The Six Climate-Related Pathogens-Heat (Fire)
Heat (Fire) occurs mostly in summer but is also found in other seasons. From the time of Huangdi Neijing, Heat and Fire have been interchangeable. Fire is the m...
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The Six Climate-Related Pathogens-Dryness
1) Dry diseases are most common in autumn, because when late summer’s Damp quickly disappears the weather suddenly becomes dry and breezy. Early autumn’s Warm-D...
The Six Climate-Related Pathogens-Damp
Damp occurs in late summer and early autumn, but is also found in other seasons. Damp diseases are common when high Heat holds immense moisture, but can also be...
The Six Climate-Related Pathogens-Summer Heat
Summer Heat belongs to Yang and is a pathogenic factor which appears mostly from late summer to early autumn. Summer Heat diseases occur when the body cannot ad...
The Six Climate-Related Pathogens-Wind
Wind pertains to spring, so more Wind-induced diseases occur in spring although Wind-induced diseases occur in other seasons. Disease-causing Winds have the fol...
The Six Climate-Related Pathogens
The Six Qi — six natural climate factors, — are Wind, Cold, Summer Heat, Damp, Dry, and Fire or Heat (Fire). Generally, humans adapt to gradual and progressive ...