{
    "slug": "wind-heat",
    "name": "Wind-Heat",
    "pinyin": "Feng Re",
    "chinese": "风热",
    "organ": "Lung",
    "nature": "excess",
    "family": "wind",
    "summary": "A hot cold. It starts with a sore throat, a fever with only slight chills, a headache, thirst, and a cough, and the tongue tip is red. Wind-heat moves fast and goes for the throat and chest, so the formula is taken in the first day, not the third.",
    "picture": "Wind is the delivery truck and heat is the package. A wind-cold brings chills and a runny nose; a wind-heat brings a sore throat and a fever. Same truck, different cargo, opposite treatment.",
    "signs": {
        "key": [
            "Sore, red throat at the start",
            "Fever with slight or no chills",
            "Headache, thirst",
            "Cough, dry or with yellow phlegm",
            "A red tongue tip"
        ],
        "common": [
            "Swollen glands",
            "Yellow or thick nasal discharge",
            "Slight sweating",
            "Red eyes",
            "A skin rash or hives that came with the cold"
        ],
        "tongue": "Red tip with a thin white or yellow coat.",
        "pulse": "Floating and rapid."
    },
    "causes": [
        "A seasonal virus in warm weather or a heated room",
        "Wind-cold that turned hot inside a hot constitution",
        "Crowds, travel, and exhaustion"
    ],
    "tell_apart": [
        {
            "slug": "exterior-deficiency-spontaneous-sweating",
            "how": "The wind-cold cold in a weak person: chills, sweating, no sore throat, a white coat. It needs warming with Gui Zhi Tang, the opposite of Yin Qiao San."
        },
        {
            "slug": "phlegm-heat",
            "how": "When the heat has settled in the chest with thick yellow phlegm and a rattle, the surface stage is over and the formula changes to a phlegm formula."
        }
    ],
    "formulas": [
        {
            "slug": "yin-qiao-san",
            "role": "primary",
            "when": "The first day of a hot cold with a sore throat.",
            "pinyin": "Yin Qiao San",
            "_links": {
                "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/formula/yin-qiao-san",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/formula/yin-qiao-san"
            }
        },
        {
            "slug": "yang-yin-qing-fei-tang",
            "role": "for the throat",
            "when": "A dry burning sore throat in a dry person without much fever.",
            "pinyin": "Yang Yin Qing Fei Tang",
            "_links": {
                "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/formula/yang-yin-qing-fei-tang",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/formula/yang-yin-qing-fei-tang"
            }
        }
    ],
    "herbs": [
        {
            "pinyin": "Jin Yin Hua",
            "role": "Honeysuckle clears heat and toxin from the surface.",
            "herb_slug": "honeysuckle-flower",
            "_links": {
                "herb": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/herb/honeysuckle-flower",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/honeysuckle-flower"
            }
        },
        {
            "pinyin": "Lian Qiao",
            "role": "Forsythia clears heat and settles swollen glands.",
            "herb_slug": "weeping-forsythia-capsule",
            "_links": {
                "herb": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/herb/weeping-forsythia-capsule",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/weeping-forsythia-capsule"
            }
        },
        {
            "pinyin": "Bo He",
            "role": "Mint vents wind-heat.",
            "herb_slug": "mentha-peppermint",
            "_links": {
                "herb": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/herb/mentha-peppermint",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/mentha-peppermint"
            }
        },
        {
            "pinyin": "Sang Ye",
            "role": "Mulberry leaf for a wind-heat cough.",
            "herb_slug": "mulberry-leaf",
            "_links": {
                "herb": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/herb/mulberry-leaf",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/mulberry-leaf"
            }
        },
        {
            "pinyin": "Ju Hua",
            "role": "Chrysanthemum for the head and eyes.",
            "herb_slug": "chrysanthemum-flower",
            "_links": {
                "herb": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/herb/chrysanthemum-flower",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/chrysanthemum-flower"
            }
        },
        {
            "pinyin": "Ban Lan Gen",
            "role": "Isatis root for a hot sore throat.",
            "herb_slug": "root-of-dyers-woad",
            "_links": {
                "herb": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/herb/root-of-dyers-woad",
                "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/herb/root-of-dyers-woad"
            }
        }
    ],
    "conditions": [
        "wind-heat",
        "common-cold",
        "sore-throat",
        "fever",
        "upper-respiratory-infection",
        "tonsillitis",
        "pharyngitis",
        "conjunctivitis"
    ],
    "habits": [
        "Start the formula at the first scratch in the throat.",
        "Rest, fluids, light food. No greasy food and no alcohol while hot.",
        "Mint tea, chrysanthemum tea, pear.",
        "Keep the room cool and the air moist."
    ],
    "watch": [
        "The sore throat and fever ease within one to two days.",
        "If the cough moves into the chest with yellow phlegm, change to a phlegm-heat formula.",
        "A high fever, trouble breathing, or a stiff neck is beyond a cold formula."
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "title": "Maciocia, The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, 3rd edition",
            "note": "Invasion of wind-heat."
        },
        {
            "title": "Bensky, Scheid, Ellis and Barolet, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies, 2nd edition",
            "note": "Yin Qiao San, Sang Ju Yin."
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "status": "published",
        "last_updated": "2026-10-12",
        "reviewed_by": null
    },
    "_links": {
        "html": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/pattern/wind-heat",
        "self": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/pattern/wind-heat",
        "index": "https://www.naturalherblibrary.com/api/v1/patterns"
    }
}