The top is hot and the bottom is cold, that is, the yang does not return to its place!
Upper heat and lower cold is one of the most common symptoms of modern people, and its main manifestations are the coexistence of heat syndrome and cold syndrome: perennial fire, always mouth ulcers, tongue sores, chronic pharyngitis, insomnia, and at the same time showing many symptoms of body cold, such as tongue fat, large fish blue, cold lower limbs, etc.
In terms of diet, this kind of people are also very picky, eating a little hot will get hot, eating a little cold will hurt the yang, and they can only eat warm things.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there is actually a more accurate way to express the upper heat and lower cold: "true cold and false heat", or "yang does not return to its place".
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" says: "Those who are sick with fever today are all typhoid fever and the like...... If a person's injury is due to cold, it is a fever."
This sentence points out that "cold is the cause of fever", and if the cold evil is too strong in the body, the yang energy will be excluded, and the yang energy will float up and disperse, which will manifest as the upper heat sign, and people will have symptoms of fire. In other words, body chill is the root cause of fire!
How to distinguish between real fire and virtual fire?
After some friends get angry, the first thing they think of is to use gunpowder, but they often fall into a vicious circle of getting worse and worse the more they eat. Because the upper heat and lower cold are caused by the cold of the body, and the gunpowder is a cold thing, taking them will only make you cold and cold, and the more you cure the fire, the bigger the fire!
Therefore, before dealing with the fire, you have to distinguish whether it is a real fire or a virtual fire?
Real fire: never on fire, but after eating something, it suddenly gets on fire, most likely real fire;
False fire: Mouth ulcers, tongue sores, pimples, insomnia and other hot symptoms often occur, after drinking herbal tea, it will be better, but when you don't drink it, it will not work, and it will be repeated, it must be a false fire.
The properties of fire are different, and the treatment method is naturally different. In a word: the laxative method is used for real fire, mainly to clear away heat and reduce fire, and it is recommended to take anti-fire medicine (such as bezoar detoxification pills);
Moreover, for the void fire, there is no contradiction between replenishing yang and nourishing yin. Because the weaker the yang qi, the heavier the body cold, the weaker the spleen and stomach, and the spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Therefore, people who are illusory all year round often have a body that is both yin and yang.
How is it formed?
The yang ascends, and the yin descends. However, if Yang has been on and Yin has been on the bottom, it is the separation of Yin and Yang, which means that Yin and Yang have no intersection, you are you, and it is it, then it cannot constitute a relationship of opposing constraints and mutual roots, and there is no interaction between the two, and of course there will be no relationship or any change.
On the contrary, only when the yang is below, rising from the bottom, yin is on the top, and descending from the top, can the two be related, and only with the correlation can the opposite constraints, mutual roots, mutual growth, and mutual transformation, which is called "yin and yang sympathy".
Therefore, the best state of the human body is that yin is above and yang is below, and if you are upside down, it will be hot and cold.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the main fire of the heart is located in the upper part of the human body, like the sun in the sky, and the main water of the kidney is located in the lower part of the human body, like a river on the earth. If water and fire are not good, the yin and yang of qi and blood in the body cannot circulate normally, and the yin and yang will be reversed.
For example, if the heart fire and kidney water are two cars, in order for the two cars to meet, two conditions must be met: one is that the car itself is normal, and the other is that the road is not blocked.
Let's start with the vehicle:
1. Kidney Yang deficiency: Zheng Qin'an, a famous typhoid scientist in the late Qing Dynasty, pointed out in the "True Biography of Medical Sciences": Yang Qi is too weak, Yin Qi is too strong, and the Yuan Yang of the first line of Yin is bound to go up with Yin Qi, so there are toothaches, swollen cheeks, swollen ears, and sore throat.
It can be seen that if the yang energy is too weak, the evil of yin and cold will be excessive, and it will gradually settle down and accumulate in the lower parts, resulting in "lower cold"; at the same time, the yuan yang (the fire of life) in the kidneys cannot encourage the kidney water to rise, and the heart fire will not be nourished by the kidney water, and it will "go to heat".
2. Kidney Yin Deficiency: Kidney Yin deficiency does not have enough material basis to realize the physiological function of "Shangji Heart Fire", and the body will also present a state of "insufficient power", so it is not surprising that the upper heat and lower cold.
3. Lack of heart yin and hyperactive heart fire: Lack of heart yin and hyperactive heart fire often exist at the same time. At the same time, if the heart fire is too high, it will not be able to warm the kidney water, and it will "go cold".
Let's look at the road again:
1. Lack of Zhongqi: In the circular movement of the body, the fire must descend and the water rise, and there must be a force to push it, and this force is the Zhongqi, which is the key to the rise and fall of the qi.
Zhongqi is born from the spleen and stomach, and if the spleen and stomach are weak, the Zhongqi will be insufficient, and then the spleen qi will not rise, and the stomach qi will not fall - the kidney water cannot rise with the help of the rise of the spleen qi to help the heart fire, and people will have redness, swelling, heat and pain, irritability and other problems due to the excessive heart fire; at the same time, the heart fire cannot use the decline of stomach qi to sink down to warm the kidney water, and people will be afraid of cold, dysmenorrhea, diarrhea, cold lower limbs, etc. due to the lack of kidney yang.
2. Wet resistance and medium coke: the fire goes up, the cold sinks, and the middle coke is not passable, so it will "scorch the fire on the top and scorch the cold on the bottom". The most common is that the wet resistance is in the coke, blocking the road, causing the heart fire not to fall, the kidney water not to rise, and the natural water and fire can not be used at the same time.
Hot on the top and cold on the bottom, moxibustion is the best!
As mentioned above, the essence of the upper heat and lower cold lies in "true cold and false heat" or "yang does not return to its place", which puts forward two requirements: one is to replenish yang, and the other is to latent yang (that is, to pull down yang energy).
In fact, it is because they simply replenish the yang, but they do not pull the yang energy down, and the yang energy does not return to its place, not only can it not play its due role, but it will be bad.
The method that can both replenish yang and latent yang is moxibustion:
First, the fire that appears in the upper heat and lower cold is a false fire, indicating that the body is cold, and moxibustion is the best at treating the symptoms of deficiency and cold, which is the most suitable;
Second, the most direct way to pull down the yang energy is to moxibustion the legs;
Third, moxibustion can replenish yin and yang, which can not only replenish yang, but also nourish yin, remove cold and dampness stasis, eliminate middle scorching stasis, and at the same time replenish the middle qi, help the spleen to rise and lower the stomach...... These are all pushing the heart and kidney to intersect.
In this way, moxibustion: replenish yang and latent yang, and work together
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Step 1: Open the middle focus
Open up the middle coke, dispel the dampness and cold, replenish the middle qi, and make the upper and lower qi paths unblocked, so that the fire can go down. Otherwise, after moxibustion, the fire will be completely blocked and unable to come down, and the symptoms of fire will be more serious.
The method is as follows: first, if the symptoms of fire are severe, first moxibustion is applied to direct yang energy to the chest cavity;
Then, re-moxibustion Guan Yuan, Guan Yuan is the gateway to the closure of the Qi of Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang, moxibustion Guan Yuan can be full of true fire, the vitality is replenished, and the true yuan will restore the function of "hiding but not leaking", and will take the initiative to recover the heat scattered outside, and the symptoms of fire will gradually disappear (moxibustion of Guan Yuan and Zhongguan together can also speed up the speed of expelling yin and evil);
Again, Zhongjiao is not focused on regulating the spleen and stomach, such as Spleen Yu, Stomach Yu, Zhongguan, Zusanli, Taibai, etc. are commonly used acupoints, spleen qi deficiency, can add moxibustion Qihai, spleen dampness and heavy, can add moxibustion Yinling Spring, Fenglong, Jiexi, etc.
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Step 2: Ignite the fire and return to the source
For the virtual fire caused by the upper heat and the lower cold, it needs to be led to the place where it should go, the lower limbs.
At this time, the acupuncture points on the legs can be ignited by moxibustion, and the commonly used ones are Zusanli, Yinling Spring, Sanyinjiao, Yongquan, etc. The legs are warm, the meridians are opened, and the scorched fire comes down.
It should be noted that the Yongquan acupoint in the center of the foot should be placed at the end of moxibustion, and it is indispensable, so that the process of "returning the fire to the source" can be completely completed.
In addition, it is recommended to soak your feet in boiled water with moxa leaves before moxibustion, and rub your back and waist with both hands while soaking your feet, which has a better effect. After soaking, rub the spring points on the soles of your feet, which can not only nourish the kidney water, but also replenish yang.
The above is for reference only, please adjust under the guidance of a physician.
Source: Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Maintenance