What does Chinese medicine think is the cause of nephropathy?
external factor
Wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, fire and furuncle are all exogenous factors. Because people live in nature, the occurrence of any disease will be affected by various climates in nature, and the above-mentioned exogenous pathogens will also cause or induce nephropathy.
For example, Su Wen Shui Re Xue Lun said, "If you are brave and overworked, your kidneys will sweat. When you are sweating like a pig, you will meet the wind. You can't enter the internal organs, and you can't go beyond the skin outside. You can stay in Fu Xuan, walk in the skin, disperse into swollen poison, and root in the kidney and feng shui every day. " "Introduction to Medicine" pointed out: "Yang water is caused by external factors, wading in the rain, or cold and heat." Clinically, the occurrence or aggravation of acute nephritis, chronic nephritis and acute pyelonephritis are closely related to the invasion of these external factors. Exogenous pathogens can cause disease alone or both, but two or more pathogenic factors are common in clinic. For example, the onset of acute nephritis often has a history of feeling wind and heat, or wind and cold, or wind and cold and dampness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the healthy qi of human body is weak, exogenous pathogens can generally invade the human body and cause disease. Kidney injury caused by exogenous pathogens can be divided into two forms: direct injury and progressive injury. Because the kidney is located in the lower jiao and at the deeper level of the human body, most of the damage caused by exogenous pathogenic factors to the kidney starts from the superficial levels such as lung, health, tendons and stomach, from the outside to the inside and from top to bottom. Therefore, foreign pathogens rarely invade the kidney directly, and most of them are transferred through specimens, transmitted by viscera and gradually spread to the kidney.
Internal injury factor
Pathogenesis caused by internal injury refers to diseases caused by internal factors in the body under the condition of excluding the interference of recent external evils. Compared with exogenous pathogenic factors, internal injury has two characteristics: one is complexity, that is, its onset is not caused by a single factor, but by the interaction and intersection of many factors. After its onset, the pathological mechanism is also more complicated, mostly the same organs, mostly mixed with excess and deficiency. Secondly, it is latent, that is, internal injury causes disease. It is difficult to point out the exact onset time. The patient does not know about the disease, and its pathological mechanism has long been dark. There are many reasons for internal injuries, mainly congenital deficiency. Originally, people or animals were born in poor health. (Note: Seven emotions are seven kinds of emotional changes: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise. The seven emotions are different reflections of the human body on external objective things, and are normal phenomena of life activities, which will not make people sick. However, under the sudden, intense or long-term emotional stimulation, it is beyond the normal range of physiological activities, but it can not adapt, which will lead to the disorder of qi and blood function of zang-fu organs, thus leading to the occurrence of diseases. At this time, the seven emotions become the pathogenic factor and one of the main factors leading to internal injuries, so it is called the seven emotions of internal injuries. ), poor diet, long illness.
(1) Congenital deficiency
Deficiency of essence and qi, congenital deficiency and yin deviation caused by improper nursing during pregnancy are important factors for the formation of nephropathy. Congenital deficiency, such as postnatal feeding method, makes up for the deficiency of congenital essence with Shui Gu essence of postnatal diet, which is also easy to cause kidney disease; Such as acquired disorder, viscera malnutrition, easy to be invaded by external evils, and even slow growth and development, can also lead to muscle weakness. Chicken breast (note: chicken breast is a wedge-shaped protrusion on the front wall of the chest, named after the sternum of birds. ), turtle back, enuresis and other kidney disease symptoms. Congenital deficiency is closely related to the strength of kidney qi and the rise and fall of kidney yin and yang, which further constitutes the pathological basis of kidney diseases. If some people are endowed with deficiency of both yin and yang, their pathogenesis will mostly form pathological symptoms of kidney-yang deficiency and deficiency-cold excess; On the contrary, it is easy to form internal heat due to yin deficiency. (2) Internal injuries of seven emotions
Seven emotions are the emotional responses of people's mental consciousness to external things or their own activities, including seven emotional activities: joy, anger, sadness, fear, worry, thinking and surprise.
Under normal circumstances, the seven emotions belong to normal physiological activities and will not cause disease. However, these emotional activities are too intense, lasting or unbalanced, which will lead to the disorder of viscera and blood and cause diseases. In fact, people's various emotional activities are based on kidney essence, and excessive use of seven emotions will inevitably lead to excessive consumption of kidney essence, which will lead to kidney disease; In addition, the seven emotions can indirectly cause kidney damage through other viscera, such as grief can hurt the lungs and gold can't produce water. Emotional disorder is not only the cause of kidney disease, but also the cause of more serious kidney disease. Patients with sexual dysfunction, such as nocturnal emission and impotence, often suffer from repeated or even intensified illness due to mental stress; Patients with chronic renal failure often get worse if they encounter emotional disorders.
(3) Overwork
Fatigue includes housework and physical labor. The former refers to excessive lust, while the latter refers to excessive exercise and excessive physical consumption. All human athletic abilities are driven by primitive energy, which is produced by kidney essence. If physical exertion interferes with the bones and muscles, it will inevitably consume essence and hurt the qi and hurt the kidney internally; Excessive sexual intercourse not only consumes essence, but also hurts god, and god also keeps essence. Clinically, fatigue hurts the kidney, mostly due to deficiency. Generally, you can often see symptoms of kidney deficiency such as fatigue, weakness of waist and knees, dizziness and nocturnal emission. However, due to people's different constitutions, there are yin deficiency and yang deficiency, and people with yin deficiency can see hot flashes at the same time (note: fever has certain regularity, such as ebb and flow, once a day, on time and on time. ), night sweats (Note: Sweating during sleep is called "night sweats". Night sweats is a syndrome name of traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up. ), wet dream (Note: wet dream refers to the disease of nocturnal emission when you sleep, and you won't know until you wake up. ), dry mouth and other signs of deficiency heat; People with yang deficiency can also see fear of cold (note: "fear of cold" refers to the feeling of fear of cold and wind blowing. ), cold limbs (note: refers to the symptoms of cold limbs, even cold elbows and knees. ), nocturnal emission (note: nocturnal emission means that there is no sense of ejaculation but semen overflows. ), impotence, pale tongue and other symptoms of deficiency and cold. Female fatigue can also damage Chong Ren (note: Ren refers to Ren meridian, which can always be the Yin meridian of any body, so it is called "the sea of Yin pulse". Ren meridian has the function of regulating all yin meridians and qi in the whole body. In women, it also has the function of pregnancy and supporting the fetus. The pulse artery can regulate the qi and blood of the twelve meridians, and it is the main impulse of qi and blood of all meridians, so it is called "Sea of the twelve meridians" and "Sea of Blood". ), causing irregular menstruation and metrorrhagia (note: metrorrhagia is the general term for non-menstrual vaginal bleeding. The main clinical manifestation is vaginal bleeding. When the situation is urgent and the amount of bleeding is large, it is called collapse; A small amount of bleeding or constant dripping indicates leakage. ) vaginal discharge, abortion, infertility.
(4) Bad diet
The hunger and supersaturation on the back of five-flavored turtles belong to improper diet. Hunger refers to insufficient food intake, insufficient supply of nutrients needed in the body, insufficient biochemical sources of qi and blood, inability of acquired essence to nourish innate essence, and long-term deficiency of innate essence, resulting in deficiency of kidney essence. Oversatiety refers to eating too much, which exceeds the normal needs of the body and leads to overnutrition. This excess nutrition often turns into fat and accumulates in the body. Over time, qi deficiency will be formed, phlegm and dampness will be endogenous, qi and blood will be blocked, and Yang Qi will be inhibited, which will lead to kidney yang's persistence and poor pulse condition (note: during lung breathing, the whole body blood will flow through lung meridians and lungs, and the respiratory function of lungs needs the assistance of kidney's absorption of qi. Kidney-yang deficiency, abnormal self-gasification function, and lung qi can not be unblocked. ), there are many symptoms leading to kidney deficiency. On the other hand, overeating can also damage the spleen and stomach, and then damage the kidneys. The five flavors are on the right side, and the paste is thick and delicious. ), pungent dryness stimulates food, which can not only make some dirty qi more prosperous and decline, but also make heat accumulate in the kidney, eliminate the grain and produce fluid, and the five internal organs and yin fluid lose nutrition.