Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Method Technology

"Technology of Health Preservation Methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine" is essentially a subject supported by the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which transforms traditional health preservation experience into a practical application discipline that can be implemented, differentiated, and adapted to the health needs of different groups of people. The core logic has never been a "unified health preservation template", but around the goal of "preventing disease before it starts, preventing disease from becoming worse, and preventing disease from recurring" to provide personalized health intervention plans for people with different physiques and different life scenarios.

When many people first heard this name, they always thought it was an old magician sitting there talking about the metaphysics of "nourishing yin and nourishing yang". When I participated in industry seminars two years ago, some nurses who had just entered the industry asked, is this an interest class teaching everyone how to soak wolfberry and moxibustion? Not really. If you really read through the textbook systematically, you will know that there are clear operating specifications for details such as "the temperature of the water for foot bathing is suitable for diabetics with peripheral nerve degeneration", "which acupuncture points to press in early pregnancy may cause the risk of uterine contractions" and "the intensity threshold of scraping for people with allergies". It is not comparable to the "99 health tips" randomly searched on the Internet.

What's interesting is that there is never a "standard answer" in this subject, and the ideas of different schools are quite different. The same is true for nourishing the spleen and stomach. The inheritors of the Spleen School insist that "the spleen likes dryness and hates dampness". Eat more fried yam and fried barley. If nothing happens, you can press Zusanli. ； Scholars of the febrile disease school shook their heads and said that many people in the south have spleen and stomach deficiency caused by dampness and heat. They cannot supplement it blindly. They have to drink some poria, red bean and red bean water to clear it before mixing it. Otherwise, it will cause trouble and cause acne. ； There is even a branch that integrates Mongolian and Tibetan medicine health-preserving techniques. It recommends people whose hands and feet are so dry in winter that they can apply a small amount of ghee on the soles of their hands and feet. The moisturizing effect is more effective than applying hand cream. Which one do you think is right? In fact, they are all correct. It just depends on your physique, where you live, and whether you have the habit of drinking iced drinks every day.

When I was doing science popularization in the community, I met a little girl who worked in new media. She had acne all over her face. She heard on the Internet that she needed to "detoxify" and drank chrysanthemum and honeysuckle tea every day. The acne didn't go away after three months of drinking. Her aunt was still sweating coldly from the pain. I felt her pulse according to the syndrome differentiation method in the textbook. She had a typical constitution of hot at the top and cold at the bottom, and could not touch anything cooling at all. Later, I adjusted her to soaking her feet in 40-degree water for 10 minutes every night, and rubbing Hegu and Taichong for 5 minutes each during the day. There was no need to change anything else about her diet and rest. In less than a month, she came to see me. Most of her acne was gone, and her aunt's pain was basically gone. You see, this is the practicality of this subject. It does not require you to mess around with a bunch of supplements. Finding the right way will often get twice the result with half the effort.

Don't think that this subject is just chewing on the old stuff from our ancestors. There are a lot of new researches now. In the past, moxibustion relied entirely on the touch of an experienced Chinese medicine practitioner, who felt that “warm but not hot is enough.” Now the discipline has issued clear operating standards, including the temperature and duration of moxibustion at different parts, and even specially set safety red lines for people with sensory impairments, so as to prevent people from blindly moxibusting and burning blisters at home and leaving scars. The acupoint massagers that young people like to buy nowadays are essentially standardized traditional point-pressing and massage techniques. The intensity and frequency have been clinically verified. They are really not an IQ tax.

Of course, controversy has never stopped. A while ago, the industry group was arguing for half a month: Does "walking 10,000 steps a day" comply with the principles of traditional Chinese medicine health preservation? There is a group of people who believe that "walking for a long time will damage the muscles", especially for people with a heavy base weight and inherently bad knees. Walking 10,000 steps will injure the joints. Walking 5,000 to 6,000 steps a day and just sweating a little is enough. ； The other group thinks that people nowadays sit in offices and face computers every day and move too little. Ten thousand steps is the basic amount. As long as they don’t force themselves to walk, it’s fine. Even at the end of the argument, there was no unified conclusion. In fact, the same thing remains the same - if you take 10,000 steps and stretch yourself, then walk ； If you feel tired after walking 3,000 steps, there is no need to count up the steps to compete with others.

Sometimes when I give lectures to students, I will say that rote memorization is the most taboo in learning this subject. You have memorized a hundred health tips, why not take a week to observe your body: what makes your stomach feel comfortable when you eat, how to relax after doing any exercise, how to sleep without a heavy head when you wake up the next day, this is the most suitable health method for you. After all, these technologies passed down from our ancestors are not meant for you to live cautiously according to the template, but to make you live more comfortable and secure.