B4: The Damage and changes of Body Constitution

B4: The Damage and changes of Body Constitution

Why will a good body constitution be damaged? Aging and function recession will damage the body constitution. But, why do some of the youth get an aging disease? 

Let's try to explain it. 

1. The Definition of Stimulating

Many chronic diseases are genetic, are incurable, and can only be controlled by chemical drugs that are advocated by some medical experts. But, in fact, they didn't find out genetic hypertension genes, genetic diabetes genes except for real genetic genes such as Down's syndrome, Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency, hemophilia, and Mucopolysaccharidoses. Then, how come to those chronic diseases.

A healthy newborn baby drinks healthy breasts and grows to an adult. And next, he has adequate nutrition, take exercise moderately, leads a regular life, is carefree and without worries, so smooth life to old and finally die of old age. Assuming, for people, this is a normal life arranged before he was born. Any other living situation changes might cause adverse effects on his health. We called "stimulating." 

Such as too much or short of nutrition, accident, fire, war, flee, fear, stay up late, worry, fatigue, fight, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, feeding, and mating, etc. These factors will change the physical operating state, we called them "stimulating factors."

All of "stimulating factors" in our life can affect the regularity of the normal physiological process, and can consume the abilities of "good body constitution." Resulting in that chronic diseases appeared earlier or developed abnormally. This phenomenon, we call "inspire", means that abnormal situation is earlier happened by stimulating.

2. Examples of Inspiration to Change the Body Constitution

• • Inspiration will make people from "yes" becomes to "No."

Such as accident, war, and poisoning etc. will quickly make healthy body constitution from "yes" becomes to "no."

• • Inspiration will make people from "no" becomes to "yes."

The population ratio of smokers is much more than the population ratio of non-smokers on getting lung cancer(85％：15％). So, smoking is an inspiration factor that will make people from "no" lung cancer becomes to "yes."  

• • Inspiration will make people from "normal" becomes "abnormal."

Teachers work very hard, they need not only to speak continuously and also necessary to increase the volume. That makes some of them get chronic laryngitis.

• • Inspiration will make people from "slight" gradually becomes to "severe."

There are more than ten kinds of chemical drugs for hypertension. Sympathetic inhibitor of β -blockers and sympathetic inhibitor of αβ -blockers will cause impotence and worsening of diabetes.

3. 12 chronic illness stimulating factors

• 1. Collecting medical reports, there are 12 factors that will easily cause chronic disease. They are...

  2. Obesity 

  3. Malnutrition

  4. Environmental pollution

  5. Improper exercise 

  6. Alcoholism, Smoking or Chewing betel nut

  7. Lack of sleep, Long-term fatigue

  8. Side Effects of Drugs

  9. Pregnancy 

  10. Age over 50 years（Aging） 

  11. Suffering from autoimmune diseases

  12. Infection

  13. mood, stress

Please refer to the detailed discussion of "Decipherment of The Body Constitution of Chronic Illnesses" Chapter 4.

Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases. So that "12 chronic illness stimulating factors" may be called "12 diabetes stimulating factors" when we discuss diabetes.

The speed of forming chronic disease counts on the result of a tug-of-war of "how many and how strong of 12 chronic illness stimulating factors" and "6 kinds of abilities of healthy body constitution." And, digestive function(Nutrition Conversion Ability) and the functions of intestinal flora(normal flora) will become a raise of both sides in a tug-of-war.  

4. When Good Body Constitution Damaged Will Become to Chronic Disease

The local disease of physique simply divided into acute disease and chronic disease.

Acute diseases are usually infectious diseases or suddenly happened diseases. For healthy people, acute diseases are easily healed, and not easy to relapse.

When people are not so healthy, then, acute diseases are not easily be cured and are easy to relapse. In general, when acute diseases are not cured for more than 2 months, then they may evolve into chronic diseases.

In medical, chronic diseases are able to be controlled and unable to be cured.

We considered that when healthy body constitution people are influenced by 12 chronic diseases stimulating factors and cause the body in an abnormally functioning situation and become to chronic body constitution. "Healthy body constitution are damaged" means that...

• • When "the ability of resistance disease" is losing, that makes them part of the organization can't eliminate infected viruses or bacteria, for example, chronic laryngitis.

  • When "Self-Regeneration Ability" is losing, that makes that the part of organizations can't repair itself, for example, chronic laryngitis.

  • When "the ability of resistance disease" is losing, that makes the other part of organizations or systems inspire "adjustment pathological changes," for example secondary hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus, etc.

5. The Range of Chronic Body Constitution-1 Allergies

The body, in contact with the outside surroundings such as skin, mucous membranes, etc., cannot adapt to environmental changes. Then, allergies were caused. In general, allergic diseases usually occur in eight parts of the body. These eight parts are...

• 1. Nose: allergic rhinitis, often a runny nose, sneezing, sinusitis.

  2. Eyes: easy red, itchy, dry, astringent, often rubbing the eyes.

  3. Ears: likely to have chronic otitis media.

  4. Mouth and throat: often dry mouth and throat, mouth inflammation, or sore throat, chronic laryngitis.

  5. Tracheal: often cough especially at night when sleep and when wake up early in the morning, asthma, chronic bronchitis, etc.

  6. Skin: The skin is easily itching, sometimes urticaria, atopic dermatitis, eczema, etc.

  7. Immunization: often catch a cold, and uneasy to be cured.

  8. Stomach & intestine: frequent constipation, diarrhea, belching, farting, full, swelling, vomiting, and other symptoms.

After suffering from one kind of allergic disease, if the body constitution does not improve, then continuing with the physical deterioration, one will suffer more allergic diseases.

6. The Range of Chronic Body Constitution-2 Aging

If the healthy body constitution was continuing deterioration, resulting in losing certain kinds of ability, this is called Aging. Such as...

• • A healthy person becomes a hypertensive patient when he lost the ability to keep blood pressure in a normal range and in stable condition. 

  • A healthy person becomes a diabetic when he lost the ability to keep blood sugar in a normal range and in stable condition. 

  • A healthy person becomes a patient with high lipid when he lost the ability to keep blood lipid in a normal range and in stable condition. 

There are lots of aging diseases. Such as...

• • Hepatobiliary diseases: chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, fatty liver, cholecystitis, gallstones and so on.

  • Cardiovascular diseases: a variety of high blood pressure, heart weakness, varicose veins, blood clots, blood disease and so on.

  • Gastrointestinal diseases: chronic gastroenteritis, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, full, swelling, burp, fart, constipation, diarrhea, acid regurgitation, belching, etc.

  • Lung diseases: respiratory infection, emphysema, lung water, etc.

  • Others such as kidney bladder disease, metabolic disorder, skin disease, joint and muscle disorder, facial disease, psychiatric disorder, women disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, etc.

After suffering from one kind of aging disease, if the body constitution does not be improved, then continuing with the physical deterioration, one will suffer more aging disease.

7. The Type of Chronic Body Constitution-1 Weakness 

"Body constitution weakness" is that the body copes with environmental changes too slow to hardly reach equilibrium, or metabolic rate is too low to cope with the physiological changes in the environment, so the physiological functions are a disorder, such as ...

• • Blood sugar after a meal is sometimes high, sometimes low, has obvious change.

  • Blood pressure every day in the same period is sometimes high, sometimes low, is disorder and uncomfortable.

  • He is often tired, fatigue, frequent night urination.

  • He is cold hands and feet in winter.

  • In summer, one feels hot then quickly and heavily sweats, but he feels cold when wind blowing.

  • He drinks water, just for a while, then he wants to urinate. He sweats so quick and heavy that his hair and underwear are all wet when he feels hot. 

  • When he feels hungry, then, he will feel flustered and anxious to find food for eating. He will angry if he can't find food.

  • He is easily affected by environmental changes, so, he gets allergies.

8. The Type of Chronic Body Constitution-2 Sclerosis

The working cells of our systems or organs, that physiological function may decrease, or may partially die. Then, they partially become to fibrosis or blisters and cause physiological function insufficiency. Such as...

• • cirrhosis leads to inadequate secretion of bile

  • kidney sclerosis causes serum creatinine exclusion reduction

  • ß cells of pancreas partially died (sclerosis), leads to insufficient insulin secretion(called type 1 diabetes). 

The feature of sclerosis body constitution is "fixed deviation of physiological function." And, "fixed deviation of physiological function" has two different levels. 

• • Stable type of fixed deviation: such as hypertension patients of kidney sclerosis. In general, they are systolic blood pressure increased, but diastolic blood pressure is almost unchanged. Let's use figures to illustrate. The blood pressure for a healthy body is 110/70 mmHg. But, the blood pressure for hypertension patients of kidney sclerosis may change to 150-160/70-80 mmHg. Systolic blood pressure increased from 110 mmHg to 150-160 mmHg. But, diastolic blood pressure is almost unchanged.

  • Variable type of fixed deviation: Variable type of fixed deviation is changed with different living conditions. Such as, for diabetic pancreas sclerosis (type 1), postprandial blood glucose value(PC) abnormally increased. And, the increased amplitude is often related to the amount of food. The more delicious food eaten, then the more of PC increased. Otherwise, The less delicious food eaten, then the less of PC increased. PC value has obviously correlation with the amount of delicious food.  

9. The Type of Chronic Body Constitution-3 stasis

when the organization is in poor blood circulation (such as chronic inflammation), then it may show incapable of working. The body may occur in some diseases. When blood is running relatively smoothly, the symptoms are lessened. Such as, Peripheral neuropathy of diabetics' hands and feet are caused by poor blood circulation. Another example, type 2 diabetes in the early stage may display that blood sugar (both AC and PC) increased and so on.

The characteristic of stasis body constitution is "physiological functions deviated and not fixed." In general, they are related to living conditions. For example, lower blood pressure after gentle exercise, good night's sleep may lower blood pressure the next morning.

The stage of stasis is body constitution changed between weakness and sclerosis. And, it's the phenomenon of physiological function degradation. So, the disease may often happen and conditions displayed difficult and complicated. "Errors in Medicine Corrected", is a textbook of Chinese medicine, was written by Wang Qingren in Qing dynasty of China. The book recorded many cases of difficult and complicated diseases and their treatment.

10. Evolutions of Bad Body Constitution

The three types, weakness, stasis, and sclerosis are the evolved extent of damaged body constitution. When body constitution is damaged by "12 chronic stimulating factors" if the intensity is small and long-term, then, body constitution will be deteriorated to weakness, stasis, and sclerosis, one stage by another. For example, a hard worker, who does not exercise and long-term stays up all night, does not like to eat vegetables and fruits, and drinks a lot until drunk when he is socializing ...keeps on that bad habits for several years, then, his physical health may have the following changes:

Weakness Stage: His body constitution will be weakness gradually. He may display poor appetite, constipation or diarrhea, fatigue, easily catch a cold, laryngitis, bronchitis, rhinitis, along with the physical deterioration, then, he is not only more likely to get an acute illness, but also more difficult to get well.

Stasis Stage: If the weak body constitution didn't get well, then, he will gradually turn to the stasis stage. He may display hypertension, type 2 diabetes, chronic laryngitis, chronic bronchitis, and others. Weakness is still existing because physical functions are disorder and weak. Fixed and unchanged chronic inflammations are getting more and more. 

Sclerosis Stage: If stasis body constitution didn't get well, then, he will gradually turn to the sclerosis stage. He may display chronic laryngitis with atrophic nodules, cirrhosis, kidney atrophy, myocardial necrosis, foot edema, hypertension, diabetes with pancreas inflammation(IDDM), stroke, emphysema, etc. These are some extent of necrotic cells in the organ, which severely decreased the function of the organ.

So, if a chronic patient doesn't improve his body constitution as soon as possible, then the disease will be deteriorating gradually.

11. Complications of Bad Body Constitution

Weakness, stasis, and sclerosis will mutually promote and generate if the bad body constitution does not get well. When weakness, stasis, and sclerosis body constitutions interacted with each other, which will make chronic diseases heavier and heavier. For example, someone often catches a cold and asthma attacks from he was childhood. And then, he got chronic hepatitis. Continuously, he got type 1 diabetes. In recent years, his serum creatine began to raise. The illness process mentioned above are :

• • Frequent colds(weakness)...asthma(weakness)

  • Chronic hepatitis(stasis)

  • Type 1 diabetes(hardness of β cells in the pancreas )... serum creatine began to raise(hardness of kidney)

By this process, when he got some chronic disease, then, each time he got an additional disease, not only the more difficult to be cured, but also, therefore his chronic diseases are easier worsening, and he is easier to get another kind of disease. 

If he is coupled with the intestinal absorption of nutrients and nutrient conversion capacity are disorder. So, that increases the absorption of toxins (guts leaking syndrome). The body's ability to detoxify decreased (five internal organs function become more debilitating). Then, the impact will be more expanded scope. It is possible to produce more chronic diseases, aging diseases, and allergic diseases. Coupled with physique aging, those chronic diseases will become more diverse and more serious. At this time, of course, these chronic diseases are very difficulty controlled by using chemical drugs.

So, if a chronic patient doesn't improve his body constitution as soon as possible, then he will get more chronic diseases gradually.

12. Physiological Changes of Bad Body Constitution

With body constitution deterioration, working cells are less regeneration and more death. The body is losing a kind of capacity. We call it "Incapability" (the characteristic of sclerosis body constitution). The working cells will increase the workload. This phenomenon is called "compensation action."

When "compensation action" could not withstand "Incapability", physiological aging appears. When the condition is getting worse and affect the health, then chronic disease appears. At this time, the organ is in the stasis stage. And maybe worse, the organ is partially into the sclerosis stage.

When the body constitution is very seriously deterioration, it just like decayed and dilapidated clothes. Any part of it may be damaged at any time when using it. And it is difficult to fix and repair. For example... 

• • For our bodies, there are eight parts easy to get an allergic disease. The patient may have more than 4 or 5 parts for a bad body constitution.

  • Because the body function insufficiency for bad body constitution, They might get hypertension, diabetes, gout, high blood cholesterol, lethargy, insomnia, etc. that followed happen, or came one after another. 

When the body constitution quickly deteriorates, that will make the patient easily infect disease such as catch a cold, gastroenteritis, pneumonia, nephritis, etc.

For the patient with bad body constitution, they easily evolved into a terrible "cellulitis" from a small wounded.

So, The situation evolves for the patient with Bad Body Constitution...

• • For patients with poor body constitution, so they may be easy to get an infection, and easily deteriorate or even to die.

  • For patients with a bad body constitution, so it is uneasy to get controlled by chemical drugs.

When our body lost some kinds of ability, or get weakened the function of a organ or a system. Then, the whole physiological systems hardly maintained equilibrium and stable. For example, a patient, he lost kidney function, might hardly maintain electrolyte balance. And, he is hardly maintain the blood pressure in normal range. He, even needs to use kidney dialysis, still has the problems of hypertension, anemia, feeling cold, and easy to be infected. Furthermore, he needs to take many chemical drugs regularly to control some of the symptoms and retard deterioration. He felt uncomfortable every day at each time point. Besides, some symptoms can only be eased for a short time, such as, wound is difficult to heal, body itching, skin dark, feel cold, insomnia, hematopoietic capability degradation, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, chloride and other ions are out of balance.

Since chronic disease comes from the damage of body constitution, it causes the body to gradually "lose some functions," and can't repair by himself. So the most correct remedy for chronic patients is "physical rehabilitation."

How to do "physical rehabilitation" for chronic patients? 

13. Let's keep on studying...

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