The first one: a sleep until dawn
This is a manifestation of the balance of heart qi. The heart is the master of the gods, and when the gods work during the day, they are spiritual; when they sleep at night, they are latent. But the normal performance of the gods also requires the coordination of the five viscera and six internal organs. Those who have problems sleeping are sick. Either the heart and kidneys are not intertwined, or the stomach is not in harmony, or liver fire on the inflammation, or sickness and pain, or internal disturbance of evil, are related to the gods. Therefore, there are many ways to tranquilize the mind, not just taking tranquilizer tablets. Generally, no matter what the disease is, when it reaches the stage of serious illness, there is insomnia, which actually indicates that the mind and soul are injured. No matter what the disease is, if the more you treat it, the more you sleep, it goes without saying that the treatment is right. If the more you treat it, the more you can’t sleep, then you might as well stop this treatment.
Healthy people: You should sleep until dawn all night without waking up in between, unless something special happens in your life that makes it difficult for you to sleep temporarily. If you drink too much water at night and go to urinate during the night, you should be able to go back to sleep immediately afterwards. You may have dreams during the night, but none of them will continue to haunt you when you wake up. You should wake up feeling refreshed, full of energy and looking forward to a new day.
What if you don’t? There are too many modern people with sleep problems. Name a few typical ones. Some people wake up at a fixed time every night, for example, at 1:30, and then they can’t fall asleep until 3:00; some people wake up at 4:00 and toss and turn until 5:00. According to this, the Chinese doctor immediately concludes that the person has liver or lung yin (yin becomes cancer in the long run). At this point, when you go to the hospital for examination, you may not be able to find anything. However, Chinese doctors are very strict because they know that if this condition is not cured, the patient’s consequences are unthinkable. But Western doctors will not be able to relate what happens later to this moment of sleep.
What is the reason for this, you may ask? As we said, the human body is very wise. To ensure that the institutions are functioning properly, the human body has a medical examiner patrolling the body 24 hours a day. At the first sign of trouble, it alerts the police immediately. Its patrol route is fixed with time. Between 1:00 and 3:00, it patrols the liver sector, and between 3:00 and 5:00, it patrols the lung sector. Each sector has a standard status with it. When you get to the liver sector, you find a blockage here, maybe just damp heat in the liver, but of course cancer is also a type of blockage. The patrol officer then calls the police and you wake up and can’t sleep until the medical examiner gets to the lung sector. It’s that simple. Wouldn’t you say that our body’s medical examiner is much more sophisticated than the instruments of Western medicine? If you wake up at a fixed time every day between 1:00 and 3:00 and seek immediate treatment from a good Chinese doctor, how could it develop into liver cancer! Western doctors always say that liver cancer is an invisible killer, that is because they do not understand the operation of life.
Note that since there is no time zone in China, the time here is not necessarily the time on your watch, but the time according to the sun’s operation (true solar time). For example, the shortest shadow of the sun during the day is 12:00 pm, even though the time on your watch is already 3:00 pm.
Other people have problems sleeping all night, not sleeping easily, but waking up easily, all night long; or waking up often in the night, but without any fixed time. The Chinese doctor then knows that the person has some problems with heart function. Because for the body to be able to have a good sleep, the heart, liver and lungs must work together and love each other. Look at how well our bodies work as a team! When there is a problem with heart function, this collaboration is unbalanced, so they decide to ask the brain for help and you are awakened. There are many reasons for such sleep problems, such as when you are recovering from a serious illness, and when you have pericardial ischemia. A Chinese doctor will analyze and judge the symptoms based on other symptoms. Western doctors also never associate sleep problems with the function of the heart.
Some people wake up at night because they are not feeling well in other parts of their body, such as coughing or stomach pain. Such sleep problems are not treated for sleep but for that cause of the sleep problem.
There is a close time relationship between human sleep and the operation of the sun, so we hope that people do not stay up late. When you stay up late when you are young, that is called a great body, you can stay up for two days and two nights, but young people recover quickly, but we still strongly do not recommend. Forty or fifty years old after continuing to stay up late, is really take life not seriously.
There is another kind of person who always sleeps all day and night, and is still very tired after waking up. This is not just a problem of sleep, he is already losing his body’s roots. Of course there is such a situation, the average person will go to the doctor.
Sleeping until dawn covers the bile at the son hour, the liver at the ugly hour, and the lungs at the c hour, across the three organs, representing no problems with the body. It does not matter if you are worrying, such as exams or divorce, and you wake up at three o’clock at night until you can sleep at five o’clock, because you are worrying. If you are fine with everything, not worrying about anything, and wake up every night, not occasionally, from three to five o’clock, this is something to watch out for. If you sleep through the night every night, this is normal.
After five o’clock in the morning it’s time to enter the large intestine meridian. Yang energy should be generated. In terms of yin and yang, at 12 o’clock at night, yang is 100% inside yin, and the body is able to sleep inside the tissues of the body so that it can fall asleep. If at 12 o’clock at night, Yang is not able to enter the body completely, you have no way to sleep. After 5 o’clock in the morning, Yang comes out and the large intestine gets up. So people who rush to the toilet from 5 to 7 o’clock are the best. The whole family rushes to the large intestine, this family is normal; on the contrary, if you don’t rush to the toilet, you have to visit us now, you can’t wait until later.
I have said that if your feet are cold after eating Chinese medicine, then you should not eat; if your feet get hotter and hotter, you should continue to eat until you get better. It is not allowed to sleep, but you can sleep after eating. One hundred percent of clinical cancers are insomnia. If you do not understand, insomnia to take sleeping pills, because the heart tube sleep, you eat sleeping pills, replacing a certain part of the function, and the role of sleeping pills is only the Western pharmaceutical companies to study the lack of something in the brain, he put the laboratory synthesis out of a certain thing for you to eat and sleep, in fact, the shape of sleep, God did not sleep. You think you’re asleep, running out in the middle of the night and driving with your eyes closed, this is a side effect of sleeping pills. Some are grandmothers get up in the middle of the night to cook a bowl of noodles and put it there. Sleeping pills create sleepwalking, Chinese medicine does not. Chinese medicine will cure and not sleepwalk the sleepwalker.
In our clinical practice, the first thing we do for cancer patients is to find ways to get them to sleep, because sleep is the most important factor in regaining strength, more important than what you eat. We have many prescriptions for insomnia. If we make the patient sleep well, the patient is halfway better.
Second: your appetite
Healthy people: You should have a good appetite for meals, feel hungry at the end of the day, and have a moderate amount of meals.
The normal appetite is to be hungry before eating and want to eat. There are two kinds of appetite: one is stomach hunger and the other is taste. Hungry stomach, is the spleen in charge, a food as chewing wax, sweet, sour, bitter and spicy have no taste, the pancreas is injured, these two are not the same. We met the case, the man wanted his girlfriend to be sick, thought of eating anything without taste. Gentlemen, you teach your daughters to greet their boyfriends abroad one day by saying, “I miss you so much.” “And how is your appetite?” “Very good.” “Does it taste good to eat?” “Very good.” It is immediately clear that he misses you is a fake, which can not fool Chinese medicine.
People with pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis have no sense of taste, just an action of thirst, and many people just don’t understand the pathological thirst. For example, you are not speaking anything, thirsty always want to go to drink water. If you are just coming out of a restaurant with a full meal and thirsty, it must be put MSG, and the next time you go to this restaurant, you tell the restaurant foreman that you are allergic to MSG, and I will have a heart attack as soon as I get MSG, so severe that I die. The foreman will be scared and run to the kitchen to tell him not to put MSG. Because there are old American ladies who fainted because of this, so violence is better than cleverness, do not make noise.
The so-called normal appetite is not overeating, is a very normal amount to eat down very full, not eat a lot, conscious of not full, and want to eat again. This is manifested as the normal function of the spleen and stomach of the middle jiao of the back of the day. Also related to the liver, gallbladder, large and small intestine. As the saying goes: people are iron, rice is steel, a meal is not hungry. Why do some patients not want to eat? Because the spleen and stomach are injured. What is the spleen and stomach? It is the foundation of our life in this world. If we can’t eat, the process of life will be in trouble. Regardless of any treatment measures, it is right to make the patient’s appetite better and better. Otherwise, it is wrong to go against life.
What else? A good appetite is really too important for the human body. The immunity of the human body depends on this spleen and stomach function. Many young girls want to lose weight, themselves already very slim, still eat that little ah! This is a foolish act at the expense of the body. If you are really fat, you can naturally use Chinese medicine to help you get back to your normal size, but by controlling your intake, your body will definitely get back at you.
Some people really just can’t eat and have no appetite. That was the case with Steve Jobs back in the day. Everyone said he was too picky, it was his personality, but he did not know that his spleen and stomach function had been seriously damaged and the doctor did not know it! Oh, it hurts! Your stomach is responsible for the amount of food you can eat, and your spleen determines your desire to eat and whether you feel good when you see food. If you don’t have an appetite, your spleen has been injured. If you want to eat but can’t, there is something wrong with your stomach. The injury here is not an organic lesion, so the equipment can’t detect it anyway. There are usually two reasons for not being able to eat: the stomach has stopped eating, or is already full; or the stomach is cold and not peristaltic. (The body ages, the spleen and stomach are the first to age, and the spleen and stomach meridian goes on the face, the face is the spleen and stomach)
The bottom line is that TCM treatment always has to protect the function of your spleen and stomach. When you see a patient wanting to eat, the doctor will know that hope is coming. So to be a TCM doctor you must have public morality. Look at Western medicine, neurologists don’t care about the brain, and brain doctors don’t care about the urinary system. As long as he cures this section, the other sections of the problem does not care. Chinese medicine is different. The rule throughout the treatment of Chinese medicine is to protect the spleen and stomach. In Typhoid and Jin Kui, this principle is reflected in the design of almost every prescription. That is why people who study TCM are not only impressed by the greatness of TCM, but also by the fervent love of its designers.
Some people eat very much and then get hungry a little later and have to eat as soon as they are hungry. This is also a way of manifesting diabetes, which Chinese medicine calls elimination of thirst in the middle of elimination. Such people’s stomachs are too hot, peristalsis is too fast, and food is digested at once. Such people are more likely to get diabetes, because such a hot stomach constantly transpires the pancreas next to it. The pancreas is a sweet piece of meat, and it tends to lose its function when it is steamed by heat for a long time. Regarding diabetes, it is a painful thing for such a person to control his meals, because he is really hungry. A person who always has to suffer from hunger is miserable. The TCM solution is as simple as trying to slow down the peristalsis of the stomach and bring down the temperature a little. This is also one of the ways to lose weight in Chinese medicine.
Of course, there are also people whose stomach is very sad after a meal, or can not swallow, etc.. All of these have to be analyzed in clinical evidence. But if you have these problems, you already know to see a doctor.
The third: the first thing you do every morning when you wake up is to go to the toilet
After a good night’s sleep, people are rested, but the body is not rested. What is it? Detoxification. Poison is discharged from the urine, from the stool, from the pores. Therefore, when you wake up in the morning and go to the toilet, you can empty the toxic gas that has been stored overnight, so that your body is naturally healthy. Note that the time mentioned here is the morning wake up, not the middle of the night. Some people have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet to urinate more than once a day. What is this? It is a deficiency of kidney energy and cannot transform water and liquid, which is commonly known as kidney deficiency, a deficiency of the innate essence. The innate essence governs our life span and is the result of our parents’ essence. Regardless of any disease, if you originally did not have to get up in the middle of the night to urinate, but in the course of treatment you have to get up at night to urinate, that means your kidney qi is injured. Do you dare to continue to receive this treatment that hurts the kidney qi and compromises your life expectancy? And vice versa, if the more you are treated, the less often you have to get up at night to urinate, then congratulations, because you have found the right doctor and are using the right treatment. The stool should be formed, yellow in color, and free of undigested food.
Healthy people: Normally, the first thing you do when you get up in the morning is to go to the toilet to relieve your bowels. At least once a day. Your stool should be formed and you should feel comfortable and relaxed afterwards, without the feeling of not being able to finish your stool. The stool should be easy to pass. The color of your stool should be a little yellow. For women who have passed menopause, two bowel movements per day is good.
What about otherwise? The most common thing is not to have a bowel movement every day, and the bowel movement is not in the morning. Why does it have to be in the morning? Remember the medical examiner of our body? It comes to the large intestine department at 5 o’clock after inspecting the lung department. Under the supervision of the medical examiner, the large intestine works especially hard, and once the effort is easy to produce results, the efficiency is very high. That’s why Chinese medicine believes that 5 am to 7 am is the best time to have a bowel movement. Many people can’t do it, for various reasons. But if you have the possibility, try to go to the stool by yourself at this time, and after a while you will be fully adapted.
People who don’t have a bowel movement every day have to be divided into serious cases. Generally speaking, people who have a bowel movement once every two days can change their habits to daily bowel movements. But if once every three or four days or even longer, you need to use external help. There are two types of constipation in Chinese medicine: those who do not have a bowel movement for several days and do not feel pain, and those who do not have a bowel movement and have stomach pain. The judgment of Chinese medicine is very simple: those who do not have pain are because the intestinal peristalsis is too slow and ineffective; while those who have pain are because their intestines are too dry and do not move smoothly, and every time they rub, they will have pain. Simple, right? Also Chinese doctors have some methods of palpation, pressing different points of your stomach and asking you if it hurts here. Yes! Hey, the stool is blocked in the place related to this point. According to these conditions, the Chinese doctor can prescribe the right medicine, the effect is really great! People who don’t take medication can also use acupuncture to help solve the problem of constipation.
Constipation can also lead to many other problems if it is not solved. According to Dr. Ni, the majority of patients at the neurological hospital have constipation problems. By solving their constipation problem, they are halfway to being well. I believe in this idea very much, because the typhoid theory mentions many times that the intestinal odor of constipation can rush to the brain causing neurological disorders in people. The administrator of a neurological hospital might want to observe the constipation of the patient. The one who is not constipated may well be latent in it…
Some people, especially little girls are seen more often, it is difficult to stool, right, the shape of the stool like a sheep’s vein a grain of grain. Chinese medicine is called spleen about. What does that mean? It is the peristaltic movement of your intestines and there is an official in charge, the spleen. The spleen is a little upset and gives the small intestine a little trip, the small intestine does not have enough fluid, the stool in the curved small intestine for too long to form a grain of grain shape. So there is no personal freedom while our body’s organs work in tandem, as if anyone can control you a bit.
Many people have hemorrhoids. The disease inquiry of Jiahui Chinese medicine is very well discussed, so you can go to refer to it, so I will not repeat it here. Some people have dysentery all the time. Chinese medicine also depends on whether you have pain and burning sensation when you have dysentery to determine the nature of dysentery. There are relatively more variants here, the doctor needs to analyze the situation. Someone’s stool is black, which means there is bruising in the body, such as bleeding in the stomach; or it may be a bruising caused by medication. The latter is a good sign.
The fourth: three to seven times a day urination
The fourth: is to urinate three to seven times a day, the volume of urine is large and the color should be light yellow. Here I am talking about the premise of normal drinking water, to ensure that at least 1 liter of water per day. And, drink a large glass of water every day before and after bedtime. The urine is discharged, indicating that the kidneys are functioning normally. If you keep urinating, then you are a kidney patient. Most commonly, the kidney yang is insufficient, the qi is unfavorable, the water cannot get qi, of course, it has to be discharged. The result is that you drink a lot of water, but it is all excreted and not utilized as it should be. Therefore, the manifestation looks like the patient is Yin deficiency (water-liquid deficiency), but in fact it is Yang’s Qi-transformation deficiency, and it is necessary to support Yang. A woman’s lack of menstruation may be due to removal or menopause. After menopause, you should have at least 2 bowel movements a day, because your body is still producing milk, and when the tube under the milk is closed, the milk will still come out, and there is no place for it to go, so it has to go to the large intestine. So keep your bowels open, I get a big headache when I hear that girls are constipated. If there is no constipation, good bowel movements and good sleep, it means you have no heart problems and definitely no breast cancer.
Healthy People: Normally, you urinate about 5 or 6 times a day, less in summer because of sweating. The color of urine is light yellow, and it is normal for the first urine after waking up in the morning to be darker. There should not be any pain or burning sensation when you urinate.
What about otherwise? Urination is also an important basis for TCM dialectic. The most common is frequent urination, especially in the elderly, especially at night when they always have to get up to go to the toilet, how do you think this sleep quality is guaranteed? Many people think this is normal. Not true! Even the elderly should not always get up at night. The main reason for frequent urination is that the bladder is not hot enough. The heat of the bladder comes from the small intestine at the back. The small intestine has a pivotal role in Chinese medicine, and it is very hot, just like the heart. It gets its heat from the heart – through a large arterial blood vessel, the heart injects heat into the small intestine. When the bladder is steamed by the heat of the small intestine, the water inside it becomes watery and makes the bladder rise up like a hot balloon, so normally people don’t feel the urge to urinate when the volume of urine builds up, but once they urinate, the force of the urine jets is very strong, which is the force generated by the heat from the bladder. But if the temperature of the small intestine is low, the bladder cannot rise like a hot balloon. A little volume of urine is pressed down, and the patient feels the need to urinate, but when he urinates, he dribbles, because there is no pressure of heat in the bladder to form the ejection force. In this case, the TCM practitioner knows to strengthen the temperature and peristaltic force of the small intestine. You see, isn’t the thinking and treatment of TCM very simple? But the effect is very good!
Some people have very light urine, and others have very yellow urine. These are the two extremes of hot and cold.
Some people have cloudy urine, which falls under the category of gonorrhea in Chinese medicine. Gonorrhea doesn’t have to be what the movies say it is, but in the eyes of a Chinese doctor, it is just a disease.
Some people just urinate two or three times a day, and the TCM doctor will think, “Hey, where did the water go? If you can’t find a reasonable place for it to go, then the water will stay in the body and the patient may see swelling. The diuresis is one of the difficulties of TCM. There are many prescriptions in TCM that address the problem of diuresis. By the time the patient has liver ascites, when the key internal organ function is in full collapse, how to diuretic is the big strategy of the TCM doctor.
The fifth: the temperature of the palms of the hands and feet
Healthy people: the temperature of your palms and feet should stay warm all year round. When you put your hand on your forehead, you should feel that your head is cool. The backs of your hands and feet should be cool.
What about otherwise? Many people’s feet are always cold, especially girls’ feet are still cold after sleeping until dawn in winter. You know that the human heart is constantly beating. It is true that movement produces heat. So when the heart ejects blood to the periphery, it also conducts heat out with the blood. That’s why we have the phrase “the blood is boiling”. The ability of the heart should be able to deliver heat to all parts of the body. The human toes are the furthest from the heart. If your feet are cold, it means that there is a problem from the heart to the feet, maybe the heart is not strong enough, maybe the delivery channels are not smooth. In any case, the feet will not be cold for no reason.
So you observe that men with prostate problems, women with uterine problems, girls with menstrual pain, etc., their feet are cold. At this point your Western doctor may not be able to detect any problems with any instrument, but a good Chinese doctor is already doing something to prevent them from happening. In Chinese medicine, there is a supreme rule of treatment: “the upper work cures the disease before it gets worse”, which means that the Chinese doctor pinches the disease in the cradle or stops it from getting worse when it is still in its early stages. This guideline is applied in all stages of TCM treatment.
People with cold feet often have hotter heads than hands. Why? Because cold feet constantly signal to the heart that I need energy – our body is much more intelligent than we think. The heart works harder to generate more heat, but this heat does not travel smoothly down to the feet, so it has to go up. So you can see that some people with high blood pressure have cold feet. Is the Western medicine method of lowering blood pressure treating the symptoms but not the root cause? Is forcing the heart to work abnormally damaging the function of the heart remember? The Arriba people recommend that hypertensive patients use the method of golden chicken independence with eyes closed, which is to guide the blood of the heart downward.
Some people’s palms and feet are particularly hot, is it because the heart is too strong? No! The heart is very intelligent and certainly would not do such an excessive thing. This is usually because there is not enough water in the blood to cause the blood to overheat. Of course, there are other causes, which you will come to understand with some knowledge of Chinese medicine.
Let’s look at it another way. If your feet are always warm, don’t you ever have to worry about heart disease? This is the logical way of thinking in Chinese medicine.
If you measure your feet as hot, your urine is 6-7 times a day, and if you drink a lot of water, of course you drink a little more. If you drink a lot of water at night before you go to bed, then you will get up at night to urinate even if you are a teenager. If you say getting up 3 or 4 times a night is troublesome, then I ask you, “Are your feet hot or cold?” “Hot” “Sir then how much water do you drink before going to bed?” “I drink 6 large glasses of water before going to bed each time so that I can sleep well.” What do you say about this?
Do not drink water two hours before going to bed. If your mouth is dry, drink some water to moisten your lips. Finish your urine before going to bed and see if you will get up in the middle of the night, and use this criterion to measure a sleep until dawn.
If you have a problem with your prostate, your feet are cold. A man’s feet are cold, his prostate is enlarged, and if there is a yin really inside, it is prostate cancer. How do you distinguish between prostate cancer and prostate enlargement? If the prostate has a tumor that is 5 or 6 centimeters large, the heart is hot and Yang wants to go down and encounters resistance that blocks the way, this is a real condition, that is, it is there twenty-four hours a day. This is a real condition, which means that it is there 24 hours a day. A deficiency condition is when there is nothing in it. Yang goes to the lower jiao, but if it doesn’t go down, not only are the feet cold, but they are cold. If it doesn’t go down, it will come back to the hands, causing the skin of the hands to be very dry. The skin of the hands is so dry that he has to put moisturizing cream on them at night before he can sleep, otherwise the skin will be so dry that he can’t sleep.
One time a patient came to see me and her husband accompanied her. I politely shook hands with the gentleman. Once I shook it, I said, “You’re the one who needs to see me, your wife doesn’t”. He asked, “Why? Why do I need to see you?” “Prostate cancer”, I knew as soon as I touched his hand. TCM walking, walking, sitting and lying are all information. We can get a very rich resource from our patients without having to go through any slicing.
For example, if we both like a woman at the same time, you and I are love rivals. If he has a large prostate gland, let him have a Western medical test and a biopsy, and then his sexual function will be gone. It’s hard to dig out a cancer cell, and then you buy some multivitamins for him to eat, two hours after eating the vitamins, the urine is yellow, which means that the nutrients accumulated in the body and then excreted by the body, the body is not used. So you buy vitamins to eat, firstly to make your urine become more expensive. Secondly, it feeds cancer cells. When you have a wound inside your body and you eat a multivitamin down, the cancer cells are so cool, and water, and food, inside the body has been growing. In order to compete with me for a girlfriend, the love rival was killed off by me. This is not my fault, but the death of Western medicine. So knowledge is enough when the killing is invisible.
Sixth: both men and women, the morning yang reaction
When women get up in the morning, breasts are very sensitive, men’s penis will be erect, also called the morning erection reaction. Generally men will have a normal reaction when they reach their teens and twenties, and not when they reach their fifties or sixties. Because it indicates that your body’s yang energy is sufficient. If you are taking medicine to lower blood pressure, blood sugar, or cholesterol, triglyceride, or any other western medicine that is lowering something or other, as soon as you start taking it, it will definitely lead to a lack of virility in the morning. Then again, no matter what disease to find a doctor to treat, take medicine, if more and more impotence, morning erection response is no longer, such drugs, do not continue to take.
The seventh: a healthy nail seal
The seventh: a healthy nail mark, requiring the root of the nails of the ten fingers of both hands to have eight crescents, commonly known as the little sun. From the thumb to the ring finger, the crescent teeth are arranged from large to small, and the little finger can be absent. The size of the nail mark should be about 2mm from the nail root to the nail edge (the thumb can be 2-3mm, and the rest can be reduced to about 2mm in turn). The edge of the nail mark is neat and clear, and the central part of the nail mark appears to be full. This kind of nail mark is mostly seen in healthy people, which means that the qi and blood are in harmony and the yin and yang of the internal organs are relatively balanced. Compared with normal nail marks, the size of the nail mark increases or decreases, or the index of the nail mark increases or decreases, and the ten fingers are all present or absent, etc. are called abnormal nail marks.
If there are few crescents, or even only the thumb has them and the other four fingers do not, or they are relatively small, it is a cold type of nail mark. This indicates that the body is in a state of Yang deficiency, with Yang Qi being deficient and Yin Cold prevailing within, a sign that Yang Qi cannot reach the extremities. This kind of patient has low function of the internal organs, which leads to the invasion of cold or self-generation. Cold can slow down the flow of qi and blood, resulting in tumors, lumps or cysts, myomas and other diseases. Some people found through the clinical investigation of tumor patients, mainly malignant tumor patients, that the cold type of nail seal accounts for 80%, which means that the majority of malignant tumor patients have a cold physique. The most important thing is that the patient will not be able to get the disease, and the one who has a strong body will not be able to get the disease. -It depends on the nature of the evil qi and the strength of the righteous qi (i.e., the body produces to fight against this evil qi).
However, it should be clear that people with deficient cold constitution have a much higher chance of getting tumors than people with other types of constitution. Understanding this point, people with deficient cold constitution can reduce the chance of malignant swelling and pain by improving their constitution through medication or their own exercise, and even if it develops, the symptoms can be reduced, which is very meaningful for prevention before illness and early treatment of illness. I found in a large number of clinics that people nowadays have a majority of cold nail marks, almost more than 70% to 80%. This is one of the reasons why I emphasize the important role of yang in treatment and “support yang”.
If the crescent becomes larger or the index of nail marks increases, it is a hot type of nail mark. The hot type of nail mark is a sign of strong yang energy in the body and strong function of the internal organs. The larger the nail mark of a normal person. It means that the better the physical quality (also when compared with other conditions of the body). In the case of disease, it means that Yang is strong and Yin is not enough, this is a real evidence, or the disease is long Yang and Yin deficiency, the evidence is a mixture of deficiency and reality. Treatment is easy to see compared to cold type nail marks.
The eighth one: it is to look at the gum area
The eighth: is to look at the gum area and observe whether the root is well covered by the gums and whether the color of the gums is red and moist. The more serious the disease, the more Yang deficiency, the more the root part of the teeth is exposed, and the more gray the color of the gums is. Look at a healthy child, the gums are red and moist, and they are tightly wrapped around the roots of the teeth. Patients can observe for themselves, and when the disease is reduced or healed, the gum area gets better. If the roots are excessively exposed at the gums, it goes without saying that the kidney energy must be insufficient.
Number 9: Your thirst
This helps us to prove whether it is cold or hot in his body; drinking warm water is cold inside and drinking iced water is hot inside. We once met a wife who immigrated from northeast China to the west coast of the United States, I was on the east coast, she drove to see me, she had breast cancer, her sister accompanied her. The western doctor in Harbin on the mainland wanted to slice her, her sister said don’t do the slice, let’s go back to Florida to see Dr. Ni, you are not breast cancer. Her sister was very obedient to her sister, and whatever she said was what she wanted. I asked her, “Are your nipples raised or sunken?” “They are sunken, one is raised and the other is sunken.” When there is not enough yang, the nipples are sunken. It’s okay to protrude, but it’s a problem to sink. I asked her, “Is it hot?” “Very hot.” I knew in my heart that it was breast cancer, but I would never say to her, “Congratulations, you have breast cancer.”
When we Chinese medicine practitioners talk to patients, we make them feel safe. I say, “Don’t worry, it’s not breast cancer, but it will be breast cancer when you go for an incision.” You were diagnosed with breast cancer, so I asked, “Do you have a good appetite?” “Very good, I eat everything.” After the operation and treatment, I didn’t want to eat anything. Originally, I had a very good appetite, but it turned out to be bad. “Are you thirsty?” She told me, “I’m very thirsty, and I want to drink ice, as much ice as possible. I even want to put the ice cubes in my mouth and chew them.” With this statement alone, I prescribed plaster. You can’t use more than one tael of plaster in mainland China because it’s too cold. I prescribed six taels, because she was very strong, a dose of white tiger soup, plaster is the cheapest medicine, we sell this medicine for about 15, 20 yuan, eat a week, came on Friday, to the next Friday, she said to me “eat until Wednesday, I felt the chest inside the original iron, 20 minutes instantly turned into cotton-like, soft. ” The reason I cured her was that she told me about the thirst phenomenon.
We don’t have a common prescription for breast cancer, no we look at your body’s symptoms to decide what to prescribe. Some people say we must use rhinoceros horn to reduce fever, and the last rhinoceros was taken out for you. The rhinoceros is so pathetic! We never use rhinoceros horn, we use plaster to reduce fever is very powerful, rhinoceros is a natural fire fighter, wild forest fire, rhinoceros go will put out the fire, rhinoceros skin is very thick, not afraid of fire, it ran to the fire stamped out, but also spewed gas out, it is very angry: who set the fire? Such a good animal you still put it out? Our northern medicine is cheap and good, and protects animals.
Healthy People: You should feel a little thirsty and have some desire to drink water every day. The temperature of the water you want to drink is more comfortable at room temperature.
What about otherwise? Whether we want to drink water or not is up to our bodies. Some people say, “I know it’s good to drink more water, I force myself to drink three glasses of water every day. Is that right? Of course not!
Many people have no desire to drink water all day long. Our stomach and lungs determine whether we want to drink water or not. When the body is active, the stomach and lungs lose fluid and need some outside help to rehydrate. People who do not want to drink water indicate that there is too much wetness in the stomach and lungs. Too much dampness in the body is very likely to cause many problems. That’s why herbalists have to treat you until there is some thirst. When you force yourself to drink water, you actually increase the burden of water circulation in the body, making the damp increase, with no benefit.
When someone drinks water they have to drink hot water, and anything colder will cause stomach upset or even diarrhea. This is an extremely important clue to a Chinese doctor that the person’s stomach is too cold. The stomach is supposed to be a very hot organ, so it can break down and digest the food that is eaten. When it cools down, the stomach’s peristalsis slows down. The food has to go down before it can be digested, or settle at the bottom of the stomach. So the herbalist immediately takes steps to heat up your stomach and remove the unnecessary moisture from it, and you soon feel you don’t have to drink such hot water. Do you see how great the Chinese doctor is?
The other extreme is that people do not drink enough water all day and night, and then soon after drinking, they go to the toilet to urinate and get rid of it. Western medicine will call this phenomenon diabetes, Chinese medicine called thirst on top of elimination. This person generally sweats a lot, to drink the water is usually very cold, very cold. This is the opposite of what just happened. His stomach and lungs are too hot and his stomach peristalsis is too fast. Chinese medicine believes that this is too hot for the meridians, so on the one hand, the heat in the meridians is brought down, and on the other hand, the fluids are replenished. There is a famous formula called “Bai Hu Tang” which works very fast. So a thirst, Chinese medicine can tell a lot of clues. Are you thirsty today?
Tenth: Your sweating
Healthy people: You should have some sweating when you exercise, when you eat spicy food, or when you drink hot tea. This is normal. That means you sweat when you should sweat and you don’t sweat when you shouldn’t sweat.
What else? There are many people who have sweating problems. There are people who don’t sweat all year round, and it’s so hot in the summer that they just don’t sweat. If you were born in the north and have been living in the north, your skin may have gotten used to being closed. When you go to the south in the summer, you may not sweat, but you pee a lot. This is also normal. But that kind of person is not, he doesn’t urinate much, but he doesn’t sweat anyway. Such a person we believe that his heart is not strong, because Chinese medicine believes that sweat is controlled by the heart.
Another kind of person is sitting there without moving, he also sweats, not because of the heat yell. The sweating is very uncomfortable. This is called deficiency sweating in Chinese medicine. If the sweat is too much, the patient will panic or even faint. What is the reason for this? You can see that our skin is dry with some moistening, but the wetness in the muscles below is well covered. Why? Because our body has an epidermal guard, they make sure that the fluid flows under the skin and only let the sweat out of the skin when we move. So is there something wrong with this epidermal guard for people who sweat vainly? Yes! They are tired and want to work hard, but they are not strong enough. So the herbalist will immediately try to strengthen this guard.
Some people also sweat at night, but not because of heat! They wake up in the morning to find their bodies covered with sweat and feel very uncomfortable. Chinese medicine calls it “night sweating”, as if a thief stole your sweat while you were sleeping. The reason for the theft is that the owner did not collect the things properly, so the TCM approach is to keep them latent.
People also sweat when they are about to leave the world, but that sweat is all sticky and smelly. When we see this situation, we have to pray for his life.
We normal people must have sweat as soon as we exercise, and the sweat comes out evenly. “Teacher, I sweat when I exercise, I sweat when I eat, I sweat when I walk, but it’s all on the top of my head, not on my body.” This is damp phlegm in the middle of the chest and diaphragm, blocking it, so it is more wet and hot. It’s like a lot of mucus, a lot of phlegm in there. There is no way for the sweat to stay completely inside the muscles, and when it encounters heat it goes up, so there will be a lot of sweat on the head. It doesn’t matter, it will soon heal. I am talking about normal people sweating is your normal exercise, you find the next person sweating, you do not sweat, you already have a problem. After sweating you are hydrated and in good spirits. Some people can’t move after sweating and lying down.
The night sweats of cancer patients are not just a burst, they are sweating all day and night. The normal people sweat only when they exercise, but not when they don’t exercise. The actual sweat is the surface of the real, and the sweat is the surface of the deficiency, the deficiency is the real, the real deficiency is the normal. If only real but not real, only virtual but not real, not exercise also sweating, sitting there also sweating, only virtual but not real this is pathological. From the state of sweating or not, we can understand how the state of our body is. When you know the correct information about your body, you can be your own master and save a lot of money. It doesn’t matter who the herbalist I’m going to see is, it doesn’t matter if he’s a cottage version. If the night sweats are gone, if the feet are cold and hot, if you can’t sleep but now you can, that means you’re taking the right medicine. If you change the doctor, change the prescription, the medicine is not right, you can say sorry, I have to go outside to get the medicine, I have to eat back to the original prescription, you will protect yourself. We’re not talking about spending money you can afford to spend, I’m talking about treating your illness and not spending money you didn’t earn.