Regarding health preservation, there is a long record in Huangdi Neijing. When doctors must read it, they even put forward that "health preservation must first tonify the kidney, which means nourishing life". 、
According to common sense, the importance of heart, brain and other organs is self-evident, so why should health care put kidney in the first place?
From the perspective of modern medicine alone, the kidney has the function of excreting metabolites and regulating endocrine, and its importance is far from reaching the point where nourishing the kidney means nourishing life.
But here you need to be clear, in fact, Chinese medicine and western medicine say that kidneys are very different. The kidney mentioned by Chinese medicine is the embodiment of function. Kidney governs storing essence, water and qi. Its body combines bones to produce marrow, its flowers are in hair, its orifices are ears and yin, it is the dirty of fire and water, and it is the "congenital foundation". Not equal to the kidney of modern medicine.
There is a life gate in the kidney, and the kidney controls the fire and water of the life gate. Mingmen Mingmen, as the name implies, is the door of life. There are jing yuan, Yuan Qi and Shen Yuan in the door of life. These three "magic weapons" are the driving force of life activities, and their importance is obvious.
Kidney is the root of yin and yang.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the overall concept, and kidney is the foundation of yin and yang, which is closely related to heart, liver, spleen and lung.
Heart-kidney intersection
"Huangdi Neijing" said, "Ascension has fallen, and the fall is called heaven; Those who have fallen have risen, and those who have risen call the land. The weather drops, the air flows to the ground, the ground air rises, and the sky air rises. "
Liver and kidney homology
The relationship between liver and kidney is called "homology of ethyl and decyl" in traditional Chinese medicine.
As far as the five elements are concerned, the liver (five elements belong to wood, B wood) is the son of water, the kidney (cassia seed water) is the mother of wood, and kidney yin can nourish liver yin, so we often have patients with liver and kidney deficiency, and there are few patients with simple liver yin deficiency or kidney yin deficiency.
From the functional point of view, the kidney governs the storage and the liver governs the drainage, and the two restrict and complement each other.
Combination of spleen and kidney
Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, which can transport Shui Gu's delicate and nutritious kidney; Kidney is the congenital foundation, and kidney yin and kidney yang can contribute to the transportation and transformation of spleen, so they are mutually beneficial.
Lung-kidney interaction
Lung (five elements belong to gold) and kidney are mother and child. On the one hand, water can produce gold, on the other hand, kidney is the foundation of yin and yang, and gold can also produce water. The two complement each other.
Nourishing kidney in winter
Seeing that the cold winter is coming, the theory of four qi regulating the spirit in Huangdi Neijing has been discussed in detail, with the emphasis on tonifying kidney, storing essence and keeping out the cold. Nourishing the kidney is one of the important methods of keeping in good health in winter.
Nourishing kidney
In winter health, the first thing is to tonify the kidney.
Improper kidney tonification leads to numerous diseases.
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It is cold in winter, and cold is yin evil, which is easy to hurt Yang. Kidney yang is the basis of human yang, which plays a warming and biochemical role in viscera. If kidney yang is insufficient, there will be symptoms such as fatigue, cold waist and knees, cold limbs, unfavorable urination or frequent urination, so kidney yang should be protected first in winter. In addition, we should also control sexual intercourse and preserve kidney essence; Take medicine to recuperate, tonify kidney and replenish essence.
Soaking feet with some warm drugs in winter can play the role of expelling cold and keeping warm, encouraging Yang Qi, and inducing heat to descend, which is very beneficial to Yang Qi's diseases of deficiency cold and yin cold in the lower body.
Moxibustion is the best health preserving method for tonifying kidney.
Moxibustion is a kind of acupuncture therapy. Moxibustion has a certain curative effect on cold and heat deficiency and excess, and its mechanism lies in the role of moxibustion in dredging meridians. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, moxibustion is the strongest method to tonify kidney. It has no toxic or side effects, and directly acts on human kidney acupoints, and the effect is even immediate.
"Huangdi Neijing" has an image metaphor for kidney: "Kidney is a strong official with clever tricks."
"Being a strong official" is, to put it bluntly, a strongman. In ancient times, when fighting, there were usually three people standing on the chariot. In ancient times, there was a statue on the left, so the monarch or general was on the left, driving in the middle, and the "strong official" was on the right. This "strong official", that is, Hercules, is to protect the monarch or general, that is, to protect people's hearts. Generally speaking, if you are sick, it may be that there is something wrong with the function of the kidney to protect the heart.
In addition to protecting the monarch, Hercules has another function, which is to contribute to the war. Human strength comes from the kidney, that is, the waist. Whether a person is strong or not depends on whether his waist is strong or not.
In addition to being "physically strong", he also said that the kidney is "excellent in acting". What is "skillful acting"? On the surface, it means that a person is smart and can do anything. But "Ji Qiao" has a deeper meaning, that is, creating everything and gestating life. Kidney can breed life, because kidney stores essence, which is one of the most important physiological functions of kidney.
"Kidney Qi" refers to the qi transformed by kidney essence, which reflects the functional activities of the kidney and is particularly important for human life activities. If the kidney qi is insufficient, it will not only lead to premature aging and death, but also lead to various diseases, such as cold corresponding to the five elements of the kidney, yang which is most likely to damage the kidney, and cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent urination, impotence, nocturnal emission and so on.
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "kidney qi" is the essence of kidney, which reflects the functional activities of kidney. Su Wengu's Theory of Naivety points out that women are seven years old and men are eight years old, and all parts of the body are promoted because of their strong kidney qi. Women are about forty-nine years old, men are about sixty-four, and they are aging due to the decline of kidney qi.
Which acupoints are the most obvious for tonifying kidney?
1, Zusanli
Positioning: anterolateral calf, 3 inches under the nose of calf, and a horizontal finger (middle finger) from the front edge of tibia.
2. Sanyinjiao
Positioning: the inside of the calf, 3 inches above the ankle tip of the medial foot and behind the medial edge of the tibia.
3. Shenque
Location: Located in the middle of abdomen and navel.
4. Qi Hai
Location: Subumbilical 1.5 inch on the midline of abdomen.
Note: Use it with caution for people with yin deficiency, and it is forbidden for pregnant women. The general air sea is spring moxibustion. In Neijing, "Spring is March, which means Chen Sheng, heaven and earth are born, and everything is glorious." The sea of qi is the sea of qi, so moxibustion should be based on the timing of its spring birth at this time to help nourish qi, drive away the old yin and lay the foundation for the next Yuan Dynasty to adapt to the length of summer.
5. Guan yuan
Location: The midline of abdomen is 3 inches below umbilicus. 、
6. Shenshu
Orientation: waist, below the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, with lateral opening 1.5 inch. Parallel to the navel.
7. Taixi
Positioning: located in the depression between the medial foot, the posterior part of the medial malleolus and the heel tendon. That is, in the depression between the medial malleolus of the foot and the achilles tendon. Left and right symmetry, that is, two
These wonderful methods of Taoist health preservation also have the function of tonifying kidney.
1, rub your ears
Recommended index:
Massage auricle can adjust the function of kidney.
Rub the auricle with hot palm, then rub the auricle with thumb and forefinger for 3 minutes, and then alternately pull the upper part of the opposite auricle through the top of the head with both hands 12~ 18 times.
2. Knead your waist
Recommended index:
The waist is the kidney house, and stimulating Shenshu and Mingmen points can strengthen the waist and kidney.
Rub your hands on the bilateral Shenshu points (65,438+0.5 inches below the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra), and then rub the waist left and right or up and down with Mingmen points (waist, posterior midline, depression below the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra) and Shenshu points as the center.
Step 3 wipe dantian
Recommended index:
This abdomen is the lower abdomen, which is most closely related to human life activities, and can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, soften the liver and tonify the kidney.
Rub your hands hot, put the palm of your right hand on the outer side of the right pubic tubercle, at the "Qi Chong" point about 2 inches away from the midline, and move the palm of your left hand around the umbilicus along the peristalsis direction of the large intestine.