The nature and pathogenic characteristics of wind pathogen

Nature of pathogenic wind: exogenous diseases are caused by exogenous pathogens, which are divided into wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and heat (fire) in traditional Chinese medicine, and are called "six evils". Wind evil is the first of the "six evils", and Huangdi Neijing records that "wind is the length of all diseases". After the head, face and body are attacked by wind evil, symptoms such as dizziness, excessive sweating and wind evil often appear, which can make itching and pain one after another, and can be combined with cold, phlegm, dampness, dryness, heat (fire) and other diseases to make people sick.

Three pathogenic characteristics of pathogenic wind;

1, wind evil has the characteristics of rising outward.

Wind evil often hurts the skin on the upper part of the head, with symptoms such as hyperhidrosis, wind evil, headache, stiff neck and facial edema. Tang Liang said, "Su Wen's On Taiyin Yangming means" the wind is the first to bear the brunt ".

2. Wind pathogen is acute, changes rapidly, and the disease position is uncertain.

Chinese medicine believes that if wind evil invades joints, it will cause joint wandering pain, which seems to be popular and uncertain; Wind evil invades the surface and accumulates on the skin, causing skin lumps, itching, ups and downs, and hair is nowhere to be found. The folk image is called "wind mass". These diseases have rapid onset and rapid changes in their condition. When treating these diseases, TCM should disperse pathogenic wind.

3, the wind is active and the disease is shaken.

Vertigo, tremor and limb twitching are mostly pathological changes of "wind-strong action" There are also many infectious diseases with fever in spring, and there will be hot and windy manifestations, such as convulsions. The rising of yang in spring is more prone to the invasion of internal wind such as liver yang wind and yin deficiency wind, and the symptoms of stroke such as dizziness and hemiplegia appear.

Extended data:

"Wind evil" is the root of all diseases, and it often invades human muscles, joints, meridians and viscera with evil spirits such as "dampness evil" and "cold evil". Clinically, there are symptoms such as muscle and joint pain, numbness of limbs, and even rheumatism such as headache, dizziness, mouth and eye deviation, peripheral neuropathy, cerebral vasospasm and facial paralysis. Especially the elderly, the infirm, the patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes.

Wind pathogen can be combined with cold, dampness, phlegm, dryness and heat (fire) to form diseases. The particularity of the disease, wind disease comes and goes quickly, and the course of the disease is not long. Its special symptoms are easy to understand, such as sweating, itching, wandering, numbness and anxiety. In clinical practice, if the onset in spring is obviously related to the feeling of wind evil, we can consider the existence of wind evil.

There are normal climatic phenomena in nature, such as wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and heat (fire), which were called "six qi" in ancient times. Six-yin is the title of abnormal changes of six qi. The ancients believed that abnormal climate change would lead to diseases. Chinese medicine borrows the names and characteristics of "wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and heat (fire)" to summarize all the causes of diseases caused by external factors interfering with the human body.

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