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Hello everyone

Our previous study mainly focused on the basic theories

characteristics

syndrome differentiation

therapeutic principles and methods

Chinese medicinal herbs

as well as the formulas of TCM

From today on

we are going to start a new chapter

chapter 10 common diseases

In this chapter

we are going to study how to recognize

and how to handle the disease from TCM view

There are four common diseases from the clinical practice

that we’ll talk about

For today let’s take a look at the cold

Cold is a common exogenous disease caused by wind

cold or heat

It is manifested by fever

aversion to wind or cold

and nasal obstruction etc

it occurs in any season

especially during spring and winter

Pathogenic wind cold and heat

are the common factors for causing a cold disease

When the external pathogenic factors

attack the human body through mouth nose or skin

it can induce various symptoms

Some conditions

like aging

chronic disease

unsuitable lifestyle or over-strain

may lead to unconsolidated defensive qi

followed by invasion of external pathogenic factors

In addition seasonal epidemic pathogens

such as the virus of cov-19

can cause infections of various degree

induce pestilence epidemic

Severely

weakened patients can contract other diseases

According to the nature of pathogenic factors

cold disease is commonly divided into three different syndromes

wind-cold syndrome

wind-heat syndrome and seasonal epidemic cold

For the wind-cold syndrome

The external wind and cold pathogenic factors attack our body

and lead to a struggle between healthy qi and pathogenic qi

in the out part of our body

As we have studied lung is corresponding to the body hair and nose

Therefore

this kind of invasion often causes symptoms of lung and nose

The patient

with wind-cold syndrome

may have the symptoms and signs

such as

serious aversion to cold

fever

anhidrosis

headache or body pain

nasal obstruction or sneezing or watery nasal discharge

light red tongue with thin and white coating

as well as floating and tight pulse

The treatment for wind- cold syndrome should considerate

the struggling between the healthy qi and the pathogenic factors

We usually pick some Chinese herbs with warm nature

to release the wind and cold out of the body

The therapeutic effect often achieved by sweating

For example

one of this kind of typical formula which is called Ma Huang Decoction

is often used to treat a cold disease

Ma Huang Decoction is a very famous formula

which was created by Zhang Zhongjing in the Han dynasty

The patient will get sweating when the patient drinks this decoction

because of the medicinal functions of all the four herbs

One side Ma Huang Decoction can help to improve

the healthy qi of the body

in the other side it can keep the wind and cold factors

out of the body by sweating

Then the struggling between the healthy qi and the pathogenic factors

will be stopped with expelling of wind and cold

Except for Chinese herbs

acupuncture is a good way to

keep the wind and cold out of our body

Acupoints GB 20 and GV 16 can be chosen

to expel the wind and cold out body

by using the needles to stimulate

In addition to these two methods

there is a very convenient way to treat the cold disease

Two acupoints along the index finger

as the picture shows

are selected to be pressed

by using round stick

In order to treat the cold

100 times for each hand need to be pressed every day

It may take 2-3 days

Now let’s take a look at the wind-heat syndrome

For the pathogenesis

external wind and heat

invade the human body

through mouth nose and skin

Because the wind and heat belong to yang

they can consume body fluid

when they get into the body

The patient with wind-heat syndrome

may have the symptoms and signs

such as slight aversion to wind-cold

marked fever

sweating

headache

nasal obstruction or sneezing

yellowish thick nasal discharge

reddish tip of tongue with thin and yellow coating

as well as floating and rapid pulse

The therapeutic principle for wind-heat syndrome

is to remove the wind and heat

from the body

by using the Chinese herbs with cool nature

For treating the wind-heat syndrome

Yin Qiao Powder can be selected

This formula is composed of nine herbs

The nature of most of the herbs are cool

This decoction aims to help the patient

to remove the wind and heat

out of the body

since the two pathogenic factors

are warm while the herbs are cool

Acupuncture can be used to treat the wind-heat syndrome

Usually

acupoints GV 14 and LI 4

are picked to stimulate by using needles

The two acupoints have the function of clearing heat

therefore the wind and heat can be removed out of body by

stimulating the two acupoints

The seasonal epidemic cold is a special type of cold

Its pathogenesis mainly exists in seasonal epidemic cold

invading the body

leads to the struggling between healthy qi and the pathogenic factor

The cold pathogen can change into heat

toxin pathogen

during the struggling

The clinical symptoms and signs of seasonal epidemic cold

can be as follows

abrupt

aversion to cold

high fever

acute headache

general aching pain

congestion in the throat

red tongue with yellow and greasy coating

as well as rapid pulse

Most of the symptoms are related with the heat toxin pathogen

change from the external epidemic cold pathogen

The basic law to treat such kind of cold disease is to clear the heat

and remove the toxin from the patient body

The formula Qing Wen Bai Du Decoction can be chosen

to treat such kind of disease

This formula was created in Qing dynasty

The nature of the whole formula is cool enough to clear the heat

and remove the toxin pathogen from the body

For this section

we talked about the concept

pathogenesis

syndrome differentiation

symptoms and signs

therapeutic principle and therapeutic methods of cold disease

Anyway

cold disease mainly caused by external pathogenic factors

and the location of disease in the exterior part of the body

It is easily to be treated comparing with the interior diseases

OK that’s all for today

I’ll see you in next class