin, and in severe cases, delirium. It may combine with wind and cause convulsion, combine with damp to produce dizziness, nausea, a stuffy sensation in chest and general malaise.
Diseases caused by damp are sticky, muddy, greasy and stagnant.
It causes a generalized heavy feeling associated with distention, dizziness and a heavy head, general malaise and a stuffy sensation in the chest, abdominal swelling and an exuding and prolonged skin disease. It consumes yin fluid. There may be a dry sore feeling in the nose, mouth and throat, a coarseness of the skin, a cough with scanty sputum and possible haemoptysis. Tuberculosis is an example. These represent the same pathogen, but at different intensities.