Xiao Ke/ Wasting & Thirsting Disorder Diagnosis

Front 1

thirst with desire to drink, dry mouth, dry skin, and tongue, frequent urination, polyuria, red tip of tongue, thin yellow coating, flooding and rapid pulse

Back 1

Xiao Ke:

Upper Xiao:

Lung Heat Damaged Body Fluids

Front 2

big appetite, excessive hunger, stronger thirst, increased drinking, frequent urinary discomfort, sensation in the stomach, weight loss, restlessness with feverish sensation, emaciation, dark yellow urine, dry stools or constipation, red tongue, dry yellow coating, rapid, slippery and forceful pulse

Back 2

Xiao Ke:

Middle Xiao:

Severe Stomach Heat

Front 3

good appetite or hunger without a desire to eat, thirst, desire to drink, frequent urination, weight loss, tiredness, fatigue of the limbs, loose stools or constipation or dry stools, pale tongue, white and dry coating thin weak pulse

Back 3

Xiao Ke:

Middle Xiao:

Spleen & Stomach qi and yin deficiency

Front 4

frequent, copious urination with cloudy and turbid or sweaty urine, dry mouth and tongue, desire to drink, weight loss, dizziness, blurring of vision, red cheeks, itching skin, tinnitus, soreness and weakness in low back and knees, night sweats, restlessness, seminal emission, scanty menses or amenorrhea, red tongue, less coating and thready rapid pulse

Back 4

Xiao Ke:

Lower Xiao:

Kidney yin deficiency

Front 5

very frequent copious or scanty urination with emaciation, dry mouth, desire for profuse drinking, dizziness, blurring of vision, aversion to cold, soreness and coldness of the low back and knees, dark or even black face, impotence in men, infertility in women, pale and dry tongue with white coating, and deep thready weak pulse

Back 5

Xiao Ke:

Lower Xiao:

Kidney yin & yang deficiency