When winter arrives, a cold front hits, making it the easiest season of the year to catch a cold. Many people start to experience symptoms such as runny nose, sore throat, cough, and even death from pneumonia and encephalitis. From a Chinese medicine point of view, a common cold is called a windy disease, while a more serious influenza is a warm disease or an epidemic. Western medicine often uses antihistamines and acetaminophen to treat colds, but there are many side effects; in fact, Chinese medicine can treat colds quickly and without side effects because it can prescribe the right medicine.
North wind blowing, will find a lot of people around the cold, coughing one after another! Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said that winter is easy to catch a cold mainly because of the temperature change, as well as the virus infected cold; people especially do not know much about the temperature difference cold, when the body’s Qi is not enough, resistance is not good, the outside temperature changes greatly, hot and cold, there will be internal and external cold.
Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee further explained that the human body is always in a state of heat dissipation, when the heat dissipation in the body is high, there is no fear of colds, when the heat dissipation is low, the body does not have enough body Qi, it is very dangerous; and the head is the part that dissipates heat up to 45% of the body, and the nose is the largest part accounting for 30%, once the capillaries, muscles and tendons can not stretch, there will be a runny nose, headache, fever, shoulder pain and other symptoms. Therefore, in order to prevent colds from internal and external injuries, it is necessary to have high heat dissipation in the body and to cultivate gastrointestinal energy so that colds from temperature changes will not occur.
Traditional Chinese medicine can be very effective in treating internal and external colds; for example, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said that Ma Huang can disperse sweat and heat, gypsum can disperse heat and cool down, ginger can open up the Qi in the gastrointestinal mucosa, red dates can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa, Chai Hu can reduce inflammation, and Gui Zhi can increase temperature. He also pointed out that Chinese medicine does not have side effects like western medicine fever reducing and anti-inflammatory drugs, especially western medicine can quickly reduce fever and anti-inflammatory, but will make people sweat a lot and cool down quickly in the place where heat is generated, which will lead to deficiency of internal health, which will not be able to produce heat all the time and further cause weaker resistance.
As for viral influenza, such as H1N1, etc.; Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee believes that it is mainly because of the liver’s immune system problems that can easily cause influenza, and most viral influenza enter the Eustachian tube from the ear and multiply in the Eustachian tube, resulting in high fever, sore throat and pneumonia. Therefore, in order to prevent viral colds, we must start by protecting the liver in order to make the immune system more resistant.
In clinical practice, there are many asthma patients will be due to their own moisture-heat body, the body temperature can not be regulated, so easy to have allergic colds, and will continue to recur; Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee stressed that the treatment of colds, in the use of drugs not only in reducing fever and anti-inflammatory, but also should take into account whether it will hurt the liver and gastrointestinal damage, not to make the patient too weak, to consider how to make patients recover, in order to reduce the chance of another cold.
Originally from: Healthnews.com.tw
Healthnews/ Reporter Ka-Ching Kwan reports 2014/12/10
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