How to treat common winter and summer ailments

Winter illnesses and summer treatment” refers to the use of summer high temperature climate characteristics of Chinese medicine unique therapeutic methods, prevention and treatment of winter attacks or aggravation of the disease of the therapeutic methods. The theoretical basis of the winter treatment is the “holistic concept” and “balance of yin and yang” theory of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that: “people and heaven and earth, and the sun and the moon corresponds”, “one of the weak, the news are all through heaven and earth”, “heaven and man are one”, so the human body’s yang qi and the natural world of living things Therefore, the human body’s yang qi and the natural biological yang qi connection, seasonal changes directly affect the health of people. And the lack of yang, yin-sheng people are prone to feel the cold evil and disease. And spring and summer, especially the three-volt days, due to the rising temperature, the yang qi in the human body rises, the meridians and collaterals, qi and blood are plentiful. The use of this favorable time to treat certain cold diseases, can maximize the wind to dispel cold, get rid of the body’s chronic, adjust the body’s balance of yin and yang, to prevent the recurrence of old diseases or alleviate their symptoms, and for the autumn and winter reserves of yang, so that the body of yang is sufficient to winter solstice is not easy to be injured by the cold. Those diseases are suitable for winter and summer treatment? All the diseases with insufficient yang qi, weak lung qi and cold pain and some diseases with low immune function will be treated better in spring and summer than in other seasons. Such as: bronchitis, recurrent colds, bronchial asthma, allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other chronic respiratory diseases and rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, old cold legs, cervical spondylosis, back pain caused by kidney deficiency. Especially respiratory diseases, bronchitis, asthma, knee pain, frostbite and other effects. How to carry out “winter disease summer treatment”? There are many ways to treat winter diseases in summer, such as acupuncture, moxibustion, physical therapy, massage, acupoints, and internal consumption of herbs and foods that warm yang qi. After generations of Chinese medicine practitioners of repeated practice, repeated research, proved that in the hot summer with Chinese medicine acupoint compresses for the treatment of winter episodes or prone to episodes of disease efficacy. Paste therapy is also known as “moxibustion”: generally in the summer days of the three volts using the natural high temperature climate to select specific acupuncture points to paste with the role of warming Yang dispersal of cold specially formulated Chinese medicine paste. In order to achieve warm yang dispersal of cold, dredge the meridians, in addition to the role of stubborn phlegm chronic diseases. The three volts refers to the first volts, the middle volts, the last volts, is the hottest time of the year, from the summer solstice after the third g day for the first volts, the fourth g day for the middle volts, the first g day after the fall for the last volts. It is applied once on each of the three ambient days for three years. Longer history of disease or more stubborn disease can be appropriate to increase the number of times the patch, the patch time is generally no more than 24 hours.