Differentiation between cold and heat in human body

Recently, people always ask how to exercise in summer, so many people will give you advice on whether to eat this or do that. Many opinions are still not consistent. For example, some people will say that drinking herbal tea and soup to get rid of fire in summer is popular in Guangdong and Guangxi. Some people say that we should eat ginger and hot food in summer. There have been many posts about ginger jujube tea recently. Which one should I trust In fact, this is all because we don't understand the operating rules of the human body, so we are at a loss.

In summer, the body is cold inside and hot outside.

According to common sense, the inside of the human body is cold in summer and hot in winter. Why is the temperature so high in summer, but it's cold inside? Because the human body and the laws of heaven and earth are synchronized. In summer, the sun in the whole world is outside (on the ground) and the yin is inside (underground). You can touch the well water. It's cold. In winter, the sun is inside (underground) and the shade is outside (on the ground), so in winter, people will feel very warm when you touch the well water or go to the cave. The human body conforms to the operation of the field of heaven and earth. In summer, qi and blood run on the body surface, which makes people sweat easily, and energy runs away from the body surface, making them naturally weak and cold; In winter, human qi and blood run in the stomach, which is easy to be heated internally, and the skin pores are closed, so it is not easy to sweat.

In this way, we should eat less cold things in summer, so as not to aggravate the cold inside, such as watermelons, popsicles, ice cream and all kinds of iced juice drinks. There is an old saying that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer". It is good to eat ginger in summer. Don't eat greasy food. Originally, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold will not be digested, and eating greasy things will only get angry. Eating ginger in summer is not easy to get angry. You can try if you don't believe me. Why do you eat radish in winter? It's to remove the heat from it.

Drinking ice water and eating popsicles in summer will make you more thirsty; Drinking a cup of hot water or tea will not make you thirsty. You may feel hot at that time, but you will feel cool after a while. Why? In addition to what I said just now, there is another law of human movement: the production of body fluid depends on the transport of spleen and stomach, which requires heat to complete. Only when the spleen and stomach are transported can the body fluid be transformed and the human body can really quench its thirst. When we eat cold food, the function of the spleen and stomach will be reduced, and the water we drink will not be absorbed, so the more we eat ice, the colder it will be.

Let's talk about the cold in summer. There is a medicine that is commonly used, that is, Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. If there is no good doctor's diagnosis, taking this medicine is generally more likely to be effective. This is a typical warm medicine. In winter, according to my experience, there are more colds caused by heat syndrome and epidemic febrile diseases, even in the wet and cold south.

Summer treatment, oral or external use?

I have seen such a doctor. When a patient comes to see a doctor, he will ask whether it is hot or cold. If the patient says he has a cold, he will prescribe cold medicine to clear powder; If he catches a cold, he will prescribe warm medicine. This is a great fallacy and a manifestation of complete ignorance of medicine.

First of all, from the external factors, the temperature rises outside in summer, and the human body may not get fever; In winter, when it is cold outside, the human body may not catch a cold.

Secondly, whether a person suffers from warm disease or cold disease is not absolutely influenced by external factors. There is also an internal cause, which is to see if there is stagnation in this person's stomach. Clinically, the influence of this factor is often greater than external factors. If a person usually eats too much and likes spicy meat, it is often easy to get fever; A person with insufficient qi and blood and poor stomach qi will often get cold disease and yin disease.

Therefore, we can't assume that the human body must be cold just because of' summer'. In fact, most of them are cold, so I don't recommend that everyone eat ginger. It is against the spirit of traditional Chinese medicine to say that you must eat ginger in summer. Should it be external or internal? In fact, internal and external causes are only reference, not mandatory.

What is the real spirit of TCM?

It is dialectical. What is the certificate? It is a symptom of human body, so why is it a "syndrome"? The real meaning of "syndrome" is the evidence of what kind of abnormality has happened to the human body. Therefore, we can't distinguish diseases according to the weather, nor can we distinguish diseases according to the usual living habits of patients, let alone the elderly and young people. These are just references and cannot be the final evidence.

Teach everyone how to distinguish between cold and heat in the human body.

The final evidence is the human body's reaction, and it is dialectical to distinguish the human body's reaction.

Whether it is health care or treatment, we must understand syndrome differentiation, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes. If we only listen to other people's suggestions or generalize, it is easy to turn health care into harm. Only by returning to syndrome differentiation can this be the true spirit of TCM. Some people will say, we haven't studied medicine, how can we differentiate syndromes? It's actually quite simple. Now I'll teach you how to distinguish between cold and heat in the human body. As long as the difference between cold and heat is correct, the accuracy of health preservation and simple medication will be high, and there will be no mistakes in the general direction.

What is heat syndrome? If the body has the following reactions:

A, afraid of heat, open the quilt or take off your clothes at the same time and don't feel cold;

B, like to drink cold water and don't feel bloated after drinking it, or like to drink a lot of water and don't feel bloated after drinking it;

C, good appetite, no indigestion;

D, feel the breath heat in the nose;

E, the stool stinks, or the fart is smelly. One of the conditions is fever syndrome.

What is cold syndrome?

A, I don't feel like drinking water, and I only drink hot water, or I feel like drinking water, but I don't drink much, so I can't drink cold;

B, afraid of wearing a lot of clothes in the cold, the quilt is thick;

C, afraid of cold at the same time, the body feels stiff, the action is unfavorable, or the joints and ligaments creak;

D, cold limbs, or cold feeling in the stomach and abdomen; One of the above situations is the possibility of cold syndrome.

Pay attention to two points:

First, the reaction of cold syndrome is often not obvious. Nowadays, people spend a lot of time thinking and trying to stay up late, so they can use the elimination method. As long as there is no reaction to heat syndrome, they should be cautious when taking antipyretic drugs. Generally speaking, it is not easy for people to eat warm things. For example, there are many spicy places all year round, and there will be no big problem (the meat is not warm and greasy, which is easy to help phlegm). After all, the human body is run by yang; Eating cold food may spoil the spleen and stomach in just a few days, and eating it for a long time is even more harmful.

Second, it is forbidden to distinguish between cold and heat by local fire reaction of human body, such as oral ulcer, acne, skin disease, pharyngitis, constipation, etc. Clinically, the human body will also have local internal heat in the case of yin syndrome and cold syndrome.

Cold syndrome should avoid eating cold and cool things, but eat some warm things appropriately; Heat syndrome, even if you feel weak, is not really weak Eat less meat and don't use tonic. In particular, if the body is cold, even if there are oral ulcers, constipation and other fire reactions, you can't take cold medicine and clear gunpowder. The fire is only temporary. If you don't eat it, it will get angry again, and it will continue, hurting the yang, and a minor illness will become a serious illness. Therefore, as long as we distinguish between cold and heat, we can at least avoid making big mistakes when taking medicine for health care.

Last but not least, turn on the air conditioner less in summer.

Because qi and blood run on the body surface in summer, the pores are open, and the cold air of air conditioning is easy to enter, which will easily lead to diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in the future, and women will also cause palace cold. In the same way, don't turn on the heating at home too hot in winter. In winter, human qi and blood energy belongs to the five internal organs and nourishes them, just like a tree is taking root and sprouting. Nowadays, the temperature in the north is burning to 20 or 30 degrees, and wearing short sleeves at home in winter is actually forcibly transferring the energy of qi and blood inside to the body surface, so that the internal organs will lose nutrition, which will cause many visceral diseases, such as spleen deficiency, kidney deficiency, lung fever, liver fever and even organ tumors.

Some people may ask, is it so serious? If anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that if the first year is warm winter, even if it is only a few days and the temperature is above 20 degrees, many trees will die in the second year. Everything is reasonable, so there are so many people with insufficient qi and blood and so many inexplicable diseases. In fact, you can live to 100 years old and die as long as you know to let nature take its course and don't make your own decisions. Where do you need medical care? It's already a gossip to say that keeping in good health.