What is the treatment of winter disease in summer in traditional Chinese medicine? When is the best time?

"Winter disease treated in summer" is commonly said to be winter disease treated in summer. "Winter disease" refers to the symptoms that patients with deficiency-cold constitution tend to aggravate in winter or winter (such as cough, general weakness, cold limbs, diarrhea, irregular stool, food residue in stool, aversion to eating, fear of cold, repeated colds, insomnia, etc. Most of them are caused by cold evil in winter, insufficient body yang and weak constitution. For example, in winter, cold pathogens are rampant. In this season, the treatment of warming yang and dispelling cold is often "get twice the result with half the effort", so we must "avoid its sharpness" in treatment. In principle, the effect of medication in winter is not obvious.

"Summer treatment" refers to the treatment of these diseases when they are relieved in summer. Because the dog days are the most vigorous period of yang qi and the weakest period of cold pathogen in a year, the external treatment methods such as tonifying kidney and warming yang, acupoint application and acupoint injection can play the role of dispelling cold and strengthening yang, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, making qi and blood flow smooth and correcting deficiency-cold constitution. At this time, we just want to "chase the cold evil", and we often "get twice the result with half the effort".

Why should we first raise the yang of the human body to treat diseases and preserve health? Yang Qi is the motive force of human body's material metabolism and physiological function, and the decisive factor of human body's reproduction, growth, development, aging and death. The normal survival of human beings needs the support of yang, and the more yang, the stronger the human body.

Yang Qi comes from two aspects, one is the innate qi of parents, and the other is the combination of Shui Gu qi derived from spleen and stomach. It has the functions of warming and nourishing the whole body tissues and maintaining the functions of viscera. Yang Qi deficiency will lead to the weakening and decline of physiological activities, which will lead to the decline of the body's ability to keep out the cold. It means that with the increase of age, people's yang will gradually lose.

"Dog days" is the best time to replenish yang. The dog days are a period between summer and summer in 24 solar terms (summer, summer, beginning of autumn, summer), and it is the day with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry weather in a year. According to the characteristics of Yang Qi's storage in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "nourishing yang in spring and summer" (nourishing yang in spring and summer) and "nourishing yin in autumn and winter" (nourishing yin essence in autumn and winter).

Therefore, the dog days are the time nodes with the strongest yang and the weakest cold evil in a year. The dog days "crouch" means "lurk", that is, the "cold evil" in nature lurks in the dog days. In this case, we must pursue "cold evil" and eradicate it.

Winter disease is treated in summer, benefiting lung, strengthening spleen and tonifying kidney. "Lung governs qi, kidney is the root of qi, and spleen is the source of phlegm." Taking advantage of the three dog seasons in summer, adapting to the season, adopting traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods of warming yang to dispel cold, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm can eliminate stubborn cold in the body, increase the loss of yang in the body, improve human immunity and effectively relieve symptoms.

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