What is disease? Definition by Dictionary: “Disease refers to the pathological process of the human body under certain conditions and with certain manifestations caused by pathogenic factors. At this time, the normal processes of the human body are damaged, manifested by a reduction in the ability to adapt to changes in the external environment, a limitation or loss of the ability to work, and the appearance of a series of clinical symptoms.” The purpose of medical measures is to bring into play the subjective initiative of man, eliminate the role of disease-causing factors, and constantly strengthen the body’s defense and compensatory capacity against disease. As further understood separately expressed as follows: First, disease has a cause. The cause of disease is referred to as etiology, which includes pathogenic factors and conditions. Second, disease is a regular process of development. At different stages of its development, there are different changes, and there is often a certain causal relationship between these changes. Mastering the law of disease development and change, not only can we understand the changes that occurred at that time, but also can anticipate its possible development and regression, and take early and effective preventive and therapeutic measures. As a result, a variety of symptoms and signs are produced, which is the basis of our understanding of the disease. These changes are often interrelated and interact, but in terms of their nature, can be divided into two categories, one type of change is the damage caused by the disease process, the other is the body against the resulting defense compensatory adaptive changes. Third, disease is the reaction of the complete organism, but different diseases have its special changes in certain parts (organs or systems). Local changes are often influenced by the regulation of neurological and humoral factors, and at the same time affect the whole body through neurological and humoral factors, causing systemic functional and metabolic changes. Therefore, to recognize and treat diseases, we should start from the interrelationship of the whole body as a whole. Fourthly, some diseases are the manifestation of damage to the balance between the organs and systems in the organism and the balance between the organism and the external environment. Reduced ability of the organism to adapt to the external environment and weakened or lost labor force is another important feature of diseases. Fifth, the so-called pathological process refers to the common, set of abnormal changes in function, metabolism and morphological structure that exist in different diseases. For example, appendicitis, pneumonia, and all other inflammatory diseases have pathological changes. Pathological processes can be dominated by localized changes, such as thrombosis, embolism, infarction, inflammation, etc., or by systemic reactions, such as fever, shock, etc. A disease can contain several pathological processes, such as pneumococcal pneumonia with inflammation, fever, hypoxia and even shock. Traditional Chinese medicine further believes that the human body to maintain normal life activities, must rely on the body of yin and yang to maintain a relatively balanced and coordinated relationship between the two aspects. Because the human body’s vital activities are based on yin essence and yang qi, and yin essence and yang qi are interdependent, specifically, no yin essence to produce yang qi, and no yang qi functional activities, there is no way to continuously generate yin essence, only one yin and one yang of the interplay, mutual coordination, and to maintain, maintain a relative balance between the two, the human body’s vital activities can be normal and regular, so that the disease will not be Diseases will not occur. If the body’s yin and yang are out of balance, the relative balance of yin and yang is broken, there will be a situation of yin and yang bias and decline. At this time, the law of life activities will be disorganized and diseases will occur in the body. Therefore, the way of Chinese medicine to treat diseases focuses on adjusting the balance of yin and yang, the so-called “adjustment is treatment, balance is health”. Su Wen? Yin and yang should be like a great theory” “carefully observe where the yin and yang and adjusted to the flat period” of the discussion, is the “Zhou Yi” “partial yin and yang is called the disease” the best explanation. But unfortunately: modern medicine for the disease of this hostile policy to achieve the result is “efforts to find disease, get rid of the evil do not exhaust, and then add a new disease”, which formed a vicious circle. This is a vicious circle, and the new diseases are becoming more and more powerful, which is also the result of being forced out. And then, the language of medicine is also increasingly full of hate, rejection and fear of disease, some media is also more “disease” depicted as teeth and claws, hideous face of the devil. Ordinary people, if they suffer from a slightly larger disease, are like facing the abyss, like walking on thin ice. Cancer is even more of a taboo to talk about. In this way, 80% of the patients will be scared to death even if they do not die of the disease. Here I would like to make some defense for “disease”: 1. “Disease” is not so scary as mentioned above What is “disease”? Disease is a kind of inevitable phenomenon in the process of life operation. Disease is an inevitable phenomenon in the process of life operation, is the material structure of life, or functional coordination or information command abnormal state, this “abnormal state” is what we call “disease”, that is, traditional Chinese medicine, “yin and yang imbalance This “abnormal state” is what we call “disease”, or what Chinese medicine calls “Yin-Yang imbalance”. If “yin and yang are balanced”, it is a “healthy” state. Our body is a full of “wisdom” organism, it will automatically make the appropriate response and timely adjustment. For example, fever, coughing, sneezing, diarrhea, pain and other symptoms of these discomforts are our body to regulate and resist disease when the normal response, they can not be treated as a “disease” to medical punishment and suppression. And when the body after working hard to feel tired or other symptoms of discomfort, which is to remind you to pay attention to rest, so that the body to restore to a balanced state. 2, survival with disease, and even longevity In real life, a sickly sickly people can also live to eighty or ninety years old, and a very strong body, usually the body seems to be nothing sick, but once there is a disease, there are some beck and call, and even the possibility of losing their lives. Therefore, there is a famous saying: “never get sick, a disease will kill.” You can see that you usually have a little physical problems do not have to be a bad thing. There is a disease in, the body itself has some defense ability, if the body usually have no disease will not have this early warning mechanism and preventive factors, once the disease, the body will be caught off guard and life-threatening. Therefore, with the disease can also be very good life, survival, and can be in harmony with the disease and normal life, and can even prolong life, which is not without precedent. 3, the disease is a contribution to the health should be said that the ability of human health is in the process of fighting with the disease and grow up. For example: smallpox, hepatitis A is life-long immunity, with life-long immunity to health, will not get this kind of disease again, so the ability to health is in the fight with the disease in the formation. Therefore, it can be said that diseases have helped human beings’ self-knowledge and evolution. Those clinical manifestations in the course of disease are precisely more manifestations of resistance to disease, and have led to the continuous study and accumulation of in-depth knowledge of our own physiology and pathology. (Figure 1-13) Now research has proved that many of the so-called disease is precisely the body in the external manifestations of self-adjustment, but also a process of excretion of toxins, such as acne, fistula secretions, eczema, hemorrhoids, foot fungus, etc., are the body in the excretion of these toxins have a disease-causing effect, so these diseases should be treated well! And should not be cut to death, to the body to leave a garbage outlet! 4, with the disease adhere to the work is conducive to health in this busy world, sick but still adhere to the work of a large number of people, and in the work they still show a strong energy and optimistic attitude, deeply appreciated by their superiors and coworkers. They do not take the disease as a burden, but in the work of the disease is also cured, this is because relaxed and happy work and mood conducive to the mobilization of their own health capacity and recovery, in order to better reconcile or fight the disease. If because of the disease will stay at home to rest, nothing to do, there is no what can move the body of the opportunity, the mood will be relatively low, the spirit of the energy is not enough, the health of the command of the pillar has been lost. In this way, the disease is not only no improvement, sometimes, in the anxiety will be aggravated, which is like in suicide or waiting for death. Therefore, with the disease still insist on doing some work, participate in some necessary social activities, to maintain a healthy, happy, positive state of mind is conducive to the recovery of the disease. This also explains the work of some people when well, a retirement on the sick that sick. 5, the disease can not be completely regarded as “the enemy” Disease is from our own organism. From the ecological point of view, it has its own reason for existence. It is also a kind of life, it can occur, development and rampant, because some aspects of the body’s ability to health problems or the lack of positive energy, resulting in the growth of disease and strong environment and conditions. When the disease prevails, it then manifests itself as a disease. Therefore, according to Chinese medicine theory, “where evil comes from, its qi must be weak”. To deal with disease, we should not first use drugs or surgery, such as the force of suppression or conquest action, but should rely on our own health regulation ability and wisdom to balance it, which is the best way. Please imagine who heals the wounds, of course, it is our own health ability to heal them. The human body has the ability of self-health, which includes resistance, adaptation, regulation, self-healing, tolerance, compensation, stress, etc., as well as susceptibility to certain pathogens and a tendency to produce the type of lesions. The tendency to produce lesions and so on. For example, if our body is attacked by viruses and bacteria, our body will launch the symptoms of cold and flu, through coughing, runny nose to go to drive away the viruses and bacteria, most of the bacteria and viruses, will be tenaciously fought by the body, but within a week to clear out of the body. If toxic substances enter the body through the digestive tract, the body will remove them through vomiting and diarrhea, and in the unlikely event that a small amount enters the body’s tissues, the body will also use the skin’s channels to remove the toxins from the bloodstream to the outside of the body in the form of pimples, ringworm, and so on. If this is not enough power, the body will mobilize its entire body to start a fire attack – a fever – so that the offender will be inhibited by the temperature of the fever and will not be able to reproduce its population to the point of eventual extinction. Protecting and relying on the ability to be healthy (i.e., positive qi) is the premise of the healer’s treatment of all diseases, and is also the fundamental guarantee of a long and healthy life, which is precisely the principle of preventing and treating illnesses, as stated in the Chinese medicine, “to support the positive and dispel the evil, and to balance the yin and yang”. Just as the father of Western medicine, Hippocrates, said: “Treatment should not injure the body,” the golden rule.