Diseases that can be treated by Summer Disease Winter Treatment are heart-blood deficiency, liver yin deficiency and kidney yin deficiency with internal heat.
1. As the name suggests, summer illnesses and winter treatments can be used to nourish Yin deficiency in winter. According to the principle of nourishing Yin in autumn and winter in Chinese medicine theory, tonic medicines that can nourish Yin essence and Yin blood can be used in winter to enhance the nourishing power of the tonic medicines to alleviate Yin deficiency in spring and summer.
In the winter for the tonic, can enhance its nourishing power, so as to alleviate the spring and summer seasons, summer heat burning fluid, damage to the body’s yin essence and the emergence of internal heat and thirst, poor quality of sleep, dreaming, and other symptoms of heart and blood deficiency.
2. In winter, moxibustion and other warming treatments can enhance the effect of yin convergence, and also improve women’s menstrual disorders such as irregular menstruation and low menstrual flow when the liver and kidney are deficient in yin.
3. The dry climate in summer easily depletes yin, so treatment in winter can improve lung yin deficiency such as consumption and coughing.
When winter treatment is needed for summer illnesses, it should be selected for targeted treatment after identification and adjustment by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.