Heavy dampness refers to the fact that dampness is heavy, turbid and qualitative evil, which belongs to yin and causes disease, and often appears clinical manifestations characterized by heavy feeling. Such as heavy head and body, sore limbs and so on. Damp-evil attacks the muscle surface, which blocks the clearing of yang. If the clearing of yang does not rise, the head will be as heavy as a bundle. Damp pathogen blocks joints, and yang can't be reached, so it can be seen that the skin is heartless and the joint pain is heavy. Although damp-heat can be divided into external dampness and internal dampness, it affects each other as a disease, which is a combination of internal and external evils.
clinical picture
1. Damp stagnation muscle surface
Aversion to cold, fever, fever, sore body, headache, heavy body and pain, etc., which can be seen in damp obstruction of qi movement.
2. Dampness blocking meridians
The limbs are sore, the meridians are shortened, and they are anxious or spasmodic. Such as damp convulsion, can be seen fainting, limb syncope, low body heat, boredom and so on.
Step 3 get wet
Damp-arthralgia can be seen in patients with excessive moisture, such as severe pain or swelling of limbs and joints, localized pain, heavy hands and feet, etc., and skin numbness, inconvenient movement and so on can be seen in patients with stagnant dampness and obstruction of qi and blood.
4. Damping and clearing Yang
If the head is heavy, or if it is wrapped, the fox has a headache and faint pain, or dizziness, hearing loss syndrome, clearing yang can not be declared, then it can be seen that the limbs are heavy and painful, and they are sleepy.
Common syndrome types
1. Wet-trapped health watch
Symptoms: low body temperature, lingering lingering, slight aversion to wind and cold, little and sticky sweat, headache, severe pain in limbs, or fullness in chest and diaphragm, fullness in the mouth, greasy stool, and yellowish complexion. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is floating.
Pathogenesis: Damp pathogen is trapped in exterior, and defensive qi is depressed.
Treatment: aromatic dampness.
Representative prescription: Huopu Xialing Decoction. This prescription is aromatic, which can manifest exterior, remove dampness and neutralize middle energizer, and is used to feel summer dampness, physical drowsiness and mental fatigue, and relieve bloating.
Medicinal Pogostemon Pogostemonis and Semen Myristicae are fragrant to remove dampness; Almond, Coicis Semen, Polyporus, Poria, Magnolia Officinalis and Alisma orientalis can promote qi circulation, and promote diuresis and dampness; Pinellia ternata stops vomiting; Douchi penetrates the surface.
2. Damp stagnation of meridians
Symptoms: the joint is sore and fixed, or the leg and knee joint are swollen, the lateral flexion and extension is unfavorable, or the lower limbs are swollen. The tongue coating is white and slippery or greasy, and the pulse is slow.
Pathogenesis: Damp pathogens attack collaterals and keep joints.
Treatment: eliminating dampness and dredging collaterals.
Prescription: coix seed decoction. This recipe can dispel wind, damp and dredge collaterals, and treat arthralgia mainly with dampness and severe joint pain.
Medicinal Coicis Semen and Rhizoma Atractylodis are used to transport spleen and promote diuresis; Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Saposhnikoviae and Ramulus Cinnamomi dispel wind, overcome dampness and dredge collaterals; Chaenomeles sinensis, Acanthopanax senticosus and Bombyx Batryticatus are dehumidified and activated.
Severe soreness and pain in the back and lower body, plus Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae for expelling wind and removing dampness.
Prevention and nursing
The occurrence of heavy humidity is mostly related to climate and environment, so we should pay attention to moisture prevention and avoid living in hot and humid places.