DAY19

According to the after-school homework requirements of the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Thinking Training Form" of the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Symptoms Training Class" that I started in September, today I re-read Li Xin's "Classic Chinese Medicine Enlightenment".

It gave me a deeper understanding.

"Classic Traditional Chinese Medicine Enlightenment" describes the overall thinking and learning methods of traditional Chinese medicine, guiding everyone to experience, experience, observe and cultivate everything around them such as life, work, interpersonal relationships, etc., and cultivate the most basic perceptual abilities.

Due to the rich social life of modern people, they are out of touch with the natural rhythm and have poor energy. This is an important reason for the occurrence of all diseases.

Health is "normal".

"Constant" means that one is in a relatively harmonious relationship with society, and energy accompanies the human body to maintain its natural and normal rhythm.

As for health maintenance and conditioning, it is about finding a state of peace of mind and comfort as much as possible.

Healthy people should do the right things at the right time, in the right place, with the right people, and in the right way. This is the health care we really need in daily life.

Regarding the methods of treating diseases, the book lists many examples. Some of them require the cooperation of a doctor and oneself, and the disease can be cured on its own without taking medicine.

And some need to cooperate with doctors and use special methods to treat the condition in order to alleviate the condition.

After reading the treatment part, I fully realized that Chinese classic Chinese medicine and traditional culture are inextricably linked.

Of course, there are too many highlights in the book, among which the one that impressed me the most is: Why should we devote ourselves to studying traditional culture and understanding Chinese medicine? It is because it can open up a broader and far-reaching world for us.

In daily life, when we judge a person or an event, we are accustomed to logical thinking and rational analysis, but this is not the only thing.

In our traditional culture, there is a higher-order way of cognition, which is the more important perceptual "heart" after the rational "brain".

For example, in our calligraphy and painting, poetry, traditional Chinese medicine, and martial arts, it is difficult to rely on high-IQ brains, pure memory analysis, and accumulated learning to achieve higher levels. It relies more on the "heart", relying on the heart to understand things, and relying on "sudden insights".

”, which is more about the “wisdom” at the instinctive level of the body.

Our traditional culture emphasizes "maintaining simplicity" and "maintaining simplicity", which emphasizes a higher-level cognitive way of returning to the original heart.

When you reduce the use of your brain and start using your "heart", you will enter a higher-level way of cognition, slowly open up your inner "wisdom", and return to the clearest intuition of your original heart.

The original mind is clear and "awareness" is opened, just like when a cat meets another cat, it doesn't need to think too much. Just look at each other and you can know whether they can get close to each other and whether they can be gregarious.

After reading this book again today, I feel that two conditions must be met to get started with Chinese medicine: first, whether one is aware of the disease elimination response, and second, whether one is aware that Chinese medicine treats diseases mainly at the two levels of spirit and energy.

Once you understand the disease elimination response, you will no longer treat the disease based on the symptoms.

If you realize that traditional Chinese medicine treats diseases mainly at the two levels of spirit and energy, you can understand why the Shennong's Materia Medica divides 365 kinds of medicine into three categories: upper, middle and lower.

This is because the top grade of Shen Nong’s Materia Medica mainly treats the spirit, the middle grade mainly treats the qi, and the low grade treats the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that regulating the mind is the top priority, followed by regulating the qi, and the bottom is regulating the body.

This book explains the two concepts of disease elimination response and Shenqi model very thoroughly. It is undoubtedly a very good read for TCM enthusiasts.

I will read this book after the training class I have attended in a few months. I believe I will have new insights.