Classic Chinese Medicine Health Famous Sayings

The most widely circulated TCM health-preserving classics that have truly withstood hundreds of years of clinical verification and folk practice test, none of them will make you blindly supplement or overly torment your body. The core logic is "accord with nature and others, and do not work hastily" - to put it bluntly, follow the rhythm of heaven and earth and your own body rhythm, and don't always do your health a disservice. Those who open their mouths and say "a certain famous saying can cure all diseases" are probably tied to product marketing, don't believe it.

It is estimated that the first thing many people think of is "if you cover yourself with spring and autumn frost, you will not suffer from miscellaneous diseases." I really didn't believe this in the past few years. The spring in Jinan was very windy. As soon as March arrived, I was in a hurry to show my ankles and wear a thin coat. As a result, I had two springs in a row. I had allergic rhinitis, and my head was spinning from sneezing. When I went to see an old Chinese doctor I knew well for an acupuncture, the old man tapped the Sanyinjiao on my ankle and said, "If you don't cover it in spring, the cold evil will get into your bones. Your rhinitis is caused by the cold." ”Later, I wore long socks for two months, and sure enough, I didn't do it again in autumn. However, this is not universally applicable. I was chatting with a classmate from the Southern Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine before, and he said that most doctors with febrile diseases would not let patients in Guangdong and Fujian to cover themselves in the spring. The temperature there is 30 degrees in spring, and the humidity and heat are severe. Covering your body with sweat can easily cause wind, fever, and colds. In autumn, the temperature is still high, and the so-called "autumn freeze" is even more meaningless. Instead, you need to prevent autumn dryness. In the final analysis, you have to adapt to local conditions.

Speaking of daily habits, the sentence in "Suwen·Xuanming Five Qi" "Long looking hurts blood, long lying down hurts Qi, long sitting hurts flesh, long standing standing hurts bones, and long walking hurts tendons" is definitely underestimated by modern people. Many of my friends who work in new media use their mobile phones to edit videos for more than ten hours every day. They often suffer from dry eyes, hair loss, and low blood pressure. They always want to take some donkey-hide gelatin and red dates to supplement them. In fact, the root cause is that long-term viewing damages the liver and blood. No amount of supplements will be as effective as two hours less of using the mobile phone. Some people always think that "lying down is to maintain health." My mother lay down for a full week after she became positive last year. She was fine when she turned negative, but she felt dizzy, weak in her feet, and had no strength to speak. She went to a community hospital for rehabilitation. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine said that lying down for a long time hurt her Qi, and her Qi was dispersed by lying down. He told her to go downstairs and walk slowly for 20 minutes every day instead of lying down all the time. She recovered within three days. Of course, I don’t want you to act blindly. A reader with an old knee injury asked me if I should follow the blogger’s KPI of 10,000 steps a day. I directly advised her not to do it. Traditional Chinese medicine doctors in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology say that walking for a long time will damage the tendons. If you already have knee problems, walking hard will put a burden on the joints. Walking three to four thousand steps a day and sweating a little is enough.

Anyone who has children at home has probably heard that "if you want your children to be safe, you have to worry about hunger and cold." My best friend really believes this. In the past, the old man in her family was always afraid that the baby would be hungry or cold, so he would rush to feed her and dress her like a little rice dumpling in the winter. As a result, the baby would eat up every now and then, develop a fever, and have to go to the hospital once every half month. Later, I listened to the advice of a pediatrician. I only ate seven-cent full meals at each meal and wore one less piece of clothing than adults. Occasionally, I would boil some hawthorn water and drink it if I ate too much. Now my child is almost five years old and has not had a cold in half a year. However, I have to mention that if the child is born prematurely and has a weak spleen and stomach, don’t stick to this standard. You must supplement when you need it, and keep warm when you need it. There is never a one-size-fits-all approach to health care.

There is also a very controversial saying that "eating ginseng is not as good as sleeping at five o'clock." Traditional Chinese medicine talks about Ziwu Liuzhu, which believes that Zishi (23 o'clock to 1 o'clock) nourishes the gallbladder, and Chou Shi (1 o'clock to 3 o'clock) nourishes the liver. You must fall asleep during this time to nourish your qi and blood, so it has always been advocated to go to bed early and get up early. But now many scholars who study the time medicine of traditional Chinese medicine have also put forward different opinions: If you have been sleeping late and getting up late for a long time, going to bed at 2 a.m. and getting up at 10 a.m. every day, sleeping for 7 hours, and having a very regular schedule, it is healthier than someone who goes to bed early and stays up late every day, and has a chaotic work and rest schedule.

When I usually recommend these famous quotes to my friends, some people always say, "This is too simple. What kind of health secret is this?" In fact, traditional Chinese medicine health care is not a mysterious or lofty thing. These words that have been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years are all vernacular words inherited by our ancestors after going through countless pitfalls and accumulating countless experiences. If you can really persist in doing it, it will be much more effective than spending tens of thousands of yuan to buy sky-high-priced health care products and find some folk remedies. There are not so many bells and whistles when it comes to health care. Putting the simplest principles into practice every day is better than anything else.