How does Chinese medicine see a doctor?

I was very lucky at that time. I had just graduated from university and had the honor to work as a clinical assistant in a yiguang. There are dozens of national famous old Chinese medicine practitioners in this yiguang who enjoy the State Council allowance. I have copied the prescriptions of almost every Chinese medicine practitioner from them for at least a week and had in-depth exchanges with them.

Later, I found that the way these old gentlemen see a doctor is different from the way we young doctors who just graduated. They see a big pattern when they see a doctor. They look at the development direction and trend of the disease and the general trend. It's like doing stocks, in fact, what you want to see is the trend of this market. Rather than local symptoms at a certain time.

At that time, we young doctors would ask a lot of questions. For example, if you have a headache, we will ask whether it is the pain on the left side, the pain on the right side, the pain in the front or the pain in the back, and then judge which meridian it is, right?

For example, it is supposed to be liver depression and qi stagnation. Then I will ask you if you are not easy to get angry at ordinary times, whether your liver hurts, whether your breasts will rise before menstruation, whether you have dysmenorrhea, and so on. This is all learned through books, and we will continue to use this dialectical model to judge.

But I have met many old gentlemen, and that's how he sees a doctor.

are you enjoying your meal? Did you sleep well? How about defecation? How are you feeling recently? Of course, he can tell at a glance whether you are in a good mood. These are the ones who eat, drink and sleep.

It seems that this thing is not directly related to specific symptoms, and it is impossible to dialectically distinguish whether it is liver or heart, blood deficiency or qi deficiency, phlegm dampness or cold. But in fact, when we say that Chinese medicine treats diseases, it actually treats this person or is a permanent cure. This is actually the basic life state of the human body.

So we have two ideas in treatment.

The first reason is that everyone has a lot of discomfort, both superficial and internal, and he will have a lot of symptoms. If he is seeing western medicine, he may see three subjects or even seven subjects.

If you look at Chinese medicine, you can identify many syndromes. Then our current thinking is that there are so many problems and we can identify many syndromes. Then we will deal with these cards. This is a game like "whack a mole". The gopher will come out from time to time, and we will hit it with a rubber mallet. Once we hit it, he will scream and then retract. But it won't last long.

this is the first way to treat diseases, and this is also the first way to recuperate.

the second way is that we just need to return the human body's operating state to a normal state. That is to say, after the human body enters a normal state, doesn't the human body recuperate these symptoms by itself? The reason is very simple. But it is very important.

That is, regardless of Chinese medicine or western medicine, it is actually the second doctor.

The first doctor is the patient himself. Western medicine calls it immunity, while Chinese medicine calls it righteousness. In other words, the doctor is to mobilize the healthy qi of the human body, let the healthy qi play a role, and then adjust all the symptoms.

then the question is simple. We also said that as long as the healthy qi is improved. Then how to improve the correctness? That's just to make the human body work normally. This is the fundamentals.

so I found out later that the old man came back after seeing the disease for a week, two weeks or three days. He still asks these questions.

have you had a better appetite? Do you still burp after eating? Or will the stomachache be relieved? What he cares about is eating, drinking and sleeping, as well as your spirit, physical strength and mood, including mental and physical relaxation.

When all these fundamentals are improving, we actually don't have to think about the patient's original pain. If his original liver is stagnant, it will definitely be better, and his heart will definitely be better. Whether it's the bladder meridian or the kidney meridian, anything that doesn't work will definitely work better than the original one. This idea seems to be not so precise, but in fact it is a comprehensive solution.

This is a very important, and also a very classical and classic Chinese medicine conditioning idea.