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Why can't science explain the "meridians" mentioned by Chinese medicine?

I didn't believe in meridians before, and I thought Chinese medicine was deceptive. Later, with the growth of age, there were more and more diseases. I looked around for ways. Later, I came into contact with the meridians and studied hard, but there was no master to teach me. If I am sick, I will search online and press. I can really cure this disease. Especially some painful diseases.

I learned meridians for the first time because of low back and leg pain. After a long time of electric baking, my symptoms have eased, but it still hurts. So I pressed it on my body and found several pain points. I pressed it and found it much better. Then I searched the meridians and pressed them myself.

Later, when I got scapulohumeral periarthritis, I looked for acupoints, found them, pressed them with a hammer, and leaned hard. Tears came out at that time, and it will be fine in a week.

For example, recurrent pharyngitis, Yanyan tablets, oral liquid and the like, the more you eat, the more serious it is, and the key body can't stand it. Later, I washed my feet every day and pressed Yongquan point for an hour. Now I don't have a seizure.

Some time ago, my stomach was not good, and I often ate acid when eating irritating food. Later, I remembered the meridians, found the pain points on the large intestine meridian and found the five miles of the hand. The pain was terrible, so I gritted my teeth and pressed it, and soon I began to fart. Much better now.

It is understandable that some people scold the meridians of traditional Chinese medicine, and I have experienced it. When I realized it, I found that in the mainstream of western medicine, Chinese medicine was like Copernicus in geocentric theory. In particular, just as Galileo later improved his telescope and replaced Heliocentrism with a tool, meridian also needs new tools to explore and prove.

Isn't modern medicine also based on various instruments? Isn't germs and viruses discovered step by step with the progress of instruments?

The new instrument will prove the existence of meridians sooner or later!

Once my foot was squeezed by a wheel. Feet, ankles, badly swollen. When I was helped to the hospital by my family, I hung anti-inflammatory water for several days. The swelling hasn't subsided. Later, the doctor hung anti-inflammatory water on me, used acupuncture and massage of traditional Chinese medicine, and applied safflower oil. The swelling situation improved a lot. For three or four weeks in a row, hang water, then massage with traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and apply safflower oil. In the evening, the doctor asked me to add salt to the boiling water and soak my feet. Later, Chinese herbal medicine was used to boil water and add salt to soak feet. I soak my feet twice a day to activate the meridians, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. After three or four weeks, the swelling has greatly subsided and people can walk normally. This is my real experience, without any fiction. At first, I didn't really believe that Chinese medicine could make my feet swell up, but after three or four weeks, I really took it and took it.

So I hate those black Chinese medicine practitioners, who have no roots, no personal experience, all by imagination, all by one mouth, talking nonsense all day. So these black Chinese medicine practitioners are not afraid to flash their tongues all day long.

Speaking of meridians, it happens that the author has personal experience. In the 1980s, my mother suffered from hyperthyroidism, which caused hypertension and gradually involved heart hypertrophy. It was too late to find the root of the disease, so she finally chose surgery and needed partial thyroidectomy. The surgeon told us that the operation was going to be anesthetized by acupuncture all the time, so it would do the least harm to the body, and my mother agreed. In fact, it is also the first time that a top three hospital has tried to do major surgery without anesthesia. Because the first case was prepared, of course, in addition, the patient was female, and her appearance was taken into account in the operation. Therefore, the total length of the incision is below the neckline 19 stitches, and the whole operation is awake. I feel like I was bitten by an ant. Everything is fine. How amazing it is, western medicine can't explain it. The effect of acupuncture anesthesia can't be analyzed by western medicine in any case. Not believing in meridians does not mean that it is meaningless, nor does it mean that it is meaningless. If science does not reach the level that can be explained, it will be considered that there is no such thing. But it's true. The operation lasted more than two hours and was very successful. After several years, even this incision has to be found carefully. After that, my mother gradually reduced the dosage of antihypertensive drugs, and finally basically took them once every few days, and the prominent eyeballs gradually recovered.

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The author's point of view has always been: things must exist for a reason, and meridians are one of the most representative ones. This is especially true for China's ancient medical theory after her mother's hyperthyroidism operation. It's just that the decline of modern times has caused people's cognitive misunderstanding. There are many feudal consciousness in ancient inheritance that can't be explained or superstitious, or the monarch and his son. However, this does not hinder their effectiveness. Dregs or dregs, essence or essence, without dregs, we can't deny everything.

In order to prove the theory of meridians, the author has read many books about meridians and their reactions to human body. I met a friend who practiced internal qi by chance. After talking, I began to try. In less than a month, I actually got rid of my stomach pain for many years. Ten years later, I didn't have a seizure, but I believed it. I slowly found that the hotline was wandering on me, sometimes like a ball tube. I didn't know it was meridian until I opened the meridian chart. I also realized the greatness of my predecessors, so accurately drawing so many meridians and corresponding acupoints. However, experience is not inherited, and everyone has to start from scratch. It is said that only sentient beings exist, and there is no personal experience, or you can't calm down. Of course, you can't feel the smell, but that doesn't mean you can't. It is just an exaggerated story in the martial arts novels that Ren Du and Du Fu are interlinked, all diseases are eliminated and kung fu is advancing by leaps and bounds. Generally speaking, everyone can experience the existence of experience. Whether the question can be settled and tried, and how many people can accept it in this era of economic consideration, this is the key.

The earliest people's understanding of human body structure was very shallow.

In ancient times, I didn't know exactly how blood circulated, and I didn't know much about the function of breathing. But people have observed that blood can flow, and people inhale and exhale gas through their noses.

These gases must flow through some channel or carrier in the body. Therefore, people defined the meridian and thought that the meridian is the channel for blood gas to run. Now, we think that "blood" is of course what we call blood, and "qi" is carbon dioxide dissolved in blood. Blood carries oxygen and circulates throughout the body. Of course, the source of meridians is not "a stroke of genius", but people's speculation about the operation of the human body. The earliest meridians were probably "blood vessels".

On the basis of the meridian theory, there have been many developments, such as the Ren and Du meridians, various acupoints, and the different functions of each acupoint.

Later, with the development of anatomy, it was found that meridians and blood vessels were completely inconsistent. What should we do?

We should define meridians as an invisible and intangible network function that transmits invisible and intangible energy, or "qi". The things carried by the meridians are invisible, and even the scalpel keeps cutting.

An official once said that a training course could be held to let everyone get through the second pulse of Ren Du. 47 people participated in the training, and the training time was only 9 days. Among them, 4 1 students got through the second pulse of Ren Du.

Guess how to judge the second pulse of Ren Du?

Actually, I think I passed, so I passed. . .

In fact, there is a kind of western traditional medicine that is very similar to that of China. His founder was the ancient Roman medical master Galen, who put forward many advanced medical theories at that time. The medical classics written by Galen were regarded as gods before16th century.

Galen also believes that people have three kinds of qi that can be controlled, and the qi in the brain determines movement, perception and feeling; Heart qi controls blood and body temperature in the body; Liver-qi controls nutrition and metabolism. These theories must be absurd now. However, in the era of religious ideology, it is extremely difficult to overthrow the inherent views of the past.

Vesaliua and Servit, the founders of western anatomy, and Harvey, the founder of physiology. Be executed or exiled.

However, although modern science and traditional medicine are often not on the same frequency, they sometimes reach a surprising agreement.

Galen said that when sleeping, the air in the brain enters the whole body. Now research has proved that during sleep, brain cells atrophy and cerebrospinal fluid exchange really accelerates.

From 2065438 to 2008, scientists from new york University in the United States invented the interstitial exchange network of human body, which seems to show that meridians are not only the transmission way of exogenous pathogens from the outside to the inside. Some people think that this is the theoretical basis of meridians in traditional Chinese medicine.

Although modern concepts are strikingly consistent with traditional concepts, it does not mean that traditional concepts are impeccable.

The ancients saw the apple fall to the ground, and modern people also saw the apple fall to the ground. The same phenomenon, but the understanding is completely different. Therefore, what we have to do is not to try our best to explain the thoughts of the ancients, but to find more valuable theories.

I want to talk about meridians, but I want to talk about Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is an ancient state-owned traditional medicine and a subject with accumulated experience. Before liberation, there was never a research unit of Chinese medicine, and its promotion depended on ancestral tradition. It has never been discussed academically, and different schools are self-purified and have never argued. This subject advocates retro, the older the better, the more correct. Traditional Chinese medicine is a teaching method for teachers to take their apprentices. My teacher is better than me, my teacher's teacher is better than me, my teacher's teacher is better than me, it's the best since ancient times! The conclusion derived in this way is that each generation is not as good as the next. So far, the "palace secret recipe" is the best secret recipe recommended by traditional Chinese medicine, but statistics show that the average life expectancy of emperor China is only over 40 years old.

Many of China's terms are vague concepts, which are absolutely different from Western medicine. For example, Chinese medicine prescribes "poison" or "detoxification" for you. You ask him what poison it is? He would say, "poison is poison!" " What poison did you ask again? He said: "Chinese medicine is profound, you don't understand what I said!" But if you ask western medicine, western medicine will definitely tell you: this is tetrodotoxin, this is botulinum toxin and this is potassium cyanide. And he will tell you the chemical composition and structural formula of these poisons, and tell you its toxicology and action site. Similarly, "meridian" is a general concept. What are the meridians of traditional Chinese medicine? He said that meridians are a system composed of many acupoints. You ask again, can this system be seen? He would say: Look at the meridian chart on the wall! If you ask further: Can I see the entity of meridians after autopsy? Chinese medicine will laugh at you: What meridians do people still see when they are dead? !

As we all know, modern natural science attaches great importance to anatomy, and one of the most important foundations of modern western medicine is anatomy. Starting from16th century, this subject started from gross anatomy, and gradually went deep into organs, tissues, cells, organelles and cell molecular biology, until the entry and exit of ions in cells and channels were clear. After liberation, the party and the government took the integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine as a national policy. As far as I know, all natural scientists in Chinese Academy of Sciences, colleges and universities, and basic departments of College of Western Medicine want to discover human meridians and do something for the development of Chinese medicine. Alas! Unexpectedly, it was officially released by North Korea at 196 1, and their professor Jin discovered the meridians and named them "golden corpuscles". For a time, Professor Jin became a great inventor, a great hero and radiant. This incident caused a sensation in the world medical field. In order to find out the truth, China sent "investigation teams", all of whom were professors of related disciplines in the medical field. The delegation went to North Korea and saw tissue sections in Professor Kim's laboratory. At this time, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences sent a letter to North Korea, saying that what you found was not meridians, but general subcutaneous connective tissue. At this time, our delegation also returned to China and went to the Central Committee.