What is summer dampness in traditional Chinese medicine?
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What is summer dampness in traditional Chinese medicine? Heat dampness is an acute exogenous heat disease caused by heat dampness pathogen. Most of them occur in summer, especially in the south. It is characterized by acute onset, body heat, severe head and body disease, slight sweating, thirst, and epigastric distension. According to the predilection season and clinical syndrome characteristics, western medicine leptospirosis, enteric typhoid, influenza, etc., can refer to heat dampness disease for syndrome differentiation treatment. What is summer dampness in traditional Chinese medicine? I'd like to share my views with you.
What is summer dampness in traditional Chinese medicine?
First, the diagnosis of heat dampness; The disease usually occurs in summer, summer and wet season, and in the south, it occurs from May to October. It is characterized by high fever, heavy headache, thirst, epigastric distension, etc. The syndrome characteristics of heat and dampness pathogen are prominent. The disease should be differentiated from heat. Although both of them occurred in summer, the heat temperature was caused by simple pathogenic factors of summer heat. At the beginning, the symptoms of Yang Ming and stomach heat were prominent, such as strong heat, sweating, thirst, big pulse and so on; Heat dampness is caused by heat and dampness evil. The symptoms of heat dampness depression and muscle surface depression are common in Wei Fen, such as early rising heat, headache, body weight, thirst, Wan PI, etc.
Second: syndrome: high fever, accompanied by headache, body weight, body fatigue, limb soreness, abdominal distension, chest tightness, vomiting and diarrhea, thirst, upset, etc. Pathogenesis analysis: the pathogenic factors of heat and dampness enter from skin and hair, and the symptoms of depression and Wei are divided into muscle surface. It can be seen that the fever is high, accompanied by headache, body weight and fatigue, limb soreness, abdominal distension and chest tightness, etc. If the pathogenic factors of heat and dampness enter from the mouth and nose and disturb the Qi mechanism of gastrointestinal tract, the symptoms of high fever, vomiting and diarrhea, thirst, upset and other Qi components of gastrointestinal tract can be seen. If the evil heat is strong, it can cause the heat dampness to diffuse the triple energizer, or block the middle energizer, or block the lung collaterals. Treatment principle: clearing heat and relieving heat, transforming Qi and promoting dampness. Main prescription: Guiling Ganlu powder.
Third: the treatment of heat dampness, mainly to clear heat and diuresis, accompanied by aromatic dampness. In clinical practice, we should distinguish the location of heat dampness, the deficiency and excess of constitution, and the emphasis of heat dampness, and choose the methods of clearing away heat and evil, clearing lung and relieving heat, clearing heat and resolving dampness, and venting triple energizer. When the evil Qi turns into dryness and fire, enters into the camp and blood, the syndrome of closing the orifices and moving the wind, and the fluid Qi wants to be removed, which is the same as the syndrome of heat temperature and critical illness, can be treated according to the theory of heat temperature.
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Food fatigue damages the spleen and stomach, and is caused by the evil of heat and dampness. The occurrence of heat and dampness is caused by the feeling of heat and dampness. Summer climate is hot, easy to form heat and dampness evil. If the body is not healthy enough, or because of the hot weather and cold food, so that the water stops inside, often easy to feel the heat and dampness evil and disease. The location and viscera of the disease are mainly Weifen muscle surface, lung, Sanjiao, gastrointestinal and so on; If the heat dampness, dryness and fire, consume Qi and hurt body fluid, it can also go deep into the heart camp, causing wind and blood. Don't wait for extreme hunger, don't eat too much; Don't wait to drink when you are thirsty. Don't drink too much. If you eat too much, you will accumulate. If you drink too much, you will become phlegm. When you are hungry and thirsty, you are most likely to drink too much and drink too much, which will damage your health. Therefore, when you are hungry and thirsty, you should also eat slowly. In addition, if you have no appetite, you can't force yourself to eat too much.
