Often feel very tired, not only general weakness, weak waist and knees, memory decline, but also aphtha, dry mouth, easy to get angry?
In traditional Chinese medicine, these are actually manifestations of heart-kidney disharmony.
The ancients believed that the heart governs fire and the kidney governs water. The importance of these two things, just like "fire and water are eaten by the people" in Shangshu, means that boiling water and taking fire are indispensable in daily life.
Heart fire and kidney water interact and coordinate with each other in human activities. Body fluid and blood in the body belong to water, while kidney fire represents the yang produced and needed in life activities, and together * * * constitutes the source of life.
Kidney water should help the heart fire, so that the heart fire will not be too strong, and the heart fire should warm the kidney water, so that the kidney water will not be too cold. The two restrict each other. If the balance between the two is broken, such as excessive heart fire or insufficient heart yin, insufficient kidney water or kidney yin, there will be symptoms of excessive Yang Qi or insufficient Yin Qi, which is what we call the state of disharmony between heart and kidney.
The more yang is floating, there will be aphtha, dry mouth, easy to get angry, upset, insomnia, hot flashes, sweating, yellow urine, dry stool and so on. However, Yin Qi's deficiency is manifested by quadriplegia, weakness of waist and knees, fatigue and chills of lower limbs.
These symptoms are actually very common in life, which are basically similar to the chronic fatigue syndrome mentioned by western medicine. They are all in a sub-health state, and various modern examination methods such as color Doppler ultrasound and electrocardiogram are basically normal, but the symptoms are obvious. Being a "special disease" of modern office workers is related to the fast pace of modern life, great pressure and changeable environment.
These three types of people are easy to catch.
"high-risk" population
1, radical (fire pedestrian)
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five elements correspond to the five internal organs and five qi, which are divided into five qi. Firefighters get angry more easily than others. Fire can lead to bad temper, oral ulcer, dry mouth, chest heat, irritability, sweating, insomnia and difficulty sleeping.
The heart, especially the yang in the five internal organs, is the representative of fire, so this kind of people are more likely to have a state in which the heart yang is hyperactive and the yang dominates the yin, which eventually leads to heart failure.
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2. People who like cold, spicy and stimulating food.
Nowadays, with the improvement of material living conditions, people have more choices about food. Some people prefer cold and spicy food to stimulate appetite, which will lead to overheating or supercooling in the body, leading to imbalance between yin and yang and incompatibility between water and fire.
In fact, every food has a relative bias. It's not that people with a certain physique can't eat, just eat in moderation. The self-balancing function existing in human body can maintain normal operation within the range of balance ability. Therefore, the coordination and balance between zang-fu organs can be maintained through "moderate diet" and "the golden mean", otherwise "all diseases will hurt the kidney".
3996 migrant workers and the elderly and infirm.
Office workers may have to stay up late to work overtime because of their long-term nine-to-five work, and the yang is exhausted, which is prone to symptoms of yin flourishing and yang declining. In addition, now everyone's requirements for clothes are not only to keep warm, love to wear shorts and skirts, but also to blow air conditioners, which are relatively heavy and cold in the lower part, leading to excessive kidney water and a state of heart and kidney failure.
When the elderly are old and weak, the function of zang-fu organs declines, and so does the function of mind. If there is a slight invasion of exogenous pathogens or improper diet and life, there will be dysfunction of zang-fu organs, which is more prone to the problem of disharmony between heart and kidney than others.
Causes of heart-kidney disharmony
See how Chinese medicine interprets it.
1, long-term mental work and thinking lead to imbalance between yin and yang.
Sadness and yang, consumption and even dissipation of yang, lead to imbalance of yin and yang, failure to warm kidney, excess of yin, excessive cold of kidney water and imbalance of upper economy.
In addition, many people have been engaged in mental activities for a long time, and a lot of qi and blood are rushing up, and the qi and blood in the lower part of the body are relatively reduced, which leads to overheating in the upper part, insufficient firepower in the lower part, and yin and cold accumulation, which leads to long-term heart and kidney failure, which is one of the reasons why young people are included in the multiple population.
2, picky eaters prefer cool and spicy, which leads to the obstruction of the gas in the middle coke.
The circulation of yin and yang in the human body needs to pass through the spleen and stomach of the middle jiao, which is the transit place of qi, blood, yin and yang and the boundary between fire and water.
"Spleen governs ascending and stomach governs descending". If the upper part of the body is hot and the lower part is cold, the spleen and stomach can operate normally through the promotion of qi, and the balance between cold and heat in the body can be maintained. If the spleen and stomach of the middle energizer are damaged, the central function is damaged, and the middle energizer is blocked, the operation of qi, blood, yin and yang is blocked, the balance of cold and heat is also disturbed, and the balance between the upper heart fire and the lower kidney water is unstable, so there will be disharmony between the heart and kidney.
Those who like cold and spicy stimulation have impaired spleen and stomach qi, limited function, blocked middle energizer and restricted movement between fire and water. Therefore, many people who are incompatible with heart and kidney will be accompanied by loose stool flatulence and some symptoms of dampness.
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For people who don't have heart and kidney,
Several simple self-care methods
1. One trick: stand still and adjust the cold and heat of Yin and Yang.
Vertical piles guide qi, emphasizing the balance of yin and yang, the growth of yang and the growth of yin, and the balance of cold and heat. The human body conforms to the way of nature, the clear gas rises, the turbid gas sinks, and it moves up and down in a regular way to keep the balance between yin and yang in the body.
Through the functions of standing shape, posture and coordinated breathing, the standing pile can dredge the whole body meridians, harmonize qi and blood, and make yin and yang intersect. Based on the state that most office workers are sitting, it has the effect of activating qi and blood and dispelling yin and cold.
Action essentials:
2, two ear points: ear points press beans and massage, slowly reinforcing and reducing.
The treatment of diseases by auricular points has been recorded as early as Neijing, and the relationship between ears and meridians, meridians and tendons is also recorded in detail. The twelve meridians reaches the ear directly or indirectly, and each part corresponds to every viscera region of the body, which belongs to the category of holographic therapy.
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When the heart and kidney do not meet, you can choose to massage the heart and kidney area (inner spiral) with your fingertips. In addition, you can also choose the way of pressing beans at ear points, and choose Shenmen and sympathetic ear points to stimulate slowly for a long time to achieve the purpose of adjusting heart and kidney and relieving symptoms.
3, a food nutrition prescription: heart and kidney, thick stomach, solid essence.
Chinese medicine believes that "workers are treated before they get sick, and Chinese people are treated after they get sick." As the general population, they actually follow this principle, paying attention to prevention before getting sick and cooperating with treatment after getting sick. Dietotherapy is also one of the methods of conditioning for people with heart-kidney disharmony.
Usually, you can drink Dangshen lotus seed porridge, regulate qi and nutrition, and reconcile viscera. The porridge itself nourishes the stomach, so that the spleen and stomach can be maintained, and the road of qi, blood, yin and yang can be smoother, which can better adjust viscera.
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For people with disharmony between heart and kidney, it is ok to chew lotus seeds at ordinary times. Lotus seeds run through the meridians of heart, spleen and kidney, corresponding to the diameter of upper, middle and lower triple energizer, which makes the heart and kidney, thick stomach and firm essence, and has a good tonic and digestion-promoting effect on mental workers and the elderly.