What are the symptoms of damp heat?

Damp-heat is the connotation of traditional Chinese medicine, which refers to the spleen and stomach, liver and gallbladder brewing in the middle jiao. Dampness is a turbid and sticky evil, which easily affects the operation of qi. If it is used together with heat pathogen, it will be difficult to clear damp heat, and heat steaming will hurt yang more seriously. Clinical manifestations are lingering heat, high fever in the afternoon, heavy weight, mental fatigue, laziness, lethargy, chest tightness, nausea, anorexia, abdominal distension, loose stool, or dizziness. More common in intestinal typhoid, icteric hepatitis and leptospirosis. Wet and heavy, turbid and sticky, similar to water, so it is yin evil; It has the pathogenic characteristics of blocking qi and easily trapping spleen yang. Inflammation, burning and annoyance are contrary to cold, so they belong to yang evil; Its pathogenicity is manifested as warming up, damaging yin, consuming gas, transferring blood into blood, disturbing the mind and spreading rapidly. The evil of damp-heat can be divided into internal and external causes. Internal dampness is mostly caused by dysfunction of spleen and stomach, and internal heat (fire) is mostly caused by five senses transforming into fire, spicy food, tobacco and alcohol addiction, phlegm-dampness and blood stasis. Damp-heat pathogen is the most common and main pathogenic factor of hepatobiliary diseases, and almost all liver diseases have the basic characteristics of damp-heat pathogen to varying degrees. Whether it is common gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal distension, diarrhea and anorexia in hepatobiliary diseases, or fever and abscess in various infectious hepatobiliary diseases, it is closely related to damp-heat invading the liver and gallbladder. For example, jaundice is mainly caused by damp heat accumulated in the liver and gallbladder, leading to liver failure, bile overflow, skin immersion and bladder outflow. As far as acute jaundice of fulminant hepatitis is concerned, it is the result of the combination of damp-heat and toxin. The combination of damp and heat can cause jaundice of hepatobiliary diseases, diarrhea, pus and blood in stool, and diarrhea caused by damp and heat accumulation in large intestine.