Humidity is the normal climate in Guangdong. If it causes disease, it becomes evil, that is, dampness. Moisture can cause a variety of discomfort, such as bloating, chest tightness, loss of appetite, joint pain, and top-heaviness. Sometimes moisture is converted into heat in the body, but it is still pale and cold outside, which makes people mistakenly think it is a cold image. However, hot drugs such as dried ginger, aconite and cassia twig can't be used to treat cold caused by damp-heat disease, and the key point is diuresis. Why is this?
Ye, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, was born in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. The air humidity is also high. People who stay in this environment for a long time will naturally suffer from various diseases. Ye has a deep understanding of the evil of damp-heat, and has created many methods to treat damp-heat. "Rising yang is not warming, but facilitating urination", this sentence comes from Ye's book On Warmth.
The book records: "Wu Zhi's dampness is the most harmful to people, such as those with white complexion, which need to be taken care of. If dampness wins, Yang will be weak ... Saving Yin is not in blood, but in body fluid sweat; Toarey Yang is not tepid, but urinating. " Diuresis is a very good method to treat dampness. The story of medical truth regards diuresis as the main method to treat dampness, and puts forward that "treating dampness is not conducive to urination, but it is not a permanent solution." "
Why does moisture generate heat, but people are still afraid of cold? Isn't this a contradiction? If this problem is clarified, it is easy to understand what Ye said: "Toarey Yang is not warm". Moisture and water are a kind of substances, which will hinder people's normal yang movement in the human body. The yang that should have reached the body surface is blocked in the body, so the body surface is afraid of cold, and even feels cold, but if you press it with your hand for a long time, you will feel hot and hotter.
Therefore, if the damp heat in the body is removed, the yang in the body will be unimpeded, Yang Can will reach the body surface smoothly, and the symptoms of being afraid of cold and cold hands and feet will be eliminated. That's why you shouldn't use drugs that warm and tonify yang. If you use them, it will aggravate the accumulation of yang in the body. The external fear of cold will not be eliminated, but the internal heat will become heavier and heavier, and the disease may have new changes. Therefore, peeing has become a very good way.
Urinating will make too much water in the body wet out of the body. According to Ye, "If you get wet in the heat, if you don't compete with the heat, you will be lonely." Moisture will come out of the urine and will not hinder the qi movement, and the heat generated by moisture will naturally dissipate and be invisible. This is why "Toarey Yang is not warming up, but peeing".
In fact, this is the essence of syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, and it will never be used randomly based on a single symptom. If you don't see the cough, you will stop coughing. When you see a fever, you can reduce the fever and relieve the pain. If you see insomnia, you will use sleeping pills. Chinese medicine first judges the state of the human body, traces back to the source, clarifies the relationship between symptoms and fundamental contradictions, and finally determines the method to cure the problem. If it is necessary to treat the symptoms, it is necessary to do both; If there is no need to treat the symptoms, there is no need to force medication.