The origin of wearing masks and Chinese medicine

China has a history of five thousand years of civilization, Chinese medicine is one of the national treasures, Chinese medicine is the great treasure trove of China's splendid civilization. Chinese children have always attached great importance to health and disease prevention, and has handed down many medical works. Among them, written in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasty years of the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" has the greatest impact on Chinese medicine, which is the first of the four classics of traditional Chinese medicine, the book is also China's earliest surviving a medical book. It is also the earliest surviving medical book in China. Experts and scholars of all times generally agree that the Huangdi Neijing was not completed by a single author in one period, but was co-authored by a number of authors across a long period of time. This is similar to another classic work of China, Zhou Yi, for example, the Eastern Han historian Ban Gu put forward the book age and author of Zhou Yi as "three saints, three ancient times". It can be said that these classic works, which have been passed down for thousands of years, have been tested over a long period of time and are the crystallization of the wisdom of many people, and are worthy of being passed down from generation to generation and carried forward.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine opens with the significance of keeping healthy and preventing disease, and suggests specific methods.

"Law in yin and yang, and in the art of counting", taking the law of the natural changes in the yin and yang of heaven and earth and adapting to it, and reconciling the correct method.

"Eat and drink in moderation, live and let live, do not make labor, so can form and God," daily dietary restraint, regular work and rest, do not want to work and fatigue, you can keep the body and spirit of the club exuberant, in this way you can be healthy, long life and do not get sick. This and modern medical science advocate nutritional balance, regular rest and work and not over and fatigue, enhance the human body since the body resistance to disease, can be said to be the same, the same.

"The ancient saints teach the next also, are said to be false evil thief wind avoidance sometimes", the so-called false evil thief wind, we are facing today's new coronavirus is also. Today, we have all kinds of epidemic prevention measures, are "to avoid", whether it is at home to avoid the epidemic or go out to wear a mask, whether it is diligent hand washing or diligent disinfection, are all in order to avoid the new coronavirus. For hundreds of millions of years, mankind has been dealing with various infectious diseases, after a long period of practice, people have summarized a series of effective principles and methods, as long as we seriously comply with, to improve the use of, must be effective.

"Therefore, the sages do not treat the disease before the disease, do not treat the chaos before the chaos", the first-class doctor is to prevent the disease, in the disease before the disease is under control.