Take you back to Chinese medicine.

Western medicine treats the symptoms, while Chinese medicine treats the root cause. This sentence is deeply rooted in people's hearts, but we often have a misunderstanding that treating diseases with traditional Chinese medicine is a permanent cure and the effect is slow. After reading the book "Walking into Chinese Medicine", I have improved my understanding of Chinese medicine, and I would like to share it with you.

First, let's look at how this disease is caused.

There are many viruses and microorganisms in our environment. In fact, we are fighting against external evil every day. Here I call it the war between human body system and external evil.

There are only two outcomes of war: victory or defeat. Victory leads to health, and failure leads to disease.

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, there are nothing more than two situations:

Exogenous pathogens are too strong to cope with when the human body system is in dynamic balance.

② The human body system is too weak, which leads to the invasion of common exogenous pathogens.

This is why in the same environment, some people will get sick, others will not, and the strength of the human system is different, which is also what we often say about immunity and resistance. These words are called righteousness in Chinese medicine. If the healthy qi is sufficient, the human body has a strong ability to resist external evils and is not easy to get sick. If healthy qi is insufficient, it will be easily attacked by external evils.

This determines the thinking of treating diseases in traditional Chinese medicine: eliminating pathogenic factors and strengthening the body resistance. Full of healthy qi, but when pathogenic factors exceed healthy qi, people will get sick, and the healthy qi is insufficient, which is less than the normal level. Then common exogenous pathogens can invade the human body and cause diseases.

The core of TCM treatment thought is dialectical whole, which holds that human illness is not a local cause, but the result of the overall balance being broken. Find the most essential cause of disease through deficiency and excess, adjust the body as a whole and restore dynamic balance.

2. 1 What substance does healthy qi specifically refer to?

Chinese medicine believes that the human body has five basic substances, namely, Yuan Yin, Yuanyang, qi and blood and body fluid. Hidden in kidney, spleen, liver, lung and heart, they play a vital role in human life activities respectively.

(1) Yuan Yin, Yuan Yang:

It consists of sperm and egg cells, which are the most primitive energy of human body and play a decisive role in human growth, development and reproduction. Yuan Yin and Yuanyang are called kidney essence, and kidney deficiency that we often hear is the deficiency of these two substances.

② Qi: It can promote Yuan Yin and Yuanyang (efficacy) and transmit the efficacy to all parts of the body.

③ Blood: It is the carrier of qi. If gas is compared to a person, then blood is a manned car, which makes the transportation efficiency of gas higher.

④ Body fluid: It is composed of body fluid and liquid, which has fluidity, and plays the role of moistening and transporting substances.

These five substances, like the water in five freshwater lakes, all have a fixed total amount of substances at a certain moment. The five internal organs, like these five lakes, are used to store these energies.

I want to talk about the difference between the definition of five zang-organs in Chinese medicine and that in western medicine: Chinese medicine talks about five zang-organs functionally, and on the whole, a dirty organ is a system. For example, when doctors talk about the spleen, they don't just talk about this organ, but about the digestive system related to the spleen.

The internal organs of western medicine are single organs. For example, if a person has symptoms of frequent urination and painful urination, Chinese medicine will say that it is a kidney problem, while western medicine will say that it is a bladder problem.

So, is a person's health unchangeable?

Of course not. People are engaged in life activities every day. In this process, the five basic organizations will move, consume and increase. For example, diet, exercise and basic substances will all participate in the process of these exercises, and qi and blood, essence and body fluid will all change.

What we often hear about kidney deficiency is deficiency of kidney essence and deficiency of both qi and blood, which means deficiency of both qi and blood.

2.2 Six Yin in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire are called six evils in Chinese medicine. These six evils invade the human body and make people sick.

These six evils are often not a single violation of the human body, such as wind-cold, that is, wind-cold, cold-heat, damp-heat and so on.

Summary: When healthy qi is insufficient, or the balance of the body is broken by exogenous evil, it will cause disease, which is what Chinese medicine calls the cause of illness.

Chinese medicine has its own medical system: looking, listening and asking, which is very scientific.

The story of Bian Que, an imperial doctor, treating Qi Huangong is familiar to everyone. I met Qi Huangong four times and told him that he was ill, but every time Qi Huangong wouldn't listen. When I last saw him, Bian Que knew he was hopeless and slipped away. Later, Qi Huangong was really ill.

A master of Chinese medicine can find out the symptoms only by seeing a doctor. Bian Que, an excellent doctor, is an example. So, how did it judge that Qi Huangong was ill?

3. 1 TCM has theory

This is going to talk about a theory of Chinese medicine: the theory of hiding images. In ancient times, doctors could still see the disease clearly without testing instruments. This is because, although it can't be seen inside the human body, it can show people's external characteristics and symptoms.

For example, there is a saying that the essence of the five zang-organs is concentrated on the eyes, which means that you can see the five zang-organs by looking at the eyes.

Look at shape and color at the same time. Shape means height, thinness and strength, and color means the color and luster of the face. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that shape and color are influenced by the strength of five basic substances in the body. Five basic substances are hidden in the five internal organs, which indirectly reflect the internal and external conditions of the five internal organs.

Similar theories include: the theory of five internal organs, the theory of body fluid and five internal organs, the theory of inducing resuscitation and the theory of inhaling five internal organs, which will not be repeated here. See the figure below:

As long as we observe the face, claws, lips, hair and hair, we can infer the quality of the five internal organs, and investigate the situation of the five internal organs through the functions of tongue, eyes, mouth, nose and ears.

3.2 Chinese medicine has principles

According to the above theory, we can initially locate the location of the disease. In addition, the patient must be accompanied by certain symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine can distinguish, diagnose and treat symptoms through the principles of excess and deficiency, exterior and interior, cold and heat.

Virtual reality: virtual reality refers to the deficiency of healthy qi mentioned above, and real reality refers to the invasion of foreign evil. For example, the so-called virtual fire is caused by yin deficiency, and the internal yin can't resist yang.

Exterior and interior: When external evils invade, the human body system will wage war with external evils. The human body system is divided into three layers, which are called Sun, Shaoyang, Yangming and Exterior and Interior in turn from outside to inside, that is, the place where the war takes place. When the external pathogen is in the sun, we call it exterior syndrome, and when the external pathogen is in Yangming, it is called interior syndrome.

Cold and heat: I feel hot or cold when I am sick, accompanied by symptoms of heat, such as excessive internal heat, dry mouth, or cold symptoms, long urination, and fear of cold.

These symptoms are all manifested by the imbalance of the five internal organs, but different reasons may have the same symptoms. For example, qi stagnation and lung fever can produce symptoms of indigestion. This requires Chinese medicine to treat according to syndrome differentiation, and to treat the most essential problems and core contradictions, so as to restore the dynamic balance of the body.

The so-called febrile diseases are more common in the body, such as excessive internal heat, irritability, yellow urine and fever in the body, so I like to eat cold drinks. On the contrary, the symptoms of cold ice are insufficient internal heat, fear of cold, clear urine, loose stool and like hot drinks.

Whether it is warm disease or cold disease, we find that the human body has the function of self-regulation. If there is heat in the body, you like cold drinks, and if there is cold in the body, you like hot food, which is exactly the same as the self-healing function of the human system in Chinese medicine.

4. 1 Common fevers can be divided into the following categories:

Wei Fen's syndrome: The defense function of muscle surface is destroyed, and the heat dissipation function is out of balance.

Qi syndrome: Hypermetabolism, excessive heat production in the body, greater than heat dissipation, resulting in imbalance of the body.

Syndrome Differentiation: High metabolism will lead to further consumption of body fluids (including Yuan Yin, body fluids and blood), which will lead to insufficient healthy qi.

Blood syndrome: the result of the further development of camp syndrome when the vaginal fluid in the body is exhausted, such as hematuria, hematochezia and vomiting blood.

According to what we said just now, we found that the characteristics of Wei fen and Qi fen are that there is heat in the body, but it is all on the muscle surface. At this time, the treatment principle is mainly to dissipate heat, and the latter two exogenous evils have reached the inside of the human body, which makes the yin and yang unbalanced. At this time, the treatment should focus on strengthening the body resistance, supplemented by heat dissipation.

4.2 Common cold diseases are:

Here we mainly share the common cold caused by wind, cold and heat:

Wind-cold exterior syndrome: pore occlusion, qi and blood stagnation on muscle surface and occlusion, no phlegm, headache and fever.

Symptoms: Wen Xin is sweating.

Xin has the function of dispersing, warming has the function of sweating, and it mainly treats diseases on the principle of removing cold on the body surface.

Wind-heat exterior syndrome: wind-induced pore occlusion, headache without sweat, dry mouth caused by heat, red face and red eyes.

Symptomatic: pungent and cool sweating method

Pungent is opposite to wind, and cool is opposite to heat, thus achieving the effects of relieving sweating, dispelling summer heat and dissipating heat.

It is not difficult to find that the ancient treatment principle is very scientific, according to the types of exogenous pathogens, the relationship between exterior and interior, dialectical treatment.

There are also several kinds of colds caused by the lack of healthy qi. In the process of exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body, we must consider who is the main contradiction. For example, if the patient has symptoms of yang deficiency, such as cold limbs, mental fatigue, pallor, loose stool, etc., the treatment should focus on tonifying Yang.

According to the deficiency of vital qi, the rest are: nourishing yin and sweating, benefiting qi and sweating, enriching blood and sweating.

Speaking of health, the most frequently heard word is sub-health, so what is sub-health? Even if I went to the hospital, I couldn't find anything wrong, just a little uncomfortable. Explain with traditional Chinese medicine: the internal organs system of human body is out of balance.

Instead of giving your health to a doctor, you should improve your medical knowledge and be your own doctor.

The theory of five zang-organs of TCM that we talked about last time, such as deficiency and excess, exterior and interior, cold and heat, is just some basic knowledge of TCM. After reading these, of course, we can't diagnose ourselves and prescribe drugs ourselves.

Really come out for your lover, you can regulate your body through diet and emotions. I can sum up how to regulate my body through my own actions as follows:

5. 1. Food has four natures, five colors and five flavors:

Cold, hot and cool, the five internal organs correspond to the five elements, colors and flavors one by one, as shown in the following figure:

5.2 The correspondence between five zang-organs and five records is as follows:

For example, a person with acne may have a strong liver fire, the liver belongs to wood, the main laxative, the general, the spleen belongs to soil, and he is a warehouse keeper. According to the five elements, if the liver is not good, it will naturally vent to the spleen, leading to poor spleen and stomach. At this time, the diet should not only eat green, but also be easy to digest. The liver responds emotionally to anger. It is not difficult to find that people with strong liver fire are irritable, and anger, in turn, is easy to hurt the liver.

Chinese medicine is a very scientific theory, which comes from China's philosophy. It pays attention to dialectics, integrity, yin and yang, and emphasizes the self-repair ability of human body. The aim of TCM is always to restore the dynamic balance of the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine is a very profound knowledge, and most people can do it. In ancient times, a doctor said: If you want to be a doctor, you should know astronomy, geography and people before you get sick. It can be seen that the relationship between Chinese medicine and nature is close. It comes from nature, and people are in nature, so it is very scientific.

Traditional Chinese medicine is a part of traditional culture in China and a cultural treasure accumulated in China for thousands of years, which we should cherish.

Many people think Chinese medicine is mysterious. I think this phenomenon is caused by two reasons. First, lack of knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, loss of independent thinking ability. I don't know, but I like to take advice from others. I have no thinking ability, and I am easy to evaluate good or bad.

There is a person who completely denies Chinese medicine because it can't be cured once. I want to say that treating diseases is not a matter for doctors alone, nor is it a factor at work. This doctor can't represent Chinese medicine, just as the quality of each of us can't represent China. You can't come to China and say that China people are robbers when you meet a robber. You can't come to China yet. When you hear people around you say that China people are so bad, just shout.

Second, many pseudo-TCM practitioners in China are smearing TCM. This is a very chilling thing. At the same time, we reflect that it is not because China people lack common sense of Chinese medicine that they will be cheated. Some people can't see clearly in the west hospital after getting sick, so they go to see Chinese medicine. If a dead horse is treated like a living horse for several times, it can't be cured, and then they can yell and scold, cheating, a Chinese medicine practitioner.

As we said earlier in the article, if the medicine is symptomatic, you will get better after taking several pairs of medicine, instead of taking it for months or even longer, as those pseudo-Chinese medicine practitioners say. If you take each other's medicine, you will get better naturally, but if you don't take each other's medicine, you will eat your body badly.

Back to the topic of thinking ability, most of us are following the crowd and gradually losing our minds. We like to accept conclusions, but we don't like thinking. For example, why acne can't be eaten with hair, why medicine is toxic, and why blood should be supplemented with qi? It is because I don't understand why I believe in Chinese medicine and I can't believe in Chinese medicine. I am timid, afraid of being cheated, and I am not at ease. Then I poured a pot of cold water on the Chinese medicine with the current.

After reading the book "Walking into Chinese Medicine", I would like to appeal to everyone to improve their critical thinking ability, understand the common sense of Chinese medicine and be their own doctors. Chinese medicine is really a cultural treasure of our country. Let's look back and see what we have in China.