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Yang depletion syndrome
Yang depletion syndrome is a diagnosis term
in the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It includes any
disorders due to depletion of Yang Qi in the body. Yang Qi is
the life power in the body, as the sunshine to the life on the
earth.
Without Yang Qi, our body is a dead body
without heart beat, breath, bowel movement, urine secretion,
sweat, and other metabolic action in the body – every action or
reaction in the body stop. Yang Qi comes from both when we are
fetus and when we eat and drink after birth.
In our modern life there are so many
reasons that can cause the depletion of Yang Qi from the body
and supply less Yang Qi to the body. Heavy emotional activities
(such as stressful study by our children in school, or business
management by business man, or painful law suit, or hardy to
find a job, get promotion…) when we are young, depleted Yang Qi
in the upper body (Chest part, including lung and heart). Having
irregular diet, drink of cold beverage or alcohol, eating cold
food or eating too much Cold stuff such as cold fruits, depleted
Yang Qi in the middle part of the body (upper stomach area,
including stomach and spleen); stress and unrestricted sexual
life depleted Yang Qi in the lower part of the body (the lower
stomach area, including liver and kidney). Additional take of
antibiotics further more depleted the body Yang Qi in whole body
and unnecessary surgical operation depleted Yang Qi where it is
performed on the body.
When the Yang Qi is depleted, there is no
enough life power to handle the body functions. Depending on the
location the Yang Qi is mostly depleted, the symptoms could be
different. If the depletion is mostly in the upper body, person
may feels overall headache, dizziness, ear ringing, poor memory,
slow emotional reaction and analysis ability, irritable emotion
and less patience, poor sleep or frequent early awake, running
nose, frequent sour throat, mouth ulcer or asthma…
If the depletion is mostly in the chest
area, one may feel suppressing feeling in the chest, short of
breath, chest pain. If it is mostly in the middle part of the
body, one may feel poor appetite, or, sometimes feels no any
appetite at all and sometime can eat like horse. Most people may
feel acid reflux, bloating and constipation (we observed there
are many such patients in the North America).
If the depletion is mostly in the lower stomach, one can feel
depress, anxiety, irritable emotion, hopeless, low confidence or
even phobia. If it is involves the kidney system, one feel low
desire for sex, impotency, urine discontinuance or leakage,
night urine, low libido, hot feet or hands at night, ache on the
heels, restless legs or hot flash.
For such conditions, one may be diagnosed
by conventional biomedical system, based on the clinic
manifestations, allergic reaction, chronic fatigue,
fibromyalgia, athma, chronic sinus infection, chronic throat
infection, chronic bronchitis, coronary heart disease,
hypertension, diabetic, hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, post
menopause syndrome, chromic ulcerative colonitis, prostatitis,
but many times, no diagnosis can be make… since it may be found
nothing wrong with lab tests, X-ray, MRI or canscan test!
These kinds of clinic condition are so
popular in the nowadays life and it can be said that up to nine
out of ten patients show clinic evidence to the Yang depletion
in their body. The common clinic pictures for such patients,
from the TCM point of view, are cold body, cold hands and feet.
Some feel cold before and feel hot in the hands or feet now but
body temperature never show dramatically either high or low
actually. Many times, such person cannot tolerate neither hot in
summer, nor cold in winter. They feel tired always and
especially in the afternoon so they wish to have a nap. But most
may feel frequent wakeup at night so feel hard to get up in the
morning. They eat less but still gain weight. They may have more
frequent input desire for sex but hardly to have a complete sex
activity. If you look at their tongue, you can see purple
tint/color in the middle area of the tongue. If you feel their
pulse, you can feel their pulse is weak and thin, or so deep so
that hardly to feel. Most of them tend not to speak or, when
speak, their voice is low. If they speak for a little bit longer
time, their voice is harsh. Others may still have high voice
when they talk with other person, but when they finish the talk
and stay alone, they feel very tired, so that they show like a
different person with or without others are around them. They
tend to drink little water, or they prefer to drink warm water.
They have frequent mouth ulcer that are so easy to cause by just
eat or drink cold food or beverage.
If a TCM doctor knows such characteristic
of a Yang depletion syndrome, it would be pretty easy for them
to help the patients, no matter what diagnosis by the
conventional medicine system. Using of acupuncture, or
acupuncture plus Chinese herbal therapy are the best way, among
any other medicine system (conventional medicine) or therapies
(massage, chiropractic, north America herbal therapy, Reiki,
therapeutic cough… ), to prevent and treat such Yang depletion
condition.
Here readers should know that, a TCM doctor
does not start his/her clinic work to help their patients based
on the diagnosis of conventional medicine, but rather, on the
TCM diagnosis. They look at your body-function relationship in a
totally different view compared with the conventional medicine.
Many kinds of “diseases” or “disorders” diagnosed by the
conventional medicine might be simply a single disorder from the
TCM point of view. On the other hand, one diagnosis by the
conventional medicine, such as a chronic bronchitis, might
include several different types of disorders from the TCM point
of view so need quite different herbal formula to correct them.
This is why we can include so many quite different “diseases”
diagnosed by your conventional medicine doctor into one TCM
term: Yang Qi depletion syndrome.
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