The concept of “not yet sick
”According to the viewpoint of Chinese medicine, it is a state of imbalance of yin and yang, qi and blood, and internal organs and health of the body. Our ancestors have long been aware that in addition to actively seeking ways to eliminate diseases, they have also accumulated many measures to prevent them. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine has a day: “The sage does not treat the sick to treat the sick, and the disease has become and then medicine, chaos has become and then cure, like thirst and wear well, the bucket and cast soldiers, is not also late?” This clearly shows that our ancestors have realized the importance of “preparing for the rainy days and preventing diseases before they occur”. Zhang Yi, Department of Tui Na, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
In modern medicine, this state is called “subhealth state”. This is the state of non-disease and non-health, which is a kind of secondary health state (sub means secondary), between health and disease, so there are also “secondary health”, “third state”, “intermediate state Therefore, it is also called “sub-health”, “third state”, “intermediate state”, “wandering state”, “gray state” and so on. In detail, subhealth is a big concept that contains several stages that are connected before and after: among them, the one that is closely adjacent to health can be called “mild psychosomatic disorder”, which is often characterized by fatigue, insomnia, poor appetite, emotional instability, etc. However, these disorders can be easily recovered and are no different from healthy people. From the causes of sub-health, we can see that the pressure of social environment and the self-regulation ability of people are external and internal factors closely related to sub-health. It accounts for about 25% to 28% of the population.
If this disorder continues to develop, it can enter the “latent clinical” state, when it has shown a high risk of developing into some diseases, and there is a high possibility of developing into a disease. More than 1/3 of the population is in this state, and the proportion increases steeply in people over 40 years of age. Their manifestations are more intricate and can be chronic fatigue or persistent psychosomatic disorders, including the aforementioned various symptoms lasting for more than 2 months and often accompanied by chronic sore throat, recurrent colds, and low energy. Some experts also categorize the manifestations of the disorder as 3 types of diminished vitality, diminished responsiveness and diminished adaptability. From clinical tests, such groups in the city are more concentrated in the three high and one low tendencies, i.e. the presence of high blood lipids, high blood sugar, high blood viscosity and low immune function close to the critical level.
Common body signals in subhealth
When the human body is in a “sub-healthy state”, it often has the following manifestations.
1, heart disease, palpitations and less sleep: mainly manifested as panic, shortness of breath, chest tightness, distraction, panic, restlessness, sleeplessness at night, dreamy and confused.
2.Sweating, frequent cold: often sweating, night sweating, false sweating, a little carelessness, cold, fear of cold.
3.Red tongue with scaly coating, bitter and dry mouth: red tongue, thick and greasy tongue coating, bitter mouth, dry throat, dry stool, short and red urine, etc.
4.Face with stagnation, gray around the eyes: the face is colorless and emaciated; around the eyes, especially under the eyes, gray and blue.
5.Swollen limbs, sleepy eyes: Some middle-aged and elderly women have swollen ankles and calves in the morning or after exertion, and swollen and sagging lower eyelids.
6, nail imaging, abnormal changes: Chinese medicine believes that the human trunk and limbs, internal organs and meridians, qi and blood body energy information cascade fusion in the nail into the image called nail image. If the nail appears rolled like onion tube, similar to garlic, peeled like bamboo shoots, withered like fish scales, curved like eagle claws, collapsed with the deflated snail, moon marks uneven, peak concave residue, nail surface white spots, etc., are nail image abnormalities, disease location or in the viscera, or involved in the meridians, Ying Wei blocked.
7, chest distension before the tide, breast nodules: women in the two or three days before the arrival of menstruation, the limbs swell, chest distension, chest pain, gynecological examination, breast often have hard nodules, should be given special attention.
8, spitting mucus, erratic bloating: often have chest and abdominal bloating, sticky stool, anal dampness and heat, eating cold and dry food often feel stomach discomfort, the mouth is sticky and unpleasant, vomiting as fast. When heavy, morning vomiting is inevitable, progressive aggravation. At this time, the stomach and esophagus should be promptly checked for occupying lesions.
9, abnormal body temperature, tiredness and weakness: body temperature in the afternoon is often about 37-38 ° C, palms hot, dry mouth, generalized tiredness and weakness, should go to the hospital to check whether there is tuberculosis, etc.
10, blurred vision, head swelling and headache: usually normal vision, sudden vision loss (non-glasses discomfort), and accompanied by eye swelling, headache, this should not be careless, should promptly go to the hospital to check whether there are intracranial occupying lesions.
In addition, the sub-health state also shows a series of symptoms in the mental health of people, such as: memory loss, begin to forget the names of acquaintances. Mental calculation ability is getting worse. Frequent regret in doing things, irritability, irritability, pessimism, and difficulty in controlling one’s emotions. Poor concentration and the ability to concentrate is getting worse. Sleeping time is getting shorter and shorter, and waking up does not relieve the fatigue. When you want to do something, you are distracted for unknown reasons, your mind is thinking about something, and it is difficult to concentrate.
The serious consequences of subhealth state
Subhealth is a critical state. People in a subhealthy state do not have clear diseases, but there is a decline in mental vitality and adaptability, and if this state is not corrected in time, it is very easy to cause psychosomatic diseases. These include: psychological disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, hypertension, coronary heart disease, cancer, decreased sexual function, lethargy, poor concentration, irritability, insomnia, poor digestion, loss of appetite, bloating, panic, chest tightness, constipation, diarrhea, feeling very tired, and even a feeling of wanting to die. However, there is no organ problem on physical examination, so it is mainly a functional problem. People in a state of suboptimal health are not life threatening, except for fatigue and discomfort. But if you encounter a high level of stimulation, such as staying up late, losing temper and other stressful conditions, it is easy to die suddenly, that is, “death from overwork”. “Overwork death” – is a comprehensive disease, refers to the process of non-physiological state of labor, the normal work and life patterns of people are disrupted, the body fatigue stagnation and transfer to the state of overwork, so that blood pressure increases, arteriosclerosis intensifies, and then appear The result is increased blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, which can lead to a fatal state.
The strengths of Tui Na in “treating diseases before they occur
Long ago, our ancestors discovered the important role of Tui Na in the prevention and treatment of diseases, and it was widely enjoyed for its ease of use, safety and lack of side effects. In the “All Scriptures and Sounds”, Tang Hui Lin considered Tui Na as a method of “self-massaging and pinching, stretching the hands and feet, and removing labor and annoyance”, and proposed the feature that Tui Na can be self-operated; Sun Simiao also pointed out in the “Thousand Gold Essentials” that “even though a child is not sick, he often uses cream to massage the fontanelle and the heart of the hands and feet in the morning, which can very much prevent Cold wind. The Six Classics of Tang” contains massage can remove wind, cold, summer, humidity, hunger, satiety, labor, and escape, and said: “Where people’s limbs and internal organs accumulate and disease is born, it is appropriate to guide and promote it, so that internal disease does not stay, external evil does not enter.
Here we are mainly discussing the methods of Tui Na in Chinese medicine to prevent and treat stroke. First of all, we need to find out what kind of manifestations there are before a stroke, and these symptoms are called “precursors of stroke”. Stroke precursors include the following manifestations.
1, yawn after yawn: when cerebral arteriosclerosis gradually aggravated, the lumen is narrowing, cerebral ischemia and hypoxia aggravated, especially when the whistling center is hypoxic, will cause the yawn reflex. Mostly in the 5 to 10 days before the onset of ischemic stroke, frequent yawning can reach about 80%, which is an important alarm signal.
2, stuttering: salivation symptoms are poor speech and drooling, with signs of stroke, which may have a sudden onset.
3, a black cloud: that is, the sudden onset of blackness in front of the eyes, can not see things, seconds or minutes to recover, but also accompanied by nausea, vomiting, dizziness and impaired consciousness. Recently, Norwegian doctor Koti found 11 cases of carotid atherosclerosis among 18 patients with transient blackness.
4. Blurred vision: This is manifested as transient visual impairment or visual field defects, which mostly recover on their own within one hour. Cody performed fundus examination and cerebral blood flow measurement on 10 patients who presented with transient visual impairment and found that three of them had central retinal artery occlusion and seven had branch retinal artery occlusion.
5, razor fall: refers to their own knife shaving, head turned to the side, suddenly feel arm weakness, razor fall, 1 to 2 minutes after full recovery. This is due to the twisting of the already sclerotic carotid artery when turning the head and twisting the neck, which aggravates the stenosis and leads to insufficient blood supply to the cranium.
6. Hemiplegia: i.e. transient ischemic attack, which is technically already the lightest stroke. According to follow-up observation, ischemic stroke occurs in about half of the people 3 to 5 years after transient ischemic attack.
Anyone who shows one of the above signs should draw the attention of the patient himself and his family.
Secondly, we should understand the principle of Tui Na in Chinese medicine to prevent and treat stroke. The causes of stroke are many and complex, but most of them are due to the dysfunction of the internal organs of the patient, deficiency of liver and kidneys, and the weakening of qi and blood. In addition, labor and weariness, worry and anger, drinking and eating, and excessive exertion, resulting in stagnation of blood, phlegm and heat, or Yang into the wind, blood with gas, resulting in cerebral vein paralysis or blood overflow outside the cerebral vein, causing coma, drink and seclusion, the development of stroke. Tui-na in Chinese medicine is applied to the causes of stroke, using such techniques as pressing, kneading, rubbing, rubbing, pointing, pushing with one finger, rolling, etc. The acupoints of Fengchi, Sun, Baihui, Liver Yu, Gall Bladder Yu, Diaphragm Yu, Kidney Yu, Guizhong, Foot Sanli, Shouze, Quchi, Hand Sanli, Hegu, Neiguan, Zhonggu, Guangyuan, etc. are selected. It is used to adjust the yin and yang, to supplement the deficient and diarrhea the real, to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and to prevent stroke. In modern medicine, Tui Na is believed to promote blood flow, improve blood rheology, reduce blood flow resistance, improve heart function, promote the establishment of microcirculation, and dredge tendons and channels. After a period of systematic and regular tui na treatment, the body will return to a healthy state!
Therefore, if we do a good job in stroke prevention and control, and if we can correctly understand stroke and prevent it before it happens, we can prevent and control stroke, reduce the disability rate and death rate of stroke, etc., and improve the quality of life.