Hello, Chinese medicine (XVI) The healing arts of Chinese medicine

In the long history, our ancestors from the physical discomfort, grabbed the fire next to the roasted hot stone for hot compresses and scraping, found that some special stone for the pain quite effective, and further use of sharp stone needles into the patient's body to treat the disease, to the use of Chinese herbs to cure the disease. Chinese medicine with the progress and development of society gradually formed a large number of therapeutic methods, respectively, acupuncture, acupuncture, moxibustion, tonics, stilts (tuina), cupping, guiding and intentional therapy, and so on.

? Traditional Chinese medicine is different from the traditional medicine of other civilizations in the world. During the development of traditional Chinese medicine, our forefathers summarized and put forward the theory of meridians and channels, the theory of organs, and other series of doctrines, and used the viewpoints of qi, yin and yang, and the six qi of the five elements to expound on the physiology and pathology of human beings as well as theories of treatment, which has made traditional Chinese medicine a scientific system combining theories and technology.

? People's diseases have internal and external, heavy and light points, medical technology has adaptations and taboos, techniques for the implementation of the disease, so you can not hold a technology and presumptuous, Chinese medicine, Western medicine is also so. Chinese medicine and Western medicine have their own scope of adaptation to the treatment of diseases and techniques, and should not be confused. Chinese medicine treatment of disease emphasizes evidence-based treatment, treatment techniques only normal, ordinary, no magic, so drugs and food, happiness, anger and sadness, exercise and rest, eating and drinking, flowers, plants, insects and stones can cure the disease.

? First, acupuncture

? In ancient times, stone needles were used to zap the skin and flesh to cure diseases. The use of stone tools, so that the body of the disease disappeared method, collectively referred to as "acupuncture", also known as acupuncture.

? Acupuncture has a set of internal organs and meridians as the center of the complete theory, emphasizing the whole, pay attention to the internal cause. It uses non-invasive gentle stimulation to support the positive and eliminate the evil, in order to mobilize the body's own defense ability to overcome the disease, reconcile yin and yang, qi and blood, viscera and bowels function, so that the imbalance of the internal stability, so as to restore the health of the body and mind. Acupuncture can be used for disease prevention, fitness, health, beauty, improve the state of sub-health and treatment of certain diseases.

? Acupuncture has the effect of invigorating blood and qi, dredging the meridians and channels, supporting the positive and eliminating evil, and balancing yin and yang.

(a) blood qi: when the acupuncture tool and the human body surface friction, stimulate the human skin, so that the red heat, through the skin to the meridians, blood vessels, the relevant viscera penetration. Pathological state of blood stasis or Qi stagnation gradually dissipate.

(b) dredge the meridians: acupuncture using acupuncture in the human body meridians, collaterals, tendons, skin, acupoints with a variety of techniques, through the role of the meridian Qi dredge the meridians to restore dysfunction of the internal organs, restore the physique, physical and mental health.

(C) support the positive and eliminate evil: acupuncture through the blood tonic gas, dredge the meridians to support the positive purpose, while the maintenance of the meridians, skin, four seas and so on is also one of the important content of the positive. The use of acupuncture board bow back in the human body surface to do scraping or the use of acupuncture rulers to do the pat method to make the pathological substances of the evil out of the body surface.

(D) balance yin and yang: human physiology, internal organs, meridians have yin and yang. Pathological state of yin and yang imbalance, balancing yin and yang, so that it is harmonized, not biased, not full, not deficiency for the therapeutic goal.

? The key to the secret of acupuncture is to move, because the qi and blood are not and, then suffer from diseases resulting in pain, acupuncture point method, ironing method and Mo method, are hand-operated acupuncture activities for the key, hand to hand and the disease is eliminated.

? (B) needle method

? Needle method to use acupuncture to health care, prevention and treatment of disease. The indications of acupuncture are very wide, internal? External? Gynecology? Pediatrics and other disciplines can be applied, according to different diseases to choose the corresponding acupuncture points for acupuncture, for painful diseases, dysfunctional diseases and certain diseases. Dysfunctional diseases and some acute diseases, can choose acupuncture therapy?

? Acupuncture therapy is the specific use of meridian theory, is an important means of external treatment of internal diseases, its wide range of indications, the effect is good, quick results. But the use of a number of contraindications, acupuncture without complementary, therapeutic consumption and can not replenish the body's vitality, when the patient's vitality is insufficient, is not conducive to treatment.

? Acupuncture includes both acupuncture techniques and acupuncture therapy.

? Acupuncture techniques can promote the acquisition of needle sensation, and maintain and strengthen the needle sensation, and have the effect of harmonizing yin and yang, dredging the meridians and collaterals, replenishing the deficiency and diarrhea, etc.. Acupuncture techniques can be divided into three categories: basic techniques, auxiliary techniques and remedial techniques. Acupuncture therapy has warm needle method, fire needle method, skin needle method, piercing method, intradermal needle method, etc.

? The basic techniques are customarily called traveling needles. There are mainly two kinds of twisting method and lifting and inserting method.

? Tonic and diarrhea techniques are the most commonly used methods of acupuncture, generally divided into the welcome with tonic and diarrhea, Xu Deng tonic and diarrhea, lifting and inserting the tonic and diarrhea, twisting and tonic and diarrhea, respiratory tonic and diarrhea, open and close the tonic and diarrhea.

? Auxiliary techniques can be divided into: ① the meridians where the acupoints are administered to the auxiliary techniques mainly by the method and the method of ingestion. ② millimeters of the implementation of the main auxiliary techniques of popping, scraping, shaking, rubbing, flying and pounding method.

? (C) moxibustion

? Moxibustion is also known as moxibustion. Refers to the use of moxa as the main material, ignited directly or indirectly smoked surface points of a therapeutic method. Can also be mixed with a small amount of pungent, warm, fragrant and dry medicinal powder in moxa to enhance the therapeutic effect. Moxibustion can fitness, prevention and treatment. It has the effect of warming the meridians and collaterals, elevating the Yang and lifting up the trap, activating Qi and blood circulation, dispelling cold and dampness, eliminating swellings and dispersing knots, and restoring Yang to save the reverse and so on. It is especially suitable for chronic debilitating diseases and diseases suffering from wind, cold and dampness.

? Moxibustion can stimulate and improve the body's immune function, can activate the function of internal organs, exuberant metabolism, produce antibodies and immunity, enhance the body's ability to fight diseases. Therefore, the long-term implementation of health care moxibustion, can make people physically and mentally comfortable, energetic, to get rid of diseases and prolong life.

? Moxibustion is characterized by both inhibition of hyperfunction, but also can make the decline of functional excitement and tend to physiological equilibrium, so moxibustion is a benign stimulation of the human body, the enhancement of physical fitness benefits, regardless of the sick body, the body can be used, especially to promote the development of children's role in the use of a wide range.

? Because of its made form and use of different methods, can be divided into moxa moxibustion, moxa cone moxibustion, warm needle moxibustion and moxibustion equipment moxibustion and so on several kinds.

1. Moxa cone moxibustion is the method of moxa cones on the acupuncture points. It can be divided into direct and indirect moxibustion. Direct moxibustion is divided into scar moxibustion, no scar moxibustion. Indirect moxibustion is also known as spaced moxibustion, spaced moxibustion. The items commonly used in the isolation of ginger, garlic, salt, epiphyllum tablets, and so on.

2. moxa moxibustion is also known as moxa roll moxibustion. Commonly used moxibustion methods are gentle moxibustion and bird pecking moxibustion.

3. Warm needle moxibustion is a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion, suitable for both the need to leave the needle and suitable for moxibustion of the disease.

4. Warm moxibustion device moxibustion is a special metal cylinder moxibustion tool, so it is also known as warm moxibustion tube moxibustion. It has the effect of harmonizing qi and blood, warming and dispersing cold.

? The implementation of moxibustion to understand the patient has different reactions and contraindications to moxibustion, and countermeasures.

? (D) tonics

? Soup medicine, also known as soup liquid, refers to the decoction of Chinese herbs with water, remove the dregs to take the juice of the medicine and take. The pharmacology of Chinese herbs is described in Hello, Chinese Medicine (XIV) Medicine in Chinese Medicine. There are external and internal treatments in Chinese medicine, and taking tonics is the main form of internal treatment. Soup has the advantages of fast absorption and strong effect. It can also be flexibly prescribed according to specific clinical conditions, so it is most widely used in clinical practice.

? Soup medicine is mostly compound, the drugs can promote each other, mutual constraints, so as to achieve the purpose of enhancing the efficacy, ease of medicinal properties, and can give full play to the Chinese medicine prescription of the role of each drug.

? Soup medicine is a medicinal herb with water decoction for a certain period of time, slagging juice made of liquid dosage form, mainly for internal use, a few external use for bathing, fumigation, gargling with. It is the earliest and most widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, and plays a great role in the prevention and treatment of diseases.

? In "Hello, Chinese medicine (IX) diseases of the human body", it is talked about that the disease mechanism of the human body includes: malfunctioning of internal organs, malfunctioning of the transformation movement of essence and qi, malfunctioning of meridians and channels, and deficiency of vital energy. Chinese medicine treatment of disease is a holistic diagnosis, treating both the symptoms and the root cause. The treatment of the disease with tonics can not only regulate the qi, but also eliminate stasis and eliminate evil, as well as replenish the vital energy and strengthen the body.

? Soup medicine to adapt to the needs of Chinese medicine dialectic treatment, prescription composition dosage can be based on changes in the condition, appropriate additions and subtractions, flexible application; compound prescription, is conducive to give full play to the multi-effective and comprehensive effect of the drug components; water as a solvent, no irritation and side effects; preparation is simple and easy to carry out. However, the soup formula is easy to mold, fermentation, can not be stored for a long time, therefore, the dosage form of the soup appeared in the Chinese medicine combination, granules, oral liquid, etc. Try to retain the advantages of the soup to overcome its shortcomings on the basis of the development of new dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine.

The effect of taking soup medicine is good or bad, in addition to whether or not it is symptomatic, but also have to pay attention to the time of taking medicine and hot and cold. Different drugs, because of its own characteristics require a specific time to serve in order to play the best role.

? If the soup medicine serving time is not properly selected, even if the medicine is symptomatic, it will reduce the effect. The reason why the service is concerned about the timing of the soup is to achieve the best therapeutic effect, so that you can comply with the body's rhythmic physiological changes, can make full use of the body's positive anti-disease factors and enhance the strength of the drug. Timing of medication can also reduce the adverse effects of drugs, because if the time to take medication is not appropriate, disrupting the body's physiological rhythms, can produce or increase the adverse effects of drugs. Timing of medication can also induce the normalization of disturbed body rhythms to achieve the goal of healing. So, it's not a good idea to ignore the fact that it's a good idea to take the medicine at the right time.

The way to take the soup medicine is divided into hot, warm, cold three, in general, sweating medicine and warm tonic medicine should be warm; cold medicine, the treatment of arthralgia and ulcer disease medicine should be hot, heat detoxification medicine should be cold.

The boiling of the soup, should pay attention to: (1) the choice of decoction apparatus. Try to use casserole, avoid using iron, aluminum, copper pot. (2) decoction method. First soak and then decoct, each dose of medicine boiled twice. When decocting, it is better to put the lid on the pot, and it is not suitable to open the lid frequently, otherwise the smell will be easily lost and the efficacy of the medicine will be reduced. (3) Decoction time. Different herbs have different decoction time. (4) filtration of the liquid: the amount of liquid decoction should be decided according to the patient's condition, age and other specific circumstances.

Chinese medicine has first decoction, after the next, packet decoction, punch and so on. The first is the one that is not a good idea, and the second is the one that is not a good idea, and the third is the one that is not a good idea.

? （The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the body of the person you're dealing with. Tui Na refers to the use of hands on the human body according to the meridians, acupuncture points with pushing, holding, lifting, pinching, kneading and other techniques for treatment. Tui Na, also known as "massage", "by stilts", "stilts", "case" title.

? Tui na, a non-pharmaceutical natural therapy, physical therapy. Usually refers to the medical practitioner to use their hands on the patient's body surface, injured parts, discomfort, specific acupoints, pain, specific use of push, take, press, mo, knead, pinch, point, shoot, and other forms of manipulation, with a view to achieve the dredging of meridians and collaterals, the implementation of the qi and blood, to help injuries and relieve pain, to eliminate the evil and help the right and harmonize the efficacy of yin and yang.

? Tui na therapy is simple, effective, economic and safety advantages, favored by doctors and patients. It can be divided into health care massage, sports massage and medical massage.

The eight methods of massage therapy are warm, tonic, pass, diarrhea, sweat, and, scattered, clear.

Massage has many advantages, easy to learn. Easy to operate, economical and practical, but also can replace the drug. Massage can dredge the meridians. Make the blood flow, maintain the balance of yin and yang of the body, so massage can feel muscle relaxation, joint flexibility, so that people are refreshed, eliminate fatigue, to ensure good health has an important role.

? There are two kinds of massage: one is active massage, also known as self-massage, is a health care method to massage yourself. The other is passive massage, is mastered by the doctor used for the patient's medical treatment, that is, this article said massage therapy. Tui na adapted to a wide range of therapeutic range, then use more contraindications to avoid the use of improper methods.

? (F) cupping

? Cupping is a can as a tool, the use of fire, pumping and other methods to generate negative pressure, so that it adsorbed on the body surface, resulting in localized blood stasis, in order to achieve through the meridians and channels, blood circulation, swellings, pain, wind dispersal of cold and other effects of the therapy. Commonly used tools at present more types of commonly used cans, bamboo cans, glass cans, pumping cans and so on.

? Cupping should be contraindicated high fever, convulsions, spasms and other conditions, skin allergies or ulcers broken places, muscle thin or uneven bones and hairy parts should not be used, pregnant women lumbosacral and abdominal must be used with caution.

? (G) Guiding technique

? Guiding art is "according to a certain law and method of body movement and breathing and self-massage, in order to prevent disease and health care methods. Guiding includes "guiding qi" and "guiding body" two aspects, the so-called "guiding qi to make and, guiding body to make soft". Guiding art is not mysterious, we are familiar with the Yi Jin Jing, five birds play, eight brocade belongs to the category of guiding art.

? Indications for the introduction of therapy are "impotence, syncope, cold, heat" and "interest accumulation", clinical with "press Qiao" (massage). Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, emphasized in "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" the treatment of "heavy stagnation" of the limbs with "guiding, vomiting, acupuncture and moxibustion, plastering and moxibustion". In the "Zhongzangjing", it is pointed out that: "the guide can expel the guest evil in the joints"; "it is appropriate to guide but not guide, it will make people evil invasion of the joints, solid knot difficult to pass".

? The ancient method of health guidance technique is characterized by self mastery, no drugs, no injections, simple and easy to learn, get rid of diseases and health, enhance physical fitness, prevention and treatment of a variety of chronic diseases and sub-health. Guiding art for independent exercise, disease prevention and elimination, truly "positive memory, evil can not be dry".

? (H) intention therapy

? Chinese medicine in the process of diagnosis and treatment, pay attention to the role of psychological guidance in the treatment of human disease, Chinese medicine called intention therapy. The basic principle is the theory of "heart disease also need heart medicine". Chinese medicine psychotherapy not only pays close attention to the language of guidance, empathy, hints and other methods, but also summed up the unique and systematic theory of "emotion over emotion".

? People have seven emotions, each belonging to the five organs, the five organs and emotions between the existence of the principle of victory. "Anger hurts the liver, sadness is better than anger"; "joy hurts the heart, fear is better than joy"; "thought hurts the spleen, anger is better than thought"; "joy is better than worry, worry hurts the lungs "; "Fear hurts the kidneys, and thought wins over fear."

? Chinese medicine psychotherapy, the use of yin and yang complementary and unity of opposites point of view, and follow the overall concept of Chinese medicine and the basic principles of dialectical treatment, consciously adopt a mood to overcome the original psychological barriers.

? Emotional activity can affect the body's yin and yang qi and blood, supernormal lasting emotional stimulation can cause disease. Chinese medicine psychotherapy, is the use of emotional bias, to correct the bias of yin and yang qi and blood, so that the body to restore the balance and coordination of the state, so that the disease is cured, to achieve the purpose of treatment, known as the emotional win emotional therapy. Specific methods are: (1) anger therapy: the use of anger therapy, can often treat excessive thinking and gas knot, treatment due to sadness and depression, treatment of too much panic and bile deficiency and gas timidity belonging to the yin mental lesions. (2) Joy therapy. Trying to make the patient's spirit happy, or cause laughter, with positive and happy emotions to promote the coordination of yin and yang, qi and blood, so as to treat the lesions caused by emotional activities such as sorrow, thinking, and sadness. (3) Sorrow therapy. Sorrow can bring the human brain to a state of wakefulness, so using this approach can correct psychological paranoia and have a positive therapeutic effect on lesions. (4) Clarify the mind and clear the mind therapy, through sitting or lying quietly, forgetting the thoughts inside, resting outside the realm, not disturbed by the disease, so that the spirit of tranquility and serenity, then the true qi naturally from the, and the disease of qi gradually declined.

The use of the seven emotions or five elements of the method of birth and death, the treatment of emotional illness, is an effective method. As the saying goes, "A quiet mind is peace", when we are not mentally tense or troubled people, then emotional illnesses are all less likely to be committed.

? Chinese medicine has different methods of healing, and its treatments are internal and external. There are internal treatment of internal diseases, external treatment of external diseases, and there is also the characteristic of external treatment of internal diseases.

? The internal treatment of Chinese medicine includes the application of prescription medicines, as well as Chinese medicine tea drinking method, Chinese medicine medicine and wine therapy, and medicinal dietary therapy. The most characteristic of the internal treatment is the herbal soup therapy. Among them, the most famous ones are sweat, spit, and warm, clear, eliminate and tonify eight methods. Chinese herbal remedies in the identification and treatment, can take into account multiple aspects, integrated treatment, both symptoms and root causes.

? Traditional Chinese medicine external treatment effect is unique, rapid, long history, with simple, convenient, inexpensive, check the characteristics. The most characteristic of external treatment are acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, massage therapy, fire cupping therapy, guided therapy and intentional therapy. Including fumigation, compresses, plasters, umbilical cord therapy, foot therapy and other methods. The scope of treatment covers internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, orthopedic injuries, skin, organs, anus and intestines, etc. Compared with the internal treatment method, it has a "different paths to the same place, the same work in the same way", and it is "not willing to take the medication of people who can not take the medicine of the disease", especially for the critically ill, and it is more able to show its unique treatment, so it has the name of "the treatment of the unique". The treatment is unique, so there is a "good Ding does not abolish the external treatment," said.