Pathogenic characteristics of phlegm drink

The formation of phlegm drink is related to the malfunction of the lungs, spleen and kidneys. Such as the lung is the main regulator of the waterway, the transmission of fluids, if the lung is not to promote the lowering of fluids, fluids do not cloth, waterway is not conducive, it can be stopped and phlegm drink; spleen is the main transport of water and dampness, spleen weakness, transport and transformation, water and dampness stagnation, can also be transformed into phlegm drink; kidney is the main steam and water, kidney yang deficiency, steam and transformation is weak, water within the stop, can also be flooded and transformed into phlegm drink. In addition, the formation of phlegm drink, sometimes also directly related to certain external or internal factors. For example, feel the heat, can refine the liquid phlegm; feel the dampness, stay in the body, can be transformed into phlegm; over-eating fat, sweet and thick taste, dampness and turbidity within the phlegm; food stagnation phlegm; blood stasis within the stop, water running unfavorably into phlegm and so on.

What does phlegm drink mean?

The concept of "phlegm" in Chinese medicine has a broad sense and a narrow sense. In a broad sense, it refers to phlegm that stops in any part of the body, such as internal organs, muscle couples, limbs, meridians, etc., and is invisible, but has clinical manifestations of "phlegm". Such as dizziness, vomiting, madness, fainting, or unnamed swelling on the surface of the body, etc., are considered to be due to phlegm. In a narrow sense, it refers to the phlegm stored in the lungs, which can be coughed out, visible in form and substance, reachable to touch and audible. The thick and sticky is called "phlegm" and the thin one is called "drink", different in form but the same in substance, so it is commonly called phlegm drink. Phlegm once formed, it can flow with the gas throughout the body, outside to the skin, flesh, bones, internal organs, nowhere, thus producing different pathologies. Therefore, the ancients have "phlegm for the couple of all diseases", "stubborn phlegm strange disease", "all diseases are due to phlegm" statement. The characteristics of phlegm drink cause disease, can be broadly summarized as follows.

Blocking the flow of Qi and blood

Once the phlegm drink flow stagnation in a certain internal organs or a certain tissue, will block the qi, impede the blood flow, and even produce blood stasis, so there is "phlegm must also stasis" said. For example, the formation of cysts in certain organs or organs is often the result of phlegm and blood stasis. Another example is phlegm drink flowing in the meridians and tendons, can make the qi blocked, qi and blood is not smooth, will cause numbness, flexion and extension of the limbs, even paraplegia, or the formation of phlegm nucleus, scrofula, yin gangrene (sores and swelling between the muscles and bones) and other diseases. If phlegm drinks block the lung, the lung qi can not be promoted and lowered, visible as chest tightness and asthma, cough and phlegm; phlegm drinks in the stomach, the stomach does not harmonize and lower, visible as nausea and vomiting, fullness and uncomfortable; phlegm blocks the heart, visible as chest tightness and palpitations, chest pain; phlegm knots in the throat, can cause obstruction in the throat such as foreign body feeling.

Easy to obscure the heart and mind

Phlegm rises and falls with the qi, "up to the top, down to the spring". If phlegm goes up with qi, it is easy to obscure the clear orifices and disturb the mind, thus appearing dizziness and dizziness, mental discomfort, or phlegm and fire knot, up to obscure the mind, the mind is disturbed, and delirium can occur, or cause epilepsy, madness, epilepsy and other diseases.

Extensive pathogenesis and multiple symptoms

Because phlegm and drink can flow with the qi, nowhere, flowing to different parts, that is, the occurrence of different evidence of disease. In addition, phlegm drink can also hold wind, heat, stasis and stagnation, so its symptoms in the clinical manifestation of a variety of complex, changeable, a wide range of diseases, a number of difficult to prove, therefore, Chinese medicine has "strange disease more phlegm" said.