Original Guo Yaning In plain language, traditional Chinese medicine
Yin and Yang and Five Elements are actually a classification method for the ancients to study the world. It is not as mysterious as we have heard of. In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, use the water circulation and directions of southeast, southwest and northwest to explain it, and try to make abstract things simple and easy to understand. So what is the relationship between Yin and Yang and Five Elements and our health?
In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, the most important thing in the human body is the vital energy and its operating rules. If the vital energy is strong and smooth, people will be healthy. If the vital energy is weak or poor, people will get sick. Therefore, there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine:
People's birth, old age, sickness and death depend on their breath. The strength and smooth operation of vital energy determine whether they are healthy. The operating rules of vital energy are to follow this circle in a circle while constantly rising and falling. If the vitality is weak, or it is blocked, or the direction is wrong, this is because of the influence of the disease and is about to get sick. This is the reason why traditional Chinese medicine treats diseases, it is very simple.
In addition to the general law of yin and yang rise and fall, there are also some key points corresponding to the five elements, which are the five elements of the human body. When the five elements are used on the human body, it has a new name, the five internal organs.
in traditional Chinese medicine is different from the organs and organs we are familiar with. The five internal organs mentioned here are still very different from the anatomical pictures we usually see, or the organs we actually see.
For example, "heart", the heart hides the spirit and controls the mind. In other words, some mental problems are also controlled by the heart, such as common insomnia and dreams, but now we go to the hospital, these are the problems of going to the psychiatric department, and they have nothing to do with the heart.
Secondly, some problems in the vascular system are related to the heart, which is the same as modern medicine regarding the function of the heart. The heart is a hub of blood circulation throughout the body, and it is responsible for bringing blood pressure to the whole body. So what traditional Chinese medicine talks about is not just the heart function we are familiar with, it has more meanings.
For example, as the liver, as the detoxification organ of the human body, when our blood flows through the liver, the toxin garbage in the blood will be decomposed and cleaned up, so that the blood is clean and the blood vessels will not be blocked. This function is called "relieving and venting" in traditional Chinese medicine, that is, clearing and excreting.
Therefore, the liver in traditional Chinese medicine not only contains the functions of the liver, but also has other abilities, just like venting and venting. The blood vessels that require this function in the human body, such as the vas deferens and fallopian tubes of the reproductive system, and meridians, all need to be kept unobstructed. So these are what traditional Chinese medicine calls the liver to maintain.
Not only that, the tendons of the human body, that is, the tendons, are also belong to the liver duct. This is obvious that the difference between the five internal organs mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine and the organs in our ordinary cognition. The five internal organs mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine have a wider range. For example, the common disease hypertension is caused by the excessive pressure on blood vessels.
Because there is too much garbage in the blood, the blood is sticky, and the garbage is attached to the blood vessel wall. In this way, the blood vessel wall will become thicker and harder, gradually losing its elasticity, but the blood flow rate will not change, but the blood vessel channel will become narrower again, which causes the occurrence of hypertension .
Generally speaking, when treating hypertension, people will think of controlling blood pressure first, but this is not a long-term solution, because the garbage in the blood is still there and the blood vessel wall has not changed back to its original appearance. Therefore, to treat hypertension, we still need to clean the blood and unclog the blood vessels. At this time, it is time for our liver to appear. In our daily cognition, is the liver related to hypertension?
Note: The liver in traditional Chinese medicine theory represents the overall functional system of the five internal organs, which is relatively abstract. The use of simple diagrams is just to facilitate everyone to understand
The kidney is responsible for bone marrow production, so traditional Chinese medicine needs to nourish the kidney first when treating bone diseases. In modern medicine, it is generally necessary to relieve pain first, but traditional Chinese medicine does not. It will only find ways to relieve pain unless the pain is too severe, such as medicines to remove wind and dampness, but this type of medicine often consumes people's vitality.So it’s not that the pain is so painful that it can’t be tolerated, Chinese medicine only thinks about how to cure bone lesions.
What is the relationship between the five internal organs and vital energy? From this point of view, the five internal organs of traditional Chinese medicine are a system, which contains a large range, not only organs that can be seen by the naked eye, but also things like meridians and vital energy that are invisible and intangible. For example, the liver is responsible for dispersing and releasing, and the liver is included, but the invisible and exquisite parts of the liver help the human body to clean up blood and garbage are understood through the classification method of traditional Chinese medicine.
The five internal organs of traditional Chinese medicine, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, are all the running states of vital energy, or different positions of vital energy. Their relationship is as follows:
So the function of the five internal organs in traditional Chinese medicine is the function of vital energy in different parts of the body. These functions can be found in nature, such as water circulation. The metal, wood, water, fire, earth, heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys in the five elements are just code names for the movement of a certain part of the vital energy and cannot point to specific substances.
The above picture is the Five Elements Bagua diagram that we often see in various places, marking the order of mutual generation and restraint between the five elements. The specific one is as follows:
Coincarnation: The liver belongs to wood, produces heart fire, heart fire produces spleen earth, spleen earth produces lung metal, lung metal produces kidney water, kidney water produces liver wood.
Incompatible: liver wood overcomes spleen earth, spleen earth overcomes kidney water, kidney water overcomes heart fire, heart fire overcomes lung metal, lung metal and then overcome liver wood.
After Ming Dynasty , the five elements diagrams were all related like in the picture above, until Huang Yuanyu studied the Yin and Yang and Five Elements. He pointed out that the five elements marked on this picture are completely wrong: According to Huang Yuanyu, the five elements diagram should be like this: The human body's vitality is running, centered on the spleen and stomach (earth)
The spleen is responsible for rising and driving the vital energy upwards.
Yang deficiency diseases are related to the spleen
The stomach is responsible for descending and driving the vital energy downwards.
yin deficiency diseases are related to the stomach
This little change of the five elements directly established his position in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. His core policy: to cultivate Middle-earth. It is also discovered from this that is supported by yang and suppressing yin.
According to Huang Yuanyu's five elements diagram, if the vital energy of the human body is compared to a wheel, the spleen and stomach are equivalent to the hub (the axis in the middle), and the other four organs each occupy four directions and operate according to the regularity, and the four organs correspond to the four seasons:
The ancients said that the unity of man and nature is in line with the time of heaven and nourish the body twice the result with half the effort. Just like today's scientists are studying rockets. Rockets must be launched in the direction of the earth's rotation and revolution. If the earth's rotation and revolution are not taken into account, and the reverse direction is launched, the rocket must be equipped with hundreds of tons of fuel. Of course, the lighter the rocket, the easier it is to launch successfully, so of course the success rate will be higher according to the rules. The principles of human health and launching rockets are actually the same.
summer heart fire prevails. With the change of time, heart fire should decline. In this way, in autumn and winter, lung metal and kidney water will not be too cold. On the contrary, in the late winter, kidney water should go up, and liver wood and heart fire will not be overheated in the next spring and summer. This is a normal cycle to ensure that the body maintains neutral "warm".
There is a professional term in traditional Chinese medicine to describe this good state. "Water and fire are in harmony", but if the stomach qi is insufficient in summer, there is not enough strength to drive the heart fire downward, the heat above cannot be lowered, and the lungs and kidneys below cannot be warmed, and the situation of being heated above and cold below will occur.
But while getting angry, the legs below are cold again.
In summer, do not avoid food, be greedy for cold, eat raw and cold, blow air conditioner, and hurt your stomach bit by bit, which will plant the root of the cold. Therefore, cold symptoms must be treated in summer to remove the root.
Similarly, traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture also causes more acupuncture in the lower body, such as headaches, and leg pain , which is more likely to be on the back and shoulders.
Whether it is acupuncture, moxibustion, scraping, cupping, massage, as long as it is related to traditional Chinese medicine, it must be divided into two methods: supplement and ejaculation.
acupuncture twist and replenish the vent "to the left is to replenish, to the right is to replenish", combined with the yang rising from the left, the yin falling from the right, and the left liver mixes wood, the main energy rises, the right lung mixes metal, and the main energy falls:
As the saying goes, "cover spring and cold in autumn", the vitality begins to emerge in spring, just like a sapling that needs protection, so you need to keep warm at this time, and in autumn, the vitality should drop. You should not wear too much. If you cover too warmly, the vitality will easily reverse. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "floating in deficiency fire" the most harmful to lung energy , which is prone to cough, so you should keep warm.
Nowadays, people like to do the opposite. They wear skirts in winter and eat watermelons in summer, and eat cold drinks for their children and families without knowing anything. As a result, they become weaker and weaker, and their health is getting worse and worse, and the gain is not worth the loss.
Use cold and cool things to regulate the body. You must use warm prescriptions to strengthen the spleen and stomach. Only by harmonious yin and yang can we protect our vitality. This is the most basic thing in the yin and yang five elements.
When studying medicine, Huang Yuanyu, the five elements of life and disaster are unknown to
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