I was in a mess all the way and stumbled all the way. I always feel that I can't get in the door. Looking back, I found that the foundation was very shallow and the Chinese medicine literacy was not enough. At least the foundation is not thick enough. This can only be accumulated from the four books of Chinese medicine, and this foundation cannot be skipped, that is, the four books of Chinese medicine.
How to read the four classics? What is the reading order? I summed up the method recommended by Teacher Ni, and now I am taking this road and learning from the source again.
Want to study medicine
Let me give you a suggestion. You must read ... the classics when you are free, and often read these five classics. These five classics are from Ni's Chronicle of Mankind:
The first is acupuncture;
The second book is Shennong Herbal Classic:
The third part is Huangdi Neijing;
The fourth is Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
The fifth is synopsis of the golden chamber.
You must be familiar with these five classics, such as physiology, pathology and anatomy. These things have decreased, but the amount of Huangdi Neijing has increased. You can read in depth, sentence by sentence, chapter by chapter, and then grind this Huangdi Neijing word by word. If you don't understand Huangdi Neijing and Shennong Materia Medica, you can't understand typhoid fever. I survived, and it was Zhang Zhongjing from the beginning. Then, what Zhang Zhongjing couldn't do then, that is, "Yin is actually dead" mentioned in synopsis of the golden chamber, Zhang Zhongjing can't do it, but you can do it now.
These five books are in order. It's important at the beginning. Just like when we go ... the first step of the child is the most important.
Therefore, the first step is very important.
First of all, acupuncture
Let me give you this advice-start with acupuncture. Not Huangdi Neijing.
Because acupuncture is a very studious thing. Then all acupuncture theories are based on difficult classics. The most frequently mentioned is "Difficult Classics", so the whole "Difficult Classics" is simply acupuncture.
You really should learn difficult classics according to ancient times. From those classics that are difficult to learn, you should go to see acupuncture, and see acupuncture classics, such as Acupuncture Gathering English and Acupuncture A-B Classic, which are all good acupuncture ancient books. After acupuncture, it is very strong, because acupuncture covers the twelve meridians, and at the same time, everything in the five internal organs, such as the liver is blue, the liver dominates the east, and the heart is fire ... The south is fire, which dominates the red. This acupuncture is all about details.
The twelve meridians itself is directly related to zang-fu organs, so for example, we have liver meridian of foot Jueyin, gallbladder meridian of foot Shaoyang, bladder meridian of foot Taiyang and kidney meridian of foot Shaoyin. There is an exterior-interior relationship between zang-fu organs. For example, the kidney and bladder are exterior-interior, and the bladder meridian with sufficient sun and kidney meridian with insufficient yin are exterior-interior, one yin and one yang, and there are two meridians in them.
Therefore, there are two meridians inside and outside the zang-fu organs, one yin and one yang supporting each other, helping each other and supporting each other. In the case of the balance of Yin and Yang, these are our the twelve meridians, and we must understand them. At the same time, the direction of meridians is very important, which can help us to differentiate syndromes, and there is the "second time" of acupoints, our understanding of acupoints. ...
And the tenderness points above your acupoints can also help us diagnose.
Where is the disease? So if you are familiar with the twelve meridians, you can know the interaction of human internal organs very well. Before you read Huangdi Neijing, you had a basic idea. Let's talk about the strange classics and eight veins you just said. We have eight strange meridians, namely, pulse-rushing, pulse-taking, pulse-ren, pulse-du, dimension of yin and yang, and alternation of yin and yang.
These twelve meridians are like this bamboo pole inserted underground, but these twelve are cut ... If you insert them in a circle, it's useless to tie them, and the bamboo pole will fall down. So there must be that circle next to ... Howl, whether that circle is made of bamboo or wire, this bamboo must be there. We have a good method ... mainly this circle and fence. Only in this way can it become a net and cultivate it in it. Then, it's up to these things around you to fix the twelve meridians.
Therefore, it is necessary to have this peculiar experience, and the twelve meridians can only become a whole when mixed together.
Second, "Shennong Herbal Classic"
When you study Shennong's herbal classics, you should understand the annotations in Shennong's herbal classics. It is better to read ancient books than Compendium of Materia Medica and Pharmacopoeia written by modern people. That record is useless. If you remember the pharmacopoeia, such as Compendium of Materia Medica, it is mentioned that there are 100 kinds of drugs that can treat cough. Howl, and then this, for example, this ... this loquat liquid, ha, can cure cough, and boat-fruited Sterculia can also cure cough, so many people treat cough.
The patient coughed. You put all cough medicines, such as forsythia and honeysuckle together. Wow, 70 or 80 kinds of medicine, you are shooting birds at random. You think you can hit it, but you can't
Because of the real cause of cough, there may be problems of cold and heat. Then you have to drive away the cold and heat, which has a problem on the inside and outside. You have to do this ... sometimes you have to deal with the outside, and sometimes you have to attack the inside. Then you can't say that cough is this. It can relieve cough and resolve phlegm, so you just ... drive it in.
We have a cold and cough, and the prescription used is different from that used for a hot cough. Cough caused by illness outside is different from cough caused by illness in hospital. Howl, without this concept, how do you choose medicine? Therefore, you should read Huangdi's Internal Classic and Shennong's Materia Medica Classic first, then the synopsis of typhoid fever and golden chamber, and see how to write his medicinal properties. You should have a deep understanding of the essence of medicine.
For example, the description of drugs is very simple. For example, medicine is cold, medicine is cold, medicine is bitter, what is medicine ... Then you have to remember that before we read the Classic of Materia Medica, Shennong Classic of Materia Medica tells everyone that you want this, sweet, bitter, sour and bitter, how to distinguish yin and yang? This sour and bitter diarrhea is yin. If you write about medicinal properties, he will write about Paeonia lactiflora, which is sour, and Coptis chinensis is bitter, so you can see that these are all yin drugs.
Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica separates this yin from it.
Connie Xia Hai: That's what I thought. Yes, we know that bitter medicine enters the heart, so you know that if it enters the heart, for example, white peony root is sour, but bitter taste enters the heart. I prescribed medicine for my heart and drove to Huanglian.
But if we meet a patient whose feet are cold because of blood, and the blood can't return to the heart, we will add an acid medicine. Because acid dominates acid, we will open coptis chinensis and Paeonia lactiflora together.
Wait until you are familiar with the medicinal properties, and then go to see Huangdi Neijing at this time. Huangdi Neijing is a 5000-year-old China tradition. ...
Therefore, if you want to read Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, you must read his medicinal properties. He writes very clearly. The drugs mentioned in Shennong's Herbal Classic are everywhere.
Doctors of all ages have commented on him, and my personal thoughts should be read in the original text. Because the real originality is the most classic.
All the notes about Shennong's herbal classics in the market can be read, because he must have his strong points there.
But in the end, we have to go back to the original text.
Three. Huangdi Neijing
When you have the foundation of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine, you can see the Huangdi Neijing at this time, and you will find out why the Huangdi Neijing talks about cold and heat and what it talks about. Just as you read Huangdi Neijing and everyone is reading Huangdi Neijing, the classic things are all about physiology, human physiological anatomy and pathology. It looks like Huangdi Neijing.
Ni Xiahai: Yes, Ling Shu and Su Wen. Then when we read Huangdi Neijing, we usually read words.
You see, I have Huangdi Neijing, and I'm reading it. Actually, I'm looking at a painting. His written statement is a picture. When you look at this photo, your whole body starts to move. You can see a person's direction ... the inner body of the living. So when you read Huangdi Neijing, it looks like words on the surface. You are reading words. In fact, you must read it as a painting, just like a landscape painting in Tang Bohu. Everyone draws well, so everyone is looking at the picture.
If you look at a picture, there are many explanations. For example, when we see a person painting a picture, some people must be depressed when they see the painter painting this picture. The painter is painting this picture, and he is very happy. So because of the picture, there will be more room for imagination. Can be visualized. At this time, you carefully understand this picture, and when you understand it, this picture is yours. Therefore, we can clearly see what is the relationship of mutual development and mutual restriction.
With words, we should build a holographic picture, from which we should integrate ourselves into this picture and feel it.
Then you have no foundation of acupuncture and moxibustion, and no foundation of Shennong's herbal classics. When you read Huangdi Neijing, you are simply reading words, just like reading a wordless gobbledygook. You can't understand. However, if you have a good foundation of acupuncture and moxibustion, Shennong's Herbal Classics, and read through Huangdi's Neijing, you don't need to read the synopsis of typhoid fever and golden chamber. You opened Guizhi soup, and you opened Mahuang soup, which has reached this stage. Therefore, when you know Huangdi Neijing very well, read Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber again at this time, and you will know why Zhang Zhongjing is like this at a glance.
Fourth, Treatise on Febrile Diseases
Zhang Zhongjing used six meridians: Sun, Shaoyang and Yangming. . . Describe the spread of the disease in this way. This sun can't be said to be just the bladder meridian of the foot sun or the small intestine meridian of the hand sun, but the sun is the main surface, which can be seen everywhere the solar energy shines. As long as you run around, all the places where the sun shines belong to the sun.
Not to say that it is confined to one meridian, the bladder meridian of the foot sun or the small intestine of the hand sun, then the sun is ill, that is, it is ill in the exterior. When you haven't solved the table, there will be an order in Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
Then, you don't know how ... for example, our sun, at first, had three prescriptions-solar gale, solar typhoid fever and solar plague.
1. If the sun has a stroke, we use Guizhi soup to come and go;
2. Sun typhoid fever, if typhoid fever, it is Mahuang decoction;
3. Sun fever is Pueraria lobata soup.
Then, if you don't use the classic prescription to solve the exterior syndrome, but use the common prescription to prescribe some medicines, such as Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Saposhnikovia divaricata and Euphorbia vocifera, which are used to rinse my mouth and wash my teeth, you won't sweat after eating them. In this case, if you can't solve the exterior syndrome, the disease will spread.
When the disease spreads, there are two possibilities behind it. First, it reaches the Yangming meridian, which means-viscera, intestines and stomach, so he won't enter the internal organs again. The farthest place is to reach Yangming and reach the viscera. But your other disease, we say, may be what western medicine calls a virus. Then if the virus does not enter Yangming for some reason, it goes to Shaoyang, which belongs to the door pivot and mainly opens and closes. Therefore, where the body opens and closes, it belongs to the position of Shaoyang.
Why do we agree to use the classic prescriptions of typhoid fever and synopsis of golden chamber? Because now it seems that I have a prescription to break the yin and prevent the disease from progressing again. For example, if you are sick to Shaoyin, stop quickly. If you don't stop it, it will enter Jueyin. After these four stages, the so-called "Six Meridians", that is, the drugs we prescribed for shaoyin syndrome, were all prescribed in it, but generally speaking, there were no drugs for shaoyin syndrome.
When it comes to Jueyin, nine times out of ten, it is a sign of death and a disease of death. The man with withered hands and feet died. Treatise on febrile diseases is full of arguments about what symptoms will die. In fact, it is said in it, and it has become a gloomy reality. Therefore, if the disease is caused by the sun, if we catch a cold, we will start to act, and we will use the medicine in the Six Classics of Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
If you start to solve it, there will be no syncope yin syndrome at all, that is to say, there will be no yin deficiency. So we say: all diseases begin-all diseases begin with the wind. At this time, when we look back, our classic ... Huangdi Neijing says "the beginning of all diseases" is still correct. Because, at the beginning, it was the sun disease mentioned in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, so if you get the sun disease, you must get rid of it and not pass it on.
So, as I said just now, when we saw the disease, we realized it was a cold from the beginning. So, from the perspective of western medicine, what about people with strong immune systems? They are not prone to cancer. Generally speaking, having cancer means that the immune system doesn't work, so you will get cancer.
Western medicine also says so, but how can your immune system be strengthened? You caught a cold at the beginning of the immune system examination. Sometimes the prescription is one dose, sometimes six bowls of water are cooked in two bowls, and don't drink the second bowl, because the first bowl will be fine, sometimes it takes three hours and two hours. The longest is overnight.
It takes effect so quickly and recovers quickly. This medicine does not harm vital energy. The so-called medicine does not harm healthy qi, that is, it will not affect your body's resistance. Therefore, after taking Chinese medicine, not only will you not catch a cold, but your resistance will also increase a lot. Therefore, people who catch a cold often take Chinese medicine to relieve symptoms. People who treat colds will not get cancer and colds because they have resistance.
Five, "synopsis of the golden chamber"
Synopsis of the Golden Chamber is cut from miscellaneous diseases in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. What's the difference between synopsis of golden chamber and typhoid fever?
When reading Treatise on Febrile Diseases, it is a whole. The evolution of the disease. Then synopsis of the golden chamber is the so-called theory of miscellaneous diseases. Chapter by chapter. This one is for heart disease, this one is for lung disease, this one is for kidney disease and this one is for edema. This article is devoted to rheumatoid arthritis. It separates it from miscellaneous diseases.
Typhoid fever is just a whole. See a seemingly orderly process. Very systematic. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing is really a "medical saint." After the overall solution, at the same time, the golden chamber is coming, which is miscellaneous diseases, and all the diseases are listed in it. He divided him into chapters, followed by gynecology, which was divided into prenatal, ah, infertility and postpartum.
How to face menopause, and ... how to deal with pregnancy 10 months during labor, there should be nausea, vomiting and diabetes during pregnancy, which makes this urine unfavorable to pregnancy. All this is clear. There are so many details that Zhang Zhongjing can sort them out. Do you think he is a "medical saint"?
However, if you don't have a thorough understanding of acupuncture, Shennong materia medica and Huangdi Neijing, you can't understand typhoid fever and golden chamber.
You can't say I don't want it. I want to study typhoid fever and synopsis of golden chamber. You can't use medicine, you don't understand it thoroughly, and even addition and subtraction will have problems.
In a word, if Chinese medicine is too big for a beginner and there is no good teacher to take it. I suggest you use Ni Xiahai's method and go down step by step. In less than three years, Chinese medicine will learn well, acupuncture and medicine can be used, and clinical practice will be carried out simultaneously. What's more, I studied pure classic Chinese medicine, and the students in the University of Chinese Medicine are not as high as you taught yourself.