Phlegm-Heat has lots of green/yellow sputum and a noisy honk of a cough. If acute it comes early in a cold or ‘flu. If chronic, you probably took antibiotics for it.
Damp-Heat often comes with fever and yellow phlegm. Normally caused by infection but in some cases by the wrong foods . Often exacerbated by anger.
Influenza is usually, in Chinese medicine, a warm-damp type of disease. If so, what does Chinese medicine suggest you do?
Defensive level damp heat syndrome describes how your body defends itself against flu like diseases. What to eat! What to do!
Yuck Phlegm is the title of my book on phlegm. If the picture makes you recoil, you’re in good company. Whoever talks about phlegm, anyway?
Lung Phlegm fluids mostly come with age. Then they slosh around inside, pretty well for ever. Unless you do something about them.
Lung Phlegm Cold gives you a cough with runny watery mucus and spit, a chest that feel blocked, and a general sense of coldness and heaviness.
Why do many modern diseases occur? Because of what Chinese medicine calls ‘Latent Heat’. Like a terrorist cell, it lurks unobtrusively, waiting for the call to action.
Although this Greater Yin stage is the fourth of the Six stages, quite a lot of people get here by other means. It’s not uncommon.
Lung Phlegm with both Lung and Spleen deficiency often happens because of bad habits, posture, food, smoking and stress.
Phlegm-Heat has lots of green/yellow sputum and a noisy honk of a cough. If acute it comes early in a cold or ‘flu. If chronic, you probably took antibiotics for it.
Damp-Heat often comes with fever and yellow phlegm. Normally caused by infection but in some cases by the wrong foods . Often exacerbated by anger.
Influenza is usually, in Chinese medicine, a warm-damp type of disease. If so, what does Chinese medicine suggest you do?
Defensive level damp heat syndrome describes how your body defends itself against flu like diseases. What to eat! What to do!
Yuck Phlegm is the title of my book on phlegm. If the picture makes you recoil, you’re in good company. Whoever talks about phlegm, anyway?
Lung Phlegm fluids mostly come with age. Then they slosh around inside, pretty well for ever. Unless you do something about them.
Lung Phlegm Cold gives you a cough with runny watery mucus and spit, a chest that feel blocked, and a general sense of coldness and heaviness.
Why do many modern diseases occur? Because of what Chinese medicine calls ‘Latent Heat’. Like a terrorist cell, it lurks unobtrusively, waiting for the call to action.
Although this Greater Yin stage is the fourth of the Six stages, quite a lot of people get here by other means. It’s not uncommon.
Lung Phlegm with both Lung and Spleen deficiency often happens because of bad habits, posture, food, smoking and stress.
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