One should never sleep during day-time after eating. Such sleep excites phlegm and bile and brings on such diseases as jaundice, painful headaches, languor and unsteadiness, as also heaviness of the limbs, loss of lightness of the body, loss of appetite, dropsical swellings, hiccough, inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, loss of memory and intelligence, hemicrania, urticaria evanida, erup...

During December 2001 we conducted a field study of 183 clean-up and recovery workers at the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site to assess respiratory health effects potentially resulting from their work at the site. On site, we administered a respiratory health questionnaire designed to assess upper respiratory symptoms and lower respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and wheeze, as ...

BACKGROUND Active smoking and passive exposure to environmental tobacco smoke cause respiratory symptoms as well as long-term complications. We know little about the sources of exposure to tobacco smoke in our population and the symptoms that can be related to smoking in adults and children. METHODS A survey on the range of symptoms relevant to smoke exposure was conducted. Residents of Tehra...

Hyperthyroidism belongs to the category of 'gall qi' and disease' in traditional Chinese medicine. The pathogenesis hyperthyroidism is mainly 'qi', 'phlegm' 'fire', which a specific autoimmune disease. Its long course disease, many complications increasing incidence year by are closely related people's physique, living standards habits. In long-term accumulation, thought 'preventive treatment m...