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The patient is terminally ill, saying that his condition is serious and there is no cure.
There is a record in "Zuo Zhuan": "The disease cannot be treated. It is above the patient's body and under the ointment. It cannot be attacked, it cannot be reached, and it cannot be treated if the medicine is not there." In the Spring and Autumn Period, Jinggong of Jin was seriously ill. At that time, Qin was relatively advanced in economy, culture, and medical care. Jinggong of Jin asked Qin for medical treatment. Duke Huan of Qin sent a doctor to treat Jinggong. After the doctor made a diagnosis, he said that Jinggong's disease was already terminal and it was not suitable for acupuncture. Moxibustion could not take effect, and decoction could not reach it, so there was no cure. It doesn't matter whether the story is a reenactment or not. What we are concerned with is the term terminally ill and what it means to be terminally ill.
From a logical understanding, the Qin State must have sent doctors with the most superb medical skills to treat the Jin king, so the words of medical treatment are worth pondering. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were many ancient sages and sages with thorough knowledge, such as Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius, Mencius, Sun Tzu, etc. They all knew astronomy, geography, and human affairs, and their thoughts and knowledge reached the highest level. In such a big environment, famous doctors would never dare to speak carelessly based on a little knowledge.
Why do medical palliative care providers think that terminal illness is incurable?
In today’s medical community, it is generally believed that the fat at the apex of the heart is a fat and that there is a gap between the heart and the diaphragm. These views have been around for a long time, which is very confusing. Could it be that the doctors actually think that the heart is diseased? No cure? And his views have been passed down for thousands of years and become a good talk. From this point of view, the cognition of our ancestors is indeed absurd. Compared with modern medicine, which can treat many heart diseases through heart surgery, traditional Chinese medicine should indeed be abolished. But in fact, there are many heart diseases that modern medicine cannot cure. Obviously, in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, medical science has shown that there are terminal illnesses that cannot be cured.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the human body has meridians and acupuncture points, which are used to regulate the organs, muscles, bones, skin and flesh, and have direct or indirect effects. When applying specifically, necessary strategies must be used to make the effects better, faster and more stable. Meridians are the most advanced medicine and belong to the medicine of the wise. How can there be no cure for pericardial evil? At the very least, it is necessary to distinguish what kind of heart disease is incurable, and we cannot generally say that if the disease enters the pericardium, it will be incurable.
Therefore, it is very necessary to conduct a thorough study on the subject of death. If we really want to understand what terminal illness is and what it is like to be terminally ill, "Huangdi Neijing" can give us the answer.
Why can the Nei Jing give us answers? Because the Nei Jing is a medical classic. The Bible is a book that records the standards and models of human thoughts, morals, behavior, etc. Human beings will write the best and most precious knowledge in it to benefit future generations. They must be honest and not deceive!
The Taiping Jing of the Eastern Han Dynasty records the medical classics like this: "If you want to know whether the gods of heaven are gods or not, and whether they are corresponding or not, put them directly in front of a patient...have all the wise people surround him and discuss his illness...according to his actions... Those who are successful in the ten-ten are correct, and those who are not in the ten are not correct. If you gather people to act, and those who are cured are regarded as scriptures, then all the cures can be solved." Only then can the theory and practice of curing the ten-ten and curing the ten can be recorded in the scriptures for future generations. As long as people follow the medical scriptures and practice them, there is no problem that cannot be solved. This is the ancient medical scripture. A 100% cure rate is simply fantastic to modern people. Therefore, many people regard Nei Jing as nothing but dross. It is not surprising that modern people have this view. Traditional Chinese medicine has been spreading experience as the core value of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years since the Nei Jing.
Compared with Tao and Shu, it is obvious that the Shu aspect is easier to be accepted and digested by people. Most Chinese medicine practitioners are also willing to seek fish at the last moment. Just like everyone in martial arts novels dreams of martial arts secrets, many Chinese medicine doctors spend their entire lives Pursue “secret recipes”, “tricks”, etc. Some people have obtained some experience or prescription techniques with relatively high cure rates through clinical summaries or family-taught manuscripts and secret books, and they are indeed miraculous to a certain extent.
Human beings actually live in an all-round, multi-level, multi-system three-dimensional space. All the classics, secret recipes, and unique techniques can only be adapted to a narrow area and cannot be generalized. Otherwise, these medical techniques will evolve into deceptions in the eyes of the world. However, in the real society, there are many people who act recklessly. The national advertising law has to stipulate that medical advertisements must not state the cure rate or effectiveness! Therefore, any Chinese medicine doctor who dares to say that he can cure 10% of the disease will immediately become a liar.
The ancients dared to say that they can cure ten diseases and recover ten, all because they understood which ones were their own dishes and which ones were not their own.
Just like the doctor, he knew that Jinggong's illness could not be solved by himself, so he refused treatment. How would a quack doctor with low cognition know whether this patient can be cured or not? I only think about the sincerity of great doctors, but I don’t know that I am not a great doctor at all. I am not a great doctor, but I take on a job that even great doctors dare not take on. I only found out after a long time of treatment that it is not possible. How high can the cure rate be? It is considered good luck to be able to cure ten out of five cases.
When our understanding cannot be in sync with the thoughts of ancient sages and sages, we will not be able to truly understand the Nei Jing. Just as a sparrow knows the ambition of a swan, how can a mortal understand the thinking of a wise man, a saint, or a true person? Therefore, when doctors say that a disease is terminal and incurable, it is determined by their awareness and not taken for granted.
So, where is Gao Xing?
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Research cannot be separated from the word seriousness, and seriousness cannot lack understanding. Understanding must also be based on rules, otherwise it is nonsense.
Regarding death, we have seen a lot of deification and deception, too much ambiguity and what others say, such as what the nine needles, meridians, Wei Qi, five elements, etc. are, and there is no satisfactory answer. Although modern medicine seems to be advanced, it actually fails to show many satisfactory curative effects.
If you can’t ask for others, ask for yourself; if you can’t ask for today, ask for ancient times; if you can’t ask for human beings, ask for heaven and earth!
Looking at the entire Nei Jing, although it mainly talks about treating diseases, they are all principles, methods and medicines for stabilizing the country and bringing peace to the world. There is no permanent method for governing a country, and the situation is ever-changing. If you rely on experience, you will not be able to govern a country well. When inheriting traditional Chinese medicine from the perspective of Nei Jing, one cannot just follow what others say.
"Suwen·Tianjin Lun" especially mentions that "above the body, there are parents." People who are experienced in acupuncture know that the prohibition on needling is strictly followed. Generally, the limbs and trunk can be needled, and the abdominal cavity can be needled, but the chest alone cannot be needled. Stabbing the heart will kill the person immediately. The forbidden theory of thorns says that "stab the center and die in one day." This day is not 24 hours, but a very short period of time. Just like when the king of a country is killed, the country immediately changes its dynasty.
The parents of the country are the king and the prime minister; the parents of the human body are the heart and lungs. A country has the emperor and prime minister as its core, followed by generals, envoys, envoys and other officials; the core of the human body is the heart, and there are actually lungs to support it. There is a diaphragm under the heart and lungs, and under the diaphragm are the spleen, liver, kidneys and six internal organs. The Nei Jing divides the internal organs into three burners according to their importance, which is actually an ideological strategy. The three burners are essentially one body. From this point of view, 鬲肓 obviously refers to the human diaphragm.
Diaphragm is related to the diaphragm, so what is the ointment? "Lingshu Nine Needles and Twelve Origins" says that "the origin of ointment comes from the dove's tail." At the front and lower end of the chest wall in the heart area, there is a xiphoid process cartilage that protects the heart. This xiphoid process is called the dove's tail, which is the origin of ointment.
The dovetail is just the origin of the ointment. Is the ointment the dovetail itself? Where exactly is Ming?
According to the "Human Anatomy Atlas" of modern medicine, the human diaphragm is located below the heart and bilateral lungs, above the liver, gallbladder, spleen, and stomach. It is like a large umbrella-shaped disk that stretches across the body. Separates the chest and abdominal cavities. Around the diaphragm, it is connected to the back of the xiphoid process of the sternum, the inner surface of the lower edge of the rib cage, the three lumbar vertebrae above the waist, the upper edge of the quadratus lumborum muscle, and the tip of the 12th rib. These connections form the entire diaphragm.
The diaphragm is mainly involved in the respiratory activities of the body. When you inhale, the diaphragm descends and the chest expands; when you exhale, the diaphragm returns to its original position and the chest shrinks. Every breath promotes blood circulation and food movement in the gastrointestinal tract. The Dantian breathing method used by martial arts practitioners is to continuously exercise the strength of the diaphragm, enhance the energy of defensive energy, and then improve the ability to resist blows and the explosive power of martial arts.
The diaphragm plays a vital role in regulating the circulation of qi and blood in the human body. It is also responsible for regulating the communication between the heart, lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys, between the five internal organs and the six internal organs, and between the internal organs and meridians. The importance of connection.
Above the diaphragm, there are also the superior mediastinum, anterior mediastinum, middle mediastinum, and posterior mediastinum. These diaphragms form a complete structure to support and protect the heart and lungs.
From a physiological and mechanical perspective, any problem in any of these structures will directly affect cardiopulmonary function.
The big acupoints (trumpet bones) in the chest in "Lingshu Meridian·Back Acupoints" and the Gaoming point widely used by Chinese medicine are in the upper mediastinum area. Jiuwei point and Tanzhong point are in the anterior mediastinum area. Important acupuncture points such as Fei Acupoint, Heart Acupoint, Diaphragm Acupoint, Liver Acupoint, and Spleen Shu are all distributed in the diaphragm area of ??the entire thoracic vertebrae segment.
Many patients with heart and lung diseases can get immediate results by rubbing these relevant parts.
Chinese massage, acupuncture, moxibustion, and acupoint selection are different. Many people understand that the same acupoint can be used for acupuncture, massage, and moxibustion, such as Zusanli, acupuncture Acupuncture is what it is, moxibustion is what it is, and acupoint massage is what it is. This is a common situation in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, such indiscriminate treatment will greatly reduce the efficacy, and even be counterproductive, and the more treatment, the more serious the disease will become. The correct thing is: acupuncture has its acupuncture points and its particularities, massage has its massage acupuncture points and its particularities, and moxibustion has its own acupuncture points and its particularities. They cannot be confused together.
Usually, TCM enthusiasts use these acupoints based on anatomy and movement mechanics principles. If the psychological effect is aside, the actual therapeutic effect is very low and short-lived. If we look at the circulation routes of internal Qi and Wei Qi, start from the aspects of yin and yang and the five elements of meridians and acupoints, and then regulate these structures, the effect will far exceed the influence of anatomy and mechanics. For traditional Chinese medicine, it is fundamental to understand and master the meridians and their patterns of Ying Qi and Wei Qi. Otherwise, it will be difficult to improve your medical skills. The importance of the "Huangdi Neijing" lies in its ability to help you understand the principles and prevent you from practicing medicine in a confused manner.
Looking at the full text of the Nei Jing, we can see that terminal illness is not an "incurable disease." "Lingshu Nine Needles and Twelve Origins" clearly states: "If there is a disease in the five internal organs, the twelve origins should be taken." The twelve origins include the origin of the ointment and the origin of the disease. The so-called origin refers to the energy source point. By adjusting these origin points, the state of the entire five internal organs can be controlled.
Obviously, ointment and ointment are acupoints that can be used to control diseases, so the ointment must not be the apical fat area, because it cannot be directly started here. For example, the Jiuwei point at the origin of the regulating ointment can regulate the heart and lungs. Using Jiuwei point to treat patients with angina pectoris, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and asthma has immediate effects. Especially for those patients who usually feel that inhalation can only reach the chest, after acupuncture at the Jiuwei point, they immediately feel that their breathing can go deep into the lower abdomen and feel refreshed.
"Lingshu·Nine Needles and Twelve Origins" also said something that has been quoted by many Chinese medicine practitioners: "Although the disease lasts for a long time, it can still be cured. Those who cannot be cured have not yet achieved the cure. " Indeed, if we don’t understand what acupuncture is and its function, we will be helpless in dealing with many internal organs diseases, that is, we will not have the cure. Therefore, if we only regard the fat as the apex fat and the fat as the area between the heart and the diaphragm, it will not stand up to scrutiny and is somewhat unreasonable. Although the diaphragm is an organ, it is not all of it.
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"Lingshu·Nine Needles and Twelve Origins" points out: "The origin of ointment comes from the dovetail, and the origin of blindness comes from the neck." Dovetail is known to be in At the xiphoid process, where is the neck? Some people say it is the navel, some say it is Qi Hai, some people say it is Guanyuan, and there is no consensus.
Many people understand the neck as the sea of ??qi. The reason is that "Suwen: Treatise on Abdomen" and "Suwen: Treatise on Strange Diseases" say that "the origin of the disease is under the navel" and "qi overflows in the large intestine" It is attached to the patient's body, so it hurts around the navel." Therefore, I feel that since it is below the navel and still hurts around the navel, what else can it be if it is not the belly button?
In fact, these two scriptures are talking about the medical records of Fuliang disease. What is Fuliang? As the name suggests, the backbone of the human body is none other than the spine. What is hidden under the beam is the diaphragm of the intestines and stomach, connected to the navel. The position below the navel was clearly defined by the ancients. From the perspective of the meridians, it can only be vertically downward. Obviously, the subumbilicus is the center of the abdomen below the belly button, where the spine is located on the inside of the abdominal cavity.
The starting point of the human diaphragm is approximately above and below the second and third lumbar vertebrae on the inside of the abdomen, directly opposite the navel, so it is described as below the navel. And under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra is the "Mingmen point" mentioned in the "Acupuncture Jia and B Jing".
In the Nei Jing, it is regarded as the entry and exit channel for Yang Qi. The "Difficult Classic" also calls this place the Ming Gate, saying "the left kidney and the right Ming Gate".
Since it is the gate of life, it means that this place directly or indirectly affects the heart. "Jia Yi Jing" and "Difficult Classic" are both classics that have a great influence on traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. However, the authors only tell us the name of this acupuncture point and what diseases it can cure, but do not explain why it can cure those diseases. This is a pity. at. Of course, maybe these two authors also heard what others said and knew it but didn't know why.
By this time, we should have a clearer understanding of the lining: the origin of the lining is at the tail of the dove, and the origin of the lining is on the inside of the second and third lumbar vertebrae, which is directly opposite the navel. The site, here is the source of death under the navel.
If you look at the body as a whole, you will find that the joint between the manubrium and the sternum, the lower edge of the fourth thoracic vertebra, the origin of the body, and the origin of the body all form the body. In terms of application, it is roughly Tanzhong point, Dazhui point, Gaoming point, Dabao point, Gaozhiyuan, Mingzhiyuan and other acupoints. Please note that the Tanzhong point is not between the two breasts, but higher up, at the angle of the sternum. The Tanzhong in the textbook is not the Tanzhong mentioned in the Nei Jing. It was the position set by Yang Shangshan, Wang Bing and others during the Sui and Tang Dynasties when they interpreted the Nei Jing. In fact, the Nei Jing does not say that Tanzhong is between the breasts.
Why is it that after a terminal illness there is nothing left to do? The Nei Jing believes that all diseases arise from Qi, which generally refers to weather, earth Qi, and people's Qi. The development process of diseases usually develops from the outside in, which is called the invasion of external evils: "The onset of all diseases must precede the skin. If the evils are present, the interstitial muscles will be opened, and if they are opened, they will enter the collaterals and remain in the body." Go, pass into the meridians, stay but not go, pass into the organs, and settle in the intestines and stomach.”
There is a saying that diseases are caused by eating, so many people just eat light food, or eat those things. Foods with cold nature and taste are regarded as poisonous snakes and beasts, and they are avoided for fear of avoiding them, thinking that this is for health preservation, which is not correct. The nature and flavor of food are naturally divided into five categories: sour, bitter, sweet, spicy and salty. Sour enters the liver, bitter enters the heart, sweet enters the spleen, pungent enters the lungs, and salty enters the kidneys. At different times and states, they must be supplied to the five internal organs respectively. Under normal circumstances, you should eat some food of any taste. As for how to distribute the food, that is the body's own business, and there is no need to worry about it. These foods with different properties and flavors are called earth energy in the Nei Jing, and are one of the necessary energies for the internal organs. Each of the five internal organs has its own needs and taboos. Too little is not enough, and too much is too much. Unless you eat poisonous and harmful food, generally eat some cool food, or something that is not suitable for your body type. As long as the circulation of Yingwei Qi is normal, the body will resolve and excrete the excessive food, and it will not harm the body at all.
Therefore, it does not mean that you will definitely get sick as long as you catch a cold or eat some cooling fruits and drink cold drinks. There are two major prerequisites for human body illness. One is that the meridians in your body are not circulating properly, which involves whether your emotions, work and rest, diet, climate, etc. are suitable for your body. The other is Feng Shui. Either heaven does not support you, or the earth does not support you, or neither heaven and earth support you. How can you survive well? But these involve the five elements, the five fortunes and the six qi, and it’s a long story.
Closer to home, if there is no civil strife, then the occurrence of disease is a process from shallow to deep. The schematic diagram of the development process of external evils invading the human body is as follows:
The sun pulse refers to the micro blood vessels of the skin, the collaterals refers to the capillaries, the meridians refer to the small arteries and veins, the aorta is the main vein, and the fuchong pulse is the abdominal The aorta and inferior vena cava blood vessels, the hamstrings are the psoas major and psoas minor muscles, and the gastrointestinal tract is originally the diaphragm in the abdomen. The entire understanding is relative to Wei Qi, not in the narrow sense of anatomy. If you want to know why you should understand it this way, you must first adjust your thinking mode to be in the same frequency as the Nei Jing.
When external evils invade the gastrointestinal tract from shallow to deep, the person's condition becomes more critical. If a truly wise doctor takes action at this moment, his life can still be saved.
If you don't know and continue to let it develop, the next step for gastrointestinal disease is to spread the disease to the liver, spleen and kidneys. At this time, even if a truly wise doctor takes action, it will be very good if half of the ten patients can be cured. That is what the Nei Jing says: "A good healer will heal the fur, then the skin, then the tendons, next the six internal organs, then the five internal organs. Those who heal the five internal organs will be half dead and half alive."
If you haven't met a wise doctor. , the disease will continue to develop, and it will reach the door of the heart and lungs. The doorway of the heart and lungs is the membrane around the heart and lungs.
When disease pathogens invade the periphery of the heart and lungs, they will limit the normal functions of the heart and lungs. On the surface, the patient may appear to be looking good and in good spirits, but in fact there is no circulation, and there is no harmony of yin and yang. If it were not for it, he would not be destined. Otherwise, the patient will have no choice but to die.
This does not mean that having some symptoms of the heart and lungs is a terminal illness. Many so-called heart diseases and pulmonary heart diseases are actually caused by the circulation of Yingwei Qi and poor nourishment. Symptoms that may seem serious may be It may be that the appearance is not the truth. The real cause may only be at the level of blood energy in the meridians, or at most the level of Fuchong meridians. It is still early for the disease to be terminal.
Now we can understand why some miraculous doctors can cure individual patients who are on the verge of death. In fact, those patients are not really terminally ill. The miraculous doctors are just like antique shops. They are lucky and pick up a leak. That’s all.
Therefore, even if you have certain symptoms in your internal organs, don’t worry easily that you have an incurable disease. As long as you can still eat, have bowel movements, sleep, and feel lucky, even if you can Being bedridden, eating very little, sleeping very poorly, and feeling lethargic may not necessarily mean you are truly terminally ill.
A real terminal illness is similar to a country where the monarch loses his god and leads to political chaos. The loss of this god may be due to his status as a puppet, unable to leave the palace with government orders, or because he was a coward in the first place. In short, the people of the whole country were in dire straits, and rebellions broke out in all directions. Then large-scale riots occurred in various places, and then the whole country lost control. Finally, the rebels came to the city and surrounded the king and the prime minister in the palace. At this time, the monarch had no military power, no popular support, and no foreign aid. Of course, he could only wait for death.
Illustration: The entire country has fallen into darkness, leaving only the Ouchi Imperial City surrounded by huge darkness. Only the emperor and a few people around him are left in the imperial city.
Is there any way to recover? A discerning person can tell this kind of thing at a glance. Even if the gods come down to earth, they can't help the emperor. Tomorrow is the day when the dynasty will change.
In terms of the human body, when the disease invades the diaphragm of the heart and lungs, the patient cannot eat, cannot excrete, has difficulty breathing, and cannot control the limbs. The only option left is to rest in the soil and return to nature. On the way. This is terminal illness.
At this point, who can still save this patient? Therefore, the doctor understands that Jin Jinggong's illness is terminal, just like the king has been surrounded by powerful rebels in an isolated city, waiting to be captured. No matter acupuncture, moxibustion or medicine can't cure it, he can only die. . If you have to save him, this person will be killed by you, and you will only take one more life.