中医药英语 燥邪.pptVIP

Dryness *1 Brief introduction *2 Characteristics of dryness  in causing disease *3 Dietary advice in autumn  Dryness is predominant in autumn. So disease caused by dryness mostly appears in autumn. Dryness can be divided into warm-dryness and cool-dryness due to difference in weather. The difference between warm-dryness and cool-dryness * Pathogenic dryness is apt to consume yin, especially body fluids.  Clinical manifestations are dryness of the mouth, lips and nose, dryness of the tongue, dry, rough and chapped skin, dry stool, etc. * Pathogenic dryness is liable to injure the lung. The lung is considered a tender organ which prefers moisture, cleanliness, and descent. If pathogenic dryness attacks the body from the mouth and nose, the yin fluid of the lung is likely to be consumed. It may lead to the dysfunction of dispersion and descent, and manifest as dry cough with scanty sputum, sticky mucus causing difficultexpectoration, or bloody sputum, etc. * Cool and dry Heat and dry syndrome climate time the weather is already cold ,the combination of dryness and cold The weather remaining summer-heat ,the combination of dryness and heat at the late stage of autumn at the early stage of autumn cool-dryness warm-dryness Main clinical manifestations of cool dryness and warm dryness * Main clinical manifestations of cool dryness: fever, aversion to cold, headache, no sweating, dryness of the mouth and nose, dry skin, cough with scanty or no sputum, dry white and thin tongue coating * Main clinical manifestations of warm dryness: fever, mild aversion to wind and cold, headache, scanty perspiration, dry cough, or cough with a small amount of sticky sputum, dry skin, thirst, irritability, red tongue tip and sides, and dry scanty tongue coating.