Malaria refers to a disease caused by plasmodium infection, characterized by chills, high fever, sweating, and sometimes breaks.
Malaria is commonly known as "swinging" among the people. It is spread by mosquito bites, so it often occurs in summer and autumn when mosquitoes are rampant, and it can also occur in other seasons. Due to the differences in physical strength, pathogenic factors, epidemic characteristics and manifestations, they are roughly classified as follows:
1. According to clinical syndromes, there are wind malaria, summer malaria, wet malaria, phlegm malaria, eating malaria, cold malaria, warm malaria and wind-heat malaria. According to the time of onset, there are vivax malaria, three-day malaria, positive malaria, maternal malaria, night malaria, ghost malaria, wandering malaria, old malaria, chronic malaria, yin malaria and yang malaria.
2. According to the inducing factors and epidemic characteristics, there are fatigue malaria, deficiency malaria, malaria and epidemic malaria. It can be seen that Chinese medicine has a systematic and comprehensive understanding of malaria, which also reflects from another side that the disease is also a common, frequently-occurring and epidemic disease that threatens human health.