DAY 19
According to the homework requirements of the Clinical Training Course of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which started in September, I reread the book Classic Enlightenment of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Xin Li today, and I have a deeper understanding after rereading this book.

The classic Chinese medicine enlightenment tells the whole thinking and learning methods of Chinese medicine, guides everyone to feel, observe and cultivate everything around life, work and interpersonal relationships, and cultivates the most basic perceptual ability. Modern people are rich in social life, divorced from natural rhythm and relatively poor in energy, which is an important reason for all diseases. Health is unchangeable. "Constant" is the rhythm of a relatively harmonious relationship between oneself and society, and energy is accompanied by the human body to maintain a natural normality. And health care is to find your own state of peace of mind and comfort as much as possible. Healthy people should do the right thing at the right time, in the right place, with the right people and in the right way. This is what our health really needs.

There are many examples about the treatment of diseases in the book. Some need the cooperation of doctors and themselves, and they can heal themselves without taking medicine. And some need to cooperate with doctors, through special methods of treatment, in order to alleviate the disease. After reading the treatment part, I fully feel that China's TCM classics are closely related to traditional culture.

Of course, there are too many highlights in the book, one of which impressed me the most: why do you concentrate on studying traditional culture and understanding Chinese medicine? Because it can open a wider and deeper world for us. In daily life, when we judge a person and a thing, we are used to logical thinking and rational analysis, but this is not the only thing. In our traditional culture, there is a higher cognitive way, which is a more important emotional "distraction" after rational "over-thinking". For example, our calligraphy and painting, poetry, traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts can hardly be improved by relying on a high IQ brain, pure memory analysis and accumulated learning, more on "heart", understanding, epiphany and more on the level of physical instinct. Our traditional culture emphasizes "innocence" and "clumsiness", which is a higher cognitive way to return to the original heart. When you use your brain less and start to pay attention, you will enter a higher level of cognitive style, and you will slowly open your inner wisdom and return to your clearest intuition. Clear-headed, open the "sense", just like a cat meets another cat. You don't need to think about it. You can tell if you can get close at a glance.

After reading this book again today, I feel that there are two conditions for the introduction of Chinese medicine: first, whether I recognize the reaction of expelling diseases, and second, whether I recognize that Chinese medicine treatment is mainly at two levels. If you are aware of the reaction of expelling the disease, you will not treat the disease only by looking at the symptoms. We can understand why Shennong Materia Medica classifies 365 kinds of drugs into three categories: upper, middle and lower. Because the top grade of Shennong's herbal classics is mainly to treat the spirit, the middle grade is mainly to treat the qi, and the lower grade is mainly to treat the shape. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that regulating spirit is the best, followed by regulating qi, and the shape is the lowest. This book thoroughly explains two concepts, namely, reaction to diseases and air model, which is undoubtedly a very good reading for Chinese medicine lovers. I will definitely have a new experience when I come back to read this book after attending the training class in a few months.