Yin-cold syndrome is a common pathological phenomenon. It refers to the pathological process that exogenous cold evil invades the human body, which leads to the damage of human yang and produces a series of cold symptoms. This paper will discuss the etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cold-yin syndrome in order to improve our understanding of pathological phenomena in traditional Chinese medicine. Exogenous cold pathogen: the main cause of cold yin syndrome is the invasion of exogenous cold pathogen. Sudden drop in temperature, cold living environment, overwork and sweating can all cause exogenous chills.
Human yang is the key to resist cold evil. When yang is insufficient, the viscera and meridians lose temperature, which easily leads to yin-cold syndrome. The causes of yang deficiency include insufficient body yang, long illness, yang consumption and cold diet. Emotional imbalance: Emotional imbalance will also affect the operation of Yang. Such as excessive anxiety, fear, sadness and other negative emotions, make the yang stagnate and stagnate, and easily lead to yin-cold syndrome. The symptoms of cold-yin syndrome are mainly clinical manifestations of colds, such as aversion to cold, fever, headache, stuffy nose and cough.
Understanding the onset process, living habits and recent diet of patients is helpful to judge whether there is cold-yin syndrome, and pay attention to whether patients have cold symptoms such as aversion to cold, fever, headache and joint pain. Observing the patient's tongue picture (such as pale tongue, white and slippery tongue coating) and pulse picture (such as tight pulse and slow pulse) is helpful to diagnose cold-yin syndrome. Combined with the patient's medical history, symptoms, tongue picture and pulse condition, other syndromes such as wind-cold common cold and rheumatic joint pain were excluded.
Keep a good mood and avoid emotional imbalance. Diet nursed back to health, appropriate consumption of warm food, such as ginger, onion, garlic and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: according to the symptoms and physique of patients, choose traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions with the functions of warming meridians, dispelling cold, expelling wind and relieving pain, such as Guizhi decoction, Mahuang decoction and Xiaoqinglong decoction. Traditional Chinese medicine external treatment methods, such as cupping, scrapping and moxibustion, can play the role of warming meridians and dispelling cold. Physical therapy: such as infrared radiation, hot water bath, etc. It can promote blood circulation and relieve symptoms of cold-yin syndrome.