Traditional Chinese Medicine Health and Rehabilitation

TCM health care and rehabilitation is neither a "cure-all-diseases metaphysics" that is so popular on the Internet, nor is it an "exclusive knowledge of soaking wolfberry in a thermos cup" that only the elderly need. It is a mature medical system rooted in the holistic view and syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine, covering the full cycle of prevention before illness, care during illness, and functional recovery after surgery/post-illness, and is both practical and universal.

Two years ago, I met a 28-year-old Internet operator when I was following up in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He had chest tightness and shortness of breath for two months after he was cured. He was short of breath after climbing two floors. He went to the Western Hospital to do a cardiopulmonary examination and all were normal. The doctor only asked him to go home and rest more and not stay up late. The two doctors who attended the clinic at that time had different opinions: Teacher Li, who was from the Jingfang School, thought he had Yang Weiqi deficiency, so he prescribed a small dose of Guizhi Decoction and asked him to come over after get off work every day to moxibustion acupuncture points on his back for 20 minutes. ； Teacher Zhang from the febrile disease group said that his tongue coating is still a bit yellow and greasy, and the remaining evil spirits have not been cleared away. If he takes supplements rashly, it will easily suppress the evil spirits in the body. He recommends drinking a tea substitute of reed root, dried tangerine peel, and roasted malt for three days. If there is no stickiness, he can then supplement. The young man tried it on his own and drank tea instead of tea for two days. Sure enough, the tight feeling in his chest was relieved a lot. After using moxibustion for less than two weeks, there was no problem when running.

It seems that many people have a deep misunderstanding of this subject. Either I feel that I am just "just messing around when I am not sick", or I feel that I can only treat minor problems such as insomnia and constipation. If I really encounter a serious problem, I still have to rely on Western medicine. Oh, by the way, there was a 24-year-old boy who broke his ankle while riding a motorcycle. Three months after the operation, the bones were found to be growing well, but the ankle was still swollen like a steamed bun. He walked with a limp and could only hook his foot to 90 degrees. Western medicine said that you can only practice slowly by yourself and endure the pain. Later, he came to see him. We first soaked him in the orthopedic and traumatology department's blood-activating and fumigating formula for 20 minutes a day, and then used techniques to loosen and untie the surrounding tendons. We also taught him to do the variation of "opening the bow from left to right like a shooting eagle" in Baduanjin to strengthen his ankles. In just two weeks, the swelling has completely disappeared, the hook of the foot can reach 120 degrees, and there is basically no limp when walking.

Not only after illness and surgery, but also for ordinary people's daily minor problems, this knowledge can also solve many problems. Many of my friends in the Internet industry suffer from low back pain after sitting for long periods of time every day. They either find a massage parlor to massage hard, or they stock up on a bunch of Internet celebrity massagers and use them blindly. Many of them feel pain for several days after the massage. In fact, the treatment in traditional Chinese medicine health care and rehabilitation is not one-size-fits-all: if you are usually afraid of the cold and your waist hurts more when the air conditioner is turned on, it is probably cold-damp type. After ten minutes of moxibustion on Shenshu and Mingmen, you will feel much better. ； If you sit for 12 hours a day and feel stiffness on both sides of your waist, it is a lumbar muscle strain. You must first loosen the knots and then use core stretching to help. ； If you already have a lumbar protrusion problem, you must first see a professional osteopath to judge whether it needs to be reset, and then perform targeted rehabilitation training. If you press it blindly, it is easy to cause problems.

Nowadays, unified health-preserving templates are very popular on the Internet, such as "everyone should drink Wuhei porridge" and "a cup of tangerine peel water every day to strengthen the spleen". Don't follow the trend blindly. I met a little girl before. I saw others saying that tangerine peel water can remove dampness, so she soaked two tablets of it every day and drank it. After drinking it for half a month, her mouth became dry and her nose bleeds. When I came over, I found that she has a constitution of yin deficiency. Tangerine peel is warm in nature. The more she drank, the more yin fluid was consumed, which caused problems. Now there are different voices in the industry on this point: some old-school doctors believe that health care and recovery require strict syndrome differentiation, and no mistakes can be made, otherwise it will harm the body. ； Another group of young doctors believe that ordinary people do not need to be so demanding in their daily maintenance. If you do not have a particularly obvious physical bias, it is not a problem to soak some wolfberry and chrysanthemum occasionally, or soak your feet in winter, and there is no need to go above and beyond. In fact, both statements are reasonable. The core is that you have to be aware of your own body. If you feel uncomfortable after eating or using something, just stop immediately. There is no need to copy other people's experience.

Let me tell you about my own experience. When I was taking the medical examination, I stayed up for half a month and had a severe migraine. I could only take ibuprofen for two hours. It was so painful that I couldn’t even endorse it. The senior director of our department passed by and pricked two acupoints on Hegu and Taichong, and put two drops of blood on the tip of my ear. My headache disappeared that afternoon. Later, I also made a conscious effort to take 10 minutes a day to do Ba Duan Jin's "Two Hands Supporting the Three Burners of Heaven" twice a day. Now I occasionally stay up late and rarely get headaches again.

In fact, to put it bluntly, TCM health care and rehabilitation are more like the "instructions for getting along with the body" passed down from our ancestors. There are not so many fancy gimmicks, and it is not an unattainable knowledge. Don’t overeat when you eat, don’t stay up until midnight when sleeping, and don’t keep your emotions bottled up in your heart. When you feel really uncomfortable, it’s much more useful to seek professional advice than to stock up on a cupboard of Internet-famous health teas or buy a bunch of useless massage cards.