Spitting everywhere is certainly a bad habit, but no one thinks deeply. Why do people in China have too much phlegm? Sputum and saliva are secreted by mucous membranes in the body, which can be divided into stress secretion, passive secretion and active secretion. To put it bluntly, the passive secretion of stress means that there is nothing wrong with itself and the external environment is not good, and the human body is forced to secrete mucus to protect itself. Active exudation is self-overnutrition, saturated and dirty body fluids, and self-protection through exudation of mucus and expectoration. The bad external environment in life induces phlegm, the first is air pollution, and the second is unclean diet.
When people breathe dry, dirty, * * *, dusty and even toxic air, nasal mucosa and upper respiratory tract trachea and bronchus will automatically secrete mucus. Mucus can attach a lot of dust particles, and it can also heat and moisten the air to ensure that alveoli are not damaged. If the protection is weak or the external environment is too bad and the particles are too large, people who accumulate too much will get silicosis; Too small particles directly enter the blood, damaging the immune system and circulatory system. It seems that mucus and phlegm are a barrier.
These dirty mucus are discharged by blowing your nose or from your mouth through the nasopharyngeal tube. This is phlegm and saliva. I grew up in Datong City, Shanxi Province when I was a child. At that time, there was no gas and every household burned coal. After running in middle school in the morning, my nostrils are black and my sputum is black. Datong is much better now, with blue sky and white clouds, and has become a livable city.
Some people say that smoking is good and can promote expectoration. This is actually a fallacy, treating characteristics as advantages and reversing cause and effect. Smoking leads to sputum production, which is a passive response to stress, rather than expelling phlegm from the lungs through smoking. In fact, everyone has a feeling that when going to a place with fresh air, there is little sputum. Even smokers have little desire to smoke. The reason is that you don't need * * *. Just like people have a good appetite and don't need too much seasoning.
Another main cause of passive stress sputum is unclean diet, that is, mucus secreted by the mouth, esophagus and even stomach wall neutralizes, dilutes or adheres to toxic and harmful foods and drinks, and then is washed out of the body through the throat and mouth. Even clean food, if the five flavors are too strong, will secrete mucus, especially too spicy or salty. If there is something wrong with the food itself, the ingredients go bad, there are too many monosodium glutamate chicken essence or other additives, waste oil, etc. It will lead to excessive or strong mucus secretion, and even through the laryngopharyngeal reflex nerve, coughing and spitting will become vomiting, and sputum, gastric juice and even bile will be discharged with food.
One of the main reasons why I don't want to eat out is that I'm afraid of food additives. My nose and mouth are clumsy. If I smell something wrong, I will get sick, so I won't eat it. If I smell something wrong, I will spit it out at once. Otherwise, if you eat it, you will keep vomiting and vomiting. Of course, some people will say that this is melodramatic. In fact, healthy people should have this instinct. If they smell something wrong, they won't eat it. Rude, dull and numb people don't even vomit when they eat delicious food, leaving behind crises and hidden dangers. They may grow a tumor and pimple on their bodies in the future, which is called phlegm nucleus in Chinese medicine.
Overeating can also lead to slow peristalsis of the stomach wall, leading to mucus overflow in the stomach, which is also the main cause of phlegm. Moreover, high-protein food is difficult to digest and decompose, people's saliva will become thin and clear, people will feel clear water, sleep will drool, and their tongues will become fat and have teeth marks.
At present, food and food safety issues are highly valued. The indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hormones in the process of artificial planting and feeding directly affects people's physical and mental health. After eating the problem food, people will secrete and consume their own blood and body fluids, and secrete them into sputum to protect themselves. In the long run, the human body will be weak.
If the human body actively secretes mucus without external stimulation, it can only show that the human body is overnourished. This kind of person is called phlegm-dampness constitution in Chinese medicine. It is necessary to control the diet and avoid excessive intake of nutrients, especially milk, boiled eggs, fruits, cold drinks, beer and other foods that help phlegm. Of course, there are seafood, especially sea cucumbers.
Sputum and saliva are both pathological products and pathogenic factors. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that phlegm turbidity produces many diseases or strange diseases, that is to say, phlegm turbidity affects the metabolic cycle of body fluid, and the blocked meridians and viscera are different, resulting in various diseases and symptoms.
Sputum salivation is more harmful than expectoration. For example, if patients with cough and asthma can cough up phlegm and mucus, it doesn't matter how violent it is. The terrible thing is that mucus can't secrete and ooze, and it will form submucosal edema. If it gets stuck in the throat and trachea, people will suffocate. At this time, hormone spray is needed for first aid to quickly eliminate edema. Although it is an expedient measure, it is not a cure, but it is important to save lives. What is more serious is to do tracheotomy and intubation.
In addition, the sputum and mucus that have been secreted, if not coughed up in time, will also block the trachea and bronchus, causing suffocation. Influenced by my mother, I liked Chinese medicine since I was a child and wanted to be a doctor, but at that time, the advanced deeds of doctors were often to rescue patients with suffocation and suck sputum for patients. This made me sick, and even once shook my confidence in studying medicine. Later, I went to the hospital for an internship, and I was relieved to see the electric sputum aspirator and ventilator. If there are elderly people in need of care at home, they should also be equipped with corresponding manual sputum suction tools in case of emergency.
From the point of view of treatment, taking traditional Chinese medicines, such as dried tangerine peel, dried tangerine peel, loofah sponge, radish seed, perilla seed, Atractylodes macrocephala, Magnolia officinalis and so on, can effectively improve phlegm-dampness constitution, not only lose weight, but also gradually eliminate lipoma patients. Of course, all this is based on taboos.
This paper comes from the savage culture "bosom friend: from head to toe, explain the operation mystery of 53 body parts with Chinese characters and master the essence of TCM health preservation"