1, the natural meaning of the trigrams and trigrams No. No is a familiar word, we often use in life. Negative is a positive word, its meaning is similar to turn danger into peace, indicating a process from a dangerous predicament to a safe state. So why do we have to say “no” and “tai”? What are the meanings of No and Tai respectively? No and Tai, are the hexagrams of the sixty-four trigrams of Zhou Yi. No trigram is the eighty-four trigrams of Zhouyi twelfth trigram, its trigram painting is, three yang lines in the upper, three yin lines in the lower. The three yang lines are the eight trigrams inside the Qian trigram, representing the sky, the three yin lines are the eight trigrams in the Kun trigram, representing the earth. Tai Gua is the eleventh trigram, its trigram painting is, Kun Gua in the upper, Qian Gua in the lower. Some people ask, the trigram painting is the sky on the top, the earth on the bottom, is not a true reflection of nature? Why would be a bad “no” it? Thai trigrams in the lower part of the day, on the ground, why instead is the peace and security? It turns out that, in Chinese culture, Qian Gua for the day for the Yang, Yang up; Kun Gua for the Yin, Yin down. It is true that, as the hexagrams are symbolized, the Qian Gua is on the top and the Kun Gua is on the bottom. The sky at the top is still going up, and the earth at the bottom is still going down. That means that heaven and earth have different goals and cannot be of one mind. Eventually there will be no intersection of heaven and earth, heaven and earth away from the scene. Conversely, the trigram painting of the Thai trigram, Qian Gua in the lower, Kun Gua in the upper. Dry trigram for the sky for the Yang, rising upward; Kun trigram for the Yin, downward constantly run down. Then the sky and earth goals in line with each other, to be able to intermingle, the natural world will be safe and secure. So the reality of nature is that the sky is on top and the earth is on the bottom, and how to understand it? In fact, the natural world in the sky and the ground can be observed. And Tai Gua of the sky in the lower, not the actual visible sky in the lower, but refers to the original belong to the sky “Yang” in the lower. Just said that the sky is Yang, is hot, heat in the lower, the ground water vaporized by the heat to the sky, becoming clouds. Tai Gua in the ground in the lower, not the actual visible land in the upper, but refers to the original belong to the ground “Yin” in the upper, the ground is Yin, is cold, the clouds in the sky meet the cold, will fall to the ground, that is, rain. The clouds in the sky meet the cold air and fall to the ground, which is rain. Suwen? Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Daxue” says: “The earth is cloudy, the weather is rain; the rain comes out of the earth, the clouds come out of the weather.” This is the process that the water vapor on the ground rises to the sky to become clouds, and the clouds in the sky descend to become rain. The reason why the water vapor on the ground can go up into clouds is because of the vaporization of Yang Qi, so it is said that “the clouds come out of the weather”; the clouds in the sky can be turned into rain falling down to moisten the earth because of the role of Yin Qi, so it is said that “the rain comes out of the earth”. Clouds descend as rain, and rain rises as clouds. It is a process in which heaven and earth mingle and yin and yang transform each other. Only in such a good and orderly operation of the process, the natural world of everything can be nourished, to have a constant new things emerge, and thrive. Therefore, in the Zhou Yi, Tai Gua’s hexagrams have a phrase called: “then is heaven and earth and all things pass.” Therefore, Tai Gua itself represents the festival is the rain, after the rain, you can soon start working in the fields to plant, because after the intersection of heaven and earth, the land already has the ability and nutrients needed to reproduce. The induction of intercourse between heaven and earth is also very graphically described by the ancients as “the event of clouds and rain”. Later on, the act of cloud and rain was also used to describe the act of reproduction between men and women. Don’t think that the ancients thought that intercourse between men and women was a very dirty thing, but in fact, it is very sacred in traditional Chinese culture. It is the process by which nature is nurtured by heaven and earth, and also the process by which human beings are born. The ancients experienced this from the process of observing the natural weather, which is also very worthy of reverence for future generations. As a quintessential part of traditional culture, the holistic concept of Chinese medicine considers man and nature as a unified whole, and the human body itself as a harmonious and unified whole, just like the natural world. The head and chest of the human body is the sky; the lower part is the earth; and the middle is the passage between heaven and earth. In terms of the five viscera, the heart and lungs are the heavenly yang, the liver and kidneys are the earthly yin, and the spleen and stomach are the channels through which heaven and earth meet. In a normal healthy human body, the qi of the heart and lungs should go down to warm the spleen, stomach, liver and kidneys; the qi of the liver and kidneys should go up to nourish the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs; this is the transformation of yin and yang in the small nature of the human body. Among them, the spleen and stomach, as the channel for the interplay of heaven and earth, occupies a very important position. With this well-ordered transformation process in the normal human body, the human body can live, produce qi and blood, and maintain health. Without the use of tonic but sufficient qi and blood, it can completely resist even when encountering viruses. 2, the body of a sick person is biased towards the negative Gua However, the ideal is very full, the reality is very skeletal. Most people’s body qi mode of operation, in favor of the negative trigram. That is, the whole body qi running up and down in the direction of separation: the top of the qi is not up, the bottom of the qi is not down. Take the spleen and stomach for example, under normal circumstances, the spleen is responsible for raising the clear qi, and the stomach is responsible for lowering the turbid qi. In the body of the No trigram, the spleen cannot raise and send clear qi up to the head and eyes, so people always feel sleepy, do not sleep enough, poor memory, etc.; clear qi stays below, and sometimes bloating and diarrhea or sticky stools are unpleasant. Stomach gas can not descend turbidity, turbidity can not properly descend, the gastrointestinal tract will not be smooth, may appear bloating, constipation; turbidity stays on the top, it is easy to appear bitter mouth and bad breath, and even mouth ulcers. Some people say, doctor doctor, I eat cold stomach pain diarrhea, eat hot constipation and acne, so annoying, what is my body type? It’s the “No Gua” body type. In today’s society, most people’s bodies in the No Gua, two of the important reasons is the diet and rest have a big problem. The most common problems are mainly poor diet and stay up late. Dietary disorders include a number of aspects: eating too much and too full, eating hunger and full irregularities, eating hot and cold inappropriate. Eating too much and too full, like to tonic. This is very common in the Lingnan area and even in large and medium-sized cities across the country. China’s GDP growth rate has long occupied the first place in the world, and people’s living standards have been greatly improved; unfortunately, the total number of obese people in China and the average waist circumference growth rate have also long been at the top of the list. Large amounts of high-calorie food intake, large bowls of alcohol and large mouthfuls of meat are all very bad eating habits that can easily cause obesity. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, obese people have a very common problem, that is, too much phlegm and dampness accumulation in the spleen and stomach in the middle jiao. Eating hunger and satiety out of order, after starving binge drinking. Many girls who blindly lose weight on their own have this problem, and what problems arise instead? One is that the weight rebound is very obvious, the other is that you may also get bulimia or anorexia. In fact, this problem also exists in many office workers, breakfast or even do not eat, lunch, eat fast food, dinner with family and friends get together, feast, and even drink wine barbecue to midnight. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hunger and satiety disorders are prone to internal injury to the spleen and stomach, which reduces the ability of the spleen and stomach to transport and transform food. Those who can not transport the diet will be phlegm damp (similar to fat) in the form of stay in the abdomen and hips, so we can easily find that once you join the workforce, it is easy to have a small belly. Diet cold and hot out of place, eating too much fried food and cold herbal tea. Chinese people have always been vegetarian animals, the exposure to a lot of greasy and high protein food is in the last less than 30 years, has not yet adapted. More than 2,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine specifically referred to people who ate more meat as “rich people”, as opposed to normal “ordinary people”. In fact, fried food contains more oil and high calories, which is harder for the spleen and stomach to digest; and the long-term high workload of the spleen and stomach will also be fatigued, and may show symptoms of “spleen deficiency”, such as bloating, nausea, belching, diarrhea, etc. Cold herbal tea affects the function of the spleen and stomach even more. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach rely on the role of the heart and kidneys in order to properly perform the function of digestion and absorption. It is said that “heart yang warms the stomach and earth, kidney yang warms spleen yang”. Only when the spleen and stomach feel the warmth of the heart and kidneys will they move and perform their normal functions. But many people love to eat cold herbal tea, cold herbal tea is like the winter, cold air, a lot of water are frozen, frozen immobile. The spleen and stomach will not be able to play its normal function of transport and transformation. Occasionally, it is not enough to worry about; in the long run, there will be big problems. Therefore, sometimes I personally think that some herbal tea brands, if they are really that “cold”, it is really a disaster. Staying up late and sleeping late also has an impact on the overall regulation of qi. The body’s Yang Qi, at night rest time, began to enter the body’s interior, the body’s functions, also began to rest and repair. But if a person does not rest late at night, then the body’s yang qi can never enter the interior. Yang floats upwards and cannot warm the kidney water downwards. The water cannot move without Yang and becomes a pool of stagnant water. Staying up late hurts yin, and the yin of the liver and kidney is not enough to clear the heart fire upwards, and the heart fire has no control. Then it’s like the trigram, on top of the sky for the yang of the Qian Gua, high up, can not go down; on the ground for the yin of the Kun Gua, dull in the lower, can not go up. The upper and lower centrifugal, can not be the same virtue. In the long run, whether it is the nature of heaven and earth, or personal small nature, the environment will suffer great damage. 3.What do we have to do? Then this situation occurs, the body’s own regulatory capacity is obviously not enough, can not autonomously “the extreme Tai Lai”. So, how should we regulate it from the concept of Chinese medicine? How to make the body “heaven and earth and all things through, up and down and its will the same” and then “the gentleman Tao long, the small man Tao eliminated”? The key to the “negative” is the communication of yin and yang qi. Let the Yang down, Yin water up. Yang qi from the bottom up, is to get the Yin water clear, so it is warm Yang qi. Yin water from the top down, is to get the warmth of Yang Qi, so it is active Yin water. In this way, the whole body’s qi is active but not restless, calm but not dull. The yang qi in the lower part of the body is insufficient, so it has to be warmed; the yang qi in the upper part of the body is deficient and floating, so it has to be submerged. Yin qi in the body, not following the path, has become dead yin; it has to be expelled from the body through the body’s cavities to dispel dampness and lower turbidity. Yin and yang qi do not meet, qi and blood do not run smoothly, for a long time, the veins and collaterals do not work, we need to use the method of qi and blood to open the meridians and activate the collaterals. The general rule of the body’s qi flow is that Yang rises and Yin falls. But the specific details, still to the spleen and stomach as the pathway, the liver and gallbladder as the hub. The spleen and stomach are the middle earth, and if the qi of the middle earth can rise, fall and harmonize, then the whole body’s qi will be halfway smooth. The liver rises and the gall bladder descends, raising the liver qi that sinks in the lower jiao and drawing down the fire of the gall bladder meridian that floats in the upper jiao. Liver is wood, and wood produces wind, which is the medium of reproduction and nurture in nature. But this wind is a warm breeze, not a gusty wind of flying sand and rocks, nor is it the same as a long, hot summer day. The fire of the heart and gall bladder in the upper jiao can warm the spleen and stomach downward and promote the spleen’s and stomach’s function of transportation and transformation. Spleen up and stomach down, liver up and gallbladder down, are the two key steps in the regulation of the body’s qi, the human body qi, so the cycle, round and round. No Gua, “Xiang” said: heaven and earth do not cross, no. The gentleman to frugal virtue to ward off difficulties, not to be honored with a fortune. Therefore, in the diet, you must control the diet, to abstain from eating, to light diet, can no longer eat fat, sweet and thick (that is, “to thrifty virtue to ward off difficulties, not to glory to the Luo”). Those who are fat should even fast for a period of time. Give the spleen and stomach time to rest, so that the spleen and stomach have enough time to digest and absorb the tonics, to metabolize the phlegm and dampness in the body, rather than tiredly digesting the high-calorie food eaten. Whether or not Gua, or Tai Gua, there is an invisible pathway between their Qian Gua and Kun Gua. This up and down traffic pathway is the spleen and stomach. If you do not eat well, poor rest or have other factors that damage the spleen and stomach exist, then this pathway is closed, can not pass, on whether Gua. If you can eat properly, normal rest or through some conditioning methods, so that the spleen and stomach function back to normal, then this pathway is open, is functioning well, is Tai Gua. The process of the spleen and stomach moving from deficiency to well-being is the Tai Gua. Therefore, Zhang Xichen once said, a person with medicine in the end how effective, whether the patient’s body turned to recovery, from the diet can be seen. After taking medicine appetite gradually increase, is the tendency to get better; after using medicine appetite becomes worse, then the disease is not good treatment, perhaps to adjust the thinking.