How is hyperthyroidism explained in traditional Chinese medicine

Hyperthyroidism in traditional Chinese medicine is considered to be mainly related to emotional disorders, physical factors, eating disorders, etc. 1. Emotional disorders Long-term mental tension, anxiety, anger and other bad emotions, can lead to liver-qi stagnation. Liver qi stagnation, qi stagnation for a long time can turn into fire, hot evil disturbing, disturbing the mind, and liver fire can burn yin and fluid, resulting in deficiency of yin fluid in the body, hyperthyroidism symptoms such as irritability, excessive sweating, hand trembling, etc. 2. Innate deficiency of constitution factors, or improper conditioning after birth, leads to weakness of healthy qi in the body, especially yin deficiency of liver and kidney. Yin deficiency leads to yang hyperactivity, deficiency fire is endogenous, thus triggering a series of hyperthyroidism manifestations. 3. Irregular diet, excessive food, fat and sweet taste, or alcohol addiction, etc., can damage the spleen and stomach, brewing damp-heat. Damp-heat accumulation, long time can also transform fire injury yin, affecting the normal metabolism of the body, inducing hyperthyroidism. TCM treatment of hyperthyroidism pays attention to overall conditioning. Through syndrome differentiation and treatment, it adopts methods such as clearing liver and purging fire, nourishing yin and lowering fire, resolving phlegm and resolving masses to improve symptoms, adjust the balance of yin and yang of the body, and emphasize the adjustment of patients' emotions and improvement of life style, so as to promote the recovery of diseases. However, it should be noted that traditional Chinese medicine treatment can be used as an auxiliary means, can not replace the standardized treatment of western medicine, should choose the appropriate treatment scheme of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine according to the specific condition.