Upper heat and lower cold are a common symptom of modern people, which is manifested as the coexistence of heat and cold, which brings great trouble to people's lives. Perennial fire, always mouth ulcers, tongue sores, chronic pharyngitis, insomnia, etc., these heat symptoms make people miserable. At the same time, it is accompanied by many symptoms of body cold, such as a fat tongue, blue thenar fish, cold lower limbs, etc., which make the body feel abnormally cold.
For this group of people, there are also big problems with diet. Eating some hot food will get hot, and eating some cold food will hurt the yang.
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the expression of upper heat and lower cold is actually more accurate "true cold and false heat" or "yang does not return to its place". In the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", there is such a sentence: "Those who are sick with fever today are all ...... typhoid fever and the like."If a person's injury is due to cold, it is a fever." This quote reveals how the cold evil causes fever. When the cold evil invades the human body, the yang energy will be repelled and will accumulate in the upper part of the body, which will manifest as a heat sign. This explains why people experience symptoms of fire. In short, body chill is the root cause of fire.
When we delve into this problem, it is not difficult to find the close connection between body cold and fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the health of the human body is the result of the balance of yin and yang. When the cold qi in the body is too heavy, the yang qi cannot be warmed and held normally, and it will float upward, resulting in the appearance of heat in the upper part. This kind of heat is actually an illusion, because its root is in the cold and evil, not in the real heat.
Therefore, the expression "true cold and false heat" or "yang does not return to its place" more accurately describes the pathogenesis of upper heat and lower cold. In terms of **, traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the regulation of yin and yang, so that yang energy returns to its place, and dispels cold evil, so as to achieve the purpose of fundamentally solving the problem of fire. This requires patients to actively cooperate with the doctor's advice to improve their own immunity and promote good health by adjusting their diet, strengthening exercise, and reasonable work and rest.