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Herbal Medicine

Finding A Guiding Herb Makes Easier to Find the Most Efficient Formula ③ Fu Zi

The Fu Zi Cures Severe Degree of Aversion to

Cold and Cold Limbs.

Fu Zi, Gui Zhi, and Wu Zhu Yu Share Similar Function, but its Indications are Different

of pain-inducing substances → and paresthesia? A. Decrease in body temperature
Stimulation of pain receptors A. Decrease in body temperature → Decrease in water solubility
→ Chronic pain (slow pain) → Decrease in neuronal in neurotransmitter receptors
- Decreasing body temperature membrane thickness (most → Decrease in muscle activity,
causes tissue ischemia. notably at 23°C to 30°C) → alertness, and power
- Chemicals such as bradykinin Increase in membrane potential
and proteolytic enzymes difference → Decrease in It seems the decline of body
produced by large amounts of frequency of action potential temperature in the Fu Zi
lactic acid or damage to cells occurrence (dv/dx) → Decrease pattern results from decreased
that have become ischemic in neuroconductivity thermogenesis due to diminished
in tissue stimulate the pain - As the body temperature systemic metabolism and
receptors. decreases, the thickness of cardiovascular circulation failure.
- With slow pain, the exact the neuronal cell membrane The temperature of both the
△ Fu Zi. image©godpdu.tistory.com site of the painful area is hard decreases, and the membrane body surface and the core is
to pinpoint. potential difference increases, reduced, resulting in an aversion
Zi's pain seems to follow the which reduces the frequency to cold (cold intolerance) and
By Hyunchang Cho,
chronic (slow) pain pathway 3) Decreased body temperature of action potential occurrence. coldness of the limbs. Cold
L.Ac., Ph.D
model. seen in Fu Zi pattern reduces - This is most noticeable at intolerance and coldness of the
nerve conductivity carried body temperature between 23°C limbs in the Fu Zi pattern are
1. Pharmacological Q. Why does the pain occur out by electrical signals in and 30°C. If the temperature usually worse than in Gui Zhi
Hypothesis of Fu Zi when the body temperature neurons, resulting in numbness, is below 8℃, the Na+ channel and Wu Zhu Yu patterns. Fu Zi
The underlying mechanism drops? paresthesia, decreased muscle becomes "sleepy." patients would say things like,
of the Fu Zi Pattern seems A. If the body temperature drops, movement, and muscle weakness. Q. How does the body 'I am very sensitive to cold. My
temperature decline in body is cold as ice. My hands,
Poor blood circulation due to decreased metabolism and reduced cardi- Fu Zi Pattern lead to the feet, or other parts of the body
ac output → decreased thermogenesis, → decreased surface, and core heaviness of the limbs? are very, very cold.'
body temperatures
○ Comparing Gui Zhi, Wu Zhu Yu, and Fu Zi
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Gui Zhi Wu Zhu Yu Fu Zi
Cold intoler- Cold pain Decreased neural conduction
ance, due to poor aversion to aversion to aversion to
coldness of blood circu- cold and cold cold and cold cold and cold
the limbs and lation of the ↓ ↓ limbs com- limbs com- limbs which are
other body joints bined with bined with rarely combined
parts ☞Slow path-
way of chron- Dullness and Declined physical ability Upper Heat cold pain in with numbness
ic pain paresthe- of the voluntary mus- the lower ab- or heaviness in
sia due to cles due to decreased domen (Cold certain parts of
decreased neural conduction of
neural con- the motor nerves Hernia) the body
duction of the
somatosen-
sory system Cold Scale: 5 Cold Scale: 5 Cold Scale:
(more or less) (more or less) 7,8,9 out of 10
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ out of 10 From 2,3,4 to
6,7,8,9 out of 10
cold intol- Dullness and
erance and Body aches paresthesia Heaviness aversion to cold The degree of The degree
cold extrem- and cold limbs aversion to cold of aversion to
ities
are sometimes and cold limbs cold and cold
accompanied can vary greatly limbs are usu-
to be decreased metabolism, the circulation of the blood is In some cases, cold intolerance by body aches ally severe
and reduced cardiac output impaired, which causes pain. and coldness of the limbs
→ poor blood circulation → in the Fu Zi pattern may be
decreased thermogenesis → Q. What is the mechanism accompanied by numbness of (1) Main Symptoms Score) of at least 3,4 out of
decreased surface and core of Fu Zi's body pain that the sensory nerves and abnormal The main Symptoms of Fu 10 or higher. The coldness
body temperatures. accompanies cold intolerance? sensations resulting from poor Zi are severe intolerance to Score of Fu Zi is mostly high,
A. Fu Zi's body pain seems to conductivity of the sensory cold and coldness of the limbs. from 5 to 7 out of 10, and
1) As a result, cold intolerance follow a chronic pain pathway. nervous system and impairment To use Fu Zi, patients should sometimes very high, from
and coldness of the extremities in voluntary muscle movement display cold intolerance (Cold 7 to 9 out of 10.
occur. Mechanism of Chronic Pain due to poor conductivity of the
(Slow Pain) motor nervous system. ① Cold intolerance (severe) ☞ Body Tempera-
2) Decreased body temperature Chronic Pain (slow Pain) ture Score (Cold) of 5 to 10 (usually severe)
will lead to the poor blood Mechanism Q. How does the body ② Extreme coldness of hands and feet or
circulation of the joints, which Decreased body temperature → temperature decline in Fu Zi other body parts
will induce cold body pains. Fu Ischemia of tissues → Production Pattern lead to numbness