It's time to treat winter sickness in summer again. Treating winter diseases in summer is a characteristic treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in the motherland. In fact, it is based on the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter" in Su Wen Si Qi Tiao theism. For diseases that often occur in winter or are easy to aggravate symptoms in winter ("winter diseases"), choose to treat them in hot summer by taking traditional Chinese medicine orally, acupoint application, acupuncture, cupping and other means ("summer treatment"). From the summer heat to the beginning of autumn (dog days in midsummer), the temperature is the highest all year round. At this time, with the help of the vigorous Yang energy in summer and the effect of acupoint stimulation and drugs, it can dredge the meridians, invigorate the spleen and lungs, warm yang and tonify the kidney, so as to enhance the immune function of patients, consolidate the foundation, reduce the occurrence of "winter disease" or reduce the condition of "winter disease", and prevent and treat winter prone diseases. What conditions can be "cured in summer and winter"? At present, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, oncology, dermatology, gynecology, pediatrics, acupuncture, massage, rehabilitation medicine and other departments have issued summer treatment projects for winter diseases, and their diagnosis and treatment have their own characteristics. The Department of respiratory medicine adopts the method of syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. The drugs of Xinwen, zocuan and Tongjing are made into medicine cakes and applied to specific acupoints, combined with specific traditional Chinese medicine directional transdermal technology and hyperthermia technology for treatment, which plays the role of dredging meridians and collaterals, warming Yang Qi, tonifying spleen and kidney, dispersing cold and expelling evil. On this basis, combined with auricular therapy, it can act on the whole body to improve the clinical symptoms of chronic cough and asthma. It is suitable for patients with chronic cough, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive disease, interstitial lung disease, allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, chronic pharyngitis, recurrent respiratory tract infection and other long-term respiratory diseases. Pediatric acupoint application for treating winter diseases and summer diseases gives different prescriptions for lung and spleen diseases. "Fei Si Gu Ben Fang" is applicable to recurrent respiratory tract infection, recurrent pneumonia, asthma, bronchitis, pharyngitis, rhinitis, adenoid swelling and other diseases. "Spleen invigorating recipe" is applicable to diseases such as dyspepsia, anorexia, malnutrition, constipation, diarrhea, mesenteric lymphadenitis, etc. The summer treatment of winter diseases in the Department of endocrinology is characterized by the prevention and treatment of diabetes neuropathy, with acupoint application as the main means, tonifying the spleen and kidney, dredging the meridians and collaterals, activating blood circulation and relieving pain, so as to enhance the disease resistance and immune function of the human body in the cold autumn and winter, so as to reduce and delay the incidence of diabetes neuropathy. Adhering to the traditional Chinese medicine concept of "the principle of external treatment is the principle of internal treatment, and the medicine of external treatment is the medicine of internal treatment", the Department of traditional medicine integrates scraping therapy, moxibustion therapy, cupping therapy, ear acupoint pressing pills, acupoint application, hot and cold wet compress, ironing therapy, traditional Chinese medicine fumigation therapy, traditional Chinese medicine directional penetration therapy, traditional Chinese medicine rubbing, finger acupoints and other appropriate technologies of traditional Chinese medicine, aiming at chronic fatigue people, gastrointestinal dysfunction people, chronic lung disease people People with neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, palace cold and blood stasis, insomnia, fatty liver and hypertension have established treatment schemes with traditional Chinese medicine characteristics. The summer application of dermatology is aimed at allergic dermatitis, chronic eczema, chronic urticaria, gout and other immune diseases, herpes simplex, viral warts and other infectious skin diseases. The "three volt acupuncture" therapy in the Acupuncture Department selects acupoints according to the syndrome differentiation of patients' conditions in the midsummer season, and uses filiform needle, moxibustion, pressing needle, ear point, application, cupping and other treatment methods to take advantage of the hot natural climate to expel Yin cold and solid diseases. It is suitable for respiratory diseases such as decreased immunity, cough, allergic rhinitis, asthma, chronic bronchitis, COPD and so on; Bone and joint diseases such as neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain caused by wind cold dampness; Deficiency cold patients with diarrhea, stomach pain, insomnia, cold limbs caused by insufficient Yang Qi, who are usually prone to colds or repeated colds in winter. The winter disease summer treatment specialist clinic of Shanghai pediatric massage team, based on the physiological characteristics of children's "childlike Yin and childlike Yang" body, "delicate viscera and insufficient body Qi", as well as the pathological characteristics of lung insufficiency, spleen insufficiency and kidney deficiency, takes the "root strengthening" method as the treatment basis, and adjusts and supplements the deficiencies of the three viscera of children's lung, spleen and kidney through massage manipulation combined with acupoint application, in the treatment of children's allergic cough, rhinitis, repeated upper respiratory tract infection Anorexia, constipation, diarrhea, sleep disorders, growth retardation and physical enhancement have obvious characteristics. The summer treatment project of winter diseases in the Department of rehabilitation medicine is characterized by application. The specially configured traditional Chinese medicine is ground into powder, mixed with ginger juice, rubbed into pills, and attached to human acupoints to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment. It is suitable for stroke sequelae, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar muscle strain, periarthritis of shoulder, knee arthritis, hyperosteogeny, joint pain and other diseases. (the author is the director of the outpatient office of Yueyang integrated traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of traditional Chinese Medicine) Tips Precautions for acupoint application of winter disease and summer treatment 1. Do not exercise violently before and after application treatment, avoid sweating, and try to avoid direct blowing of electric fans and air conditioners; 2. Do not take a bath within 2 hours after treatment, and do not swim on the day of treatment; 3. During the treatment, you should eat a light diet and avoid eating raw, cold, spicy hair, fat, sweet, thick and greasy, so as to avoid inducing allergic reactions and reducing the curative effect; 4. Due to individual differences, some patients' local skin will appear flushing, mild tingling, itching, etc. This is a normal phenomenon, which generally does not need special treatment, but avoid scratching or bathing and rubbing, so as to avoid skin damage and infection. The next application treatment will be carried out 1-2 days after the local symptoms disappear; 5. For patients with allergic skin or scar skin, if there is burning pain after application, immediately remove the medicine cake; If rubella or even blisters appear on the applied local skin, it is recommended to suspend the application treatment and seek medical advice in time if necessary; 6. In case of emergencies during the application course, such as asthma attack, high fever, acute gastroenteritis, cold, etc., timely outpatient and emergency treatment should be carried out, and the application time should be adjusted. 7. During the epidemic prevention and control period, enter the hospital area to cooperate in scanning the "site code", "digital sentry", etc., and hold a valid nucleic acid report (usually a nucleic acid negative report within 72 hours); In addition to the needs of diagnosis and treatment, masks must be worn throughout the treatment, and no diet is necessary; Only one person is allowed to accompany the elderly and children with winter diseases treated in summer. (outlook new era)