His report found that there was no evidence of heat injury to the dog's respiratory tract. No mouth or foot abrasions were found, indicating the dog did not try to escape.

Fourth, heatwaves, especially in urban "heat islands", can directly increase morbidity and mortality, mainly in elderly people with cardiovascular or respiratory disease.

It provides better method and medicine to treat these respiratory diseases such as bronchitis which belong to heat pattern, asthma and cough type in TCM.