The Four Seasons Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Introduction

As the climate changes throughout the year, people's physiology is also affected by the changing natural conditions. At different times of the year, we need to take in different nutrients to supplement our body's needs, and throughout the year, your meal plan should also be changed.　Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes that things in the world are not independent and separate, but are in harmony with each other. Ancient Chinese people had unique insights into the relationships and laws of nature; they understood the world from a holistic viewpoint and created the theories of yin and yang and the five elements to explain various complex phenomena. Human beings are an organic whole, part of the natural world; therefore, they are affected by the external environment and climate, and accordingly, they will have different physiological or pathological reactions according to their needs. For example, in different seasons, the body pulse phenomenon, including the rhythm, speed, beat volume, tension, there are changes. In spring, the pulse tends to be stringy, and the tension of the pulse tube increases; in summer, it tends to be flooding, and the pulse tends to come and go abruptly; in fall, it tends to be floating, and the pulse can be clearly touched by lightly pressing the surface of the skin; in winter, it tends to be sinking, and it is not obvious by gently pressing, and the pulse can only be felt when it is heavily pressed. Generally speaking, Chinese medicine practitioners will take these factors into consideration when identifying diseases. In addition, the occurrence, development and change of diseases are seasonal; spring is good for warm diseases; summer is easy to heatstroke; fall has dryness; winter has frostbite. As a result, we need to make different dietary adjustments.

Speaking of emotions

To live a long and healthy life, it is important to have a clear mind. Tao Hongjing in the "health and longevity record" in the proposed: "the way of nourishing sex, not great sorrow and great sadness, this so-called can be neutralized, can be neutralized will be a long life".

Withdrawal of selfish desires

Nurturing the quiet, so that the body and mind are in the situation of all the rest of the mind, but also requires people to have noble sentiments, open-minded. Sun Simiao said: "people do not end eyebrow life, or cause premature death, all by not self-love and cherish, exhaustion of feelings and intentions, to invite fame and fortune. Therefore, those who are good at health care "do not draw on what they want", "have no delusional thoughts", "do not ask for more than what they want wherever they go", and "when they wake up, they want to talk about good things, and they do not want to think about money first". I am not a man of the world, but a man of the world.

Distant room

This refers to the moderation of sexual life. The growth and development of human beings depends on the kidney essence, the kidney essence is full of endless, the vitality of human life and the ability to resist disease. To protect the essence of the kidney, must be restrained sexual desire, if the greedy color is good, indulge in excessive desire, is bound to damage the essence of the body body folded life.

Suitable for the four seasons

People live in nature, in line with the seasonal climate is an important element of health science. Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals says: "Life is long, not short and continue, Bi its number, Bi number of services, care about the harm." The so-called harm, that is, not its time and its gas and cold, hot, dry, warm and other abnormal climate, Chinese medicine known as the "six evils".

Diet

The spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day, dietary disorders, injury to the spleen and stomach, will make people sick and premature aging. The "Neijing" on the harm of dietary indiscretion, there are "the birth of the Yin, this in the five flavors", "diet since the double, the stomach and intestines are injured", "more salt, then the pulse condensation sob color change, more bitter food, then the skin withered and hair decline! ......" and so on. Sun Simiao on the dietary taboos of the exposition more comprehensive, more scientific, in addition to "food can not be overfilled, make sure that the simple less", "it is always advisable to warm food", "it is always advisable to light sweet and light things" and other common sense, but also on the Dietary methods, dietary hygiene heavy description, such as "food should be cooked and chewed, raw food is not swallowed coarsely", "do not eat big words", "every food to hand Mo face and stomach", "do not eat raw vegetables, vegetables, vegetables, and vegetables, and do not eat raw food, and do not eat raw food. "Do not eat raw vegetables, raw rice, small beans, stale things, do not drink turbid wine", "must not eat raw viscous and slippery things" and so on, which is to avoid damage to the spleen and stomach as well as to prevent food poisoning, prevention of infectious diseases, and even get rid of the disease have a positive and important significance.

Often exercise

People are organic whole, often exercise will make energetic, healthy body. As early as in the Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo advocated exercise to strengthen the body to prevent disease. He pointed out that "the human body wants to get labor, shaking the grain gas to eliminate, blood circulation, disease shall not be born." Sun Simiao in the "Thousand Gold Formula" also said: "the way of nourishment, often want to small labor," "the body wants to always labor, but do not do more extreme," reminding people to move their muscles and bones in order to get rid of the disease and prolong life.

Shun sex

To live a long and healthy life, according to the age of the law of their own nourishment. Sun Simiao analyzed the elderly, said: "people over fifty years old, Yang years of decline, loss and day to day. The mind is gradually declining, forgetting the past and losing the future, and living in idleness, the plan to teach are not satisfactory. The sight and hearing are unstable, more retiring and less advancing, the sun and the moon are not equal, everything is scattered, the heart is bored, forgetfulness and anger, and the temperament is changed." This tells us that when a person enters old age, there will be a series of physiological and morphological changes, we have to love, considerate of the elderly, to follow their temperament to adjust, in order to facilitate their enjoyment of life.

Serving medicinal bait

Life in the world, enjoyment of different gifts, the situation of the disease is merciless, inevitably hurt. Therefore, taking medicinal bait is also one of the contents of health science. Ancient people attach importance to serving medicine bait to prevent and cure diseases, health and longevity, and formulated a lot of life-prolonging medicine bait, prescription. However, the health can not rely solely on the service bait, otherwise, "although often served with medicinal bait and do not know the art of nourishment, but also difficult to live long," "even if you serve the Jade liquid gold failed to prolong life".

Drinking medicinal wine

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says: "Summer March, this is called Fanxiu." The three months of summer are the season of prosperity and beauty for all things. The weather drops, the earth's qi rises, the qi of heaven and earth meets above and below, and plants blossom and bear fruit. Summer is fire, the five organs correspond to the heart, heart fire gram lung gold, so in the summer, people can properly eat more pungent things, eat less bitter things, help to replenish the lungs. Summer health to keep good sleep quality, sleep time in summer day is longer, so people's sleep quality should be maintained, medicinal wine to help sleep in this regard is through the research of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine research, their research that medicinal wine in some ways can regulate the physical aspects of the body, in the physical aspects of the regulation of medicinal wine can be soothing the pressure, tranquillize the spirit and replenish the blood, in the summer medicinal wine can reduce the irritability, to reduce summer In summer, medicinal wines can minimize the restlessness and reduce the uneasiness brought about by summer. In summer, the climate is hot and dry, and with the principle of cooling the hot and clearing the dry, clearing the dry and relieving the heat is the key to the summer. Medicinal wines enter the spleen and stomach in different directions to help reduce fire and inflammation. Medicinal wines are inherited from different theoretical doctrines. The choice of medicinal wines should be examined from an objective aspect and not blindly. You should pay more attention to the selection of medicinal wines for summer health maintenance. The medicinal wines sold on the market, such as "Miaoqin Medicinal Wine" and "Hongmao Medicinal Wine", are more trusted by the society. Currently, China's per capita GDP has exceeded 4,000 U.S. dollars and is rapidly advancing to a higher level. After people's needs in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation have been satisfied, they are bound to pay more attention to mental and health issues. In today's society, with the accelerated pace of life and the ever-changing living environment, the number of sub-healthy groups is increasing and public health problems are becoming more and more prominent. And health care is to cultivate vitality, prevent disease, and strive for a long and healthy life, all of which fit with people's current needs.

From the point of view of the needs of the whole society, in terms of professional health care services in China, Chinese medicine health care will certainly be the future development direction of the health care service industry. Chinese medicine health care in China has a long history of precipitation, its health care in a variety of ways, can be broadly divided into: food, medicine, acupuncture, massage, qigong five categories, in addition to psychological health and other methods. Of course, Chinese medicine health care also needs to target different genders, ages and seasons. More than 1/3 of people in China are in sub-healthy state, with the enhancement of people's awareness of health care, the market of TCM health industry will gradually develop. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, China's health industry, including health care industry, pharmaceutical industry and health-related industries, only accounts for 4%-5% of GNP, which is lower than that of many developing countries, while developed countries generally account for 15%. the scale of China's health industry is estimated to reach 2 trillion in 2013, and the demand at different levels, such as the demand for old age care, and health care demand, etc., is growing rapidly.

The main ways

The Chinese medicine health care mainly includes: meridian health care, physical health care, qigong health care, exercise health care, room health care, emotional health care, sleep health care, environmental health care, living health care, dietary health care, time health care, four seasons health care, recreational health care, parts of the body, medication health care, bathing health care, drug reduction health care, tranquility health care, yoga health care and other contents. One Sleep, Two Convenience, Three Diet. Chinese medicine health discussion topic is the organization of netizens and health care workers to research and study Chinese medicine health, the main purpose of carrying forward the knowledge of classic Chinese medicine, mining folk Chinese medicine prescription, promote Chinese medicine culture, expand the influence of Chinese medicine; introduction of folk Chinese medicine prescription, physician, knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture, enhance people's understanding of Chinese medicine. Introducing Chinese medicine objectively, fairly and popularly, respecting the understanding of Chinese medicine in different cultural backgrounds, and increasing people's correct understanding of Chinese medicine on the basis of equal exchange. Publishing and exchanging information on TCM, national policies, scientific research results, etc.

Specialty therapies

Specialty therapies in Chinese medicine and health care are divided into: cupping and gua sha qigong massage and medicinal diets

Acupuncture and moxibustion: Acupuncture and moxibustion: Acupuncture and moxibustion is the use of millimetre needles to be stabbed into the body of the patient according to certain acupoints and use of twisting and lifting and insertion of needles and other needling techniques to treat diseases. Moxibustion is the burning moxa to burn the skin according to certain points, the use of heat stimulation to treat the disease. Nowadays, it is often used in people's lives.

Cupping method: the ancient name "horn method". This is a kind of cup cans as a tool, through the heat to exhaust the air to produce negative pressure, so that sucked in the skin, resulting in a phenomenon of blood depression of a therapy. Ancient healers in the treatment of sores and abscesses with it to suck blood pus, and later expand the application of consumption, rheumatism and other internal diseases.

Massage: is based on the theory of Chinese medicine's internal organs, meridians and collaterals, by nature, it is a physical treatment. From the treatment of massage, can be divided into health massage, sports massage and medical massage.

Scraping: it is based on the theory of skin in Chinese medicine, with cow horn, jade and other tools in the skin related parts of the scraping, in order to achieve the dredging of meridians and collaterals, blood circulation and stasis of the purpose. Scraping can expand capillaries, increase sweat gland secretion, promote blood circulation, for high blood pressure, heat stroke, muscle aches and pains caused by wind-cold paralysis have immediate effect. Regular scraping, can play the role of adjusting the meridian qi, relieve fatigue, increase the role of immune function.

Qigong: is a kind of breathing adjustment, physical activity adjustment and consciousness adjustment (regulating breath, regulating shape, regulating mind) as a means to strengthen the body, prevention and treatment of disease, fitness and prolongation of life, the development of potential for the purpose of a kind of physical and mental exercise methods.

Medicine diet originated in China's traditional diet and traditional Chinese medicine diet culture, medicinal diet is in Chinese medicine, culinary science and nutritional theory under the guidance of the strict dietary formula, the Chinese medicine and some of the medicinal value of the food with the combination of China's unique dietary cooking techniques and modern scientific methods produced by a certain color, aroma, taste, shape of the delicious food.

Myth 1: Seeing Chinese medicine is eating Chinese medicine

Correct: Western medicine treats the body as a machine, a part is broken, replace and repair it. And Chinese medicine to the body and spirit as a whole, yin and yang two qi opposing and interdependent, so Chinese medicine in the treatment of disease, often by letting the body to restore the dynamic balance of yin and yang state, discomfort will be cured. Therefore, it is more advantageous in prevention. And the pathway to adjustment includes not only internal Chinese medicine, but also topical application of medicines, meditation, aromatherapy, medicinal baths, and psychotherapy.

Myth 2: Health is for the elderly

Correct: Don't ever think that health is only for longevity, or that it is only for the elderly. The main purpose of health care is to harmonize yin and yang, circulate qi and blood, keep the body healthy, and at the same time improve the ability of mental adjustment. Good skin is also a matter of nourishment. For people of all ages, health care is a necessity.

Myth #3: You need to go to the hospital for treatment of minor discomforts

Positive: Frequent visits to the doctor and taking medication will reduce the body's own immune system. As the saying goes, "medicines are poisonous" and there are side effects of taking medicines. The body's immune function has a strong anti-virus ability and self-recovery ability, so to be healthy, enhance their own resistance is the first. Knowing some of the home of the Chinese medicine maintenance knowledge, not only can prevent the problem before it occurs, even if there is a slight discomfort, can also be self-nurturing to restore health.

Related Books

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Title: Traditional Chinese Medicine Author: Zhang Yinsheng, Shen Ning, Wang Yanping

Publisher: China Economic Press

Publication Date: 2010-4-1

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Page: 16

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Contents

"Chinese Medicine Nutrition" is by the famous Chinese medicine clinician Shen Shaogong chief physician personally, Zhang Yinsheng chief physician, Dr. Shen Ning two disciples and Wang Yanping associate researcher, drawing on the Shanghai Dafang Berry Ledge Shen's women's department of prevention of disease and treatment of experience, combined with successive generations of Chinese medicine theory of health care, highlighting the idea of Chinese medicine treatment of the unhealed compiled and become. The book is divided into two parts, the first part of the longevity of the way of health, introduces the dietary health, emotional health, body art health, four seasons of health and non-pharmacological therapies and other nine aspects; the next part of the health of the way of health, the introduction of the clinical common, the occurrence of coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancerous tumors and other nine kinds of illnesses.

The whole book not only has the art of health maintenance, more importantly, there are also methods of curing diseases, with acupuncture point diagrams. It is rich in content, practical and easy to learn, and is a must-have health maintenance tool book for families.

About the Author

Zhang Yinsheng, male, born in 1960, researcher, chief physician, Han nationality, Shaanxi Hancheng, graduated from Shaanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in July 1987, majoring in traditional Chinese medicine, and was awarded a bachelor's degree. He is a direct disciple of Dr. Shen Shaogong, a director of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the executive director of the Cardiology Branch of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine.　Adhering to Shen's academic thinking, diagnosis and treatment experience, he puts forward the academic point of view of "lack of yang, phlegm and turbidity", and emphasizes the unity of heaven and man in the treatment of clinical evidence, proper support of yang, expectoration of phlegm is the mainstay of the treatment of phlegm and silt, and the treatment of phlegm and silt together, and the addition and subtraction of the evidence. He has edited and published 18 academic works, including "Sun Simiao's Complete Book of Medicine", "Sun Yikui's Complete Book of Medicine", "Summary of Materia Medica", "Selected Cases of Shen Shaogong", "The Complete Collection of Treatments for Chinese Medicine's Heart Diseases", "Coronary Heart Disease", "Selected Cases of Famous Doctors of Typhoid Fever", "Gastritis and Peptic Ulcers", "Diagnostic Effectiveness Criteria for Chinese Medicine's Heart Diseases and Standard of Medicines", and has published more than 10 academic papers, among which "Sun Yikui's Complete Book of Medicine" was awarded the "Chinese Academy of Chinese Medicine" and "The Complete Book of Medicine". Sun Yikui's Complete Book of Medicine" was awarded the second prize of "Excellent Academic Works of Chinese Medicine Society of China".　He specializes in the treatment of difficult and complicated diseases in internal medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface 2

Foreword

Previously, the way of longevity

Chapter 1: Dietary regimen

Chapter 2: Physical health

Chapter 3: Four seasons

Chapter 4: Room and house

Chapter 5: Bath therapy

The sixth chapter is a book on the health of the human body. Chapter 6: Gong Methods

Chapter 7: Mental Health

Chapter 8: Acupuncture and Medicine

Chapter 9: Health Care

Next Chapter: The Way of Health

Chapter 1: Coronary Heart Disease

Chapter 2: High Blood Pressure

Chapter 3: Stroke Disease

Chapter 4: Diabetes Mellitus

Chapter 5: Coughing and Asthma

Chapter 7: The Way of Health

Chapter 8: The Way of Health

Chapter 6 Stomach Disease

Chapter 7 Insomnia Disease

Chapter 8 Gynecological and Pediatric Diseases

Chapter 9 Cancer and Tumor Disease

Speaking of Health

Contents:

Speaking of Health from Head to Toe is presented by Prof. Qu Limin, an expert in Chinese medicine and culture, and it's Prof. Qu Limin's most systematic, complete, and insightful program in the field of health care. The program is the most systematic, complete and profound work of Prof. Qu Limin in the field of health care. Based on her profound knowledge of Chinese studies and extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine and culture, Prof. Qu Limin explains and analyzes life in an easy-to-understand and humorous way, starting from common health problems in daily life and providing a multi-dimensional and cross-cultural exposition from illnesses, causes of illnesses to methods of health maintenance.

In the program, Prof. Qu Limin points out the common but unappreciated bad habits, misconceptions and the simple path to health: eat well, sleep well, don't get angry and do more exercise.

The Treatise on Typhoid Fever

The Treatise on Typhoid Fever, written by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical doctor of the Han Dynasty, is known as one of the four classics of ancient Chinese medicine, along with the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the Canon of Difficulties, and the Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica, with the identification of evidence and the application of treatment as its soul. The whole book *** 10 volumes, 22 articles, 397 law, excluding repetition *** 112 prescriptions, focusing on the human body to feel the wind and cold evil caused by a series of pathological changes and dialectical treatment methods.

The book will be divided into the evidence of the sun, yangming, shaoyang, taiyin, syncope, shaoyin six, that is, the so-called "six meridians"; and according to the human body's resistance to disease strength and weakness, the disease of the situation of the advance and retreat of the slow and urgent and other factors, will be the evolution of external diseases in the process of the performance of a variety of evidence summarized in the symptomatology, the site of the lesion, the damage to the internal organs, cold and heat tendency, The Chinese medicine has a lot to do with diseases and aging. Chinese medicine in the long-term struggle with disease and aging, found a lot of simple and easy to implement a good recipe for longevity.

The head is the capital of the essence of the day comb five hundred to get rid of the disease

The head is the capital of the essence of the human body of the important 12 meridians and more than 40 large and small acupuncture points, as well as more than ten special stimulation area are gathered in the head. With a wooden comb or bone comb instead of a small silver needle, these points and meridians for the so-called acupuncture massage or stimulation, you can remove the disease fitness. Combing the head is indeed a positive maintenance of the human body essence, gas, God's simple and easy to implement the longevity of health care countermeasures.

The soles of the feet for the second heart, often rubbing the Yongquan benefit health

Chinese medicine believes that more than 60 acupuncture points on the feet and the five viscera and six organs of the 12 meridians have a close connection, it is full of reflex zones related to the organs of the body. But because the bottom of the foot is far from the heart, low resistance, is the body's innate weakness, objectively for the invasion of cold and dampness to provide favorable conditions, so that the health of the feet than other parts of the body is particularly important. Often warm bath after rubbing the Yongquan point, can remove the disease and prolong life.

Three hundred mouths of saliva, you live to ninety-nine

The Chinese medicine believes that the saliva is the essence of the human body, stored in the Dantian, and then the Jin Dan, then into the essence of the gas, play and spleen and stomach, moistening orifices, moisturize the limbs of the five viscera, strong kidneys, slippery joints, and benefit the brain and marrow role. So often swallow saliva is a certain reason.

Daily summary of the Valley Road one hundred times, the treatment of disease and prolonged life

Gu Dao, also known as the anus. The handful of upward contraction is also. In layman's terms, it is to do the action of contracting the anus. Sun Simiao in the "pillow in the square" in the advice of the world "Valley Road should always handful", that the muscles around the anus should always be in motion, in order to maintain health and fitness, especially for the prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids have a special efficacy.

Knocking more than three hundred towards the end of the day, seven old and eighty teeth do not fall

Knocking, that is, with the upper and lower teeth rhythmically and repeatedly knock each other a kind of self-care regimen. Chinese medicine believes that frequent knocking can strengthen the kidneys, balance the yin and yang, dredge the blood, so that the local meridian smooth, slow down the aging.

Hand rubbing the abdomen for a hundred times, through and blood benefit Shen Yuan

Rubbing the abdomen, that is, back and forth with the hand massaging the abdomen, including the abdominal wall, abdominal cavity, and internal organs of a health care method. Chinese medicine believes that the abdomen for the body's five viscera and six organs of the Palace City, the origin of yin and yang qi and blood. Diligent kneading the abdomen, that can adjust the spleen and stomach, through and blood, replenish the divine element, the perfumed kidney essence, enrichment of the five organs, drive away all the evils of the external senses, clear internal injuries of the hundred diseases.

People's kidney qi through the ear, tugging and rubbing the body

The Chinese medicine believes that the ear for the kidneys above the orifices, the ears of the spirit of the healthy kidney meridian through the kidneys, kidney qi is sufficient, the kidney essence is full, the hearing is sensitive. Tugging, massaging, rubbing and pinching the ears is actually a form of physical stimulation of the ears.

Fatigue and health stretching, blood flow is the most high

The so-called stretching, that is, straightening the neck, lifting the arms, breathing, expanding the chest, stretching the waist, moving the joints, relaxation of the spine of the self-exercise.

Sit quietly and prolong life, adjusting the body, adjusting the interest rate plus adjusting God

Medical research shows that emotions and health are closely linked. Anyone who is emotionally optimistic and cheerful can make their internal organs function healthily and enhance the resistance to foreign diseases and evils, and at the same time in a calm emotional state, before engaging in sustained intellectual activities. Therefore, one of the ancient ways to regulate life is to be at ease and nourish the spirit. Regarding the phenomenon of life, there have always been different ways of talking about it, each with its own rationale and bias. "Life is in motion", in the literal sense, everything in the universe is in motion, and so is human life. "Life is in stasis" also has its own rationale, and here we are talking about life in balance.

①Environmental balance: All healthy and long-lived life must be in balance with the environment. To protect the environment suitable for human life, to create a small environment suitable for people to live. If people are out of balance with the environment, they will get sick and even cannot survive.

②Nutritional balance: to harmonize the five flavors, not partiality. Nutritional balance, in order to make a balanced development and growth.

③ Balance of movement and static: "Nei Jing" said: "lying down for a long time hurt the gas", "sedentary hurt meat" ...... to maintain health, we must do to have tension and relaxation, work and rest, movement and static Balance.

4 mental balance: emotion is the baton of life, mental collapse will lead to physical collapse. Anger and depression can make people sick.

5 Yin and Yang Balance: Everything has a yin and yang attribute, once the yin and yang are out of balance, people will get sick. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI NEIJING) says that: if the yin is negative, then the yang will be sick; if the yang wins, then the yin will be sick; if the yang wins, then the heat will be hot; if the yin wins, then the cold will be cold; if the yin is deficient, then the yang will be hyperactive; if the yang is deficient, then the yin will be abundant.

It can be said that "life lies in balance" and imbalance makes you sick to the point of death.