First, what is the Constitution?
Man is a part of everything in heaven and earth. In the process of metaplasia, heaven and earth rarely distribute the Qi of Yin-Yang and Five Elements to every individual completely and evenly. So it appeared: some people have insufficient yin, some people have more yang, some people have more moisture, and some people have lung qi deficiency. All of these, each individual has his own physical characteristics, that is, physique.
Among all the physique types, the balance between yin and yang is the most ideal, but it rarely appears in the crowd. Most people, more or less, have some kind of "bias" in physique. It is this prejudice that determines which diseases our bodies are more susceptible to.
For example, people with qi deficiency constitution are more prone to diarrhea, bloating, cough, asthma and other diseases; People with yin deficiency constitution are prone to insomnia, anxiety, night sweats and other problems. The so-called physical health preservation is essentially trying to correct this deviation and make it improve in the direction of yin and yang balance.
Second, how was the Constitution formed?
Generally speaking, physical fitness is determined by congenital factors and influenced by acquired factors.
For example, if parents have qi deficiency, the chances of children's qi deficiency are very high; The father's constitution is yang heat and the mother's constitution is qi depression, so the child's constitution comes from either the father or the mother. This is the decisive role of congenital factors in constitution.
Changes in the acquired environment or eating habits will have a certain impact on physical fitness. If you live in a cold and humid environment for a long time, your physique will change to a cold and humid direction; Long-term addiction to spicy food is easy to make the body hot and dry; Long-term heavy drinking is easy to form damp heat constitution, and so on.
Physical fitness is determined by congenital factors, and it is usually difficult to completely change. The patient mentioned in the previous treatment chapter has a deep crack in the middle of his tongue, which almost divides his tongue into two halves. This person's constitution is typical of qi deficiency. With the continuous treatment, the patient's tongue gradually becomes smaller, the cracks in the middle become longer and shallower, and the cracks are gradually covered by a thin layer of tongue coating. But compared with ordinary people, his tongue is still fat and big, and the cracks are still obvious.
Third, the method of judging physical fitness
In fact, the method of how to distinguish constitution has been mentioned in the content of syndrome differentiation of viscera above. Replace the name of "Qi Deficiency Syndrome" with "Qi Deficiency Constitution", and so on. The key points of syndrome differentiation given above become the key points of physique differentiation, and the reason is the same.
The difference is that physique is the normal state of the human body, and the "symptoms" shown are generally not as prominent as those in the disease state. It is similar to the nourishment of food because it is peaceful; Drugs are used to treat diseases, but they are biased and overcorrected.
Generally speaking, the most common types of physique are divided into two categories, which are the same as the above-mentioned parts of disease differentiation. The constitution of deficiency syndrome mainly includes qi deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, yin deficiency and yang deficiency.
To put it simply, a person who usually has a low voice, dislikes words, is lazy in activities, feels tired and weak at times, has repeated colds, has a thick tongue coating, or sees teeth marks can all be judged as qi deficiency constitution.
Dry and painful eyes, blurred vision (including myopia and presbyopia), insomnia and dreaminess, less menstrual flow and pale face of women are mostly caused by blood deficiency; Blood deficiency and qi deficiency often coexist, that is, the combination of qi deficiency constitution, forming a constitution of both qi and blood deficiency.
Thin body, thin tongue, less red tongue coating, fever and night sweats at night. Most of them belong to yin deficiency constitution.
People who are always afraid of cold and like warm, cold limbs, shapeless stool, excessive urine color, pale tongue and excessive body fluid belong to yang deficiency constitution.
Compared with deficiency constitution, solid constitution gives people the feeling that they are stronger. For example, people with the same cold constitution and yang deficiency constitution are more prone to loose stool, long urine and other debilitating symptoms, while people with cold constitution are less likely to appear. The most common solid constitutions are: cold, heat, dampness, damp heat, qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Generally speaking: cold limbs are cold, and it is cold if it is not warm all the year round; Red face and red tongue, impatience and irritability belong to heat; Obesity, sticky stool, greasy and wet tongue coating; Chest tightness, rib swelling and sighing are qi stagnation; The lips are purple and dark, and the sublingual collaterals are purple and blue, which belongs to blood stasis constitution.
Fourth, how to improve physical fitness
The basic principle of improving physical fitness is to correct deviations and strive for a balance between yin and yang.
If Yang Qi is insufficient, Yang Qi will be supplemented, and if qi stagnation and dampness are excessive, it will be gasified and wet. According to the past experience, the following suggestions are put forward to improve the physique of the above friends for reference:
1.
Appropriately increase the amount of exercise (qi belongs to yang, yang takes the initiative, and exercise generates yang), but do not advocate strenuous exercise (fire, eating gas).
Avoid cold drinks and blunt foods, avoid drinking a lot of water (hurting Yang Qi), avoid fresh milk (consuming Yang Qi), and be cautious about being fat (unfavorable for spleen transport); The diet should be light, such as beef and mutton, yam and jujube.
Standing Chinese medicines: American ginseng and Astragalus membranaceus (you can choose 1 ~ 10g ginseng or Astragalus membranaceus according to the contents of the next lecture on Chinese medicines, and brew with boiling water to make tea).
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Ginseng Jianpi Pill, Buzhong Yiqi Pill (when the symptoms are obvious, you can choose to strengthen the spleen or replenish qi according to the contents of the prescription chapter and take it before going to bed at night).
Spare Meridians: Foot Yangming Meridians, Foot Shaoyang Meridians, Foot Taiyin Meridians and Lower Limbs (daily health care, you can beat and press the above three meridians. For details, please refer to Lecture 10 on Meridian Principles).
2. Suggestions on the physical health of deficiency of both qi and blood.
With the increase of study and work pressure and the extension of working hours in front of the computer, mobile phones have gradually evolved into new human organs, and more and more students and office workers tend to this type. The reason is that thinking hurts blood and blood consumes less gas. These friends need to pay attention to:
Increase the amount of exercise appropriately. It is advisable to stretch freely, such as walking and jogging, not to win by quantity, not to pursue high strength, and to avoid fatigue.
Avoid excessive use of eyes and ensure adequate sleep time.
Avoid cold drinks and hard food; Diet should be light, sweet food, beef and mutton, pork and eggs. Appropriate yam, jujube, longan.
Standing Chinese medicines: Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, and Radix Angelicae Sinensis (brewed with boiling water instead of tea or boiled in soup).
Standing Chinese patent medicine: Ginseng Guipi Pill (taken before going to bed at night according to the severity of symptoms).
Spare meridians: Foot Yangming Meridian, Foot Taiyin Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Meridian (usage is the same as Qi deficiency constitution).
3. Suggestions on health preservation of yin deficiency constitution
It is advisable to sit still for 20 ~ 30 minutes every day (quiet yin).
Avoid staying up late and be sure to go to bed before eleven o'clock in the evening.
Avoid spicy food (easy to consume and hurt yin and blood). Sour and sweet food is suitable (sour and sweet can turn cloudy). Suitable for beef, pork, eggs, milk, bean products, yam, fungus and black sesame.
Standing Chinese medicines: Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Rhizoma Gastrodiae (brewed with boiling water instead of tea or soup instead of food).
Standing Chinese patent medicine: Liuwei Dihuang Pill (taken before going to bed at night according to the severity of symptoms).
Spare Meridian: Foot Taiyin Meridian, Foot Shaoyin Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Meridian (usage is the same as Qi deficiency constitution).
4. Suggestions on Yang Deficiency Physical Health
Appropriately increase the amount of exercise (exercise will nourish yang).
Avoid eating cold food, drinking plenty of water (damaging Yang Qi), and being fat, sweet and sticky (unfavorable for spleen transport). Beef and mutton in moderation, spicy in moderation. Drink yellow wine and white wine in moderation.
Standing Chinese medicines: Ginseng Radix Rubri, Radix Astragali, Cortex Cinnamomi, and Zingiberis Rhizoma.
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Fuzi Lizhong Pill and Guifu Dihuang Pill (which can be selected according to the prescription content and taken before going to bed at night).
Spare Meridian: Foot Yangming Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Meridian and Foot Taiyin Meridian of Lower Limbs. Waist and abdomen moxibustion is appropriate.
5. Suggestions on health preservation of cold constitution
It is advisable to increase the amount of exercise (exercise leads to yang, and yang is strong and yin is weak).
Avoid cold drinks, food, and drinking a lot of water (hurting yang). Suitable for beef and mutton, spicy and white wine.
Standing Chinese medicine: dried ginger, cinnamon.
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Fu Liang Pill and Aifu Nuangong Pill (taken according to symptoms, stomachache and dysmenorrhea).
Spare meridians: lower limbs of foot Yangming meridian and foot shaoyang meridian.
6. Some suggestions on keeping fit with heat.
Increase the amount of exercise (let the heat go), such as high-intensity fitness exercise three times a week.
Cautiously spicy, mutton (heated), drink carefully. Suitable with pork, duck, milk, fruit and green tea.
Standing Chinese medicine: Coptis chinensis (when symptoms are obvious, this medicine can be brewed with boiling water instead of tea).
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Niuhuang Jiedu Pill and Niuhuang Shangqing Pill (when symptoms are obvious, you can consider taking them after lunch).
Spare meridian: the calf part of the Yangming meridian point of the foot.
7. Suggestions on keeping healthy with wet constitution.
It is advisable to moderately increase the amount of exercise (exercise leads to yang, and yang strengthens yin).
Avoid drinking more water, cold diet (easy to hurt yang), greasy and sticky diet, and reduce sweets. Suitable for beef and mutton, spicy, barley and miscellaneous grains.
Standing Chinese medicines: Coix lachryma-jobi and Poria cocos (decoction should be used instead of tea).
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Shen Ling Baizhu Pill, Ermiao Pill (full of dampness leading to diarrhea all the year round, followed by alternation of damp and heat).
Spare meridians: Foot Taiyin Meridian, Foot Shaoyin Meridian and Foot Yangming Meridian of lower limbs.
8. Health suggestions for qi stagnation constitution
It is advisable to adjust the mentality, increase outdoor exercise and avoid being alone (to relieve mental closure and depression).
Avoid being fat, sweet and greasy (aggravating qi stagnation) and eating sour and spicy food.
Standing Chinese medicines: Bupleurum, Cyperus rotundus and Radix Paeoniae Alba (when the symptoms are obvious, each of the three medicines can be 10g, and boiled water can be used instead).
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Xiaoyao Pill and Jiawei Xiaoyao Pill (if you are in a bad mood, you can take it immediately to minimize the negative impact of bad mood on your body).
Spare meridian points: Taichong point of Zujueyin, Neiguan point of Shoujueyin (three to five minutes each) and leg segment of Zushaoyang (tapping and rubbing).
9. Suggestions on health preservation of blood stasis constitution
It is advisable to increase the amount of exercise (exercise leads to blood circulation and blood stasis).
Avoid eating cold (hurting yang). Suitable for beef and mutton.
Standing Chinese medicines: Angelica sinensis and Salvia miltiorrhiza (Angelica sinensis is used for cold, Salvia miltiorrhiza is used for heat, and boiled water is used instead of tea).
Standing Chinese patent medicines: Xuefu Zhuyu Capsule and Aifu Warm Palace Pill (Xuefu Zhuyu Pill is used for qi stagnation and blood stasis, and Aifu Warm Palace Pill is used for cold coagulation and blood stasis, which should be taken according to the severity of symptoms and should not be taken by women during menstruation).
Spare Meridian: Foot Yangming Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Meridian and Foot Shaoyin Meridian of Lower Limbs.
Of course, the various constitutions listed here are only the most common and basic types of constitutions. In real life, many friends have two or three constitutions at the same time, such as qi deficiency and dampness excess, cold coagulation and blood stasis constitution. Therefore, the above suggestions can be combined and not listed one by one.