What does wet mean by TCM? What is dampness in Chinese medicine?

Severe stagnation or aggregation of qi and blood is called severe dampness in traditional Chinese medicine, or severe qi stagnation, or severe phlegm and dampness, and inflammation or acute inflammation in Western medicine.

After the precipitation of qi and blood in a certain tissue or organ for a long time, or the coagulation of qi and blood occurs, it is called stasis in traditional Chinese medicine, infarction, or congestion, which is called cancer or tumor in Western medicine.

The dampness and heat spoken of in Chinese medicine are completely different from the concepts of dampness and heat in people's brains in life. The concept of wetness in life is that more water in the soil is called wet, and less water in the soil is called dryness. In life, people's concept of heat is the meaning of high temperature, and the heat mentioned in Chinese medicine does not mean fever or high body temperature.

The dampness and heat of the lower scorching and the dampness of the stomach and intestines indicate that there is chronic inflammation in these organs, which has nothing to do with the water content and temperature. <>

Western medicine to describe inflammation is also wrong. The fluctuation of qi and blood in the organs is not smooth, resulting in local swelling, how to use inflammation? If it is directly blocked by qi and blood, or if qi and blood are gathered, people can imagine that the inflammation is a big fire, and the scorching sun is scorching, and this inflammation has nothing to do with the fire and the fire.

Now the patients in the hospital, after the examination, the cancer is flying all over the sky, how many patients are scared to death, how many patients are treated, it is caused by ignorance, this has a lot to do with the wrong medical terminology, these quacks carry out chemotherapy The sins are too numerous to mention!

Many diseases cannot be effectively obtained, or the efficacy is not good, which has a lot to do with medical terminology.

Because the people of their predecessors did not know the principles of disease and the principles of life, they used inaccurate or even wrong terms to describe the conditions in the body. Whether it is traditional medicine (traditional Chinese medicine) or modern medicine (Western medicine), there are serious errors in medical theories and when describing the principles of life and disease. Before I go into hiding, try to correct some of the mistakes of my predecessors.

First of all, the description of qi and blood, both Chinese medicine and Western medicine say that qi and blood flow, which is very wrong. The fluid in the blood vessels is called blood in Chinese medicine and blood in Western medicine. The fluid in the outer skin and flesh of blood vessels or organs is called qi in traditional Chinese medicine, and body fluids or tissue fluids, or lymphatic fluid in Western medicine.

The human body is full of qi and blood, as if a cup is filled with water, and the whole is not flowing. If the cup is moving, the water in the cup will not be static and will move. How the water in the cup moves, depends on how the cup moves.

When the cup shakes, the water in the cup fluctuates.

First of all, human beings are an animal, and if the animal's body moves, and if the body moves, the qi and blood in the body will fluctuate.

Secondly, because animals have to breathe, breathing will cause fluctuations in qi and blood all over the body.

Since the heart is a sac-like dissection structure, the qi and blood in the heart wall are constantly fluctuating, causing the heart to expand and contract, and the pressure of the blood in the heart cavity is constantly changing.

The function of the heart is mainly to make the blood vessels expand through the beating of the heart, one is to make the blood cells in the blood vessels easy to move (fluctuating or shaking), if the heart does not beat, the blood vessels will be deflated, affecting the activity of blood cells. The second is to fill all parts of the body with blood, and the qi and blood of the tissues and organs of the body can be filled. If the heart is not beating, there will be no blood on people's hands, feet and fingers.

Because in these places, the center of the body is too far away, and when the qi and blood are not full, there will inevitably be a lack of qi and blood.

Whether it is blood or qi, it is basically a fluctuating state, not a flowing state.

Dampness in traditional Chinese medicine is called dampness, which refers to the fact that after wind, cold, dampness and other undesirable factors enter the body, it will cause the body function to be hindered and affected, and cannot be effectively dissipated, and then the disease formed is called dampness, and Duan Qi is a pathological category in Chinese medicine.

To put it simply, if the human body has a lot of moisture, the most direct reaction is that you don't want to eat, and you have bad breath and bitter mouth, lazy to sleep, don't want to move and have no energy, and the tongue base is white and thick and grips the edge.

To tell you, the simplest thing is that people with athlete's foot have a lot of moisture in their bodies.

Moisture is moisture, which is divided into internal and external moisture. (Tu Ke water, spleen is soil, kidney is water, g: a certain range of constraints).

Internal dampness refers to uncontrolled diet, cold, excessive thinking, sitting for a long time, etc., resulting in spleen deficiency, soil and water, resulting in excessive intracellular water, acid-base balance is broken, normal physiological functions can not be fully exerted, sweat is the fluid of the heart, the main skin of the lungs, as long as the acid-base balance is broken, there will be pores open, sweating and other manifestations, and the body's resistance will decline.

External moisture: Moisture in the environment.

The moisture in the environment generally does not cause damage to the human body, but the water metabolism in the body is out of balance, and when the acid-base balance is broken, the water in the environment will enter the body by opening the pores, and work together with the internal dampness, destroying the body from shallow to deep.

Excessive dampness can cause disease. Dampness hurts people internally and externally, and external dampness is mostly caused by the humid climate, sitting and lying on the wetland; Internal dampness is mostly caused by liking to eat cold drinks, greedy for cold things such as raw and cold melons and fruits, and damaging the body's yang energy. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks:

The spleen transports moisture. If the spleen is invigorated, the spleen is healthy, and the function of water and dampness is normal, dampness is not easy to cause disease. You can use traditional Chinese medicine to internal conditioning to remove dampness, and Defu is a wet herbal tea.

On the contrary, after the dampness is too heavy and causes people to get sick, the patient often has symptoms such as dizziness, soreness and laziness in the limbs, pain in the body, unfavorable flexion and extension of the joints, depression in the chest, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, loose stools, thick tongue coating and so on. In order to prevent and alleviate dampness and harm to people, we must pay attention to protecting the spleen. Only when the spleen and stomach are invigorated can they effectively resist the invasion of dampness.

It is that the proportion of water in the body is too large, and beyond a reasonable range, it is dampness.