What do Chinese medicine think are the main factors that affect colds?
It refers to the first gas, the second gas, the third gas, the fourth gas, the fifth gas and the last gas, which reflects six laws of climate change in a year. Every qi has its main qi, which is in harmony with the four solar terms. Unseasonable gas means that it should be warm in spring, hot in summer, cold in autumn and cold in winter. Inappropriate qi movement is an important cause of cold or influenza.
(2) region. China has a vast territory, and the natural environment and climate conditions are quite different, which directly affects the occurrence, development and change of diseases. For example, the northwest has high terrain, cold climate, windy and dry air. People living in this area are more likely to catch a cold because of the cold. The southeast is low-lying, the climate is hot, rainy and the air is humid. People living in this area are more likely to catch a cold because of wind and heat.
Not only is the climate in the frontier and inland different, but even in the same area, there are differences in the mountains peacefully, which have an impact on the human body. People living in different areas are influenced by the natural environment and living conditions, forming different physical characteristics.
(3) the constitution. While attaching importance to the overall concept, TCM also attaches great importance to individual physical differences. Mastering its physical characteristics is of certain significance for understanding the occurrence and development of diseases.
The difference of individual constitution often leads to the susceptibility to some pathogens in the six evils. Constitution is divided into yin and yang, evil spirits are divided into yin and yang, and seeking common ground. Such as internal heat, vulnerable to wind and heat; Cold-dampness constitution is susceptible to cold; People with qi deficiency in the body are vulnerable to cold; People with insufficient body yang are prone to wind-cold due to insufficient kidney yang; People with yin deficiency due to insufficient yin essence are prone to wind-heat or warm dryness.
The particularity of personal constitution is also manifested in feeling the evil of six evils, which can be combined with chemistry. For example, people with yin-cold body and deficiency of qi and yang can easily feel the exogenous evil change from cold to wet; However, yang-heat constitution, essence, blood and body fluid deficiency constitution and yin deficiency constitution tend to change from heat to dryness.
The external climate change is complex, and different constitutions have different tolerance to it, so different cold syndromes can appear in the same season and the same cold syndrome can appear in different seasons.
(4) seven emotions. Seven kinds of emotional changes, such as emotion, anxiety, sadness and fear, are the external manifestations of people's thinking activities and responses to various external stimuli. If all kinds of sudden, persistent and intense mental stimulation exceed the tolerance limit, it will affect the functional activities of qi and blood, yin and yang, viscera and meridians in the body and make the body change.
If you are angry with sex, you will be angry, angry, so you are prone to wind and heat, or you will turn to heat when you feel cold. People who are gentle and good at thinking will get angry when thinking, and the spleen in the middle energizer is not well transported and phlegm is endogenous, so it is easy to get cold, or it will turn cold after feeling heat.
In a word, the seven emotions are hurt internally, the healthy qi is damaged, the constitution is weak, and it is vulnerable to the feeling of six evils and cold.
(5) menstruation. Although menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon of women, it also has a certain impact on the body during menstruation. If some women have periodic menstrual colds, it is obviously a pathological manifestation related to menstruation.
Menstrual colds, that is, colds that occur before or during menstruation, have a longer course of disease than common colds, and can gradually heal themselves with the end of menstruation. When menstruation comes next month, the cold will reappear immediately, which is closely related to the menstrual cycle. Menstrual cold, conscious exchange of cold and heat, dizziness and headache, dry throat, upset, pulse string, thin coating, periodic appearance, sometimes evil entering shaoyang, and unfavorable axis.
It is effective to use the method of harmony and Shaoyang Xiaochaihu decoction.
(6) sexual intercourse. Essence, qi and spirit are the "three treasures" of life. Essence stored in the kidney, kidney essence loss, lack of vitality, weak vital qi, is an important cause of premature aging, which can lead to many diseases.
Early marriage and excessive sexual intercourse will hurt the kidneys. Qiweigen originated from the lower coke, nourished in the middle coke and developed in the upper coke. Deficiency of kidney essence, deficiency of defensive qi, abnormal regulation of defensive surface, easy to cause invasion of exogenous pathogens, and a cold with insufficient positive energy and excessive pathogenic factors.
Kidney stores essence and refines qi. The qi transformed by kidney essence is kidney qi, which belongs to yang and kidney essence belongs to yin.
Those with deficiency of kidney essence and deficiency of kidney qi and yang are prone to catch a cold; Those who suffer from deficiency of kidney essence and internal heat due to yin deficiency are prone to wind-heat
(7) nationality. Different nationalities have different physical characteristics. These physical characteristics are closely related to geographical territory, natural climate and living habits. For example, Mongolians in Inner Mongolia Plateau and Tibetans in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, who live in high places, are extremely cold in winter, especially in Inner Mongolia Plateau, where the cold wave first entered our country. The wind is cold and icy. Nomads make a living from it, and they like crispy cheese and meat, which are plump. Therefore, when suffering from exogenous diseases, it is more vulnerable to wind and cold, often accompanied by stagnation of meat and fat, or phlegm and dampness.
(8) gender. Women are born with liver, men are born with kidney. Women who are prone to colds are mostly liver-blood deficiency; Men who are prone to colds are mostly caused by deficiency of both lungs and kidneys.
People are based on zang-fu organs and meridians, and both qi and blood are used. Blood is an important material basis for menstruation, pregnancy and lactation. Therefore, in special physiological periods such as menstruation, pregnancy and lactation, women are prone to catch a cold due to exogenous factors, and their physiological characteristics should be taken care of during treatment, which is different from that of men.
In addition, from the perspective of gender and physique, in general, male patients with the same type of cold in the same area use more drugs than female patients.
(9) age. People of different ages can have different types of colds, but because of different ages, they also have their own characteristics. For example, the elderly are prone to yang deficiency and cold or qi deficiency and cold, which is related to the physiological and pathological changes of spleen and kidney yang deficiency caused by aging of the elderly. Syndrome differentiation belongs to wind-cold fever, which is not obvious. Young and middle-aged susceptible people are mostly caused by bullying, fear of hard work and exogenous evil, with strong yang and more wind-heat than wind-cold. Children's viscera are delicate, qi is not full, qi deficiency and catharsis, external defense function is not solid, and external evils take advantage of it and are prone to catch a cold; Children are generally hotter in the mainland. Once they catch a cold, the cold easily changes from heat, or heat is cold, and wind heat is more than wind cold. Children's colds are acute and change rapidly, often causing convulsions due to fever; Common symptoms are phlegm, eating, cold shock and so on.
Children with dirty qi are clear, and timely and correct treatment after a cold is easy to recover; Young and middle-aged people are physically strong and have a good cold prognosis; The elderly have decreased visceral function, insufficient vital qi, weak constitution, abnormal defense function, decreased defense response, or chronic diseases caused by new feelings, or decreased disease resistance after catching a cold, complicated with other diseases.
Colds are generally mild, rarely spread, and can be cured in a few days; When you catch a cold, your condition is serious and the course of disease is slightly longer. Patients with mild symptoms can be cured without medication; Infants and infirm people, such as the old, the weak and the disabled, can all have colds and serious illnesses, and may be complicated by different pathogenic factors and syndromes, with poor prognosis. From this point of view, in the treatment of colds and diseases, we should proceed from the overall concept, seek the cause based on syndrome differentiation, and there should be no negligence or omission.