Huangdi Neijing summarizes the method of "calmness and nothingness", and points out that if people can keep a cheerful and quiet mental outlook and correctly handle accidents, they can rest their true qi and prolong their life.
Ancient health care experts regarded emotional regulation as a good medicine to treat diseases. Doctors pay more attention to emotional regulation. Wang Qishi, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, believed that the combination of seven emotions and drug treatment was the basis for preventing and treating deficiency syndrome. Cheng, a medical scientist in Qing Dynasty, pointed out: "When the seven emotions arise, they should still be used to overcome and adjust. If you don't understand them, you will gain weight if you rely on drugs. " Traditional Chinese medicine and psychotherapy have various forms, which can be summarized as follows:
Reasoning-inspired psychotherapy: this psychotherapy originated from Huangdi Neijing and mainly includes four aspects. The first is to "tell failure", that is, to point out the disease and its harm and arouse patients' attention to the disease. The second is "words are good", which means that as long as we cooperate with medical staff, treat them in time and take proper measures, we can restore health and enhance patients' confidence in overcoming diseases. The third is "guiding according to its convenience", that is, telling patients how to recuperate and pointing out specific measures for treatment. Fourth, "open to its pain" means understanding the patient's negative psychological state.
Emotional psychotherapy: This method originated from Huangdi Neijing, saying "Anger hurts the liver, sadness is better than anger", "Happiness hurts, fear is better than happiness", "Thinking hurts the spleen, anger is better than thinking", "Sorrow hurts the lungs, joy is better than worry" and "Fear hurts the kidney, thinking is better than fear". Practice has proved that it is effective to treat diseases caused by emotions according to this psychotherapy.
Shock psychotherapy: this is a method of using mental stimulation to treat human physiological dysfunction. "Lingshu" contains "Bang, it's shocking."
For example, the doctor said to the anxious patient under hypnosis: "After this treatment, your mood will soon become calm, and there will be no more anxiety and anxiety. Your headache will soon be relieved or disappeared, your sleep will improve day by day, and you will sleep soundly and deeply. "