盛夏酷暑,有些人(尤其是女性)感到不舒服,周身乏力,困乏难禁,不思饮食,身体日渐消瘦。但一到秋凉,这些症状则不治而愈。这就是民间所说的“苦夏”,医学上称为“疰夏”。据临床上的一些病例资料统计,一些女青年每年出现的“苦夏”现象,大多是属于植物神经功能紊乱而引起的,而并非器质性病变所致。由于植物神经功能紊乱失调,人体体温调节中枢也会发生功能障碍,产热和散热功能亦趋于紊乱,于是就引起了功能性低热。病人除低热波动在37.4℃～37.7℃之 Summer heat, some people (especially women) feel uncomfortable, whole body fatigue, sleepy, unforgettable, not eating, the body getting thinner. However, once the cool autumn, these symptoms are cured. This is what folk people call “bitter summer”, which is medically referred to as “疰 summer.” According to the statistics of some clinical cases, the phenomenon of “bitter summer” appearing in some young women each year is mostly caused by autonomic dysfunction, which is not caused by organic diseases. Due to disorders of autonomic dysfunction, dysfunctional body thermoregulatory center also occurs, and the functions of heat production and heat dissipation tend to be disorder, thus causing functional hypothermia. In addition to low temperature fluctuations in patients with 37.4 ℃ ~ 37.7 ℃