Friends, you hold out your hands to take a look, everyone says the heart of the hand is flesh, you compare the heart of the hand with the back of the hand, the color is the same? This is the branding of yin and yang, one side of yin and one side of yang. What does yin and yang have to do with our health? Yin and Yang are in balance and in harmony, which is the guarantee of health. Then once the yin and yang are not balanced and harmonized, then disease will arise. People’s physique is also divided into yin and yang, different physique, how to maintain health? So for the yang physique, we have to use yin food to adjust it, for the yin physique, we have to use yang food to adjust it. Which foods are yin and which foods are yang? Many people think that what grows in a cold place, it must be cool, and what grows in a hot place, it must be hot, but this is not true. Is chrysanthemum tea for everyone? Why do some people get more fire instead of clearing fire? 1, from the story of Xiao Song’s mother One year our school just one week of winter break, home in Shandong, study of Chinese medicine students Xiao Song, came back from home to the clinic to find me, said the teacher could not stay at home, my mother wanted to change like a person, always quarrel, my father went not stay at home, to the unit dormitory, I can not study at home, my mother always find fault. I said you did not take your mother to the hospital to see it? She said she did, but different hospitals and different departments had different diagnoses for my mother, some said she was suffering from menopausal syndrome. Some say she has rheumatoid arthritis or rheumatoid, and others say she has manic depression. Teacher, please write a prescription for my mother. I said, “Chinese medicine doctors need to see, hear and treat the disease. Local doctors have seen your mother and the diagnosis is different, so how can I write a prescription out of thin air? Why don’t you just bring your mother to Beijing and see what’s going on? Three days later, Xiao Song brought his mother to Beijing. This is a 51-year-old woman, she told me that over the past six months, her own temper, like a different person, she herself is strange, irritable and impatient, always look at people, always want to find someone to fight, especially strange, she always feel a hot air. From the chest up a rush, and then the whole face is red, irritable, with a big sweat, sweating after the cold. I’ve lived most of my life, I can’t wear clothes, wear more hot, wear less cold. What do you call this? The more you can’t sleep, the more annoyed you are, the more annoyed you are, the more you can’t sleep. I said do your joints hurt? Do your finger joints swell up in the morning? Some hospitals say I have rheumatism, some say I have rheumatoid rheumatism, and I have dry eyes, dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat, and some hospitals suspect I have dry syndrome. It’s been gone for the last three months, is it time to break it? I think it’s peri-menopausal syndrome, a term that is only now being used, which is menopausal syndrome. It is a series of complex symptoms that occur around the age of 50 in women around the time of menopause, which is said by Western medicine to be an endocrine disorder and by Chinese medicine to be an imbalance in the balance of yin and yang in the kidneys. This age group coincides with the transition from a fertile age to a non-fertile age. Xiao Song asked me, is it kidney yin deficiency? Or is it a kidney yang deficiency? The kidney here is the kidney that is in charge of human growth and development and reproductive function throughout life, not the same concept as the kidney of the urinary system in Western medicine’s anatomy. I said that your mother has a yin-yang deficiency of the kidneys. If she has a yin-yang deficiency, why does she have fever, sweating, irritability and anxiety? I said that this is because Yin deficiency cannot control and finance Yang energy, which leads to the hyperactivity of Yang, and the hyperactivity of Yang leads to heat, which needs to be dispersed. This leads to sweating, and after sweating, one consumes one’s own Yang energy and one’s own heat, and thus one becomes cold. So, I prescribed a large number of tonics for kidney yin, to which I added two tonics for clearing deficiency heat, and at the same time added tonics for kidney yang. The two tonics for yin and yang are combined with the clearing of deficiency heat. The Chinese medicine has a point of view called “deficiency is to nourish the mother”, as we all know, in order to make the son stronger, the mother’s milk must be sufficient, the mother’s milk is sufficient, the body must be good. Therefore, the mother is strong, the child is fat, Chinese medicine also has this saying, you are a kidney Yin deficiency? The kidney is water, the lung is gold, and gold produces water. When you supplement kidney yin, add medicine to nourish lung yin, you can improve the effectiveness of the treatment. Xiao Song has asked me, “My mother has joint pain, should I add medicine to dispel rheumatism? Then should I add the medicine for dry mouth, eyes, nose and throat? I said none of these, as long as we grasp the key link of balancing yin and yang, all other symptoms will be solved, and there is no need to add sedative and sleeping medicine if you are upset and have trouble sleeping. Then we mentioned the problem of balance of yin and yang, the problem of the five elements, and the problem of deficiency is to supplement its mother, which involves the theory of yin and yang and five elements in Chinese medicine. According to Chinese medicine, if the body’s yin and yang are out of balance, the body will get sick, but some people think that the doctrine of yin and yang is a philosophy, and that Chinese medicine is using philosophy to look at diseases, or even that it is superstition. What does Chinese medicine mean by yin and yang in the end? 2. Yin and Yang Properties From the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, the doctrine of the five elements of yin and yang that Chinese medicine speaks of is actually a natural law derived from ancient man, who went to observe nature and the relationship between man and nature. Originally it was not an ancient philosophy, it was a natural science. Chinese medicine research problem thinking, look up to the astronomy, down to observe the geography, in the knowledge of personnel. Looking up to astronomy is simple, there is a sun in the sky, everyone can see it. Overlooking the geography is also very simple, the earth has day and night, there are four seasons. With day and night. The day is bright and warm, this is Yang. The night is dark, is cold this is the yin. In spring and summer, the sunshine time gradually lengthens and the temperature gradually rises, which is yang. In autumn and winter, the sunshine time gradually shortens, the temperature gradually decreases, this is the yin. When our ancestors created the character Yang, what did it mean? In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xu Shen wrote “Shuowen Jiezi”, Yang, high and bright, the place on the slope of the mountain where the sun shines. Yin, dark, the south of the water and the north of the mountain. Yin is the place where the sun does not shine. Our yang is not too high, not too strong, yin is not too cold, the temperature is appropriate during the day, and not much lower at night. The temperature gradually rises in spring and summer and decreases in autumn and winter. However, the changes of yin and yang, which are in and out of balance and stable, have transformed the world of life through billions of years. The foundational work of Chinese medicine theory, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, states that “the essence of life is based on yin and yang”. It is because the two qi, yin and yang, are not hyper, not strong, not ice, not cold, long and slow, balanced and stable alternating coordinated movement, so that the life is nurtured. So how do natural scientists think that there are four conditions for the search for life outside the Earth? The first condition: the planet must be at a proper distance from its parent star, which is a star that emits light and heat. The second condition: the planet must be made of rock. Or it must be made of solid matter. If it is gas, light and heat pass through it. This planet would not have yin and yang. The third condition: the planet must have temperature. The fourth condition: there must be liquid water. These two conditions tell us that the yang qi should not be hyperactive or intense, otherwise the water will evaporate into the universe. Yin is not icy or cold, otherwise it will freeze. This is the basic condition for life, and this is the planet suitable for human habitation. But modern scientists are speaking from the perspective of temperature, from the perspective of light, not from the perspective of yin and yang. So we conclude that the doctrine of yin and yang in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine is not a philosophy, but an ancient natural science, and it is about the basic conditions for nurturing life. It is not a superstition. Therefore, every living creature, including our human body, is deeply imprinted, so the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says, “Life has a form, and it is always yin and yang.” For those of you in front of the TV, hold out your hands and take a look. This is the branding of yin and yang, one side yin and one side yang. In fact, in every organ and every physiological function of our body, there are two qi, yin and yang, i.e. opposing and harmonizing movements, the exhalation and inhalation of our lungs, the contraction and diastole of our heart, the excitement and inhibition of our mental state, the awakening and sleep, yin and yang are everywhere like the secrets inherited from nature to all living things. The properties of yin and yang are different, yin is quiet and yang is dry, yin and yang are divided into necessarily the same level, the same level, interrelated, or between one thing, two different aspects. In our body, the warm, heated qi that can drive the activities of our internal organs is called yang qi. The nourishing qi that provides nutrients to the body is called yin qi. Each organ has yin and yang, only in balance can be healthy, yin and yang secret, the spirit is to cure. If yin and yang are not in balance, disease will start. We can use food and medicine to balance yin and yang. Watermelon grows under direct sunlight, we eat watermelon can play the effect of eliminating heat and dispel the summer heat, the effect of quenching thirst, it is in order to balance the yin and yang inside and outside the body, it must have the ability to resist heat, so we eat in such a season full are fine. In the cold winter eat watermelon stomach pain, so do not eat or eat less anti-seasonal food. Plants grown in water, wet, swampy places, it must have the ability to resist water. On sunny slopes, most of the herbs grown are heat-clearing because it can resist heat, and to resist heat is to be cold. The upper part of the shady mountain slope grows saxifrage, yucca, huangjing which all have the effect of nourishing yin. The plant that grows in the deep ravine, where the snow and ice do not melt, aconite, whose lateral root is epiphyllum, it develops the ability to resist cold and dampness, which can treat rheumatic arthritis, cure the true yang deficiency, the whole body is afraid of cold, such symptoms as cold hands and feet. Ants, burrowing in the damp, dark underground, it shall not arthritis, not rheumatoid arthritis, ants have anti-rheumatic effect, to treat rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis really has some effect. There is a water bird living near the water, often eat fish in the water, often stand in the water, it has a certain ability to resist water and humidity, individual water birds are relatively poor health, rheumatoid arthritis, they fly to the vicinity of the ant nest, with the wings fan ants, ants are provoked, they come up to bite this water bird, the water bird will open feathers, let the ants bite, receive free treatment, get an acid injection of water birds arthritis will be good. Of course, to determine the yin and yang properties of a food a drug, in addition to its ecological environment, the animal’s native species is also very important, for animals to determine its yin and yang properties, there are some special places, let’s say the duck, often in the water, according to the water is Yin, the duck should be Yang, in fact, the duck is not Yang, it is Yin, it has the role of Yin tonic, the reason is that the duck in The reason is that the duck is active in the water, it gets more Yin in the water, so it is Yin. The chicken runs on land and is warmed by the Yang energy of the sky, so it is Yang in nature. To determine the yin and yang properties of a food or a drug, apart from its ecological environment, the feeling after consumption is more important. Since there are yin and yang in drugs and food, there are also yin and yang in our human constitution. 4.What kind of people belong to yang body type and what kind of people belong to yin body type? How can people with different body types regulate the balance of yin and yang through diet to maintain health? Yin and Yang constitution: If the person is particularly excitable, fearful of heat, hyperactive, outgoing personality, people with such characteristics are Yang constitution. If the person is especially afraid of cold, introverted, quiet and less active this belongs to the yin constitution. For people with yang constitution, let’s use yin food to adjust, for people with yin constitution, let’s use yang food to adjust. Foods belonging to Yang: leek, onion, garlic, garlic seedling, toon, coriander, ginger, glutinous rice, apricot, chestnut, jujube, lychee, longan, peach, cherry, prune, walnut, sunflower seed, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, mutton, dog …… Foods belonging to Yin: dandelion, horsetail, cabbage, yellow cabbage, hollow cabbage, watermelon, bitter melon, cucumber, purple cabbage, kelp, taro, tofu, mung beans, mung bean sprouts, fungus, duck pear, banana, orange, lily, grapefruit, mango, mangosteen, kiwi, orange, rooibos, sugar cane, raw water chestnut, green radish …… If a person is often afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, a little bit of cold food, diarrhea, this Not only is it a physical problem, but it is also a deficiency of Yang Qi, in which case it needs to be regulated with medicine. Cold hands and feet, fear of cold, if accompanied by panic and heartbeat, it is a deficiency of heart Yang. If it is accompanied by a sore back and legs, low libido, or even impotence, it is kidney yang deficiency, if it is accompanied by bloating, frequent diarrhea, diarrhea when eating cold things, it is spleen yang deficiency, which is treated with drugs according to different conditions, if a person has a dry mouth, dry nose, five hearts, small amount of urine, dry stool, this is a manifestation of yin deficiency, if it is accompanied by heart panic, heartbeat is heart yin deficiency, if it is accompanied by a sore back and legs If it is accompanied by panic, heartbeat is Heart Yin deficiency, if it is accompanied by lumbar acidity, leg weakness is Kidney Yin deficiency, accompanied by cough, less phlegm is Lung Yin deficiency, this situation, relying on the yin and yang properties of food alone can definitely be corrected, it depends on drugs. If you use drugs to correct the human body, you can’t overdo it, too much is not enough, the opposite is true. You use yin medicine, cold medicine too much, it will consume their own yang energy, will appear cold disease. A young man drank a few mouthfuls of water while swimming, came home with stomach pain, shortness of breath, pus and blood in the stool, went to the hospital for laboratory tests, said it was acute dysentery, and then came to my clinic, which is a disease of Yang heat, and mild fever, I gave him a cold medicine, Yin medicine, I said only five pairs, he ate a day the fever went down, ate two or three days did not poop, five pairs of medicine after eating basically he was well. Because he used to have an uncle also got dysentery, not completely cured, and then every year to get dysentery days are relapsed, forming a chronic recurrent dysentery. The young man thought I must I get rid of the root, and then ate five pairs, almost finished when they began to pull, thought the previous did not cure, and then buy five pairs and then eat, the more you eat, the more powerful pull. Finally went to me, I said now the diarrhea is caused by the spleen and stomach cold, can no longer eat cold, bitter cold medicine, this is overkill, eat too much cold medicine, it hurts the spleen’s yang, now the diarrhea is not acute dysentery, but the spleen Yang deficiency, spleen qi deficiency, cold damp down the performance. I used warming and yang medicine to slowly get better. “If Yang wins, Yin will be sick, and if Yang wins, heat.” There was a lady who came to me with thin and abundant leucorrhea, just like running water, constantly having to return the pads, and from the waist down to the legs, cold as if soaking in cold water, the western doctor diagnosed her with pelvic inflammatory disease, I thought it was a Yang deficiency water-damp downward injection, I prescribed warming Yang medicine for water, after a week, she left. After she ate, she felt better, she took it upon herself to continue to eat, and by the third week, his husband came to me, you gave Xiao Liu to eat what to ah. There is no reason to fight with me every day. Find a question, the original eat to the second week, feel dry mouth, the third week when the old upset, always want to quarrel with people, the unit can not quarrel with people, had to find family members. I said you are a Yang-heat medicine, overuse will hurt Yin, Yin is not enough, you have to be upset, impatient, insomnia. In fact, the diet is also the same, we go to restaurants, many restaurants up a cup of chrysanthemum tea, chrysanthemum tea is yin heat, is not all people can drink it? 4, what kind of people can not drink chrysanthemum tea? How to drink chrysanthemum tea is the healthiest? Why is it that some people get hotter and hotter the more they clear their fire? If you say that you have a lot of Yang heat, hot weather, drink a little bit of this Yin, cool chrysanthemum tea to drink herbal tea, it is possible, but drink all year round, for a long time, it will hurt your evil Yang, resulting in a new imbalance between Yin and Yang. Some elderly people, they feel on fire, recurring mouth ulcers, always thirsty, dry throat, so he eats fire-clearing medicine, the more you eat, the more dry. The more mouth ulcers are made, what is going on? In fact, the elderly are often Yin and Yang deficiency, her feeling of fire, because after the Yin deficiency, false fire on the inflammation caused by the false fire, not the real real fire, eat clear heat, cool medicine, clear is the real fire. The actual fire is cleared by taking heat-clearing and cooling medicines. Instead, it makes one’s yang energy even more deficient, and with insufficient yang energy, one cannot produce yin liquid. The more you eat heat-clearing medicine, the more deficient your yin is, and the more your deficiency fire is. This is why the older people feel like they’re on fire the more they take fire-clearing medication.