Not treating the sick to cure the sick

The connotation of “treating the untreated disease” is vast and profound, and the above mentioned is only part of it. In short, “treating the untreated disease” should contain at least three layers of meaning, one refers to the human body in a healthy and disease-free time, we must strengthen health care, and pay attention to timely avoid the invasion of disease, and actively prevent and control the occurrence of disease, so as to maintain a healthy and disease-free physique for a long time, which is the highest level of “treating the untreated disease “The second level of meaning refers to the time when the human body is about to develop diseases, when it is about to be sick, similar to the modern “sub-health” state, when it is necessary to anticipate the diseases that will occur and take effective measures to prevent them from occurring, which is This is the second level of “treating the disease before it happens”; the third level means that when the disease has already occurred, effective treatment should be carried out in a timely manner, with special attention to detecting the trend of disease development in advance and taking early measures to stop the deep development of the disease. At this time, “treating the untreated disease” mainly means “to prevent the development of the untreated disease”, to prevent the development of the disease and further aggravation, and at the same time to take measures to promote early recovery from the disease, so that the body can restore the “untreated disease” as far as possible. “This is the third realm of “treating the undiseased”. From this point of view, the three words “treating the untreated” seem to be simple, but they contain the rich ideas and theories of prevention, health care and rehabilitation of Chinese medicine, and this idea and concept still lose their brilliance even today in the 21st century.