解热是使升高的体温降到正常。中医古代没有体温计,医生靠手触摸病人的皮肤,或者根据病人主观感觉来确定是否发热。皮肤温度明显升高的称为身热或身灼热,病人主观有热感的叫做烦热。金代成无已在《伤寒明理论》中指出:“烦者热也,与发热者若而同异也。”说明中医的烦热不等于发热。而体温升高的病人多数有烦热感。也有些病人体温已经升高,自己却不感到发热,只 Antipyretic is to bring elevated body temperature to normal. There is no clinical thermometer in ancient Chinese medicine, doctors rely on the hand to touch the patient’s skin, or according to the patient’s subjective feeling to determine whether the fever. The increase in the temperature of the skin is known as body heat or burning, and subjective thermal sensation is called irritability. Jin Chengcheng has pointed out in “The Theory of Spleen and Fighting”: “The annoying heat is also the same as the fever.” Most patients with elevated body temperature have a feeling of irritability. Some patients have already elevated their body temperature, but they do not feel fever, only