“Spirit” is composed of essence and expression.
Essence is the basic substance of kidney. And expression is the god of heart. So spirit is the appearance of cross of heart and kidney.
If your spirit is good, it means you have a good ability of cross of heart and kidney.
It means not only both your heart and kidney is in good condition, but also they can get a tight relationship with each other.
Spirit is not something of soul but body itself. It is important to show the health of the whole body.
In Chinese medicine has a theory called that take the five cereals as main regimen food and vegetables and fruits as second helpful regimen food. So only eat vegetables or take fruits as main food is not healthy ways to regimen. Be on diet and eat little is harmful for health though its bad effect can not come so quick. We should eat enough rice and millet per day to get a strong body. Health is more important than beauty. And we still have other methods to keep slim.
Chinese medicine regimen divided into inner regimen and outer regimen. Inner regimen is to protect our spirit, energy and essence, and outer regimen is about skin, muscle and bones. The more important is inner regimen. Read more…
Yang is always sufficient and yin is always insufficient is a theory of Zhu Danxi, who is a famous person of Yuan dynasty. In Zhu Danxi’s theory, yang stands for essence and blood, and yin stands for energy and fire. That means deficient fire caused of the insufficiency of essence and blood. Zhu Danxi considered that essence and blood is the material basis of people’s life. It consumed time by time, and it is difficult to restore when is damaged. So in this opinion, yin is always insufficient.
If people do not take care of their essence and blood, drink too much and make love too frequently, then their yang energy will turn stronger and difficient fire will have bad influnce on Read more…
When getting old, essence and blood in kidney is decreased, then renal deficiency and deficiency of vital energy will destroy our immune system. Our immunity can protect us from getting cold in winter, if it is destroied, we, especially old people, will easily catch cold.
Our chinese medicine thinks that if kindey is the root of a tree, then immunity is the branches of it. Only if the root is healthy, the branches can be strong too. So the most important is to protect the kindey in winter in order to keep away from cold.
Superficial and essence is a pair of opposite words.
They are mainly used to tell us the relationship of many factors of disease.
For example, healthy energy is essence, and pathogenic factor is superficial; pathogeny is essence, and symptom is superficial; old disease is essence, and new disease is superficial.
