Phlegm In Chinese Medicine
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Phlegm can cause many diseases in Chinese medicine, some of them serious.
Unfortunately, it is easy to get and hard to clear. Here’s what you need to know.
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Tumors and cysts and so on they say are hardened phlegm. The Spleen is a cook pot for phlegm. Thickens and slows down things, like blood for example.
Yes, that's part of the basic theory. But the Spleen gets 'sat on' by other factors, not least stress from your Liver.
Dear Kit, these are great sharing. Could you please start a teaching series for students?
Glad you like the short youtube videos we make. From feedback many students watch them or read pages on our site.
Concerning a teaching series, if students are at college or university studying Chinese medicine, they should already have comprehensive sources of information! Most such courses last three years, with exams, leading to a degree, so what kinds of students do you mean?
Great videos! They've been really helpful. Thank you for making them. Could you make a few videos on constipation and talk about Qi Stagnation Stools please?
Thanks Ron, for your suggestion. I did start a page on this some time ago, but it got set aside for more urgent matters. We'll get back to it asap!
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 Thanks. Much appreciated! Keep up the great work. You're bridging the gap between the east and west. Thanks again!
Thank you so much!
So interesting, thank you!
Thank you so much! SUCH AN important Video!
Yes, phlegm isn't well understood, but Chinese medicine is based on literally thousands of years of experience, backed by an all-encompassing theory, and common sense.
You can apply the theory to anything and everything (and, if you can't still make sense of it, you just need longer to learn to appreciate the theory!)
But phlegm can be a real problem, by no means always easy to treat, even when you've worked out what kind it is.
You are awesome sir,....soooo helpful
Thanks Odetter, I'm glad it helps.
Excellent, thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you for this video
Thanks Jan for your comment.
In drier Summer-like warm weather we don't get so much 'damp'-type phlegm, unless we eat the foods that bring it on, or we over-eat. For example, if I eat ice-cream - which I like! - within a few minutes I get more phlegm in my throat and even feel my nose getting a little congested.
So when you eat something, observe how your body responds to it. As you become more self-aware you'll notice changes more quickly and more easily.
Of course if when eating you are also drinking alcohol or, probably, if you are taking other drugs or medications, you may not see changes so quickly or clearly as the chemicals dull either your thinking or blur your body's response. Anyway, I'm glad you liked the video!
Every time I get a cold, I get a cough that lasts for months. This time it's been 2 and half years. It's like muck in the back of my throat and need to clear my thought or cough every few seconds. I may also have a slight sinus infection. My condition does not quite fit your description. I've tried EVERYTHING. I will check out your website. I hope it helps.
You are not suffering from a cold if your symptoms have continued for 30 months. In addition to phlegm you almost certainly have a deficiency of Qi, especially of defensive Qi as well as of Spleen Qi.
Symptoms like these show a chronic pattern, reached when your body can no longer evict the invader and instead is forced to live in uneasy coexistence, with occasional sporadic outbursts of resistance, such as - perhaps - in our sinuses.
To clear it yourself might need perfect 'desert island' conditions, such as rest, the right climate, appropriate food and so on, until your body gets its strength back. Failing that, you need treatment. Usually, chronic conditions need treatment from someone knowledgeable. They don't clear quickly, even so.
Look carefully at my website for why you got so sick, though phlegm is a big subject in Chinese medicine, hence eventually I wrote my book on it.
Thanks for explaining the difference type of phlegm. I suffer from lots of phlegm in the mornings. Would you be able to tell me why some people get phlegm only in the morning and can phlegm be caused by medication?
During sleep, movement of Qi and Blood slows. Digestion also slows, moving things forward more slowly. Like a compost heap, being inside a warm body, this produces Heat. Heat dries and thickens and, if Spleen and Stomach aren't functioning well, a side effect is phlegm. In the morning it is thicker and usually more coloured because it has had time to consolidate and thicken. From being 'cooked' for so long, it becomes yellower.
Medication comes in many forms so it's hard to generalise.If it has a depressing effect on Spleen and Stomach, then it reduces their ability to digest, thereby increasing phlegm which would tend to be thicker and whiter.
However, some medications have a heating effect: they make it yellower and thicker from Heat. Jonathan
Could you maybe give a hint what happens in the body if it does not produce enough mucus? I mean, when the mucus membranes are too dry?
Sorry not to reply earlier! Dryness in your mouth has several causes, not least yin deficiency. Elsewhere, it depends on the symptoms: both Damp and Blood stasis can lead to a sense of dryness for example. Also Heat from some kind of 'inflammation' dries and can exhaust the fluids.
I want buy electronic verse of book about yang deficiency
How can I do ? Write me please
Hi Sun Sugar, "Yang Deficiency - Get your Fire Burning Again" is available in Kindle edition from Amazon. Hope you enjoy it! Jonathan
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 I live in Kazakhstan and it is not available for this country.can I buy it directly from you ?
@@DayEnergy I cannot provide a Kindle edition for you: that has to be done via Amazon. Sending a hard copy of the book is very difficult, I've found in the past, because of expensive posts and unreliable delivery. If insurance is possible - not always possible - together with posts it can make the whole thing very costly. I am very sorry to disappoint you. Jonathan
what if you don't have a spleen?
The lack of the physical spleen organ may somewhat reduce the effect of Spleen Qi but does not, of itself, prevent it working. In other words, the function of what Chinese medicine calls Spleen qi continues even without the organ itself.
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 ok , thank you very much. I was recently told by a TCM doctor that I have 胃肠有温 and 肾阴虚. Is 肾阴虚 similar to adrenal fatigue? I am also experiencing oral thrush in the morning, is that from 胃肠有温? Any tips for me to get better? thanks
Any advice on how diet can effect getting harder longer lasting erections?
Sorry - I only just noticed your question. We have a page that covers your question, although it goes rather beyond the exact point you ask about. But it does include advice about food. See www.acupuncture-points.org/sexual-impotence-what-to-do-about-it.html
I notice that every time I drink smoothies I have so much mucus that forms… interesting
Yes, when you start putting things together, it makes you wonder all the more about those Chinese doctors 2500 - 3000 years ago! They worked it all out and wrote it down and we still refer to their basic writings today. (Huang Di nei jing su wen).
Please get to the point
Hi ... Not quite sure how to reply to your request! ... because the video does get straight to the point! For example, after the first minute explaining the size and frequency of the problem, at 1 minute 14 seconds I talk about how phlegm is diagnosed, then at 1:56 I talk about its causes. At 3:13 I explain 6 categories of phlegm and how to recognise them and at 4:43 I get on to describing one of the categories and how to deal with it. Phlegm is a big subject and our page 'phlegm after eating' receives a huge number of visitors from all round the world every day. As I say on the video (which lasts just under 6 minutes) it's best to read our page which has around 3800 words on it. Our other page on the subject, www.acupuncture-points.org/phlegm.html has even more words - 4700. But to simplify all this we have a flowchart (we spent a lot of time designing it to make it easier to use and understand) which you just work through and should lead you to answers. The video cannot, in 6 minutes, cover everything: it's a summary.