I. Why do diseases "go away like silk"? From the perspective of Chinese medicine to see the essence

As the saying goes, "sickness comes like a mountain and goes like a silk" is not only a metaphor, but also a profound summary of the law of disease in Chinese medicine. Diseases are often the result of the accumulation of long-term bad habits, such as staying up all night kidney injury, dietary excess injury to the spleen, cold depletion of Yang Qi. These problems accumulate over time and gradually make the body from "sub-healthy" to "disease". Therefore, to restore health also need this period of time, expect one or two drugs or can not be adjusted in a few days to completely improve.

A 30-year-old white-collar worker, who stayed up late and worked overtime for a long period of time and loved to eat barbecue and milk tea, suffered from recurrent toothache and stomach distension in the last six months. Examination found that the spleen and stomach dampness and heat, kidney yin deficiency. After three months of Chinese medicine, toothache disappeared, appetite better, but if you resume the habit of staying up late, the symptoms will be repeated. This shows that the root cause of the disease is hard to get rid of if the living habits are not changed.

Suggested extension:

• Observation of self method: Record physical changes (e.g., fatigue, dry mouth, stool status) on a daily basis to identify connections to your life.
• Gradual adjustment: Change one small habit per week (e.g., cut back on one late-night snack) to gradually improve your physique.

II. Dietary advice: eating healthy for each individual

Diet is the cornerstone of health, but different body types require different adjustments.

• Body type and diet::
  • body heat from dampness(Bitter mouth, easy to catch fire, sticky stools): Eat less greasy, spicy, more green beans, barley, winter melon.
  • spleen deficiency(unformed stools, fatigue): avoid cold and raw fruits, eat more yam and red dates in porridge.
  • Yin deficiency(Dry mouth, insomnia): Eat less fried food and drink more wolfberry chrysanthemum tea.
• The Modern Diet Trap: Takeaways are high in oil and salt, and instant food has many additives, which can easily lead to internalized dampness and heat when consumed over a long period of time. It is recommended to cook your own meals at least 3 days a week, using steaming instead of frying.
• Children's Dietary Myths: Many parents feel that their children love to eat, but do not know that chocolate and potato chips are easy to accumulate food, resulting in repeated colds and fevers. It is recommended to replace snacks with apple puree and hawthorn water, which are both appetizing and helpful for digestion.
• [Dietary advice]
  
  In addition to eating less fat, sweet, thick and greasy foods that are difficult to digest.Also note: Eat staple foods (e.g., rice wheat noodles), not glutinous rice and meal replacements.
  Don't eat too much meat, and eat some small dishes every day.
• 1) Meat.
  Try to eat pork (pork brain meat should also not be eaten, a big cold thing), duck, a small amount of chicken (on the hot side).
  Others such as beef and mutton, seafood, river food, donkey meat, snake meat, dog meat, animal offal, shrimp bacon, etc. should be eaten sparingly.
  Anyway most of the meat can be considered hairy and animals are now farmed en masse and fed hormones, antibiotics to ripen them because the living conditions are so poor that they have to be fed drugs to minimize illness.
  There's a documentary that's worth knowing about called Reign.
  BBC documentary Reign
  In it, there is a shot of a broiler chicken that has grown so fast that its legs cannot hold its own weight due to the large amount of feed being fed to it.
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  When you find you're eating chicken legs, lamb legs, the kind with very fine bones and lots of meat, that's often how they're farmed.
  Animals are slaughtered before they get sick. So in the end, these various types of meat with excessive indicators are eaten by people in their stomachs.
• 2) Side dishes.
  Avoid spring wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, pegs and rakkyo.Other foods that are not big hair can be eaten.
• 3) Fruits.
  Most people love to eat fruit is because there is internal heat, so eat some cool to be more comfortable, but the fruit can not clear away internal heat, but the depletion of yang, eat more is defeated stomach yang, resulting in the body of the cold and hot mixedThe people with Yang deficiency of the spleen and stomach are mostly seen with unformed stools, cold hands and feet all year round, and people who are thin from eating too much or fat from eating too little, and these people should pay attention to eating less fruits.
• 4) Nuts.
  Some of them are equally hairy, like pine nuts, fava beans, and the like.
  Walnuts are recommended to astringe the qi and strengthen the kidneys.
  Yin deficiency people should eat less fried food, fried melon seeds, fried peanuts and so on, eat more dry mouth more serious.
• 5) Snacks.
  Spice bars, milk tea, ice lollies, and beverages are especially to be avoided, no matter what kind of constitution you have, eating more of them will hurt your spleen and stomach.Spicy fries deplete stomach yin, and milk tea tends to generate phlegm and dampness.
• 6) Other
  The above list has its own focus according to individual disease and constitution, for example, people with heavy phlegm-dampness, it is not advisable to eat more swimming in the water, including turtles turtle scaly fish;
  Yin deficiency wind movement of people, it is advisable to eat less chicken claws, chicken wings, loach, eel, seafood, hairy green tea and so on;
  Liver and gallbladder, gastrointestinal bad people do not drink, white wine hurt the liver and gallbladder, beer hurt the spleen and stomach, long time drinker must always have diarrhea;
  Easily fire body internal heat heavy, hot pot, barbecue, frying, baking should be careful to avoid eating;
  Those with high blood pressure can cut back on dinner and skip dinner if they're not hungry, but don't replace it with a fruit snack;
  People who are prone to skin allergies should try not to touch mangoes and shrimps;
  For people with heavy dampness, eat fewer beans.

III. Dressing advice: the science and details of keeping warm against the cold

Many people don't know the criteria for getting a cold, and often it starts without them realizing it, and the symptoms of a cold don't just include sneezing and a runny nose, but may aggravate the underlying condition.
Because of the general decline in people's physical fitness after the new crown, many times the cold evil will not stay on the surface of the body, but straight into the deep ambush, some people feel that recently the sleep has become worse, or aggravation of rhinitis, or even menstrual disorders, and finally found that all are related to the cold evil.
This includes many times when you were getting better during the medication and then suddenly have a recurrence, also related to the cold.

Exposure to cold is a common trigger for the disease, especially at the change of seasons. Here are more specific guidelines:

• layering: An inner layer that wicks sweat (e.g., cotton T-shirt), a mid-layer that keeps you warm (e.g., fleece), and an outer layer that protects you from the wind (e.g., rash guard), easily adjustable.
• Protection of key areas::
  • the seven cervical vertebrae in the neck of humans and most mammalsWear a scarf to prevent your "rich bag" from getting cold and avoid shoulder and neck pain.
  • flank: Wear high-waisted pants or belly bibs to protect spleen and stomach yang energy.
  • foot: Wear socks after soaking your feet at night to prevent cold from your feet.
• Tips for keeping children warm: Children catch cold quickly and sweat easily, it is recommended to pad the sweat barrier towel before going to bed, and change it in time after sweating to avoid getting cold at night.

IV. Sleep and coitus advice: the core of nourishing the soul

You should rest on time at night and be able to fall asleep by 11 p.m. If you are used to looking at your cell phone at night because you have trouble falling asleep, change your habit first, otherwise it will not be good for your recovery as it fights with the medicine.

Sleep and sexual abstinence directly affect qi and blood recovery:

• Optimize sleep quality::
  • bedtime ritual: Drink a glass of warm milk or listen to 10 minutes of Zen music (e.g., "Zen Mind in Cloudy Waters," "Traditional Chinese Medicine Health and Healing Music," etc.) to relax your body and mind.
  • Environmental adjustments: Keep your bedroom ventilated and avoid blue light interference from electronics.
• Children's sleep management: Avoid exciting games (e.g., cell phones) before bedtime and use storytelling instead to help your child calm down and fall asleep.
• Reasons for abstaining from intercourse: Chinese medicine believes that essence is the essence of life, and excessive consumption will lead to back pain, fatigue, and decreased immunity. Young people quit masturbation, often feedback more energetic.
  Young people who have the bad habit of masturbation must change over and break this bad habit of hurting the body.
  Between couples, where the body is not good people should reduce the intercourse, not more than January 2 times, the more serious should be prohibited from intercourse for more than half a year. Otherwise, the effect will be delayed.
• Case supplement:A 25-year-old male with insomnia and memory loss due to insomniac masturbation. Abstinence was coupled with early bedtime, and mental status improved significantly after 2 months.

V. Exercise recommendations: a balance of movement and static, depending on the individual

1) Avoid immobility
To properly adhere to the habit of exercise, avoid prolonged sedentary, such as playing mahjong, watching TV, playing the phone computer.
2) Avoid fidgeting
Qi and blood deficiency, should not do strenuous exercise, you can take a walk every day, simple stretching exercises, Tai Chi, eight brocade can be.
Swimming is especially inadvisable for those who are weak in yang energy.

Exercise promotes the flow of qi and blood, but too much is not enough:

• Suitable for people::
  • office workers (as social group): Walk for 30 minutes a day or do 5 minutes of shoulder and neck stretching to relieve sedentary fatigue.
  • movements: Taijiquan or Baduanjin, 15 minutes each time, to strengthen your body without hurting your qi.
  • violence: Running and jumping outdoors for half an hour promotes development and avoids accumulation of food.
• Avoid reminders: Those with qi and blood deficiency (e.g., dizziness and weakness) should not run, those with yang deficiency (e.g., cold hands and feet) should not swim, and those who wear jackets with coldness.

Case supplement:
A 50-year-old auntie with a yang-deficient body insisted on swimming, resulting in colder hands and feet. After switching to daily walking, her sleep and appetite improved.

VI. Emotional advice: nourishing the mind and keeping away from disease

Emotions are killers of health and need special attention:

• Emotional Management Skills::
  • deep breathing (medicine): 5 seconds deep in anger, 5 seconds slow exhalation, repeat 3 times.
  • divert attention: Watch the movie "The Four Disciplines of Dafan" or listen to a lecture by Chua Lai Xu to calm your heart.
• Emotional guidance for children: When a child loses his temper, parents should first calm down and use hugs instead of scolding to gradually cultivate his emotional stability.
• Community Support: Join our community to connect with like-minded people and relieve anxiety.

Summarize: Health starts with a little bit of everything

Recently, I went over all the patients and types of diseases I saw in 2024, and the statistics revealed that I saw the most pediatrics and gynecology.

I have found that nowadays, the physique of children is really bad in general, especially the enlarged tonsils and adenoids are particularly common, and also such things as not growing, not growing meat, sweating a lot at night, and not sleeping soundly are also common.

Since there are so many similarities in everyone's problems. So is there a common cause?

Of course there must be.Most of the pediatric questionsThe root of the problem comes from two sources:

 1, innate deficiencies:The mother's physical fitness before pregnancy is not very good, as well as during pregnancy did not pay attention to develop a healthy life and diet habits, and finally affect the child's physical fitness.

 2, acquired habits:Diet, sleep, emotions and so on the lack of proper guidance, for example: many mothers for how to feed the child is not seriously study, always think the child wants to eat what to buy TA, but do not know that indigestion of food is the scourge of ah.

Innate deficiencies could have been compensated for later in life.

 One that I wrote specificallyPediatric Medical Directives, I've given a detailed account of habits such as diet that are conducive to good health.