What is "fat people with more phlegm, thin people with more fire"? Chinese Medicine Perspective on "Fat and Thin"

Experts in this issue: Zheng Xiaopeng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Geriatrics, Oriental Hospital, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, attending physician Yang Jie

We often hear people say, "Fat people have more phlegm, thin people are more hot", this sentence from the perspective of Chinese medicine, generally talk about the physical characteristics of fat and thin people. There are two meanings here, on the one hand, fat people often have more phlegm, and thin people often have more fire, and the second meaning means that because of more phlegm, people are often prone to fat; because of more fire, burning muscle rot, long-term body emaciation.

First of all, "fat people have more phlegm", the fat mentioned here generally refers to excessive accumulation of fat. Fat people have more spleen deficiency, especially fatness, such as muscle surface looks tender, but the inside is like water, generally spleen deficiency type fat.

The spleen and stomach are located in the middle of the human body, that is, the middle focus, and the dynamic qi machine of the spleen and stomach is the spleen rising and stomach descending, the spleen is responsible for lifting, and the stomach is responsible for lowering turbidity. That is, the spleen is responsible for dispersing the subtleties of food and further distributing them to the mind, organs and limbs throughout the body. The stomach can hold food and can reduce turbidity, grinding and absorbing food into the intestines.

Just imagine, if the spleen and stomach dysfunction, the food we eat, can not become a subtle substance is distributed to the whole body to use, or insufficient use, can only be stored in the stomach, equivalent to creating a dirty storage warehouse in the middle of the coke, a large number of turbid substances in the middle coke this part of the accumulation, the formation of obesity. Especially abdominal obesity, everyone is called "fat", although the body is fat, but there is no strength, no vitality, easy fatigue, easy to catch a cold, and even a loose stool performance. In fact, these are in the final analysis manifestations of spleen and stomach deficiency. At the same time, there may be abdominal fullness, dizziness, fatigue, drowsiness, sticky mouth, fat tongue, white and greasy moss and so on.

Speaking of "thin people and many fires", relative to fat people, thin people have fire in the scorch, some people are virtual fire, some people are real fire, we can imagine a fire in the body scorching and burning feeling, the food into the food are consumed, will produce a feeling of more food and hunger, not only is it not easy to make fat accumulation, but will consume the original reserves of the human body. Driven by this fire, thin people are more agile and active, but sometimes they are easily agitated and impulsive, often hot hands and feet, dry oropharynx, heat and cold, prone to insomnia, mouth ulcers and so on. This kind of person is partly because of the congenital kidney yin deficiency, more is the modern people's way of life, smoking, excessive spicy, love to drink, often stay up late, these habits damage the yin, artificially in the body to create a "dry" phenomenon, resulting in the emergence of virtual fire.

By figuring out our physique, we can analyze it according to our personal specific situation, moderately improve our lifestyle, and help regulate our posture.

Source: Guangming Network