Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine

* Qi is the primordial substance that constitutes everything in heaven and earth.

* The movement of qi is called "qi qi", and there are four forms of "lifting and moving in and out". The various changes produced by the movement are called "qi", such as the "growth of animals", "growth and old age", and "growth and collection" of plants.

* Gas is the intermediary between heaven and earth, so that it can be sympathetic correspondence. For example, "Man and heaven and earth, and the sun and the moon".

* The essence of heaven and earth is transformed into human beings. * Yin and Yang is a generalization of the properties of the opposing sides of interrelated things or phenomena in the universe. Initially, it refers to the direction of daylight, with daylight being Yang and backlight being Yin.

* The interactions of yin and yang include: yin and yang sympathy, opposites and constraints, mutual root and use, elimination and balance, and mutual transformation. * The five elements, i.e. wood, fire, earth, gold, water, five substances, and their movement changes.

* The interactions of the five elements include: mutual birth, mutual restraint, control, victory and restoration, mutual insult, multiplication, mother and child. Hidden: refers to the five viscera and six bowels in the human body, the House of Qi Heng, commonly known as the viscera.

Elephant: one refers to the "image", that is, the anatomical shape of the bowels; two refers to the "signs", that is, the bowels of the physiology and pathology of the external performance; three refers to the "should be like", that is, the bowels of the corresponding in the The third refers to the "should like", that is, the viscera corresponding to the four seasons of yin and yang.

* Through the changes in the external "elephant" to measure the internal "Tibetan" physiological and pathological state, known as "from the elephant to measure Tibetan". This is called "measuring the physiological and pathological state of the internal organs from the elephant".

* "Viscera" is not only a concept of anatomical pattern, but also a comprehensive concept including anatomy, physiology, and pathology.

* The five viscera: the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, which function to "generate and store essence".

* Six viscera: gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, bladder, triple jiao, the function of "rotting water and cereals, separation of clear and secretion of turbidity, transmission and transformation of dross".

* Qiheng's House: refers to "brain, marrow, bone, pulse, gallbladder, and female cells". * Qi, blood and fluid are the basic substances that constitute and maintain the life activities of the human body.

* The generation of qi originates from both the innate and the acquired. It is endowed with the essence of the parents, which is called "innate qi". The clear qi inhaled by the lungs and the qi produced by the spleen and stomach from the transportation of water and cereal grains are collectively known as the "qi of the latter".

* Qi has the role of promoting, warming, defending, fixing, gasification, nutrition and so on.

* The qi of the human body can be divided into yuan qi, zong qi, ying qi, wei qi, qi of the internal organs, qi of the meridians.

* Qi "lifting in and out" of the movement is not normal, known as "qi dysfunction". Its manifestations are gas stagnation, gas depression, gas reversal, gas trapping, gas off, gas closure, and so on. * Meridian is the human body running gas and blood, contact viscera body official orifice, communication up and down the internal and external channels.

* The meridian system includes twelve meridians, twelve meridians, eight odd meridians, fifteen other meridians, floating meridians, sun meridians, twelve meridian tendons, twelve parts of the skin, and so on.

* The importance of meridians in Chinese medicine, as the "Magpie Heart Book" said: "Learning medicine does not know the meridians, opening hands will be wrong. Covering the meridians is not clear, there is no way to recognize the root cause of the disease, the study of yin and yang of the transmission of change." * "Huangdi Neijing" will be the cause of disease is divided into two categories of yin and yang: "born in the yang, get the wind, rain, cold and heat," and "born in the yin, get the diet, residence, yin and yang, joy and anger.

* Zhang Zhongjing in the Han Dynasty in the "Golden Chamber Essentials", the cause of the disease is divided into three categories: "meridians and channels subject to evil into the internal organs, for the internal cause", "limbs and nine orifices, blood and veins, congestion and blockage, for the external skin in the"," Room, gold blade, insects and animals injured."

* Song Dynasty Chen Wu Zai put forward the "three causes doctrine": external causes, internal causes, not internal and external causes.

* In recent times, the causes of disease have been divided into five categories:

o External causes: including the six elements (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire) and plague.

o Internal causes: including seven emotions (joy, anger, sadness, grief, fear and shock), dietary disorders, labor and leisure disorders.

o Secondary causes: including phlegm, blood stasis and stones.

o Other etiologies: including trauma, parasites, fetal transmission, poisons, and medical excesses.

Onset

* Evil qi fights with positive qi to determine the onset and development of the disease. It is also known as "the struggle between good and evil".

* "Evil qi" refers to a variety of disease-causing factors, and "positive qi" refers to the body's ability to repair and regulate itself, adapt to the environment, and resist disease.

* "The lack of positive energy" is the internal basis of the disease, that is, "where the evil is, its gas must be weak", "the positive energy within, the evil can not be dry".

* Physical, emotional, geographical, climatic, etc., and the onset of a close relationship.

Disease mechanism

* Disease mechanism is the mechanism of disease occurrence, development and transmission, also known as "pathology".

* The basic disease mechanism includes: evil and righteousness, yin and yang imbalance, qi and blood disorders, fluid metabolism disorders

* Internal five evils, including: the wind within the movement, cold from the mid-generation, dampness within the birth of, Jin injury to the dry, fire and heat within the birth of

* Disease position changes, including: the appearance of in and out of the six meridians change, San Jiao change, the Wei qi blood change, the visceral organs change

* Disease sex Transformation, including: cold and heat transformation, the transformation of real and virtual treatment means and methods are rich and colorful, both general internal medicine internal treatment method, but also drugs external, hot ironing, smoking and other external treatment method, as well as a unique acupuncture, cupping, gua sha, massage, massage, qigong and other non-pharmaceutical therapies, as well as to the medicinal diet as the representative of the daily food therapy. In addition, because the vast majority of drugs are natural animals, plants, minerals, non-synthetic chemicals, coupled with most of the compound preparation, the formulation of the corresponding antagonistic measures can be used, and thus less toxic side effects, and relatively inexpensive, therefore, the scope of application is relatively broad.