The six elements of Chinese medicine refer to the six external pathogens, specifically the six external pathogens of wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire.
Wind: Wind is characterized by lightness, openness, good movement and non-residence; it is easy to invade the Yang position and good at change, which are the main features of wind.
Cold: Cold is a yin evil, easily injuring yang qi; and cold is stagnant, easily causing condensation of qi, blood and fluids, leading to paralysis of the meridians and veins.
Heat evil: Heat evil is a yang evil, which is also prone to injure and deplete qi, and most of the heat evils are interspersed with dampness, which, in addition to injuring and depleting qi and fluids, will also show signs of heavy dampness.
Dampness: Dampness is characterized by heavy, sticky, easy to invade the lower part of the body, there will often be a lack of qi, the spleen and stomach elevation disorders, the course of the disease lingering performance.
Dryness: Dryness is dry and astringent, easily depletes fluid, resulting in dry skin, dry mouth and throat, short urine, dry stools; dryness also damages the lung fluid, resulting in dry cough with little sputum, hemoptysis, chest pain and other symptoms.
Fire: Fire is easy to injure the fluid and consume qi, easy to deplete the heart and mind, easy to appear eye redness and swelling, mouth and tongue sores, dry stools, high fever and dizziness and other symptoms.
The above are the six evils of lust mentioned in Chinese medicine.