TCM academic: Chinese medicine understanding of flu

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TCM academic: Chinese medicine understanding of flu Fang Hong Longhua hospital affiliated to Shanghai university of traditional Chinese medicine

Influenza clinical common symptoms are: evil cold, fever, high fever, headache, muscle aches, or vomiting, nausea and diarrhea. The elderly, infants, children and physique frail easily and viral pneumonia or encephalopathy. The disease is given priority to with winter and spring, the four seasons all can come on, can be infected, but popular.

According to the above characteristics, the disease belong to the category of "cold" "cold" of traditional Chinese medicine, was the person that weigh is called a "bad cold", complicated with pneumonia or diarrhea, traditional Chinese medicine belong to the category of "air temperature", if the outbreak or epidemic, Chinese medicine called ":" a cold "plague" "plague".

Influenza disease, illness severity is associated with the severity of the disease evil, also with the patient's physical condition and season, and environmental factors.

"Element asked, a review of the theory of fever" yue: "evil of gather together, the gas will be empty." True speech "golden grain asked, yue:" in essence, warm spring is not disease." So in song and Ming era of exogenous febrile prescription has been used in the ginseng, such as Sue drinks, ginseng disease spread, gas-solid table and evil spirits.

JingYue encyclopedia of typhoid Canon said: "green typhoid, those industries", "typhoid fever and the dead, will be the first defeat of". JingYue encyclopedia, plague article said: "typhoid plague more than in the winter not Tibetan essence and hard work of the hungry... so there will be a great plague after wild." Zhang jingyue advocated by Richard Yin Fried, Fried, sleep right to drink and divergence of product, such as both (JingYue encyclopedia of typhoid Canon 27).

He also puts forward said "you can fill in the hash table" (JingYue encyclopedia of typhoid Canon 28). To the science of seasonal febrile diseases said that pathogenic heat is the easiest injury fluid, attaches great importance to the save Yin and Yin jin, such as liquid soup, soup of three complex pulse.

During the outbreak or epidemic, the elderly, pregnant women, infants or immunocompromised patients merge pneumonia encephalopathy or to the merger mortality is higher. According to modern research, after the onset of the flu, can have 1 ~ 4 days remission, light person or alleviate illness and self-healing, if after 4 days of serious illness aggravation, higher fever, cough, cough up purulent sputum, shortness of breath, cyanosis, can with respiratory failure or circulatory collapse.

"Element asked, hot theory" have seen this rule: "today's fever, typhoid fever, also, or more, or death. The dead, all six of seven days, the more its, in four days or more."

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