Special emphasis is placed on the treatment theory of "due to place, time and person", which breeds natural life with the way of nature, is suitable for the four seasons, comes from heaven and earth, and should be in harmony with people to achieve the overall unity of man and nature. It shows that the occurrence of diseases must be related to the environment, festivals and human behavior, and gout is the same.
Today, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, we will talk about why Lingnan area has become a "greenhouse" for gout to grow wantonly, and why summer is the high incidence season of gout.
From the theory of "different from place to place", Lingnan area has been known as "the hometown of malaria" since ancient times, and there is even a saying that "all diseases in Lingnan are malaria", which means "damp-heat gas", and the reason for the formation of damp-heat gas is the unique natural environment in Lingnan area.
The Lectures on Epidemic Febrile Diseases edited by Chen and Liu Chixuan, the famous doctors in Lingnan, mentioned: "The southeast coastal areas are low-lying, with rain and dew dripping from time to time. From spring to summer, they have the right to steam water by heat, and the humidity rises, so the air often contains a lot of water vapor, and people in them will get sick if they inhale it, that is, damp heat and humidity."
The high temperature and frequent rain in summer make Lingnan area often shrouded in rain and fog, and people live in the "wet-warm gas" for a long time. If the wet temperature invades the body, it is easy to get sick.
Another point, take Guangdong as an example. Compared with Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which belong to the south, the four seasons are not clear. After all, the solstice in winter is longer and hotter than that in summer, and the sweat in winter is no less than that in summer. Sweating all the year round, exhausted by qi and yin, our constitution is prone to heat. Coupled with the help of external heat and external dampness, more damp heat and phlegm dampness are produced.
According to the survey, analyzing the physique of gout patients, damp-heat and phlegm-dampness become the main physique, and coupled with the above Lingnan environment, gout naturally occurs frequently.
Due to time
So from the perspective of "time", how to explain it?
Now that it is full, Lingnan has taken the lead in entering the "rain+heat" mode, and the days of dampness and evil are coming again. So this time once again provides favorable conditions for the occurrence of gout.
In addition to joint pain, it can often be accompanied by dry mouth, fatigue, heavy limbs and thick and greasy tongue coating. Come to think of it, do you also have these discomforts?
Due to people
From the perspective of "people", this is easy to explain. Let's compare the eating habits of Lingnan: I like to eat fruits, beer, seafood and other wet products.
These things are most likely to damage the spleen and stomach. If the spleen and stomach are damaged, it is easy to produce dampness, phlegm, spleen deficiency and dampness. In addition, external dampness leads to internal dampness, and internal and external evils are combined into one, which greatly improves the occurrence of damp heat. When damp heat flows into joints, it will cause pain.
From the perspective of modern medicine, seafood and old fire soup, the favorite things of Lingnan people, belong to high purine. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that gout damp-heat syndrome is frequent!
There is also the custom of drinking herbal tea in Lingnan area, but not all herbal teas are suitable for our gout patients. Taking cold medicine for a long time is easy to damage spleen yang, spleen deficiency can not be transported, and dampness stagnation is aggravated, but it can not achieve the expected effect.
Is there any herbal tea suitable for us gout patients?
There is really a kind of herbal tea suitable for gout patients to "refresh themselves in summer", that is, Wuhua tea.
Honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, frangipani, kapok and Sophora japonica are selected as five kinds of scented tea, which have the effects of clearing heat, drying dampness and relieving summer heat. However, the combined dosage of traditional Chinese medicine is not static. Specific analysis of specific problems, TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment, get twice the result with half the effort.
Friends, although herbal tea is good, don't drink too much.