As the saying goes, "three points for governance and seven points for support". Although tonic and therapy are two different concepts, they are interrelated. The physiological activities of the human body have a perfect command and regulation system, and nurturing is to mobilize the human body's own regulation ability to resist various unfavorable factors from the outside world and overcome diseases. Many human diseases are difficult to be cured by taking medicine and injections alone, and paying attention to raising the disease has a more positive effect than treating the disease.
In real cases, we often find that the symptoms of many patients with chronic diseases are extremely difficult to control. Why is this? Because patients still go their own way and continue their lifestyle that is not conducive to the disease, here are a few examples:
For example, a person who likes to drink alcohol receives liver protection treatment from a doctor after acute hepatitis. But if he still insists on drinking, then he may have acute liver necrosis, which may cause jaundice, liver coma and other symptoms; A man who loves Chili peppers received antibiotic treatment from a doctor after acute tonsillitis. But if he still insists on eating Chili, then he may have acute septicemia, which may cause high fever, coma and other symptoms; A smoker received antibiotic treatment from a doctor after suffering from chronic bronchitis. But if he still insists on smoking, then he may have acute respiratory failure, which may cause symptoms such as holding his breath and coma; A man who loves mutton received the doctor's anti-cold treatment after upper respiratory tract infection. But if he still insists on eating mutton, then he may get pneumonia, and there will be symptoms such as high fever and difficulty breathing. There are many such examples.
Therefore, patients must correct their wrong lifestyle while receiving treatment, otherwise they will not be able to recover. This is why patients are required to be divided into three and seven parts.
2. Diet is the golden key to three-part governance and seven-part nutrition.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a famous saying in Huangdi Neijing that "the diet should be moderate and the five flavors should be harmonious". In the article, the words "deficiency should be supplemented, drugs should be removed, and food should be followed" point out that patients should not rely solely on drugs in the treatment process, but must closely cooperate with diet conditioning. When people are sick, the viscera, qi, blood and body fluids will be damaged and consumed to varying degrees, especially acute high fever, vomiting, diarrhea and chronic consumptive diseases such as tumor, heart disease, liver disease and kidney disease, which will damage healthy qi and yin blood. Dietary aftercare should supplement, support and lose nutrients and body fluids according to different situations, so as to meet the needs of the body and repair tissues.
According to the loss characteristics of acute and chronic diseases, Chinese medicine focuses on the diet nursing methods of nursing "stomach qi" and disease rehabilitation.
The so-called care for "stomach qi" means that in the process of disease development, the digestion and absorption capacity of the spleen and stomach will be affected, so that its function will decline. At this time, it is not advisable to eat greasy, greasy, sweet, thick and spicy food, so as not to increase the burden of digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach and damage the function of the spleen and stomach again. Instead, we should choose light, nutritious and digestible food, such as egg custard, egg drop soup, milk, soybean milk and so on. This diet has practical significance for acute and chronic diseases, especially for acute fever, vomiting, diarrhea and other diseases. As Su Wen in Neijing said, "Fewer fever leads to recovery, while more food leads to loss". It means that when you have a fever, your body temperature drops slightly or just returns to normal after treatment, and you are eager to eat meat or eat more to make up for it. In this way, it is easy to make the fever relapse or even worsen, because the food intake stays in the gastrointestinal tract too much, which is difficult to digest, but it will leave the root cause, that is, the occurrence of "disease legacy or food relapse". In fact, in the process of illness and recovery, the choice of diet, in the problem of "disease left over" or "food recovery", not only refers to fever, but also includes chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as vomiting and diarrhea. Therefore, we should not only pay attention to "taboo" things, but also choose edible products that are conducive to conditioning and nourishing stomach qi and promoting physical recovery on the premise of caring for stomach qi according to the condition. Only in this way can we ensure the best effect of "seven-point repair"
In the recovery period of the disease, porridge is easy to digest and nutritious when it is first pushed. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Porridge is extremely soft and greasy, compatible with the stomach and intestines, and it is the top grade", and said that "porridge can bring forth the old and bring forth the new, benefit the diaphragm and stomach", such as red bean porridge and mung bean porridge, which have the functions of detoxification, detumescence and annoyance; Lotus seed porridge and lily porridge have the effects of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, moistening the lungs and regulating the intestines, and so on. It can be seen that porridge plays an extraordinary role in the recuperation and rehabilitation of the human body. However, it is obviously not enough for people with deficiency of both qi and blood but no excess heat. When the principle of "essence is not enough to supplement taste" is adopted, fresh fish and tender meat can be eaten properly, just as "medicine is better than food", so as to strengthen the spleen and stomach, fill the source of qi and blood, enhance the disease resistance, coordinate the functions of viscera and make various diseases recover.
It is important to insist on diet and aftercare. Compendium of Materia Medica once recorded that a monk treated a patient with severe diabetes and recovered after eating pears for many years. It is recorded in Records of Western Medical Fever that Zhang Xichun treated a patient with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. If he took the medicine for invigorating the spleen and relieving diarrhea, the fire would go against the sky (get angry), and then he told the patient that it would be fine to take the yam porridge orally for several months. These are also good cases in which "seven-point nutrition" works. But stick to it and persevere. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "qi increases for a long time, materialization becomes normal", which means that as long as you eat a very common nourishing food often, you can play an obvious role in invigorating qi for a long time.
In short, in the process of "seven-point nutrition", diet aftercare will play a very important auxiliary role in the treatment and rehabilitation of various acute and chronic diseases, which can not be ignored.
3. Good mood is the key to three-part rule and seven-part support.
Emotion is of great significance to the rehabilitation of diseases. If the disease is caused by bad emotions, especially physical and mental diseases, it must be nursed back to health. As the saying goes, "heart disease needs heart medicine." Emotion-induced diseases cannot be cured by drugs. Only by adjusting mood and improving emotional state can we achieve physical and mental health.
In another case, the patient's condition is not caused by emotional changes, but after illness, abnormal emotional activities often aggravate the condition. Chinese medicine has a saying that "illness leads to depression, and illness leads to depression". Clinically, it is also common for patients who have not recovered from a long illness to have emotional abnormalities, anxiety, depression or sadness, and excessive depression and sadness will in turn aggravate the condition and even get sick. Especially the elderly, can't stand the mental shock. If emotional fluctuation is caused by excessive pressure and stimulation, it will cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular spasm and further raise blood pressure. For example, when angry, blood pressure rises sharply, which will lead to a stroke. If you are a patient with coronary heart disease, in a rage, it will also make the coronary artery contract and spasm, leading to angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. There are many patients with tumor and cancer who are induced by persistent or intense emotional stimulation on the basis of chronic diseases.
It can be seen that bad emotional stimulation will aggravate the illness after illness, but good emotional stimulation is conducive to the recovery of the disease. During illness, a relaxed mood, optimistic mood and cheerful spirit can make qi and blood harmonious and yin and yang secret, which is conducive to the improvement of physical fitness and the rehabilitation of the disease. Not only that, the human body is in a healthy state, maintaining the harmony of emotions and emotions, but also helping to prevent diseases.
4. Living is the Great Wall of Wan Li, which is divided into three parts and seven parts.
Doctors in China have attached great importance to daily life. As early as in Neijing, it was said: "The ancient people, those who knew, combined yin and yang, combined tricks, moderate diet, regular life, and did not move, so they could be in harmony with God and die at the age of 100." It shows that in order to maintain health and longevity, we must understand the laws of natural development, adapt to the climate of the four seasons, and have a moderate diet and regular daily life. Otherwise, it will affect the physiological function of human body, lead to disorder of qi movement or exhaustion of essence, and thus produce diseases. Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, pointed out in Qian Jin Fang: "It is common to lie down at four o'clock in the morning and evening and live in harmony." "If you don't act quickly, your ears won't listen, your eyes won't look quickly, you won't be tired if you sit near, and you can't lie down; Cold and clothing first, heat and solution first, hungry and don't want to eat, but not enough to eat; I don't want to drink, because I'm very thirsty, and I don't want to drink too much. " It shows that it is of great significance to do a good job of daily life conditioning in patients' rehabilitation.
(1) Hygiene of residence: When you are sick, you must pay attention to the hygiene of your residence. It is found that when we cook indoors, we will produce a lot of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfuric acid fog and chlorine dioxide. After the house is renovated, it will emit harmful substances such as formaldehyde; If you smoke in the room, it will give off harmful smoke ... If patients recuperate in such a closed space, the consequences will be unimaginable. In addition, if you have a cold or have germs in your mouth and nose, their spittle when coughing or sneezing can make the air contain about 20,000 bacteria per cubic meter, while in a clean room, there are generally only about 5,000.
Therefore, when you are recovering from illness at home, you must pay attention to keeping the indoor air fresh and often open the window for ventilation. Besides making the indoor air fresh, we should also let more sunlight into the room. Sunlight has a bactericidal effect. When it shines on the body, it will dilate blood vessels and speed up blood flow, bring fresh blood to the organs of the whole body and discharge waste. At the same time, sunlight can also help the human body to make vitamin D, making your bones stronger.
(2) Combination of motion and static: Usually people think that you should have the appearance of recovering from illness, and you should lie quietly in bed. It seems that only by resting with peace of mind can a disease be cured. In fact, when you are recovering from illness, you can choose to be active or still according to the specific situation.
For those who suffer from serious diseases, it is really good for their health to lie down and recuperate. Because when people are lying down, the energy consumption of the body is greatly reduced. The blood flow of many organs such as abdomen and liver will increase; Rest can also reduce the burden on the heart and lungs. These are definitely good for the recovery of the body.
For those who are not seriously ill, it is not good for their health if they just lie down and do not move. For example, the body will become thinner or fatter; Limb weakness, slow movement, stiff joints and osteoporosis; Sometimes when you get up suddenly, you will feel dizzy, dizzy, and even collapse and faint. People's spirit will also become depressed and depressed.
Therefore, it is necessary to decide whether to be active or static according to your illness and your physique. Both kinds of exercise should not be excessive, and moderate combination is good for health.
(3) Illness should be treated lightly: China ancient health experts put forward that "taking medicine to cure diseases and using food to support diseases". Therefore, in the recovery period, diet is very important. Only by eating and drinking well can the body recover as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, when people are sick, they often feel that they have no appetite and can't eat anything. This is because when we are sick, our gastrointestinal tract will also be affected by bacteria, making it unable to exercise normally, so we will lose our appetite and our digestive function will become poor. At this time, the diet should be more delicious, nutritious and digestible to supplement the metabolic consumption in human diseases.
In the choice of food, there is no need to eat delicious fish, because the body is sick, even if you eat these greasy, strong-smelling foods, it is not easy to digest, and eating too much will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, and you will not get good results. On the contrary, it is more beneficial to eat light food when you are sick. For example, eating porridge when you have a fever not only supplements water, but also facilitates digestion and absorption; Eating "soft rice" (rotten food) when the fever has gone down is more conducive to the recovery of the body.
During illness, we should also pay attention to eating more vegetables, because each vegetable is rich in various vitamins, and eating various vegetables is beneficial to the intake of various vitamins. But eat it in moderation, and don't overdo it every meal. When you feel hungry in the afternoon or evening, you can add some snacks to supplement.
(4) Regular life: Many people have a rest when they are sick, and there is no regular life: they get up whenever they want, go to bed whenever they want, play whenever they want, and get up late to be greedy, which is very unfavorable to disease and health. Because irregular life will disrupt the normal operation of internal organs, so that blood sugar can not be well controlled, many complications will develop unconsciously; Limbs will often feel numb and painful; Renal damage can lead to uremia; Because arteriosclerosis can cause coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, and even death in severe cases. And because fun will make the human body too tired, it is not suitable for physical recovery. Therefore, in the recovery period, life must be orderly and orderly, which is conducive to the improvement of the condition.
—— Quoted from Master of Disease Prevention by Yanbian People's Publishing House.