Huangdi Neijing: Four Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Huangdi Neijing is one of the four classic works of China's traditional medicine (Huangdi Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Shennong Herbal Classic and Instinct Theory). It is also the first masterpiece handed down in the name of Huangdi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and the earliest medical classic in China. It is a medical masterpiece that studies human physiology, pathology, diagnostics, therapeutic principles and pharmacology. Theoretically, the theories of yin and yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology and pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck are established. His medical theory is based on China's ancient Taoist theory, which embodies China's ancient thought of harmony between man and nature.

Huangdi Neijing, written in the Warring States Period, is the earliest extant monograph of TCM theory in China. Summarized the medical experience and academic theory from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, absorbed astronomy, calendar, biology, geography, anthropology and psychology before Qin and Han Dynasties, and comprehensively expounded the anatomy, physiology, pathology and diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases of human body by using the theory of the integration of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements and Heaven, and established a unique theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, which became the theoretical basis and source of medical development in China.

Among the 13 prescriptions in Huangdi Neijing, the earliest existing Chinese medicine book, there are 10 kinds of Chinese patent medicines, as well as pills, powder, wine and pills.

Huangdi Neijing is a theoretical classic of China's early medicine. Referred to as Neijing. It was first seen in Liu Xin's Seven Laws and Ban Gu's Han Shu Yi Wen Zhi, the original volume 18. Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, "With plain questions, nine volumes and eighty-one are difficult to discuss typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases". When Huangfu Mi wrote Classic A and B of Acupuncture in Jin Dynasty, he said that "there are nine volumes of classic acupuncture, nine volumes of plain questions and two hundred and ninety-eight volumes, namely" Neijing ",and nine volumes are called" Lingshu "in Tang Wangbing. In Song Dynasty, Songshi presented and published Lingshu Jing. Therefore, Jiujuan, Needle Sutra and Lingshu are actually more than one book. After the Song Dynasty, Su Wen and Ling Shu became two major parts of Huangdi Neijing.

What does Huangdi Neijing mean? In Neijing, many people think it is about the internal laws of the human body, while others think it is about internal medicine. However, relevant experts believe that Huangdi Neijing is a book about "seeking from within", so it is called Neijing to make life healthy and long-lived, not seeking from outside, but seeking from within. In other words, you don't have to take any medicine to make your life healthy, such as how to treat a disease.

In fact, there are only 13 prescriptions in the whole Huangdi Neijing, and there are very few prescriptions. The key is to look inward. First, look inward, that is, look inward at our internal organs and how our qi and blood flow, and then practice inward, so as to achieve the goal of health and longevity by adjusting qi and blood, meridians and viscera. Therefore, seeking from the inside actually points out a method and way for us to correctly understand life. This method is different from modern medical methods, which rely on instruments, laboratory tests and anatomy. On the other hand, traditional Chinese medicine relies on introspection, understanding and intuition.

Experts believe that Huangdi Neijing can be summarized in three ways.

First, Huangdi Neijing is the first classic of TCM theory. After the emergence of human beings, with diseases, it is inevitable to seek various ways to treat diseases, so the formation of medical technology is indeed much earlier than Huangdi Neijing. However, the formation of Chinese medicine as an academic system began with Huangdi Neijing, so Huangdi Neijing is recognized as the cornerstone of Chinese medicine. This book systematically tells the principles and methods of human physiology, pathology, disease and treatment for the first time, and has made great contributions to human health. After the formation of Chinese medicine, it has protected our Chinese nation, made our Chinese nation endless, and enabled our Chinese sons and daughters to overcome diseases and disasters, which has continued to this day. The Chinese nation without Chinese medicine and Huangdi Neijing is unimaginable.

Second, Huangdi Neijing is the first book of health preservation. Huangdi Neijing talks about how to cure diseases, but more importantly, it talks about how not to get sick and how not to take medicine, so that we can live a long and healthy life and live to be 100 years old.

A very important thought in Huangdi Neijing —— "Prevention of disease".

Huangdi Neijing said: "If you don't treat a disease, you can't treat it. If you don't treat it, you will be treated indiscriminately. "

"Prevention of disease" means that if a person's liver has a problem, it does not mean blindly treating the liver, but also starting from other organs that are not sick. Liver belongs to wood, kidney belongs to water, aquatic wood, heart belongs to fire, and wood makes fire. Therefore, we should also start with the kidney and heart.

"Governance without treatment is chaos" means that if there is a problem in the management mode of a company, it will cause chaos. Don't blindly solve the current chaos, but start with the causes and consequences of chaos. Simply put, as long as the front and back ends are solved, the trouble in the middle will not exist ~

Thirdly, Huangdi Neijing is the first encyclopedia about life. Huangdi Neijing focuses on life and talks about medicine, astronomy, geography, psychology, sociology, philosophy and history. This is an encyclopedia about life problems. The core of our traditional Chinese studies is actually the philosophy of life, and Huangdi Neijing is the most influential classic of traditional Chinese studies named after Huangdi. There are three wonderful books named after "Jing" in ancient China. The first book is the Book of Changes, the second is the Tao Te Ching, and the third is the Huangdi Neijing. Nowadays, these three wonderful books have not only attracted the attention of Chinese children, but also attracted the great attention of people all over the world, because their value has become more and more prominent in today's society. Huangdi Neijing, as the theoretical basis and essence of traditional Chinese medicine, has played an important role in the prosperous history of the Chinese nation for nearly two thousand years. Imagine that about 700 years ago, a plague broke out in Europe, and a quarter of Europeans lost their precious lives. Although there was a plague epidemic in China for nearly 2000 years, there was never a painful record like that in Europe, so the role of TCM and Neijing can be fully demonstrated.

The completion of Huangdi Neijing marks a new stage of China medicine from empirical medicine to theoretical medicine. Huangdi Neijing summarized the medical achievements before the Warring States Period and provided theoretical guidance for the medical development of China after the Warring States Period. It has laid a theoretical foundation for traditional Chinese medicine in the aspects of holistic view, contradictory view, meridian science, viscera imaging, etiology and pathogenesis, health care and preventive medicine, diagnosis and treatment principles, and has far-reaching influence. Most of the innovations and achievements of famous doctors in theory and practice are closely related to Huangdi Neijing.