4. 1 physiological fire
Traditional Chinese medicine classifies the physiological phenomena of human body, the motivation of physiological phenomena and the phenomena similar to fire as "fire", such as heart function, liver function, kidney function, spleen function, lung function, secretion function, reproductive function, nerve function, energy metabolism, hormone exuberance and other physiological phenomena in modern medicine, which are called less fire, fire-breaking, mutual fire, life fire, dragon fire and thunder fire in traditional Chinese medicine. In the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the normal fire, which represents the yang of human body, is hidden in the viscera and has the functions of warming and biochemistry. It is the embodiment, feature and source of life. He who has fire lives, and he who has no fire dies.
Body temperature is a symbol of life. In the face of an unwilling person, people will touch his skin to see if he still has a temperature. According to his temperature, we can determine whether he is still alive and guess the time of his death. If you touch it with your hands, it will prove that he is dead like touching ice. In fact, body temperature is a reflection of fire. People who have the fire of life will have body temperature.
4.2 Fire of Pathology
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that everything in nature has two opposing aspects-Yin and Yang. Movement is yang, and quietness is yin. Clear is yang, turbid is yin. Ascending to Yang, descending to Yin. It belongs to Yang in the daytime and Yin at night. Temperature and fire belong to yang, and cold and water belong to yin. In the human body, Yin and Yang always restrict each other and are in a state of mutual opposition. For example, coldness and warmth, water and fire are opposites, temperature can dissipate cold, cold can reduce temperature, water can extinguish fire, and fire can evaporate water and restrict each other. If yin and harmony keep a balance in mutual restriction, the body is normal and healthy; On the other hand, if yin and yang can't restrict each other and keep the balance of growth and decline, the body is abnormal and morbid.
Although the physiological fire of human body is an important substance to maintain life activities, it cannot be too weak or too strong. Too weak to maintain the needs of the body, too strong will lead to adverse reactions of getting angry. The ancients called the physiological fire of human body "little fire" and the pathological fire "big fire". What does "less" mean? Maybe it means "strong" and "fit". But "strong" must mean too prosperous and powerful. In Su Wen's Theory that Yin and Yang Should Be Like a Great Theory, "Strong fire is weak, and less fire is strong; Fire eats gas, gas eats less fire; Strong fire dissipates qi, and less fire leads to anger ",which means that a proper fire can nourish the heart, soften the tendons and warm the viscera, which is a normal physiological fire, and excessive fire hurts yin and body fluid, which is a pathological fire. "Whether the fire of the human body can be maintained at an appropriate scale depends on whether the mutual restriction of Yin and Yang can maintain the balance of growth and decline. If yin and yang are out of balance, it is difficult to keep the physiological fire at a suitable scale, whether it is full of yang or yin, whether it is big or small.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body is an organic whole, and the components of the human body are inseparable in structure, coordinated in function, used for each other in pathology, and influenced each other (inside must be outside). Although modern medicine, which pays attention to parts, does not emphasize the whole as much as traditional Chinese medicine, from the point of view of taking patients' temperature no matter what disease, modern medicine recognizes that body temperature is the same symbol to measure human health index. What is the temperature? It is the reaction of physiological fire or pathological fire to human body. The normal body temperature, that is, physiological fire, is always between 36.6℃ and 36.8℃ (underarm). Too high or too low, physiological fire has changed. The reason why clinicians should take the patient's temperature when making diagnosis and treatment of diseases (except for some special cases, taking the temperature is often an indispensable first procedure) is not to see whether the patient has pathological fire, nor to see whether the patient has signs of yin deficiency in yang or yang deficiency in yin, which is actually what it means.
4.2 improper diet
The physiological fire of human body is born, but after birth, in order not to fail and maintain life, people must constantly replenish it.
In nature, fire is a phenomenon that substances release energy (in the process of transformation). If there were no matter, there would be no burning, fire, light and heat. In the same way, the physiological fire of human body, although born, is not an ever-burning lamp. Just like a lamp, if you don't refuel it often, it will go out because of the exhaustion of oil consumption. It must be refueled frequently to continue. "the foundation of life lies in food" ("preparing a thousand dollars is the key to food"). "People are based on Shui Gu" (Su Wenping's People's Meteorology). "People's health mainly depends on whole grains. If they don't eat for a day, it will be difficult for them to starve to death. For people, in addition to getting oxygen through breathing, absorbing nutrients and water from food through diet is the best and only way to maintain and continue the physiological fire. Therefore, only when people eat properly will there be no shortage or excess of firepower. On the other hand, if you don't eat properly, the human body will have insufficient or excessive firepower. Nine times out of ten, the reason why the human body is poisoned by excessive yang and excessive fire due to yin deficiency is improper diet, and the heat energy provided by diet is far greater than the need to maintain and continue the physiological fire.
What is improper diet? Simply put, the diet is unreasonable and not suitable for people's physiological needs. People often say that picky eaters, partial eclipse, overeating, eating and drinking, eating until disgusting, acidophilic, spicy, meat-loving, eating and drinking, can not be improper.
4.3 the change of plastering beam
In the process of metabolism, the main way for the human body to absorb nutrients from the environment is diet, that is, drinking and eating. All functions of the human body depend on the Qi of Shuigu, Shui Gu's Qi nourishes the body, Shui Gu's Qi decomposes Shui Gu, and Shui Gu's Qi sustains life. Diet is an indispensable raw material for life. Food is the most important thing for the people (Shi Lichuan in the Later Han Dynasty). People depend on food to maintain their lives. If people don't eat or drink, they will die of thirst and hunger. People exist in the world by eating one word. People put their fingers in their mouths as soon as they come into the world, which fully shows that eating is an instinct of people. Without hunger and thirst for food and drink, people can't survive.
The knife cuts bread and fingers. Diet is the main source of physiological fire and pathological fire. Human ancestors have long discovered the phenomenon of heat-induced disease with strong taste and excessive heat depression, and realized that eating sweet fat can accumulate heat and be toxic, which can lead to diseases. For example, "Eating too much sweet and fat makes people feel internal heat, while sweetness makes people feel full, thus quenching thirst" (Su Wen Ice Cream Theory), saying that eating sweet fat can cause diabetes. Another example is "the change of the paste beam will lead to a big furuncle" ("Su Wentong's Theory of Strange Heaven"), which means that eating sweet fertilizer will lead to fatal diseases. The ancients called fat and fat meat "paste" and flour and rice such as polished rice and refined powder "beam". The commonly used "paste beam" generally refers to fat, flour and rice. The pathological changes caused by long-term diet of fat, sweet and thick foods are called "changes in paste beam". Is it clear about the sentence "the change of the paste beam will lead to a big boil"? Xue Xue said in "The Original Purpose of Medical Classics" that "the foot is full of gas, the energy is full of gas, and the taste is too strong. If it accumulates into excessive internal heat, it will cause a big furuncle. " ; Zhang Jingyue said in Jing Lei that "there is too much thick flavor, and if it is stored as excessive internal heat, there will be more boils"; In Huangdi Neijing, Tang Bing Wang commented that "people who paste beams have a lot of blood stasis and heat, so their skin is thick and their flesh is dense, so they have Ding Yi" ... Although everyone has different views, one thing is the same, that is, improper diet is easy to get angry.
4.4 Autogenous fire poison
In addition to food poisoning caused by improper diet, there are also natural fire poisoning caused by external environmental pollution, various accidents, air pollution and natural factors such as wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire, as well as external fire poisoning caused by external factors such as injuries from falls, burning rice, mosquito bites, earthquakes, car accidents, human weakness, fatigue and thirst. Natural fire poison produced by natural factors and exogenous fire poison produced by external factors are easy to attract widespread attention and avoid, so I won't talk about it here. Compared with natural factors and external factors, spontaneous fire poisoning caused by self-factors is not easy to attract widespread attention, because it has not attracted widespread attention, and there are many fire poisoning diseases caused by it.
4.4. 1 Autogenous fire poisoning diseases
In daily life, people often see people who have no symptoms of getting angry suddenly have symptoms of getting angry, such as hoarseness, aphtha, redness of eyes, herpes on the corners of the mouth and so on. Anyone who has experienced rage or rage knows that when he is furious, there will be a surge of anger in his heart, anger in his heart, and his chest seems to burst. When you fly into a rage, you will feel that the fire in your heart is exploding, or you will feel angry. Symptoms of excessive internal heat, such as hoarseness, sores on the tongue, redness of eyes, herpes on the corners of the mouth, surging anger, anger rushing to the heart, chest as if to burst, heart fire bursting, anger soaring, etc. , are spontaneous phenomena of fire poisoning. Such an obvious spontaneous fire poison phenomenon can also be seen in quarrels. After anxiety, anxiety, sadness, fatigue and staying up late.
The spontaneous phenomenon of fire and poison diseases in human body is often caused by the hyperactivity of monarch fire or phase fire, or the transformation of other substances in human body, or it may be out of thin air. Its spontaneous reasons are mostly due to yin-yang imbalance, dysfunction and dysfunction.
Chinese medicine believes that when the human body suffers from hunger, thirst, anxiety, anxiety, anger and other diseases or dangers. , it will be caused by visceral dysfunction and excessive yang, and the physiological fire of the human body will become pathological fire. In "Su Wen Tiaojing Lun", "Yin deficiency causes internal heat, while Yang excess causes external heat." "Yang is always abundant, and Yin is often insufficient" in Ge Zhi Yu Lun means that the human body is prone to get angry under the conditions of yin-yang imbalance, dysfunction and radiation imbalance, whether it is yin deficiency or yang exuberance, which is also a common problem of most people.
When it is difficult for us to understand how the human body produces spontaneous fire poison under the condition of "excess of yang and deficiency of yin", it will be instructive to refer to the discussion of diabetes in modern medicine. Modern medicine explains the formation mechanism of diabetes, saying that when the secretion function in human body is out of order, the glucose in the body can't enter muscles and other cells normally through the cell membrane, and the synthesis of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen will be reduced. When the body can't use glucose normally, it will cause abnormal decomposition of liver glycogen, protein and fat, and the decomposition of liver glycogen and the gluconeogenesis of protein and fat in the feedback will lead to an increase in blood sugar, but it can't enter muscles and other cells normally through the cell membrane, and there is still some glucose in the blood. After some people get diabetes, even if they don't eat foods that can easily lead to high blood sugar, even if they continue to take various hypoglycemic drugs, their blood sugar will continue to be high, just because there is a problem with endocrine function, and other substances in the body will be converted into glucose through decomposition. Although modern medicine does not directly point out that hyperglycemia and urine sugar of diabetes are a spontaneous fire-toxic reaction of traditional Chinese medicine, we can understand and think so. So the so-called spontaneous fire poison is an allergic reaction of some substances in the body.
4.4.2 Causality of spontaneous fire and poison
Autogenous fire poison can not only cause pathological changes in vivo, but also be the product of disease development. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that all diseases manifested as "yin deficiency and excessive fire" have the characteristics of both factors causing pathological changes and products of disease development, such as tuberculosis, hyperthyroidism, neurasthenia, hypertension, stroke, cirrhosis, etc., all of which are factors causing pathological changes and products of disease development. Even in patients with advanced cancer, there will be progressive emaciation, fever, enlarged lumps and local burning sensation.
The human body of "Yang is always abundant and Yin is often insufficient" is like an active volcano that constantly spews fire. It is difficult to recover the substances that have generated pathological fire in the body, so we can only keep making a fire. Therefore, in the human body, once spontaneous fire poison is produced, it may not disappear for a lifetime. Diabetes is called a lifelong disease because once you have diabetes, you may never be cured.