What is the core idea of Chinese medicine

1 Qi Tong

1.1 Qi Qi is the material carrier in Chinese medicine, and in ancient times, Qi was considered to be the most basic substance constituting the world. Zhuang Zi said in "Knowing the North", "One qi passes through heaven and earth." It means that everything in the universe is due to the gathering of qi, which can be "big and unassuming, going and not returning," and "as if the river and Han and no pole." Zhi Bei You" also said, "people this life, the gathering of gas is also, gathering is life, scattered is death." "What is beautiful is miraculous, and what is evil is stinking and rotten; stinking and rottenness are reified into miraculousness, and miraculousness is reified into stinking and rottenness." This is also similarly recorded in the "Examination of Medical Formulas":" "The gas, the beginning of all things is also funded, the sky is not enough to grow and nourish all things without this gas, and people do not have life without this gas. The Laws of the Medical Doctrine - Treatise on the Atmosphere also talks about: "When qi gathers, the form survives; when qi disperses, the form dies." Zhang Jiebin in the "Class Classic with Wings - Medical Yi Yi" talked about: "The way of heaven and earth, with the two qi of yin and yang and the creation of all things; the reason for life, with the two qi of yin and yang and the long nourishment of all skeletons." Su Wen - Po Life Full Form Theory recorded: "Heaven restores the earth and carries all things, and nothing is more precious than man, who is born with the qi of heaven and earth, and is formed by the laws of the four seasons." "Mrs. born in the ground, hanging in the sky, heaven and earth together gas, the fate of the said people". All of the above records show that in Chinese medicine, the meaning of gas as the most basic substance that constitutes life. Metabolism is the basic characteristic of life. Human life and death by the gas, so the gas is to maintain the material basis of life activities, this life-sustaining material - gas, is the movement of the fine material entities, all things are the result of gas movement. Therefore, "Suwen - to the true to the great theory" said: "This is the heaven, the gas of heaven; this is the earth, the gas of the earth. Heaven and earth together gas, six sections divided and all things are born." Qi is often in the metabolic process of continuous self-renewal and self-replication. And through the elevation and movement of qi, it causes things to develop and change. Su Wen - six micro purpose theory" said: "gas lift, heaven and earth of the more use also ...... rise has descended, descending for the sky; descending has risen, risen for the ground. Weather down, air flow in the ground; ground gas rise, gas in the sky. Therefore, the high and low call, lift and cause, and change." This kind of changes arising from the movement of qi is called qi chemistry. In Su Wen - Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun, "Taste returns to form, form returns to qi, qi returns to essence, essence eats qi, form eats taste, qi generates essence, qi generates form ...... essence turns into qi." This is the best summary of the process of qi transformation.

Specifically to the movement of the five viscera and six bowels, but also through the gas, which is both a material carrier and movement carrier to realize. The five viscera hide the essence, it is appropriate to rise; the six bowels of the transmission of chemicals, it is appropriate to fall. In terms of the five viscera, the heart and lungs in the upper, in the upper descending; liver and kidneys in the lower, in the lower descending; spleen and stomach in the center, through the connection between the upper and lower, for the elevation of the pivot of the entry and exit. In terms of the six internal organs, the transmission of chemical substances without hiding, to pass for the use of descending for the smooth. In the process of digestion, absorption and excretion of dregs of food and drink, the overall process is descending, descending in the rise. As the "Suwen - Linglan secret canon theory" said "the spleen and stomach, the official of the granary, the five flavors out of it. The large intestine is the official of conduction, and the changes come out. The small intestine is the official of the receptivity, and the chemical substances come out of it. ...... The San Jiao is the official of decision-making, and the watercourses come out. The bladder, the state of the official, fluid hidden, gas can be out." Therefore, the stomach main acceptance of putrefaction, drink food for preliminary digestion; bile storage and excretion of bile, in order to help the digestion of food and drink; small intestine subject to Sheng化物, drink food for further digestion, urination and other clear and turbid, absorption of the essence of micro- and in the role of gastric descending, will be the food residue down the large intestine; large intestine dominant changes, absorption of part of the water in the food residue, the formation of stool, and discharged from the body; the bladder storage of urine, gasification and urine The bladder stores urine, vaporizes it and expels it from the body. The bladder stores the urine and qi and expels it from the body. It is the kidney qi that dominates the qi of the bladder. Therefore, an abnormality in the qi of the kidneys can lead to an abnormality in the bladder's storage and discharge of urine. If the bladder qi is unfavorable, there can be adverse urination or retention of urine. It can be seen that only the normal function of the internal organs, the lifting and lowering of the life-sustaining gas can be smooth, so that no pathological state will occur. The human body is also from this gasification movement to continuously obtain the required nutrients and energy, and at the same time discharged useless or harmful metabolic products, so that life can continue.

From this, the normal physiological activities of the human body is built on the basis of the movement of gas conversion. Viscera gasification function of the normal lift, in and out of order, in order to maintain the "Qingyang out of the upper orifices, turbid yin out of the lower orifices; Qingyang hair coupling, turbid yin walk the five viscera; Qingyang real limbs, turbid yin return to the six bowels" of the normal physiological activities. To summarize, the gas exists in the human body life always, the essence of life is the gas lift in and out of the movement.

1.2 Tong Chinese medicine uses qi as the carrier, and chooses "Tong" as the state of normal existence between and within everything in space and time, and considers the human body to be internally connected, the human body to heaven and earth, and the human body to be connected to the spirit. In Lu Shi Chun Qiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi), it is said, "Flowing water does not rot, and the household pivot does not become a molehill, so does movement. The same is true of form and qi. If the form does not move, the essence does not flow, and if the essence does not flow, the qi is depressed. The head is swollen and windy ......". It is believed that the failure of essence to flow within the human body causes various diseases. For example, qi stagnation, blood stasis, and cold condensation are all causes of obstacles to circulation, and these often become the root cause of disease, such as pain, a major cause of pain is "failure to circulate is pain." Su Wen - Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun said, "Weather passes through the lungs, earth qi passes through the quarrels, wind qi passes through the liver, thunder qi passes through the heart, grain qi passes through the spleen, and rain qi passes through the kidneys." This then refers to the human body inside and outside of the interconnection, can be referred to as a pathway, as if the meridian theory, there is no real metaphysical substance, but by analogy to take the image of the human body and the natural dimension together, the internal organs and the outside world one by one, thus for a better grasp of the internal organs of the law of the movement, and the formation of a rough set of theory based on the Chinese medicine prescription evidence system, is the carrier of the inheritance of experience of traditional Chinese medicine.

At the same time, the human body is also categorized as one, which is the internal communication, such as lung and large intestine, kidney and bladder, spleen and stomach, heart and small intestine are all into the relationship. And "Su Wen - six micrography" recorded: "ascending and descending, descending is called the sky; descending and ascending, ascending is called the earth. Weather down, the air flow in the ground; ground gas rise, gas in the sky", referring to the relationship between the heart and the kidney, the heart fire down in the kidney, kidney water to help the heart, arriving at the heart and kidney intersection is also known as "water and fire". And when the two do not pass, such as the heart fire can not be down to warm the kidneys, kidney water can not be up to the heart, the physiological function between the two will lose coordination and lead to the emergence of a series of pathological manifestations, which is known as "the heart and kidneys do not communicate". Therefore, the usual so-called "traffic heart and kidney", "liver and qi" and other treatments, ephedra soup, half-summer laxative heart soup and other intentions, all reflecting the Chinese medicine to "through" this state of equilibrium as a way to achieve "yin and yang secrecy". To achieve the realm of "yin and yang secret". In fact, the meaning of "through" is not the only one, such as the "Ling Shu - Ben Shen" said: "The liver hides blood, the blood sheds the soul"; "The spleen hides camp, camp sheds the meaning"; "The heart hides veins, the veins sheds the God"; "The Lung hides Qi, and Qi sheds the Prana"; "The Kidney hides Essence, and Essence sheds the Chi". This, in turn, is the connection between the body and the spirit. And "there are all internal must be shaped in the external, there are all external must be in the internal" This is the theoretical basis for the creation of the four diagnostic, precisely also the meaning of the pass.

2 People and

2.1 People The core object of Chinese medicine is human beings, and the whole of human life is often divided into two parts: "form" and "spirit", i.e., the body of matter and the use of spirit, which are complementary and indispensable. It is precisely for this reason that, in the philosophy of Chinese medicine, the human body is indivisible, and the study of the human body must be elaborated in a holistic manner, such as Yu Yunxiu's attack on the unscientific nature of Chinese medicine's acupoints, stating, "The study of acupoints, the Japanese Dr. Konosuke Miura has been for it. The Japanese Dr. Konosuke Miura has done the study of acupuncture points by laying out a dead body and calling on the famous acupuncturists in his country to identify the points with ink and perform a localized dissection. According to his report, said three or four out of ten to nerve trunks, two or three out of ten to blood vessels. [1] Because many concepts in Chinese medicine are sublimated into abstract concepts through the summary of experience, that is, "metaphysics is called the Way" meaning, which itself may not have a metaphysical material existence, and "metaphysical" experiments to confirm the If we use "metaphysical" experiments to prove the concept of "metaphysical", the result will be very puzzling. At the same time, Chinese medicine is often associated with all things, not only people and the natural environment, but also with the close relationship with the community. For example, "Su Wen - angry through the sky" in the road: "so the Yang Qi, a day and the main outside, Pingdan popularity, the day in the middle of the sun and the Yang Qi Long, the day west and the Yang Qi has been weak, the gas door is closed." Talked about the human body in a day of yin and yang changes. Therefore, according to traditional Chinese medicine, people should take the initiative to adapt to the environment, such as "Shou pro old age new book" pointed out that: "living room, must always be clean and elegant, summer is virtual spacious, winter is warm and dense."

And the spirit of the impact of the community, but also Chinese medicine is a regular consideration of the factors, so the "Suwen - on the ancient theory of truth" said: "calm and empty, the true gas from the spirit of the internal guard, the disease from the". In short, the different levels of Chinese medicine holistic view of people from the "metaphysical" point of view of the detailed analysis.

2.2 and Chinese medicine is y influenced by ancient philosophy, is the ancestors according to the "doctrine of yin and yang" this ancient Chinese simple theory of unity of opposites as the basis for the elaboration of all things in the world, the "Suwen - anger through the sky theory" said: "Yin and yang secret, the spirit is cured; yin and yang away from the decision, the essence is extinct. " That is, the yin gas and peace, yang qi solid and dense, yin and yang peace and coordination to maintain a relative balance, the body is healthy, happy spirit. Traditional Chinese medicine has always aimed to achieve dynamic balance, and the partial victory and decline of yin and yang are the scope of its diagnosis and treatment. Su Wen - to the true to the great theory" on the cloud: "carefully observe the yin and yang where the adjustment to the flat period", "Jin Gui Yao Liao - organs and meridians successive disease pulse evidence" also talked about: "virtual and real, make up for the lack of loss of surplus, is the meaning of the same." Indicates that the rule of law with complementary insufficient deficiency, the rule of law with diarrhea has more than the real evidence, is the correct method of treatment. Cheng Zhongling in the Qing Dynasty in the "medical understanding" in the "and" method of the eight major treatments, in this case, and the method refers to the "seven methods" in addition to the superposition of the many treatments. And as early as "Rituals - Zhongyong", there is a record: "To the neutralization and harmony, the status of heaven, all things are nurtured." Not only Chinese medicine, the Chinese nation is also a people who value harmony. In the clinical use of medication, it is very important to "to the neutral and" this purpose, "Su Wen - angry Tongtian theory of the chapter" has: "Therefore, the rigorous and five flavors, the bone is tender, gas and blood to flow, the coupling to the dense, such as this, then the bone to the essence of the careful road such as the law, long as there is a heavenly life." Once there is a partiality, as "Su Wen - five Tibetan generation of the chapter" said: "more food salty is the pulse coagulation weeping and change color; more food bitter is the skin haggard and hair pulling; more food Xin is the tendon anxious and claw withered; more food acid, the meat calloused and the lip mortgage; more food Gan is the pain of the bone and the hair fall. The physiology of the gas also care about "and". The Class Classic says: "The gas in people, and is positive, and not and is evil." Su Wen - Six Sections of Dirty Image Theory" says: "Gas and birth, fluid and liquid, God is born." The vital energy is abundant, it can send out the body, promote the operation of qi and blood, dominate the body viscera various functional activities, so that the essence of blood, blood, fluid biochemistry, so as to maintain the body's internal organs, the relative balance of the activities of the system and the body and the surrounding environment of the dynamic equilibrium. If the gas is not and, then all diseases from birth. Jingyue Encyclopedia" recorded: "Where the disease for the virtual for real, for cold for heat, to its lesions, can not be named, want to seek its own, it is enough to stop a gas is enough to carry on. Cover the gas is not adjusted, that is, where the disease is also." Therefore, "if the vital energy is stubborn, then the spirit will flourish without words. If the energy is slightly weak, then the spirit is slightly gone; the energy is very weak, then the spirit is all gone, and the spirit is gone, then the machine is resting."

Therefore, the idea of "and" through the whole of Chinese medicine treatment, if "through" is the way and method of Chinese medicine treatment, then "and" is the purpose of Chinese medicine treatment The idea of "harmony" runs through the whole treatment of Chinese medicine.