TCM Health and Wellness The doctrine of Yin and Yang: “The ultimate principle which the ancient Chinese were able to conceive” – Joseph Lee Yin is quiet and Yang is restless, Yang produces Yin and Yang grows, Yang kills and Yin hides. Yang transforms qi and yin forms. The extreme of cold produces heat, the extreme of heat produces cold. Cold produces turbidity, heat produces clarity. Water is yin, fire is yang. Yang is qi, yin is taste. …… thick taste is yin, thin is yin of yang; gas is thick is yang, thin is yin of yang. …… The smell of pungent and sweet is Yang, while sour and bitter is Yin. Su Wen. The “day” (day and night) is divided into “three yin and three yang”: the magpie flat day is the sun, the mid-day is Yangming, Asr is Shaoyang; dusk is Shaoyin, the midnight is Taiyin, the rooster is Turk’s Yin, is the three yin and three yang time. Opposite dichotomy Huangdi Neijing. Suwen. Yin and Yang: “Yin and Yang can be counted as ten, and extrapolated as a hundred; counted as a thousand, and extrapolated as ten thousand; ten thousand is too big to be counted, but it has to be one.” Yin and Yang represent the most basic opposites of all things l Yin Dark, cold, negative, downward, pushing things are all yin. l Yang Bright, warm, positive, upward, aggressive things are all yang. Fermions Bosons Fermions and Bosons are two kinds of existence in the material world. All the particles of matter in the fundamental particles are fermions, the raw materials that make up matter (such as electrons in leptons, quarks and neutrinos that make up protons and neutrons); while the particles that transmit the forces of action (photons, mesons, gluons, W and Z bosons) are all bosons. Boseons and fermions are exactly the same as the ancient Chinese idea of Yin and Yang Tai Chi, that is, Yin matter is fermions, the basis of matter existence, and Yang matter is boseons, the form of matter existence. Our real world existence is the basis of the existence of yin matter and the expression of yang matter form. How is the yin and yang in the human body divided? Yin and Yang are the way of heaven and earth, the rule of all things, the parent of change, the origin of life and death, and the house of the gods. The essence of life is based on yin and yang. Su Wen. The law of the balance of yin and yang l yin and yang grow, yang and yang grow, yin and yin grow, yin and yang alternate, dynamic balance, what does Chinese medicine use to harmonize yin and yang? Therefore, the wise man’s health must be in accordance with the four seasons and suitable for summer and cold, and happy and angry and peaceful living place, and the yin and yang and adjust the rigid and soft. If so, it is not to remote evil, longevity and longevity. Point l0 – state of health: “balance of yin and yang” Number – disease: “a thousand M difficulties” Positive and negative signs – properties of disease: “yin ? Yang” Yin evil Yang evil wind, cold, heat, damp, dryness, fire- six obscene disease evils cold, damp- Yin evil wind, heat, dryness, fire- Yang evil yin evil yin evil- six obscene disease evils cold, damp and other evils. Yin Sheng is cold – Yin evil causes disease, such as cold and drinking cold, which can cause the body Yin Qi, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold form and limbs, light tongue with white fur, sunken pulse and other manifestations, its nature is cold. If yin is strong, yang will be sick – yin can cause damage to yang, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, pale tongue with white fur and sunken pulse, while yang will be depleted and the body will be cold. Yang evil Yang evil – the four evils of wind, heat, dryness and fire among the six evils. Yang is hot when it is in full bloom – Yang evil causes disease, such as heat and summer evil invading the human body can cause the body’s Yang energy to be in full bloom, resulting in high fever, sweating, thirst, red face, pulse count and other manifestations, and its nature is hot. The nature of the disease is heat. If Yang is strong, Yin is sick – because Yang is strong can often lead to damage to Yin, such as high fever, sweating, face also, pulse number, and at the same time, there is inevitably the phenomenon of Yin depletion and thirst. Yin deficiency Yang deficiency According to the principle of dynamic balance of yin and yang, deficiency of either yin or yang will inevitably lead to relative prevalence of the other side. Yin deficiency leads to heat Yin deficiency is a deficiency of yin in the body. If Yin deficiency cannot control Yang, Yang will be relatively hyperactive and heat will appear. Yang deficiency is cold Yang deficiency is a deficiency of yang in the body. If Yang is deficient, Yin is not able to control Yin, and Yin is relatively hyperactive, resulting in coldness. Yin deficiency: This kind of person’s physique is characterized by thinness, heat in the hands and feet, irritability in the heart, little sleep, dry stool, yellow urine, intolerance of spring and summer, and a preference for cold drinks. This is the result of yin deficiency and fire, which disturbs the mind. Strengthen self-cultivation, develop the habit of calm and composure. Participate less in recreational activities that compete for victory and defeat, and abstain from sex. –The yin deficiency, fear of heat, like cold, cold winter is easy to pass, hot summer is difficult to be. So people who have the conditions, every spring and summer, can go to the beach, forest areas, mountainous areas to travel, vacation. Housing is best to choose a quiet living environment, sitting in the north facing the south of the house. Yin deficiency diet regimen: diet should be light. To eat less fatty, spicy and dry food, ginger, onion, garlic, chili, etc.; it is advisable to eat more food to nourish Yin and clear heat, such as lotus root, silver fungus, lily, Sydney, honey, sugar cane, fish, etc. Exercise for health: people with Yin deficiency are suitable for practicing Taijiquan, Ba Duan Jin and Qigong. Through the combination of movement and static, rigid and flexible, practice body and mind, is conducive to the growth of the body’s yin and fluid and the body’s deficiency of heat to subside. Yin deficiency: medicinal food for health: the Chinese herbs saxifrage, maitake, asparagus, wolfberry, lily, etc. have the effect of replenishing Yin. Using these herbs to cook porridge is a good way to nourish yin for people with yin deficiency. Yang deficiency: white and fat body, or pale white face, hands and feet are not warm, urine is clear and long, stools are dilute, fear of cold and like warmth. The method of nourishment: mental recuperation People with Yang deficiency often show poor mood, good fear or good sadness. Such people should be good at regulating their emotions, listen to more music and make more friends. Environmental conditioning People with Yang deficiency have a poor ability to adapt to the climate, so they should avoid cold in winter and pay attention to cultivating Yang energy in spring and summer. To do “no boredom in the day”, that is, in the spring and summer more sunshine, each time not less than 15 to 20 minutes. This can greatly improve the ability to withstand the cold in winter. Physical exercise Yang deficiency body people, spring, summer, autumn and winter should strengthen physical exercise, can take a walk, jogging, taijiquan, five birds play and other items. Sunbathing and airbathing are indispensable methods to strengthen Yang. Diet regimen eat more Yang food, such as mutton, dog meat, chicken, venison, etc., according to the principle of “spring and summer Yang”, especially in the summer three volts, each volt eat a “congee with seeds” (10 grams of seeds, first decoction 30 minutes, add 150 grams of round-grained rice with boiled (15 grams of Radix et Rhizoma, decocted for 30 minutes, add 500 grams of blanched lamb, stew until cooked and add salt), in order to strengthen the Yang energy of the body. Yang-boosting food walnuts, beans, leeks, mutton, dog meat, venison, lamb milk, loach, lobster. Prawns, abalone, sea cucumber, dried scallops, eels, grass carp, etc. A holistic view of life between heaven and earth, in the universe, all life activities are closely related to nature. (1) The relationship between the four seasons and the human body 1. the four seasons and emotions 2. the four seasons and qi and blood Five retention of urine and fluids, said: “the days of summer heat coup open so sweat …… without cold is closed coup, moisture does not work, underwater stay in the bladder, it is drowning and gas”. The four seasons and the internal organs and meridians “Nei Jing” has “liver in the spring”, “heart in the summer”, “spleen in the long summer”, ” The lungs flourish in autumn” and “the kidneys flourish in winter”. Su Wen? The Golden Killing of the True Discourse says: “Therefore, spring is good for congested nose, midsummer is good for chest, long summer is good for cavity drainage and cold, autumn is good for wind malaria, and winter is good for paralysis”. Heavenly and human corresponding holistic view (2) the relationship between day and night, morning and evening and the human body “to the day is divided into four times, the morning is spring, the middle of the day is summer, the day for the autumn, midnight is winter”. “Fu hundred illnesses, mostly by the Dan Hui, day peace, evening plus, night even ……” Ling Shu? (3) the relationship between the sun, moon and stars and the human body “the moon is born without diarrhea, the moon is full without tonic, the moon Guo empty without cure” “Suwen? (4) The relationship between geography and the human body: “In the East, all the people are black and sparse. Their diseases are all carbuncles and ulcers, and their treatment should be done with stones. In the west, its people are fat and fat, so evil cannot harm their bodies. In the north, the people are happy to live in the wild and eat milk, so the dirty cold is full of disease, the treatment should be moxibustion. In the south, its people are acidophilic and eat, so its people are all cause of reason and red, its disease contracted paralysis, its treatment should be micro-needle. In the central part of the country, the people eat a variety of food and do not work, and their diseases are more impotent, cold and hot, the treatment is appropriate to guide and press F. Su Wen. How does a Chinese doctor treat a disease? In all diseases, if sweating, if vomiting, if lowering, if loss of blood, loss of fluid, and if yin and yang harmonize themselves, they will heal themselves. Zhang Zhongjing’s “Treatise on Typhoid” Reconciling yin and yang, bringing yin and yang back into balance Food therapy for health and wellness Warring States: The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine suggests: “Poisons attack evil, five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, five dishes for the first, the smell combined and served to replenish essence and benefit qi.” (distinguishes food from drugs in terms of action and emphasizes the rational application of food). Food therapy for health in the Tang Dynasty: Sun Simiao 102 years old, “the preparation of the urgent thousand gold essential formula” has “food therapy” of the special discussion, proposed to pay attention to the regulation of diet, sickness to use food therapy first and then use drugs. “The body of the body must be funded by food …… food can drain the evil and security of the internal organs, pleasing to the spirit and refreshing the will to capitalize on the qi and blood, if you can use food to calm the disease, release the emotions, the remains of the disease can be considered good workers. Emphasize that in general, food therapy health care should be given priority. Food therapy health “medicine and food of the same origin” balanced diet five flavors into the stomach, each to the favorite, so the acid first into the liver, bitter first into the heart, sweet first into the spleen, pungent first into the lungs, salty first into the kidneys, long and increase the gas, the material transformation of the normal also. Su Wen. The three tastes of food and drink are suitable for disease and harmful to the body. The medicinal properties of grains and cereals can be used to prevent and control diseases, but also economical and practical, and no side effects. Not too much, not less than the five nature of food therapy for health (cold, hot, warm, cool, flat) cold food: bitter melon, radish, winter melon, cabbage, cucumber, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, asparagus, eggplant, lettuce, spinach, silver fungus, grass, watermelon, pear, lily, banana, persimmon, snapper, duck, cuttlefish, snake, etc. warm food: leek, ginger, garlic, chili, onion, pumpkin, longan, lychee, red dates, peaches The four-legged (pig, cow, sheep) is better than the two-legged (chicken, goose). Two legs are better than one leg (mushrooms), and one leg is better than no leg (fish). How do drugs harmonize the yin and yang of the body? Those who are cold are hot, and those who are hot are cold. Strengthen the main of water to control sunlight. Benefit the source of fire to eliminate yin and shade. Chinese medicine is used as a starting point for the balance of yin and yang, and the principle of “if it is deficient, it should be tonified, if it is real, it should be diarrhea”; “if it is cold, it should be hot, if it is hot, it should be cold”. Before taking tonic, we should know the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine: “four qi” – cold, hot, warm and cool – are the four medicinal properties of herbs. Drugs that can alleviate or eliminate the cold evidence belong to the hot or warm nature of Chinese medicine for tonic problems. “Five flavors” refers to the real taste of drugs and food – pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, salty and pungent: dispersing, moving qi, moving blood. For example: peppermint, musk, safflower sweet: tonic, pain relieving, harmonizing medicinal properties. For example: ginseng is a great tonic, rehmannia nourishes the essence and blood, licorice harmonizes all medicines. For example: Ume plum astringent for lung and cough, Wu Wei Zi astringent for sweat and bitterness: ventilate and dry dampness. For example: almond descends and drains lung qi, loquat leaf descends and drains stomach qi, atractylodes eliminates dampness salty: diaphoretic effect. For example, seaweed, kombu and mangosteen ginseng are called “wild ginseng” or “mountain ginseng” for short; cultivated ginseng is called “garden ginseng”. The fresh ginseng washed and dried is called “raw ginseng”; the steamed and dried is called “red ginseng”; the blanched and dried with sugar is called “sugar ginseng” or “white ginseng “The thin roots broken off after processing are called “ginseng beard”. Taste and Attribution】Sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm. It belongs to the heart, lung and spleen meridians. Efficacy and Application】1. It is a great tonic for the vital energy and is used for the deficiency of qi. It is a good idea to use this product for the first time. 2. to nourish the spleen and benefit the lung, 3. to calm the mind and educate the mind [use note] should not eat radish at the same time, so as not to affect the medicinal power? Modern research] The main component of this product is a variety of ginsenosides, which have an improving effect on learning and memory. It has cardiac strengthening, anti-myocardial ischemia and expansion of coronary arteries, cerebrovascular, and anti-shock effects. It promotes bone marrow hematopoiesis, enhances gonadal function, strengthens the immune function, anti-tumor, anti-fatigue and delays aging. Astragalus membranaceus [Taste and Attribution] is sweet, slightly warm. It belongs to the spleen and lung meridians. Efficacy and Application】1. Tonifies Qi and elevates Yang, 2. Benefits Wei and strengthens the surface 【Modern Research】It contains many kinds of Astragalus polysaccharides and saponins that can improve immune function and stress capacity, delay aging, strengthen the heart, dilate blood vessels, improve microcirculation, lower blood pressure, inhibit platelet aggregation, promote bone marrow hematopoiesis and protect the liver, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral and other effects. Dendrobium [Taste and Attribution]: Sweet, slightly cold. It belongs to the stomach and kidney meridian. Efficacy and Application】1. Nourishing Yin and clearing heat 2. Benefiting the stomach and generating fluid 3. It can promote gastric juice secretion, analgesic, antipyretic, enhance metabolism and anti-aging effects. Dendrobium is sweet and flat. Returning to the lung and kidney meridians. Beneficial to kidney and lung, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. Used for kidney deficiency and lumbago, impotence and spermatorrhea, lung deficiency or deficiency of both lung and kidney with prolonged cough and asthma, cough with phlegm and blood. Decocted or stewed, 5~10g. Lycium barbarum [Taste and Attribution] Sweet, flat. Returning to the liver and kidney meridians. Efficacy and Applications】Supplementing the kidney and benefiting the essence, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes [Modern Research] This product contains betaine and polysaccharides. It can enhance and regulate immune function, promote bone marrow hematopoiesis, has liver protection, lipid lowering, hypoglycemia, anti-mutagenic, anti-tumor, anti-fatigue and delay aging. TIANMA [Taste and Attribution] Sweet, flat. Returning to the liver meridian. Effects and Applications】 Relieving wind and spasm, used for internal movement of liver wind and convulsions of epilepsy. 2. Calming liver yang, used for dizziness and headache. 3. Dispelling wind and opening the collaterals, used for spasmodic convulsions of limbs and rheumatic paralysis. Modern research] asparagine contains asparagine, asparagine glycosides, vanilloid alcohol, vanilloid aldehyde, etc.. It has sedative, anticonvulsant and analgesic effects. Can improve learning and memory ability, delay aging. It can reduce peripheral vascular and coronary vascular resistance and has a mild hypotensive effect. Tianma polysaccharide has immune activity, can enhance the body’s immune function. Conclusion yin and yang balance, natural and natural for all, thank you!