In fact, Chinese medicine practitioners are most afraid of this kind of question, and really don't know how to reply.
The concept of most of us now is: if you are sick, you have to take medicine, and it will be fine if you take medicine. If you don't get well after taking the medicine, it means that you haven't found the right person and taken the right medicine. Real Chinese medicine is not to let patients take medicine first, but to find the cause first and make adjustments according to this cause, so as to change the result of illness.
The main reason why people get sick is the lack of correct health concept. Therefore, when we have physical symptoms, the first thing is not to find medicine, but to adjust our ideas and habits.
If you are sick, go to western medicine for treatment and Chinese medicine for conditioning. The same is to solve the disease, why use two different words?
The difference between western medicine treatment and traditional Chinese medicine conditioning
Suppose I keep 1 1 fish in a fish pond. Whether the fish is well raised is largely related to the water quality. One day, a snakehead got sick because the water was too dirty. Then someone suggested that to cure this snakehead, you have to sprinkle medicine on the pond. Let's think about it here: What will happen to other 10 good fish? Is it good or bad for them?
I believe everyone knows that other fish are unlucky. Similarly, when you take various drugs to treat colds, coughs, allergies, diabetes or insomnia, will other healthy organs be affected?
The answer is obvious. You will find that the side effects have been clearly written in the instructions, such as this medicine hurts the liver, hurts the stomach, and hurts the heart ... In fact, it is the same reason as sprinkling medicine in a fish pond, and other fish are unlucky.
When the water is dirty and the fish in the pond have problems, there are three ways to completely solve these fish problems. What would you choose?
1. Sprinkle medicine in the fish pond;
2. Throw away the problematic fish in the fish pond;
The third method is to change the water in the fish pond.
I believe everyone will choose to change water. The problem lies in the water quality. Only changing water can solve the problem of all the fish in the pond.
At this point, friends will understand the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine: western medicine treatment is to sprinkle medicine in fish ponds and throw fish, such as eating a lot of anti-inflammatory drugs, hypertension-specific drugs, heart-specific drugs, or surgical incision of bile, stomach and uterus; Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning is to change water for fish ponds and adjust the internal environment of fish ponds, which is equivalent to conditioning people's physique and internal causes of diseases.
Why tell everyone that there are 1 1 fish in the pond instead of 10 or 12? Because the sum of our internal organs is just 1 1.
The health of fish depends on the water quality. Who decides the health of our internal organs? It is largely determined by qi and blood. The body will be healthy only if the blood is smooth.
When we go to the hospital for a physical examination, the first thing to do is to have a blood test. Then through the blood indicators, I will tell you whether the liver function is good, whether the kidney function is good, whether the pancreas function is good, and so on. High transaminase represents poor liver function, high creatinine represents poor kidney and high blood sugar represents poor pancreas. The seemingly abstruse terms such as transaminase, creatinine and blood sugar are all rubbish in the blood in the eyes of Chinese medicine, and they are all called blood stasis. Let's do a blood test, which is actually to measure the amount of garbage in the blood.
How does modern medicine solve these rubbish?
If blood sugar is high, take insulin to lower blood sugar. Don't think that sugar in the blood can just disappear. It is out of the question. Hypoglycemic drugs precipitate blood sugar in blood to the soles of feet in another way. So after taking hypoglycemic drugs for more than ten years, my feet will swell, fester and even be amputated.
Another example is hypertension. When the garbage in the blood increases, the pressure on the blood vessel wall will increase, which will lead to high blood pressure. Modern medicine will make patients take antihypertensive drugs. The essence of antihypertensive drugs is to dilate blood vessels. As soon as the blood vessels dilate, the pressure will drop, and the blood pressure data will drop soon, but its time limit is only 2 hours. Therefore, antihypertensive drugs can only be effective temporarily, and long-term medication is needed to control blood pressure.
Let's not say that antihypertensive drugs hurt the liver, hurt the stomach and hurt the kidney. Antihypertensive drugs are harmful to blood vessels themselves. When blood vessels are forcibly expanded by external forces for a long time, they will become very fragile. If something happens, they will rupture and bring irreversible harm to people.
Western medicine recognized the waste of blood, classified it and treated it accordingly. But western medicine only deals with garbage, regardless of its source. In fact, the source of blood waste is liver, kidney and heart, but there is no medicine in western medicine that can restore liver function, kidney function and heart function.
On the other hand, western medicine has brought new problems while dealing with these rubbish. To lower blood sugar, creatinine and blood lipid, the body must pay the price. Because these drugs are chemicals themselves, chemical reactions will occur in the body. Matter will not disappear, and the final product of these chemical changes is garbage. It seems to clean up the garbage, but in fact it will become other garbage. What chemicals you take depends on the liver and kidney. If it can't be discharged, it will stay in the body in the form of new garbage, which will make the burden on the liver and kidney even greater.
Above, I want to talk to you about the logical thinking of western medicine in solving problems. If summed up in one word, it is: control. Control what? Control indicators, control symptoms.
Let's look at the thinking of Chinese medicine to solve diseases.
If the blood lipid is high, Chinese medicine will ask you to adjust your diet and routine to enhance the blood purification function of the liver and gallbladder.
On the one hand, it reduces the import of garbage, on the other hand, it enhances the degradation ability of garbage; Hyperglycemia can decompose sugar by enhancing the transport capacity of spleen; Hypertension, Chinese medicine will dredge blood vessels by lowering blood pressure garbage, so that the pressure on the blood vessel wall will naturally drop; With high creatinine, Chinese medicine will excrete uric acid protein from urine by tonifying kidney and diuresis, so that garbage will not flow back into the blood, thus the index will drop and the body will recover.
The thinking of Chinese medicine is: it doesn't matter which index you have, or even the specific index. Chinese medicine will always do only one thing, that is, restore balance: balance of yin and yang, balance of import and export, balance of up and down, balance of cold and heat, balance of qi and blood, and balance of body and mind. When your body is balanced, your body will be healthy. What we want in the end is health. In fact, there are only two words: balance
If we use one word to sum up the thinking of Chinese medicine in solving diseases, that is: restoring balance.
Western medicine stresses specialty, while Chinese medicine stresses direction.
Nowadays, western medicine looks very professional, and all kinds of inspection equipment look great, while Chinese medicine looks unprofessional at all. Therefore, many people think that Chinese medicine has not kept up with the development of the times and has fallen behind. In fact, on the contrary, Chinese medicine is not behind the times, but ahead of the times. Today's technology still can't understand the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine.
Western medicine stresses specialty, while Chinese medicine stresses direction. What is a major? It is a complete thing that has become scattered, fragmented and lost its integrity. Why should western medicine be divided into disciplines? Because it should reflect its professionalism. Western medicine makes diseases more and more complicated. A doctor can't study so many diseases, only one of them. It is precisely because of this that treating stomach diseases leads to kidney diseases, and treating kidney diseases leads to liver diseases, which emerge one after another.
You go to see a Chinese doctor, no matter which index you have is normal or not, just analyze it according to your symptoms, know where it is unbalanced, and then adjust it. Therefore, Chinese medicine is a general practice, and any disease can be adjusted.
Western medicine looks more professional, but he is wrong in the general direction. Chinese medicine seems unprofessional at all, but the direction is right. Everyone knows the opposite story. If you go in the wrong direction, the longer you walk, the farther you will be from your destination.
I didn't mean to belittle western medicine by analyzing the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine. I just want to help you see the truth again.
Western medicine has its own advantages. Western medicine has its special advantages in surgery and first aid. Western medicine is used to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, keeping people at the entrance of the morgue. Chinese medicine is more about helping us to be healthier and live better and longer.
On the other hand, in China today, from children's colds and fevers to hypertensive tumors, they have to go to the hospital for treatment, which is a wrong direction.
Let's assume that if we all have a correct view of health and know something about Chinese medicine, many minor illnesses don't need to go to the hospital, leaving hospital resources to really do the work of saving lives.
How to be a healthy person?
There are three key steps:
The first step is to change ideas.
What many people like to say is: I have seen dozens of experts who can't cure this disease, and they are all drug-resistant. Can Chinese medicine be adjusted? If you don't even understand harmony and cure, there is really no way.
My body has symptoms, but I just want to find medicine to eat, instead of looking for reasons from myself. I can't find the reasons. Can taking medicine for a lifetime make my body recover? Health has never been in a hospital or a doctor's position. You can only rely on yourself for health. People who understand this sentence are either already healthy or on the way to health.
The second step is to change bad living habits.
Why is the water in the fish pond dirty? You throw rubbish into the pond every day. So, if you want to improve the water quality, do you have to stop throwing garbage? Is it necessary to change bad living habits? What are the bad habits in your life? You must start adjusting now.
The third step, adhere to the appropriate method of conditioning.
Some people say that Chinese medicine is a slow doctor. Think about it: you have been throwing garbage in your pond for decades, and now it is really slow to clean up the garbage in the pond with Chinese medicine for several months. Diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, taking western medicine is only a quick control index. I need to take medicine for a lifetime, and I can't stop. You can't solve the problem completely Is it really fast?