Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine by Guangren Sun & Douglas Darwin Eisenstark & Qingrong Zhang

Author:Guangren Sun & Douglas Darwin Eisenstark & Qingrong Zhang [Sun, Guangren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PMPH-USA
Published: 2016-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

Pathogenic dryness

Pathogenic dryness invades the body mostly through the mouth and nose and first injures the lung. Diseases caused by dryness are divided as warm-dryness and cold-dryness. Dryness is most apparent in the autumn when the heat of the late summer is still present. Dryness and heat together attack the body, which creates warm-dryness disease. In late autumn, closer to winter, dryness and cold together attack the body to create cold-dryness.

Dryness is apt to consume yin-fluids, leading to dryness of the mouth, lips, hair, nose, as well as chapped and rough skin, scanty urination, and constipation. The lung is a “fragile” organ that desires moisture and has an aversion to dryness, so dryness tends to impair the lung. The lung governs qi, controls respiration, directly communicates with the air, is associated with the skin and hair, and its opening (orifice) is the nose. Pathogenic dryness tends to consume lung fluids which leads to lung qi’s failure to disperse and descend. This can result in a dry cough with little sputum, or sticky sputum which is hard to expectorate, or expectoration with blood, difficult breathing, and chest pain. The lung and large intestine have an exterior-interior relationship, so as the dryness pathogen consumes the lung-fluids, the large intestine will fail to be moistened. This creates dry stools and difficult defecation.

Dryness in the Clinic

Some of the diseases caused by dryness pathogen are cough with little sputum or dry cough, dry throat, dry and uncomfortable eyes, dry nose, dry skin, dry stools, vaginal dryness and irritation, infrequent menstruation or amenorrhea with dryness of the blood, emaciated muscles, and dry hair.

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