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.
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