​I. Core Logic of Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation: Treating the Symptoms and Treating the Root Cause

1. Scientific division of rehabilitation stages

• ​Targeting phase (1-3 months): Relief of symptoms (e.g., pain relief, anti-inflammatory)
  • Typical formula: Tao Hong Si Wu Tang (activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis)
  • Modern medical validation: time required for inflammatory factors to fall 50%
• ​Cure phase (3-6 months): Repairing the function of internal organs (e.g. strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidneys)
  • Typical formula: Gui Spleen Tang (tonifying qi and blood) + Zuo Gui Wan (nourishing kidney yin)
  • Biological mechanism: Hepatocyte regeneration cycle of about 120 days

2. Rehabilitation scoring system

​score band	​condition	​conditioning focus
60 points	Symptoms go away but tend to recur	Strict dietary taboos + consolidated conditioning
70 points	Occasional discomfort that resolves on its own	Cream slow tonic + dynamic monitoring of the tongue
80 points or more	Stabilized body mass and fewer illnesses	Seasonal Wellness + Emotional Regulation

The recovery of the body is divided into two stages. It is said that there are three stages of cure and seven stages of recovery. Cure is also divided intoTreating the symptoms and the root causesThe

Typically, it takes 1 month to treat the symptoms, 2-3 months to treat the root cause that may take 2-3 months, and about 6-12 months for maintenance.

Some patients think that there is no need to repeat the consultation when there are no more symptoms, this concept is not correct. Because the absence of symptoms is only a cure for the symptom, and it is necessary to cure the root cause as well, so as not to repeat.

I often use the analogy of scores with my patients: for example, if the symptoms are gone and don't affect your life anymore, you can score 60. But just passing is not good enough, you have to continue to consolidate. Because at this stage your body has not yet recovered to a good state. If you get angry, stay up late or accidentally eat hairy food. It is possible that you will fail again and the symptoms will recur.

And some people don't understand this, thinking that what's the point of having a follow-up appointment when you're cured? They even misinterpret the doctor's good intentions, thinking that it is the doctor's excuse for profit-making. As a result, after a period of time, there are recurrences again, and in turn, they are convinced that Chinese medicine is useless and cannot cure their illnesses. There are also people who think that if they have reached 60 points, it is not possible to avoid the diet.

As I said earlier. 60 points is just passing. If you don't avoid food, it will affect the transportation of the spleen and stomach, producing dampness and phlegm, heat and cold, which may slowly recur. So when you reach 60 points, you should still try to avoid food as strictly as possible.

Only when your body is tuned to 70 or above, that's when you can relax a little. But still, you should always observe the tongue coating and your body's reaction. For example, after eating hairy food, the next day your stools are not good, or your tongue becomes white and greasy. This is a reminder that you ate too much yesterday and haven't digested it yet.

If you want to get well and get your body well you must develop the right mindset. Recognize that the recovery of the body is a process of habit formation, not the result of taking medication. Apart from colds and flu, most people's illnesses are what modern medicine calls chronic diseases.

Why don't chronic diseases get better? It is because the physical condition has deteriorated. It's like building a second floor on top of the first floor when there is a foundation problem, the second floor will always collapse. This is why you have "allergies", "recurrent inflammation", "chronic diseases". All diseases have a combination of internal and external causes.

This disease cannot be cured by only avoiding the external causes and not addressing the internal causes.

And the internal cause cannot be separated from the insufficiency of your organs. Want to make up for the deficiency, there is bound to be a process. Many people's disease is not serious, as long as they can insist on taking 3-6 months of Chinese medicine can see obvious results. Unfortunately, there is no patience, can not wait. So the body has never recovered, "chronic disease" really become "can not heal the disease". It is the "chronic disease that cannot be cured" that may finally turn into "tumor" or "cancer".

We meet people around us who go to the hospital and find out that they may have cancer. All of them will have had a chronic condition for many years prior to being checked for cancer. For example, breast enlargement that slowly turns into a nodule and eventually a category 3, 4 nodule. The hospital says it can't be reversed and just tells you to get regular checkups. Finally found serious puncture, diagnosis and then surgery, surgery and then chemotherapy, if the body is not good, the prognosis is poor, repeated after the spread, and then the person is gone. If you want to prevent cancer, to put it simply, it is to take care of chronic diseases. At the same time always maintain good health habits, observe a good state of life.

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​II. Three core elements of chronic disease management

I met a a patient who had rheumatoid rheumatism for many years with swollen and painful joints in her fingers. Although there was no obvious deformity yet, it had been bothering her for a long time. At first, she thought that the disease could be cured in about a month's time. As a result, after one month, the change was not obvious. At that time, she was a little anxious and asked me if this disease could not be cured. Complaining about how it was so hard to cure.

Many patients have the mentality that their problem deserves to take one or two prescriptions to have an effect or should be getting better. That is why I will keep the tongue photos of each patient's follow-up consultation for reference and comparison. Based on the comparison of her before and after tongue photos, I would tell her about the changes she had experienced in the month since she took the herbs. After taking the herbs for another month, she gradually improved and was able to stabilize her recovery to 70% or 80%. At this time, the patient was very confident.

This patient had another recurrence due to a cold. This time the patient is anxious again. Why does it recur? Will it still recur when she gets well later? I examined her color and checked her pulse, and told her that although her symptoms had recurred, the medicine she had taken earlier had been working.

Because illnesses are caused by more than one reason, you can only truly recover when all of them are undone. This is like unlocking the door, some doors have three locks on the set, you can only unlock one by one, unlock one, the door can be loosened a little, but still can not open. I explained the reasoning, she patiently continued to take another month. A total of almost 4 months of Chinese medicine, this time she was happy to tell me that the recent change of day, labor are not as repeated as before.

I took my pulse again and felt that the evil energy had almost gone, but the positive energy was still weak. I still reminded her not to be too happy. Now she is just passing the test, but if she doesn't pay attention, it will be easy for her to recur. I followed up by prescribing an ointment to strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidneys, and consolidate the positive energy. Later, the patient introduced her girlfriends to me, saying that they were happy to see the changes in her.

Limitations of Modern Medicine and Strengths of Chinese Medicine

​concern	​Western medicine treatment	​Chinese Medicine Countermeasures
recurrent inflammation	Antibiotics + Hormones	Bazheng San + bloodletting by stabbing the collaterals (clearing dampness and heat)
immune disorder	immunosuppressant	Yupingfeng San + Five Animal Play (Supporting the Righteousness and Strengthening the Essence)

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​III. Five major factors affecting the speed of recovery

1. Differences in physical bases

• ​natural endowment: Parental fitness genetics influence recovery rate (studies show account for 30%)
• ​acquired loss: Insufficient generation of qi and blood due to late nights and sedentary lifestyle

2. Compliance management

• ​drugs are contraindicated: List of food taboos (❌cold/spicy/hair products)
• ​standardDaily Morning Exercise: "To regulate the spleen and stomach, we must lift it alone."

3. The key to emotional regulation

• ​anxiety index: Recurrence rate ↑2.3-fold for those with SAS score >50
• ​Intervention programs: Gan Mai Da Zao Tang + Ear Point Pressure Beans (Shen Men, Endocrine)

Summary:

Some patients think that taking traditional Chinese medicine to get well should be like the "1" line, take it to see the effect, and keep getting better and better. But in fact, that is the ideal situation.

Only those whose foundation is not damaged and whose liver, spleen and kidneys are not obviously deficient are able to get better and better gradually and without much repetition when they take the medicine, just like the "2" line.

And most of the difficult and complicated disease, the old disease people, the recovery is like a "3" line, up and down, often repeated, and then the overall comparison, or will get better and better.

This is the objective fact of a good disease, so in order to diagnose a disease well, it is necessary for both doctors and patients to have enough patience and perseverance to take it seriously.

But let's not say that patients can understand this, sometimes doctors are guilty of this too.

Some patients will show me prescriptions prescribed by previous doctors. I found that many Chinese medicine practitioners also prescribe prescriptions according to the western medical diagnosis and treatment ideas. For example, they prescribe a lot of heat and toxin removing medicines for inflammation, and they prescribe a lot of blood-breaking and blood-activating medicines to activate the meridians and channels for pain.

This kind of diagnosis and treatment thinking cannot be said to be wrong, but he has indeed abandoned the core idea of identification and treatment in Chinese medicine. In order to quickly treat the symptoms, the root of the problem may be injured. At the same time, there is no timely follow-up with the patient, resulting in the patient thinking that after some improvement is good, and did not pay attention to follow-up and strict compliance with medical advice.

As a result, it later aggravates. In this recurrent process, some patients gradually doubt whether they have a serious disease that cannot be cured because they do not know the cause, and they even feel that they just cannot be cured and have no confidence.

It's all a shame.

I am writing this article in the hope of affirming and encouraging some of these patients to be able to stand firm in their confidence of getting well and not to be too anxious and impatient.

Sometimes the patient is anxious, but also let the doctor followed anxious, but the prescription has lost progress and retreat, ill-considered, the effect is even slower.

I sometimes swipe through the jitterbugs to see how well Dr. so-and-so's so-and-so formula works to cure a disease. I think these cases exist, but they are not necessarily very common.

Because diagnosis and prescription is not a math problem, two minus one becomes one.

If you are in good shape, you recover quickly from serious illnesses.

Poor health and slow to recover from minor illnesses.

That's the common sense of the world.

So returning to the previous post, if you usually focus on really nourishing your body and protecting your roots, it's a good idea to stick to one or two more nourishing workout habits.

Then you too can become a person who heals quickly from illness and is healthy at all times.

Wouldn't that be nice?!