The plateau climate changes endlessly.
The plateau climate environment has certain influence on human health. In ancient Tibetan medicine and related literature, people have an objective and correct understanding of the influence of plateau climate environment on human health. The study also believes that although the plateau climate environment has a negative impact on human health, Tibetan people have lived in the plateau climate environment for generations. After long-term plateau life, indigenous Tibetans have adapted to the plateau climate and environment, making them live healthily on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. With the improvement of living standards in people in Xizang, people's average life expectancy is also increasing. Therefore, as long as people have a correct understanding of the plateau climate environment and adopt scientific lifestyle and fitness methods, they can better adapt to the plateau climate environment.
First, Tibetan medicine's understanding of the impact of climate and environment on human health.
Different regions and different climatic environments have different effects on people's health and longevity.
The ancients in Tibet knew this phenomenon for a long time. Wang Yue Medical Clinic, the earliest document of Tibetan medicine, describes the influence of climate and environment on human body, and holds that places that are too cold are prone to "lung disease". The classic work of Tibetan medicine "Four Medical Canon" also holds that "Yu Lang is the one who is cold and fierce, Chiba is the one who is hot and dry, and bacon is the one who is hot and humid". In other words, different geographical climate and people's living habits will lead to different diseases. In the Buddhist Health Sutra written by Long Shu, the natural environment and people's health and longevity are discussed: "Earth, water, gas and other natural elements are also delicious in Gan Chun, and the food they form nourishes the human body." "The human body is a small world, a small universe, and everything in the universe will be reflected in the human body. Therefore, any change in the universe between heaven and earth will also affect the human body, and every move, word and deed of the human body will also affect and act on its surrounding environment. "
(2) It is also considered that windy places are rich in prosperity factors, and hot places are rich in Chiba; And hot bacon. If you want to be healthy and balance the seven elements of food, blood, fat, bone, bone marrow and essence, as well as feces, urine and sweat, you should pay attention to diet, environment, living environment and living system. For example, when choosing a living environment, we must consider whether it is suitable for our own physique. People with good health should not live in windy areas to avoid getting sick due to factors that aggravate their health. Chiba people should avoid living in tropical areas; Similarly, people with bacon constitution should not live in wet places. Of course, people with mixed constitution should pay more attention to various conditions for choosing a residence. In addition, the general living conditions require no humidity, and the living place should be ventilated. It is best to use carpets to prevent moisture.
(3) Buddhist health books also believe that due to the special plateau climate, special attention should be paid to adjusting diet according to the differences of time and season, so as to stress the way of health preservation. For example, in spring, because bacon is dominant and dominant, we should eat more wheat foods, such as highland barley, roasted meat and honey, which are light foods with less oil and astringency. Honey, wine, wine, Jiang Shui and brown sugar water are the best drinks. Avoid eating too much ghee this season. Eat rice, ghee and meat in midsummer, eat less maltose, drink less, butter sauce, well water, cold milk with sugar, etc. Don't eat salty and sour food, and don't eat Chili.
④ In terms of the relationship between human health and environment, Tibetan doctors' understanding of the environment and human health phenomena runs through the big system idea of "the correspondence between man and nature", that is, to investigate and understand the health phenomenon from the relationship between natural environment and social environment and people, and to know whether human health is healthy or not from the adaptability and response mode of human body to environmental changes, so as to unify human body, natural environment and social environment on the basis of fitness theory.
Second, the advantages and disadvantages of plateau climate environment on human health.
The plateau climate in Tibet is characterized by low air pressure, low temperature and thin air, and the plateau climate environment will inevitably have an impact on human body. In ancient times, people knew the influence of plateau climate on human body. Chinese medicine "Su Wen Zheng Wuchang Da Lun" said: "The land is divided into advantages and disadvantages, the gas is divided into cold and warm, the upper one is cold, and the lower one is hot, so those who are suitable for cold and cold swell, and the gas in the northwest dissipates cold." Explain the influence of northwest cold on human body.
⑤ Wang Yue Medical Clinic, the earliest medical document of Tibetan medicine, also discusses the influence of plateau climate on human body, emphasizing that it is easy to suffer from "dragon disease" (a disease caused by climate) in too cold places.
⑥ There is a more detailed explanation on the influence of hypoxia climate on human body in Wei Zang Tong Zhi: At that time, the diseases affected by altitude hypoxia were called "miasma, miasma, miasma, smog and compartment (meaning headache)". When Fu Kang 'an, a minister sent by Qing Qianlong, entered Tibet in 1956, he asked the local residents about the Tanggula Mountain, and replied, "The mountains there are high and cold, which makes the weather worse after the snow." It is believed that altitude sickness will be aggravated by altitude hypoxia and cold climate. 1792, Gurkha soldiers went into hiding and were repelled by Fu Kang 'an's troops. Gurkha reported that "when Tashilhunpo Temple was robbed last year, two or three thousand people died of miasma on the snow-capped mountains", which clarified the influence of plateau anoxic climate and fatigue on human body until death.
⑦ The book A Survey of Tibet written by Japanese An Hui records that "Longtu is 3,876 meters above sea level, and the air is thin, so people have to take several steps to climb it", which vividly records the influence of high altitude areas on people.
With the extensive development of modern mountain exploration, people have systematically studied the influence of plateau climate on human body. Experts and scholars believe that the climate environment of plateau hypoxia can directly affect human health, induce some diseases or aggravate the condition. Especially the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which belongs to the third-class in the world, has a unique and changeable climate, and this plateau climate has many effects on human health. The occurrence of many diseases in Tibet Plateau is indeed directly related to the plateau anoxic climate, such as sudden weather change, thin air and cold, which can aggravate joint pain and cause joint stiffness, deformation and limited movement for a long time. In the cold climate, due to the lack of sunshine, people are prone to depression, difficulty in concentrating, and some obstacles in appetite and sleep. Sudden cold will cause a series of psychological and pathological changes in human body. On the one hand, cold stimulation can excite human sympathetic nerves, contract peripheral blood vessels, increase peripheral resistance, increase left ventricular load and increase myocardial oxygen consumption. On the other hand, it will increase the fibrin content in the blood, increase the blood viscosity, shorten the coagulation time, create conditions for vascular embolism, and cold can also stimulate coronary artery spasm. According to medical experiments, if the cold air at -23℃ is inhaled, the ECG will appear similar to angina pectoris. Under the conditions of increasing rain and snow, increasing humidity and declining climate, people or patients with cardiovascular diseases and hypertension often feel chest tightness, head swelling, eye swelling and general malaise. 1995 and 1996, snowstorms occurred in Gannan area, causing human and animal deaths, further illustrating the impact of climate on human health.