The way of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of nature and man. How? Men should walk in the heavens. "Heaven" is nature, and "Tao" is the law. Man should follow the laws of nature and maintain his health. So, what is the way of heaven? Traditional Chinese medicine culture pays attention to the analogy of images, and uses tangible phenomena to reflect intangible laws. Every day, the sun rises and sets, and everything changes with it, which is the way of heaven, which is "rising and falling".
When the sun rises and a breath of air rises from the middle of the legs and down the abdomen, we wake up. What is "qi"? It is a kind of "energy".
A glass of cold water, a cup of hot water, cold water is without energy, hot water is energy. The gas that transpires upwards is energy—heat. Invisible, with heat. The essence of the qigong qigong qi and the yang qi in traditional Chinese medicine is this invisible heat energy.
When the sun rises, the essence is that the temperature rises, and the heat energy is released. The release of energy leads to the functioning of the function, which is manifested as "awakening" in people. When the sun rises to the middle of the sky, the energy release rises to the highest point, and the yang energy goes to the top of the head. When the sun goes down, the energy is collected, and the yang energy descends from the top of the head and down the back, and the person gradually falls into a state of sleep.
Therefore, sleep is actually a phenomenon of energy release, collection, and elevation.
This process of lifting and lowering must pass through a passage, that is, the middle of the human body: in the front is the navel eye of the Shenque acupoint, and in the back is the gate of life, which corresponds to the inside, which is the passage of the spleen and stomach, the channel of qi.
The channel has a characteristic, thermal expansion and cold contraction. When your stomach is cold, the passage contracts and occludes.
In the morning, when the qi is about to rise, it will not come out smoothly, which will be manifested as: want to sleep lazy, even if you barely get up, the whole morning is drowsy and listless.
At night, when the qi is about to drop, if it can't go down, it will manifest as: insomnia, dreams, irritability and anxiety.
Therefore, the mechanism of insomnia is very simple, that is, the stomach is cold, the channels are contracted, and the yang energy cannot be lowered.
As long as this channel problem is solved, insomnia will be solved - so, no matter how hot the weather is, no matter how hot the weather is, you must cover your navel with a towel, that is, to avoid cold air directly entering through this valve, otherwise it is easy to fall asleep.
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The rise and fall of stomach cold is blocked, and all kinds of diseases are born
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Normally, when we eat, the heat will go down, for example, if we eat something on fire, the urine will turn yellow, and the stool will become smelly and hard.
However, when your stomach is cold, the passage is blocked, and the heat cannot be lowered, it will go up and backwards, and it will go to the throat, which will become acute and chronic pharyngitis and tonsillitis; When it goes to the mouth, it will form mouth ulcers, bad breath, and toothache; When you walk to the skin of your face, you will form acne, acne, spots, and dark bags under your eyes; Walking to the nose, acute and chronic rhinitis sinusitis will be formed; When it spreads along the skin through the lungs, a variety of skin diseases are formed, including armpit odor and increased dandruff; When you walk to the cervical spine, cervical hyperplasia is formed; When it goes to the brain, it forms a tumor - that is, no matter what part of the disease is, what Western medicine calls it, in essence, it is "garbage"!
Because of the different parts of the accumulation, the density concentration is different, so it has different names.
I would like to add here that just as the ocean has warm and cold currents, and the weather has hot air and cold air, the human body also has hot and cold air - this is the most essential connotation that heaven, earth and man can communicate.
Air currents carry invisible energy, as well as tangible nutrients or garbage. When it is hot, it flows and diverges, and when it is cold, it condenses and precipitates.
When the heat continues to go upward, too much garbage will accumulate and precipitate in the narrow part of the channel, and tangible pathological products will be formed that can be seen and detected.
According to the concentration, the shallowest is the normal tissue fluid, which is called jin liquid in traditional Chinese medicine. Re-concentration will become phlegm dampness (called blood lipids, oil, cholesterol in Western medicine), re-concentration is called tumor, according to the distinction of soft and hard, it is called powder tumor, benign tumor, and hard is called malignant tumor. Reconcentration is called hyperostosis.
Therefore, the purpose of treatment is very simple: hard to soften you.
How? If the clothes have stubborn stains, they will be soaked in water first, and after absorbing the water, they will become larger, softened, diluted, and then they can be washed off.
The pathology is the same: malignant tumors first turn into soft tumors, and then turn into soft and phlegm dampness, which can be discharged in the form of a large amount of spitting, or in the form of urine and urine, and in the end, when the yang energy becomes more and more sufficient, it is directly discharged from the skin breath.
It should be added here that malignant tumors (cancers) under correct treatment will become larger, softer, dilute and penetrate, and then the boundaries will blur into a piece, and eventually gradually fade and disappear.
If it is a benign tumor, the concentration itself is not high, and it can become smaller and disappear directly without going through the process of water absorption and dilution-in - in fact, it is like the process of losing weight and gaining weight: the thin becomes fat, and the fat becomes thin.
And this standard is diametrically opposed to Western medicine! If the tumor grows larger, it will worsen for Western medicine, and the effective standard of Western medicine treatment is that the tumor becomes smaller. The purpose is the same, but the means process is diametrically opposed!
So, I've always said that perception is more important than treatment! If you don't understand the concept, if I save you, you will think that I am harming you! This is also the intention of my constant request, during the treatment, do not go to the western hospital for any tests: so as not to make you afraid.
Therefore, to be a good Chinese medicine practitioner nowadays, you have to tremble and walk on thin ice!! Preaching is the general direction, and changing concepts is the fundamental cure!
"Work to cure the disease, work to cure the disease", publicity and education of ordinary people how to effectively regulate themselves and develop correct living habits when the body is just beginning to show a little deviation, compared with how many cases of serious illness are cured!
The driving force for the transformation of the form of matter comes from energy and heat. Tangible fire can provide invisible heat; It can heat tangible water and turn it into invisible gas; The invisible qi rises to the air and condenses into tangible water droplets. This is the mechanism of the tangible-intangible transformation process.
All the tangible pathological products are because of the lack of yang energy in the body, and the relative ones become cold and condensed, and there are more tangible ones, and they become sick. Therefore, as long as the calories are replenished and the yang energy in the body is sufficient, the tangible garbage can be turned into invisible qi and dispersed.
Wherever there is not enough heat and it becomes cold, there is a garbage accumulation and you get sick.
Therefore, replenishing yang qi is the general direction of treatment.
The children's buttocks, hands and feet are very hot, because there is plenty of yang; When the temperature decreases, it means that the energy is getting older and the energy fades, until there is no temperature left, and life dies. So, temperature determines life and death. The process of birth, aging, sickness and death is actually a process of energy decline, which is reflected in the change of temperature.
Therefore, maintaining heat, warming and avoiding cold is the general principle of health preservation.
When you blow the air conditioner and catch a cold, as a Chinese, he will consider "cold", but as a Western doctor, he will only detect what virus and bacteria are infected. You tell me, what kind of bacteria and viruses will the "air conditioner" be? This is undoubtedly a very ridiculous truth. Why?
When you are hungry and cold, two glasses of water are placed in front of you, which one do you choose? It must be hot water. Because there is heat and energy. Drinking it can obviously affect your physical state, and can even save your life at critical moments. And drinking cold water is a completely different feeling.
And what is thermal energy? Invisible, immeasurable, invisible, ungraspable, unmeasurable, belonging to the category of the idealistic world.
For example, if the lungs are not full of energy, they are prone to sadness; If the energy of the spleen is insufficient, it is easy to worry, and if the energy of the kidney is insufficient, it is easy to fear. However, Western medicine will not understand your sorrows, worries, and fears – because they are subjective and immeasurable. It's all idealistic.
Therefore, when you say that you are uncomfortable here and where you are uncomfortable, and the instrument cannot detect any abnormality, Western medicine will say that you are delusional, neurosical, hysterical - the meaning of cranky thinking that there is no disease and looking for a disease. In fact, these symptoms are essentially malfunctions caused by invisible energy deficiency.
Therefore, unless Western medicine admits idealism, (in fact, Chinese medicine is not called idealism, but mind-object monism), otherwise, Western medicine will never understand energy, the human body, and Chinese medicine, and will always stay at the primary level of "mystery" and "metaphysics".
Traditional Chinese medicine says: "Go to work to cure the disease". Two or three years before you get liver cancer, Chinese medicine can know that you are sick and truncate the progression of the disease, because it is just uncomfortable, not to the extent of a certain disease, so it is called "not sick".
Because this is a malfunction at the level of invisible energy, there is no change in matter, which cannot be detected by Western medicine, and Western medicine will say, you are not sick yet, but you should be checked frequently (this is what Western medicine calls "prevention") - the subtext is to wait until you are sick enough to meet the standards of Western medicine, and then you will find them for treatment when there is a change in matter.
Traditional Chinese medicine also says: "Work hard to cure the disease". That is, that level of Western medicine. In other words, as soon as Western medicine was born, it was already at the level of "work".
People live by one breath, one breath of heat! When you are hungry for a few days and just get rescued from the rubble, the most life-saving thing is actually a sip of hot water. And in the name of "saving lives", the cold liquids such as glucose and normal saline infused into the body will actually rob the yang energy! It's going to be terrible!
So, it's important to understand "energy"!! Sometimes, it can be a lifesaver! Most of the time, injuries can be avoided.
The previous talk is about lifting, and I haven't finished talking about it, but in fact, it's also finished: if you can't descend, you will have a disease on it. By deduction, because there is nothing to fall down, there will also be diseases, such as constipation. Or it is the same to divide it according to "outside" and "inside", and the essence is the same.
Constipation is just one sign of poor detoxification. There is also a type of poor detoxification, which is manifested as smooth and easy bowel movements. It's like washing dishes, you don't need dish soap, although the water is flowing all the time, but all the oil sticks to the bowl and doesn't come out.
The function of the spleen is "main movement", and "transformation" means decomposition. The spleen and stomach are weak and cold, the energy is insufficient, the function of decomposition is insufficient, the moisture and oil cannot be decomposed, it adheres to the intestinal wall, the blood, and the stool comes out every day, but it can't bring out the garbage, and there is no "quality". So this kind of smoothness is also a kind of poor detoxification.
Lifting is about tangible pathways, and energy is about intangible power. The key to solving the problem of lifting is to solve the problem of stomach cold and the problem of channel occlusion. "Cold" should be solved by "heat"; "Occlusion" should be solved by "divergence". Hot and divergent medicine, it is easy to find, for the convenience of popularization, choose the common in life, that is, ginger.
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Unadjusted lifting can easily lead to "virtual and uncompensated"
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The disease of unbalanced elevation is often manifested as: stomach distension and discomfort when eating cold, hot food on fire, cold and hot; Obviously, the body is very weak, but as soon as he takes the tonic medicine, he has serious sores on his mouth and tongue, and as the saying goes, "deficiency is not replenished". Why do you still ask them to eat ginger now?
The "coldness" of the stomach and the "heat" of the diet are opposite forces, which are equivalent to two armies fighting, and the stronger one wins. Because if you eat hot, you will get on fire, so you don't dare to eat too much, this calorie is relative to the cold of the spleen and stomach, just like a guerrilla fighting regular army, you will definitely not be able to win, and if you are defeated, you can only go back and run up the same way, and you will be on fire.
So when you eat gunpowder, your sex is cold, your stomach is cold, and if you eat cold again, it will be cold and cold, and your stomach will be bloated and uncomfortable.
So, what to do? Strengthen the strength of our army's offensive - in the clinic, the prescription for patients with this pathogenesis will include 200 grams of ginger (the amount in autumn and winter, and the amount in spring and summer will be reduced), 30 grams of dried ginger, and 30 grams of aconite that is hotter than ginger (that is, my self-created Xiao Chai Hu and ginger soup).
Wherever the army went, the city was attacked and the enemy was broken, the gates of the city were opened, and the large army drove straight in. All the heat went down. The patient said that after the medicine, he felt a refreshing feeling in his throat!
Some older patients, who can't understand reasoning, come home and see: so much ginger! It will definitely catch fire, put half of 200 grams, it's still too much, and then reduce it by half, 50 grams, it's almost. After the medicine is boiled, it will be on fire immediately! Why? The enemy army has 100,000 troops, I will send you 200,000, you are good at making claims, only sending 50,000 to fight the enemy army, and you will definitely lose the battle! When he was beaten back, he was on fire. So, the more ginger, the less it gets hot!
There is another premise here: it is not suitable for patients with yin deficiency. Just like washing clothes, no matter how good the detergent is, it also needs water as a medium to play and be effective. Therefore, people with yin deficiency are not suitable for the method of adjusting and lowering large doses of ginger. They have to hydrate first. I won't go into detail here.
The previous talk is about lifting, and the middle supplement is about energy, and I haven't finished talking about it, so let's continue to talk about it.
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Lack of energy, easy to stay evil and cause disease
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As mentioned earlier, lack of energy leads to garbage storage and illness. Modern people's material living standards are much higher than those in the seventies and eighties, they can eat whatever they want, and their nutrition is very sufficient, why are there more diseases such as hypertension and diabetes?
This is because, now people lack energy because they don't absorb it well, not because they don't eat well. It's a matter of absorption, not nutrition! The nutrients are too rich and exceed the absorption load, so what should be done is to eat less, not supplement. It's a light diet instead of desperately supplementing vitamins and proteins - now the streets are selling nutritional products, which is actually the most detrimental to your health!
Absorption is a function, and it must be based on the premise of whether the energy of the spleen, stomach and intestines is sufficient. If the internal organs themselves lack energy, the absorption function will not be high, and the work efficiency will not be high, resulting in poor absorption. The lack of energy and calories in the body is mainly manifested as stomach cold.
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There are four factors that lead to stomach cold
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Eating cold
Cold has two meanings, the first refers to temperature - just like cold water is boiled into hot water, it needs to consume gas energy, the human body has temperature, and the cold food drunk into it must be heated first, which will consume the original caloric energy of the spleen and stomach, resulting in stomach cold, such as frozen food, cold drinks, and cold fruits.
The second refers to the nature - the nature is cool, and if you eat hot or drink hot, it still plays a cold role. For example, bitter gourd, winter melon, mung bean. See the Diet article for details.
Outside cold
Eating and drinking is considered cold, blowing air conditioning in summer or cold in winter, or cold water under the washing of clothes by fishermen or housewives, these are all cold outside. Some of the external cold directly invades the spleen and stomach to cause stomach cold, and more consumes the overall energy, and the corresponding local spleen and stomach energy and calories are insufficient, and it is cold.
Seasonal factors
The hotter the weather, the cooler the groundwater wells; The cooler the weather, the hotter the groundwater well water will be. In fact, it is the result of the position transformation of energy and heat: spring and summer diverge from the inside out, and autumn and winter converge from the outside to the inside. Correspondingly, in the summer, the skin is hot outside, and the spleen and stomach are very cold inside. Therefore, the summer has the worst appetite and the coldest stomach. The easiest to get on fire.
The desire factor
Want to see, want to hear, want to speak, want to think, want to eat, love and hate, etc., etc., these are all desires, which refer to the use of human body functions. All of these require energy.
The human body is very intelligent, and where there is a need for energy (desire), it will call energy from other functional areas to replenish it, which will cause the function of the called area to be insufficient.
For example, many people in life are prone to sleepiness after eating, because the energy is concentrated in the middle of the spleen and stomach to digest and absorb, and the energy of the mind is called.
In the same way, when the mind uses a lot of energy, it will also call the energy of the spleen and stomach to go up, resulting in insufficient energy in the spleen and stomach, and there will be obstacles in digestion and absorption, stomach cold will be formed, and stomach diseases will come.
IT people, marketing front-line people, all the "very busy" people, eating are people who swallow dates and make quick decisions, and they don't have enough energy and time for the spleen and stomach that are digesting and absorbing work, so the stomach cold comes, and the stomach disease comes.
The more you eat, the better, the greater the burden on the spleen and stomach, and even the food cannot be absorbed, let alone medicine? Therefore, this kind of stomach disease is the most difficult to treat! Sadly, this kind of person is all over the street!
Because the current society is mostly a high-pressure society, a crowded society, and a society where there is no fire, most people need to rely on each other to improve their competitiveness (in fact, it is a disguised overdraft of the body), otherwise they can't compete with others.
Don't say that you can't do it, you can't let go, in fact, as long as you are willing to give up those bad habits, you can ask for it. Willing to give, there is "giving" to have "get"!
The root of all diseases, the most difficult to remove, is desire! Therefore, the highest standard of health preservation is "tranquility and emptiness, spiritual inner guarding". This sentence, to put it bluntly, is to collect energy, reduce desires, and don't wantonly consume the body's vitality. 5,000 years ago, the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" has announced the secret of health and longevity for the people of the world, but we are now doing things that put the cart before the horse!
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The Tao is natural and conforms to nature
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The ancient education of chewing slowly when eating, not talking, sitting firmly, moving chopsticks together, and stopping chopsticks together is to give the spleen and stomach the smallest digestive burden. There is enough time and enough qi and blood energy to help digestion and absorption. In the old dogma, there is a great truth!!
Energy is difficult to replenish, but it is very easy to deplete. If the body is compared to an oil lamp, the amount of lamp oil determines the length of life, and the size of the lamp determines the speed of life consumption. Lust consumption is the burning of the lamp, and sex life is directly leaking the lamp oil - as the old saying goes, one drop of essence and ten drops of blood.
After 3 months of energy replenishment, as long as you live a one-time life, you will all overturn it all over again! It's even harder to see results when you start all over again! During the treatment, as long as you have a sexual life every month, you will start all over again! Even when you start again, it's even harder to see results! Therefore, if you want to have a good curative effect, you must first abstain from sexual intercourse! Abstinence varies from person to person, but in principle, chronic disease recuperation is at least 3 months. The longer, the better! If the energy deficiency is severe, you will even have to abstain from sex for half a year or a year.
It's well absorbed, but it's not that if you eat meat and eat bones, it will grow into meat and bones for you, food is only used by the body to make blood, and it is stored in the bones in the form of blood, which is really absorbed and used by the body. This involves hematopoietic time: 9:00 in the evening ~ 3:00 in the morning is the time for the body to make blood, and after 3 o'clock, it is already the time to consume energy with blood.
Clinically, there have been two patients who came to see the doctor, a young man and an old man. With the same disease and the same prescription, it stands to reason that young people with a high level of physique will get better quickly. However, when he came over a few days later, the old man boasted, "Doctor, you are so clever!" Your medicine works so well! Before he could laugh, the young man came in, "Doctor! Why is it that taking medicine has no effect at all? "—Why? As soon as you ask, you will understand: the old man goes to bed at 8 o'clock every day and gets up at 4 o'clock in the morning. The hematopoietic time is 9~3 o'clock and 6 hours; Young people basically go to bed at 1 o'clock in the morning, and even if they fall asleep when they lie down, the hematopoietic time is only 2 hours.
The effect of drinking one pack of medicine for the elderly is equivalent to 3 packs of medicine for young people, and one day of hematopoiesis is equivalent to 3 days for young people. In addition, the consumption of young people is much greater than that of the elderly, in fact, for him, drinking medicine may not only have no income, but pay more! Therefore, there will be a situation that the more you take the medicine, the worse the effect, and the reaction to the disease and the effect of the drug are diametrically opposite.
Therefore, to sum up, if you want to be healthy, you must standardize and review your lifestyle in accordance with the laws of health, and taking medicine is only an auxiliary means, and cannot replace the role of diet, sleep, mood and other factors on the body in daily life.
Final Notes:
01 There is no so-called miracle doctor in the world, and there is no so-called miracle medicine, as long as you don't go to bed early, the miracle doctor and miracle medicine are ineffective!
02 You are your best doctor! Going to bed early is the best medicine!
03 Don't ask the doctor, "When will my illness get better", no doctor can answer you, because no doctor can replace you with what time you go to bed and replace your consumption. Therefore, the so-called treatment course is a lie!
04 Perception is more important than treatment! Health is more effective than medicine!
05 If you don't succeed, you will seek yourself!
06 "Defecation" is a big knowledge
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"Defecation" is a big science
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In the beginning, we talked about eating and sleeping, and finally talked about "defecation".
The disease is manifested in the accumulation of garbage, and the elimination of garbage is manifested in defecation. As long as the bowel movements are smooth, all diseases caused by the accumulation of tangible garbage will be eliminated – including all cancers. Of course, the premise is that you still have the energy to get rid of the garbage. The criteria for smooth bowel movements are as follows:
01 Punctuality: Every morning at 5~7 o'clock in the morning, when the large intestine passes through the main body, when the time comes, I will be awakened by the intention of defecation and defecate;
02 Times: Normally once a day, if you eat too much, it will be normal to drain more (note: strictly speaking, it is normal to eat once).
03 Quality: The dishwashing water without dish soap keeps coming out, but the oil is still sticking to the bowl, and there is no quality. Therefore, having a bowel movement every day does not mean that the bowel movements are normal, and they must also be qualitative. Decomposition is the "transport" function of the spleen. Immediately after defecation, there is a strong appetite, indicating that the spleen has normal function, and the bowel movement under this juxtaposition condition is both quality and quantity.
Defecation leads to detoxification. Defecation is just a point, detoxification is a face.
The way of detoxification is as follows (material and spiritual)
01 Above: coughing, spitting, runny nose, tears, vomiting, sneezing, pus in the ears, etc.;
02 In the following: diarrhea, polyuria, menstruation - menstruation is actually the best detoxification period, the medication period!
03 Generalized: All skin diseases, including armpit odor, athlete's foot, dandruff, etc.
The above are toxins at the material level, as well as toxins at the spiritual level.
04 Various emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, and fear. Can I feel better after a tantrum? That's right! Detox!
To sum up, the standard of TCM health is:
01 Good spirit: Dialectical energy is sufficient
02 Hand and foot temperature in winter: sufficient energy for syndrome differentiation
03 Have an appetite: energy can be absorbed
04 Smooth bowel movements: garbage can be discharged
05 Easy to fall asleep and sleep deeply: nutrients are converted into energy