Traditional Chinese medicine has a complete theoretical system, and its uniqueness lies in the holistic view of "harmony between man and nature" and "correspondence between man and nature" and its treatment based on syndrome differentiation. The main features are:
People think that man is a part of nature, which consists of yin and yang. Yin and Yang are opposites and interdependent, always moving and changing. Under normal physiological conditions, they are in a state of dynamic balance, and once this dynamic balance is destroyed, it presents a pathological state. However, when treating diseases and correcting the imbalance between Yin and Yang, we do not look at the problem in an isolated and static way, but mostly from a dynamic point of view, which is what we emphasize.
It is believed that man and nature are a unified whole, that is, "harmony between man and nature" and "correspondence between man and nature". The law of human life activities and the occurrence of diseases are closely related to various changes in nature (such as seasonal climate, geographical territory, morning and evening, etc.). ). Different natural environments and people's adaptation to the natural environment have different physical characteristics and pathogenesis. Therefore, in the diagnosis and treatment of the same disease, we should pay more attention to the time, place and people, which is different.
It is believed that all tissues and organs of the human body are a whole, and they are related and influenced each other physiologically and pathologically. Therefore, we never treat a certain physiological or pathological phenomenon in isolation, but treat the treatment and prevention of diseases from a holistic perspective, with special emphasis on the "holistic view" of qi as the original substance that constitutes everything in the world.
The movement of qi is called "moving qi", which has four forms: "ascending" and "descending". Various changes brought about by exercise are called "gasification", such as "growth" of animals and "growth collection" of plants.
Qi is the intermediary between heaven and earth, which makes them sympathetic. Such as: "man is related to heaven and earth, corresponding to the sun and the moon."
The refinement of heaven and earth makes people. Yin and Yang are the generalization of the opposite nature of interrelated things or phenomena in the universe. At first, it refers to the back of sunshine, which is positive for sunshine and negative for sunshine.
Yin-Yang interaction includes: Yin-Yang interaction, Yin-Yang mutual aid, opposition restriction, mutual utilization, growth and decline balance and mutual transformation. The theory of five elements is an important achievement of China's ancient philosophy. The five elements are wood, fire, earth, gold and water, but this does not represent five substances, but five attributes.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the five elements reflect the relationship between the five systems of the human body and these five attributes. The five symbols of wood, fire, earth, gold and water respectively represent the five systems led by liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) does not study the theory of how microscopic viruses and bacteria act on the human body, but the relationship between various systems of the whole human body. Through TCM, massage, acupuncture and even psychological effects, the balance between various systems is adjusted to maintain good health.
The interaction of the five elements includes: mutual birth, mutual resistance, restraint, victory, mutual humiliation, multiplication and harmony between mother and child. Zang: refers to the five internal organs and the strange and constant house in the human body, commonly known as zang-fu organs. Elephant: a finger "elephant", that is, the anatomical form of viscera; Two-finger "sign", that is, the physiological and pathological manifestations of viscera; The three fingers "should be like", that is, the viscera correspond to the images of Yin and Yang at four seasons.
Understanding the physiological and pathological state of internal "Tibet" through the change of external "image" is called "observing Tibet from the image" That is, "look at the outside and know the inside."
"Zangfu" is not only the concept of anatomical type, but also a comprehensive concept including anatomy, physiology and pathology.
Five internal organs: refers to the liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney, and has the general function of "transforming life and storing essence".
Six fu organs: refers to the gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, bladder and triple energizer, and its general function is to "decompose water, distinguish turbidity and disperse dregs".
Qihengzhai: refers to the ternary theory of "brain, marrow, bone, pulse, gallbladder and daughter cells". It holds that "there are thousands of diseases that cannot be separated from the ternary theory." What is ternary? Toxic depression. "
Ternary medical theory understands diseases and holds that the etiology, pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation and treatment of thousands of diseases in the world cannot be separated from the word "toxic stagnation and deficiency"
Poison refers to fever, excessive internal heat, blood heat, damp heat, cold and typhoid fever. There are bacterial inflammation and aseptic inflammation, which cause organ swelling, exudation, pain and necrosis.
Depression is all kinds of unfashionable and unsmooth bodies, which is stagnation. Including qi, blood, phlegm, dampness, food and water in the body is not smooth or blocked. Qi stagnation leads to abdominal distension, congestion leads to bruising or pain, phlegm leads to cough difficulty or mental disorder, and dampness leads to heavy, indigestion or defecation difficulty. As soon as the water stops, it will swell like ascites.
Deficiency means deficiency, that is, deficiency of both qi and blood and yin and yang. Qi deficiency means physical weakness, blood deficiency means colorless, yang deficiency means exterior cold, and yin deficiency means internal heat.
Thousands of diseases in the world are toxic, impassable and weak, and there are no other diseases. Non-toxic, no deficiency, smooth meridians, no disease. This is the "ternary medical theory" of the chief physician of Wushu traditional Chinese medicine.
Man is an organic whole, and there is a close relationship between man and nature. This is the whole concept of medicine. When treating diseases based on syndrome differentiation, we should distinguish between toxic depression and deficiency, and have an outline understanding of diseases. The whole nature is monism, and monism produces yin and yang (that is, two opposing and interdependent properties of nature can be transformed into each other under certain conditions). From the dualism of yin and yang to the ternary theory of toxic depression and deficiency, it is more suitable to guide the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Ternary theory can guide all kinds of syndrome differentiation methods of diseases (Yin-Yang syndrome differentiation, Zang-Fu syndrome differentiation, Qi-Blood-Body-Fluid syndrome differentiation, Eight Principles syndrome differentiation, Meridian syndrome differentiation, Six Meridians syndrome differentiation, Wei-Qi-Ying-Blood syndrome differentiation, Sanjiao syndrome differentiation, etc.). It is very wrong and unpopular to separate one syndrome differentiation method from other, or to use a classic theory (such as Six Meridians syndrome differentiation) to limit and prevent the development of other medical theories.
In the theory of ternary medicine, toxic depression and deficiency also have inseparable dialectical relations. You can't completely separate toxic depression from deficiency. That is, there is depression and deficiency in the poison, and it is also toxic and deficiency in the depression, and it can also be toxic and deficiency in the deficiency. That is, you have me, I have you, or choose one out of three, or choose two out of three, in order to fully and systematically understand the condition.