Winter and summer treatment is a traditional Chinese medicine method that is based on the impact of natural changes on the human body, and the changes in the operation of qi and blood in each season. According to the principle of “spring and summer nourish the yang”, as the yang energy is strong in summer, the body’s yang energy also reaches the peak of the four seasons, especially in the three volt days, the skin couples open and release, choose the acupuncture point compress, the drug is most easily penetrated by the skin into the acupuncture point meridian, through the meridian qi and blood directly to the disease, so in the summer treatment of winter diseases, can often achieve the best results. If the medication is taken during the remission period, it can encourage the righteousness and strengthen the ability to resist diseases, thus achieving the purpose of disease prevention and treatment. The following is a brief introduction to the treatment of winter diseases in summer.
1.Introduction
”It is based on the “Su Wen? It is based on the principle of “Nourishing Yang in Spring and Summer” in the “Four Qi Tuning Shen Lun”, combined with the Tian Moxibustion therapy, to apply medicine on the acupuncture points of the human body, in order to stimulate the positive energy and increase the ability to resist diseases, so as to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment.
Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, said, “The top doctor treats the disease that is not yet sick, the middle doctor treats the disease that will be sick, and the bottom doctor treats the disease that is already sick. The so-called “illness that will be sick” is this kind of disease that has not yet occurred, but will certainly occur at some time in the future. Then we must quickly remove the conditions that are bound to occur – either the main cause or the cause – when they are not yet occurring. Eliminating the main cause is to change the body, and removing the cause is to change the environment. Some people do not strengthen their physique, but when they change cities or settle abroad, their health problems are cured.
”Winter disease” is the winter disease, this disease is prone to people are mostly weak cold constitution, which is the proverbial lack of fire. The usual symptoms: cold hands and feet, fear of cold and warmth. Fear of wind and cold, tired and sleepy, etc., Chinese medicine called Yang Qi deficiency, that is, their own heat (energy) is not enough, insufficient heat production, cold from within. Even in the height of summer, such people have to sleep with a blanket and socks on. Why do winter diseases need to be treated in summer? It is because the winter disease patient’s own physique is on the cold side, plus the winter environment is also a cold ice, two cold sandwich, then there is no possibility of thawing. Therefore, it is very difficult to cure cold disease in winter, just like drying clothes in rainy days. However, at the height of summer, the outside world is hot and proud of the sun, inside is the heart fire is in full swing, when the accumulated cold in the back of the bladder meridian and joints, most easily driven out. However, if the yang energy is weak and there is no pushing force inside, you will miss the great opportunity to drain the cold. Plus there are many people, the physique is already some Yang Qi deficiency, summer and then painful to drink to the summer, such as cold beer, herbal tea, fruit ice, and then the whole day in the air-conditioned room work, that really Chen cold has not gone, and add new cold. Remember, the cold is deposited. And the body is attacked by the cold place, will be stagnant blood, which is called “cold blood stagnation”. If the cold stays in the joints, it will produce pain, stay in the internal organs will be easy to produce swelling, stay in the meridians will make the meridians blocked, qi and blood will not be popular, not only will the limbs not warm, but also often have symptoms of numbness in the hands and feet. So if you don’t remove the cold in the summer, when the autumn breeze comes together, the external cold will come back, and you will be trapped inside and outside.
How to remove the cold in the summer? The method is also very simple, is “internal use of warmth” “external dispersal of wind and cold”. The internal use of warmth is to take a warm diet. Some people say, the hot day, and then eat hot things, that will not be upset and angry. The key is that there is a way to take warmth, we can take hot medicine cold. For example, brown sugar ginger soup water, originally warm and ambiguous stomach, but we take in the summer, you can pour in a plastic bottle, and then put it in cold water to soak, at this time, although we drink cold, to the stomach when it is hot medicine. There are also those who do not sweat or sweat afraid of the wind, at this time available “Yu Ping Feng granules” several bags of punch into a bottle, let cool. When the drink is drunk frequently every day, sweat can be stopped, no sweat can be issued, and can prevent wind, really three birds with one stone, you may wish to try. In summer, the pores are wide open, the easiest way to sweat, sweat for the heart of the liquid, can be diarrhea too much heart fire, can also invade the skin of the cold evil timely discharge, so sweating method is the best way to exclude the cold evil in the body. Borrowing from the first sentence of Mr. Jin Yong’s “The way of heaven is to lose excess and make up for deficiencies” reflects the body’s natural regulation function in response to the weather: dipping the qi and blood of the heart meridian (fire) to replenish the weakness of the bladder meridian (cold). The heart, a fire of the five elements, is at its peak in summer; the bladder meridian, the body’s ubiquitous, is a barrier against external cold, but also a channel to remove internal cold. So the body sweating in summer is a natural remedy given to us by God to clear the cold, not only to clear the cold, sweating itself can also expel a large number of stagnant toxins in the body. But because we crave cold drinks in the summer, there is a lot of cold in the stomach and intestines, and the heart fire that was used for sweating is used to warm the stomach and intestines instead. At this time, the body surface will lack of Qi and blood to defend against external evil. The so-called external evil is also created by us, that is, the cold air conditioning. Cold air from the skin and hair, cold drinks from the stomach and intestines, although the heart fire is strong, it is difficult to defeat the two cold. The result is the so-called “gastrointestinal cold”: fever without sweating, vomiting and diarrhea. At this time, we can take “Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan”, which is a warming medicine, dispersing wind and cold outside and eliminating cold and damp inside. One medicine can solve two problems, but if it is a real heat stroke, both internal and external heat, this medicine is not suitable.
2.Historical origin
Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history and a long history of application. The earliest written records can be traced back to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, and the folk often drank Xiong Huang wine in summer to treat diseases in the same way as this method; the 52 Disease Formula unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha contains many prescriptions for external application to treat wounds and other diseases.
In the Jin Dynasty, the “Post-Elbow Preparedness and Emergency Formula” contains the use of chicken seeds, white vinegar, pig fat, water, honey, wine, etc. as external compresses and blends; in the “Liu Juanzi Ghost Legacy Formula” of the North and South Dynasties, the external application of pig bile was used to treat carbuncles and swellings; in the “Food Therapy Materia Medica” of the Tang Dynasty, walnuts were used to make mud to treat white hair; in the “Taiping Huimin Formula” of the Song Dynasty, ground dung was used to make cakes and applied to the fontanelle of children to treat head fever and nasal congestion in children; in the “Puji Formula” of the Ming Dynasty, raw sapodilla and onion saliva were used to make mud to treat nasal abscess, etc. The Ming “Pu Ji Fang” treats nasal abscess by applying raw sapodilla and onion saliva as mud to the Yongquan point, etc., indicating that the patching therapy has been used for a long time; the Qing Dynasty’s book “Li Bo Ping Wen” sets the masterpiece of patching therapy, marking that the clinical application of this therapy has reached a rather perfect level.
Chiropractic is to the ancient “spring and summer Yang, autumn and winter yin” doctrine as the theoretical basis, by applying the drug in the Yu points, so that the drug along the Yu points → meridians → viscera pathway penetration and amplification of the drug effect, so as to activate the body’s immunity, enhance the body’s resistance to the role of a Chinese medicine internal and external treatment, mostly in the summer. The reason is that the summer heat, coup draining, sweat glands, sebaceous gland tissue are in an open state, conducive to drug penetration along the meridians, absorption, conduction, the main reason is the respiratory system diseases, such as acute and chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, etc.
3, focus on prevention
Winter and summer treatment is a very important preventive medicine idea in Chinese medicine. The human body is full of energy and blood, the couples are open, at this time, the medicine is easier to reach the internal organs, and can achieve the purpose of stimulating the positive energy. For diseases such as asthma and Chronic Branch which are aggravated during the cold season, winter disease and summer treatment means that through prevention and treatment in advance in summer, these winter diseases with weak yang energy are treated and conditioned through Chinese herbal compresses in the summer when yang energy is strong and does not develop, so as to reduce the symptoms and conditions during winter attacks and thus promote their recovery.
For conditions such as asthma (asthma in Chinese medicine is a broad category, referring to the syndrome of symptoms such as croup, cough, phlegm and wheezing seen clinically), which are both common and difficult to treat and are psychosomatic diseases, the addition of external treatment with Chinese medicine compresses can significantly improve clinical efficacy, prolong the remission period, reduce medical costs and promote recovery. The external application of Shufei powder for winter and summer diseases is an effective method that has inherited the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years and has been developed and innovated in practical application.
4.Indications and contraindications
The most ideal effect of winter and summer treatment is for respiratory diseases. Its indications are mainly chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergic rhinitis, variant cough and other patients whose Chinese medicine identifies Yang deficiency as the main cause, or cold-heat mixed with cold as the main cause; it is also suitable for patients who are afraid of cold, wind, easy to catch cold or repeatedly catch cold in winter with deficient cold constitution.
The common symptoms of these patients are: recurrent cough and asthma, clear and white nasal discharge and sputum, fear of cold in the back, and the symptoms are obviously aggravated in winter and after cold, with a light red tongue, thin white or thin yellow coating, and a stringent, tight or smooth pulse.
It should be noted that patients with bronchial dilatation, active tuberculosis coughing up blood, pregnant women are prohibited from using winter sickness summer cure antiasthmatic cream; diabetic patients with poor blood sugar control, scarred body, skin allergies should be cautious with winter sickness summer cure Shufei powder external paste.
5.Chinese medicine principle
Winter disease summer treatment is an important feature of traditional Chinese medicine, is to take advantage of the high temperature in summer, the body is more abundant yang favorable time, adjust the balance of the body’s yin and yang, so that some persistent diseases can be restored. The theory of Chinese medicine is about the five elements of yin and yang, and the “one body and one person”. According to Chinese medicine, “man and heaven and earth are in harmony, and the sun and moon correspond”, “the win-win deficiency of one body, the news are all through the earth”, which means that the change of seasons directly affects the health of people. Su Wen? It is said in the book “Yin and Yang: The Great Treatise on Yin and Yang” that “If yin flourishes, yang will be sick, and if yang flourishes, yin will be sick.” It says that the imbalance of yin and yang will lead to diseases.
Some deficiency-cold diseases are mostly caused by the body’s yin flourishing and yang weakening, and the resistance is significantly reduced, so that external evil can easily invade and develop. Winter is yin and summer is yang, summer is the season when yang is strong and yin is weak, and it is also the time when the yang energy of human body is flourishing. At this time, taking advantage of the fact that summer yang is strong and yang is rising, the yang energy of human body has the tendency to rise and flourish in summer, and the condensed cold energy in the body is easy to be solved, we can use deficiency-supporting medicine or warming medicine to disperse cold, so that the evil of winter diseases can be most easily eliminated in the dormant state, which is also the reason why Chinese medicine emphasizes “spring This is the reason why Chinese medicine emphasizes “nourishing yang in summer”. In summer, the body is full of yang energy, the circulation of qi and blood is strong, the drug is most easily absorbed, and the three volt period in summer is the most vigorous yang energy in the year, in the three volt days for compress treatment, it is easiest to restore to support the body to get yang energy, strengthen the function of external defense, improve the body’s immune effect.
On the other hand, TCM believes that cold diseases are closely related to the lungs, spleen and kidneys. The main rule of summer treatment is to tonify the kidneys, strengthen the spleen and nourish the lungs, to improve neuroendocrine function, to improve the excitability of the pituitary-adrenocortical system to restore the balance of function to enhance the body’s immunity, and to really improve the physique completely. According to the latest modern scientific research shows that summer acupressure can significantly improve the body’s immune indicators, regulate the function of immune proteins, reduce the reaction of beta receptors, improve the body’s immune status.
6.Application therapy
There are many methods for treating winter diseases in summer, such as acupuncture, moxibustion, physical therapy, massage, acupuncture point compressing, as well as internal consumption of herbs and foods that warm the Yang energy. After repeated practice and research by Chinese medicine practitioners for generations, it has been proved that the treatment of winter attacks or diseases prone to attacks with Chinese medicine acupressure in hot summer is effective. The clinical use of Chinese herbal medicines such as white mustard seed, Yuanhu, Gansui and Hosin, which have the functions of warming the meridians, warming the lungs and resolving phlegm, dispersing cold and removing dampness, promoting the flow of qi and blood, nourishing the yang energy and strengthening the body, etc., are finely ground and the juice is taken and mixed into a paste, and different acupuncture points are selected to treat different diseases according to their conditions. For example, the treatment of bronchitis and bronchial asthma is applied to acupuncture points such as Tiantu, Tanzhong and Lung Yu; the treatment of stomach pain is applied to acupuncture points such as Zhongshang and Sansili; and the treatment of facial paralysis is applied to acupuncture points such as Chee Che and Fengchi.
The three volts are the first, middle and last volts, which are the hottest times of the year, from the third G day after the summer solstice to the first volt, the fourth G day to the middle volt, and the first G day after the autumn to the last volt. It is applied once on each of the three volt days for three years. Longer history or more stubborn disease can increase the number of compresses.
Internal diseases chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic cough, obstructive lung disease, weakness and susceptibility to cold, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary insufficiency, various arthritis.
Pediatric diseases children under 14 years of age suffering from asthma, cough, bronchitis, weakness and susceptibility to colds.
Acupuncture diseases numbness and paralysis of the limbs, cold and wet back and leg pain, frozen shoulder, frostbite, facial paralysis, stroke hemiplegia, various kinds of arthritis.
Ear, nose and throat diseases chronic rhinitis (allergic), chronic sinusitis, chronic pharyngolaryngitis (allergic), pharyngeal heterosensitivity (plum pneumonia), physical deficiency rhinitis attackers.
Applying time
Winter disease summer treatment Shu Fei powder patching time for the three days of the summer lunar calendar; three times for a course of treatment, 1-2 courses of treatment per year, 3-5 years in a row.
Caution
During the treatment period, we should pay more attention to the characteristics of summer, from the diet, medicine and living comprehensive conditioning.
The first is to be careful with pungent and dry products to prevent injury to yin The hot summer climate is prone to injury to yin, and pungent and warm aromatic dry products can easily lead to internal heat and dark depletion of essence, so you should be careful with cinnamon, pepper, aniseed, cumin, dog meat, mutton and fresh cinnamon or lychee, etc.
Second, avoid taking a lot of cold products summer heat, often easy to drink cold, if a large number of cold products, it is easy to cause damage to the Yang, the spleen and stomach weakness, and even loss of Yang Qi, light diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, the heavy Yang deficiency caused by the disease.
Three is careful to eat a lot of fatty and sweet nourishing products summer is easy to produce summer dampness, damp-heat evil easy to invade the body, if you take a lot of fatty and sweet products, it is easy to lead to internal and external damp-heat evil combined with the human body.
Fourth, avoid excessive exercise in order to avoid excessive sweating, resulting in the deficiency of both Qi and Yin.
To ensure the effectiveness of the treatment, patients should also pay attention to the following points: general medicine cake to paste 4-6 hours, just paste on the feeling of cool, a little later, the local will have itchy and hot feeling, if the pain or burning sensation on the patching site is unbearable, can be uncovered earlier on their own, but must be past noon. If there is no special discomfort, you can extend the patching time appropriately, but must be removed before going to bed. The first time you put it on need not be too long, mainly to understand the medicinal properties, it is best not to put the skin blisters, so as not to affect the second and third treatment. Waiting for the third time, the compressing time can be extended appropriately, because it can have a longer time to repair, sometimes the skin blistering effect is better.
”Winter disease summer treatment” drug compress moxibustion therapy in the summer months of July to September, especially in the three volt days for the best. The first, middle and last day of the volcano or two days before and after the first day of each year, once, even paste three – five years.
The skin must be cleaned before applying moxibustion. Do not use for serious skin diseases, allergies, epistaxis and pregnancy.
Each time moxibustion 4-6 hours, 2-4 hours for children. If there is a local burning sensation, pain or crying children can be removed in advance; if warm and comfortable or slightly itchy can be pasted for a few more hours, and then removed after the drug is dry.
Do not move too much after the patch to avoid the drug moving off. Individual patients sometimes local small blisters, generally do not need to deal with, but should keep the skin dry, clean, do not scratch the blisters to prevent infection, if necessary, to the hospital outpatient follow-up.
After the patch when the ban on eating cold, fat, sweet, thick, seafood and spicy stimulating products.
Secondly, it is best not to go to the air-conditioned room after the patch, because the cold will make the pores contract, affecting the absorption of drugs; do not sweat, sweating, then the fixed medicine cake tape will fall off, it is best in a cool place or appropriate with an electric fan breeze blowing. It is also important to pay attention to the diet. On the day of application, it is best not to eat cold drinks and chilled food, but to eat the same diet as usual. You can take a shower after the pills are removed, but do not rub your back, use a towel to gently absorb the water on the acupuncture points after showering. If blisters appear on the patching site, try not to uncover the skin and do not wrap it, you can go to the treatment department for the appropriate treatment, wear clean, soft, breathable cotton clothes, usually 3-5 days to heal.
The point to be reminded is that Chinese medicine dressing is not a panacea, it is only a means of disease treatment and cannot completely replace other treatments, so patients with chronic diseases who are originally taking medication should not blindly reduce or stop medication during Chinese medicine dressing. In addition, the winter and summer treatment of Shufei powder is to prevent and treat winter-prone diseases, the symptoms are not obvious in summer, or there are no symptoms at all, so the effect of the treatment can only be seen in winter. Shufei powder has been used in our department for less than 3 years, and it has got good effect at first, but its clinical efficiency can be counted only after further cases are accumulated.