If you have paid attention to the pulse-cutting technique of Chinese medicine, you will know that Chinese medicine pays attention to "male left and female right" when pulse-cutting. Male patients must feel the pulse of their left hand, while female patients must feel the pulse of their right hand.
In traditional Chinese medicine and the ancient people's health care thoughts, there are not only the concept of "male left and female right", but also the saying of "male eight and female seven". This is an ancient medical book in China, which reveals the law of men's and women's life, trying to prove that people's life span actually has secrets to follow. So, does the statement of "eight men and seven women" make sense?
In traditional Chinese medicine, "male left and female right" is about yin and yang and orientation. Eight men and seven women obviously correspond to numbers, that is, age. When it comes to Chinese medicine, we can't do without Huangdi Neijing, an ancient medical book. Huangdi Neijing is not only a comprehensive medical work, but also the secret of health care for thousands of people in Qian Qian, China.
Then the expression "eight men and seven women" is the law of men's and women's life summarized by the ancients after long-term exploration of the process of human life.
Huangdi Neijing mentioned that the development, growth and decline of men and women in the process of life change are similar on the whole, but the age cycle of change is not consistent. For example, children grow up, boys change their teeth at the age of eight, and girls often change their teeth at the age of seven.
According to the Yellow Emperor's classic, women are seven years old and have longer teeth, while men are eight years old and have longer teeth. Then, from the beginning of tooth change, the change of women's body or life takes seven years as a cycle, while men take eight years as a cycle.
There are eight men and seven women. According to Huangdi's Neijing, from the age of eight, the male body changes once every eight years, while the female life changes once every seven years from the age of seven.
For example, "Men are 28 years old, so they can have children" and "Women are 27 years old, so they can have children". That is to say, when boys are 28 16 years old and girls are 27 14 years old, they begin to have fertility. Of course, this age of 16 and 14 is not an absolute value.
For example, some girls develop early at the age of 12 and 13. Although her age is not 24 or 74 years old as mentioned in the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Medicine, in fact, her physiological age has advanced to the "Erqi" stage, which is what we usually call "precocious puberty".
According to the theory of "eight men and seven women", men are fully mature at the age of 3824, and women are at the age of 372 1 year, which is also the best age to get married and have children. This good physical condition can be maintained until the fifth life cycle, that is, men are 5840 years old and women are 5735 years old.
At this time, both men and women, the curve of life state began to go down. The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic says: Men's kidney qi fails in May and August, and women's faces start to burn in May and July, and their hair begins to fall out.
Therefore, men begin to show signs of baldness at the age of 40, while women's faces will gradually lose luster after the age of 35. Since then, her physical condition has been declining year by year. After July 7, August 8, the man's reproductive function will also be lost, and she will officially enter her old age.
Therefore, referring to our own age and physical changes, we can see that the ancients had mastered the laws of life as early as 2,000 years ago, and many ancient ways of keeping in good health were developed based on these laws, which still have great reference value today.