Why Has Vascular Disease Become the Greatest Threat to Modern People?
Modern blood vessels have no time to rest.
Blood becomes sticky due to westernized diets (Hyperlipidemia), vessels constrict due to stress (Hypertension), and the motive force of circulation is lost due to lack of exercise.
As a result, inflammation occurs on the inner vessel walls, plaque accumulates, and Atherosclerosis begins.
Narrowed vessels suffocate the heart, causing Angina and Myocardial Infarction, block leg vessels leading to Claudication and Gangrene, and cause the aorta to lose elasticity, ballooning into an aneurysm that threatens life if it ruptures.
BM's Perspective: It is Not Just the Vessel That is Blocked.
BM Korean Internal Medicine Clinic asks, "Why did the blood vessel become sick?"
The narrowed vessel seen in imaging is just the result; the root cause lies where it is unseen.
From the perspective of Korean Medicine, vascular disease is a combined result of Blockage of Vessels by Stasis (Maengnak-eojo / 脈絡瘀阻), Qi Stagnation and Blood Stasis (Giche-hyeoleo / 氣滯血瘀), and Internal Accumulation of Phlegm-Turbidity (Damtak-naeon / 痰濁內蘊).
- Blockage by Stasis (Maengnak-eojo): A state where debris (blood stasis) accumulates in the vascular network, blocking the flow.
- Qi Stagnation and Blood Stasis (Giche-hyeoleo): A state where the energy (Qi) pushing the blood is blocked, causing the blood to stop as well.
- Internal Accumulation of Phlegm-Turbidity (Damtak-naeon): A state where waste products (Phlegm-turbidity) formed due to lowered metabolism adhere to vessel walls, causing inflammation.
We look beyond the diameter of the narrowed vessel to see the turbidity of the blood flowing through it and the energy of the internal organs governing circulation.
