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Lung Dryness is a syndrome in Chinese medicine. ‘Syndrome’ means it’s one of the ways that Chinese medicine considers that your Lung energy may misbehave. Not surprisingly, one of the most obvious symptoms of Lung Dryness is dryness! This pervades the whole syndrome. | Cough Copyright-photographerlondon-dreamstime.com.jpg |
In Chinese medicine, how and what we eat and drink turns up again and again as underlying causes of ill-health.
We all know that food is our first medicine, but it’s also a comfort and a reason for letting off steam with friends. Sometimes the therapeutic aspect gets lost.
Good food and digestion produce good Qi and Blood, daily requirements for health.
This Qi and Blood feed all our zang-fu energy organs, including our Lungs. It is vital that our lungs retain their moisture levels: this comes from our Blood, a yin resource.
Dry air depletes this, leading to Lung Dryness unless the food and fluids we consume replace them.
There are various ways we can weaken the therapeutic effect of what we meet. (If you’re interested, read more about this under Spleen and Stomach. Also, read Nutrition.)
Eating …
The trouble with dietary-induced syndromes is that you are seldom aware of trouble brewing! You just go on doing your own thing and then one day you get ill, and it’s hard to accept that this might have been due to years of nutritional mistakes.
The result is a form of yin deficiency. It starts often with Stomach Yin deficiency, but leads onto Lung dryness. If not corrected, this can proceed to another syndrome, Lung Yin deficiency.
There are acupuncture points that help the body produce moisture in the Lungs. They strengthen the yin qualities in the body that support the production of fluids, and help the Stomach produce more Yin. (Click to find more about yin and yang.)
There are Chinese herbal formulae that back this up. But you’ll need to keep taking them for a while.
This syndrome seldom comes or goes overnight. When yin resources are depleted they take time to replace.
Click to read about acupuncture points along the Lung channel.
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Hello Jonathan,
For someone with Lung dryness, can warm steam inhalation help (alongside acupuncture and diet change)?
don-hi
If Lung dryness is due to Cold, warm steam inhalation would probably be pleasant and helpful. If from Heat, probably not. If from Lung Yin deficiency, doubtful. If from Qi stagnation, probably yes.