Description of exterior and interior image in fever of traditional Chinese medicine

Fever, also known as fever, due to cold, wind and other antecedents, viruses, bacteria invade the human body, there is a struggle between vital qi and evil qi, human body temperature rises more than 0.5 ℃, it is fever. People's normal body temperature will also vary according to individual differences, and it will also be affected by spring, summer, autumn and winter season and some time periods of specific climate and environment. Women will also affect their body temperature because of menstruation and other gynecological diseases, childbirth and other factors.

Take body temperature

As a result, everyone should often measure and count and analyze their body temperature, but most people do not have this concept of consciousness, so they often judge whether they have a fever by taking different parts of their body temperature. for example, if a person's armpit temperature exceeds 37.4 ℃, it is a fever. In terms of time, the temperature measurement time is 10 minutes. From the causes of fever, in addition to the above-mentioned pathogenic viruses and bacteria, there are other causes, such as collagen disease, such as connective tissue disease, malignant tumor and so on.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the fever of the human body is dialectical from two aspects: exogenous and internal injury. in exogenous, it is to feel the qi of six exogenous pathogens and epidemic diseases, not to mention viruses, bacteria, etc., which is often called typhoid, epidemic disease and febrile disease. The TCM annotation of internal injury and fever is diet fatigue or the change of seven emotions, which leads to the imbalance of yin and yang and deficiency of qi and blood, so it is mostly deficiency. Such as dryness and heat due to yin deficiency, fever due to yang deficiency, fever due to blood deficiency, fever due to qi deficiency, fever due to fatigue, fever due to yang floating, fever caused by blood loss, fever caused by five heart attacks, etc.

Look at the temperature.

Excellent Chinese medicine can be said to describe fever in all aspects and incisively and vividly. For example, in the type of fever, it is also divided into slight heat, shape heat, aversion to fever, hot flashes, sudden fever, fever and aversion to cold, cold and heat contact, five upset fever, and so on. And there are differences in time and body parts. For example, in terms of time, there are Ripu fever, Pingdan fever, daytime fever, night fever and so on. In terms of location, there are muscle heat, ulnar skin heat, shoulder heat, elbow heat, palm heat, foot heat, limb heat, back heat, hand back heat, and so on. Moreover, there are dialectical fever of food accumulation, blood stasis, accumulation, drinking, residual heat after illness and so on.