Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Knowledge Lecture

There is no magical formula for health preservation that suits everyone. The essence of traditional Chinese medicine health care is the dynamic adjustment of "the state of being in harmony with time and people." Those who say that drinking such-and-such tea and taking such-and-such pills can guarantee everyone's health are either bad or stupid.

I just met a 23-year-old girl in the clinic last week. She follows a health blogger and drinks Sanhong Soybean Milk every day to replenish qi and blood. In the summer, she also drinks a cup of iced American style every day to reduce swelling. As a result, her aunt postponed her treatment for half a month. The acne on her chin kept disappearing and even the acne marks couldn't go away. When taking her pulse, she felt aggrieved and said that all the steps were according to what was said on the Internet, but why was it getting worse with each passing day? In fact, the problem lies in the word "copy". She has a damp-heat constitution. The red beans and red dates in Sanhong are both warm in nature. Adding iced coffee to it will block all the dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach. It is no wonder that there is no problem.

Speaking of this, some people may ask, now that there are all kinds of opinions on the Internet, who should we listen to? In fact, there are two mainstream views on the health care direction of contemporary people in the traditional Chinese medicine circle. No one is right or wrong, it just suits different groups of people. Doctors from the febrile disease school generally believe that people nowadays eat too much oil, stay up late, and generally have a lot of internal heat. In order to maintain good health, one must first cleanse and then supplement, otherwise all the supplements will be garbage. ； Doctors from the Jingfang sect also feel that nowadays, people sit for long periods of time with air conditioners blowing, and often eat ice or drink cold drinks. The Yang Qi is dissipated much more than the older generation, and the Yang Qi must be taken care of before talking about anything else. Take the matter of drinking herbal tea as an example. For those who eat hot pot and skewers every day, and whose face is oily and even their hair is shiny, it is no problem to drink some herbal tea soup advocated by the febrile disease school to clear the fire. ； For those who usually suffer from shoulder pain when sitting in the air conditioner in the office or diarrhea after touching an ice drink, drinking two more sips of ginger and jujube tea is the right thing to do according to the prescriptions. If you insist on following the trend and drinking herbal tea, you will only hurt your spleen and stomach more.

I also stepped into this trap when I first started studying Chinese medicine. At that time, I had just scratched the surface. I felt that staying up late preparing for classes every day would make me angry, so I drank Pangdahai chrysanthemum tea every day. After drinking it for less than half a month, my stomach hurt so much that I even had acid reflux after drinking millet porridge. When I asked my teacher to check my pulse, I was scolded: "You have a weak constitution of the spleen and stomach, but you dare to touch cool chrysanthemums every day? Even if you get angry, it is still virtual fire floating upward. Drinking chrysanthemum tea will make it worse. ”From then on, I no longer dare to recommend general health prescriptions to people. Even if it is soaked in water with wolfberry that everyone thinks is "safe", you have to first ask if the person has diarrhea. Wolfberry is moisturizing, and people with a heavy spleen and stomach will feel nauseous if they drink too much.

In fact, you don’t need to memorize the complicated classification of nine types of constitution. To adjust your health regimen on a daily basis, it is enough to look at two small details: first, look in the mirror before brushing your tongue in the morning. If the tongue coating is white and thick like a layer of frost, or yellow and thick like a layer of oil, then don’t think about eating donkey-hide gelatin or drinking Siwu Decoction. First clear the stagnation in the spleen and stomach.； The other thing depends on whether you usually drink cold or hot drinks. If you want to drink hot water in summer and you will feel uncomfortable with iced milk tea, then you should avoid touching cold things like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum.

Take the saying that everyone has heard of "eat carrots in winter and ginger in summer". In the past two years, a patient quarreled with me, saying that his ancestor's words must be true. He chewed ginger every day in summer, and as a result, his oral ulcers lasted for almost a month. This statement was true hundreds of years ago. At that time, people were doing farm work in the fields in the summer. They sweated a lot and the yang energy dispersed on the body surface, and the intestines and stomach were weak. It was just right to eat some ginger to warm the spleen and stomach. ； What now? You sit in the office with the air conditioner blowing at 22 degrees every day, and you go to eat hot pot and skewers after get off work. The yellow and greasy coating on your tongue is almost boiling, and the internal fire is almost coming out. Wouldn't eating ginger just add fuel to the fire? What our ancestors said is always true. What is wrong is that we use it out of context.

There is also the foot soaking regimen that everyone loves to do now. I have an old patient. I heard someone said that foot soaking can help sleep, so he boiled ginger and pepper in water every day. Every time he soaked his feet, he was sweating profusely. As a result, he couldn't sleep at 3 o'clock in the morning for a week, so he went to see him and adjusted it for half a month. In fact, there are different types of foot baths. Usually, your hands and feet are cold and you can’t sleep warm in the winter. You can soak them for twenty minutes. ； If you are usually very angry, anxious, and your face gets hot in the afternoon, the water temperature should not exceed 40 degrees. Soak for ten minutes and then stop when your feet are warm. You can also throw two lotus seed cores in, which will help you sleep.

To be honest, there is no need to be so tiring when it comes to health care, and there is no need to follow the influencers on the Internet and copy them. You don’t have to feel guilty if you eat two more mouthfuls of iced food today, and you will make up for it by drinking two more mouthfuls of warm porridge tomorrow. The traditional Chinese medicine passed down from our ancestors is inherently alive and follows your own physical condition, which is more effective than any panacea. That’s it for today’s lecture. If you have any questions, you can ask me alone later.