Good morning, dear friends, today we are going to talk about Chinese medicine, this is a casual conversation about Chinese medicine.
Many of you have asked me, “I want to learn Chinese medicine, how do I learn it? Where do I start? Chinese medicine is so complicated, how can I learn it? Today, I want to talk to you about this topic, because we all want to enter into Chinese medicine.
How to learn Chinese medicine in a systematic way so that you can learn it better? In fact, to learn Chinese medicine, we must know that the knowledge of Chinese medicine is particularly rich and involves all aspects. So we should not be too limited, that is, I just want to learn Chinese medicine, in fact, what do we actually want to learn? What we want to learn is a correct, healthy, close to nature, in line with the natural way of life, is this.
So what is included in this? Including your view of the world, including your view of nature, including your view of life, including your view of friends, family, work, including your perception of your own body, and then management, etc., this is all what we want to learn.
So I’m not saying that we must learn a skill to see a doctor or learn the techniques of Chinese medicine, no. In fact, the scope of Chinese medicine is very broad. Every ancient Chinese doctor actually has a correct view of life and values, a very comprehensive perspective on nature, how to understand the body, how to integrate with nature, how to integrate with nature, this view of nature, the body, health.
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.
Now actually live to my age, or I have seen so many people with physical disorders, I really think it is this disease, we used to say, this disease has what? The external six sexes, internal injuries, diet, fatigue, emotional problems, etc., resulting in the cause of the disease. What else? There are also these traumatic injuries, gold trauma, such as this war knife, axe, bruises, injuries, etc., this is the trauma.
So here it is, in fact, in addition to these traumatic injuries, other often related to your own heart. So you think, “My God, is it really that serious? Really so serious, I have seen people, physical problems in fact often with their own what, is your mind out of control. After your mind is out of control, you think about internal diseases, diet, labor and fatigue, internal injuries, all these factors are related to the mind.
Diet and fatigue, what about diet? You are greedy, greedy, greedy taste, you can not control your appetite, you think, “Oh, I see the food my heart is boiling up, want to eat. So what is this? This is you can not control, you eat after the spleen and stomach injury. So the diet of labor and weariness has to do with your heart.
So why do you consume so much when you’re tired of labor? It is also related to the heart, right? You think, when you see beauty you can’t control it, you see the position of an official, you want to be in your heart, you’re attracted to fame and fortune, you’re striving for it, I must achieve this small goal, etc. So your heart is so free, you can’t control it. Then your heart is so free, you must be consumed more. That’s why Lao Tzu said “great love will be a great expense”, you think so especially, you must consume a lot. So the tiredness of the tiredness of eating and drinking, why the tiredness? It has to do with your heart.
Then the next seven internal injuries have more to do with your heart. You can’t think, can’t let go, tangled, lost, depressed, all kinds of depressed state, then certainly sick ah. What else can you add? Envy, jealousy, resentment and so on, then these put together, your body is definitely not good. So I think if you have the opportunity, may not have the opportunity, if you have the opportunity, you go to follow the doctor to go to the doctor, you also follow the side you see, you see them that week and two weeks, see it in January and two months, you will all understand.
Why? You will understand where the patient’s illness comes from. He said a spleen and stomach disease, is it really a spleen and stomach problem? That is bad emotions, liver qi crosses the spleen earth, resulting in spleen and stomach injury, coupled with the messy food, then his spleen and stomach must be bad. So, these problems are all linked together. If you can sit here and look at the patient from this perspective, you will find that it is really poor, really poor. I think about it every day, so how can I get stuck in it and not get out, so poor, hurt myself. So then, what is it all about? It has to do with your outlook on life, your values, your perspective on things.
So when your internal injury, the spleen and stomach is not enough, the kidney is not enough and so on, the whole heart fire, liver fire are up, when your body internal conditions change, then the external climate change how? The six external sensations will come. So it’s not that simple to say that this person is normal, the wind blows a cold, there is no such thing. The same child, other children are fine, but your child coughs, coughs when the wind blows, and catches a cold when the wind blows, why do you think? It’s the internal factors at work. So basically, when you have a problem with the internal cause, your internal defense system collapses, then the six external sensations can take effect.
So, we say that, in addition to the car accident ah what knife wound cut in addition to these things, then it should be said that all diseases are often related to your heart. So the first thing we need to learn is that a good value. This value in the ancient books, we talk about “Tao Te Ching” for so long, a good value, in line with the “Tao” values.
So I always say this, that is, before the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” what should be said, talk about the “Tao Te Ching”, is to talk about the “Tao”, to the “Classic of Internal Medicine” this, the actual many words and “Tao Te Ching” is the same. But the Inner Classic doesn’t talk much, because you’ve already finished the Tao, and the Inner Classic talks about it again. If you understand the Tao, what if you have any questions? The “Inner Scriptures” will tell you one layer after another.
Therefore, after you have realized the Tao, you can be calm and void, or else how can you be calm and void? Your values are normal, I feel that fame and fortune do not matter, let go of it, I do things openly, I can do my best for everyone, just go with the flow, I do not care about the gains and losses. Only in this state can you enter the state of “tranquility and emptiness” spoken of in the Nei Jing, and then “the true qi will come from it”, and then “the disease will come from it”? If you are in a state of tranquility and emptiness, your true qi will follow it, and your qi and blood will run normally, so where does the disease come from? Right?
So first of all, the “Inner Classic” is not talking about the “Tao”. The ancient people were like this, often a classical talk about a content. Like Confucius, people do not talk about “Tao”, you finish “Tao”, “Tao Te Ching”, Lao Tzu finished, I will not talk about it, I will talk about what you should do. So Confucius is talking about the code of conduct for us ordinary people, but the content of the Tao, the core of those, Lao Tzu has finished. You can’t say, “Oh, look, he’s missing in Confucius,” right?
So like this “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” is also, in front of the Laozi “Tao Te Ching” is finished, so “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” about what? It’s about the next one. People say you have reversed this generation, right? The Yellow Emperor is in the front, and Lao Tzu is in the back, right? In fact, the book was written very late, basically in the Han Dynasty. Like Laozi is the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the Warring States period, we can see the silk book A B book. Then in the Han Dynasty, the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” became a book.
So these ideas, of course, the ancient times have been, is later people edited into a book. Then this time in fact, is that people compiled into a book is some of the content, that “Tao Te Ching” finished speaking, I will not speak. So what is it? This “Tao Te Ching” is not the thought of Lao Tzu at that time, that thought is the ancient era of the monarchs of these countries to govern the state, his thoughts, this is the content of the “Tao”. So these contents are also from the ancient times.
So the “Tao” of the ancient times, and the “Way of Health” in the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine”, in fact, after the “Tao” in the front, then the “Classic of Internal Medicine” does not talk much In fact, I will start talking about how to regulate the mind, that is the world view of the problem in front of the end, after I will talk about regulating the mental state of the mind on the line. So, this order we understand, we know that in fact we learn this health concept, health concept, concern for their own health, the first you have to clarify the concept of life.
Secondly, what is it? You know more about the relationship between people and nature, your perspective on the world. Don’t think that I am the only one, my desires are important, I am the first, not so. You are too small, too small inside nature, you have to respect everything around you. Be able to be objective about your own body, how our body corresponds to nature, and you see how nature understands its own body. This is how we treat our body with this harmonious attitude towards nature, and you will be much better off.
So, after we have this grand perspective, then we can look at it in more detail, and then we can adjust our mental state. This is what we have to learn, how to adjust the mind. After the orientation of life view, adjust the mind, how to our mind to be able to overcome some bad emotions, because you bad emotions must come out at any time, no one can brag ah, I also have, everyone has. But how can we control it, so that it does not burst out at any time, we need to adjust it, there is a method. So we need to learn this.
And then what do you learn next? After you learn these things to adjust your mind. How do we learn this? Learn some ancient classics, learn some classics, read more and listen to them. On the contrary, when you sit at night, every day you use this to adjust your mind, when you encounter something, hey, I think about what the classics say? You do this, after the mind is slowly adjusted, in fact, the next things are better to do.
So what’s the next step? We learn some regulation of qi and blood. Like the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” so vast a masterpiece, what is the main talk? It is mainly about the above first to regulate the spirit, the cosmic view, the world view, how to see the world and the human body correspondence. And then what is the majority of the content about? It is about the operation of qi and blood, about acupuncture, acupuncture, moxibustion, and so on. The prescriptions in the “Nei Jing”, a total of only 13 prescriptions, very little, he did not think this to that extent is not important.
So what do we learn? Learn to regulate the qi and blood of these meridian points, external treatment method. This is what I suggest that we learn to learn the open hand of Chinese medicine to learn, we do not learn to open the prescription first. So what is this? It is these meridian points or something, we should learn to understand, press which place has what effect, we moxibustion have what effect. We often scrape gua sha, cupping a cupping, often massage, learn these things.
The Inner Classic devotes a lot of space to this, what does it mean? It means that this is very important. The Nei Jing believes that if your outlook on life is well adjusted and your heart is well adjusted, any minor problems can be solved by adjusting the meridians. So this is what I told everyone to go and learn, this is the external treatment method of this content. If you can learn a good moxibustion, you can learn a good gua sha, I think this is a great thing.
I once saw that there is the rice grain moxibustion, very small, very small, the moxa rolled into a small grain of rice so big, put on the body, and then lit, take the incense to point, lit after burning, hey “sizzle” a little pain, a little pain, this kind of rice grain moxibustion. I once saw an old Korean doctor who was the health care provider for the Korean team during the Olympics. The old man lived a long life, he was so rice grain moxibustion, every day so moxibustion, moxibustion for themselves. The points are familiar to everyone, but you do not practice it. The actual fact is that you have the opportunity to learn a variety of methods, you learn this external treatment method, in fact, I think the body recovery ratio will be much higher. So we should learn this.
What else should we learn besides this? The next thing to learn some food therapy, is what I recommend to you now, I have been recommending the content of food therapy. For example, the wai yam, longan meat, Chen Pi, ginseng, ginseng, astragalus, wolfberry, etc.. How do these things work? If you can use these medicinal and food stuffs well, I think basically many problems can be solved.
Even I think the most important thing is what? The most important thing is to build a good foundation for the body. For example, you often use a bit of ripe ground, nothing to soak some, nothing to boil some water to drink, boil soup to drink a drink, then the kidney gas is sufficient, you have a little what the problem, adjust the body well adjusted, kidney gas is sufficient. You often pregnant yam ah, lotus seed meat ah what, etc., the spleen and stomach well adjusted, the right qi complemented, then you have some small problems, you adjust very easy. So what is this called? It is to lay the foundation.
If you can apply this to your life, you use the kitchen well, I think this is particularly good, this is slowly and invisibly to adjust the body so a way, so we can learn this. And it is the food itself, so we can use.
Then next, you can learn a little knowledge of Chinese medicine and prescription content and so on, can learn some. So overall, the theory must be mastered before you can learn the prescriptions. What does it mean? You can’t say this is the only disease, I have this prescription for this disease, that’s not true. What is Chinese medicine? You must learn the theoretical framework of Chinese medicine well and know what is going on in Chinese medicine.
Now many people actually do not play a good framework, we say the rhinitis we use the orchid and yuan ginseng soup, then he, ah the original chronic rhinitis on the orchid and yuan ginseng soup, ah, this good this good. He did not learn at all, right? When the body is not solidified outside the body, and then the lack of yang will cause this problem, then why does the orange stalk and yuan ginseng soup work? He does not know, he just think that this disease is used this formula, that is not right. You must master the theoretical basis of Chinese medicine and explain the whole theory clearly. I know what this person’s Wei Qi is for, what it is for, where it comes from, and what its effects are. You know everything. So what is its relationship with Yang Qi, you have to grasp, then it is part of Yang Qi, Yang Qi is weak, then the Wei Qi will definitely be weak, then there will be this problem.
So, after you master the whole theory, you know that a problem with the nose, then there is cold and heat, some is caused by Yang Qi deficiency, then the external cold is easy to attack, the external guard is not solid. Sometimes there is heat, heat toxin stagnation, in this specific area, there is heat. Then at this time, we need to clear heat and promote the lung. Then sometimes, we need to warm Yang, then regulate Yang Qi, regulate the rise and fall of Qi, and then, increase the energy of Wei Qi. So this is what you need to understand before you can use such a formula.
So, the whole Chinese medicine we talk about is a framework, in this framework, in this evidence, each of our prescriptions serve each evidence, so that the body can be adjusted. After the body is adjusted, the so-called disease can be cured, that disease is just a result. So we must understand this.
Never what? I am particularly afraid that people do not learn anything in Chinese medicine, just want a prescription. Oh, how do I do with this shoulder pain, what prescription do I need? How do I know how to do it? You have shoulder pain, right? There are all kinds of shoulder pain, from blood stasis to cold, all different. It could be heat, damp-heat in it, the situation is different.
So what do you have to do? You must find out if it is a strain of the fascia, what is the specific location of the problem, what is the cause of it, what is the relationship with the outside, for example, with cold and dampness, or with dampness and heat, what is the relationship between the internal qi and blood, whether there is phlegm condensation in the inside, whether there is blood stasis in the inside and so on. You have to analyze the symptoms, and after you analyze the symptoms, you can solve the symptoms, adjust it, and then the shoulder pain will disappear.
So we must explain clearly to everyone, this is especially now, many people say to me that the shoulder pain, why? In winter, when the shoulders are exposed, the house is hot in the first half of the night and cold in the second half of the night, the shoulders are exposed in the first half of the night and cold in the second half of the night, so the shoulders are cold, and often on one side. You have to analyze this situation and it is related to cold. Then you use some Pueraria Mirifica soup or something, add some outwardly dispersing medicine, replenish the qi and blood, and you will soon be well. This is, you have to find the cause, and then find this evidence, you see his tongue should be light, the side of the teeth marks, this kind of people are not enough qi and blood, yang is not enough, then a cold night his shoulders can not stand.
The most recent is that a lot of people have back pain, recently many people have back pain, do not know why the back pain. The cold season, then the body if the meridians are not smooth, Yang Qi is not enough, then the cold, the whole atmosphere outside became cold, your body can not stand it, waist pain. So what should we do at this time? This waist pain, especially some people are up in the morning waist pain, then to strengthen the kidney waist, right? Because you are what, this is a manifestation of the lack of vital energy, kidney Qi deficiency. The lumbar is the house of the kidney, so nourish the kidney, slightly warming the kidney Yang, and then there must be blood stasis, add some stasis, remove blood stasis, then this can be resolved.
You need to know the external climate change, the external environmental changes and your body, what constitution is prone to this, constitution, qi and blood, qi and blood yin and yang to analyze clearly, and then so? After the symptoms are clear, you can adjust for the symptoms. That some people are damp-heat, damp-heat is not so, you need to cool the blood, remove damp-heat, etc., a variety of methods to regulate.
Therefore, do not learn a prescription to cure a disease, not so, we must have this concept. It must be the so-called we talk about a disease, Chinese medicine is a number of symptoms, we the prescription to adjust this symptom. If you have this framework in mind, then it will seem easier. So, we must master this, okay? This is what I talked to you about.
Then the specific study, what do you say to learn? In fact, I speak every day of the voice is a way to learn, every day of the voice to let everyone understand. I have been trying to let you understand the whole framework of Chinese medicine, through a case by case, how many possibilities there are for Chinese medicine to treat diseases, how he thinks about it, this is to teach you a way of thinking.
If you really want to learn, what can you read? Chinese medicine has a textbook called “Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine”, a textbook of Chinese medicine. This is the theory of Chinese medicine from the beginning to give a lecture, which has what theoretical framework, probably can understand a little. Then go to the specific contents of the following, prescriptions, herbal medicine, what drugs are used, etc., and then go to study.
This basic theory of Chinese medicine, there is an opportunity to give you a lecture, this I have always wanted to talk about, has not been told. Two days ago, I wanted to record a little, but then because the content is too large, I did not speak. I will give you the opportunity to talk about the basic theory of Chinese medicine. This we must open hands to learn, to get the basic concepts clear, the theory clear, and then on top of this foundation to learn these contents of Chinese medicine, this is my advice to everyone to raise.
Then specific? In fact, when learning, we try not to learn too boring, such as moxibustion, cupping or something, external treatment method you take yourself to practice, family members to practice, to everyone constantly to use, in the process of using gradually mastered.
Food therapy these things, you can usually use, experience experience, slowly experience experience experience you will know which is suitable for me, my body has what situation, you use in practice, because this is food therapy things, are food to eat up nothing, you say I eat barley what I eat, that is fine, yam how to eat nothing. What is this? In itself is food, you can use it.
What about specific prescriptions? You must learn to be sure that when you are sure, it is best to have a nearby doctor to guide you before you use it, so that it is good. This is the way to learn Chinese medicine, I’ll give you this once.
What about here? I want you to have fun learning, so I am talking about medical cases, ancient doctors to see the story, then through the method of medical cases to learn. If you have mastered the medical cases, listening to the interesting, I want to explore what is going on, you can take a look at the Chinese medicine textbook. At this time, and then look at the textbook, many doubts will suddenly clear up, ah, so Dr. Luo medical cases always talk about this Yang deficiency, so this is the concept of Yang deficiency, I understand, so this you will progress.
So this is how I talk to you about how to learn Chinese medicine, the path to learning Chinese medicine. If these foundations are well laid, and you move on to professional development, then you will find every doctor in ancient times to specialize, you will “worship”, called “private Shu”, we call “private Shu”. What do you mean by “private Shu”? Although I did not meet him directly to learn from him, but I wanted to learn from him in private, I read his book. So a medical practitioner so learned, you will be deep.
A friend said I read Chen Shiduo’s books and I made great progress. Yes, if you have read Chen Shiduo’s book thoroughly, you are definitely a master, even more than many professional TCM practitioners. So you can go deeper, you can learn more from ancient doctors and read more books, this is a higher level of improvement.
So today, to talk to you about this, people always ask me this question, I gave you a talk. Then I hope that you will not return empty-handed to this treasure, to a cave, which is full of treasures, dazzling, oh my God, this vast sea of such treasures, we do not return empty-handed. Everyone learn Chinese medicine, learn some treasure back, you can definitely protect your body, this is very good for everyone, okay?
Dear friends, thank you for listening, that’s all for today. I hope that the more you learn, the better you get, the more you learn, the more progress you make, and I hope you gain a lot.