Recommended traditional Chinese medicine health methods

Adjust your work and rest timely, dialectically match your diet, and massage the original acupoints on the meridians in your spare time. The rest of the flashy health care programs on the market are all icing on the cake. If these three things are not done well, it will be difficult to see results no matter how much money you spend.

To be honest, I took a lot of detours when I first came into contact with Chinese medicine. I bought a cabinet full of moxibustion instruments, herbal foot soaking bags, and customized ointment prescriptions. It wasn’t until I went to the outpatient clinic with a nationally renowned veteran Chinese medicine doctor for half a year that I discovered that eight and a half times out of ten health care orders prescribed by the old man to patients put these three items at the top, which is more weighted than the prescriptions prescribed later.

Let’s talk about “scheduled work and rest”, which is most easily misunderstood by everyone. Many people get confused when they hear these four words: I work in the Internet and have to stay up late every day, don’t I deserve to keep in good health? This is really not absolute - most of the old-school traditional Chinese medicine doctors from the north who are good at treating typhoid fever emphasize following the sun. "Work at sunrise and rest at sunset" corresponds to the rise and fall pattern of Yang Qi in the northern hemisphere. Staying up late is dissipating the innate essence. ； However, many doctors from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lingnan who focus on febrile diseases have also mentioned that as long as you have a fixed sleep rhythm of 6-8 hours and maintain it for more than three years, your body will be able to adapt. A patient who works in cross-border e-commerce came to a teacher to treat acne. I heard a blogger say that he should go to bed before 11 o'clock to detoxify. He forced himself to lie in bed and turn over for 3 hours and couldn't fall asleep. Instead, his face was red, swollen and acne due to endocrine disorders. Later, the teacher asked him to go to bed at 2 am and start at 10 am. Don't disrupt the rhythm. He also drank some chrysanthemum tea, and more than half of the acne was gone in less than three months. Don't believe the magical "organ detoxification timetable" posted on the Internet. They are all made up by later generations to fool people. The real time is to follow the seasons and your own body: go out for a walk more in the spring and bask in the sun instead of being bored at home.

Once your work and rest are adjusted, the next thing you should focus on most is eating. I found that many people’s misunderstanding about the traditional Chinese medicine diet is “you can’t eat this and that you can’t eat.” In fact, this is not the case at all. If you go to the north to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, most of them will tell you to drink less iced drinks. But if you go to Lingnan, the doctor will tell you to buy herbal tea instead. Essentially, a person is nourished by the soil and water: in the winter in Northeast China, it is 30 degrees in the heating room, and eating an ice cream to reduce dryness is no problem. But if you just ran back from 37 or 8 degrees outside in the dog days of Guangdong, and poured iced milk tea directly into your stomach, all the moisture and coldness will be blocked in the spleen and stomach. It would be strange if you don't have a stomachache. I had a colleague who had cold hands and feet. I heard someone said that it is good to eat ginger in the morning. She chewed three pieces of ginger on an empty stomach every day, and her nose bleeds immediately after eating it for half a month. Later I found out that she had a tropical cold due to yin deficiency. She had to soak some Ophiopogon japonicus to moisten it before eating a small amount of ginger. Direct supplementation would only add fuel to the fire. You really don’t have to look at expensive things like donkey-hide gelatin and bird’s nest. If you have heavy phlegm and a thick coating on your tongue, eating it will only cause congestion. It’s better to drink a bowl of warm millet porridge every day to nourish your spleen and stomach.

If you occasionally have a minor problem and feel uncomfortable, there is no need to rush to take medicine. Simply pressing two acupuncture points can relieve most of the pain. Some people say that acupuncture points need to be held within the time of Ziwu flow to be effective. In fact, for ordinary people, there is no need to hold back at all. They can massage them while fishing at work or waiting for the subway. For example, if you have been coughing recently or feel stuffy after wearing a mask, just rub the Taiyuan point on the inside of your wrist. It will relieve the soreness and pain. Rubbing it for two or three minutes will be more refreshing than drinking half a cup of coffee. ； If your chest feels congested after an argument, just rub the Taichong point on the instep. Last time I had an argument with my sister and I was so angry that I couldn’t even eat. After rubbing it for five minutes and burping twice, the congested point was gone instantly. I bought a moxibustion box worth several thousand yuan for my mother before. She found it troublesome and threw it away to collect dust after using it twice. Later, I asked her to rub the Hegu point for two minutes every day while cooking and waiting for the pot to heat up. She persisted for half a year, and most of the toothaches she had suffered all year round have been reduced. The simpler the method, the longer she can stick to it.

Nowadays, many people say that traditional Chinese medicine health preservation is a pseudoscience. In fact, the two are essentially different expression systems: a chronological schedule corresponds to the circadian rhythm pattern studied by the 2017 Nobel Prize. Dialectical diet is actually an individualized dietary adjustment emphasized by modern nutrition. There is no need to judge whether it is right or wrong. Health care is a very personal matter. If you think it is useful, stick to it. If it is not useful, change it to something that suits you. Don’t follow other people’s health care lists and make yourself extremely anxious. To put it bluntly, the health regimen passed down by our ancestors has never been complicated. The complicated ones are all gimmicks added by later generations. Eat well, sleep well, and don't compete with yourself. It is more effective than any tonic.