What causes palpitations

Some people often find themselves suffering from palpitations in their daily lives. This may be due to their weak constitution, lack of heart blood, excessive worry and other negative emotions. If they have some cardiovascular diseases, they also need to pay attention.

1. The occurrence of this syndrome is often related to weak constitution, emotional injury, fatigue, sweating and pathogenic factors. Usually the physique is not strong, the heart is weak, or long-term illness leads to insufficient heart blood, or excessive worry leads to fatigue of the heart and spleen, which makes the mind unable to control itself and causes palpitations; or kidney yin deficiency, water and fire are not in harmony, and the virtual fire stirs recklessly, disturbing the mind and causing illness; or spleen and kidney yang deficiency, which cannot evaporate water, and it accumulates as drink, which invades the heart, suppresses the heart yang, and obstructs the heart meridians, causing this disease.

2. Cardiovascular diseases are common in various types of heart diseases, such as myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, pericarditis, arrhythmia and hypertension.

3. Non-cardiovascular diseases are common in anemia, hypoglycemia, massive blood loss, high fever, hyperthyroidism and other diseases, as well as pleural effusion, pneumothorax, lung inflammation, atelectasis, ascites, intestinal obstruction, intestinal flatulence, etc.; they can also be seen in palpitations after the use of epinephrine, isoproterenol, aminophylline, atropine and other drugs.

4. Neurological factors: Autonomic nervous system (vegetative nervous system) dysfunction is the most common. Palpitations may occur due to neurasthenia, menopausal syndrome, panic or excessive excitement, or after strenuous exercise.