When we are overly sad and crying hard, we will feel chest tightness, dizziness, numbness or convulsions in our limbs, breathlessness, severe, and even crying and fainting.
This condition is called "respiratory alkalosis" in Western medicine.
When crying with grief, it often causes severe breathing, or hyperventilation, resulting in excessive exhalation of carbon dioxide, and the plasma h2co3 concentration decreases, while the pH of plasma increases, showing a more alkaline state. This is how respiratory alkalosis works.
So why do you have symptoms such as hand and foot twitches?
Due to hyperventilation, the pH in the blood rises and the h+ concentration decreases, so that the free calcium in the blood plasma is reduced, that is, the blood calcium is reduced. Because calcium ions have the effect of inhibiting nerve excitement, so blood calcium is reduced, and the body's neuromuscular stress is increased, so that the symptoms of hand and foot twitching will occur.
What should I do when I experience symptoms of respiratory alkalosis?
Because respiratory alkalosis is mostly caused by excessive emotions, not only excessive sadness will cause, excessive anger, excitement, fear, can lead to respiratory alkalosis.
So, the first thing is to soothe the patient's (and possibly one's own) emotions, to calm them down as much as possible and to adjust their breathing. You can then find a paper bag, cut a small opening, and put it over your mouth, or just wear a mask so that as much carbon dioxide is inhaled as much as possible to relieve symptoms. In severe cases, immediate medical attention is required.
Sadness is anxious, the lungs are covered with leaves, and the upper coke is not clear, the Rong Wei is not dispersed, the heat is in the middle, so the qi is dissipated. - "Su Qing"
In the "Yellow Emperor Neijing Su Qing", it is said: When people are sad, first of all, the heart has an urgent and stuffy feeling, which will cause the lung lobes to rise, affecting the declaration of lung qi. The qi of shangjiao cannot be publicized, the qi of Rongwei cannot be spread normally, the qi is depressed and hot, and the qi is consumed and the yin is injured.
To put it simply, it is a sad emotion, which will make the human body's qi machine depressed, and if it is depressed for a long time, it will generate heat and consume qi, so it is said to be "qi dissipation". Chest tightness, dizziness, shortness of breath, fatigue, numbness, these are all related to the qi deficiency and depression of Chinese medicine. People who have been in sad emotions for a long time are more likely to have these symptoms.
As for crying and fainting, these people often lack vitality, or are in a bad mood for a long time, resulting in qi deficiency or unfavorable qi machine, and most of them will wake up automatically. Serious cases, that is, the so-called "qi deficiency evidence" in traditional Chinese medicine, see dizziness, pale face, weak breathing, cold sweating limbs, faint tongue pulse, and clinically use four flavors back to yang drink and other prescriptions to replenish qi and yang to save the emergency.
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