Chapter 6 Chapter 3 Blood Qi Energy System of the Human Body
In the system block diagram of the human body, we define an energy supply system, just like the power supply (Power Supply) in a personal computer is the energy supply center of the computer.It is a pity that there is no scientific method to measure the energy of the human body, unlike the three-purpose electric meter which can easily measure the energy supply of the computer.
Traditional Chinese medicine can only measure the blood gas of a patient in a multi-party way. From the patient's appearance symptoms, such as the thickness and color of the hair, the color of the skin, the blood color of the lips and gums, the condition of the tongue, etc., using theories and experience to evaluate and judge.Due to the lack of objective data in this way, the diagnosis of each Chinese medicine doctor will be different.
Although there is currently no instrument that can directly measure the blood energy of the human body, we can still correctly judge and classify the blood energy of the human body by using the data provided by ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine and our accumulated observation experience over the years , develop a model.We can use this model to infer the causes of diseases, and then formulate treatment plans based on these reasons.
According to my understanding of Chinese medicine, the blood energy of the human body is divided into five levels according to the level. Since the concept of numbers was not very common in ancient times, it is expressed in terms of yin, yang, deficiency and reality (as explained in the previous chapters).Next we illustrate these levels of distinction in modern language.Readers can try to classify their own situations to understand what level of blood energy level they are in.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, such a person is balanced in all aspects, neither yin nor yang, neither deficiency nor reality. Balance is the goal pursued by Chinese medicine.Therefore, this is the healthiest class, which is characterized by a well-proportioned figure, a rosy complexion, a mild temper, and a regular schedule.Because the human body has a strong defense force, various foreign diseases are not easy to invade and get sick.It is rare to see such a person, perhaps a master who has practiced Tai Chi or Qigong has such a body.
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Blood gas is lower than the healthy level. There are many reasons for the blood gas drop, such as sleeping too late, or long-term malabsorption of nutrients.At this time, the human body's ability to resist diseases is very close to the ability of disease invasion, which is between the two.Therefore, when a foreign disease invades, the human body still has the ability to resist, but it is not as fast as a healthy person to fight off the disease, and fierce battles will occur in various organs of the human body, so various symptoms will appear .Some people traditionally think of him as weak and sickly because of the frequent physical appearance of such wars.Generally, people who often catch a cold or even have a fever, or people with allergies, are at this level of blood gas level.
The downward trend of blood gas cannot be reversed for a long time. After the blood gas drops below the lower limit of yang deficiency, the diagnosis and maintenance system cannot fully work due to the low energy of the human body. on hold.At this time, the blood gas is only enough to maintain the needs of daily work or activities.When a general disease invades, the human body does not resist, and the disease drives straight in.Since there is no battle of resistance, there are no uncomfortable symptoms of disease, but it will leave traces on the skin color, shape and facial features of the human body, which can be recognized by experienced doctors.
Such people are the largest group in the current industrial and commercial society.Many people feel that they are very healthy and have unlimited physical strength. They are busy until midnight every day, and they can exhaust their physical strength without getting sick. These phenomena are typical symptoms of yin deficiency.
People with this level of blood energy will be more energetic the later they are. This is because the "blood energy" produced by the human body cannot cope with the daily overdraft, so it has to be extracted from the "fire" originally stored in the human body.More popularly speaking, people at this level are not without illness, but incapable of illness.
The length of time that each person can maintain this blood gas level is different. On the one hand, it depends on whether the daily life and rest in childhood or youth are normal, and whether he has stored enough energy; Take time to rest and recharge your energy.
People who grew up in rural areas can withstand overdrawing for a longer period of time than those who grew up in cities. This is because people who grew up in rural areas sleep earlier in childhood and store more energy in their bodies.Modern children go to bed later than the previous generation, so they will have less energy to be overdrawn in the future, and they will have more and earlier chances of serious illness.
Continue to consume energy from the state of yin deficiency, and when the stored energy is about to run out, that is, the "fire" is almost used up, and it reaches the level of "deficiency of both yin and yang".At this time, the human body will often be in a state of fatigue.At this time, in order to obtain the necessary energy, the human body will go to the muscles or other parts to extract energy.
At this time, "energy exhaustion" refers to a low level within the range of safety stock, not really exhausted.When the energy overdraft of the human body reaches this level, it will temporarily stop the overdraft of energy, making the body prone to fatigue and forcing the human body to take more rest. This is a self-protection measure of the human body.
The level of blood and qi from yin and yang deficiency continues to decline, and finally drops to the level of "yin and yang deficiency" in traditional Chinese medicine. In more vernacular terms, it is the exhaustion of blood and qi.At this time, the deficiency of blood and qi in the human body leads to excessive anger, and it is difficult to fall asleep at night. The later the night, the better the spirit.In this stage of liver fire, the overdrawn energy exceeds the lower limit of the human body's safety stock, and the body has reached the stage of exhaustion, so it has to overdraw all kinds of energy that can be transformed.At this time, the more you don't sleep, the more empty you are, and the more angry you become, forming a vicious circle.Because bile is not secreted due to the obstruction of the gallbladder meridian, the food eaten cannot be converted into hematopoietic materials, and nutrients are difficult to absorb.
Patients at this stage, because they even lose the ability to control the internal organs, suffer from very serious diseases, and most of them are beyond the reach of the current medical system.Such as various cancers, kidney failure, stroke, etc.Due to the exhaustion of blood and qi, and at the same time, the internal organs are out of control, so it is easy to evolve into a complication phenomenon in which various organs develop successively in a short period of time. In fact, it is not the first organ that suffers from the disease that drags down other organs. Instead, each organ has reached the critical state of the disease at the same time, and it is out of control.
The attached picture is a schematic diagram of the decline and rise of the five blood gas levels. The blood gas of the human body declines at a very slow rate, counting for decades.But the rise is very fast, measured in months.Before the blood qi rises to yang deficiency, if you can go to bed early and get up early every day, and tap the gallbladder meridian frequently, the blood qi will rise quickly. Usually, after a month of recuperation, you will feel that your physical strength and spirit have improved significantly.After four or five months, there will be very good results, and others can see the obvious difference from the complexion.
Most people can reach the level of yang deficiency within a year even if their blood qi is very low.When blood qi reaches the level of yin deficiency, the rate of increase is greatly reduced as the body begins to deal with some of the more serious underlying diseases.When it reaches the level of yang deficiency, more diseases will be dealt with, and the blood qi will rise more slowly.The ascent speed of each person depends on the type of disease, severity and improvement of daily life of each person, and requires different recovery time.
People at any blood gas level, as long as they can change their blood gas from a downward trend to an upward trend, the blood gas level will continue to rise over time.Most visceral diseases are also chronic diseases, which are just symptoms of low blood gas levels to varying degrees.Therefore, as long as the blood gas level is improved, various chronic diseases have a chance of recovery.
Symptoms of illness will appear when the blood gas rises and falls. Even if the same symptoms are caused by completely different reasons in the rising and falling trends, of course different treatment plans must be adopted.
When a patient with yang deficiency gets sick (with uncomfortable symptoms), there are two possible situations, one is in the process of blood gas descending, and the other is in the process of blood gas rising.
During the decline of blood qi, from health to yang deficiency, the body's energy is not enough to quickly defeat the disease, so it is often sick.There are two possibilities for recovery in such a situation. One is to work hard to improve the law of life, increase the energy of the body, bring oneself back to a healthy level, and enable the body to be able to quickly defeat the disease at any time. This is the real recovery.
Another possibility is to continue to live an irregular life, consume blood energy, and make blood energy drop to the level of yin deficiency. Since the body's diagnosis and maintenance system is no longer fully functional, some minor problems will not be dealt with, and there will be no symptoms. In fact, the body is worse, but the patient will think that he has recovered, which is a false recovery.
During the rising process of blood qi, the patient enters the level of yang deficiency where he is easy to get sick from the level of yin deficiency where he would not get sick.On the surface, most people think that their health has deteriorated from not getting sick to getting sick very easily, but in fact it is the result of their blood energy rising and their health getting better.
Many people have this experience. They are usually very busy and have no time to get sick.As soon as you take a vacation and sleep at home for two days, you start to get sick. This is the phenomenon of going from yin deficiency to yang deficiency.After I started working, I was busy for two days, and my blood energy dropped to the level of yin deficiency again, so my body no longer got sick.It is recommended for such friends to start a planned recuperation when the work is easier, and find a period of time to take a long vacation, so that the body has the opportunity to clean up the problems that need to be dealt with.
If you can't find the time no matter what, and you really want to take care of your body, then you should be ruthless, quit your job, and rest at home for half a year.To get rid of long-standing diseases in the body, that is, to adjust the blood qi to the level of yang deficiency, and to have a few illnesses.Sometimes it takes several years for recuperation, and most patients think it is too long.In fact, when you think about it, it should be very reasonable for our bodies that have been used for decades to take one-tenth of the time of use to restore them.
Exercise will open up the meridians, strengthen the function of the heart, and improve the ability to remove garbage from the body.But it will not increase the blood energy of the human body.
The impact of exercise on health is mainly to speed up blood circulation, which can unblock some blocked meridians, especially for the opening of the pericardium meridian.The smoothness of the pericardial meridian can strengthen the heart's ability, improve the body's immune function, speed up the body's metabolism, and speed up the elimination of human waste.
Most of the body's obesity is due to the obstruction of the pericardium meridian, which leads to the accumulation of garbage (fat). The reason why exercise has the effect of losing weight is because exercise helps to open up this meridian.Exercise needs to consume the energy of the human body, a lot of physical exertion will make people feel tired, and then increase the time of sleep, improve the quality of sleep, increase the time of human hematopoiesis, and thus improve the blood gas level.That is to say, energy is improved not by exercise but by sleep after exercise. For people with insufficient blood energy, if they only exercise purely without improving their living habits, increasing or adjusting sleep time, exercise will only consume blood energy meaninglessly.
Many busy people in modern times take advantage of nighttime activities. After a whole day of physical exertion, the human body must have no extra energy for exercise at night.Therefore, when exercising, the body must mobilize the stored anger, coupled with the stimulation of exercise, the spirit is in a state of excitement. After stopping exercise at 9 or 10 o'clock at night, it takes at least two or three hours to eliminate this state of excitement before falling asleep.Because the anger is still strong, the night's sleep must be restless.Not only is this kind of exercise not beneficial to the body, but if it forms a long-term habit, it will become the biggest killer of health.Most people think that exercise can create energy, so they can be particularly energetic after exercise, but they don't know that it is completely the result of overdrawn anger.
Once an asthma patient came to our doctor. After seeing him, the doctor only gave him verbal advice and did not teach him the method of massage.I felt very strange. The doctor told me afterwards that this patient had been suffering from asthma for many years, but after taking part in the morning swimming meeting recently, his asthma was cured.But observing his blood gas, it was still very low.Judging his condition is that the original blood gas is at the level of yang deficiency, and the blood gas is not too low, so the body often eliminates cold air, resulting in asthma.Recently, I participated in morning swimming, but I didn’t go to bed early, and my absorption didn’t improve, so my blood gas got worse, and dropped to a lower level of yin deficiency. The body no longer has enough ability to get rid of the cold, and changed from frequent asthma to asthma. Without the ability to breathe, the symptoms disappear, and the patient thinks that his asthma has been cured.
In such a situation, if the doctor advises him to go to bed early and get up early and regulate the meridians, these measures will surely make his blood qi rise from yin deficiency to yang deficiency quickly.The patient will not think that going to bed early and getting up early will cause him to get sick. He must think that there is a problem with our meridian conditioning method, and we will fall into a situation where we cannot argue.Therefore, the best way to do it is to give verbal advice. It is recommended to go to bed early and get up early, so that his asthma can relapse on its own, so that he can proceed to the next step.However, most of such patients will think that he has cured his asthma with exercise, and will not believe our statement. The final result must be to continue to use his original exercise therapy.
From these three blood gas models, together with the methods introduced later in this book, a set of methods for health preservation and treatment can be developed.No matter which blood gas level you are at, as long as you can go to bed early and tap the Gallbladder Meridian, you can reverse the blood gas from a downward trend to an upward trend.
As long as the blood qi rises to the level of yang deficiency, the body's immune system and diagnosis and maintenance system will gradually resume their functions, cleaning up and treating the existing problems and diseases of the human body one by one. Many various small problems will first appear in the body. If the faults are eliminated one by one, the condition of the body will gradually improve, and the blood energy will gradually increase. As long as the blood energy is on an upward trend for a long time, health is only a matter of time.
"Overdrawing physical strength" is a phrase we often use. Since physical strength can be overdrawn, it must be able to be stored.
"Blood Qi" is a term used by Chinese medicine to explain the energy of the human body, but there is no substance in the human body called "blood gas". According to the explanation of Chinese medicine, blood gas contains many substances in the human body, and blood is the most important representative of human energy.The total amount of blood is directly proportional to the blood gas energy of the human body, and the energy of the human body is stored and transported through the blood.
As long as the amount of hematopoiesis exceeds blood consumption every day, the total amount of blood will increase, and the excess blood will enter the various organs of the human body.For example, in Chinese medicine, the liver has the function of storing blood, and when the human body is very weak, the kidneys will also shrink. The so-called kidney atrophy means that the blood volume in the kidneys decreases.Therefore, if the human body is in a state where the total amount of blood continues to rise for a long time, then all organs are filled with blood, and the bones are also filled with bone marrow. This is the state of sufficient blood energy reserves.
Conversely, if the daily hematopoiesis is less than the blood consumption, the total amount of blood will be less and less, and the blood stored in each organ will be less and less.When the blood stored in the spleen decreases, the function of the human body's diagnosis and maintenance system will weaken, and the immune system will naturally decline.When the blood stored in the liver decreases, the number of times the blood is cleaned in the liver decreases, and the blood becomes more and more dirty.When the blood in the liver is reduced to a very low level, part of the liver will gradually shrink or harden due to long-term lack of blood nourishment.When the blood stored in the kidneys decreases, the garbage in the blood cannot be excreted through the kidneys, and the color of the urine gradually becomes lighter, and finally becomes completely clear.As the total amount of blood continues to decrease, eventually the kidneys no longer function at all, and uremia develops.
We all have the experience of using a mobile phone. The battery of a mobile phone can be used for two or three hours after charging for about two or three hours at a time, and the usage time is dozens of times longer than the charging time.The function of blood gas storage in the human body is similar to the charging of mobile phone batteries. As long as the conditions of the human body's hematopoietic function are mastered, the energy of blood gas can increase rapidly.Conversely, if a person has been in a state of overdraft for a long time, the blood energy stored in his childhood can support his consumption for decades.
Blood energy can be stored, which is a very important logical concept.Using such logic, it can be explained that some people live abnormally for a long time and only sleep for a short time every day without immediate symptoms of disease, because they stored more energy when they were young.However, as the energy continues to be overdrawn, a serious illness in the future is still inevitable.
When the human body utilizes stored blood gas energy, it is a bit like a backup energy system used in the event of a power outage in a building.Due to the limited storage capacity of the backup energy system, and strive to be able to use the longest time.When using backup energy systems, therefore, usually only the most important parts are supplied.For example, the lighting system and fire protection system in the building, etc., and the air conditioning system that consumes a lot of power stops running.
Similarly, when the blood of the human body is insufficient and the backup energy system is used, it only supplies the necessary human body functions, and the human body diagnosis and maintenance system that consumes a lot of energy temporarily stops the supply of energy, and of course it also stops running.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the normal energy is called "blood qi", and the backup energy is called "fire".When using backup energy, the main phenomenon of the body is that the later the spirit, the better, which is often referred to in Chinese medicine as "heart fire" or "liver fire".
Since the diagnostic maintenance system almost stops functioning when the backup energy is used, the human body has no uncomfortable disease symptoms.Many people mistakenly think that they are in good health, never get sick, and can overdraw their physical strength at will.There are also some people who usually do not get sick when they are busy, but once they stop to rest, they immediately feel uncomfortable.That is to use the backup energy in normal times, rest, the blood gas energy is more, the diagnosis and maintenance system starts to operate, and the human body will have uncomfortable disease symptoms.
Some people are obviously in poor health, but they still don’t know how to take care of themselves, don’t know how to rest, think that they can’t do without him at work, and they have to go to bed until one or two in the middle of the night every day.When he was exhausted and entered the hospital, the company eventually lost him.
I remember seeing a slogan in a company once, "Don't work hard today, try hard to find a job tomorrow"; using his meaning, I also gave everyone a piece of advice: "If you don't sleep well today, sleep well tomorrow."Instead of being exhausted and sick and hospitalized for two months, it is better to rest at home for two weeks in advance.This is a very simple truth, but there are many people who can't figure it out.
The advice we often give to patients is: the root of health preservation is to always keep a little blood energy for yourself. "Early to bed and early to rise is good for health" is the simplest common sense that we have been taught repeatedly since childhood, but it has not been valued by everyone.Everyone doesn't understand what's wrong with going to bed late and waking up late?Now with the concept of blood energy, everyone should be able to understand that as long as you go to bed early and get up early, you can have a healthy life. It couldn't be easier.
We talked about many concepts and models of blood gas, but how can we know the level of our blood gas?
Although there are still no suitable instruments to easily measure blood gas levels in the human body, we have several simple methods for general diagnosis.The simplest is to observe the color of the lips and gums, this part will obviously reflect the color of the blood in the body, and will leave traces of the blood gas condition in the past period of time.
After long-term blood gas overdraft, the color of the lips will gradually darken, and in severe cases, they will become purple-black.But after starting to improve sleep habits, the color will start to change from the inside of the lower lip, gradually from the inside to the outside, and when it changes to the middle part of the thickness of the lips, you can see the obvious color difference from the outside, it will take at least half a year. time.When the color of the entire lower lip turns light red, it will take more than one year of nursing care.Therefore, as long as the color difference between the upper and lower lips is used, it can be judged whether the blood energy of the person has been on the rise in the past period of time, and the length of the recuperation period can also be judged.
The gums are another place where it is very easy to observe the blood gas, especially for some people with low blood gas, most of the original gums are very dark in color. After adjusting the living habits according to our method, there will be blood gas in the gums in about two weeks to a month. A thin trace of new flesh appeared near the teeth, and the color of this part was close to pink, forming a strong contrast with the original dark color.As the recuperation time continues to prolong, the light red part gradually increases, forming a very clear boundary line between the two colors. Just by observing the position of this line, you can know the changes in the person's living habits or work pressure in the past period of time .If the color of the gums is very light, it means that the person has slept for a long time, but the time is wrong or the absorption is poor, and the blood gas is still insufficient.Normal blood color should be a little blood red.
In the process of increasing blood gas, the gums on the gums will grow and thicken, and the exposed teeth will become shorter and shorter, and the gums will gradually grow into the gaps between the teeth. This is also a good way to observe the blood gas trend.On the contrary, if the blood gas continues to drop, the gum on the gums will become lower and lower, that is, the gum will gradually shrink, and the teeth will become longer and longer until the roots of the teeth are exposed, and it is easy to get periodontal disease.
Therefore, periodontal disease is the result of decreased blood energy. The method to improve periodontal disease is very simple. As long as you follow the method in this book for a period of time, the gums will grow thicker, and periodontal disease will gradually improve.However, friends with periodontal disease are reminded that in the early stage of recuperation, you should first find a dentist to remove the calculus on the root of the tooth, otherwise the calculus will be wrapped in the gum after the gum starts to grow up, and it will easily become inflamed in the future. Calculus in the gums is very troublesome, and the gums need to be surgically cut to remove them.
The color and skin texture of the palms are also important information for observing the blood qi. If the face is rosy, but the palms are also very red, it is the redness caused by the rush of liver qi. This ruddy color cannot represent the original blood qi of the person. The rosiness on the face has completely faded.The standard palm color should be white at the center of the palm and red at the fingertips. This kind of palm indicates that the person’s liver energy is not strong at present, and the ruddy face is the real healthy color.
At the beginning of recuperation, the color of the hands will change constantly, and the way of changing is not exactly the same for each person, it must depend on the condition at the beginning.
In addition, people whose palms are very soft to the touch are people with low blood gas and little protein in the blood. Part of the muscles have already been converted into sugar and used up. After three or four months of recuperation, the protein in the blood increases. Originally normal blood sugar will also rise accordingly. If symptoms of diabetes appear when you go to the hospital for an examination, don’t be nervous at this time. As long as you continue to take care of yourself according to the methods in the chapter on diabetes in this book, you will recover naturally within two to three years.
People with very thick and thick palms must have low blood energy, so that a lot of garbage has accumulated in the palms, and the skin on the surface has not been renewed for a long time. Obviously, the tissue regeneration ability is also weak.
The blood vessels on the back of the hand are also an important message. People with low blood gas must have insufficient blood volume. The blood vessels are not obvious. When you go to the hospital for an injection, it is not easy to find the blood vessels. Sometimes the blood vessels are even sunken.Some people with high blood lipids have very dark blood vessels. For people with diabetes mentioned above, the blood vessels look thicker but not elastic.With the improvement of blood gas, the blood vessels will become more and more full, the color will become lighter and more elastic.
From the various traces left by blood gas changes on the surface of the human body, one can understand that health checks do not necessarily need to rely entirely on instruments, and one can understand one's true health status by paying careful attention.In addition to these signs, many other symptoms can be found on the body, for example, people with white hair must have poor gallbladder function and blood qi will not be good, and people with dry and gray skin will have extremely low blood qi, etc., all of which can be observed As far as the level of blood gas and the trend of change, these are left to professional doctors to learn.
Many people attribute their physique to genetics. For example, most people who have gray hair when they are young (commonly known as juvenile white) often say that it is hereditary, and my father (or mother) is like this.In fact, the formation of white hair is closely related to the habit of taking medicine for colds. Some people pay great attention to maintaining their health and take medicine as soon as they have signs of a cold. Such people have no way to vent the cold in their bodies, and they are most likely to grow gray hair.And when such people take care of their children, they must use the same logic, and the children will naturally have gray hair very early when they grow up.
Many so-called "hereditary" diseases are likely to be the result of a family having the same lifestyle and medication habits.
The attached picture is a schematic diagram of the decline and rise of the five blood gas levels. The blood gas of the human body declines at a very slow rate, counting for decades.But the rise is very fast, measured in months.Before the blood qi rises to yang deficiency, if you can go to bed early and get up early every day, and tap the gallbladder meridian frequently, the blood qi will rise quickly. Usually, after a month of recuperation, you will feel that your physical strength and spirit have improved significantly.After four or five months, there will be very good results, and others can see the obvious difference from the complexion.
Most people can reach the level of yang deficiency within a year even if their blood qi is very low.When blood qi reaches the level of yin deficiency, the rate of increase is greatly reduced as the body begins to deal with some of the more serious underlying diseases.When it reaches the level of yang deficiency, more diseases will be dealt with, and the blood qi will rise more slowly.The ascent speed of each person depends on the type of disease, severity and improvement of daily life of each person, and requires different recovery time.
People at any blood gas level, as long as they can change their blood gas from a downward trend to an upward trend, the blood gas level will continue to rise over time.Most visceral diseases are also chronic diseases, which are just symptoms of low blood gas levels to varying degrees.Therefore, as long as the blood gas level is improved, various chronic diseases have a chance of recovery.
Symptoms of illness will appear when the blood gas rises and falls. Even if the same symptoms are caused by completely different reasons in the rising and falling trends, of course different treatment plans must be adopted.
When a patient with yang deficiency gets sick (with uncomfortable symptoms), there are two possible situations, one is in the process of blood gas descending, and the other is in the process of blood gas rising.
During the decline of blood qi, from health to yang deficiency, the body's energy is not enough to quickly defeat the disease, so it is often sick.There are two possibilities for recovery in such a situation. One is to work hard to improve the law of life, increase the energy of the body, bring oneself back to a healthy level, and enable the body to be able to quickly defeat the disease at any time. This is the real recovery.
Another possibility is to continue to live an irregular life, consume blood energy, and make blood energy drop to the level of yin deficiency. Since the body's diagnosis and maintenance system is no longer fully functional, some minor problems will not be dealt with, and there will be no symptoms. In fact, the body is worse, but the patient will think that he has recovered, which is a false recovery.
During the rising process of blood qi, the patient enters the level of yang deficiency where he is easy to get sick from the level of yin deficiency where he would not get sick.On the surface, most people think that their health has deteriorated from not getting sick to getting sick very easily, but in fact it is the result of their blood energy rising and their health getting better.
Many people have this experience. They are usually very busy and have no time to get sick.As soon as you take a vacation and sleep at home for two days, you start to get sick. This is the phenomenon of going from yin deficiency to yang deficiency.After I started working, I was busy for two days, and my blood energy dropped to the level of yin deficiency again, so my body no longer got sick.It is recommended for such friends to start a planned recuperation when the work is easier, and find a period of time to take a long vacation, so that the body has the opportunity to clean up the problems that need to be dealt with.
If you can't find the time no matter what, and you really want to take care of your body, then you should be ruthless, quit your job, and rest at home for half a year.To get rid of long-standing diseases in the body, that is, to adjust the blood qi to the level of yang deficiency, and to have a few illnesses.Sometimes it takes several years for recuperation, and most patients think it is too long.In fact, when you think about it, it should be very reasonable for our bodies that have been used for decades to take one-tenth of the time of use to restore them.
Exercise will open up the meridians, strengthen the function of the heart, and improve the ability to remove garbage from the body.But it will not increase the blood energy of the human body.
The impact of exercise on health is mainly to speed up blood circulation, which can unblock some blocked meridians, especially for the opening of the pericardium meridian.The smoothness of the pericardial meridian can strengthen the heart's ability, improve the body's immune function, speed up the body's metabolism, and speed up the elimination of human waste.
Most of the body's obesity is due to the obstruction of the pericardium meridian, which leads to the accumulation of garbage (fat). The reason why exercise has the effect of losing weight is because exercise helps to open up this meridian.Exercise needs to consume the energy of the human body, a lot of physical exertion will make people feel tired, and then increase the time of sleep, improve the quality of sleep, increase the time of human hematopoiesis, and thus improve the blood gas level.That is to say, energy is improved not by exercise but by sleep after exercise. For people with insufficient blood energy, if they only exercise purely without improving their living habits, increasing or adjusting sleep time, exercise will only consume blood energy meaninglessly.
Many busy people in modern times take advantage of nighttime activities. After a whole day of physical exertion, the human body must have no extra energy for exercise at night.Therefore, when exercising, the body must mobilize the stored anger, coupled with the stimulation of exercise, the spirit is in a state of excitement. After stopping exercise at 9 or 10 o'clock at night, it takes at least two or three hours to eliminate this state of excitement before falling asleep.Because the anger is still strong, the night's sleep must be restless.Not only is this kind of exercise not beneficial to the body, but if it forms a long-term habit, it will become the biggest killer of health.Most people think that exercise can create energy, so they can be particularly energetic after exercise, but they don't know that it is completely the result of overdrawn anger.
Once an asthma patient came to our doctor. After seeing him, the doctor only gave him verbal advice and did not teach him the method of massage.I felt very strange. The doctor told me afterwards that this patient had been suffering from asthma for many years, but after taking part in the morning swimming meeting recently, his asthma was cured.But observing his blood gas, it was still very low.Judging his condition is that the original blood gas is at the level of yang deficiency, and the blood gas is not too low, so the body often eliminates cold air, resulting in asthma.Recently, I participated in morning swimming, but I didn’t go to bed early, and my absorption didn’t improve, so my blood gas got worse, and dropped to a lower level of yin deficiency. The body no longer has enough ability to get rid of the cold, and changed from frequent asthma to asthma. Without the ability to breathe, the symptoms disappear, and the patient thinks that his asthma has been cured.
In such a situation, if the doctor advises him to go to bed early and get up early and regulate the meridians, these measures will surely make his blood qi rise from yin deficiency to yang deficiency quickly.The patient will not think that going to bed early and getting up early will cause him to get sick. He must think that there is a problem with our meridian conditioning method, and we will fall into a situation where we cannot argue.Therefore, the best way to do it is to give verbal advice. It is recommended to go to bed early and get up early, so that his asthma can relapse on its own, so that he can proceed to the next step.However, most of such patients will think that he has cured his asthma with exercise, and will not believe our statement. The final result must be to continue to use his original exercise therapy.
From these three blood gas models, together with the methods introduced later in this book, a set of methods for health preservation and treatment can be developed.No matter which blood gas level you are at, as long as you can go to bed early and tap the Gallbladder Meridian, you can reverse the blood gas from a downward trend to an upward trend.
As long as the blood qi rises to the level of yang deficiency, the body's immune system and diagnosis and maintenance system will gradually resume their functions, cleaning up and treating the existing problems and diseases of the human body one by one. Many various small problems will first appear in the body. If the faults are eliminated one by one, the condition of the body will gradually improve, and the blood energy will gradually increase. As long as the blood energy is on an upward trend for a long time, health is only a matter of time.
"Overdrawing physical strength" is a phrase we often use. Since physical strength can be overdrawn, it must be able to be stored.
"Blood Qi" is a term used by Chinese medicine to explain the energy of the human body, but there is no substance in the human body called "blood gas". According to the explanation of Chinese medicine, blood gas contains many substances in the human body, and blood is the most important representative of human energy.The total amount of blood is directly proportional to the blood gas energy of the human body, and the energy of the human body is stored and transported through the blood.
As long as the amount of hematopoiesis exceeds blood consumption every day, the total amount of blood will increase, and the excess blood will enter the various organs of the human body.For example, in Chinese medicine, the liver has the function of storing blood, and when the human body is very weak, the kidneys will also shrink. The so-called kidney atrophy means that the blood volume in the kidneys decreases.Therefore, if the human body is in a state where the total amount of blood continues to rise for a long time, then all organs are filled with blood, and the bones are also filled with bone marrow. This is the state of sufficient blood energy reserves.
Conversely, if the daily hematopoiesis is less than the blood consumption, the total amount of blood will be less and less, and the blood stored in each organ will be less and less.When the blood stored in the spleen decreases, the function of the human body's diagnosis and maintenance system will weaken, and the immune system will naturally decline.When the blood stored in the liver decreases, the number of times the blood is cleaned in the liver decreases, and the blood becomes more and more dirty.When the blood in the liver is reduced to a very low level, part of the liver will gradually shrink or harden due to long-term lack of blood nourishment.When the blood stored in the kidneys decreases, the garbage in the blood cannot be excreted through the kidneys, and the color of the urine gradually becomes lighter, and finally becomes completely clear.As the total amount of blood continues to decrease, eventually the kidneys no longer function at all, and uremia develops.
We all have the experience of using a mobile phone. The battery of a mobile phone can be used for two or three hours after charging for about two or three hours at a time, and the usage time is dozens of times longer than the charging time.The function of blood gas storage in the human body is similar to the charging of mobile phone batteries. As long as the conditions of the human body's hematopoietic function are mastered, the energy of blood gas can increase rapidly.Conversely, if a person has been in a state of overdraft for a long time, the blood energy stored in his childhood can support his consumption for decades.
Blood energy can be stored, which is a very important logical concept.Using such logic, it can be explained that some people live abnormally for a long time and only sleep for a short time every day without immediate symptoms of disease, because they stored more energy when they were young.However, as the energy continues to be overdrawn, a serious illness in the future is still inevitable.
When the human body utilizes stored blood gas energy, it is a bit like a backup energy system used in the event of a power outage in a building.Due to the limited storage capacity of the backup energy system, and strive to be able to use the longest time.When using backup energy systems, therefore, usually only the most important parts are supplied.For example, the lighting system and fire protection system in the building, etc., and the air conditioning system that consumes a lot of power stops running.
Similarly, when the blood of the human body is insufficient and the backup energy system is used, it only supplies the necessary human body functions, and the human body diagnosis and maintenance system that consumes a lot of energy temporarily stops the supply of energy, and of course it also stops running.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the normal energy is called "blood qi", and the backup energy is called "fire".When using backup energy, the main phenomenon of the body is that the later the spirit, the better, which is often referred to in Chinese medicine as "heart fire" or "liver fire".
Since the diagnostic maintenance system almost stops functioning when the backup energy is used, the human body has no uncomfortable disease symptoms.Many people mistakenly think that they are in good health, never get sick, and can overdraw their physical strength at will.There are also some people who usually do not get sick when they are busy, but once they stop to rest, they immediately feel uncomfortable.That is to use the backup energy in normal times, rest, the blood gas energy is more, the diagnosis and maintenance system starts to operate, and the human body will have uncomfortable disease symptoms.
Some people are obviously in poor health, but they still don’t know how to take care of themselves, don’t know how to rest, think that they can’t do without him at work, and they have to go to bed until one or two in the middle of the night every day.When he was exhausted and entered the hospital, the company eventually lost him.
I remember seeing a slogan in a company once, "Don't work hard today, try hard to find a job tomorrow"; using his meaning, I also gave everyone a piece of advice: "If you don't sleep well today, sleep well tomorrow."Instead of being exhausted and sick and hospitalized for two months, it is better to rest at home for two weeks in advance.This is a very simple truth, but there are many people who can't figure it out.
The advice we often give to patients is: the root of health preservation is to always keep a little blood energy for yourself. "Early to bed and early to rise is good for health" is the simplest common sense that we have been taught repeatedly since childhood, but it has not been valued by everyone.Everyone doesn't understand what's wrong with going to bed late and waking up late?Now with the concept of blood energy, everyone should be able to understand that as long as you go to bed early and get up early, you can have a healthy life. It couldn't be easier.
We talked about many concepts and models of blood gas, but how can we know the level of our blood gas?
Although there are still no suitable instruments to easily measure blood gas levels in the human body, we have several simple methods for general diagnosis.The simplest is to observe the color of the lips and gums, this part will obviously reflect the color of the blood in the body, and will leave traces of the blood gas condition in the past period of time.
After long-term blood gas overdraft, the color of the lips will gradually darken, and in severe cases, they will become purple-black.But after starting to improve sleep habits, the color will start to change from the inside of the lower lip, gradually from the inside to the outside, and when it changes to the middle part of the thickness of the lips, you can see the obvious color difference from the outside, it will take at least half a year. time.When the color of the entire lower lip turns light red, it will take more than one year of nursing care.Therefore, as long as the color difference between the upper and lower lips is used, it can be judged whether the blood energy of the person has been on the rise in the past period of time, and the length of the recuperation period can also be judged.
The gums are another place where it is very easy to observe the blood gas, especially for some people with low blood gas, most of the original gums are very dark in color. After adjusting the living habits according to our method, there will be blood gas in the gums in about two weeks to a month. A thin trace of new flesh appeared near the teeth, and the color of this part was close to pink, forming a strong contrast with the original dark color.As the recuperation time continues to prolong, the light red part gradually increases, forming a very clear boundary line between the two colors. Just by observing the position of this line, you can know the changes in the person's living habits or work pressure in the past period of time .If the color of the gums is very light, it means that the person has slept for a long time, but the time is wrong or the absorption is poor, and the blood gas is still insufficient.Normal blood color should be a little blood red.
In the process of increasing blood gas, the gums on the gums will grow and thicken, and the exposed teeth will become shorter and shorter, and the gums will gradually grow into the gaps between the teeth. This is also a good way to observe the blood gas trend.On the contrary, if the blood gas continues to drop, the gum on the gums will become lower and lower, that is, the gum will gradually shrink, and the teeth will become longer and longer until the roots of the teeth are exposed, and it is easy to get periodontal disease.
Therefore, periodontal disease is the result of decreased blood energy. The method to improve periodontal disease is very simple. As long as you follow the method in this book for a period of time, the gums will grow thicker, and periodontal disease will gradually improve.However, friends with periodontal disease are reminded that in the early stage of recuperation, you should first find a dentist to remove the calculus on the root of the tooth, otherwise the calculus will be wrapped in the gum after the gum starts to grow up, and it will easily become inflamed in the future. Calculus in the gums is very troublesome, and the gums need to be surgically cut to remove them.
The color and skin texture of the palms are also important information for observing the blood qi. If the face is rosy, but the palms are also very red, it is the redness caused by the rush of liver qi. This ruddy color cannot represent the original blood qi of the person. The rosiness on the face has completely faded.The standard palm color should be white at the center of the palm and red at the fingertips. This kind of palm indicates that the person’s liver energy is not strong at present, and the ruddy face is the real healthy color.
At the beginning of recuperation, the color of the hands will change constantly, and the way of changing is not exactly the same for each person, it must depend on the condition at the beginning.
In addition, people whose palms are very soft to the touch are people with low blood gas and little protein in the blood. Part of the muscles have already been converted into sugar and used up. After three or four months of recuperation, the protein in the blood increases. Originally normal blood sugar will also rise accordingly. If symptoms of diabetes appear when you go to the hospital for an examination, don’t be nervous at this time. As long as you continue to take care of yourself according to the methods in the chapter on diabetes in this book, you will recover naturally within two to three years.
People with very thick and thick palms must have low blood energy, so that a lot of garbage has accumulated in the palms, and the skin on the surface has not been renewed for a long time. Obviously, the tissue regeneration ability is also weak.
The blood vessels on the back of the hand are also an important message. People with low blood gas must have insufficient blood volume. The blood vessels are not obvious. When you go to the hospital for an injection, it is not easy to find the blood vessels. Sometimes the blood vessels are even sunken.Some people with high blood lipids have very dark blood vessels. For people with diabetes mentioned above, the blood vessels look thicker but not elastic.With the improvement of blood gas, the blood vessels will become more and more full, the color will become lighter and more elastic.
From the various traces left by blood gas changes on the surface of the human body, one can understand that health checks do not necessarily need to rely entirely on instruments, and one can understand one's true health status by paying careful attention.In addition to these signs, many other symptoms can be found on the body, for example, people with white hair must have poor gallbladder function and blood qi will not be good, and people with dry and gray skin will have extremely low blood qi, etc., all of which can be observed As far as the level of blood gas and the trend of change, these are left to professional doctors to learn.
Many people attribute their physique to genetics. For example, most people who have gray hair when they are young (commonly known as juvenile white) often say that it is hereditary, and my father (or mother) is like this.In fact, the formation of white hair is closely related to the habit of taking medicine for colds. Some people pay great attention to maintaining their health and take medicine as soon as they have signs of a cold. Such people have no way to vent the cold in their bodies, and they are most likely to grow gray hair.And when such people take care of their children, they must use the same logic, and the children will naturally have gray hair very early when they grow up.
Many so-called "hereditary" diseases are likely to be the result of a family having the same lifestyle and medication habits.