What are the symptoms of mixed cold and heat syndrome

Mixed cold and heat syndrome is a common term in traditional Chinese medicine, which is closely related to people's physique. Many reasons in life may lead to the occurrence of mixed cold and heat syndrome. Clinically, there are many types of mixed cold and heat syndrome, and its symptoms are also very obvious. If you want to treat mixed cold and heat syndrome, you must prescribe the right medicine. So what are the symptoms of mixed cold and heat syndrome?

1. Mixed cold and heat

It refers to the simultaneous presence of cold and heat symptoms. Common clinical symptoms include upper heat and lower cold, upper cold and lower heat, cold on the surface and heat inside, and heat on the surface and cold inside.

2. Symptom Difference

There are different types of mixed cold and heat syndrome, including more cold and less heat, more heat and less cold, or half cold and half heat. Those with more cold have cold pain in the abdomen, fear of cold, loose stools and even diarrhea as the main symptoms. Those with more heat have dry stools, bad breath, and yellow and greasy tongue coating. Therefore, careful differentiation is required in clinical practice, and emphasis should be placed on balancing cold and heat when prescribing and using medications, with dosage added or subtracted according to the different nature and degree of cold and heat.

3. Recuperation

Adjust according to cold and hot constitution

(1) For patients suffering from chronic gastritis, special attention should be paid to dietary adjustments. The patient's food should be fresh, light, nutritious, soft and chewed slowly for easy digestion and absorption. Eat less rough and crude fiber foods, and less difficult to digest foods such as sweet potatoes and glutinous rice. Patients with chronic gastritis should also drink less alcohol, avoid strong liquor, and avoid eating foods that are too sweet, too salty, too thick, too cold, too hot, too sour, as well as strong tea, coffee, carbonated drinks, chili, mustard and other spicy and stimulating foods.

(2) In addition, people with excessive coldness should try not to eat raw or cold foods, such as mung beans, cold drinks, crabs, etc. In daily cooking, they can use more pepper and ginger. Barley and Poria cocos porridge and mutton and angelica soup are good foods that warm the yang and the stomach. People with excessive heat should stay away from fried, spicy, fatty and greasy foods. They should pay attention to clearing dampness and heat from the stomach and intestines. Their daily diet should be light and cool, such as bitter melon, lotus root, water chestnut, white fungus, etc. They should not eat too much mutton, and dog meat should be avoided as much as possible. Spleen and stomach diseases caused by mental factors are usually due to liver qi stagnation and poor qi movement. It is very helpful to relieve emotions, exercise properly and rest.