Traditional Chinese medicine health quotes

The health-preserving famous sayings of traditional Chinese medicine that have been passed down for thousands of years have never been a "universal health-preserving formula" that can be applied to everyone. They are essentially a "summary of common experiences" accumulated by ancient doctors and people in their lives. They are useful but not absolute. They must be adjusted according to your own physical constitution and current status to avoid stepping into pitfalls.

Don't tell me, many people now have really deep misunderstandings about health-preserving quotes. I once read a blogger who said that "eat carrots in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription" is feudal dregs. I drank ginger tea for three days in the summer and my mouth ulcers were so bad that I couldn't speak. I called my ancestors a liar. In fact, I really don’t blame my ancestors for saying this. Different schools of traditional Chinese medicine have different opinions on the applicable scenarios of this sentence: Doctors from the Typhoid School mostly admire this logic. They believe that in summer, the yang energy floats on the surface of the body, and the spleen and stomach are weak and cold inside. Eating some pungent and warm ginger can warm and nourish the middle earth. In winter, the yang energy is withdrawn into the body. Eating too much supplements can easily accumulate internal heat. Some cool radish is just right to clear away stagnation. ； However, doctors from the febrile disease school have long warned that people who have yin deficiency and internal heat, always have a dry mouth, and get angry when eating spicy food, should not touch ginger even in the dog days of summer. In winter, if their spleen and stomach are weak and have diarrhea when eating cold food, they should eat less raw radish. I foolishly bought my mother a large box of ginger and jujube tea last year, hoping to nourish her stomach in the summer. As a result, she had a nosebleed after drinking it for two days. My mother is in menopause, and hot flashes and night sweats are common. She has a typical body type with yin deficiency. Excessive exposure to warm things like ginger will naturally make her angry. I wasted half a box of ginger tea, and even got scolded by my mother.

Compared with this kind of folk sayings that are passed down by word of mouth, the famous sentences in the "Huangdi Neijing" have hit the blind spot of most people's health care nowadays. As the saying goes, "Looking for a long time hurts the blood, lying for a long time hurts the Qi, and sitting for a long time hurts the flesh." I worked on a project for three days in a row, staring at the computer for more than ten hours a day. After get off work, I lay in bed and watched short videos until early in the morning. By the third day, my eyes were so dry that I could hardly open them, and my face was as sallow as the sun. I went to an old Chinese medicine practitioner I knew well to prescribe a prescription. After taking my pulse, the old man knocked on my desk and said, "This is a typical case of long-term looking and long-term lying on the blood and long-term lying on the qi. I will prescribe wolfberry, chrysanthemum and dendrobium tea for you. You need to stop staring at the screen for half an hour every day and get up and walk around twice. This is true nutrition." ”Later, I followed his advice and got up to get a glass of water every hour and looked into the distance for two minutes. Within a week, my overall condition returned. Oh, yes, don’t overdo it. I once had a friend who forced himself to run five kilometers every day in order to avoid “living for a long time and hurting the muscles.” After half a month of running, his knees hurt so much that he couldn’t walk. The old man said that this was a taboo of “living for a long time and hurting the muscles.” Health preservation is about finding a balance, not going to extremes.

What’s interesting is that many of the widely circulated health quotes are “contradictory”. I’ve seen two old men in the park get very angry because of this. One said, “Walk a hundred steps after a meal, and you’ll live to be ninety-nine.” He walks around the park three times after eating every day. He’s seventy-eight this year and has a particularly good appetite.； Another said, "Lie down after a meal, and you will gain four ounces if you don't gain half a catty." He had gastroptosis, and he fell into panic when he stood up after eating. He only felt comfortable after lying down for half an hour. He followed the other person's method and walked once, which made him miserable all afternoon. In fact, both of them are right. These famous quotes originally correspond to different scenarios: For people who usually eat a lot, have a strong spleen and stomach, and always feel bloated after eating, walking slowly for ten minutes can really help digestion. ； But for people who have gastroptosis, acid reflux after eating, or people who are usually very weak in qi and blood, it is more comfortable to rest for ten minutes after a meal. If you insist on applying a unified standard, it will cause problems.

The 80-year-old Chinese medicine practitioner I followed had a note on his bookcase that read, "There is no fixed way to maintain health, just be comfortable." He has been practicing medicine for almost 60 years, and can memorize half a booklet of health-preserving quotes. However, when giving health-preserving advice to patients, he never just gives a single formula. He always asks whether he eats more cold or hot foods, whether he has any underlying diseases, and even what kind of work he does before he dares to give specific plans. He often said that these words that have been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years are the experience accumulated by our ancestors through countless pitfalls. They are not meant for you to copy mechanically, but to remind you.

In fact, many people now always want to find a few health-preserving sayings and get it done once and for all. One day they read "A cup of light salt water in the morning can detoxify" and they drink it. The next day they read "Foot soaking before going to bed can nourish the kidneys" and they soak it every day. After drinking it, their blood pressure is high and their feet are peeling, and they turn around and criticize Chinese medicine for being useless. It’s really unnecessary. To put it bluntly, these are the life tips left to us by our ancestors. Don’t freeze when it’s cold, don’t stay up until late at night, and don’t eat too much. They are more effective than memorizing ten famous quotes.