1. Qigong and martial arts are not scientific fitness methods and should not be abused.

Recently, a piece of news has spread all over the Internet. Said a "representative of traditional martial arts is a 41-year-old player who calls himself Lei Lei, who is said to have practiced sanda at the Shichahai Sports School in Beijing and learned Yang-style Taiji, and then created a sect called Lei Gong Taiji." once threatened to crack the naked choke in the fight with one hand, which made people doubtful. ”

"Which is stronger or weaker between traditional martial arts and modern fighting? Maybe everyone has a different understanding and answer, and the reason why everyone's answer is different is because the players of these two schools have never had a face-to-face PK before, at most it is a verbal fight, and then it will be gone. And last night, in a battle between traditional martial arts and modern fighting, the result was a big surprise..."

"On behalf of modern fighting, 37-year-old Xu Xiaodong, Xu Xiaodong is very controversial in the circle, he is known as a fake, for "Wulin Feng" Yilong and other boxers rely on the referee to win, the practice of black foreign players is deeply disgusted, and the rhetoric is quite fierce, and many people have been offended because of these things. ”

The duel was held on the 27th, and after the two circled around twice, Xu Xiaodong took the initiative to attack, and hit Lei Lei's head continuously. Lei Lei waved his hands, couldn't parry, his body began to lean sideways, lost his center of gravity, and retreated a few steps in succession. Xu Xiaodong picked up his fist, smashed his head and face, and finally pressed Lei Lei to the ground, rode on his crotch, and slammed it violently, the outcome of the game was decided, and the whole process was only about 20 seconds. ”

By the time the self-proclaimed "Lei Gong Taiji" boxer stood up, his face was already covered with blood.

As a result, it sparked a heated discussion among Chinese netizens about the old and new boxing methods.

Some netizens said: "The so-called Tai Chi master is just a bluffing liar......" "I've seen too many Jin Yong's works." "There are too many swaggering and deceitful people, including the Shaolin Temple where the cowhide blows the ping-pong sound, and the actual combat is all vulnerable to attack!" "It's not that traditional martial arts can't do it, but that a master is actually just a skin." "Don't insult traditional martial arts with this kind of person who can only do three-legged cat kung fu. "Wait.

After reading these comments, I couldn't help but want to say a few words.

First of all, we need to understand what is traditional martial arts, and what is modern martial arts.

To be precise, it should be called Chinese traditional martial arts, which originated in ancient times and is derived from the principle of yin and yang in the Book of Changes, that is, the law of the unification of the binary system of yin and yang out of Tai Chi and Tai Chi and Tai Chi.

The earliest traditional Chinese martial arts should have originated in hunting and later applied to warfare, with the aim of strengthening the body and strengthening fighting ability in order to strike opponents. Later, after the transformation of martial artists, the principle of "I Ching" was introduced, and through gradual improvement, a hundred schools of thought were formed. In fact, no matter how many factions and routines there are, there is only one principle, which is to use the law of yin and yang balance to stimulate the increase of human spleen lymphocytes and adrenal aldosterone and cortisol in the human body through different boxing routines, so as to enhance blood circulation and mobilize the movement direction of spleen lymphocytes and adrenal aldosterone and cortisol to defend or attack the opponent.

In fact, what is qigong? In modern medicine, it is to increase the increase of spleen lymphocytes and adrenal aldosterone and cortisol, and the purpose is to stimulate the sudden increase of spleen lymphocytes and adrenal hormones aldosterone cortisol, so as to activate the body's ability to flee or fight, attack and defend.

Therefore, martial arts is not a perfect scientific fitness method, and the theory of yin and yang used in martial arts is a virtual hypothesis, which does not exist at all, and the so-called qigong is just an artificial sudden increase in spleen lymphocytes and adrenal aldosterone corticosteroids. Its purpose is only to enhance the body's offensive and defensive capabilities, and there is no solid scientific basis.

Therefore, traditional Chinese martial arts are only virtual hypotheticals, and there is a virtual and real distance between them and real fighting.

Needless to say, everyone knows that the real term should be Western hand-to-hand combat. Fighting is hand-to-hand sanda, using hand-to-hand combat as a means to attack the opponent with punches, using the body and arms to drive the hands to accumulate strength, to maximize the instantaneous explosive power, to attack or defend the opponent.

Recently, another report said: "Research led by scientists at the University of Birmingham has revealed new causes of high blood pressure that could lead to significant changes in the treatment of the disease."

High blood pressure is often overlooked, but if left untreated, it can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Studies estimate that one in four adults has high blood pressure, but most patients have no clear cause.

However, it is known that in up to 10% of people with high blood pressure, the overproduction of the adrenal hormone aldosterone (known as primary aldosteronism or Conn's syndrome) is the cause of the disease.

Now, for the first time, a study led by the University of Birmingham has found important results that a large number of people with Conn syndrome overproduce not only aldosterone, but also the stress hormone cortisol.

Professor Wiebke Arlt, Director of the Institute for Metabolic and Systems Research (IMSR) at the University of Birmingham, said: 'Our findings suggest that the adrenal cortex of many patients with Conn syndrome also produces too much cortisol, which ultimately explains the puzzling results of previous studies in Conn patients.

These previous studies have found increased rates of type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and depression in Conn patients, which are often produced by cortisol rather than aldosterone excess, also known as Cushing's syndrome.

The authors of the study, led by the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with a group of scientists from Germany, decided to call this new cause of hypertension - the overproduction of aldosterone and cortisol "Connshing syndrome".

Currently, many patients with Connshing syndrome are treated with drugs for adverse effects of aldosterone. However, this leaves cortisol excess untreated.

Dr. Katharina Lang, the study's second author and clinical instructor at IMSR, said: "These findings have the potential to transform clinical practice.

'Patients now need to be evaluated in more detail to clarify whether they have Conn or Connshing syndrome.

Previously, patients with Conn syndrome had never been evaluated for overproduction of other hormones, but this will now change as a result of the results of this study.

In addition, researchers will now need to investigate whether to treat Connshing patients with additional medications to counteract cortisol excess and thus improve their health outcomes. (205041 Fontainebleau)

The body needs cortisol to maintain normal physiological function during stressful situations, but if cortisol is not available. The body will not be able to respond effectively to stress. Without cortisol, when the lion came at us from the bushes, we would have been scared and stunned. However, with active cortisol metabolism, the body can kick in to escape or fight, because cortisol secretion releases amino acids (from muscles), glucose (from the liver), and fatty acids (from adipose tissue), which are transported into the bloodstream for energy.

Cortisol is particularly important in manipulating mood and health, immune cells and inflammation, blood vessels and blood pressure, and maintaining connective tissues such as bones, muscles, and skin. Under stress, cortisol generally keeps blood pressure stable and controls excessive inflammation.

Normally, the body controls cortisol secretion and regulates the amount of cortisol in the blood, but this is not always the case (and the latter is the case). Normal cortisol metabolism follows this circadian rhythm and is a 24-hour cycle, with cortisol levels reaching their highest in the morning (about 6-8 o'clock) and their lowest point in the early morning (about 0-2 o'clock). Cortisol levels usually drop abruptly between 8 a.m. and 12 a.m., followed by a slow downward trend throughout the day. Cortisol levels start to rise from their lowest point around 2 a.m., leaving us awake and ready for a stressful day. Breaking the pattern can cause cortisol levels to rise when they should be dropping.

We all have stress, and those who are experiencing repetitive stress, or who are on a diet, or who sleep less than 8 hours a night, are likely to be in a stressful situation for a long time, resulting in chronically high cortisol levels. At this point, the negative effects of cortisol begin to manifest themselves as changes in metabolism: increased blood sugar, increased appetite, weight gain, decreased sexual performance, and extreme fatigue. ”

Why is this article excerpted here in its entirety, and related it to traditional Chinese martial arts?

This is because whatever we say must be based on science, otherwise it is easy to mislead people into the virtual world and become propagandists of the false world.

Before writing about their associations, it is also necessary to understand what Yin and Yang Tai Chi is, what Qigong is, and what martial arts are.

The so-called yin and yang tai chi is the virtual conclusion reached by the ancient Chinese through observation of nature, assuming that there are yin and yang poles in matter, and there are ten phenomena in yin and yang poles, that is, yin and yang subtlety: 1. Yin and yang error. 2. Yin rot and yang coke. 3. Yin and Yang morality. 4. Yin and yang are rooted in each other. 5. Yin and yang. 6. Supporting the yang and suppressing the yin. 7. Yin descends and yang rises. 8. Yin fights for yang. 9. Yin and yang shift. 10. Yin and yang. These are the conclusions that the ancient Chinese came to by observing nature.

So are these conclusions correct? The answer is no.

The reason is that these conclusions are only natural phenomena, and the scientific method of "obtaining information by organizing a rigorously verified and credible solution to the problem" cannot support the scientific nature of the above natural phenomena, and the reason is that Chinese naturalism is a combination of intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, in fact, Chinese culture lacks objective thinking, which is the hard wound of ancient Chinese culture, and the most basic method of science is objective thinking, that is, reality is objective, and this is what Chinese culture does not have.

Therefore, it is said that ancient China only had scientific and technological methods, but no scientific methods.

Of course, this is easy to understand, all the thinking methods that cannot be practiced are not real scientific methods, simply put, practice is the standard for verifying the truth, and natural phenomena that cannot be practiced are naturally not the truth, so it is not surprising that Western philosophers and scientists do not recognize the ancient Chinese theory of Yin and Yang Tai Chi.

So what is Qigong and what is martial arts?

First of all, we understand what qigong is, which is actually a method of luck that mobilizes the spleen through the movement of lung qi. In modern medicine, it is explained that it is the process of increasing the production of lymphocytes and adrenal aldosterone and cortisol in the spleen, and the process of qigong exercise is the process of increasing the production of lymphocytes and adrenal hormones in the spleen. Qigong is mainly a process of mobilizing spleen lymphocytes to take over the heart muscle and promote the increase of adrenal hormones to a certain part of the human body.

So what does adrenal hormone do? Adrenal hormone is the element that the body can activate to escape or fight through active cortisol metabolism. It is also the so-called kung fu preached by Chinese qigong masters, and this qigong kung fu is the cortisol in the adrenal hormones at work.

I'll give you an example to illustrate this, for example, a qigong master said that he has moved his qi into his stomach, and he can be invulnerable here, so you really use a knife to cut his belly, you really can't cut his belly, so you must believe that he has real kung fu, but in fact, this is just the result of the body's conditioned reflex suddenly increasing the amount of adrenal hormone response, and the cortisol in adrenal hormone is the reflex function that bears the body's self-protection in a sudden state. Capable of activating the function of escape or fighting.

Modern science tells us that all this is due to the cortisol in the adrenal hormones, and the main role of cortisol in the human body is to suddenly surge and instantly move the increase of cortisol to protect the human body from injury. This is the reason for the emergence of hard qigong by Chinese qigong masters. It may seem mysterious, but it's as simple as that.

Of course, it comes from the adrenal glands, which are located above the kidneys on both sides and are important organs of human endocrine, and the steroid hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex, that is, cortisol, are mainly used to regulate the water-salt metabolism and sugar metabolism in the animal body, and the auxiliary function is to surge blood flow and promote blood circulation, and cortisol can maintain the normal physiological functions of the human body under stress.

So what does adrenaline hormone do? Adrenal hormone can strengthen myocardial contractility, increase excitability, accelerate blood conduction, and increase the blood gas output of the heart. To put it simply, epinephrine has the function of controlling myocardial pressure and heart blood transfusion.

Qigong is to consciously mobilize the stock of adrenal cortisol in a certain part of the human body through artificial pressurization, enhance the anti-stress and anti-blow ability of the human cortex, and realize the positive defense function of the human body, so as not to "When the lion comes to us from the bushes, we can only be frightened and unable to move." "That's what you see as the invulnerability of the qigong master, and that's why the adrenal cortisol is responsible for the escape or fighting function.

This is the scientific explanation of qigong and martial arts.

That's the crux of this article, and that's where it gets to the point.

Adrenal hormones have the effect of regulating the pressure of the heart muscle, and the lymphocytes of the spleen also have the effect of enhancing the function of the heart and blood, which is the cause of high blood pressure. When the human adrenal hormones and spleen lymphocytes are out of balance, the heart will be naturally pressurized, and if the heart is pressurized for a long time, hypertensive heart disease will naturally occur.

That's why I'm excerpting this article in its entirety.

"For the first time, a study led by the University of Birmingham found an important result" that when you are in a state of proliferation or decrease in adrenal hormones and spleen lymphocytes for a long time, the pressure or decrease of the heart muscle is the natural response of the body's organs, and high blood pressure or hypoglycemia naturally occurs.

The reason is so simple, the function of regulating water, salt metabolism and sugar metabolism in animals is dysfunctional, and cardiology naturally appears.

This shows that the research of scientists at the University of Birmingham is correct, and the announcement of this research should sober up the Chinese.

This study clearly tells us that Qigong is not something that everyone can practice casually. In the case of not being able to correctly regulate adrenal hormones and spleen lymphocytes, it is best not to exercise qigong, the reason is that when you practice qigong, you will inevitably produce excessive adrenocortical hormones and spleen lymphocytes to mobilize the blood flow of the human body.

In fact, this is the fundamental reason why people who exercise qigong are prone to sudden cardiomyopathy, and it is also the pathological reason why people are prone to high blood pressure or hypoglycemia if they sulk for a long time.

Once a person sulks, it is actually the phenomenon of increasing spleen, and the spleen in traditional Chinese medicine is actually the spleen lymphocytes of Western medicine.

Practice has proved that people who have sulked for a long time will have a greatly higher chance of getting hyperbaric heart disease, which is actually the process of increasing the lymphocytes of the spleen, and the exercise process of qigong is also a mechanical process of increasing the lymphocytes of the human spleen.

Some middle-aged and elderly people who have been exercising Tai Chi Gong for a long time are originally very healthy, but one morning, when they are exercising Tai Chi Gong, they suddenly have a heart attack, and the journey of life ends in an instant, which is related to the excessive increase in adrenal corticosteroids and lymphocytes in the spleen. Lamentable?

What is the scientific method? Science is the world of objective cognition, which exists in logical thinking. That is to say, without objective and idealistic objective thinking, it is impossible to obtain scientific methods of thinking. Relying only on superficial phenomena to see the results, and when it comes to relying on scientific methods to find the cause, I don't know how many people have paid the price of blood.

However, there are still countless people who are obsessed with yin and yang Tai Chi and tout yin and yang to the sky, in fact, the ancient Chinese theory of yin and yang is only a virtual hypothesis, which cannot be verified by modern scientific methods, and can only recognize its rationality, but cannot be popularized and applied as a scientific method. This is also the fundamental reason why the ancient Chinese Yin-Yang Science could not go to the world.

The findings of the University of Birmingham show that under unscientific methods, fabricated virtual products can often mislead and produce undesirable side effects, because of the constraints of the conditions, I have not been able to verify the association between qigong and high blood pressure.

However, I still have to warn those middle-aged and elderly people who are practicing qigong that if you want to stay away from hyperbaric heart disease, you had better do more calm exercises, mainly walking, and moderate exercise. In the case that science cannot verify the truth of qigong, please do not choose qigong as a means of fitness, and at the same time maintain a peaceful mind, and do not do things such as anger, anger, fear, Intense exercise and other things that are harmful to myocardial function, not to mention the increase in adrenal corticosteroids and spleen lymphocytes, what kind of qigong exercises, add unhelpful pressure to the heart, and wait until you really suffer from high blood pressure, and think that it is a heart disease caused by other reasons, ignoring the increase of adrenal corticosteroids and spleen lymphocytes can cause the pathological cause of high blood pressure.

Why is it that people with a calm heart can also be said to have a smiling face, and people who have no heart and lungs rarely have high blood pressure? In fact, it is very simple, if you do not put pressure on the heart muscle, how can you have high blood pressure? Some people say that high blood pressure is caused by genetics and diet, but if your heart muscle is in a peaceful state for a long time, blood pressure will not rise naturally, and adrenocortical hormones and spleen lymphocytes will not put pressure on the heart muscle for no reason, and the blood of the heart will circulate to the whole body.

This also fully shows that the increase of adrenocorticosteroid and spleen lymphocytes is an important reason for the compression of the myocardium, the acceleration of blood circulation, and the increase of blood pressure. It is hoped that qualified Chinese scientists can use scientific methods as soon as possible to verify the scientificity of this inference, verify the correlation between qigong and martial arts and adrenocorticosteroids and spleen lymphocytes, give Chinese a real, scientific, understanding of qigong and martial arts, and let Chinese correctly understand what qigong and martial arts are.

Therefore, if you just want to get fit, you'd better not practice qigong or martial arts, because qigong and martial arts are not completely scientific fitness methods, but just fighting methods produced by human beings according to their own natural reflexes in order to escape or attack. It's just a way to artificially increase the increase of adrenal aldosterone cortisol hormone and spleen lymphocytes under the natural conditioned reflex of the human body to compress the myocardium and increase blood circulation.

At the same time, it also confirms that qigong is an extraordinary means of mobilizing the spleen, and in the case of increasing the number of lymphocytes in the spleen, the spleen supplies blood, filters blood, and produces lymphocyte immunity, which has the negative effect of increasing and damaging the function of the spleen.

At the same time, it also confirms a problem, that is, most Tai Chi descendants do not live long, and many so-called Tai Chi masters with high skills do not live long. The problem is that if you really practice qigong, you have to increase the amount of cortisol in the human body, increase the level of cortisol in the human body.

Especially between 6-8 o'clock in the morning, the level of human cortisol is the highest during this time period, and this time period is very unsuitable for practicing qigong, practicing qigong is to increase the increase of human cortisol, otherwise it is not qigong. If you intentionally increase your cortisol levels at the highest levels in your body, it is undoubtedly equivalent to chronic suicide. Consciously and long-term insistence on increasing the content of cortisol in the human body, mobilizing the movement law of the spleen, increasing the content of cortisol in certain human organs, and increasing the ability of the myocardium to mobilize blood circulation without restriction will inevitably lead to myocardial damage and increase the probability of hyperbaric heart disease.

Therefore, ordinary people should not involve yin and yang spells such as qigong martial arts as much as possible, these things can only be mastered freely by people like Ma Yun and Ma Huateng, ordinary people should take a walk calmly and quietly, this is the truth.

2. Annotate the hexagram of humility

The 15th hexagram of Zhou Yi, the Qian hexagram (Dishan Qian), Kun Shang Gen Xia.

The original text of the hexagram

Humility (1). Heng, the gentleman has an end (2).

(1) Humility and respect. "Sayings". Focus on inner deference and prudence, humility, not complacency, not arrogance. (2) Finally, silk also. "Sayings".

Notes: Humility and deference and prudence produce a smooth and auspicious effect. Principled people do things from beginning to end.

The elephant said: There are mountains in the earth, humility. The gentleman is more than the few, and the thing is even.

Note: There is a Gen on the kun, and the Lord is humble. A gentleman should collect more and more than he can, divide the goods equally, and give alms fairly.

The sixth day of the first month

The sixth day of the first month. Humble gentleman, with the big river, auspicious.

Note: A humble and cautious person can enjoy the famous mountains and rivers, auspicious.

As the elephant says: A humble gentleman, humble to self-shepherd.

Note: A humble and cautious person, who lives by self-husbandry.

Sixty-two resignations

Sixty-two. Naru-hime, Jungyoshi.

Note: It is certainly auspicious to publicize the truth of humility to the outside world.

Xiang said: Ming Qian Zhenji, the center is also.

Note: The doctrine of humility is certainly auspicious and focuses on inner deference and prudence.

Ninety-three resignations

Ninety-three. Lao Qian gentleman, there is a final auspiciousness.

Note: A person who is industrious, humble, and principled is auspicious after all.

Xiang said: Lao Qian gentleman, all the people are served.

Note: Those who are industrious, humble, and principled will be obeyed by all people. (, up to the metaphysical again.) ）

June Fourth Speech

June Fourth. No disadvantage (1), 撝 (2) humble.

(1) Liquan also. Xu Shen's "Sayings". (2) Pick and wave.

Note: There is no such thing as a man who cannot go up or down, only a man who is good at using humility.

Xiang said: No disadvantage, humility, no violation.

Note: There is no Li Cheng who cannot go up and down, only people who are good at using humility and do not violate principles.

Sixty-five remarks

Sixty-five. It is not rich and its neighbors, and there is no disadvantage in using the invasion.

Note: It is an inevitable phenomenon of human society that it is not rich and its neighbors are not rich, and they take advantage of their weaknesses to invade them, and there is no profit that cannot go up and down.

Xiang said: Use the invasion, and the levy is not satisfied.

Note: Take advantage of its weakness to invade it, and refuse to accept it.

On the sixth line

On Six. Ming Qian, using the teacher, conquered the country.

Notes: Publicize the doctrine of humility to the outside world, use fast mobile armies, conquer territories, and expand the territory.

Xiang said: Ming Qian, the ambition is not obtained, you can use the teacher, conquer the country.

Note: Spreading the truth of humility to the outside world, the ambition has not yet been determined, and it is possible to use a rapidly mobile army to conquer the territory and expand the territory.

Judging from this hexagram, it is an article by the ancients that clearly stated the principle of humility. The hexagram is simple and clear, concisely explaining that humility can bring auspicious truths, and humility can also be the truth of conquering and expanding the country.

It can be summed up in four sentences:

Respectful and prudent,

Collect more and give less to public welfare.

The inner high and the outer low are dominant,

Conquer the division and expand the territory.