Six Excesses / Six Evils
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Wind, cold, summer-heat, dampness, dryness, and fire. These six natural climatic factors, when exceeding the human body's adaptive capacity, transform into pathogenic factors (evil qi).
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Environmental attribution model. Traditional Chinese Medicine does not look at bacteria or viruses, but at 'weather'. Fever is not scary; one must distinguish between a 'cold wave passing' (wind-cold) and a 'damp-heat sauna' (damp-warmth). Treatment is to artificially create reverse weather (using hot herbs to expel cold, using drying herbs to overcome dampness).
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The six exogenous pathogenic factors—wind, cold, summer-heat, dampness, dryness, and fire—are called the 'Six Excesses'. When the six qi are abnormal or the body's vital qi is insufficient, they invade the body and cause disease, usually entering through the skin, hair, mouth, or nose. Each has its own properties and characteristics (wind is good at moving, cold causes contraction, dampness is heavy and turbid, etc.).
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