How Chinese medicine identifies epilepsy

  According to Chinese medicine, the cause of epilepsy, the pathogenesis is mainly related to wind, fire, phlegm, silt, deficiency and heart, liver, spleen and kidney. In addition, the seven emotions and qi are not smooth and cause liver depression. The wood is not enough, the spleen is deficient and produces phlegm, phlegm can turn into heat, heat turns into fire, and fire produces wind. It attacks the brain and causes epilepsy, cerebral palsy and hyperactivity. Phlegm confuses the clear orifices and makes the mind dizzy, wind shakes and convulses, trembling, so phlegm is the main cause of morbidity. Phlegm is sticky (Yin), wind is mobile and changeable, both meet and cause convulsions.  Clinically, liver stasis and fire can induce seizures. Liver stasis causes poor qi flow, phlegm and warmth stop inside, stasis turns into fire, fire is easy to move up, decocting fluid, knots and becomes phlegm, wind moves phlegm to rise, blocking the state of mind, then fainting and convulsion, spitting foam. In short, due to wind, fire, phlegm, stasis and deficiency, the liver, spleen, kidney and heart are damaged. This is the main pathological basis of epilepsy, while wind and phlegm are the basic pathological factors causing the onset of epilepsy.