What is treating winter diseases in summer?

You may not have heard of the concept of treating winter diseases in summer. This means that for those diseases that are prone to occur or worsen in winter, people can take some effective measures in summer to treat them, which can have better results and eliminate or alleviate the symptoms. This treatment method is very popular, but it also requires people to understand it in detail before they can treat it. Let's take a closer look at what is called "treating winter diseases in summer"?

Treating winter diseases in summer means giving targeted treatment in summer to some diseases that are prone to occur or worsen in winter, thereby improving the body's disease resistance and alleviating or eliminating the symptoms that are prone to occur or worsen in winter. It is a specific application of Traditional Chinese Medicine's holistic view of "harmony between man and nature" and its disease prevention concept of "prevention before illness occurs." Commonly used treatment methods include acupoint application, acupuncture, oral medication, etc. By applying drugs or non-drug therapies to the human body during the summer when the natural yang energy is at its strongest, the purpose of invigorating qi and warming yang, dispelling cold and unblocking meridians is achieved, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases that are prone to occur in winter.

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Since the onset of deficiency-cold diseases is often characterized by onset or aggravation in winter and relief or disappearance in summer, if treatment or preventive measures can be given in the summer when such diseases are relatively in remission, it will help reduce or alleviate the symptoms in winter. This is the embodiment of the traditional Chinese medicine principle of "treating the symptoms when the disease occurs and treating the root cause before it occurs." The conditions of deficiency and cold diseases in summer are relatively stable. The treatment methods of "tonifying" for "deficiency" and "heat" for "cold" are adopted. For example, warm tonic medicines are taken internally to support the positive energy and expel the cold evil; external treatment methods such as acupoint plastering and acupoint injection are used to warm the meridians, dispel the cold and eliminate the evil, which can achieve the purpose of strengthening the positive energy and eliminating the evil, and promote the improvement of the disease, in order to achieve the effect of "treating the disease at its root".

There are many ways to treat winter diseases in summer, such as applying medicine on specific acupoints of the human body, injecting medicine, moxibustion, thread embedding, scraping, cupping, or taking medicine orally according to the main symptoms of the acupoints. The most representative treatment measure is the acupoint application of medicine during the dog days of summer (i.e. Tianjiu therapy, which often uses Chinese herbal medicine formulas with warming and unblocking effects to make medicine patches), which has been widely used because of its obvious efficacy, simple operation, low cost and no obvious side effects. Through repeated practice by generations of Chinese medicine practitioners, it has been discovered that the use of Chinese medicine acupoint plasters during the three hot days in summer is effective in treating diseases that are prone to occur or worsen in winter. The three hot days refer to the first, middle and last hot days, which are the hottest time of the year. The third Geng day after the summer solstice is the first hot day, the fourth Geng day is the middle hot day, and the first Geng day after the beginning of autumn is the last hot day. Choose different acupoints according to the specific symptoms, and apply them once each during the three hottest days of the year. For patients with a long medical history or more stubborn conditions, the number of applications can be appropriately increased. The application time should be based on the body's tolerance, but generally not more than 24 hours. Different acupoints are selected for different body constitutions and different diseases. At the same time, they can be combined with treatment measures such as oral administration of Chinese medicine based on syndrome differentiation and treatment. The course of treatment for winter diseases in summer is best applied continuously for 3 to 5 years.