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Nowadays, with the improvement of people’s living standards, children’s open pants are gradually replaced by diapers, however, do you know what kind of parenting wisdom is contained in open pants?
There are a lot of articles on the internet about crotch pants, and you can hardly find a single praise for it, it is all verbal criticism and criticism: unhygienic, unsafe, urinary tract infection, long pinworms, trauma, harassment by perverts …… The existence of crotch pants is entirely because there were no diapers in the past, it was for the convenience of putting shit and urine, it was to save the trouble of washing diapers …… The times are progressing, crotch pants are a backward thing ……
Is it really so?
If there are so many bad things, why have the Chinese still worn crotch pants for thousands of years?
Understanding Chinese medical thought, you will know that for some practices that have been passed down for thousands of years, modern people need some reverence in their hearts.
In the secret instructions for child rearing by the Ming Dynasty medical sage Wan Mizai, it says: “The head should be cool and the back should be warm, exposing its lower body to nourish the true yin.” Here we are talking about a child who is one year old or less than one and a half years old.
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Why do we need to “expose the lower body to nourish the true yin”?
Wan Mizai said, “Before the age of sixteen, life is full of qi and blood, such as the sun is rising, such as the moon will be full, but yin is often insufficient”, the child’s physique has the characteristics of “Yang is always surplus, yin is always insufficient”. What is the deficiency of Yin? Yin deficiency and fire, five heartburn, are the manifestation of Yin deficiency.
So what are the countermeasures in dressing? Very important, is the open crotch pants.
Wan Mizai said: “Children, clothing is not fur.” What does it mean? Shirt, lower body clothing; silk, warm and soft than cloth; fur, leather clothing, warm and soft than silk. In other words, the lower body to wear thin, you can not use the thick cotton wool wrapped underneath, more dare not wear a leather jacket underneath. Winter cold, many parents to children wearing autumn pants wool jeans, wrapped in layers, children run can not run. This is actually spoiling the child’s body.
Wan Mizai also said: ” the lower body main yin, get cold then yin easy to grow, get warm then yin darkness eliminated.” The child’s change within a week is very big, from the head can stand, to be able to roll over, sit, crawl, walk, the development is very fast, this is the role of Yang. But in the ancient view, yin and yang are relative, yang grows fast and yin is not enough. If the lower body is wrapped too tightly, Yin will be eliminated, this elimination, will lead to Yang grow too fast, the future will lead to his Yang deficiency – do not see now grow fast, later may not grow taller.
So whether it is boys and girls, want to grow and develop well, the following must not dare to wear more. This is the learning of the bare buttocks, really is not as simple as the convenience, but to the child’s life far-reaching impact of parenting wisdom.
In front of the big problems that affect the growth and development of children throughout their lives, the problems that crotch pants are attacked for are no longer big problems. But it is a year or two of time, more effort to help children to do a good job of hygiene, more attention to protect his safety, in exchange for his growth and development of health, this hard work is worth it.
This is not what our modern doctors say, but what everyone in Chinese pediatrics told us two or three hundred years ago. Mr. Wan Mizai lived to be 97 years old, and his family pediatrics has been passed down to him for the third generation. We have a saying in Chinese medicine, “medical not three generations is not a good doctor” – that is, the doctor, only say three generations of medical practice, to you are a great achievement. Wan Mizai has done this, so in his case, many of his views on pediatrics, I believe, is the accumulated knowledge passed down from his ancestors.
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This incident should also make us reflect on how much of our pride has made us miss out on our excellent traditional culture?
The answer to the question of what wisdom is hidden in traditional customs may not be understood by many of us now, but it would be unfair to traditional customs to dismiss them. I think we should at least leave a pair of eyes and ears to explore why these traditional cultural practices exist, and not let the wisdom behind them fade away unknowingly.
How many people are destroying children’s health in the name of “compassion”?
He has been involved in traditional culture such as ancient Chinese medicine, red science and guqin. He is the author of the book “Ancient Medicine in its Simplicity – Tao Jian’s Treatise on Typhoid”.
Excessive and greasy diet has become the number one factor causing diseases in young children. When young children have a weak spleen and stomach, they eat too much meat and greasy food, and the spleen and stomach are unable to transport and transform it, so they suffer from it. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the vital energy will be deficient and all kinds of diseases will arise.
Many parents usually do not give their children a lot of staple food, but give them a lot of meat. Have you ever thought about why staple foods are called staple foods? As the name suggests, it is the most basic need of our people, the spleen and stomach is earth, and all grains are yellow, and the land are a color, as the so-called grains produce the Jin, exactly this reason.
Nowadays, many parents have a big misunderstanding about their own eating habits. They think that rice is not nutritious, and meat is nutritious, meat contains mainly fat and protein, they think that protein is nutritious, and in fact a person’s daily demand for protein is very limited, nutritionists have said that an egg is enough to supply the body’s demand for protein. Excess protein becomes a toxin when eaten – something that the body cannot accept and needs to excrete is a toxin in the broadest sense of the word. At this time the child does not need that much protein, and it takes energy and blood to get it out. In addition, the current meat contains too many hormones, chemical residues and many other bad things, which is also very harmful to the child’s bodily functions.
I have come across many cases of children with Tourette’s syndrome, hernia, and stubborn eczema, and the common feature they all share is that their parents give them a lot of meat, chicken legs two at a time. Such children’s spleen and stomach will definitely be spoiled. Why will it be spoiled? Apart from the fact that meat does not provide the basic nutrition for the body as mentioned earlier, there is also the problem of the energy field.
The spleen is earth, what is earth? In terms of the five elements of energy, it needs the energy of the earth to replenish, and the grains are the most complete to get the earth energy. Can his spleen and stomach get earth energy if you don’t give him staple foods and just give him meat?
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A child’s spleen and stomach do not function well because he eats under pressure.
There is another kind of child whose spleen and stomach function is also bad, and that is a child who eats under pressure. If you chase your child to feed him, you are putting him under pressure, and he is eating under a very stifling state. As the ancients say, “Eat without speaking, sleep without talking”, the ancients did not advocate disciplining children during mealtime.
The child is forced to eat under pressure, crying and eating at the same time, which not only causes poor spleen and stomach function, but also causes problems in the child’s entire body. This will not only cause poor spleen and stomach function, but also cause problems in the child’s entire body, resulting in adverse outcomes such as hernia, intestinal basket, anemia, growth retardation, fatty liver, abnormal heartbeat, etc. In the end, all these problems are related to the deficiency of the spleen and stomach, because the spleen is the foundation of the postnatal life. Once again, parents should not associate spleen deficiency and qi and blood deficiency with enhanced nutrition.
In “Dream of the Red Chamber”, after Jia Baoyu had a serious illness, the Jia family made him eat light porridge and vegetables for a long time. After his illness, he was not given tonic and nutritious food, why? The noble family like Jia House, they know the way of health, know that the child after the disease, the body is still in a weak condition, simply can not digest and absorb so much meat and nourishing things. Give him what he can absorb and let his spleen and stomach slowly recover their functions in a relaxed state. This is actually a way of thinking that responds to life. What is our current way of thinking? All of them are the most simple and crude.
There is a folk saying: If you want a child to be safe, three points are hunger and cold. Children are prone to food accumulation, and once the food accumulation is easy to catch a cold. There are also children prone to heat typhoid, in fact, is wearing too much, many parents think that children and the elderly are as vulnerable, so they give children to wear a lot of clothes. There are also many old people with children who like to take their own body temperature to measure the child. In fact, the child Yang vigorous, belong to the pure Yang body, you see the winter children are not baking fire, only adults need to bake fire. And children are active by nature, overdressed will not be able to dissipate heat.
Today’s children drink sweet drinks as water, sweet things into the spleen, sweet more will cause the spleen hyperactivity and imbalance, but also indirectly affect the function of the kidneys. Now there is a saying that children will get leukemia if they drink too many sweet drinks. In addition to the many chemically synthesized sugars in the drinks, the root of the problem is that the spleen is a kidney killer.
The children drink those sweet drinks as water, the kidney function must be restrained, the kidney is the main bone, and leukemia is an abnormality of the bone marrow, all have a collateral relationship. Therefore, the five flavors should not be favored, how can you drink sweet drinks as water?
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Nowadays, children’s intelligence is developed too early, and they are sent to early education and kindergarten at the age of two or three to learn English and literacy, and to learn this and that. Thinking hurts the spleen, when people think about the body will be depressed. When a child is in the process of developing, he will certainly “bruise” when he thinks. In addition to emotions, eating too much and long-term food accumulation will also cause bruising. This can affect the child’s physical development and can also cause psychological depression, leading to unhealthy psychological development. Generally speaking, bruising is an adult disease, but the concept of life has changed and many diseases are in advance.
In fact, parents are out of “love” to cause these problems. Let the child eat more, wear more and move less, is out of love; do not let the child lose at the starting line, early to learn knowledge, is also out of love. Whenever I hear people say that their children are so smart, they can sing at the age of one and read at the age of two, so they let them learn a lot of things early.
In ancient times, people thought differently than we do. The ancients did not want people to say their children were smart. The ancients also did not want their children to mature early, because the ancients were “Tao” thinking and wanted to let nature take its course.
We should pause and take a closer look at this era.
How many people are destroying children’s health in the name of “compassion”? The number one cause of disease in young children is excessive and greasy eating. Young children have a weak spleen and stomach, and when they eat too much meat and grease, the spleen and stomach are unable to transport it and suffer from it. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the vital energy will be deficient and all kinds of diseases will arise. Sometimes we advise some parents, especially elders, to feed their children a little less and wear a little less. They often ask the question in return: Would I harm my own children?
If people go astray, the harder they go, the farther they go wrong. Similarly, if this “love” for children goes astray, then, the more love, the deeper the injury.