What are the causes of fever?

Modern medicine believes that the cause of fever is the adaptive response of the body to polymer stimulation. These stimuli are multifaceted, and microorganisms and parasites such as bacteria, viruses and molds are the most common infections. However, Chinese medicine believes that the six evils and seven emotions, as well as diet, fatigue, atrioventricular and so on. May be harmful to the human body, causing the body to have a fever reaction.

Six evils

For example, the ancients said: "There is a stroke every day, no sweat." "Today's fever is typhoid fever." "Today's wind and cold make people hair straight, skin tight and hot." He also said: "The hot summer solstice comes first, and the hot summer comes later." All these indicate that the stimulation of six evils, such as wind, cold and heat, to the human body is the cause of fever.

Seven emotional factors

The ancients believed that mental factors such as happiness, anger, worry, thinking, shock, fear and sadness had great influence on the human body, which could cause many diseases and fever reactions. The ancients said: "Five excessive aspirations are all fire", for example, the liver governs wood, the qi in the ambition hurts the liver, and the liver is depressed and full of fire causes fever.

Careless diet

The ancients believed that stomach qi was the basis and was born from the essence of water. If the diet is improper and the spleen and stomach are injured, it will affect the digestion and absorption function and produce diseases. For example, eating too much will produce damp heat, which will turn hot after a long time.

Atrioventricular node

The ancients believed that lust excessively damaged essence, kidney yin and kidney yang lost wealth, which made yin deficiency and fire flourishing increase bone qi and heat, or the fire of life gate decreased, resulting in impotence, palpitation, soreness of waist and knees, cold urine and so on.

Overworked

The ancients believed that fatigue leads to gas consumption, and overwork can damage temper, leading to physical exhaustion, asthma, spontaneous sweating, fever, upset and so on.

The above is the understanding of the etiology of fever in traditional Chinese medicine, which is basically consistent with the views of modern medicine. More prominently, Chinese medicine emphasizes the significance of seven emotions in causing fever reaction.