外燥辨识

Identification of Exopathogenic Dryness

燥邪致病具有易伤肺系,易成外燥内湿证,抑肝气,生郁火,易与风热相兼等特点。小儿及阴虚或肝火偏旺者是燥邪的易感人群。临证时应注意鉴别凉燥证与温燥证、凉燥证与风寒外寒、温燥证与风热感冒等,方可辨证准确,用药精当。

Pathogenic dryness may easily hurt the pulmonary system, tend to become syndrome of exopathogenic dryness and internal dampness, restrain liver-qi and produce the depressed fire, and it tends to be combined with wind-heat. Children and people with yin deficiency and exuberance of liver-fire are the pathogenic dryness-susceptible population. The correct differentiation between cool dryness and warm dryness, cool dryness and external wind cold, warm dryness and wind-heat cold, can ensure the accurate syndrome differentiation and specific drug administration.