You know, our body has a self-regulating system, which is called "Yin Pingyang Secret" in Chinese medicine, which means the balance of Yin and Yang. How to ensure this balance? There is such a system in our body, called autonomic nervous system, which is composed of sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system.
For example, sympathetic nerve, when the human body encounters stress, such as an emergency, its heart rate will accelerate, blood vessels will contract, pores will open, people will sweat, and people will be nervous to deal with unexpected things.
Parasympathetic nervous system can make people in a quiet state, the heart rate will slow down, the pores will close, and people will enter a quiet state of sleep. Then these two kinds of body regulation systems are interactive, and they are automatic and intelligent, which allows us to adjust independently in different situations. This adjustment process is rhythmic adjustment.
For example, people should adapt to the four seasons of Yin and Yang, to the changes of regions, to the changes of external hot and cold temperatures, and to some bad external environment, such as the social environment around us and some bad information stimulation from family environment.
Therefore, the purpose of this regulation process is to constantly adjust within a normal range and a predictable range. However, we will have such a situation, that is, excessive supervision. When you exceed the threshold range of some stimuli, we can't adjust it, or your threshold will become narrow because of some special situations and special disease States, and you can't adjust it.
If you encounter a stimulus, it will be out of your control immediately. When this happens, we will not only have emotional changes, but also some cognitive emotional abnormalities, as well as excessive sweating, fast or slow heart rate, arrhythmia, or abnormal fluctuations in people's sleep.
So for this kind of situation, it is difficult for us to adjust ourselves. Moreover, because some drug-induced treatments are often one-way, although we can achieve a balance with various drugs, its side effects are often obvious. Therefore, some modern drug treatments are not our first choice, unless they are very serious and have reached the category of mental illness.
So what about some patients with abnormal self-regulation function? Is that he often has some special, inexplicable, seemingly serious reactions. For example, you can see that some of my patients burp when touched, and some patients feel that their bodies are bubbling outward.
Do you think this kind of self-conscious symptom can be treated with drugs? And often no obvious reason can be found. Acupuncture plays a unique role in this kind of diseases, the so-called intractable diseases. Because we have some specific parts in the body, we can adjust special acupoints, and through this stimulation, we can adjust the autonomic nervous system of the human body. For example, let's inhibit sympathetic response, stimulate parasympathetic response or inhibit parasympathetic response to stimulate sympathetic response, so as to achieve the balance between sympathetic response and parasympathetic response, and between yin and yang. So such a stimulating method, I think, is very unique in acupuncture. If you master such stimulation methods and have such diagnosis and treatment ideas, you will achieve particularly effective and even magical results for some diseases that are particularly difficult to treat, particularly repeated, and there is really no good treatment.
So I once treated a very interesting case:
The patient's health was actually not very good before his wife got pregnant. Because of an accidental opportunity, he came to me, and the effect was not bad. Later, he became interested in learning Chinese medicine, and then he began to learn Chinese medicine, so we had such a fate.
This fate is too deep, and the time span is a bit big, because I was not in good health before, and I felt a little disgusting. Then in the first stage, he couldn't speak, and normal communication was a luxury for them at that time. His inability to speak is not that he has a sore throat, but that he has no strength to speak.
In the second stage, you can't walk or stand.
In the third stage, I said I couldn't walk and talk, and then I was short of breath and chest tightness. At this time, I remembered the time when my wife worked in the company. At ten o'clock in the morning, she just sat down for five minutes after the meeting. The phone said "come back early". It was already bad then. At that time, she quit her job and then concentrated on her illness at home. At that time, she asked for leave from the company and said what was wrong. Nobody said anything about it. Finally, it can be summed up in a name, autonomic nervous system disorder.
On the day of acupuncture, he told me that he felt his chest suddenly relaxed. We did a course of treatment for ten times, and then after the first two times, we suddenly found that we could go out for dinner with our friends, and he could follow us all the way and always participate in it. Although I haven't said much, it's definitely an earth-shaking change. After that, they went to Jiuzhai and accepted the test at an altitude of more than 4000 meters. They think this is absolutely unimaginable before, so sometimes life gives us a lot of hardships. In fact, if we can really walk hand in hand, we will have a wonderful life.
After reading the love story between him and his wife, it suddenly occurred to me that when we get married, we will say that he gave us this answer in real life, regardless of whether we can walk through health and illness together.
We know the name of the disease, but what is the cause of it? Chinese medicine calls it "dirty mania". What does this mean? The man's internal organs were restless, and our diagnosis at that time belonged to dirty urgency.
I remember that the main treatment area I gave him at that time was in the middle of the neck, so we used acupuncture at this part. This is the first treatment. I didn't want to cover up the effect of our method in other ways, so I only did this treatment, but in fact he still had many problems. We need to replenish qi, adjust his heart rate, and do nothing else. We only did this, and then we did some follow-up treatment. Only when you have confidence can you cooperate with the doctor's later treatment.
After the first time, the whole chest was released and the breath was smooth, so confidence was established at that time. This is the so-called symptom. He saw the symptoms as well as the hope. When life has become so depressing and heavy, there is still a chance, so after one course of treatment, we will move on to the next. Now I am more energetic, completely different from before, and the economy is sufficient. Now I am waiting for the arrival of new life, so we should encourage it!