May combine with Damp to produce dizziness, heaviness in the head, stifling sensation in the chest, nausea, poor appetite, diarrhea, and general sluggishness. It refers to the mind, consciouness, the force of the personality, and the connection to the spiritual aspects of humanness. When Shen is disturbed or unstable symptoms arise such as insomnia, unclear or muddled thinking, poor memory, restlessness, hysteria, incoherent speech, delirium, mania. One of the six Pathogenic Factors. Internal or Endogenous Wind causes symptoms such as headaches, stiff neck, irritability, dizziness, fainting, high fever, delirium, coma, convulsions, tremors, tics, blurred vision, numbness, facial paralysis, wandering pains.
Pulse is tight and superficial.
Symptoms are similar to those above except with symptoms of Heat such as fever, yellow mucus, sore throat, swollen tonsils, thirst, sweating. Pulse is floating and rapid. Tongue is red on the tip or sides, with thin, white, or yellowish coating. Pulse is superficial and slippery. Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion.