What causes Yin deficiency and excessive fire? You should know these reasons

Many people only know what Yin deficiency and fire excess is, but they don’t know what the disease is, but they don’t know how it is caused. In fact, Yin deficiency and fire excess is a sign of systemic deficiency-heat, and some diseases may also cause Yin deficiency and fire excess, such as some menopausal syndrome and the like.

1. Deficiency of fire

Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire is a type of virtual fire, which is mostly caused by deficiency of essence and blood, severe damage to yin fluid, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, which will lead to endogenous virtual heat and virtual fire. Generally speaking, Yin deficiency and internal heat are often accompanied by systemic signs of deficiency-heat. As for Yin deficiency and excessive fire, the clinical manifestations of heat are often concentrated in a certain part of the body. For example, toothache, sore throat, dry mouth and lips, bone steaming and hot flashes, red cheeks, dry and hard stools, and short and red urine caused by yin deficiency are all caused by the ascending of virtual fire.

2. Disease factors

Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire do not have any specific disease. Instead, it is common in different diseases, such as menopausal syndrome, hyperthyroidism, hypertension, diabetes, sequelae of stroke, tinnitus and insomnia. Most of the patients are women, because menstruation can easily deplete the yin blood. For example, if the main symptoms of menopausal women are hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, and insomnia, there are obvious symptoms of yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire.

Sometimes during illness and treatment, changes in physical condition may occur. A few years ago, I treated a patient with leukemia. The patient originally had a constitution with insufficient vital energy. After chemotherapy, he developed symptoms of hyperactivity of yang and deficiency of yin, such as profuse sweating at night, feeling hot, hot palms and soles of feet, and insomnia.

3. Others

There are many causes of Yin deficiency and excessive fire, such as common causes such as excessive stress, frequent staying up late, depression, etc. To put it more deeply, it is because of the deficiency of yin in the internal organs and other parts, which lacks sufficient nourishment, leading to the endogenous heat. It can also be said that it is due to the imbalance of yin and yang. If it is kidney yin deficiency, the symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, insomnia, premature ejaculation in men, oligomenorrhea in women, etc.

The phenomenon of Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire will not cause a specific disease, but will generally occur in different diseases. Therefore, this kind of phenomenon is the cause of many diseases, such as menopausal syndrome, hypertension, diabetes and other diseases. Especially for some female patients, it is easy to deplete yin blood during menstruation, or women may experience night sweats, irritability, insomnia and other symptoms during menopause, which are common symptoms of yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire.