The relationship between TCM, body composition and sub-health?

In fact, Chinese medicine has noticed the relationship between physique and disease as early as the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine or even earlier, and there are many descriptions of this in the books. For example, in the book “Ling Shu? Five Changes”, “Those who are weak and tender in all five organs are good at illnesses such as disease and disease”, “Those who have small bones and weak flesh are good at illnesses such as cold and heat”, and “Those who are rough and not firm in flesh are good at illnesses such as paralysis”. In fact, the identification of Chinese medicine includes the identification of the physical constitution, and the treatment is to add and subtract according to the different states of the patient. In order to achieve the purpose of “treating the disease to seek the root”. In recent years, the problem of sub-health has become more and more serious. There are many scholars who classify people’s constitution into many types. At present, the more common classification of physical constitution is: peace, Yang deficiency, Yin deficiency, Qi deficiency, phlegm dampness, damp heat, qi yu, blood stasis, special endowment nine types. The relationship between physical constitution and subhealth: subhealth groups mainly belong to the three major categories of deficiency, depression and phlegm-dampness in Chinese medicine. Although subhealthy people are not suffering from diseases, the disease mechanism in the body has been activated, resulting in Yin and Yang deficiency, or Qi and blood deficiency, or Qi and blood stagnation, or the accumulation of certain pathological products. The normal constitution can also be affected by the seven emotions, resulting in the imbalance of yin and yang in the body and manifesting a sub-healthy state. Modern research shows that most of the sub-healthy patients are suffering from physical and mental diseases, that is, the injury caused by emotion and will cause a series of changes in sympathetic nerves, plant nerves, endocrine and immune system, which will lead to the development of sub-healthy state. Most of the sub-health states of these people belong to depression. The causes of deficiency in sub-health are complex: physiologically, the weakness of congenital endowment, or natural aging with age, are manifested in the decline of internal organs, internal weakness of vital energy, external weakness of the body, lower immunity and resistance to disease; lifestyle, including poor diet, irregular living, excessive work, internal injury to the emotions, addiction, etc. are important causes of deficiency; other can also be seen in the later stages of recovery from disease. Other causes can also be seen in the recovery phase of the disease. Although patients complain of a variety of symptoms, the nature of the disease mechanism and the tendency of transmission are no different from the four deficiencies of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood. In addition, although subhealth deficiency may start from only one internal organ, but due to the close connection between yin and yang, qi and blood of the same origin, and the close connection between the internal organs to produce and control each other, if the subhealth state is not adjusted in time, it often evolves into multiple internal organs, yin and yang and qi and blood deficiency, and the clinical performance of each internal organ function can be significantly reduced. Most of the subhealth type of depression is caused by emotional and mental discomfort and qi stagnation. However, whether the emotional and mental factors lead to depression is not only related to the intensity and duration of mental stimulation, but also closely related to the condition of the body itself. As stated in “The Origin of Miscellaneous Diseases? The source of all yu said: “all yu, dirty qi disease, which is originally from the deep thought, and more dirty qi weak, so six yu of the disease is born. The six depressions are qi, blood, dampness, heat, food, and phlegm”. This means that the weakness of the organism’s “dirty qi” is an intrinsic factor in the development of depression. In the early stage of the disease, the stagnation of qi is the main cause, often combined with blood stasis, fire, phlegm, food stagnation, etc. After a long period of time, the pathological changes of deficiency of heart, liver, spleen and kidney are formed according to the different organs affected and the loss of qi and blood, and the clinical manifestations are diverse, and the recurrence of the disease is closely related to emotional and mental factors. The phlegm-damp type in sub-health is mostly caused by external cold and dampness, poor diet and weak yang qi, especially the spleen-yang deficiency is the key to the disease. Qi deficiency is unable to promote blood flow, and blood rheology shows blood stasis and phlegm blockage like changes of thick, sticky, clotted and stagnant. The low function of the internal organs and the accumulation of pathological products interact to accelerate the aging or disease process. The complaints of patients with phlegm obstruction are also complex and varied. In the early stage, the patient may only show a subhealthy state, or the patient may not have any subjective discomfort, such as hyperlipidemia, etc.; if left unchecked, serious cases may appear as “modern civilization diseases”: hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, as well as obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Although these lesions are complex, their basic pathological changes are all closely related to hyperlipidemia.