External Wind
- It is Yang.
- It is rapid. It strikes suddenly, symptoms appear abruptly.
- It is mobile and changeable: symptoms can change location, appear and disappear.
- It mainly affects the upper parts of the body (head, throat...) and the surface (skin, yang channels, Defensive Qi (Wei Qi)).
- It affects muscles and tendons (Wind Bi).
- As it weakens the surface, combined with other external energies (like cold, heat...) it allows them to penetrate quickly and intensifies them. For example, a cold wind attacks with much more violence than cold.
- It typically affects in spring. It is Wood.
Examples of symptoms of external wind attack: migraine, otitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, eye itching, sneezing. Aversion to wind. Erratic joint pains, changing location and intensity. Insomnia, anxiety.
Internal Wind
Problems of internal origin give pathologies with the characteristics of wind:
- Due to Rising of Liver-Yang: tics, tremors, cramps, facial deviation, paralysis, hemiplegia, dizziness...
- Due to extreme heat (very high fever or heat stroke): convulsions, tremor, delirium...
- Due to Blood deficiency: cramps, tingling, numbness, weak pulse...
See more in Internal Wind.
Treatment
The acupuncture points most commonly used to eliminate wind are: