From the very beginning, the book Huangdi Neijing tells the problem that "the contemporary people are unable to exercise when they are half a century old", and puts forward the principles and methods of health preservation: the combination of yin and yang, the combination of skills, moderate diet, regular life, and no haste ... It can be said to hit the nail on the head, but it is not the most powerful. The most difficult thing is to find the connection between life and nature, which is very popular but ever-changing The ancients discussed Taoism with Yin and Yang, which is admirable and deplorable.
In my opinion, the greatness of Huangdi Neijing lies not in theory, but in long-term observation and exploration before putting forward the theory. For example, the exposition that "men are not as good as eight or eight, and women are not as good as seven or seven" is a summary of human growth, development, maturity and aging, and also a summary of the correspondence between the four seasons and the deficiency and excess of zang-fu organs, which embodies the very solid observation and verification foundation of Huangdi Neijing. This exploration spirit of finding problems, observing contradictions and discovering laws is exactly what every doctor needs to inherit.
Many laymen think that the Yellow Emperor's Canon is too old to keep up with the requirements of the new era. However, the thought of Huangdi Neijing is ahead of time, and the way of health preservation put forward in it is also quoted everywhere and regarded as a standard. Moreover, the treatment idea of "treating diseases before they are cured, treating chaos without treatment" in Huangdi Neijing was put forward many years earlier than the western concept of prevention, and it still has valuable reference value. We often call it a classic because many of them have not been published.
The reason why Huangdi Neijing is a required reading for Chinese medicine, even for all medicine, does not mean that it covers all the prevention and treatment methods of diseases, and it cannot be done. What is really worth learning is that it makes a basic exposition of the internal organs and meridians of the human body. It is said that the name is not correct, and we must seek the cause based on syndrome differentiation. Every cause has its consequences. It is the cause given in Huangdi Neijing that leads to the fruit of TCM. In the article on the formation and theory of five zang-organs, Huangdi Neijing describes the basic characteristics of five zang-organs. Huangdi Neijing discusses the position and method of pulse diagnosis and the law of pulse condition changing with seasons in Three Chapters and Nine Sections and Jade Machine Dirty. What surprises me even more is that I found the origin of learning acupuncture in the chapters of "Life-saving, All-round, Eight Righteousness and Gods" in Huangdi Neijing: if acupuncture is true, the gods must be treated first, the five internal organs are prepared, and the needles are hidden ... These familiar words make me more cordial to Huangdi Neijing. In addition, Huangdi Neijing put forward the theory of the rise and fall of evil spirits based on the qi and blood of viscera, and combined with meridians, expounded the etiology and pathogenesis of fever, cough, paralysis, flaccidity and syncope, so as to alleviate people's suffering.
To talk about the characteristics of Huangdi's Neijing, the first word that comes to my mind is "change". For example, a question in the composition about cough: Why do lungs make people cough? The answer is: all internal organs can make people cough, not just the lungs. From this, I realized that even diseases are infinitely changeable, let alone treatments. The thought of Huangdi's Neijing is very broad and tolerant. According to the theory of different laws and different prescriptions, the treatment of each disease varies according to the terrain. The stone of the east, the poison of the west, moxibustion in the north, nine needles in the south, and the guidance of the central government, the two are combined and each has its own position.
The soul pivot of Huangdi Neijing, also known as acupuncture meridian, is mostly the theory of meridian point acupuncture. Recite it often in the process of learning meridians and acupoints. The content inside gave me a new understanding of the human body, not only at the anatomical level, but also a deeper understanding of the relationship between the zang-fu organs, which inspired me to have many new ideas: for example, when talking about the operation of the Taiyin Lung Meridian, one sentence "
I have gained a lot from reading this book, so I need to touch it carefully and find out its arts and sciences.