Generally speaking, the six types of evils in Chinese medicine are wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire, which can be divided into two categories from the perspective of yin and yang. Cold evil, wet evil belongs to the category of yin evil, wind evil, dry evil, summer evil, fire evil belongs to the category of yang evil.
1. Yin evil: Cold evil, dampness is yin in nature, easy to damage the body’s yang. Among them, the cold evil has the characteristics of cold main attraction (cold evil astringent qi, so that the meridians and tendons contracture), stagnation main pain, dampness has a heavy and turbid, tends to the nature of the next, easy to invade the lower part of the body.
2. Yang evil: wind evil, dry evil, summer evil, fire evil its nature is Yang, easy to invade the upper part of the body. Wind evil often manifested as discomfort symptoms wandering; dry evil easy to consume fluid, most likely to injure the lungs; summer evil easy to disturb the mind, more with the dampness of the disease; fire evil easy to move the wind and blood, often lead to bleeding disease.
If discomfort occurs, it should be treated under the guidance of a doctor in a timely manner so as not to delay the condition.