Poor appetite
SP Qi deficiency
Increased appetite
ST fire
Hunger with no desire to eat or eating small meals
ST yin deficiency
Lack of thirst
Cold
Thirst
Consumption of BFs due to heat OR
Accumulation of interior phlegm-damp preventing BF from ascending
Bitter taste
LV/GB fire
Sweet, sticky mouth
SP/ST damp-heat
Sour or acid regurgitation
LV/ST fire or retention of food
Tasteless in mouth
SP deficiency
Chills > fever
Exterior wind-cold
Fever > chills
Exterior wind-heat
Alternating chills and fever
Shaoyang intermediate junction between interior/exterior
Chills followed by interval high fever
Malaria
Persistent fever, no chills
Heat syndrome (excess); transmission to interior
Chills or aversion to cold, no fever
Cold syndrome (deficiency, Yang); interior
Afternoon/tidal fever
Yin deficiency with excess Yang
Feverish sensations in 5 centres
Yin deficiency
Exterior, absence of sweating
Wind-cold
Exterior, sweating
Wind-heat
Night sweats
Yin deficiency
Spontaneous sweating
Deficiency of Yang-Qi
Profuse sweating, high fever, mental restlessness, thirst for cold drinks
Heat in interior (excess)
Profuse sweating with listlessness, weak, cold limbs
Exhaustion/collapse of Yang-Qi