Olfactory diagnosis includes two aspects: hearing sound and smelling smell, which means that doctors can understand all kinds of abnormal sounds and smells emitted by sick bodies through hearing and smelling, so as to diagnose diseases. Smelling diagnosis is also an indispensable diagnostic method and an important way for doctors to obtain objective signs. In daily life, we can also identify the truth of health according to sound and smell.
Sub-health sound
There is a smell diagnosis in Chinese medicine, which is to see the patient's condition by listening to his voice. "Su Wen's Theory of Yin and Yang should be alike" says: "Those who are good at diagnosing diseases, look at the color pulse, first look at Yin and Yang, judge the turbid part, and know the pain according to the sound of breathing." Compared with other three diagnoses, Difficult Classic established the position of smelling diagnosis in the four diagnoses according to the order of looking, smelling, asking and feeling, and emphasized the importance of smelling diagnosis.
In fact, in daily life, it is easy for us to judge a person's health according to the sounds people make. The sound emitted by sub-health body is mainly manifested as hoarseness, snoring and burping. Let's take a look separately.
We have heard many hoarse voices. Some people always feel that the hoarse voice has a sense of maturity. There is also an artist from Taiwan Province Province, Adu, who is good at singing in a hoarse voice. But it is unhealthy for a person to be hoarse for a long time. Hoarseness includes hoarseness and aphonia, hoarseness means that the voice is dry and difficult to pronounce, and aphonia means that the sound cannot be uttered at all. Most of them are caused by exogenous wind-cold or wind-heat, and the intersection of cold and heat hurts the lungs.
Snoring is more familiar to us than hoarseness. People often think that snoring means sleeping well. In fact, drowsiness and snoring are often caused by coma and poor airway. It is more common that heat enters the pericardium or stroke enters the viscera. For example:
My friend's daughter, since she gave birth to a child, her weight has been rising in a straight line, and she snores even when she sleeps, often ups and downs. Her husband complained that she kept him awake. She smiled and said, I can't help snoring, which means I can sleep. One day, she fell asleep, snored loudly, stopped suddenly, didn't breathe, and choked in her sleep. I was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, exhausted.
In fact, she snored because of sleep apnea syndrome, also known as snoring, which also led to her sudden death. Many people will ask, how can snoring kill people? Yes, 20% of sudden death is caused by sleep apnea syndrome. Therefore, I want to warn you not to take snoring as a good sleep.
The easiest way to prevent snoring is to slightly adjust the hardness of the pillow. Snoring is a kind of vibrating sound produced when the gas flows in the airway when the human body is breathing, and this obstacle is mostly caused by muscle relaxation or hypertrophy in the airway tissue. Therefore, to slow down this situation, it is very important to keep the airway from being blocked.
Snoring people must choose soft cotton pillows when choosing pillows, and the headrest should be elastic after going up. At present, it is more suitable that one side is soft cotton and the other side is buckwheat shell. Too hard pillows, such as jade pillows, cool pillows, etc. There is no elasticity, so the neck will be covered, or the head will lean back, which will easily lead to the sag of the center of gravity of the airway, which will easily cause obstruction when the airflow passes through the airway and aggravate snoring. Pillows that are too soft, such as air pillows, can't support the neck when sleeping, which is easy to block the airflow and make a sound. In addition, when choosing a soft pillow, the pillow is best in the high rope.
There is another kind of person who often burps. Hiccups are usually caused by overeating. There are many reasons for burping, including functional or organic changes of stomach and esophagus. It is also caused by biochemical and physical stimulation of external substances. For example, too much air enters the stomach and overflows from the mouth, mental and neurological factors (such as vagus nerve excitement and pyloric spasm), poor eating habits (such as eating and drinking too fast), and excessive swallowing (such as too much or too little saliva).
Don't be sad when you burp. If it is caused by overeating or eating too fast, it can be relieved automatically within a few minutes, but don't drink cold drinks or do strenuous exercise when burping. Here, I will teach you several ways to deal with hiccups: the next time you burp, try to hold your breath so as not to burp; Another way is to drink a small amount of water, especially when burping. When the baby burps, you can pick up the baby and gently scratch it on the baby's mouth or ears with your fingertips until the baby burps with a smile.
In addition to these sounds on the body surface, the sounds in the body can also judge a person's health, the most obvious performance is bowel sounds. Bowel sounds can identify the location and condition of the disease by sound. The bowel sounds in the stomach are like water in a bag, which vibrates audibly. When you walk, press it with your hand, which is phlegm. Bowel sounds in the abdomen. When it is warm, the food intake will decrease, and the coldness or hunger will increase. Most of them are long-term illness or overeating, resulting in cold or abdominal cold, which is caused by disharmony between stomach and intestines.
Sub-healthy taste
Many women are always surrounded by the charming smell of perfume, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. Nowadays, rich people also wear all kinds of perfumes. People like the smell of perfume, and love to smell the perfume floating in people's hearts and lungs. These are all foreign products of human body odor, which are man-made, not the odor emitted by real people. When those perfumes are removed, some people's body odor will show its true colors: underarm odor, bad breath, sweaty mud smell and fishy smell.
If there is a bad smell in the body, it means that the changes of body meat quality and viscera are not good. The variation of body odor is the result of poor circulation and blockage of essence in meridian circulation. "Running water does not rot, and the walls of the family do not rot", so does the essence in the human body. The basic theory of Chinese medicine is well said: the essence in the human body is constantly going up and down. The faster and smoother the lifting movement, the better the essence quality. To a certain extent, dantian produces medicine, and at this time, the body will emit a sandalwood smell, indicating that people's meat tastes fragrant and healthy.
The odor in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly the abnormal odor of patients' bodies, discharges and wards. In order to understand the condition and judge the cold and heat deficiency of the disease. Smell can be divided into body gas and indoor gas.
The most common body odor is underarm odor, which is what people often say. Then why do some people have body odor?
We know that human skin can secrete sweat through sweat glands. Apocrine glands are distributed in armpits and perineum, and the openings of the glands are in hair follicles. The secretion of apocrine glands is influenced by gonads, which are vigorous in adolescence and secrete more apocrine glands. Therefore, most people with underarm odor are young people.
Axillary odor is actually the reason why apocrine glands are relatively developed. After continuous evolution, human sweat glands have degenerated and shrunk, but some people's sweat glands are still relatively developed, which may be 3-5 times that of ordinary people, and some people do not pay attention to cleanliness.
Sweat itself has no smell, but it contains protein, which is easily decomposed by bacteria. Because the armpit is the most prone to sweating, and poor ventilation, it often breeds a lot of bacteria. When sweat from apocrine glands is discharged to the skin surface, protein is decomposed by bacteria, resulting in unpleasant smell.
The easiest way to prevent body odor is to pay attention to personal hygiene, take a bath frequently and change clothes frequently. Some people like to use deodorant, antiperspirant and so on. This may have a temporary effect. However, when these products are applied to the skin surface, they rarely penetrate into sweat glands, so they cannot be cured. In addition, it should be emphasized here that women with developed axillary sweat glands are rich in axillary hair. It is not recommended to shave it off easily with a razor, because local stimulation will make blood circulation strong, and more hair will be shaved, which will not help to eliminate odor. So, don't ruin your health because of the love of beauty.
The smell of the sick room is emitted by the sick body itself and its excrement. At the beginning of the plague, there was a smell that could touch people, ranging from light to bed to heavy to a room. There is blood smell in the room, mostly blood loss syndrome; There is a rancid smell in the room, and there are many mud sores; There is a smell of corpse in the room, which is the corruption of internal organs; There is a smell of urine indoors, which is more common in the late stage of edema disease; There is a rotten apple smell indoors, which is more common in diabetes.