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1. Discussion on the etiology and pathogenesis of hyperlipidemia in traditional Chinese medicine

It is generally believed that the causes of hyperlipidemia involve many aspects such as fatty and sweet diet, sitting for long periods of time, depression, and aging and physical weakness. The pathogenesis is manifested in the following aspects:

Improper diet will cause the spleen to function poorly: Long-term excessive consumption of rich, sweet and greasy foods can easily lead to dampness in the spleen yang, making it impossible for the spleen's clear qi to transform turbidity, and increasing blood lipids.

Obstruction of phlegm and blood stasis: injury caused by diet, emotions, etc., leads to dysfunction of lung, spleen and kidney, fluid metabolism disorder, accumulation of dampness to produce phlegm, stagnation of phlegm, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, and finally leads to phlegm and blood stasis.

Liver and kidney deficiency, phlegm and blood stasis: After middle age, people's yin qi is halved, kidney essence is deficient, essence and qi gradually decline, kidney yin is insufficient, virtual fire burns body fluid; kidney qi is weak, qi cannot transform body fluid, so clear becomes turbid; or because water cannot contain wood, liver fails to release, wood cannot release earth, resulting in fat and turbidity gathering inside, blocking the spleen, and the distribution of body fluids and fats becomes increasingly disordered, turning into phlegm and turbidity, blocking the meridians, blood stasis and causing heat, or stagnation and becoming dampness.

Failure of liver and gallbladder to regulate their qi: due to poor liver qi regulation, internal accumulation of phlegm and dampness, or blood stasis. Therefore, it is a disease of both fundamental deficiency and superficial excess. The fundamental deficiency is liver and kidney deficiency, and the superficial excess is phlegm and blood stasis. The primary and secondary relationship varies from person to person.

2. Liver and kidney deficiency is the root cause of hyperlipidemia

Many scholars agree that hyperlipidemia belongs to the category of "phlegm and blood stasis" in traditional Chinese medicine, but there are different understandings about the root cause of "phlegm and blood stasis". The generation of phlegm and turbidity is caused by the abnormal metabolism of body fluid, and the metabolism of body fluid mainly involves the lung's regulation, the spleen's transportation and transformation, the liver's drainage and the kidney's evaporation. Therefore, the current differences in the cause of "phlegm and turbidity" are mainly attributed to spleen and kidney deficiency and liver and kidney deficiency. This article believes that the root cause of hyperlipidemia is liver and kidney deficiency:

3. Phlegm and blood stasis blocking the collaterals is a symptom of hyperlipidemia

About phlegm: Common clinical manifestations of hyperlipidemia include obesity, general fatigue, heaviness, dizziness, chest tightness or pain, palpitations, numbness of limbs, even irritability, bitter taste in the mouth, red eyes, sluggish temperament, insomnia, anxiety, chest tightness or stabbing pain, dizziness and pain in the head, sticky mouth, dry stool and yellow urine, thick and greasy tongue coating or thick and greasy yellow and dry, dark or purple tongue, enlarged tongue, stringy and slippery pulse or stringy and rapid pulse or stringy and astringent pulse, etc. From the clinical manifestations, it is different from the symptoms of "drinking", such as "vomiting clear water, fullness in the chest and abdomen, belching and gurgling" (Jingyue Complete Works); it is different from the accumulation of "water" in the stomach, intestines, chest and flanks; it is different from the pain all over the body of "stasis", which is accumulated in the meridians and internal organs to form masses. One is like phlegm without phlegm, which "can be found everywhere and changes in many ways"; the other is like invisible phlegm, which "cause palpitations in the heart, dizziness in the head, fullness in the chest, swelling in the ribs, and numbness in the limbs" (Lei Zheng Zhi Cai). Even if "there are no symptoms to be identified", the existence and "variable forms" of phlegm can be guessed from the body's shape, tongue, pulse, temperament, etc.; in addition, phlegm can carry blood stasis, dampness, and qi, and cause symptoms such as heat, fire, and wind, causing hyperlipidemia to develop into various diseases. "From the symptoms to determine the cause, it also shows that hyperlipidemia is characterized by phlegm as the main symptom and phlegm as the target.