No matter what method is used in TCM conditioning, the core around it has always been qi, either nourishing vitality or exorcising evil spirits. Vitality is the essence of our life, our weapon against all diseases and the guarantee of our longevity, so we must be in good condition and energetic.
We have told you the meaning of the word health before: in ancient times, living was enrichment, and health was fluency. Together, these two words mean fullness and fluency. When vitality is full and running smoothly, the human body is naturally healthy.
We want to achieve the goal of good health, that is, to keep energetic and run smoothly at all times. Explaining the meaning of the word health is a bit too academic and official. Let's look at the folk saying.
There is an old saying: Spring covers the autumn. When I was a child, the old people at home always asked us to wear more clothes in spring to avoid catching cold, but in autumn, don't wear too much at once. Why is this?
Because spring is the time when vitality rises, it will be smoother to keep warm, and once you catch a cold, your vitality will shrink. Then why does it freeze in autumn? In autumn, your energy will begin to slowly decline. If you wear too thick, your vitality will drop and you will easily get angry.
There is also a disease called winter disease and summer treatment, because most of the diseases in winter are diseases invaded by cold pathogens and wet pathogens, and summer is full of vitality. At this time, it can get twice the result with half the effort to treat diseases caused by cold and dampness.
For example, if you have a cold and fever, Chinese medicine and western medicine have different treatment concepts. Western medicine advocates using ice cubes to reduce fever physically, while Chinese medicine perspires, so that all pathogenic factors are excreted with sweat, and the body will be much better immediately.
There are also some intractable diseases, because the channels of vitality, that is, meridians, are blocked by cold and dampness, and then the blocked places will agglomerate, so the road of vitality is blocked.
Stagnant vitality, huddled together. Finally, people will gradually become weaker, so weak that people will not live. Vitality is a fair thing. It will not become much because people are rich and powerful, but as long as you take good care of your body and ensure that you are full of vitality, you will always be healthy.
So this one thing shows that at any time, health comes first and everyone is equal before vitality. What is the most important, life is the most important, health is the most important, longevity is the most important, vitality is the most important.
Persist in strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and chronic diseases that have not been cured for a long time can gradually improve or even fully recover. It is because we have grasped the root of health and targeted at people's vitality.
Huang Yuanyu put forward:
Cultivating Middle-earth is like strengthening the national army. When the army is strong, foreign invaders will have no chance. With sufficient vitality, you can resist all diseases and pathogens, and you can't get close to them. For the pathogens that are already in the body, replenish the vitality and regulate with small prescriptions to make the vitality sufficient and the pathogens go away.
Mr Guo once had a patient. Old people eat 265,438+0 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine every day. His son was afraid that he wouldn't remember, so he specially prepared a medication schedule and posted it at home.
Regardless of whether these 2 1 drugs can cure diseases, the damage of these drugs to the spleen and stomach is already very serious. These drugs were taken orally in a short time, and they all fought in their stomachs.
At present, taking multiple drugs at the same time is very serious. According to the statistics of the International Health Organization, 70% of the people in the world died not from the disease itself, but from drugs.
There is a saying called "three-point governance and seven-point cultivation", which is vitality. It is necessary to keep vitality fully and smoothly running. We made an analogy before. Qi and blood are more important to a writer than money, while the spleen is a rake for hiding money and the kidney is a box for saving money.
Strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach means repairing the rake to save more money, and the money will become thicker and thicker. So besides strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, what other good methods can dredge the blocked meridians in the body?
If you use drugs, the drugs that unblock the blockage are generally cold. Although it takes effect quickly, it does great harm to the body, and in the long run, it will aggravate the pathogenic wind, cold and dampness in the body. The difference between these drugs is that they have strong efficacy but great harm and slow action but little harm.
So how do we solve this cold problem? Cold medicine and hot medicine are mixed. When using cold medicine, you must first protect your vitality with drugs that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, so as to offset the side effects brought by cold medicine to the body.
Of course, there is no such problem with the drugs for strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation. It is the medicine that strengthens the body resistance, strengthens the spleen and nourishes the stomach. It takes a long time to see the effect. As for cold medicine, as long as the symptoms disappear, stop taking it immediately and don't eat more. Then besides cold medicine, there is acupuncture, which is the most common one now, and its effect can replace cold medicine.
Scraping and pressing stilts in traditional Chinese medicine can't compare with massage shops and beauty salons on the roadside now. Scraping pays special attention to:
A little warm moxibustion should be added after scraping and tonic therapy, and cupping should be added after scraping and catharsis therapy. Specifically, how this person is suitable for shaving depends on symptoms and physique. The kind that only scratches the back and gives birth to a child is simply wrong.
As mentioned earlier, Mr. Guo's acupuncturist learned from a master in the mountains. After the injection, people who can't stand up can walk with crutches. If he insists on treatment, his condition will get better and better. Why can he stand up? The reason is that after acupuncture, the meridians are temporarily opened and people can stand up.
But it can only be temporary, because the garbage in the blocked blood vessels and the evil of wind, cold and dampness in the meridians are still there and have not been discharged, so the dredging effect after acupuncture can only be maintained for a period of time. If you want the meridians to be completely unblocked, you must add prescription to replenish your vitality on the basis of acupuncture. It is only a matter of time before the meridians are completely unblocked.
Teacher Guo's master of acupuncture, Master Liu, is not only good at acupuncture, but also a master of practicing qi, so every needle he applies is full of qi. Some severe patients are like sequelae of cerebral thrombosis, and the master may have to prick 100 needles at a time, which is no different from ordinary doctors. One hundred stitches with gas, very tired, very gas-consuming.
The needle made of bian stone is completely different from the needle made of metal now. From the five elements, bian stone belongs to soil and is a nourishing metal. Ordinary metal has a chilling spirit, because gold is chilling, and using it to give people needles sometimes hurts our vitality.
Acupuncture is more complicated, so you must find a professional acupuncturist or doctor to do it. You can usually use moxibustion at home. Besides strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, like Zhongwan Zusanli, we can use moxa sticks to moxibustion for half an hour at a time, and the effect is also very good.
There is a saying in Chinese medicine called:
This means that if you want to be healthy, Zusanli should always have moxibustion. Monks in temples are generally in good health. In addition to regular routine and practice, they often moxibustion Zusanli under the guidance of their master.
Acupuncture and moxibustion are two good ways to regulate health besides taking medicine. Of course, moxibustion can be done at home for us ordinary people. As for what diseases and acupoints are used in moxibustion, we should make different judgments not only according to the symptoms, but also according to the patient's physique.
We talked about so much knowledge one after another. I wonder how much you can master. If you don't know anything, you must carefully read what we said before, because Chinese medicine should be rigorous and not sloppy at all. In the next issue, we will make a general summary of what we talked about during this period.
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