Through the articles in previous issues, we learned that if the human body is a battlefield, then fighting diseases requires not only weapons and equipment, but also strategy and tactics. Today, continue to follow in the footsteps of Chinese medicine experts and understand what is the wonderful connection between the third plan in the "Thirty-Six Plans", "killing people with a knife" and curing diseases!
Borrow a knife to kill
"Killing with a knife" is a metaphor for not coming out on one's own, but using the power of others to achieve one's goal. The "killing with a knife" used in Chinese medicine to treat diseases is to borrow the hands of others or use external forces to achieve the purpose of treating diseases.
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic mentions that man and nature are one and the same, and factors such as the change of day and night and the geographical environment affect the human body all the time. Therefore, the "knife" borrowed by Chinese medicine is divided into: the "knife" of the heavenly time that uses the characteristics of the heavenly time, the "knife" that uses the geographical environment and the geographical advantage of the terrain, and the "knife" that people have the advantages of the human body according to different ages.
The "Knife" of Heaven and Time
The "knife" of heaven and time refers to the use of changes in time to treat diseases.
Take the change of day as an example: in the early morning, the sun rises, the yang of the human body begins to rise; the sun is strong in the day, the temperature rises, and the yang of the human body is also a booming moment; in the evening, the sun sets, and the yang of the person also weakens.
Take the four seasons as an example: "winter disease summer cure" is to use the impact of solar term changes on diseases to treat diseases.
How to use the "knife" of heaven and time
Geographical "knife"
Chinese medicine emphasizes the need to adopt different treatment methods according to different geographical environments. The terrain in the northwest is high and sunny, and it belongs to the yin; the southeast terrain is low and sunny, and it belongs to the yang. According to the different geographical characteristics, Chinese medicine has also produced different regional schools, such as: Anhui's Xin'an Medical School, which pays attention to Gu Ben Peiyuan, is good at using the characteristics of southern Yang Qi and using some warm yang and qi tonic medicines; the Longjiang Medical School in the northeast region has a large amount of medicine per taste. We must use this "knife" of the land to use dialectical methods to targeted treatment.
The "knife" of man and man
Because the occurrence and development of the disease are affected by many factors, especially by the physical factors of the individual patient, TCM emphasizes individualized treatment and dialectical treatment according to the different situations of each person.
Treatment according to the advantages of different age groups
The same cold and fever disease, children use light medicine, less medicine, commonly used silver warp powder and other drugs of a relatively flat cold fever flush; the symptoms of youth performance may be heavy, you can use some of the surface double solution of the medicine, such as windproof tongsheng pills; the elderly often have some qi deficiency, in the use of cold and heat flushing agents, you can then match the drugs to replenish qi. Therefore, to really borrow a "knife", it is necessary to take advantage of the physical advantages of people of different ages.
After thousands of years of continuous development, Chinese medicine has formed a complete and rigorous theoretical system, and the application of military principles in medicine can inspire people's wisdom, broaden people's horizons, and better play a role in curing diseases and saving people.
Path to Health - Program broadcast time
"Traditional Chinese Medicine Medicine as Using Soldiers (III)"
Broadcast time: December 15, 18:45