Will is composed of wish and aspiration said in Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon. Wish is the expression of god of spleen, and aspiration is the expression of god of kidney. Spleen has the function of transfer and digest, so it reflect the relationship of the body.
Aspiration condition can be told by your kidney. When you are young, your kidney is in best condition, so children have the biggest aspiration. When getting old, your kidney turn in bad health, so old people always have no aspiration at all.
In Chinese medicine boldness is related to the goodness of lung and kidney, as The Medical Classic Of the Yellow Emperor told us.
Then what is god of each organ?
It is the embody of plenty vigour. The strength in boldness is related to kidneys which are in the waist. Strength is come from the waist as old Chinese said.
Boldness, no matter vigour or strength is emerge before our born, so it is innate which can not learn postnatal.
As The Medical Classic Of the Yellow Emperor said, we can not have sex intercourse too early of life. Why?
The Medical Classic Of the Yellow Emperor tell people that every desire, no matter sex or others, such as desire for alcohol, right, and money, are all should be under control. It consider that desire is as less as well.
When comes to sex desire, people with different age should have different frequency. It told us that if you are 20th years old, you can not have it immoderately. Once a day is enough. And Read more…
Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon said that take the five cereals as tonify food. It means that the five cereals is the base of diet and regimen. In Chinese medicine has the same saying too.
Millet and Spleen
Millet is the first of the five cereals. It has good effect on tonifying spleen and stomach. The rice bran oil which is the on the top of millet is essence, eat it instead of drop it away. Millet is good for weak people. It can tonify middle-jiao and Qi, prolong life span. Read more…
Immune Theory has a long history in Chinese medicine, that is a method called using poison to cure poisonous. In the oldest medicine book Yellow Emperor there is a theory that only poisonous drug can cure disease. And the earliest outrunner to make it into practice is a Taoist whose name is Ge Hong. As you know, Taoists are interested in training of active substance concoct pills of immortality camy oamy.
Ge Hong, also called Zhi Chuan and the other name Pu Zi. He likes reading medicine books and pellet books when he is little children. And when he grow up, he concoct pills as well as Read more…
Astronomy is a subject of celestial bodies movement. In ancient times, Chinese consider that vitality is the origin of nature, and all things in universe are made up of vitality. This view is quoted in Chinese medicine too. It is said in the Yellow Emperor: energy, which is the same as vitality, is the basic part of human body, and the movement of energy is the symbol of life.
Another part of ancient astronomy is constellation. It contains 28 stars, 7 at east, 7 at west, 7 at south and 7 at nouth. Chinese medicine think that the movement of defensive energy in body is corresponding to the movement of 28 stars, moving according to the moving rules of the 28 star in the sky. There are 28 pulse conditions, which are corresponding to the 28 stars too. From these pulse conditions, we can know the health condition of the body.
In ancient times of China, alcohol is also a kind of medicine except a kind of beverage.
Alcohol is made of grain and distillers yeast. It smells sweet, tastes spicy, with the functions of restoring blood flow, improving the body, smoothing joints and bones, humidifing the skin, eliminating dampness inside the body. As a result of so many advantages of alcohol, it is called the number one of all drugs. Still, the ancient Chinese character ”medicine” is made up of Chinese character “alcohol”, that means “alcohol” is a part in “medicine”. This demonstarates the close relationship between alcohol and medicine.
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The yellow emperor’s book of internal medicine said:”The external wind came just as the heavist storm”. Doctor who is outstanding will cure it when it is exterior, so it is easy to cure. Secondly, doctor who is excellent will cure it when it comes a little inside, which is not as easy to cure as the former one. Thirdly, doctor who is not so good will cure it when it comes into the organs and bowels. And the last one, curing the organs and the bowels, is very difficult to make patients recover. “
That means we should do everything earlier, delay is dangerous, not only for disease, but also a fable of life.
Spring is a growing season. Every plant comes up and many animals begin to breed, give birth to new life. So according to the unity theory between human and nature, we should comply with the change of the world, planting and feeding, instead of cuting trees and killing animals.
We had better eat more green vegetables in spring. One of our customs is having a kind of food called spring roll at the spring comes. This food contains bean sprout or leek, such vegetables grow when the spring comes.And also, we eat toona sinesis, shepherd’s purse. In spring the green vegetables grow fast and absorb sunshine and other good things in nature, so eating these food is good for our health.
The Yellow Emperor’s Book of Internal Medicine tells us that compromise is better than assimilation. Just as the famous person once said, people with morality choose compromise other than assimilation, while contemptible person choose assimilation other than compromise.
The reason why compromise is better than assimilation is that compromise has more possibility to change. It makes things obtain more diversity. On the contrary, assimilation eliminates differences between one and another, so that only what look alike can remain. So it definitly lead to a negative result. Read more…
