What's the difference between muggy and damp heat?

1, sultry is a Chinese word, pinyin is mēn rè, which means that high temperature and low pressure make people feel sultry and restless; Weather with light wind, poor air and high temperature. From the first act of Cao Yu's Thunderstorm: "The weather is so sultry that it will probably rain later."

2. Damp-heat, a term in Chinese medicine, is a pathogenic factor, belonging to two of the six evils: wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire (heat). It is also the name of TCM syndromes, such as damp-heat syndrome, which refers to the pathological changes of damp-heat symptoms because damp-heat accumulates in the body and the operation of viscera and meridians is blocked.

First, the so-called wet, that is, the so-called water wet, it has external wet and internal wet points. External dampness belongs to external evil, which is called dampness evil. Mostly due to the humid climate, wading in the rain or wet indoors, and external moisture invading the human body. Its pathogenicity is characterized by heavy turbidity, viscosity and downward trend. Internal dampness is a pathological product, which is related to the dysfunction of viscera.

B, heat, is also a kind of evil, the disease has the characteristics of rising heat, called fiery evil. Heat may also be caused by organ dysfunction, which is called internal heat. When pathogenic fire invades the human body or internal heat is generated due to dysfunction of human viscera, it can lead to heat syndrome, that is, feeling external evil, or hyperactivity of human body, with excess of yang and deficiency of yin. Clinical manifestations of heat syndrome: fever, liking cold drinks, red face and red eyes, short and red urine, dry stool, red tongue with Huang Gan coating and rapid pulse.

C damp-heat refers to that damp-heat invades the human body at the same time, or that there are pathological changes in the body at the same time, or that the damp-heat is severe in summer and autumn, and the combination of damp-heat invades the human body, or that the heat can be turned away because the humidity stays for a long time. Common clinical manifestations of damp-heat syndrome: fever, less body heat, severe headache, severe body pain, bitter taste, chest tightness, yellow and short urine, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating and rapid pulse. Damp-heat entering joints is called damp-heat arthralgia. When invading viscera, damp-heat in spleen and stomach (damp-heat accumulating in spleen), damp-heat in liver and gallbladder, damp-heat in bladder and damp-heat in intestine may occur.