Recommended traditional Chinese medicine health methods

The most suitable traditional Chinese medicine health regimen for ordinary people to adhere to for a long time is never the annual card for moxibustion, which often costs thousands, or the sky-high price of cordyceps and ginseng, but the three fundamentals of "adjusting living habits in time, adjusting physical condition as needed, and giving priority to the spleen, stomach, and sleep." Moreover, different schools of traditional Chinese medicine and different practitioners have different opinions. There is no universal "optimal solution" and only the one that suits you is useful.

Talking about health preservation, during the time of the fall last year, the owners of my community were spreading the word about ginger and jujube tea, saying that "drinking it for 40 days can clear away the coldness of half a lifetime." Aunt Zhang downstairs drank it for 12 days and developed three oral ulcers. In fact, different schools of traditional Chinese medicine have different opinions on health preservation in Futian: the typhoid school believes that "Futian Yang Qi floats on the surface of the body, and the inside is deficient and cold, so you should eat more warm foods to dispel the cold." The febrile disease school believes that "Futian is hot and heavy, and it is easy to consume body fluids." "You should eat more moisturizing and fluid-producing things, and don't overly warm and dry things." There is nothing wrong with both sides, but they are suitable for different people - people with cold hands and feet who usually have cold hands and feet, and diarrhea after eating something cold, drink ginger and jujube tea, which really warms and comforts the stomach. ； For people who are usually afraid of heat, have dry mouth, and get angry easily, soaking some Ophiopogon japonicus, chrysanthemum, and winter melon rind water during the dog days will be more beneficial.

Many people's misunderstanding about health care is that "you must do some additional professional operations", such as a full set of moxibustion, cupping, and scraping, which is really unnecessary. Many children I have met who work on the Internet sit in the office in front of the computer every day, and their shoulders are as hard as stone slabs. Every time they come to the doctor, they ask me if I want to apply for an annual pass at a health center. I ask them to try to squeeze the shoulder joint for 5 minutes every day on the way to work, which is the most sore part of the shoulder. There used to be a little girl who was doing UI design. Every time she had her period, the pain was so painful that she had to take two ibuprofen to get through it. I asked her to rub her Sanyinjiao for three minutes every night before going to bed, just three fingers up from the inside of her ankle. She persisted for less than two months. When she came back for a follow-up visit, she said she no longer needed to take painkillers and only had a slight feeling of swelling. But I was chatting with an old man who does massage before, and he did not recommend that people with particularly weak Qi and blood just press acupuncture points. He said that the Qi and blood are not enough, and if you fiddle with them back and forth, they will easily consume Qi. For such people, it is better to eat three hot meals a day, which is worse than pressing any acupuncture point. You see, different practitioners have different experiences. The core thing is to look at your own physical condition.

A more common pitfall than blindly pressing acupoints is blindly tonicating. There was a young man who was only 26 years old. He heard that Liuwei Dihuang Pills were good for the kidneys. He ate them regularly every day for three months. After taking them for three months, he gained 8 pounds. His stools stuck to the toilet and could not be flushed three or four times. When he came to see me, his pulse was very slippery and his tongue coating was as thick as a paste. He had a typical damp-heat constitution. How could he have kidney deficiency? Everything I put in became wet and stuck in my body. Regarding whether to supplement the matter, different schools have even greater differences: Li Dongyuan of the Tutu School believes that the spleen and stomach are acquired. Health preservation means to nourish the spleen and stomach, eat more warm and soft foods that are easy to digest, and don’t eat cold foods that damage the spleen. ； Zhang Zihe of the evil-attacking sect feels that modern people eat too much and move too little, and their bodies are full of stagnant phlegm and dampness. There is no need to supplement at all, as long as the evil spirits can be expelled. Both views are correct. If you usually have no appetite for meals, feel bloated after eating even a little, and have a sallow complexion, then you must replenish your spleen and stomach first. ； If you usually have hot pot milk tea, a round belly, and sticky stools in the toilet, then eat less supplements first and eat more whole grains and vegetables to get rid of it.

A few days ago, I came across a health blogger who said, "You must not expose your ankles in winter, otherwise you will definitely get arthritis when you get old." I wanted to laugh when I saw it. I have a friend who is a native Northeastern girl. She exposed her ankles even in the winter at minus 20 degrees. So there is nothing absolutely right or wrong? How you feel in your body is more reliable than all the "health guidelines" written on the Internet.

I have been practicing clinical Chinese medicine for almost ten years, and I have seen too many people who are very tired of their health care. Today they buy the same health tea from this celebrity, and tomorrow they buy that imported moxibustion box. They spend tens of thousands, but their health is not getting any better. Really, Chinese medicine health care has never been a high-level metaphysics. It just means that you wear clothes when you are cold, eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, and don’t mess with your body. If you can persist for three to five years, it will be more effective than any number of supplements you take.