9 Signs of Poor Health – a Chinese Medicine Perspective
Have you recently experienced any of the following conditions?
- Waking up feeling tired, no matter how long you have slept.
- Overactive mind: unable to switch off at bedtime.
- Poor appetite in the morning and noon (skipping meals); cravings and overeating in late afternoons and evenings.
- Feeling bloated, fatigued, and with sugar craving after meals.
- Irregular and poorly formed bowel movement: feeling drained or still feel not empty after the job is done.
- Cold hands and feet – even in the summertime.
- Experiencing mood swings and not at peace with your own company.
- Low or no libido.
- Getting sick more frequently and experiencing long recovery times.
If your answer to any of the above is yes, your body is in an imbalance according to Chinese medicine.
An analogy I like to use is that maintaining optimal health is like caring for a car. If you have a range of discomforts but have had no illness identified by doctors – it is like a car that is still driveable but worn down (e.g. oil leak and low battery) and in need of a tune-up. In Chinese medicine, the symptoms listed above are considered as red lights on the body’s dashboard.
Each ‘red light’ and its underlying indication
Fatigue in the morning
It means the body is unable to recharge its battery (energy) effectively through sleep.
Unable to switch off at bedtime
This means the racing mind has built up too much momentum throughout the day – and so slowing down by night time has become too hard or takes too long.
Lacking appetite in the morning
It means a weak or overloaded digestive tract has failed to empty on time and therefore not rested and recovered by the morning.
Bloating and fatigue after meals
This means the stomach is weak and lacks sufficient blood flow for digestion after meals so it borrows the blood supply from the brain and muscles – leading to a foggy mind and physical tiredness. The bloating shows that energy absorbed from the digestive tract has not been distributed efficiently and is trapped in the abdominal region.
Sugar cravings
This means the body is low on energy because a weak digestive system is not converting food into sugar efficiently. To compensate, the body is looking for an immediate sugar boost.
Irregular and poorly formed bowel movement
It means that the large intestine is sluggish and unable to eliminate garbage effectively.
Cold hands and feet
This means poor blood circulation in the limbs as a result of energy depletion. In this situation, the body reduces blood supply to less important areas such as the digestive tract, hands, and feet in order to safeguard supply to critical organs such as the brain and heart.
Experiencing mood swings
It means that you are low on energy and facing a regular outpouring of repressed emotions.
Low or no libido
This means the body’s energy levels are so low that it has to cut down energy supply to less urgent systems such as the reproductive system.
Getting sick easily and difficulty recuperating
It means the body is weak and low on immunity and also lacking the energy to repair and recover properly.
You may notice that almost all of the above symptoms are rooted in low energy and fatigue. Intuitively, we try to fix the surface layer signs of fatigue without seeing what is beneath it. So people drink coffee or caffeine-rich energy drinks to seek an instant energy boost. Many self-help books encourage readers to be hyper-focused on man-made goals and to push through physical warning signs and emotional lows.
People also shop around in supplement stores and natural therapy clinics trying to get a quick fix for their exhaustion. But, as soon as their symptoms are relieved, they resume the same lifestyle that led to energy depletion in the first place. It is as though the driver has acknowledged a red light on the dashboard, pulled over and simply placed a band-aid over the red light and resumed driving. The red light is an important and helpful warning. If the driver ignores it and maintains an abusive driving pattern, the car is destined to break down quickly and permanently.
Original article by admin, if reproduced, please cite the source as: https://www.tcmha.com/understandingtcm/9-signs-of-poor-health-a-chinese-medicine-perspective.html
相关推荐
-
What diseases see Chinese doctors and what diseases see Western doctors? At a glance, decisive collection!
Some people say Western medicine is good, some say Chinese medicine is strong. Professionals believe that Western and Chinese medicine have their own strengths for different diseases. ✦✦ There are some diseases that should be more focused on conditioning and one should not run to Western medicine. ✦✦There are some symptoms that are more suited to Western medicine, and then Western medicine should be chosen. We have compiled a table of recommended directions for different choices based on different symptoms Cardiovascular diseases: Western first, then ChineseFor example: hypertension, heart disease,…
-
What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has evolved over thousands of years. TCM practitioners use various mind and body practices (such as acupuncture and tai chi) as well as herbal products to address health problems. What the Science Says About the Effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Acupuncture is a technique in which practitioners stimulate specific points on the body, usually by inserting thin needles through the skin. Studies suggest that acupuncture stimulates the release of the body’s natural painkillers and affects areas in the brain involved in processing pain; however, some…
-
How do we enter the “treasure house” of Chinese medicine?
So, we need to learn more about this content, which I think is useful for everyone. If you say that I just learn the method of prescription, I think this is limited, why? In fact, you have not yet realized how the disease of the body comes.
-
Why do many TCM practitioners live into their 90s?
In fact, to judge a good or bad TCM practitioner, it is very clear to look at his thinking on healing in a few words. Chinese medicine has always emphasized that disease is not simply a virus or inflammation, but only a result and a symptom, and that disease is the cause behind these symptoms, such as pain and inflammation.
-
A Chinese medicine director’s sincere words: these few moves, can determine the true level of a Chinese medicine doctor
Teach you a few ways to judge the true level of Chinese medicine doctors I have always believed that the current situation of Chinese medicine is worrying, not because of a few flies from outside, but mainly because the actual level of Chinese medicine practitioners cannot be improved, and what is more terrible is that some people who have not started at all are more influential in the public than the real level of Chinese medicine practitioners through commercial packaging. From the public’s point of view, if you entrust your…
-
From Personal To Popular: The Westernization Of Traditional Chinese Medicine
If you grew up in a Chinese household, you’ve probably heard your parents mention the concept of holding too much heat, or yang, in your body. As my mom is a pharmacist, in my family this kind of talk was always carefully tempered with conversations around Western medicine. Nevertheless, when I had a fever, my parents always gave me acetaminophen (no brand name Tylenol in a pharmacist’s house!) along with a bowl of winter melon soup to promote yin, or cold. Fast-forward to 2020 and suddenly mentions of yin and…
-
The process of understanding of Chinese medicine by modern Western medical missionaries
Since the importation of Western science in modern times, it has replaced almost all disciplines in the Chinese intellectual tradition in a disciplinary manner, with the sole exception of Chinese medicine, but it has also given rise to heated debates about the nature of Chinese medicine.
-
What is Traditional Chinese Medicine, and will insurance cover it?
There are a lot of things a person has to get used to when they move to China for the first time. China has unique culture, history, society, government, economy, business world, food and much more. And – odds are – if you are moving to China for the first time, learning the ins and outs of all of these different aspects of life in the country will be a little overwhelming. Depending on where you’re from, there can be vast differences between customs in your home place and in…
-
Chinese medicine is the hope for the future of medicine
1. Chinese medicine is the most vibrant and dynamic medicine “When you look for him, you will see him at the end of the night.” In the face of the many helplessnesses of modern medicine, it is time to often look back at the Chinese medicine that is at the end of the light. Chinese medicine “is not far from people, and takes the body of the patient as the master”, and the object is “the change of health and disease in the heaven and man”. Chinese medicine starts from…
-
Chinese Medicine Insights from “Chinese Medicine People”
The following are the TCM insights of “I”, not one person, but a category of people. Environment In the hard times of the past, TCM was passed on and perpetuated by its efficacy, not by its so-called “cultural identity”. Today, TCM has become one of the preferred medical systems for patients and has become one of the most widely used traditional therapies internationally, also growing by its efficacy. As a TCM practitioner, I am sure that before embarking on this path, I have given it a lot of thought, considered…
