What's the meaning of external cold and internal heat

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Many people may not know exactly what is said by external cold and internal heat. In fact, it is a traditional Chinese medicine term. If you want to improve this situation, you can try soaking your feet with hot water to improve your constitution. Let's talk about the meaning of external cold and internal heat.

What's the meaning of external cold and internal heat

First, cold and heat are two guidelines for distinguishing the nature of diseases. Cold syndrome and heat syndrome reflect the excessive and declining of yin and Yang. Yin excess or yang deficiency is cold syndrome; Yang excess or yin deficiency is heat syndrome. Cold and heat syndrome differentiation is of great significance in treatment. "Suo Wen Zhi Zhen Yao Da Lun" said: "cold is hot", "hot is cold", the two treatments are just the opposite. Therefore, syndrome differentiation of cold and heat must be accurate.

Second: the clinical manifestations of all kinds of cold syndrome are not consistent, but the common ones are: aversion to cold and warm, pale complexion, cold limbs and curling up, light mouth but not thirsty, phlegm and saliva, clear and thin nose, clear and long urine, loose stool, pale tongue and smooth fur, late or tight pulse, etc. Yang deficiency or external cold injury, can not play its role in warm body, so see cold body, cold limbs, crouching, face shaking light.

Third: cold syndrome is the essence of disease and belongs to cold syndrome. It can be caused by feeling cold evil, or by the body's own Yang deficiency and Yin excess. Due to the different etiology and location of cold syndrome, several different syndrome types can be distinguished. If feel cold evil, have encroach muscle surface, have straight in viscera, so have exterior cold, inside cold difference. The causes of internal cold include cold pathogen invaders and yang deficiency.

matters needing attention

If the symptoms of external cold and internal heat appear, the best way is to find traditional Chinese medicine to have a look, take some traditional Chinese medicine, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment. At the same time, we must pay attention to more exercise at ordinary times, have some good physical condition, and enhance our own physique.