Chapter 206: The Essence of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty divided the causes into three categories in "Jin Kui Yaolu": "The meridians are affected by evil and enter the internal organs, which is caused by the internal cause", "the limbs and nine orifices, the blood is passed down from generation to generation, the congestion is blocked, and it is the external skin", "the room, the golden blade, and the insects and beasts are injured"!

"In modern times, the causes are divided into five categories: external causes: including six lewd causes (wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness, fire) and boils, and internal injury causes: including seven emotions (joy, anger, worry, sorrow, fear, fear), improper diet, and loss of work and rest!"

"Secondary causes: including phlegm, blood stasis, stones, other causes: including trauma, parasites, fetal transmission, poisons, medical treatment, the onset of evil qi and righteous qi war, determine the onset of the disease and the development of the disease. It is also known as the "division between good and evil"!"

"Evil qi" refers to various pathogenic factors, "righteous qi" refers to the human body's ability to repair and regulate, adapt to the environment, and resist disease, etc., and "insufficient righteousness" is the internal basis for the onset of the disease, that is, "where evil is made, its qi will be empty", "righteous qi is stored in the body, and evil cannot be done"!

"Physique, emotion, region, climate, etc., are closely related to the onset of the disease, and the pathogenesis is the mechanism of the occurrence, development and transmission of the disease, also known as "pathology", the basic pathogenesis includes: the rise and fall of evil, the imbalance of yin and yang, the abnormality of qi and blood, the abnormal metabolism of fluid and fluid, and the five endogenous evils, including: the internal movement of the wind, the cold from the middle, the dampness and turbidity from the inside, the injury and dryness, and the fire and heat!"

"Disease site transmission, including: surface and inside access, six meridian transmission, three focal transmission, Weiqiying blood transmission, viscera transmission, etc., disease transformation, including: cold and heat transformation, virtual and real transformation, etc.!"

"Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the vitality is incarnated by the innate essence, which is the most basic and important qi of the human body, which is hidden by the innate kidneys, nourished by the acquired spleen and stomach, and distributed and diffused throughout the body through the three focal points and meridians!"

"Like everyone who has made outstanding contributions to Chinese medicine from ancient times to the present: Qi Huang, the Holy Hand in Medicine, Bian Que, Hanging Pot, Xinglin, Tiger Shou, Reincarnation Hua Tuo, Qing Bag, Cangsheng Great Doctor, every one of them is a saint of Chinese medicine!"

"Traditional Chinese medicine has a complete theoretical system, and its uniqueness lies in the holistic view of "the unity of nature and man" and "the correspondence between heaven and man" and the differentiation of syndromes. The main features are:

"Traditional Chinese medicine believes that human beings are an integral part of the natural world, composed of two types of substances, yin and yang, which are opposed to each other and interdependent, and are always in motion and change!"

"In the normal physiological state, the two are in a dynamic balance, once this dynamic balance is destroyed, it is presented as a pathological state, and in the treatment of diseases, correcting the imbalance of yin and yang, it is not to take an isolated and static way to look at the problem, but from a dynamic point of view, that is, to emphasize the "perpetual motion concept"!

"Moreover, Chinese medicine also believes that man and nature are a unified whole, that is, "heaven and man are one", "heaven and man correspond", and the laws of human life activities and the occurrence of diseases are closely related to various changes in nature (such as seasonal climate, regional area, day and night, morning and dusk, etc.)!"

"People live in different natural environments and the degree of adaptation to the natural environment, and their physical characteristics and pathogenesis are also different. Therefore, when diagnosing and treating the same disease, we should pay more attention to the time, place, and person, and it is not the same!"

"Traditional Chinese medicine believes that all tissues and organs of the human body are co-located in a unity, both physiologically and pathologically interrelated and mutually influential, so it never looks at a physiological or pathological phenomenon in isolation, headache and foot pain, but treats the treatment and prevention of diseases from a holistic perspective, with special emphasis on the "holistic view"!"

"Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body is an organic whole, which is composed of several organs, tissues and organs, and each tissue and organ has its own different functions, which determines the overall unity of the body!"

"It is also believed that the unity of man and nature, there are necessary conditions for human survival in the natural world, and changes in the natural world can directly or indirectly affect the human body, and the body reacts accordingly, coordinates with each other in function, uses each other, and affects each other pathologically!"

"The three philosophical views of traditional Chinese medicine are modern and scientific based on images and analogies, and fractals were created by Americans in the last century, but fractals are similar concepts that China has had thousands of years ago!"

"Such as the famous yin and yang, the five elements are the oldest fractal view, the new discovery of Deng Yu in the last century, is to take the analogy, mathematics, and the modern scientificization of the analogy, that is, through analogy, symbolism to grasp the connection of the object world thinking method, the use of sensual, visual, intuitive concepts, symbols to express the abstract meaning of the object world!"

"In terms of treatment methods, traditional Chinese medicine is divided into deficiency tonic drugs, anti-surface medicines, heat-clearing drugs, warm medicines, qi regulating medicines, anti-appetite medicines, astringent medicines, rheumatism medicines, aromatic dampness drugs, water infiltration drugs, phlegm, cough and asthma medicines, tranquilizers, liver and wind medicines, blood circulation and stasis medicines, hemostatic drugs, laxative drugs, anthelmintic drugs, aromatic opening medicines!"

"Acupuncture and moxibustion are commonly used acupuncture points according to the meridians on the surface of the human body, and different needle insertion techniques, depths and angles are selected according to different conditions and acupuncture points!"

"The fourteen meridians are: Ren Meridian, Du Pulse, Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, Hand Yin Pericardial Meridian, Hand Yang Ming Large Intestine Meridian, Hand Sun Small Intestine Meridian, Hand Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian, Foot Yang Ming Stomach Meridian, Foot Sun Bladder Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Gall Meridian, Foot Taiyin and Spleen Meridian, Foot Shao Yin and Kidney Meridian, Foot Shao Yin and Liver Meridian!"

"Cupping therapy is a method of treating diseases by using a pot-like device to generate negative pressure in the pot by the effect of hot fire, adsorbed on the acupuncture points of the skin, causing local congestion and blood stasis!"

"Four diagnoses in traditional Chinese medicine: visiting, observing the patient's shape, complexion, tongue, and tongue coating, and determining the location and nature of the disease according to the changes in shape and color, which is called visiting. Looking at the shape of the body, we can know the rise and fall of the five organs, and Xuanqi has already discussed it!"

"Su Wen • The Subtlety of the Pulse" cloud: "The head, the shrewd house, the head tilts and looks deeply, the spirit will take away! The back, the house in the chest, the back bent shoulders, the house will be broken! The waist, the house of the kidneys, can't shake, the kidneys will be exhausted!"

"The knee, the house of tendons, can not bend and stretch, the line is pressed, the tendons will be exhausted! The brain is the house of the primordial gods, and the essence of kidney essence and biochemistry is enriched in it, so that the gods can be radiant and the thinking is quick!"

"The bitter head leans forward, and the eyes are sunken, which is the lack of the sea of marrow, and the phenomenon of the primordial spirit will be exhausted. The back is the chest cage, the heart and lungs are in the chest, the back is bent and the shoulders are followed, which is a symbol of the heart and lungs, and the waist is the part where the kidneys are located, which cannot be shaken, which is a manifestation of kidney function exhaustion!"

"Smell diagnosis, including listening to the sound and smelling the smell: first from the patient's various voices, from its high and low, slow, strong, turbidity to detect the method of disease, the voice is high-pitched: it is a righteous qi is not empty, it belongs to the heat evidence, the empirical evidence!"