The balance of yin and yang in life is the balance of viscera, cold and heat, and qi and blood. Its general principle is the coordination of yin and yang, and its essence is the balance of yin and yang essence, that is, the coordination of various functions and substances of human body.
The balance of Yin and Yang is not static and absolute, but relative and dynamic. This balance needs to be cared for. Once health is not taken care of, it will easily lead to imbalance between yin and yang and endanger health.
In order to be healthy, we must understand the balance of yin and yang and how to adjust it.
It can be seen that the reason why people get sick is the lack of healthy qi and the evil spirits. If healthy qi is sufficient and evil spirits do not invade, there will be no disease. In this way, from the perspective of righteousness, righteousness is enough to be healthy and disease-free, which is the balance of yin and yang.
People who are full of vital qi are in balance with yin and yang, so vital qi is related to yin and yang, and vital qi is harmonious with yin and yang. Only by adjusting vital qi can yin and yang be adjusted. In other words, if healthy qi is sufficient, yin and yang will be balanced and people will be healthy; if healthy qi is insufficient, yin and yang will be unbalanced and people will get sick, premature aging or die.
Huang Yuanyu, a physician in Qing Dynasty, said that "the rise and fall of middle qi can be divided into yin and yang, the middle qi rises to the left, the liver and kidney also rise, which is yang, the middle qi falls to the right, and the heart and lungs also fall, which is yin". The so-called yin and yang are just the ups and downs of qi in the middle. As long as the middle qi is sufficient, the left yang rises and the right yin falls naturally and normally, and the balance of yin and yang is disease-free. The middle qi is the qi of the spleen and stomach, stomach qi and healthy qi.
How to regulate healthy qi? Because the qi of the whole body belongs to the stomach, and the stomach belongs to the earth, which is a natural law suitable for all things born in the earth. Therefore, healthy qi means that the stomach is full of qi and healthy qi is flourishing. According to Neijing, "if there is stomach qi, you will live, but if there is no stomach qi, you will die". This shows that healthy qi is stomach qi, and stomach qi, like yin and yang, determines life and death.
As can be seen from the above, regulating stomach qi means regulating vital qi, regulating vital qi means regulating yin and yang, and regulating stomach qi means regulating yin and yang. Health care and treatment is to reconcile yin and yang, that is, to reconcile stomach qi, so as to achieve "having stomach qi leads to health" and vice versa. Therefore, the purpose of health care and treatment can be achieved by regulating stomach qi. Stomach qi is metaplasia of spleen and stomach, belonging to soil. Only when the soil gets warmer will there be a biochemical mechanism. Therefore, warming the spleen and stomach produces stomach qi, which is harmonious with yin and yang and healthy.
A strong and healthy person fasted for more than ten days, and as a result, his stomach disappeared.
Yin, blood and body fluid are exhausted, and Yang is gone, so there is no stomach qi, and the whole body yin and yang are dead yin and yang. Without stomach qi, there is no balance between yin and yang. If you don't eat for five days, your stomach will be qi-deficient, your yin essence will be greatly damaged, your yang will be greatly consumed, and your yin and yang will be deficient.
This shows from reality that stomach qi nourishes yin and yang, and insufficient stomach qi means insufficient yin and yang, while vigorous stomach qi means harmony between yin and yang, and yin and yang means stomach qi. Adjusting the balance of yin and yang is to harmonize stomach qi. Stomach qi comes from warm spleen and stomach metaplasia, so it is necessary to warm the spleen and stomach.
Therefore, the essence of Chinese medicine treatment is to adjust the balance of yin and yang, healthy and disease-free. The imbalance of yin and yang is the first cause of internal medicine, and yin and yang are stomach qi, so regulating stomach qi means regulating yin and yang. Stomach qi can only be transformed into spleen and stomach, and spleen and stomach can only be transformed into warmth, so warming spleen and stomach can regulate stomach qi and balance yin and yang.