As we are in Autumn, the days are more varied in temperature, some becoming colder, and windier. A scarf is very useful to keep your neck warm and protected.
This is because in TCM theory, wind is a carrier of pathogens. Therefore, when the head and neck area is exposed, or your pores are open, you are susceptible to attacks by the pathogen. As a result, the symptoms at the beginning of a cold, are a stiff neck and runny nose, followed by chills or fever, headache, body ache… and so on.
“Prevention is better than cure.” - Proverb
Children, elderly and individuals who are recovering or have just recovered from an illness are more prone to attacks by the external pathogenic factors than healthy individual. Therefore, before feeling the wind or chills at your neck, a simple gesture of putting on a scarf not only serves to keeps warm, it may also prevent you from catching a cold!
So, before you step outside next time, wrap yourself up warm and toasty in a scarf!
Little TCM knowledge
“Hence, the wind is the chief [cause] of the one hundred diseases. When it comes to changes and transformations, other diseases result.”- Su Wen, Chapter 42
Wind- in TCM theory, is one of the external pathogenic factors and is the chief cause of many illnesses. There are some acu-points located at the back of neck which are particular vulnerable to external wind. They are called Feng Chi (wind pool), Feng Men (wind gate) and Da Zhui. They are closely associated with wind, as their name suggests, and hence are prone to attacks made by wind pathogen.
Hence, it is important to protect those acu-points from wind, and a scarf serves just that purpose!
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