Yuanqi is a concept of traditional Chinese medicine, which has been circulated for more than two thousand years. To describe vitality in the language of modern western medicine, it should be said that everyone's vitality is different, and this vitality is a comprehensive index of the functions of various organs of the human body. Every organ function of human body has a health index, which includes: the best health index-online health index; The bottom health indicators-health indicators off the assembly line; And the threshold-that is, the value between the healthy upper line and the healthy lower line. The bigger the threshold, the stronger the adjustment ability of the representative. Generally speaking, the higher the health value, the stronger the health and vitality of people. If the health level is low and below the offline value, the human body will enter a sub-health state. In recent years, a new term-sub-health, which is called "deficiency" by Chinese medicine. Although there is no major disease in human organs, there are chronic discomfort symptoms, that is, although there is no disease, the function of human organs is not enough. This sub-health state is often caused by excessive mental stress, heavy ideological burden, excessive thinking and excessive loss of neuroendocrine system. According to the concept of traditional Chinese medicine, in a word: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise.
This sub-health state is also the "deficiency" of traditional Chinese medicine. It is characterized by its weakness of multi-system, multi-organ and multi-function. Rather than the shortcomings of a single system and a single organ.
Specifically, mental stress often leads to excessive weakness of nervous system. The initial symptoms are often: I really want to sleep, but the quality of sleep is not high. If I go bad, I will dream more and wake up easily; Further serious, it will lead to early awakening and short sleep time; When it is serious, it is easy to wake up. When you wake up more often in your dreams, you are prone to depression and schizophrenia.
The nervous system and endocrine system are a complete whole, and various symptoms of the nervous system often lead to endocrine disorders. Therefore, people with weak nervous system are often accompanied by dysmenorrhea, increased or decreased menstrual flow, dark menstrual color, early and delayed menstruation, which is often accompanied by various symptoms of irregular menstruation. Further aggravation will lead to uterine or ovarian lesions, and it is also prone to endocrine disorders such as acne, chloasma and rough skin.
Neuroendocrine disorder, conceptually speaking, belongs to kidney yin and kidney yang disorder. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney governs the bones and muscles, so there is often pain in the waist and knee joint. Overworked office workers are also prone to cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, thoracic vertebra pain and other diseases, such as kidney-yang deficiency, and they are prone to catching too much cold in winter. Such as kidney yin deficiency, dry mouth, ulcers and other symptoms.
Sub-health state, that is, the "deficiency" of Chinese medicine. Of course, there will be other manifestations of organ dysfunction, such as: weak spleen and stomach function, prone to abdominal distension, indigestion, constipation and other symptoms; If the lung function is weak, it is easy to produce symptoms such as pain, cold and cough, and rough skin. ...
This sub-health state, that is, lack of vitality, can not be treated with traditional tonic. Because they are not diseases caused by organ dysfunction. Their real reason is that the insufficiency of organ function leads to organ dysfunction. In other words, disorder is the real cause of sub-health and "virtual" state.
Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that "deficiency does not make up", and this is also the case. In this case, if you use astragalus, ginseng, angelica, licorice and other nourishing Chinese medicines. On the contrary, it will lead to imbalance. The manifestations are: the deficiency fire is aggravated, the nerves are extremely excited, the heartbeat is easy to accelerate, and the phenomenon of dreaminess is increasing.
Western medicine focuses on treating diseases and eliminating diseases in the body, while Chinese medicine focuses on nourishing and conditioning. Therefore, the best way for sub-health state, deficiency symptoms and deficiency of vitality is TCM conditioning, not treatment.
Of course, cold ginseng such as Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Radix Scrophulariae and Radix Pseudostellariae can not be used to replenish vitality, which will make the weak body weaker and increase dampness and coldness. Ginseng, red ginseng and codonopsis pilosula cannot be used as tonics, so there will be a situation of "deficiency without tonic". Causes symptoms such as excessive internal heat, excitement and insomnia. In order to replenish vitality, you need to replenish Shen Yuan.