What causes phlegm?

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In order to understand the tanyin disease referred to by the classical school, which is a kind of disease that is relatively difficult to cure, we must regard Shuishi tanyin as a whole. They are the pathological products formed by the body's water metabolism disorder. We can regard them as the process of deeper and deeper condensation of "dampness". Many people are not cured for a long time, it's not because they can't be cured, but because they don't understand it. Let's introduce the cause of phlegm?.

What causes phlegm?

First, phlegm is a pathological product formed by body fluid condensation due to dysfunction of viscera and body fluid metabolism, which can be caused by a variety of reasons. For example, the external evil invades the lung, spleen, kidney and other organs, causing the disorder of water distribution and excretion, or causing the blockage of Sanjiao channel, affecting the normal metabolism of water, and even the cohesion of water moisture, leading to phlegm; Or emotional injury, liver qi stagnation, qi stagnation into fire, suffering body fluid into phlegm; Or vegetarian fat, alcohol, can also cause dampness and phlegm, generally with thick turbid for phlegm, thin for drink, usually mixed.

Second: once phlegm is produced, it can run through the whole body, stop gathering everywhere, leading to a variety of diseases. Stay in the lung, cough, chest tightness, expectoration; Blinded in the heart, you can see palpitations, chest tightness, insomnia, dizziness, even mania; Stop gathering in the stomach, will cause Wan stuffy distension, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite; Flowing in the meridians, muscles and bones, can appear numbness, hemiplegia, or phlegm, gangrene, bleeding; Phlegm can cause dizziness and coma; Phlegm stagnation in the throat, the throat discomfort, often like the feeling of obstruction throat; Drink stop chest hypochondriac, visible chest hypochondriac fullness, cough pain; If left between the intestines, the bowel sounds percolate, even loose stools diarrhea. It can be seen that there are many harms, so it is also said that "all kinds of diseases are caused by phlegm".

Third, we can call these four as "water poison", which is invisible and diffuse, but patients will feel heavy body, which is "wet"; Wet accumulation is called "water"; When water accumulates, it is called "drink"; Yin conglomeration is "phlegm"; If the sputum becomes more solid, it is old sputum.

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In a word, cold evil enters the interior and Yang Qi is suppressed, which is the cause of tanyin disease. For patients with tanyin disease, warm medicine should be used to treat it. Of course, it is not to say that only warm drugs can be used. Water and dampness stagnate, block Qi mechanism, and easily generate blood stasis and heat. Pathogenic factors will gradually present a very complex situation of cold, heat and blood stasis. Therefore, when using warm medicine, cold medicine can be used at the same time. Warm medicine is the base, can also be used to clear heat, diarrhea medicine.