Diseases caused by bad living habits "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" teaches you "prevention" and "regulation"
Lifestyle diseases are diseases mainly caused by bad living habits, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic liver diseases, and some malignant diseases. The onset of tumors, etc., is closely related to patients’ daily habits and behaviors.
1. Causes
By analyzing the characteristics and occurrence and development patterns of lifestyle-related diseases, the causes mainly include three aspects: improper diet, excessive work and rest, and emotional imbalance.
1. Improper diet
"Nei Jing" contains the earliest record of diabetes mellitus. "Suwen: Treatise on Strange Diseases" says: "This person's heart is full of sweet and fat food. Fat food makes people feel hot inside, and sweet food makes people feel full, so their Qi Overflowing will turn into thirst. "Irregular diet is also an important factor in the incidence of lifestyle diseases. "Suwen·Qi Tongtian Lun" says: "Changes in sorghum can cause major boils." In addition, hyperlipidemia, obesity, etc. are also closely related to diet.
2. Loss of work and rest
Loss of work and rest and exhaustion are important causes of internal injuries and depletion. "Nei Jing" refers to diseases caused by excessive work and rest as "wounds caused by overwork". "Suwen Xuanming Five Qi" says: "Looking for a long time damages the blood, lying down for a long time damages the qi, sitting for a long time damages the flesh, and standing for a long time damages the bones. Walking for a long time hurts the muscles." In particular, excessive exercise is the main cause of modern lifestyle diseases, and long-term lack of exercise is the key to the difficulty in treating obesity.
3. Emotional imbalance
Emotional imbalance will cause functional disorders of the internal organs. The "Nei Jing" points out: "When anger rises, the Qi will rise... and it will cause thin diarrhea." That is, due to mental stimulation, the yang qi is sharply increased, and the blood is reversed with the qi, causing blood to accumulate in the head, causing sudden fainting, which is very similar to the hypertension and cerebrovascular accidents in modern medicine. "Lingshu·Five Changes" says: "A soft and weak person must be strong. The strong will be angry, and the soft will be easily injured... Anger will cause the qi to rise and reverse, accumulate in the chest, and the blood and qi will be reversed and retained, the skin will be wide and full, and the blood vessels will not work. It turns to heat, and heat will eliminate the skin, so it is called Xiaoxing." It shows that emotions can also lead to the occurrence of thirst.
2. Prevention
"Nei Jing" attaches great importance to the education and publicity of public health knowledge and the instillation of the idea that prevention is more important than cure. "Suwen·Ancient Innocence" states: "The teachings of the ancient saints all call them empty, evil and traitorous winds. Avoid them." Sometimes, there is tranquility and nothingness, and the true energy comes from it , keep the spirit in mind, and the disease will always be safe? "Su Wen Tong Ping Xu Shi Lun" says: "Any treatment that eliminates gallbladder attacks, partial dryness and flaccidity, fullness of Qi and rebelliousness, and sweet and fat noble people, is the disease of sorghum." , To prevent thirst and dryness, we should start by controlling our daily diet. These unhealthy lifestyles, such as "taking wine as pulp, living in delusion as usual, entering the house drunk, and living without restraint" are the main causes of lifestyle-related diseases. "Suwen·Ancient Innocence Theory" says: "People in ancient times knew that the law was based on yin and yang, and the harmony of magic. They had a moderate diet, a regular daily life, and did not work rashly." "Nei Jing" emphasizes that they know how to maintain health and health. By following the laws of "Tao", one can "avoid evil spirits and live forever", and "the body and the soul are the same, and they will live out their days and die after reaching a hundred years", otherwise they will "decline at half a hundred years old".
3. Health
1. Reasonable diet
"Su Wen·Ping Ren Qi Lun" says: "Humans are based on water and grain." Diet is an important way for humans to maintain life. High-salt diet can cause essential hypertension, such as "Su Wen·Different Methods and Prescriptions" say : "Salty is better than blood." "Suwen Xuanming Five Qi Chapter" says: "Saltiness drives the blood, and blood diseases do not eat too much salty food." Muscles, heart qi is suppressed.” A reasonable diet is an effective way to prevent high blood pressure. Patients with lifestyle-related diseases should pay attention to a reasonable combination of diet and not be tempted to eat after craving for food.
2. Moderate exercise
"Suwen·Ancient Innocence" says: "Don't work in vain." There is a dialectical and unified relationship between work and rest that is mutually opposed and coordinated. If work and rest are not excessive, it will lead to discomfort in the body. "Nei Jing" is very Attention is paid to exercise. The "Nei Jing" records that exercise methods include walking, guidance, rocking exercises, breathing, thinking, etc. Exercise therapy plays a large role in the treatment of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and cerebrovascular disease.
3. Mental adjustment
The health theory of "Nei Jing" emphasizes the adjustment of spirit and the need to maintain physical and mental health. "Suwen: Theory of Shifting Essence and Changing Qi" says: "Zhi Leisure and less desire, peace of mind and no fear.
"Su Wen · Wuzhong Lun" says: "Those who are suffering from heat are all blessed and noble people. Today's prohibition on anointing beams is not in line with their hearts..." "Lingshu·Nishun Fat and Thin" says: "Fat people are also... …As a human being, he is greedy for taking. "It shows that patients with lifestyle-related diseases should maintain a peaceful mind in daily life, pay attention to emotional comfort, and maintain an optimistic spirit, which plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of the disease.
4. Pay attention to drug prevention and treatment< /p>
"Su Wen Zang Qi Fa Shi Lun" says: "Poisons attack evil spirits". Drugs are an important means of preventing and treating lifestyle diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. According to different disease states of the body, "the medicine is used according to the syndrome", such as in "Su Wen· Strange Diseases" "Lun" says: "To quench thirst, treat it with orchid, and remove old qi." "Obese patients should take medicine with a strong smell. For example, "Su Wen·Different Methods and Prescriptions" says: "For Westerners...their people eat Chinese food and are fat, so evil cannot harm their body. The disease is caused internally, so it should be treated appropriately." poison. "Lingshu·On Pain" says: "How do you know how a person can resist poison...those with thick, black, big bones and fat stomachs are all susceptible to poison; therefore, those with thin and thin stomachs are not susceptible to poison."
5. Pay attention to the signs of disease
In the treatment of pre-disease, Chinese medicine emphasizes prevention before the disease occurs and preventing the disease from becoming worse. The "Nei Jing" contains many records about aura signs in the "pre-disease" state. For example, "Suwen: Pathogenesis and Qi Yi Baoming Collection" says: "Patients with stroke , all have signs of foreboding. If anyone feels numbness in the thumb and second finger, or if the hands and feet are useless, or if the muscles are squirming, there will be a strong wind within three years. "The advanced status of modern medical technology makes it convenient for people to understand their own body abnormalities, especially cerebrovascular diseases. Regular annual physical examinations can detect physical abnormalities when there are no symptoms, grasp the rules of auras, and grasp the symptoms before the disease occurs. time, to treat, so as to achieve the purpose of prevention.