How did the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine come from?

This shows that you are not very clear about many traditional things in China. Learning Chinese medicine is inseparable from traditional things. The Book of Changes and Tao Te Ching are the most traditional philosophical thoughts of China. To understand Chinese medicine, we must understand China's traditional philosophy.

The prescription of traditional Chinese medicine is actually discussing a related problem. What does this prescription have to do with?

① Time

The first thing is a party, an oriental party, a party in March in spring, and so on. Therefore, time is a very important lesson in the square. "Su Wen? Six sections of the Theory of Zangxiang say: "When you wait, you can be timely." He added: "I don't know what the years add, the ups and downs of qi, the role of reality and falsehood, can not be used for work." "That is to say, a related factor of disease occurrence is time, and time is related to time, which is a very important feature of Chinese medicine. Look at a tumor patient. The incidence of his 1994 is different from that of 1995, but western medicine doesn't care about this. He only looked at the results of this CT and biopsy. As for whether the onset is in 1994 or 1995, it has nothing to do with him. However, if Chinese medicine practitioners think so and ignore this 1994 and 1995, it will be over. Then you can't really understand the disease, because you haven't considered a very important factor related to the occurrence of the disease. How can we fully understand the disease? So at this time, you should remember that the onset of this disease in 1994 is completely different from that in 1995, because the correlation is different, and the rise and fall of qi is different with the growth of years. As a Chinese medicine practitioner, if you ignore this point, you will lose a lot. Modern medicine gradually realizes the problem of time. For example, the time of taking medicine has been concerned. Drugs such as cardiac glycosides are taken in the early hours of the morning, and their efficacy is hundreds of times higher than other times. There are also some hormone drugs, and there is a similar situation. However, in essence, western medicine's understanding of time is still very different from ours.

② Five Elements

The second factor is the five elements, namely, golden wood fire, water and soil, oriental wood, southern fire, western gold, northern water and central soil. Therefore, diseases are closely related to the five elements. This relationship can be seen everywhere in Neijing. If you don't talk about the five elements and think they are superstitious, then your Chinese medicine may not be good. In Neijing and Zhongji, we often see the contrast between the five elements and Yin and Yang. In fact, the five elements are different states of yin and yang. How did the five elements come from? Yang is called wood when it is alive, fire when it is growing, gold when it is collected, and water when it is hidden. The process of growth and collection is soil. Therefore, the five elements are very important factors in Chinese medicine, which should not be underestimated.

③ Six Qi

Another factor of aggregation is six qi, namely wind, cold, summer, dampness and dryness. Wind is born in the east, fire is born in the south (summer), dry in the west, cold in the north and moderate in humidity. Pathogenesis says: "All diseases are caused by wind, cold, summer, dampness and fire dryness", and all diseases are related to wind, cold, summer, dampness and fire dryness, and all of them are related to this recipe. They are all diseases, not one disease, so the correlation of six qi is universal.

④ Five Qi

Five qi is different from the above six qi, which mainly reflects the orientation attributes of drugs, namely cold, hot, warm and cool. It is warm in the east, hot in the south, cool in the west, cold in the north and flat in the middle. Earlier, we said that Chinese medicine can simulate time, space and orientation with drugs, which is based on this five-qi characteristic of drugs. Therefore, grasping five qi is an element of traditional Chinese medicine.

⑤ Five flavors

Five flavors are also an important factor in gathering. Oriental poly-acid, southern poly-bitter, western poly-Xin, northern poly-salty, central poly-sweet. What does Chinese medicine rely on to treat diseases? What matters is the five flavors and tastes of drugs. Look at Shennong's herbal classics. What does it talk about first in every medicine? Let's talk about the smell first, the smell is the first, and the attending effect is the second. Smell is the primary factor of drugs, and efficacy is the secondary factor; Smell is the body, and its main function is to use. This primary and secondary, this personal relationship, should be made clear to everyone. At present, many people don't know the body use, and the priority is reversed. They only care about the attending effect. So-and-so medicine can cure so-and-so disease, and the headache can be removed from Ligusticum chuanxiong and Angelica dahurica, and the tumor can be removed from Hedyotis diffusa, completely throwing the bad smell out of the clouds. How can this be regarded as Chinese medicine? Let's take a look at Neijing again. Neijing talks about reinforcing and reducing diarrhea, which means that those who are abundant reduce and those who are deficient make up. Why did she make them up? That's the smell. Therefore, she said, "Heat cures cold, cold cures heat", and she also said, "The master of wood position, whose diarrhea is sour, and whose tonic is pungent. Lord of fire, its diarrhea is sweet and its supplement is salty. Lord of the earth, its diarrhea is bitter, and its supplement is sweet. The master of the golden chamber, whose diarrhea is pungent and tonic is sour. The Lord of the water level, its diarrhea is salty and its supplement is bitter. " Therefore, the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine is based on smell, and it can only be said if there is smell. One is promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, and the other is relieving pain. How to treat it? Is it north or south? East or west?

The study of five flavors also tells us that there is a great correlation between disease and diet. The ancients said: illness comes from the mouth, and disaster comes from the mouth. This statement can be more fully reflected in modern life. Like the number one killer in the world now, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, tumor diseases and so on. Which one has nothing to do with diet? Modern medicine studies diet mainly from the aspects of food composition, fat, sugar, trace elements, saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids. As Chinese medicine, we must not forget the five flavors.

Success is Xiao He, failure is me. From the above discussion, we should find that TCM has a very special place. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is these factors that cause diseases, but it is also these factors that can treat diseases. As the saying goes, success is Xiao He and failure is Xiao He. This feature of traditional Chinese medicine should be considered and pondered. It is completely different from the concept of western medicine. Just as the wind is a pathogenic factor, "all violent rigidity belongs to the wind." However, wind is another factor in treating diseases, and wind energy overcomes dampness. Western medicine is not like this at all, such as tuberculosis and staphylococcus, which are all pathogenic factors. So, what about treatment? It also has something that can kill this pathogen, such as antibiotics. You can't kill the cause of Chinese medicine, and neither can the wind. We can only make adjustments and treat them according to the ingenious relationship between the parties given by the ancients. Let water carry a boat and overturn it, and let Xiao He succeed without losing it. This is the way Chinese medicine treats diseases. From the point of view of the art of war, treating diseases with traditional Chinese medicine is attacking the heart rather than attacking the city.

⑥ Five colors

These five colors are cyan, red, yellow, white and black, oriental cyan, southern red, middle yellow, western white and northern black. Since there is such a relationship between color and square, it tells us that we can't just look at color tone aesthetically. Color not only plays a decorative role, but also has a deeper meaning and a greater role. A rustic patient used tonic drugs, Sijunzi decoction and Lizhong decoction, but he was old and not good. What is the reason? It turns out that this patient always wears a blue skirt. How can you mend the soil here and cut it there? Diseases are related to so many factors, but you only know how to clear away heat and toxic materials, replenish qi and nourish yin, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and only know how to regulate from efficacy and indications. If the therapeutic indications are invalid, you say that Chinese medicine is invalid, and you say that the theory of Chinese medicine lags behind the clinic. How to do this? Everyone says that this situation of Chinese medicine is worrying, and we must find ways to change it.

There are many factors related to the disease, such as patients with asthenia in the north. When we use drugs to supplement and feel weak, we can consider other aspects, such as five colors. This is a very noteworthy aspect of Chinese medicine.

⑦ Five tones

Next, let's look at the five tones. This is Gong Shangyu, the trumpet number. Oriental horn sound, southern logo sound, central palace sound, western business sound, northern feather sound. Are the five tones related to diseases? Yes! "Neijing" said: Ask at a glance, know at a glance as a god, and know at a smell as a saint. "Know what you smell is sacred"-what is this "smell"? what are you reading? Look at the colors, look at all kinds. It's hard to expect. We can only look at the appearance. So what does this smell know to smell? It is very important to smell this pentatonic scale. Which of the five tones is strong, which is weak, which is there and which is not, and what is the harmonious relationship between the five tones? These must be distinguishable. This is all profound knowledge. As the ancients said, there are bosom friends all over the world, and how many people can know each other. This bosom friend originally meant to know the five tones, but it was later generalized. Do you remember the story of Zi Qi and Boya? It can be seen that bosom friends are not simple.

Isn't it too mysterious to know your own situation by listening to a person's voice? No mystery! There are people in history who can do this. If you talk in the next room, he will know your illness. This is called "smell and know", and this is called sanctification. Why? Because this disease is related to five tones. If you have lung disease, your business tone will definitely go wrong, and your heart disease will definitely go wrong. Therefore, you can get a general understanding of your situation by listening to this voice. It's just that we are all deaf now, and all we hear is loud masturbation, but we can't understand the real five-tone. Some people don't even know the concept of pentatonic scale. They say it's unscientific when they hear the pentatonic scale. It should be 1234567, which should be seven tones. How can we achieve the pentatonic scale?

Five tones is a very profound knowledge, which is worth studying with great efforts. The above is from the perspective of diagnosis, and it is the same from the perspective of treatment. Five flavors can cure diseases, five qi can cure diseases, and five tones can also cure diseases. Commercial bank belongs to the west, belongs to gold, and gold can win wood. You only know that Uncaria rhynchophylla can calm the liver and calm the wind, and you should know that Shang Yin can also calm the liver and calm the wind.

Music therapy is now popular in many parts of the west, which is a gratifying sign. However, this kind of music therapy is still relatively elementary, at the level of primary schools and even kindergartens. The real high level is in the mountains and rivers, in Chinese medicine. I hope you can do some research in this respect, and don't confine yourself to a small Bupleurum decoction, Mahuang decoction or the present Jing Fang Baidu powder. Don't confine yourself here, open your eyes. Chinese medicine "does not suffer from nothing, suffers from nothing." 2 1 century Chinese medicine is promising. Why? Because she has too many connections, it is this connection that determines that she can make a difference in many fields. Nowadays, many Chinese medicine practitioners go to the west, that is, sticking acupuncture, massage and prescribing Chinese medicine. West Renye Fang thinks that Chinese medicine is just some tricks. Why don't you engage in music therapy? You can study Wuyin and open a real Wuyin sanatorium. Historical records? Le Shu said, "Musicians make blood turbulent and mental circulation. "It can be seen that the role of music in the human body and diseases is not proposed now. In other words, there are too many things that Chinese medicine can operate, and now we can't just grasp this little bit.

Eight flavors

In the framework of Fang, there are many related problems, such as time, five elements, six qi, five colors, five tones, five flavors and so on. For example, five stinks, smelly is a disyllabic word, read "repair" here. Smell is different from taste, it is done through the nose. The five spices are shame, burning, fragrance, fishy smell and rot. Oriental Sao, southern Jiao, central Xiang, western fishy, northern rot. Maybe we are more sensitive to five smells than others, especially some smells, which we feel deeply. It looks like something fragrant and dry. Why do people like sweet and dry things so much? I really want to eat some incense when I don't want to eat it. Why? Because incense belongs to the center, enters the ground, enters the spleen and stomach, and the spleen and stomach are well transported, and the appetite naturally opens.

Pet-name ruby five animals

Five animals have different opinions in Neijing. A class of five animals refers to chickens, sheep, cows, horses and pigs, oriental chickens, southern sheep, central cows, western horses and northern pigs. One is the seven-article theory, that is, five insects: caterpillars, feather insects, dragonflies, ostriches and scale insects. These five kinds of insects include people, and it refers to all animals. Now our age is the age of meat. In the past, when I was a child, I could eat meat once a month. So eating meat is called toothache. But now which meal is not meat and which meal is not meat? Nowadays, diseases are becoming more and more complicated, and there are more and more strange diseases. Many diseases with high incidence are directly related to meat. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, from the perspective of five animals, there should be articles to do.

Attending grain

Five grains, namely wheat, millet, millet, rice and beans. Oriental wheat, southern millet, central millet, western rice, northern beans. In the first chapter, we mentioned beans, which are most closely related to the kidney when they enter the north. So beans are also called kidney valley. In fact, when we look at the appearance of soybean, it looks like a shrinking kidney. Therefore, beans and their products play a special role in kidney, bone and brain related to kidney. For example, a popular healthy food is called soybean lecithin. Taking lecithin can not only regulate blood lipid, improve heart and brain function, increase memory, but also have a good effect on some alopecia. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, these effects are related to the north and kidney. Therefore, the study of food should not only consider modern nutrition, but also consider the "square" factor.

Among the five grains, rice belongs to the west, which belongs to the lung valley, and the lung governs the fur. So from the perspective of beauty, it is probably better to eat rice. Why the skin of southerners is more delicate than that of northerners may be related to the staple food lung valley of southerners.

⑾ Five records

These five goals are anger, joy, thinking, worry and fear. Eastern anger, southern joy, central thinking, western worry, northern fear. I think everyone has feelings about the relationship between emotions and diseases, so I don't need to say more here. What happens when you think too much, what happens when you are sad, and what happens when you are afraid, all of which are described clearly in Neijing. It can be seen that emotions are closely related to diseases. Some diseases are caused by emotions, and medication is not good for you. For this disease, it is necessary to tie the bell to solve the problem. In ancient medical records, many diseases were treated by the method of five syndromes. Five records can cause diseases, and five records can also solve diseases, all because of good factors. ?

12 five numbers

Five is one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten, in which the number of days is five and the number of digits is five, so it is five. "Is it easy? The copula says, "Heaven is one place and two places, heaven is three places and four places, heaven is five places and six places, heaven is seven places and eight places, and heaven is nine places and ten places. "Take the odd number 13579 as the number of days, the even number 24680 as the number of digits, the number of days as Yang, and the number of digits as Yin. Among the five categories, northern water 16, southern fire 27, oriental tree 38, western gold 49 and central soil 50. The classification of quintuple numbers is actually the traditional river chart numbers.

River map is one of the most mysterious things in traditional culture. Confucius once said with emotion: "The phoenix bird can't reach, and the river doesn't draw pictures. I have already left!" " It is not only related to the origin of Yi, so Yi? The copula says, "Rivers paint, Luo writes, and saints write." The essence of traditional culture lies in this river map. Here we will not explore this mystery for the time being, but make a discussion on this five-number problem.

Number is not allowed to be "abstract", it has a relatively fixed connotation, and it has an "image" directly related to it, which is an important content of river map. These two figures represent water, which has the connotation of water and the connotation of the north; Erqi stands for fire, which has the connotation of fire and the connotation of the south; March 8 represents wood, with the connotation of wood and the connotation of the East, and so on. Why is there the connotation of water and the connotation of the north? This is obviously not a problem that can be solved here today, but a fact confirmed by the whole ancient culture. This fact cannot be overturned, and overthrowing it means overthrowing the whole ancient culture. From this fact, we can clearly see a fundamental difference between tradition and modernity.

Modern prediction is based on probability and statistics. What about ancient times? It is based on the relationship between the number of images. So elephant mathematics is not virtual knowledge, but very real knowledge. The size of ancient prescriptions, dosage, and the specific dosage of each medicine are all based on this image. ?

13 Five Poisons

In addition to these factors, there are other five poisons, namely greed, anger, stupidity, slowness and jealousy. This is a concept of Buddhism. I put forward this concept here in the hope that everyone will think about whether the good and evil of behavior, especially the good and evil of the spiritual world, is related to disease. "Is it easy? As the saying goes: "If you accumulate good things, there will be Qing Yu, and if you accumulate bad things, there will be more disasters." "Su Wen? The ancient theory of innocence said: "Nothing is indifferent, the true qi follows, the spirit is hidden inside, and the disease is safe." A state of indifference and nothingness must be a state of getting rid of the five poisons, as well as greed, anger, stupidity, slowness and jealousy. This state of mind cannot be indifference or nothingness. Once you enter this realm, you will follow the true God, you will have spiritual protection, and there will be no disease. It can be seen that moral issues are not only religious issues, social issues, but also medical issues.

Above, we have roughly discussed the meaning of Fang. In every party, these "classes" are different on the surface, but they are the same in essence, but they are equivalent. It is precisely because of this equivalence that Chinese medicine has flexibility and diversity in diagnosis and treatment. Seemingly different, seemingly irregular, seemingly fair and reasonable, in fact, they are all the same, and all roads lead to the same goal. This means that you have your own style of play and I have my own style of play. Although the style of play is different, it cannot violate the principle of "Fang".

What is discussed above is the relevance of the party. Traditional Chinese medicine is distinguished according to its nature and taste, such as tasteless, five flavors and five colors. , can not be separated from the above prescription. So Chinese medicine is called prescription, not anything else. It just simulates the opposite of disease to suppress it. This thing is based on the correlation of the above formula, so it is called the formula.

The side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are also great.

Many people like Chinese medicine now. Why? Because they think Chinese medicine has no side effects. And Chinese medicine itself thinks so. I am firmly opposed to this understanding. I think the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine may be greater than those of western medicine. Why do you see it? Because the side effects of western medicine are easy to identify, it will clearly tell you what side effects each medicine has. Penicillin is easy to cause allergies. It reminds you to have a skin test. Rifampicin is easy to cause liver and kidney function damage. I tell you to have regular liver and kidney examination so as to deal with possible liver and kidney function damage in time. But what about Chinese medicine? Traditional Chinese medicine is covered with a coat without side effects, so everything can be used and anyone can eat it. In fact, this is a disregard for human life. If the yang is exhausted, this side effect is not only a problem of liver and kidney damage, but also a problem of losing life. Traditional Chinese medicine is biased in treating diseases, treating heat with cold and treating cold with heat. What is hot is cold, and cold can only be used if there is real heat. What if there is no heat and you use cold? This is what Neijing said: "If the qi increases for a long time, it will die". So, can you say that Chinese medicine has no side effects? The side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are terrible! Otherwise, how could the ancients say that "quacks kill without knives"? If you want to be a Chinese medicine practitioner, especially an excellent Chinese medicine practitioner, this question must not be vague. This is a cold passage, which not only patients but also doctors should pay attention to.

Now the so-called references are made by later generations. If you don't read the real classic works of traditional Chinese medicine, it's really a waste of time, and finally irrelevant is a joke.