General Exposition

Chapter Ⅰ　Concept of Warm Disease

Section 1　Definition of Warm Disease

Warm disease is a general term for all of exogenously acute, infectious and febrile diseases,excepting the cold-induced disease in a narrow sense. It is caused by invasion of warm pathogens,and marked chiefly with different degree of fever, accompanying the other heat symptoms, and easy impairment of Yin fluid and leading to dryness in the most cases pathologically.