What is winter sickness and summer treatment? Winter sickness and summer treatment” is a kind of preventive and therapeutic technique unique to acupuncture, which is a good embodiment of the concept of “treating the disease before it gets sick” in traditional Chinese medicine. “It is a general term for a series of preventive treatments in summer when the temperature is the highest and the yang qi is the strongest, for certain pathologies that occur in winter or are easily aggravated in winter, before the onset of the disease. According to Chinese medicine, the “superior doctor” – a highly skilled doctor – should “treat the disease before it occurs”, i.e., “prevent the disease before it occurs” and “prevent the change of the disease before it occurs”. “Preventing the disease before it occurs” and “preventing the change of the disease before it occurs”. Legend has it that someone once asked Bian Magpie who was the most skillful among the three brothers, and Bian Magpie said that his elder brother was the most skillful because he could prevent diseases before they occurred, whereas he could only treat diseases that were already very serious, and was not a highly skillful doctor, though he had a great reputation. This shows the importance of the concept of “treating the disease before it develops” in Chinese medicine. In fact, “treating the future disease” can not only reduce the pain of illness, but also avoid economic losses, and protect the labor force and create wealth. Three birds with one stone. Specifically, “treating the disease before it occurs” means: on the one hand, before the disease occurs, through the health care and conditioning of the body, to strengthen the positive qi, to improve their ability to resist disease, in order to achieve the “positive qi within the body, the evil can not be dry,” to prevent the occurrence of disease; on the other hand, for diseases that have already occurred, it is necessary to prevent the disease. On the other hand, for the disease that has occurred, according to the pattern of change of disease, in the disease has not yet involved more organs and meridians before, take measures to prevent the disease transmission, to protect the internal organs not involved, so as to play a “rafter should be”, “twice the result with half the effort” effect. Effect. Under the guidance of this theoretical thinking, Chinese medicine attaches special importance to the prevention of disease, and thus invented a lot of methods, currently in the clinical application of the more common when it comes to the “winter illnesses, summer treatment,” that is, the summer into the summer season of the medication patch. What is the principle of winter sickness and summer treatment? “Winter diseases” refers to certain diseases that occur in winter or easily aggravated in winter, as well as in the summer to show the cold evidence of winter, such as bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatism, rheumatoid, and so on. Another example is the fear of wind and cold in summer, dislike of air-conditioning, electric fan, like warm food, want to wear long-sleeved clothes and other manifestations also belong to this scope. “Summer treatment” refers to the use of acupuncture, moxibustion or internal medicine to treat or prevent the above diseases in summer when the temperature is the highest and the yang energy is the most vigorous. According to Chinese medicine, the principle of winter disease summer treatment has the following 3 main aspects: 1. The theory of the correspondence between heaven and man in Chinese medicine. The theory of Chinese medicine of the correspondence between heaven and man believes that heaven and man are one and the same, and that the flourishing and decaying of the human body’s yin and yang, qi and blood have a close relationship with the natural world, and the two can influence each other. The human body’s yang qi and nature’s yang qi are born in spring, exuberant in summer, harvested in fall, and hidden in winter. In the summer, when the natural world is the most powerful, the human body’s yang qi should also be the highest in the summer. 2. Chinese medicine theory of “spring and summer Yang, fall and winter Yin”. There are many disease-causing factors in nature, which were summarized by the ancients as wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire, known as the “six evils”, of which the diseases triggered by cold, the onset of which is mainly in winter. But Chinese medicine believes that the formation of disease, external causes is only one aspect, the more important is the state of the human body, suffered from cold evil invasion of the body is often insufficient yang qi, cold evil accumulation for a long time does not dissipate more injury to the yang qi, resulting in internal cold. Therefore, “winter disease” is mostly cold evil invasion as the external cause, to the patient’s body of Yang Qi deficiency as the internal cause. The “Nei Jing” that: “Yang Qi, if the sky and the sun, the loss of its place will be folded life and not manifest”, emphasizing the importance of “Yang Qi” for the human body’s health and longevity. For “yang” disease, “Nei Jing” cloud “spring and summer Yang”, that is, in the spring and summer seasons, in line with the Tianren Correspondence of the health of the Avenue, borrowing the sun of the day and make up for the human body of the sun; coupled with the summer coupling of the human body’s skin laxity, Yang Sheng in the outside and the virtual in the inside. At this time, with the help of nature’s exuberant Yang Qi, Yang of its internal deficiency to help the growth of human Yang Qi, in the treatment of disease can be realized with twice the result with half the effort. In addition, three volts day, the body’s skin coupling completely open, selected specific points for the patch, the patch is most likely to be posted by the skin into the acupuncture meridians, through the meridians of the blood directly to the disease, the corresponding internal organs to play a positive to the effect of evil, 3. The theory of the disease. Summer is the “winter disease” relief period, the weather is hot, the human body Yang Qi is relatively strong, especially in the three volts day, during this period of winter disease summer treatment, can enhance the body’s immunity, so as to support the positive and eliminate the evil, prevention of disease, prevention of disease, to reduce the number of winter morbidity, reduce the incidence of morbidity, to achieve the purpose of both symptomatic and curative treatment, and to promote the purpose of the disease healing. What are the indications for winter treatment? 1. Respiratory diseases: 1.1 pediatric and adult asthma, cough; 1.2 recurrent respiratory infections (such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, weakness and easy to catch a cold, etc.); 1.3 old age chronic bronchitis. 2. digestive system diseases: gastritis, gastro-sinusitis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, etc. manifested as gastrointestinal and epigastric pain, like warmth and fear of cold, cold food, pain attacks, warm pain relief. 3. Bone and joint lesions: rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteomalacia, frozen shoulder, sciatica, etc. 4. immune deficiency, frostbite, rhinitis, etc. Who is not suitable for compress therapy? 1. Pregnant women; 2. People with serious cardiopulmonary disorders; 3. Patients who are allergic to medicines and adhesive tape; 4. Patients who will get a lot of blisters in a short period of time. Precautions during the dressing: 1. pay attention to the dressing time is not too long, to avoid blistering, so as not to cause infection; 2. once the blisters, small can not be dealt with, the diameter of up to one centimeter, it is best to use a sterilized needle to pick the blisters, and then coated with comfrey oil or gentian violet; 3. prohibit cold, spicy and irritating food; 4. do not want to be cold; 5. do not eat sweet and thick, phlegm-boosting food; 6. prohibit seafood, shrimp, and other hairy things, so as not to affect the therapeutic effects of the treatment. Do not eat seafood, shrimp and other hairy things, so as not to affect the therapeutic effect. Raw materials: ginseng powder 3 grams, mealybug powder 2 grams, 15 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 12 grams of lily, 60 grams of stalked rice. Practice: first, the Polygonum, Lily with about 500 ml of water, boiled to about 200 ml, and then remove the slag, add round-grained rice into a porridge, to be cooked, add ginseng powder, mealybugs powder, to stir, while warm to take. Effects: Benefiting the qi and tonifying the kidney, nourishing the yin and nourishing the lungs, and relieving asthma. Indications: Anyone suffering from chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease and asthma and manifested as “yin and yang are weak” or “qi and yin are weak” can be used. Orange date tea Raw materials: orange peel 10 grams, 15 grams of jujube. Practice: the orange peel shredded, jujube fried, the above 2 flavors together into a teacup, add boiling water. Drink tea frequently. Effects:Regulates qi and regulates the middle, dries dampness and resolves phlegm. Indications: Stomach and epigastric distension and pain, like warmth and fear of cold. Chuanwu porridge Ingredients: 20 grams of Chuanwu, 50 grams of round-grained rice, 1 spoon of ginger, 3 spoons of honey Method: Chuanwu raw skin tip and pounded into the end of the rice with a slow fire simmering, thin, do not thicken, under the ginger, honey, stir well, fasting to serve, to the temperature of the best. Effects: Warming menstruation, dispersing cold and relieving pain Indications: Rheumatoid arthritis patients with joint and limb pain is more severe, aggravated by cold.