The first lecture of Liang Dong's dialogue with Wang Weigong-rediscovering the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine

Liang Dong: I'm from Liang. All along, in the process of learning Chinese medicine, many people say that Chinese medicine is unscientific, that Chinese medicine is witchcraft and that Chinese medicine is philosophy. In short, Chinese medicine has nothing to do with science. But I'm not a Chinese medicine major. Objectively speaking, I am not a trained student. At the same time, I am not a scientist, so I am often asked (inverted), which is very hard. But I always feel that someone must know. As a result, my mind flashed and shook everywhere. Two days ago, in a bookstore in Hong Kong, I suddenly saw a book called The Movement of Qi. An old gentleman, a real scientist, can explain the traditional Chinese medicine that we have always known so clearly, so we have the strength to invite him to our program.

Voice-over: Wang Weigong, Bachelor of Physics from Taiwan Province Provincial University, Master of Physics from Tsinghua University, John? Doctor of Neuroscience, Department of Biophysics, Hopkins University. In his book "The Movement of Qi", he used the principles of modern physics for the first time to scientifically explain the health preservation and treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Wang Weigong believes that why people get sick is closely related to the state of human blood circulation. In fact, Chinese medicine found the answer for us as early as 3000 years ago. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body is composed of subtle substances such as qi, blood, body fluid and so on, and qi is the driving force of life in the body. Interestingly, a large number of experiments have proved that the qi of TCM can be explained by the vibration theory of physics. So what is * * * vibration? Why is it related to Chinese medicine?

Liang Dong: Today's topic is a question I read in Mr. Wang's book. In teacher Wang's book, I talked about a very important issue. He said that if a person's heart weighs 120 kg, which is 60 kg, its heart output power is between 1.2 W and 1.6 W, and our lamps, which you use in the toilet and kitchen at home, are at least 30 to 40 watts. So how can a heart with an output power of 1.2 watts pump this blood into every cell in the body? If you don't ask this question, you feel unreasonable. Just ask it. Why? This topic, we ask Mr. Wang to talk about it today. What does this thing have to do with the anger of Chinese medicine?

Wang Weigong: I think there is a very famous thing in history, that is, the United States built a bridge for the first time, a very big bridge. As a result, after the bridge was completed, it became bigger and bigger when the wind blew, and finally the bridge collapsed. What is this phenomenon called? It's a * * vibration. Because the wind blows this thing, as I said just now, you are like pushing a swing. Although the force you push is very small, every time you push the swing back, it vibrates more and more.

Liang Dong: Oh, that is to say, when the swing swings backwards, it just swings forward. ...

Wang Weigong: You should push too.

Liang Dong: Give it a push and it will get up.

Wang Weigong: Although you have little strength, the higher you push, the higher you push. This is the * * * vibration. Our current cycle is the other way around, and it takes advantage of this relationship. In other words, I want to use this at the same frequency as you. I can shake you with a little strength.

Liang Dong: Miss Wang, can I understand that we used to think that other parts of the body were pumped by this heart and then sent there for punching? Your understanding is that all organs of our body have a vibration frequency.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: If it can vibrate, this little thing will be absorbed there as soon as it comes out, so the whole body is a perfect and harmonious vibration.

Subtitle Tip: Movement of Qi: Every tissue and organism in the human body will actively keep the same frequency as the heart and spontaneously absorb blood into their own bodies.

Voice-over: According to the vibration theory, every tissue and organism in human body will not passively wait for the drive and nourishment of the heart and blood, but will actively keep the same frequency with the heart and spontaneously absorb the blood into its own organism. This phenomenon that human tissue and heart vibrate harmoniously is what Chinese medicine calls Qi, which is also the principle of * * * vibration harmony in physics. So since the human body supplies energy through the circulation of qi and blood, how is qi and blood distributed throughout the body? What viewpoints of TCM coincide with this distribution?

Wang Weigong: The whole body is a vibrating body. * * * What is the unit of vibration? Small units are acupoints, while large units are meridians. That is to say, people we are talking about now have twelve classics or eleven classics, right? That is to say, this meridian is a large vibration unit, each acupoint is a small vibration unit, and the viscera is also a vibration unit, so this is a very interesting thing. How can we prove this? We are rats. I clamped the artery of its kidney, so the kidney is no longer combined with this body. Theoretically, if I draw the blood out, I will send one place less, and the blood in other places should become bigger, right?

Liang Dong: Yes.

Wang Weigong: But once I clamped it, the pulse and blood pressure fluctuations became smaller.

Liang Dong: All over.

Wang Weigong: My whole body is getting smaller. Because every internal organ is a very important vibration frequency. So you see, I also mentioned this in my book. Chinese medicine has always said that the five internal organs hide the spirit.

Subtitle prompt: the five internal organs store the spirit: "the liver stores the blood, and the blood gives up the soul"; "Spleen hides camp, and camp gives up ambition"; "the heart hides the pulse, and the pulse is spiritual"; "The lung stores qi, and qi gives up the spirit"; "Kidney storing essence, essence giving up ambition". -Huangdi Neijing? Lingshu

Wang Weigong: So this viscera is particularly important, so it will help blood circulation. Like our kidneys and spleen, these are all on the trunk of your core and are part of the vibration system, so you are injured there, which has a great influence. But what about this end of the acupoint? Its influence will be there, but not so great. In fact, if you press any acupoint, your whole body's blood circulation will also change.

Liang Dong: What does this mean? Does this mean that it makes sense to pull the trigger and move the whole body?

Wang Weigong: Yes, that is to say, your cycle is actually the most fundamental and fundamental concept of TCM. Why Chinese medicine is right? This is it, because there is a heart beating. This periodic thing must be right, there must be a main period, there must be a main period. For example, if we make a symphony and the conductor is your main theme, then of course the trumpet can be changed a little, and the violin can be higher or lower, but everyone should follow the conductor. The heart is constantly adjusting when it is beating. What's wrong with it? Just like the commander-in-chief One minute it tells you "pay more attention to the kidneys, blood circulation is coming", and the next minute it tells you "you said you ate something and there was more blood in your stomach", and it has been adjusting. So the commander-in-chief is here, so the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is right. Without this commander in chief, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine would be wrong.

Liang Dong: So, so, before, we always said that the heart governs the gods, which means that Chinese medicine thinks that the heart is more important than the brain.

Wang Weigong: Yes!

Liang Dong: Teacher Wang told us a topic just now. Can I try to translate it like this? Let's say that our whole body, our heart, is not a pressure pump, but more like a great conductor. This command directs the vibration of every organ in the whole body. Because your place vibrates a little more, or the frequency is adjusted, this qi and blood can be discharged as needed, which is a special wisdom. Then can you understand this: that is why some artificial hearts are useless after being installed, because artificial hearts can only vibrate at a certain fixed frequency.

Wang Weigong: Its disadvantage is not only that the frequency is fixed, but also that the artificial heart now uses nearly 30 watts of power. 30 watts, our people are about 1.2 to 1.5. We have used it for more than 20 times, but the patient can only lie down and is covered in drops.

Liang Dong: Then why can a 1.2 watt heart support a person's whole body movement? If a person replaces an artificial heart with more than 30 watts and its power is 20 times higher, its blood can't be pumped to the whole body? So what are the subtle differences between them? What does this have to do with Chinese medicine saying that the heart governs the gods?

Liang Dong: In China medicine, there is a saying that "the mind governs the gods". Professor Wang told us an idea just now, that is to say, in fact, the human heart is everyone's own heart, which is very subtle when it trembles and beats, but artificial hearts can't do this. Then why, the question we just asked is, why is the artificial heart so powerful that it can't replace the human heart?

Wang Weigong: That is to say, if we look back at this study of blood fluid mechanics, several masters have said so, saying that their previous studies were all concerned about this stable flow, because his position is that I only need to create a blood flow.

Liang Dong: Yes, all over my body.

Wang Weigong: It flows all over your body.

Voice-over: The popular viewpoint of blood fluid mechanics in modern medicine is based on kinetic energy theory. This view holds that as long as the human body has stable blood flow, blood circulation can be carried out normally. However, Wang Weigong's theory of * * * vibration thinks that this theory ignores the most important phenomenon of * * vibration in blood circulation and the transmission of potential energy of vascular pressure wave, which is also the basis of traditional Chinese medicine dialectical theory.

Wang Weigong: So when designing his artificial heart, the biggest mistake was that he always thought that stable blood flow was an important part of blood transfusion. Therefore, the design of its whole pump is different from that of the heart pump. It is a continuous pump, that is, it keeps turning, just like our current motor delivers water, so it is stable downstream. But this one flows forward steadily, and it has no beat, so its heart is no longer a conductor, but a river manager. It is no longer the conductor of the symphony, but the river worker who talks about the sluice in the river, so the water goes down the river like this. But it will run along the river and encounter many difficulties. Look at our hearts when it comes out. When you come out, you will encounter this main renal artery and bend it a dozen times. ...

Liang Dong: Oh, that is to say, our heart blood first rises and then falls.

Wang Weigong: It goes up, and then it goes down. When it bends like this, the water will consume a lot of energy. It consumes so much, so the number and wattage of its motors have to be improved all the time, otherwise it will not be able to overcome this difficulty and bend. So finally, what happened to these organs? Even in the kidneys, there is congestion. In the liver, especially in the kidney, this is blood stasis. As soon as there is blood stasis, the function is gone. So although this artificial heart can make people live for a period of time now, and it needs a lot of anticoagulants, people still have to give intravenous drip and tie it to it. ...

Liang Dong: On the bed in the intensive care unit.

Wang Weigong: But so far, the US Food and Drug Administration has not passed. Why? It has no way for people to really live on it. Then one of its fundamental problems is that it has not mastered the basic principles of circulation.

Liang Dong: Can't it make something that beats rhythmically like the heart, say, 80 times a minute?

Wang Weigong: The first one is that they haven't got this concept yet, so up to now, the basic view of western medicine on circulation still depends on this process. In other words, this means that if I throw a stone, it will fly straight ahead. That's the concept, that is, fly straight ahead. He has no idea of playing time. He has no idea that pressure is transmitted, that pressure is transmitted in the form of sound waves, and that organs and hearts should vibrate.

Liang Dong: So, on this basis, how does it affect our views on some common diseases? Can you give me an example?

Wang Weigong: The most prevalent and morbid hypertension.

Voice-over: According to the Global Hypertension Impact Report, patients with hypertension are increasing year by year in the world. In 2007, the number of patients worldwide reached 654.38+0 billion. If effective measures are taken, 654.38+56 million people will suffer from this disease before 2025. Regarding the etiology of hypertension, western medicine believes that the etiology is unknown, and unreasonable diet, obesity and old age may all cause hypertension. At the same time, western medicine also believes that hypertension is an incurable lifelong disease, and patients must take antihypertensive drugs to control their blood pressure and keep it normal. However, is the understanding of hypertension in modern medicine correct and how to treat this incurable disease?

Wang Weigong: Hypertension is actually mainly due to poor lung function. Now everyone will feel strange. What is the relationship between my poor lung function and hypertension? Right? Everyone will think so. So what does it have to do with anger? So now you think about it carefully, if my lung function is not good, what is the biggest feature in my blood?

Liang Dong: The oxygen content is not high.

Wang Weigong: The oxygen content is not high. Then my blood will send something to the organization for several purposes. Simple first, send oxygen. The second is nutrition, and the other is very important. Eliminating waste means bringing it out.

Subtitle Tip: The role of blood circulation: 1. Send oxygen; 2. Send nutrition; 3. Eliminate waste.

Wang Weigong: So strictly speaking, blood has three main functions on us. Actually, what is the first important thing? Oxygen. Because you don't eat, you can be hungry for a week, but you will start to die after five minutes of hypoxia. So take a look at Huangdi Neijing, which emphasizes that the hands will be numb if they lack oxygen, the eyes will be invisible if they lack oxygen, and the nose will not smell if they lack oxygen. He knows everything, and he will know it then. So now there is no blood, and blood is the first important and immediately fatal thing in it. ...

Subtitle Tip: All pulses belong to this command; Bone marrow belongs to the brain; All tendons belong to joints; All blood belongs to the heart; All qi belongs to the lungs. These limbs are eight streams, sooner or later. An old friend lies down, blood belongs to the liver, blood is visible, blood is sufficient, blood can be held in the palm, and blood can be pointed at.

-Huangdi Neijing? Su Wen

Liang Dong: It's oxygen.

Wang Weigong: Oxygen. So what should I do when my lung function is not good? You must increase the amount of blood transfusion. So what will your blood pressure be like at this time?

Liang Dong: Increase.

Wang Weigong: Increase. Then at this time, because of the lack of oxygen in your blood, your lack of oxygen is overall, but the total oxygen content in your blood is low everywhere. So how to remedy it? It must use the heart to relieve stress, that is, your low blood pressure will rise. Because when blood pressure rises, it can improve the circulation of all parts of the body a little. So generally speaking, every time I see a patient, when his hypotension rises, I must find out that there is something wrong with his lungs.

Liang Dong: Oh? ! So just now we talked about a topic, which is hypertension. Chinese medicine practitioners, including Professor Wang and others, look at the problem of hypertension because of insufficient lung function, in other words, insufficient oxygen. In fact, when the lungs are weak, that is, when the gold is weak, the internal heat is naturally strong.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: Because we are talking about gold.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: It should be from Jin Kemu, right? It is in the five elements.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: Gold cannot be cut off. This is the source of anger. So in fact, weak lungs and strong liver fire are all high blood pressure. Anger is strong, wood is strong. Then the natural heart fire is dominant, and the heart fire will rise. This is the heart. ...

Wang Weigong: And it is the highest.

Liang Dong: So heart disease, in your words, is actually related to lung weakness.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: It's just the lack of oxygen.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: I don't know if you can understand, but I think this is a very important concept. In other words, the treatment of heart disease in the future may start with breathing fresh air.

Liang Dong: Professor Wang just talked about an interesting idea. He said that many people think that this hypertension is a heart problem, but according to the five elements principle, their research, including their scientific research, found that this heart fire is too strong, and the reason why the liver fire is too strong is because the gold is not strong enough, and the gold is not strong enough, that is, the lungs are not strong enough. In their system, it is because the vital capacity in this blood is insufficient, so the oxygen content in the blood is insufficient, which leads to the increase of blood supply to this heart, which is the suspicion of hypertension.

Wang Weigong: Yes. In addition, this kind of hypoxia, which we extend here now, can be caused by several reasons. For example, smoking, the biggest reason I see is smoking. As long as he smokes, this person smokes for more than a year or two. The function of his lungs is that when we look at the pulse, the pulse of his lungs will continue. Moreover, his tissue structure has changed, that is, the blood has split ... into the blood, so his lungs have become very poor, which is very bad. We observed it for a long time. The man said that he had given up smoking for three years and five years, and he couldn't come back. You'd better not touch that cigarette. If you do, ...

Liang Dong: Don't give up.

Wang Weigong: Not to say don't give up. It's worse not to quit. After you quit, it won't get worse when you quit, but you want to come back, very slowly, not very slowly. So for this, especially young people, they are too old. At my age, you can smoke. Anyway, what's it called? There are few days left. This young man had better not touch it, because once you touch it, it's not so easy for you to say that I only smoked and then quit. You've been smoking for three years, and you may have to quit for ten years, and you have to keep recovering, so that it can have a chance to return to the one before you smoked. ...

Liang Dong: After listening to your words, we are very depressed, so we don't have many opportunities.

Wang Weigong: Yes. It's just a cigarette, but if you don't quit, it will get worse.

Liang Dong: Oh, I see. Therefore, the harm caused by smoking is not only the damage to the lungs, but also the damage to the lungs after smoking, which reduces the oxygen content in our body and brings more load to the liver.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: The load of the liver will eventually affect the heart.

Wang Weigong: Heart. And its influence, I will talk about it later, and today I will focus on hypertension. Another wonderful thing is that I have seen a lot about this, that is, he is often injured near his lungs. I think this is an unexpected discovery when we study pulse diagnosis. Because it turns out that you just read ancient Chinese medicine books, and you think very little about old injuries, very little, almost invisible. But when we looked at this patient, it was very surprising that almost all chronic diseases were caused by old injuries. If the first reason, it is it, the biggest reason.

Liang Dong: Many people may have fallen down when they were young, but they didn't think it was a good thing, which actually led to their chronic diseases 60 years later.

Wang Weigong: Yes.

Liang Dong: Cerebral thrombosis.

Wang Weigong: Don't say 60 years, just 30 years later, you may get sick. Or he fell on a swing or something. But as long as you are in this part of the lung, it will cause high blood pressure. Hypertensive patients, I probably have thousands. Low blood pressure is almost always in the lungs, either you smoke or you have lung disease before, and the most common thing is that the lungs have suffered some kind of trauma.

Liang Dong: Some kind of trauma. What you just said is including this influence, right?

Wang Weigong: Bump, bump, kick, car bump, insect bite is badly swollen, definitely badly swollen, and then you'll be fine, but you're not.

Liang Dong: Thank you, Miss Wang!