Of course, some problems have been supplemented by later doctors, but some viewpoints are always unconvincing. Take five animals corresponding to the five elements as an example. Neijing records that oriental blue enters the liver, enlightens the eyes, and hides essence in the liver. Its disease is horrible, its taste is sour, its vegetation is similar, and its livestock and chickens are also. . . .
Therefore, it can be understood from this passage that the East corresponds to spring, liver and chicken. Five flavors of acid.
There are two questions here: First, does sourness really correspond to the liver? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that everything is homogeneous with the same spirit. The sunrise in the east, the gradual appearance of the sun spirit, spring, the revival of everything and the germination of grass are also images of the rising of the sun spirit, so the east corresponds to spring. The liver of the five internal organs is responsible for hair growth and nursed back to health, and it extends outward like a branch in spring, so it is right that the liver is the qi of spring.
However, the release of liver qi in spring is a characteristic of rising, while the sour taste, as everyone who has studied Chinese medicine knows, is convergent and inward. Contrary to the smell of spring. On the other hand, pungent taste, pungent substance, main dispersing and main rising yang in the five flavors correspond to liver qi and spring qi. Why did you suddenly come here and not follow the previous logic summary? Later generations of physicians also have many explanations, but I think it is still a bit far-fetched. Do you think that our traditional Chinese medicine culture is inferior to western science in daring to question and falsify some previous authorities or classics?
Why does the second chicken correspond to spring? Just now, I felt that I had some doubts about the sour taste of spring, and someone would definitely give an example to refute it. For example, it is mentioned in "Five flavors of Lingshu" that the five grains taste sour, and the liver is taken first. . But there is also a record: five animals: sweet cow, sour dog, salty pig, bitter sheep and pungent chicken. Then at this time, you will see that the chicken is spicy and the dog is sour. And according to the correspondence mentioned in the classic above, the chicken should correspond to the lung. Autumn, the west, is not the east corresponding to spring and liver. Because according to the records in the above classics, pungent enters the lungs and sour enters the liver.
Third, in the Eight Diagrams, deviation from hexagrams corresponds to the south, and four images correspond to Suzaku. Huanglian Ejiao Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases has also been verified in the auxiliary prescription. One of the ingredients is black-bone chicken. It's egg yolk, which is why it's suzaku soup. So according to this correspondence, the chicken seems to correspond to the south and the heart.
To sum up, in fact, I think it is just like discussing whether there are some common words or typos in Lu Xun's articles. Everyone has a different understanding of himself. However, Chinese medicine should actually belong to an empirical medicine. Many times, there is no need for so many theories, and curative effect is the first criterion for testing correctness.