According to his father's notes, it was very rare for children to present with a Lesser Chaihu pattern.
According to Wang Ruiying's description, the doctor she saw at the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine had assumed that the fever and chills were a case of alternating chills and fever—a Lesser Chaihu pattern. This was a clear sign that he hadn't properly understood the *Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Warm Pathogenic Diseases*.
When fever and chills occur simultaneously, it is a Taiyang disease pattern.
It's only when fever and chills don't occur at the same time, but rather alternate—feeling cold at one moment and hot the next—that it's considered the "alternating chills and fever" of a Shaoyang disease pattern.
