What does wind evil mean in traditional Chinese medicine?

1. Wind is a yang evil. It is light and easy to release and easily attack the yang position: Wind evil is good at moving and does not live in the body. It has the characteristics of light rising, rising, upward and outward, so it is a yang evil. Its nature is to cause catharsis, which means that it can easily cause the muscles of the body to open and cause sweating. Therefore, when wind evil invades, it often damages the upper part of the human body (head, face), yang meridians and muscle surface, causing the skin and fur to leak, causing headaches, sweating, bad wind and other symptoms.

2. The wind nature is good and changes several times: "Good deeds" means that the wind nature is good and does not move, and is wandering. Therefore, its pathogenesis is characterized by wandering disease location and no fixed location. For example, if you see migratory joint pain with no localized pain due to the combination of wind, cold and dampness, it is a symptom of excessive wind evil, which is called "Xing Bi" or "Wind Bi". "Shu Bian" refers to the unpredictable and rapid onset of disease caused by wind evil.

For example, wheals (urticaria) are characterized by skin itching that occurs from time to time, and the rashes appear in random locations, appearing and disappearing, etc. At the same time, exogenous diseases preceded by wind evil generally have an acute onset and spread quickly. If the wind blows in the head and face, the mouth and eyes may suddenly become slanted; with Feng Shui syndrome in children, the onset is only superficial, but within a short period of time, the head, face, and body may become swollen, and the patient may suffer from a lack of urine.

3. Wind is active: "Active" means that the wind evil causes the disease to have the characteristics of being unstable. If wind evil invades, facial muscles will often twitch, or dizziness, tremors, convulsions, stiff neck, opisthotonus, and upward gaze may occur. Clinically, facial muscles tremble due to exposure to wind, or the mouth and eyes are slanted, which are the meridians in the wind. Symptoms such as limb twitching and opisthotonia due to trauma from the golden blade and repeated exposure to wind poison are also classified as wind-active. Clinical manifestations.

4. Wind is the root of all diseases: the elder is the beginning and the head. Wind is the root of all diseases. First, it means that wind evil often combines with other evils to harm people, and is the forerunner of external evils causing disease. Due to the release of wind nature, all evils of cold, dampness, heat, dryness, and heat often attach to the wind and invade the human body, thus forming symptoms such as exogenous wind-cold, rheumatism, wind-heat, and wind-dryness.

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