Abstract:
Summer fever is a common disease in children, and its pathogeny is related to the improper development of thermotaxic centers in childhood in most cases. The characteristics of summer fever is various, including being obviously seasonal, lingering illness,ineffective treatment with antibiotics and so on. This disease belongs to the damp-warm syndrome in Chinese medicine, according to Professor Zhao Kun, who thinks that the pathogeny contains external cause, internal cause or  both of them. The visceral lesions mainly involve spleen and stomach, and the key of pathogenesis is obstruction of flow of qi and dampness blockage. Regulating the movement of qi of the spleen and stomach should be emphasized throughout the whole treatment. It can achieve good effect in clinics to make clear the location of the lesion and the seriousness of dampness and heat, and to make comparison between healthy qi and pathogenic qi in choosing the proper treatment.

Key words: Fever, Damp-warm syndrome, Summer-damp, Children