What is winter sickness and summer treatment?

Winter illness and summer treatment is a characteristic therapy of traditional Chinese medicine in China, which is developed according to the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine”, which states that “spring and summer nurture Yang” and “long summer wins over winter” in the relationship of restraint. Winter diseases are treated in summer to improve the body’s resistance to diseases that are prone to occur or aggravate in winter, so that the diseases that are prone to occur or aggravate in winter can be reduced or disappeared, which is a concrete expression of the holistic view of Chinese medicine of “unity of heaven and man” and “prevention before illness”. This is the specific application of the holistic view of “Heaven and Man” and the disease prevention concept of “prevention before disease” in Chinese medicine. Winter diseases are diseases that occur in winter or are easily aggravated in winter, usually cold diseases caused by cold evil attacking the human body, or cold diseases of the lungs, spleen and kidneys, such as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, cough variant asthma, rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis, chronic diarrhea, female uterine cold, elderly or female body cold, chronic stomach diseases, etc. Summer treatment refers to the remission of these diseases in summer, and taking advantage of their remission to treat them with evidence and appropriate internal or external Chinese herbal treatments to stimulate the body’s yang energy, thus preventing the recurrence of old diseases in winter or alleviating their symptoms. There are many ways to treat winter diseases in summer: 1. San Fu paste: take advantage of the high temperature in summer, the body’s Yang energy is abundant, the body meridians in the Qi and blood flourishing, through the application of Chinese medicine to adjust the balance of the body’s Yin and Yang acupuncture points, so that some persistent diseases can be restored. 2. San Fu moxibustion: Using the favorable time of high temperature in summer, when the body is full of yang energy and the body surface meridians are full of qi and blood, moxibustion is applied to meridians and acupuncture points such as the Governor’s Vessel, Foot San Li, Guan Yuan and San Yin Jiao to stimulate the body’s yang energy and get rid of the cold energy in the body. 3. Chinese medicine ion introduction therapy: It is a modern external treatment method that uses direct current (or low to medium frequency pulse electric field) to introduce drug ions through acupuncture points into the human body to warm the yang and disperse the cold, tonify the lung and benefit the kidney. Has a comprehensive effect of drugs and direct current physical therapy. 4. Fire cupping therapy: is guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the use of cupping to prevent and treat disease a method. Fire cupping therapy has a wide range of indications, obvious curative effect, easy to operate, economic safety and other advantages, popular among the masses and patients. 5. Self-blood immunotherapy: is a non-specific stimulation therapy, is to extract a small amount (about 2ml) of venous blood from the patient, and then injected into their own points, as a unique treatment of disease. This method is characterized by the multiple effects of acupuncture, autologous blood and acupuncture points to achieve a comprehensive therapeutic effect. It has the advantages of fewer and more precise acupuncture points, reliable efficacy, safety, and simplicity. Winter and summer treatment requires adherence to annual treatment on the three volt days for more than three years for the efficacy to be significant.