Do you know what the unique “winter disease summer treatment” of Chinese medicine is about?

What is “winter disease and summer treatment”? The term “winter disease and summer treatment” is a unique term and concept in Chinese medicine as opposed to Western medicine, which literally means that diseases that are easy to get or have in winter are treated in summer. Especially for people with a deficient cold constitution, the use of this principle will receive unexpected results. Because people with a deficient cold constitution, their own yang energy is not enough, usually can not survive the cold winter evil, the cold evil qi can easily invade the body, in order to cause disease evil hiding body. The usual symptoms are cold hands and feet, fear of cold and warmth, fear of wind and cold, tiredness and sleepiness, rheumatic arthritis, cough, Yang deficiency and lack of energy, etc. Why do we need to “treat winter diseases in summer”? Because people with “winter diseases” have a colder physique, and the natural environment is cold and condensed in winter, while the human body is in a contracted condition, such as contraction of pores and relative slackness of blood and muscles. When treating “winter diseases”, the effect of warming medicine is needed, and at this time, both the external environment and the internal body will weaken the effect of medicine. However, at the height of summer, when the outside world is hot and sunny and the body is full of heart fire, the accumulated cold is most easily driven out from the bladder meridian and joints at the back. For example, for some mild winter diseases, Yang deficiency disease of cold hands and feet, in the summer will also be significantly better, but some people even in the summer are cold hands and feet, then it is necessary to “winter disease summer treatment”! What is suitable for “winter diseases and summer treatment”? “Winter illnesses are often the result of cold, accumulated over time, gradually deposited before forming, these cold may stop at the joints, organs, meridians, specific circumstances, to name a few. 1, respiratory system diseases: chronic cough, asthma, chronic bronchitis, recurrent colds, etc. 2, rheumatic immune diseases: joint pain and numbness in the limbs, frozen shoulder, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. 3, digestive system diseases: chronic gastritis, chronic enteritis, indigestion, etc. 4.Ear, nose and throat diseases: allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, chronic laryngitis, etc. 5.Pediatric diseases: asthma, cough, bronchitis, weakness of body and stomach, etc. 6, chronic skin diseases: urticaria, frostbite, scleroderma, etc. 7, gynecological diseases: dysmenorrhea, menstrual diarrhea, infertility, etc. 8.Other: Yang deficiency type of physique people. The above-mentioned diseases are likely to be caused by cold, which is easy to recur and difficult to recover. This time, with the help of the summer when Yang is in full bloom, active treatment, or soup, or moxibustion, or massage, but relatively easy to treat. As the saying goes, “The way of heaven is to make up for deficiencies while losing surplus”. “Winter illnesses are treated in summer, to a certain extent, by following the wisdom of Chinese medicine, which follows the way of heaven, by losing excess cold and replenishing yang, in order to treat winter illnesses. The “three volt patch”, which was born from the concept of winter disease and summer treatment, follows this heavenly path of losing excess and replenishing deficiency. In fact, the concept of winter diseases and summer treatment is not limited to the connotation of this three volt paste, winter diseases are treated in the summer Yang season, the effect is very good.