The catarrh and phlegm in Chinese medicine
8/12/11
The catarrh is common opinion confined to the respiratory tract and are the expression of an inflammatory or infectious acute or chronic. They are the result of excessive mucus production by goblet cells called mucus in the epithelial lining of many mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tract.
Here is another device that appears where you can potentially earn the mucus and the large intestine. In fact you can have in several colitis stool covered with an excess of mucus.
In Chinese medicine, also called catarrh "tan" have a location and a much more extended. Here is the translation of tan phlegm or phlegm but is not a concept that might be considered as the result of an error of metabolism of liquids.
The tan may have a form and there is talk of mucus but can also be invisible and participate in the creation of symptoms including severe and chronic diseases potentially present in all parts of the body.
Do not worry, however: the products with an acute catarrh of the respiratory tract are potentially dangerous, because the proper functioning of the immune system can fight the pathogens and the energy of the affected organs can gradually dispose of catarrh with a complete healing.
Different is the picture of a chronic disease, and in fact are the chronic pathologies that generate tan invisible. In these cases we always have a slow circulation of energy and a framework that we generally associate with a chronic inflammation of the fund.
Furthermore, it creates a vicious circle, the tan tends to produce a further slowing of the circulation, with possible increase of local heat and increase in tan themselves up to the formation of a stagnation of blood and energy in more advanced cases the formation of masses .
Chinese medicine for cancer disease becomes the final manifestation of a disease process that begins with a slowing of the circulation and always involves the gradual formation of as much or more than the West is the result of a prolonged inflammatory state: nothing much different from modern knowledge. The example that comes to my mind is always that of a stream where water flows quickly clear, clear and fresh, as opposed to a pool of water where the water gets dirty and stops growing.
Excess humidity can be due to formation of a particular deficiency in children as the spleen, in which case we will only create greater susceptibility to catarrh and get sick more easily with changes in temperature in these cases do not talk as much mucus.
The invisible tan or tan heat are more subtle forms is also possible in these cases have a constitutional predisposition, but the power and emotional disharmony in turn can accentuate the problem by increasing the humidity and heat as well as the internal energy constraint at large.
Still nothing new that is through the food we can prevent physical and emotional well the disease most feared by all the cancer and that is why acupuncture is always understood as a therapeutic tool to prevent problems created by its intrinsic ability to generate internal harmony .
When the invisible hand tan have already formed the Chinese herbal medicine becomes an invaluable therapeutic tool. The diagnosis can be made just by listening to the wrists in a position to highlight the tan on the different organs but also of some symptoms and disorders including vertigo, tinnitus, joint swelling and lumps, ovarian cysts or thyroid.
All diseases in China are almost exclusively treated with herbal medicine as a cooling of all diseases of the respiratory tract. There are many old recipes dedicated to catarrh and tan visible and invisible, able to move some of the blood and qi with vigor, some specific to drain moisture and heat through the urine or feces, but without attacking the kidneys or the 'gut as diuretics and laxatives are the common.
One of the many substances that can be found in many recipes as a remedy for joint moisture is the seed of barley or Job's Tears, Coix Lacrhryma Jobi in Latin, Chinese Yiyiren. It 'a remedy that can be very handy to use as long-invigorates the spleen and you can come up for food. Therapies unfortunately too little known in Italy and with side effects much lower than the commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs.









La mia passione per la riabilitazione nasceva circa 25 anni fa quando incontrava la Dott.ssa Morosini; il mondo Universitario mi aveva fatto perdere la voglia di diventare medico, i pazienti erano buoni solo quando potevano entrare in un protocollo terapeutico, non contavano le loro esigenze e necessità terapeutiche individuali. La fisiatria praticata e insegnata dalla professa Morosini mi ha permesso di ritrovare quella dimensione umana di cui sentivo l'esigenza per continuare i miei studi. 

E già, lo sanno tutti gli uomini: avere pensieri per la testa può rendere difficile, se non impossibile, avere rapporti sessuali soddisfacenti. Per le donne è uguale: i pensieri riducono il desiderio e uccidono il piacere.
In questi giorni di tempo assolutamente incerto e piovoso, ci ritroviamo nuovamente in prossimità della quinta stagione ovvero dell'ennesimo periodo di transizione, dalla primavera, che a dire il vero ancora non abbiamo visto un gran che, verso l'estate. Osservo in molti pazienti problematiche collegate alla funzionalità gastroenterica oltre che a quelle respiratorie.
Ecco un argomento che sicuramente va molto alla moda, l'antiaging. La prima cosa che tutti sanno è che gli anni bisogna non sentirseli. Vi ricordate il Gabbiano Jonathan Livingston quando vuole teletrasportarsi senza muovere le ali? Il trucco è “ essere già lì” e soprattutto crederci.
Sono in arrivo le stagioni più calde e quindi per le persone che soffrono di insufficienza venosa iniziano i primi disagi e problemi. Pesantezza e gonfiore agli arti inferiori sono il primo sintomo, la comparsa di telangectasie (capillari visibili sulla cute), ectasie venose e infine la formazione di varici sono il risultato finale. L'insufficienza venosa non trova nella medicina occidentale, ne farmacologica ne chirurgica, una vera cura risolutiva. 




