How to determine phlegm-dampness and cold-dampness

Phlegm-dampness and cold-dampness can be distinguished from each other in terms of etiology and clinical manifestations. 1. Etiology: Phlegm-dampness is mostly due to the patient’s excessive consumption of spicy, greasy and sweet foods, which leads to the malfunction of the spleen and stomach, and the poor metabolism of water-dampness in the body, which stays in the body and turns into phlegm over a long period of time. Cold-dampness is mostly due to the patient’s love of cold and cold drinks or work and living environment is humid, long-term damage to the spleen and stomach yang qi, resulting in the spleen and stomach yang qi deficiency, the metabolism of water and dampness is not normal formation of cold-dampness, or due to the cold and dampness of the evil, invasion of the human body into a disease. 2. Clinical manifestations: patients with phlegm-dampness clinically manifested as drowsiness, chest and abdominal distension, sticky stools, phlegm, dizziness, forgetfulness, chest tightness, turbid urine, loss of appetite. Cold-dampness is often manifested in patients with epigastric (abdominal) fullness (stomach distension and discomfort), abdominal pain and cold pain, intestinal tinnitus and diarrhea, and prolonged limb hypothermia. If discomfort occurs, please consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor to identify the evidence of medication, not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition of the best treatment period.