China's culture has a long history and a long history, giving birth to a vast and splendid Chinese culture, and idioms and Traditional Chinese medicine are two of the pearls. Cultures have not always existed independently, but have exchanged and developed with each other. In the long course of history, the original meaning of many languages has gradually been forgotten, and today I join you in exploring the medical culture contained in idioms.
The idiom "whim" used to refer to the sudden movement of some kind of omen in the heart of the so-called immortal, and later described the sudden emergence of some kind of thought in the heart. It is from the thirty-fourth time of the Ming Dynasty Chen Zhonglin's "Fengshen Yanyi". The King of Shang was desolate and ruthless, forcing Huang Feihu's wife to die, and huang Feihu's sister, Lady Xigong, and Huang Feihu went to Xiqi to join Jiang Ziya. After going through all the hardships along the way, he passed through five levels and fled to Tongguan, where the Tongguan guards and his father Huang Roll did not recognize him and asked him to surrender himself, but Feihu escaped. Unexpectedly, before the pass of the flood water, he was captured by Han Rong. Huang Roll came to see Han Rong, willing to confess his sins with hundreds of members of the Huang family, only to leave a grandson, Han Rong did not agree, and escorted them all to see the King of Lu for merit.
On this day, Taiyi Zhenren was meditating in the Golden Light Cave of Qianyuan Mountain, and suddenly on a whim, because the immortals were all free of troubles, anger, and love, and their hearts were as strong as stones and no longer wavered, and the whim indicated that there was a sign. The real person knew it, so he called his apprentice Nezha and said, "Huang Feihu's father and son are in trouble, you go down the mountain to save him and send him out of the Water Pass." Nezha went down the mountain, defeated Han Rong in front of the Shuishui Pass, and saved Huang Feihu's entire family.
The human heart is located in the chest cavity, above the diaphragm, between the two lungs, about two-thirds on the left side of the midline. The heart is like an inverted, slightly flattened cone at the front and back. The apex of the heart is blunt and rounded, facing the front and bottom of the left, adjacent to the chest wall, and its body surface is projected on the inside of the midline of the collarbone in the fifth intercostal space of the left chest wall 1 to 2 cm, so the heart tip can be seen or felt here. The heart is wide, and there are large blood vessels coming in and out of it, facing the right posterior upper, adjacent to the organs of the posterior mediastinum such as the esophagus.
From anatomical point of view, the role of the heart is to promote blood flow, provide sufficient blood flow to organs and tissues to supply oxygen and various nutrients, and take away the final products of metabolism (such as carbon dioxide, urea and uric acid, etc.), so that cells maintain normal metabolism and function, which is the basis for the survival of the human body. The various hormones secreted by the human body and some other humoral factors should also be transported to the target cells through blood circulation to achieve the regulation of the body's body fluids and maintain the relatively constant environment in the body. In addition, the realization of blood defense function and the relatively constant regulation of body temperature also depend on the continuous circulation of blood in the blood vessels, and the circulation of blood is achieved due to the role of the heart's "pump". The heart of the average adult weighs about 300 grams, for example, a person in a quiet state, the heart beats about 70 times per minute, each time pumping 70 ml of blood, then about 5 liters of blood per minute, so it is estimated that a person's heart pumps blood for a lifetime, which is about equivalent to lifting a 30,000-kilogram object upward to the peak of the Himalayas.
Chinese medicine divides the five internal organs of the human body into gold, wood, water, fire, and earth according to the five elements, and the heart belongs to fire. The Suqin Linglan Secret Codex records: "The heart, the official of the monarch, the gods are born." The Sutra says, "The Heart Hides God." "Monarch" means above all else. This means that the mind is in the first place in the internal organs. "Gods" and "gods" refer to higher central nervous system functions. These functions are presided over and embodied by the heart, so it is said that the "god of the heart". Explain the previous understanding of the heart, including the function of the central nervous system. Under the influence of this central nervous system activity of the heart, the human organs, qi and blood carry out a unified and coordinated physiological life. If the heart has a lesion, the role of the divine command is lost, and the physiological function of other organs will also be affected.
It can be seen from this that the "heart" mentioned in Chinese medicine is different from the anatomically narrow sense of the heart, in addition to the heart, it also includes the blood circulation system and nervous system. The blood of the owner of the heart is the blood of the heart, and the blood of the heart is full of blood, the face is rosy, and the spirit is full.
"Whim" now describes the sudden emergence of some kind of thought in the mind, mostly referring to the idea that makes people excited. Under the action of this idea, the brain stimulates the human body to secrete various substances (most of which cause the human body to be hyperactive), these substances stimulate the acceleration of heart movement, blood circulation, blood vessel expansion, and blood pressure rise; and physiological changes in turn will make people feel better about themselves, react to psychology, and form mutual influences, which becomes a "whim" and "hot head". Therefore, when we have a sudden idea, we can record the idea, carefully consider it and then put it into practice, and do not act on impulse.
In the past, the immortals were signs, and now they have sudden thoughts. On a whim, think twice before it happens.