Psychotherapy has a long history. As early as more than 2000 years ago, Chinese medicine attached great importance to the important role of psychological factors in treatment. Neijing pointed out: "If the spirit does not advance, the ambition will not heal, and the disease will not heal;" Spiritual progress and ambition dominate, so the disease can be cured. "This fully shows that a positive mental state is conducive to curing diseases, while a negative mental state is difficult to cure diseases.
Traditional Chinese medicine attaches importance to the combination of drug therapy, acupuncture therapy and psychotherapy, and to eliminating the negative psychological factors of patients before and during treatment. In drug treatment, it is also emphasized that feelings are wishful thinking and can be cured; If you don't understand, it is difficult to have results.
There are many forms of psychotherapy in traditional Chinese medicine:
Explain enlightened psychotherapy. This kind of psychotherapy originated from Neijing. Reasoning-inspired psychotherapy mainly includes four aspects. The first aspect is to "tell them to lose", that is, to point out the harm of the disease, arouse patients' attention to the disease, and let patients take the disease seriously. Second, "words are good", that is, it shows that as long as we cooperate with medical staff, treat in time and take proper measures, we can restore health and enhance patients' confidence in overcoming diseases. The third is to "guide him to his place", that is, to tell the patient how to recuperate and point out the specific measures for treatment. Fourth, "open it with its bitterness", that is, relieve the patient's negative psychological state. This shows that this psychological enlightenment therapy is characterized by the integration of knowledge and practice.
Emotional psychotherapy: this kind of psychotherapy originated from Neijing, saying that anger hurts the liver, sadness trumps anger, joy hurts, fear trumps joy, thinking hurts the spleen, anger trumps thinking, sad lungs, joy trumps worry, fear hurts the kidney, and thinking trumps fear. Practice has proved that it is effective to treat emotional illness according to this treatment method.
Shock psychotherapy: this is a method of using mental stimulation to treat human physiological dysfunction. For example, Neijing recorded the treatment of general functional hiccups: "Bang, it is ok to be frightened." It is said that when people burp, they can be treated by vomiting and shock.
Menopause is a turning point in life. From then on, people will grow old and weak. When we are young, we can do whatever we want, stay up late, work hard, dance, run, and eat whatever we want. Now in the late middle age, after the most prosperous point of life, our life will begin to decline. This is a natural law that no one can change. We can be mentally dissatisfied with our old age and make ourselves look ten years younger, but the change and weakening of our bodies are irresistible. Therefore, when treating the body, we must respect the laws of nature, begin to be kind to the body, learn some maintenance knowledge, and reduce the workload of excessive physical consumption, thus delaying the menopause process, alleviating menopausal symptoms, and achieving a healthy and long-lived future. Therefore, menopause should also be the beginning of a new way of life and a new beginning of life. To effectively deal with the body decay of menopause and alleviate menopausal symptoms, it is best to pay attention to the following aspects:
Starting to pay attention to maintenance in life, we can often see that some people who pay attention to maintenance often reach middle age or menopause; But he can always look younger than his peers or his actual age, and his body and spirit seem to be better than his peers, so he is not easy to look haggard. "Menopause" is a turning point for people to turn from prosperity to decline. At this time, maintenance is particularly important. It's like a car after driving for a period of time, which has reached the stage of wear and tear and has to be carefully maintained. If carefully maintained, you can have fewer failures and less maintenance. If it is not maintained or improperly maintained, it will break down.
By the end of middle age and menopause, all the viscera and organs of the human body have reached the moment of functional decline, and the coordination between blood circulation, metabolism, endocrine, nerve reflex and other functions has also greatly declined. At this time, the best maintenance method is to let the body conform to the laws of nature and not to overdo it; Rest when it is time to rest, and you can relax; It's time to cure diseases, not to procrastinate. At this time, the best maintenance is to have a regular life and be cautious, such as:
Pay attention to the change of temperature in the four seasons, and pay attention to increasing or decreasing clothes at any time according to the change of seasons, because during menopause, the body is in the process of adjusting endocrine and viscera functions, and the constitution will be weak, susceptible to exogenous pathogens, and the disease will not be cured easily, and some will become chronic diseases, which will become intractable diseases for the elderly. Underwear should be soft and pure cotton, because after menopause, people's skin will become sensitive to chemical fiber fabrics, prone to itching, fungal infections and other skin diseases. Clothes with poor air permeability can also make people feel uncomfortable.
Go to bed early and get up early, and stay up late less. The human body has a considerable relationship with natural laws such as day and night changes, seasonal changes and temperature changes. For example, scientists have found that human growth hormone and some substances related to disease recovery are secreted by the pituitary gland in the middle of the night after people fall asleep. If people always stay up after midnight, it may affect the secretion of such substances, thus affecting people's growth and recovery from diseases. Some children are not tall, because they always don't go to bed on time and always stay up late. Most people will never get well if they don't sleep well after they get sick. If you can sleep soundly, you will often get better soon, which is the best explanation. When people reach menopause, their body functions are not so good and their adaptability is greatly reduced. If you can arrange your work and rest according to the laws of nature, your body can run smoothly according to inertia. If you go against the laws of nature, your body may not work properly. Therefore, staying up late less, working and sleeping on time and before 10 every day are very beneficial to the health of menopause. Some people pay great attention to physical maintenance after they reach the age of 40. No matter what happens, they insist on going to bed at 9 o'clock every day. As long as there is no neurasthenia, such people will definitely look better than their peers, and they will certainly not look haggard and absent-minded.
However, if you don't work hard, it will make you tired, increase the burden on the viscera, and consume energy, which is unfavorable to the physical maintenance of menopause. So it's best to pay attention to the moderation of work and rest and exercise, and don't make people too tired. There is a folk saying that "you are not exhausted, but lazy", which is actually not accurate. In today's society, because of fierce competition and the pursuit of fame, money is taken too seriously by some people, and many people are still exhausted. Some company bosses rush about for profits every day and suddenly die at their desks; Some writers bury themselves in writing, which is called "writing to death"; Some professors lamented before the death of cancer that "living long and not teaching" are all examples. Of course, some people have to work hard to die because of life. In short, if people work too much and lose too much energy and physical strength, their bodies will be unbearable and get sick, so we must pay attention to it. Menopausal people are weak, and their work, family and psychological burdens are heavy. In particular, they need to pay attention to this aspect of maintenance, learn to relax themselves more, arrange more leisure opportunities for themselves, relax their hearts more and reduce some laborious things.
On the other hand, menopause should also pay attention to overcoming lazy habits, especially menopausal men. Many men sit at their desks all day at work, drive to and from work, do little housework after returning home, and often sit in front of the TV for hours after meals, which is extremely harmful to their health. Now some foreign experts believe that male climacteric syndrome is not so much a disease as it is caused by bad living habits such as laziness. Of course, this is biased, but it also shows that male menopause syndrome is still related to laziness.
In the past, people had to deal with a lot of labor. At home, they have to cut wood, carry water and repair the house by themselves, and their bodies will become stronger because of more labor. Nowadays, life is convenient, heavy work is replaced by machines or social services, and the amount of labor is greatly reduced, especially for men, which greatly increases the number of patients with renal metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, heart disease and diabetes. Therefore, Hong Zhaoguang, a health expert, said that people become "the bigger their waistlines, the shorter their life expectancy"
"Labor is the best doctor" is a famous saying popular in the West. Proper daily labor is very beneficial to people's health. It can make people strong and flexible, have comfortable blood gas, keep the internal organs active at all times, enhance immunity and effectively defend against diseases. Now experts also found that labor is very beneficial to keep people's brains active and healthy, and can effectively reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Even a small task like sweeping the floor and washing dishes at home is very beneficial to keep the body and brain flexible, because the fingers move, the bones move and the brain moves. Life lies in exercise. Menopausal people should pay special attention not to let diseases take advantage of it, and appropriately increase their labor, especially those who work in cities, and consciously increase their labor, reduce the time spent watching TV, and overcome bad habits such as laziness and sofa dependence.
Remember the old Chinese doctor's words: one slow disease leads to many diseases.
Pay attention to window ventilation to prevent thieves. According to the research report of relevant experts, if people don't pay attention to the ventilation of the house, the harmful bacteria in the room will be 16 times higher than that in the ventilated room, and the harmful gases and human waste gas discharged indoors will also be concentrated. People who don't pay attention to the ventilation of windows in their rooms are obviously prone to colds and other diseases, and their recovery will be slower and their symptoms will be heavier. The resistance of menopausal people will decrease, and the demand for fresh oxygen will increase. So pay attention to the problem of room ventilation, and don't be lazy to open the window. It is best to open the window after getting up early every day in winter to let in fresh air. You can open the window for ventilation before going to bed at night. In summer, windows or transoms can be open 24 hours a day; Spring and autumn can be slightly opened or left with gaps, and the window opening time can be appropriately extended. Opening the window as a necessary health care measure. Of course, when you open the window, you should pay attention to prevent thieves from blowing directly into the sleeping human body to avoid catching cold.
When people reach menopause, the body's ability to resist diseases will be reduced, and the ability to dispel wind will also be reduced. When they are caught by the wind, they are prone to colds, joint pains, disharmony between tendons and veins, and pain caused by cold and blood coagulation. Therefore, when they often open windows, they should also pay attention to wind protection, especially to prevent thieves from sneaking into the gap between windows and doors. Chinese medicine believes that this kind of wind is the most likely to hurt people and cause diseases, especially for people who fall asleep at night. Menopausal men are prone to shoulder periarthritis and joint pain, while menopausal women are prone to headache, migraine and shoulder periarthritis. Therefore, we should pay special attention to prevent thieves from invading, and pay more attention to closing windows or sheltering from the wind at night.