Pulse is empty, weak, or thready. Tongue is pale with a white coating. Pulse is deep and slow. Tongue coating is sticky and pulse is slippery. Tongue is pale.
Pulse is weak and empty especially in the Middle position of the right hand.
Pathogenic Summer Heat is caused by prolonged exposure to blazing sun on hot days or to a hot room with poor ventilation. Summer Heat consumes Qi and Yin and may disturb the mind. Symptoms include excessive sweating, thirst, shortness of breath, lassitude, concentrated urine, and in extreme cases, fever, restlessness, red dry skin, and delirium or coma. 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.