Health and disease
The definition of health by the World Health Organization: "Health is a state of perfect body and mind and good adaptability, not just a state without disease and weakness." This is what people call physical and mental health, that is, a person is completely healthy if he is sound in four aspects: physical health, mental health, good social adaptation and moral health.
What is health?
Each of us once had health, but what is real health? Many people's understanding of health is that they can eat and sleep, have inexhaustible strength every day, feel no pain all over, be full of energy, and so on. Is this the right answer? Let's take a look at the authoritative definition of health by the World Health Organization. There are ten criteria for this definition.
(1) energetic, able to cope with the pressure of daily life and work without feeling too nervous.
(2) Optimistic and positive, willing to take responsibility and not picky about everything.
(3) Be good at rest and have a good sleep.
(4) Strong adaptability to various changes in the environment.
(5) It can resist the common cold and infectious diseases.
(6) Proper weight, uniform figure, and coordinated position of head, shoulders and arms when standing.
(7) The eyes are bright, the reaction is acute, and the eyelids are not inflamed.
(8) clean teeth, no tooth decay, no pain; The gum color is normal and there is no bleeding.
(9) The hair is shiny without dandruff.
(10) Muscle and skin are elastic, and walking is easy and powerful.
Can you control your health by yourself? How to grasp health? What kind of lifestyle does health need? Before discussing the health concept of TCM, we might as well refer to the western research results. Dr. Bresno has developed a simple and healthy lifestyle.
(1) Sleep for 7-8 hours every day.
(2) Regular breakfast.
(3) Eat less and eat more meals (4-6 meals a day).
(4) Don't smoke.
(5) Do not drink alcohol or drink a little.
(6) Weight control (not less than 10% of standard weight and not more than 20%).
(7) Exercise regularly (the amount of exercise is suitable for my physical condition).
In addition, have a physical examination at least once a year. Dr. Bresno pointed out that it is suitable for people of all ages, especially those whose physical function is in decline. If you can follow the above seven habits, you will benefit for life. Generally speaking, if people over 55 can live according to the above 6-7 habits, they will live 7- 10 years longer than those who only follow 3 or less habits.
Eight criteria to judge whether you are healthy or not.
Chinese medicine has very clear and detailed criteria for judging health, but it needs the public to provide some practical and convenient observation items. Therefore, we can refer to the viewpoint of Ni, a famous American doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, and list eight standards. Most of these standards are principles of life, which can be used for people to judge their health status, so as to prevent delay and treat them as soon as possible.
First, sleep till dawn. This is a manifestation of the balance of heart and qi. The mind works during the day, sleeps at night when it is awake, and hides when it is hidden. However, the normal performance of God requires the coordination of all internal organs. Those who have trouble sleeping are all sick. Whether it is heart-kidney disharmony, stomach disharmony, or liver inflammation, or pain, or evil disturbance, it is related to God. Therefore, there are many ways to soothe the nerves, not just
It's a sedative. Generally, no matter what the disease is, there is insomnia in the severe stage, in fact, the mind has been hurt. No matter what the disease is, if you sleep soundly, this treatment is symptomatic and self-evident; If you can't sleep more and more, you might as well stop this treatment.
Second, the appetite is normal. The so-called normal appetite is not overeating, but a normal amount of fullness, not eating a lot, consciously not full, but eating again. This is manifested in the normal function of the spleen and stomach, and also related to the liver, gallbladder, large intestine and small intestine. As the saying goes: people are iron, rice is steel, and they are hungry without eating a meal. Why don't some patients want to eat? Because my spleen and stomach are hurt. What is spleen and stomach? It is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and it is also the foundation for us to live in this world. If you can't eat, the process of life will be in trouble. No matter what treatment measures are taken, the patient's appetite should get better and better. Otherwise, it is against life and wrong.
Third, the first thing to do when you get up every morning is to go to the toilet, and then have breakfast after going to the toilet. After a sleep, people have a rest, but the body has no rest. What are you doing? Detoxify. Toxins are excreted through urine, feces and pores. Therefore, going to the toilet after getting up in the morning can empty the toxic gas stored overnight, which is naturally healthy. Note that the time mentioned here is getting up in the morning, not midnight. Some people have to get up in the middle of the night to pee in the toilet every day, and more than once. What is this? It is the deficiency of kidney qi that can't vaporize water, which is also commonly known as kidney deficiency, which is congenital deficiency. The innate nature controls our life span, which is transformed from the nature of parents. No matter what the disease is, if you don't have to get up in the middle of the night to pee, but you have to get up at night to pee during the treatment, it means that your kidney is injured. Do you dare to continue to receive this kind of treatment that hurts the life of kidney qi? On the other hand, if you get up at night and urinate less, congratulations, because you have found the right doctor and used the right treatment.
Fourth, urinate three to seven times a day, with large urine volume and light yellow color. The premise I am talking about here is to drink water normally and ensure at least 1 liter of drinking water every day. Moreover, drink a large glass of water before and after going to bed every day. Urine excretion indicates that the function of the kidney is normal. If you keep peeing, you are a kidney patient. The most common is deficiency of kidney yang and unfavorable gasification. Water and liquid can't be gasified, so they must be discharged. The result is a lot of water, but all of it is discharged and not used as it should be. Therefore, in the performance, the patient is yin deficiency (lack of water and fluid), but in fact it is lack of yang, so it is necessary to support yang.
Fifth, all the year round, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, no matter where you are, your head and body are always cold and your hands and feet are warm. This is manifested in the sufficiency of yang. But now many people in society are always cold-footed. It's cool in summer and colder in winter. They are used to it, but they don't feel sick. They are still drinking herbal tea and iced drinks desperately, but they don't know that this is a signal of insufficient yang in the body, telling you that you need to take good care of yang and can't hurt it any more. On the other hand, understanding the changes of limb temperature and cooling is helpful to understand the state of the body. For example, if you are sick, it doesn't matter whether it is a tumor, a heart disease or a lung disease. You must receive treatment, or chemotherapy, or western medicine, or surgery, or take Chinese medicine, or acupuncture. If your hands and feet are cold during treatment, it means that you have chosen the wrong treatment plan, and you must stop it quickly, otherwise your condition will only get worse. If your feet are cold after taking the medicine, but they get warmer later, which means that the treatment is correct, then catch this doctor and trust him well.
Sixth, both men and women have it, which is called morning sun reaction. When women get up in the morning, their breasts are very sensitive, and men's penises will erect, which is also called morning sickness. Generally, men will have a normal reaction in their teens and twenties, but not in their fifties and sixties. Because it means you have plenty of yang in your body. If you are taking drugs to lower blood pressure and blood sugar, or drugs to lower cholesterol and triglycerides, anyway, as long as you start taking western medicine or something, it will definitely lead to yang failure in the morning. For another example, no matter what disease you have, if you become more and more impotent, Chen Bo's reaction will be gone, so don't continue to take this medicine.
Seventh, a healthy nail print requires eight crescent moons at the roots of both hands and fingers, commonly known as the little sun. From the thumb to the ring finger, the crescent moon is arranged from big to small, and the little finger can be absent. The size of the nail print should be about 2mm from the nail root to the nail edge (the thumb can be 2-3 mm, and the rest will be reduced to about 2mm in turn). The edges of nail prints are neat and clear, and the middle part is full. This kind of nail print is more common in healthy people, indicating that qi and blood are harmonious and the viscera and yin and yang are relatively balanced. Compared with normal nail lines, the increase or decrease of nail line index means that all fingers are called abnormal nail lines.
If the crescent moon is rare, even only the thumb has it, and the other four fingers have none, or it is relatively small, which belongs to cold nail prints. This shows that the body is in a state of yang deficiency, and the yang is weak and the yin is cold, which is a manifestation that the yang can not reach the ends of the limbs. The viscera function of these patients is low, which leads to the invasion or spontaneous generation of cold pathogens. Cold will slow down the movement of qi and blood, causing more diseases such as tumors, lumps or cysts, and fibroids. Some studies have found that 80% of patients (mainly malignant tumor patients) have cold nail marks, indicating that most patients with malignant tumors are deficient in cold constitution. Of course, people with deficiency and cold constitution may not all get sick, and people with strong constitution may not all get sick. -depends on the nature of evil, and secondly depends on the strength of righteousness (that is, the power generated in the body to fight against this evil). But it needs to be clear that people with deficiency-cold constitution are more likely to get tumors than people with other types of constitutions. Knowing this, people with deficiency-cold constitution can reduce the occurrence of malignant swelling and pain by taking medicine or exercising by themselves, and even if they are sick, they can relieve symptoms, which is very meaningful for nip in the bud and early treatment. In a large number of clinical practice, I found that cold nail marks accounted for the majority, almost 70% to 80%. This is also one of the reasons why I attach importance to the important role of Yang in treatment and emphasize "supporting Yang".
If the crescent moon becomes larger or the nail mark index increases, it belongs to hot nail marks. Heat-type fingernail print is a manifestation of exuberant yang and visceral function in the body. The larger the fingernail prints of normal people, the better their physical fitness (which should also be related to other physical conditions). In the case of disease, it refers to the excess of yang and the relative deficiency of yin, which is empirical, or the deficiency of yin is due to the excess of yang for a long time, and the syndromes are mixed with excess and deficiency. Compared with cold nail prints, treatment is easier to achieve results.
Eighth, look at the gum area and observe whether the root of the tooth is wrapped by the gum and whether the gum color is rosy. The more serious the condition, the more serious the yang deficiency, the more exposed the root part and the darker the gum color. You see a healthy child with rosy gums and tightly wrapped roots. Patients can observe for themselves that when the condition is relieved or cured, the gingival area will get better. If the root of the gum is exposed too much, it goes without saying that it must be insufficient kidney qi.
Know the above truth, and then observe it yourself, and you will know your physical condition. What needs to be understood is that Chinese medicine can really change the physique. It was found that the nail prints of some tumor patients changed in a good direction after their condition improved after treatment. However, some patients' symptoms have been relieved, but the nail prints have not changed. I think, on the one hand, it takes some time to replace the nail seal, ranging from a few months to a year or even years. On the other hand, although some patients' discomfort disappeared after treatment, they were only cured clinically, and the cancer toxin in the body was not completely removed. Yin and Yang are not harmonious, and the defects of the material basis of Yin and Yang have not returned to normal, so the nail prints cannot become normal. In this case, we should insist on treatment, and we should not easily interrupt the pain relief because the treatment effect is satisfactory. There are many cases of repeated deaths caused by blindly optimistic interruption of treatment in clinic, which should be taken as a warning.
Everyone understands the eight living standards of health. However, before seeing a doctor, patients may wish to compare themselves and see which standard you lack. Then I saw a doctor and took Chinese medicine to see if these standards have improved, as a way to judge the curative effect and as a criterion for choosing a doctor. If all eight standards are normal after taking the medicine, it means that your disease is completely cured. Thank the doctor who helped you, and don't forget to ask him how to keep healthy.
Finally, Bian Xiao warmly reminded that having a good body is the capital of the revolution. Don't forget to take good care of yourself at work. The most important thing is to keep a good mood at all times. Love you and pay more attention to your health. Follow me if you like. I will be the warmest and most intimate baby ~