Blood is the lifeblood

Chapter 18 Qi and Blood Fluency Rely on Warmth——Only when the Temperature is Right for the Body Can You Feel Like a Spring Breeze (1)
Warmth is the best way to maintain Qi and blood
【Qi-Blood Health Sutra】Temperature is the driving force for the blood to flow. It keeps the blood circulating throughout our body, maintains the physiological activities of various organs, and guarantees life.

There are so many planets in the solar system, why is there only living things growing on the earth?One of the important reasons is because the temperature on the earth is suitable.The distance between the earth and the sun is neither too far nor too close, and it has a perennial average temperature of 17°C, which provides the best growth conditions for the growth of all things.A suitable temperature melts the ice on the earth into water that is full of vitality and nourishes all things; it also turns the water into steam, making the air more fresh and moist, and giving birth to life.

The normal operation of qi and blood in the body also requires a suitable temperature. If the temperature is too low, the blood flow rate will slow down, causing stagnation and blockage. upper rest.

Can't help screaming with excitement, the 13-year-old boy Harry Potter, who is crazy for adults and children all over the world, once jumped onto the big screen with messy hair and bright eyes, leading readers to experience the magical world of fantasy and treachery .

Despite his powerful magical potential, the brave Harry Potter couldn't resist the biting winter. Not only would he suffer from stomach pains in the middle of the night, he would often walk out of breath, but his hands and feet were extremely cold.

It turns out that even if it is as majestic as Harry Potter, it still cannot resist the cold of the low temperature!When you understand this point, you can imagine the relationship between temperature and the rise and fall of qi and blood in the human body, and you will have a more comprehensive understanding of life.

At this time, I went to look at the explanation of qi in traditional Chinese medicine, and found that the effect of temperature is very similar to that of "qi" in traditional Chinese medicine. It is composed of , and the innate essence and the essence of water and grain can be easily explained by temperature.

The innate essence actually represents the innate "kidney".The kidney is the yang of the whole body, like a ball of fire in the human body, warming and illuminating the whole body.The reason why children are called "Pure Yang Body" is because the kidney qi is sufficient, which means that the firepower is strong, the metabolism is strong, and they are always in a state of growth and development. As the age grows, the kidney qi gradually When the body is weak, the body temperature will be low, the firepower will be insufficient, the circulation metabolism will slow down, and the body will gradually weaken.Just as the "Huangdi Neijing" said: "If the sky and the sun lose their place, they will lose their lifespan." It means: "Yang Qi is like the sun in the sky, giving light and warmth to nature. , if it is lost, all things cannot survive. If the human body does not have yang energy, the body will lose the vitality of metabolism, and there will be darkness, so life will stop.”

For the kidneys, no matter how warm they are, that is to say, the yang energy of the kidneys cannot be overstated.In traditional Chinese medicine, there is always only tonic, and there is never a saying of venting.It is impossible to remove the fire from the kidneys, let alone put out the fire. Only by continuously and moderately adding fuel can the fire in the kidneys be kept burning for a long time and vigorously.

Sufficient qi and blood means sufficient blood in the body, high quality, sufficient kidney qi, high basal body temperature, normal function of various organs, vigorous metabolism, and smooth blood vessels; qi and blood The two disadvantages are the small amount and poor quality of blood in the body, kidney qi deficiency, low basal body temperature, low function of various organs, slow metabolism, and poor blood circulation.

Therefore, the purpose of replenishing qi is to keep the body at a suitable temperature, plus Zong qi, which is the fresh air that people inhale in nature.Only in this way can people stand alive between heaven and earth.

Cold comes first in all diseases, stay away from cold and damp to be healthy

[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] "Life and Death Talisman" is a sharp weapon used by Jin Yong's martial arts master Tianshan Child Elder, and people in the world call it "the best hidden weapon in the world".If you hit the "Life and Death Talisman", you will roll all over the floor.In fact, the secret of such a powerful hidden weapon is what we often say "catch a cold, catch a cold".

Speaking of the four seasons of the year, we naturally remember the poem "There are flowers in spring, moon in autumn, cool wind in summer and snow in winter". However, the harm it brings to the human body is infinite.

Traditional Chinese medicine usually has the theory of six symptoms, namely cold, heat, temperature, coolness, deficiency and excess.There is also a saying that "all evils are headed by adultery, and all diseases are cold first". From this we can see the harmfulness of cold air to the human body. However, the human body is often attacked by cold air. Usually, the body feels cold, which means that the cold air is on the body. Not to mention the encroachment of the air conditioner. After decades of accumulation, the cold in the body will accumulate to a certain extent, which will endanger your health.

If you are a gentleman who wants to be graceful but not warm, or a lady who loves beauty and ignores her body, the following scene should be familiar to you:

One day, a girl who wore a navel dress and complained of a stomachache went to see a doctor. When she went in, she complained to the doctor: "Doctor, I have had a stomachache for several days. At first I thought it was something I ate wrongly. In the medicine box, I found medicine for treating stomach and intestines, but after taking it for a few days, there was no improvement. What's going on?"

I looked at the girl's attire and asked about her medical history. It turned out that she had been wearing it like this since summer, and the office was air-conditioned.After listening to her statement, the doctor told her with certainty: "Your disease is not caused by eating, but by wearing."

The girl was puzzled, and even doubted the identity of the doctor. She asked in bewilderment, "Can you get sick by wearing clothes?"

The doctor confidently told her: "The stomachache is caused by wearing a navel-baring dress to catch the wind and cold. It is a disease caused by freezing."

Because the navel is located at the "Shenque point", it is the weakest part of the human body's resistance to the outside world. Wearing a navel dress and going in and out of air-conditioned places is easy to be stimulated by cold and heat, causing gastrointestinal dysfunction, leading to vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders. systemic disease.

The doctor didn't prescribe any medicine for her, but only advised her to go home and wear longer clothes. The girl thanked the doctor and went back to change in a hurry...

Some people may argue: According to what you say, isn't the human body very fragile?

Not necessarily!Under normal circumstances, after the cold air enters the human body, if the amount of cold air it bears is not too much, and at the same time the qi and blood are sufficient and the meridians are unblocked, the body will soon transport the cold air from the cold parts of the epidermis to the excretory channel, and the nasal cavity is the most important channel One, excreted through a sneeze or two.However, if the area exposed to the cold is large, or the cold air accumulates for a long time, the human body must consume a large amount of energy to expel the cold air, and the body will inevitably produce a large amount of "cold poison" (deteriorated body fluid), which will affect the circulation of qi and blood in the body. will get sick.

In addition to the common cold and fever, the blockage of Qi and blood caused by excessive cold can also cause pain.Cold will accelerate the contraction of nerves and blood vessels, causing spasms of internal organs, such as stomach pain, abdominal pain or physiological pain.

Wind and cold can also hurt the spleen and stomach, which can easily cause flatulence and indigestion.Many gastrointestinal diseases are caused by cold. The stomach is the "spleen" in Chinese medicine, which is responsible for the blood supply of the whole body. If the function of the stomach is not good and the absorption capacity is poor, the food nutrition cannot be converted into enough blood to supply the body. Blood circulation naturally deteriorates.

The cold air accumulates in the muscles, and after a long time, you will feel muscle stiffness, back pain, frozen shoulder (usually called fifty shoulders, frozen shoulder), and arthritis.

When the cold air accumulates to a certain level, it invades the meridians, causing qi stagnation and blood stasis, which will affect the circulation of qi and blood. In fact, this is the deficiency in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which can induce various diseases that are difficult to cure repeatedly.For example, when the cold air stays in the body for too long, or when a larger amount of cold air invades, it will gradually transfer to the lungs, forming the phenomenon of lung deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine. The so-called lung deficiency means that too much cold air in the lungs causes the lung function to gradually weaken.In the human body, the lungs are not only responsible for the well-known respiratory function, but also the main mechanism for distributing water to various parts of the body.When cold air invades the lungs, the capacity of the lungs decreases, and the body's ability to absorb and process water also decreases.At this time, most of the water is excreted as soon as it enters the body. It feels like going to the toilet as soon as you drink water, and most of the urine is clear and tasteless.Due to the obstacle of water absorption, the proportion of water in human tissue becomes less and less, and the appearance becomes thinner and thinner. At the same time, the luster on the skin also decreases day by day, and it becomes darker and darker.Usually in traditional Chinese medicine inspection, a dark and dull complexion is the appearance of weak lung qi.As the lung qi gradually weakens, the mood will become more and more pessimistic, and it is easy to feel like crying, just like the saying in Chinese medicine books that "the lungs govern sadness".

Strictly speaking, when cold air invades the human body, the human body only changes slowly in appearance, and there are no uncomfortable symptoms or feelings. Most of the uncomfortable feelings come from the process of cold air being discharged.When the cold air that exists in different parts of the body is discharged, the symptoms are different, and of course the countermeasures are also different.Therefore, after understanding the cause of the cold, the most important thing is to learn how to deal with the cold correctly.

1. Keep out of the rain
This is a scene in novels and movies that many romantic young people like to experience. Because most modern young people go to bed late and generally lack energy and blood, it is not easy for the body to expel the cold air invaded by the rain immediately, so it is also There will be no symptoms, and most people will naively think that their bodies are strong enough to withstand such a little rain.Over time, I don't care about this kind of light rain at all.

In fact, this kind of rain will leave cold air on the top of the head and other cold parts of the body. People who are often exposed to rain will probably form a thick and soft "fat" on the top of the head. These fats are cold air substances.When the body has enough rest one day, the qi and blood will rise and start to excrete these cold air. Due to the long-term accumulation of a large amount of cold air, the body needs to expel it by means of continuous sneezing and runny nose. Sneezing and runny nose were identified by doctors as allergic rhinitis.In fact, it is very likely that it is unwise to spend many years or even most of your life suffering from allergic rhinitis because you were greedy for momentary romance when you were young.

2. Shampoo must be dried
Many people have the habit of being too lazy to dry their hair, and some even wrap their washed hair with a cloth. These behaviors will cause excessive cold air to be inhaled on the top of the head, and the result is the same as that of rain.

3. Matters needing attention when swimming
Swimming is a very important sport and hobby for modern people, and it is indeed good for the body, but swimming is also one of the most important ways for cold air to enter the body.The same as raining, most of these chills will not respond in real time, so most people don't think that swimming has anything to do with the cold.Most people who like to swim often feel very cold when they come out of the water, especially when a gust of wind blows, they can't help shivering. This feeling is the most specific feeling of cold air invading the body.

Those who like to swim are best to choose an indoor heated swimming pool without wind to reduce the chance of catching cold.At the same time, drink a cup of ginger tea before and after each swimming to strengthen the body's ability to fight against the cold.

4. Rest is the best way to keep out the cold
No matter which system the cold is excreting, rest is the best strategy.Rest can save all the energy of the body, let the body use it to deal with the cold, and it will recover the fastest.At this time, if the body is forced to use more energy in other places, such as work, or sports that consume a lot of physical strength, the symptoms can also be stopped. The body does not have enough energy to continue to drive away the "middle" stop of the cold air. After the body has enough energy after proper rest, it will restart the war against the cold air.

5. Keep warm drinks at home
In addition to rest, you can also take appropriate Chinese medicine to accelerate the expulsion of cold air.The simpler way is to take some traditional formulas that are easily available on the market.When it is determined that it is the cold in the lungs, you can take ginger tea; if it is determined that it is the cold in the bladder meridian, you can take longan and red jujube tea to help the body expel the cold.

However, using such logic for recuperation, it must be recognized that taking these formulas will not alleviate the symptoms, and most of the time it will aggravate the symptoms and make the cold air discharge faster, thus shortening the duration of the symptoms.The most important thing is that this method will not block the body from doing what it should do, and there will be no sequelae.

If the wrong suppressive treatment method is used, the effect will be completely opposite. The cold will accumulate more and more, the symptoms will become more and more severe, and the recovery will be slower and slower, and eventually it will become a recurring old problem.

"Get angry" is not because of heat, but because of cold
[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] Nowadays, people are generally greedy for cold, and feel dry and hot after eating a lot of cold food. This is caused by weak kidney qi and blocked meridians.Dryness and heat will lead to further greed for coolness, which will aggravate the constriction and blockage of blood vessels and meridians, thus entering a state of vicious circle.

Why is it obvious that I was on fire, but I felt more uncomfortable after eating something cold?Each of us has the experience of "getting angry". For example, the hot weather in summer causes the body to be hot and dry, and we still have sore mouth and tongue and dry stool after eating food that reduces fire.

This is because it is also a fire, and "fire" can be divided into real fire and virtual fire. The treatment of real fire is to use the method of clearing away heat and reducing fire, and the method of tonic for virtual fire.As long as it is real fire, the various heat-clearing, detoxifying, and fire-reducing medicines most commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and the anti-inflammatory medicines of Western medicine are all compatible. Taking it for three days will definitely reduce the fire.But now there are fewer and fewer people who simply have real fire, and most of them are false fire.

Speaking of getting angry, Bingbing, a freshman in the first year of graduate school in a certain university, had an unforgettable experience. In December last year, the postgraduate entrance examination was coming soon. I don’t know if it was because he was too anxious to review his homework or what. Dim vision, difficulty in defecating, feeling weak all over.Bingbing was terribly anxious, seeing the date of the exam approaching day by day, her unbelievable body was really terrible.The warm-hearted sister in the same dormitory was also worried about her, so she lent her a box of Niuhuang detoxification tablets to relieve her anger.Bingbing readily accepted, since he was on fire, and the instructions of Niuhuang Jiedu Tablets clearly stated that it clears heat and relieves fire, which seems to be true, so everyone didn't think much about it.

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