In the past two days, the unit organized physical examinations for employees. In previous years, this was the thing I looked forward to the most in the year. I hope that through the advanced instruments in the hospital and a detailed examination data, I can give myself some health comfort or warning. However, every time I look at the results of my physical examination, I feel worried. The data shows that there is always something wrong with my body. In order not to cause trouble, I stopped taking physical examinations in 2005. An old friend didn't understand and said that I went to extremes. If I got any disease and didn't get it through physical examination, it would be too late to regret it. Her concerns are justified. Recently, the media has been reporting one after another about the untimely death of celebrities. The news of the sudden death of mainland comedian Hou Yaowen has not calmed down readers who love cross talk. The deaths of Taiwanese director Yang Dechang and mainland cinematographer Zhao Xiaobing have further stimulated our nerves. What is even more depressing is that even Taiwan’s richest man Terry Gou spent tens of billions of Taiwan dollars to save his younger brother Gou Tai-cheng from leukemia. They are all rich and famous, and can find the most authoritative doctors and medicines in the world, but they are still unable to save their lives, and they reluctantly report to God one by one. After reading these reports, all the friends around me looked sad. Who doesn’t want to live a good and healthy life?

However, can physical examinations really solve our health problems? In fact, more often than not, the results of physical examinations bring us panic, fear and unnecessary waste of time and money. Everything was fine before the physical examination. After the physical examination, there are always a few worried colleagues who are worried about uterine fibroids, breast hyperplasia, high blood pressure, anemia... Anyway, few people's indicators are completely normal. For the sake of health and to live a few more years, everyone followed the doctor's advice and started taking medicine. Vitamins, antihypertensive drugs, and blood supplements were found one by one. For more serious cases, major hospitals took turns to check again to see if surgery was needed. When they learned that their transaminases were high, many people were told that if they did not take medicine properly, they would develop hepatitis. In the end, they actually got hepatitis and cirrhosis after taking Western medicine. When they learned that their blood sugar was high, many people also felt very sad. Taking hypoglycemic drugs seriously will damage the liver and kidneys, and eventually the complications will be over.

After several years of physical examinations and observing the experiences of friends around me after physical examinations, I have become wiser and know that physical examinations cannot guarantee my health, and Western medicine cannot guarantee my health. In this case, we are all living people, why should we hand over our health to cold instruments? Why should the instrument have the final say? Why should we be led by “scientific data”?

Our ancestors have never had a B-ultrasound or X-ray, nor have they had a blood test or a urine and feces check in their lives, but they can live healthy and healthy until they are eighty, ninety or even old. On the contrary, even though we now have physical examinations every year, we are not necessarily healthier and longer than our parents. On the contrary, many healthy people are scared to death by "data and indicators".

Teacher Ren Qisong, a famous Chinese medicine doctor in Beijing, once said: "The behavior of physical examination is like netting fish. In order to catch all the fish, fishermen often drive the fish into the deep pond. Western medicine is to make all physical examination patients Everyone is sick and will be induced to undergo regular physical examinations. Unfortunately, all people enjoy this "induction" and are willing to become "people with abnormal indicators or data", which can also be called "unhealthy". people". Once you become a "person with abnormal indicators or data", you will be tricked by Western medicine, and the day you get out of the trap is the day you see God.

A classmate in Toronto, Canada, had osteoporosis during her physical examination last year. The doctor told her that the degree of bone porosis was equivalent to that of a 70-year-old woman. If she accidentally fell, she would be shattered into pieces. . That's okay, even though my classmate is only 40 years old, his legs were so frightened by the doctor that he felt his bones were about to crack. The doctor prescribed a drug called Fosamax to treat osteoporosis, which she was required to take for three years and undergo regular check-ups. After taking medicine for three months, my classmate developed a serious stomach problem. He had to eat a lot of snacks every night, otherwise he would have stomach pain. What was even more frightening was that he had to sleep on a very high pillow at night, otherwise the acidic water in his stomach would end up in his mouth. gush. The classmate checked online and found that Fosamax has strong side effects on the stomach. I didn’t dare to take any more medicine, and I was worried that osteoporosis would affect my future health, so I walked every day to bask in the sun. The second year of re-examination, the osteoporosis indicators were normal. The doctor who prescribed her medicine was very proud and thought that the medicine he prescribed cured my classmate's osteoporosis.

My classmate told him angrily that he had only taken the medicine for three months and now he had a serious stomach problem. The doctor said nonchalantly, "I will help you treat your stomach problem now." My classmate was smarter this time and asked about the side effects of Prevacid stomach medicine. The doctor said there were none and advised my classmate not to search online anymore. My classmate didn’t believe it, and he had to understand the harm the stomach medicine would do to the body. The doctor finally said helplessly: “In terms of side effects, this medicine can cause osteoporosis.” My classmate almost fainted after hearing this. If this story had Zhao Benshan acting in a sketch, it would definitely be more exciting than "Selling Kidnappings". If my classmate hadn't been more careful and taken the stomach medicine prescribed by that doctor, would there be a day for relief in this life? In the end, I just kicked my legs, closed my eyes, and died.

Recently, a friend of my husband’s (hospital) director asked me to go to his hospital for a full-body examination with Doppler, saying it was the most advanced and comprehensive physical examination currently available. After hearing this, I said to my husband: "Please don't be a fish caught in the net!" The more advanced and comprehensive Doppler is, the more fish will be caught in the net, that's all. Western medicine is a medicine that studies diseases, and it is also a commercial medicine. It is all about making money, so it tries every means to find diseases in us, and physical examination is the best way. Germany began having national health examinations in October 1989. Two years later, health insurance doctors came up with proud statistics: only 43% of those tested showed no disease; the remaining 57% fell into the medical net. Therefore, as the number of examination items increases, the proportion of risk groups will naturally increase. Dr. Uweher of Dusseldorf predicted: "It is foreseeable that in a few years, except for those who have not participated in physical examinations, almost no one will be healthy." In 1991, the German "Physician" reported: "If If everything goes well, as long as 1,000 people come for physical examination, each clinic will earn about 70,000 marks more revenue every two years. If cancer screening is also performed, there will be more room for revenue growth. "It's great that physical examination and... Disease is an agreement reached by interest groups. They weave beautiful webs to trap uninformed Chinese people.

? I woke up in time because I felt the same way with the famous saying of the British writer Huxley: "Medicine has advanced to the point that no one is healthy anymore."

When I understood that the purpose of Western medicine is to find our "diseases" in different ways, to take money out of our pockets in different ways, and to make us dependent on their drugs for a long time. , I'm afraid to stay away! I started to get in touch with our Chinese medicine culture and found that traditional Chinese medicine is exactly the opposite of Western medicine. It advises us to take less medicine, exercise more, try our best to mobilize our body's own repair function, and spend less money. It turns out that traditional Chinese medicine, which has a history of thousands of years, is profound and profound. As I learned more about traditional Chinese medicine, I discovered that traditional Chinese medicine is the medicine that studies health. The biggest feature of traditional Chinese medicine is the holistic concept.

The so-called holistic concept means not looking at local lesions in isolation, but always understanding them from the internal connections of the human body and the connections between the human body and the outside world. When studying the physiology, pathology and treatment rules of the human body, traditional Chinese medicine does not use decomposition and open-ended methods. Instead, it treats the human body as a whole, carefully observes and records in detail, and summarizes the rules from a large number of clinical phenomena. , deducing the internal connections of the human body, which is the black box theory method. Putting the black box theory method in daily life is like buying a watermelon. I don't know much about watermelons, so I can only buy cut ones and see that the pulp is red, but this doesn't guarantee that the watermelons I buy will be sweet. But I have a friend who can judge the quality of a watermelon just by holding it to his ear, patting it, flicking it, and looking at the stem. He almost never fails. Picking melons is like feeling the pulse in Chinese medicine, it all relies on experience. I don’t know how to pick melons. Just like Western medicine when treating diseases, seeing is believing, and you must confirm whether the internal tissue of the melon is OK, otherwise you will definitely not buy it (cell analysis and testing will be needed).

? Traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into upper, middle and lower levels. “The upper level of medicine treats pre-existing diseases, the lower level of Chinese medicine treats pre-existing diseases, and the lower level of medicine treats existing diseases.” The most powerful Western medicine only treats existing diseases, so the lowest level Chinese medicine is also better than the highest level of Western medicine. Because after Western medicine cures the "existing disease", it will create another disease.

On the premise of strengthening the foundation and balancing yin and yang, traditional Chinese medicine can "observe the appearance to understand the internal changes, and seek the essence from the phenomenon" based on the information conveyed by the "syndrome", so as to diagnose and treat syndromes and carry out "comprehensive operations" from a holistic perspective. This is why some patients only want to cure their cough or constipation when they come to see a doctor. After a period of treatment, other symptoms such as stomach pain and backache are also resolved.

? When my 22-year-old nephew was diagnosed with tuberculosis during a physical examination, the local hospital provided free treatment. However, three months later, the doctor asked him to take liver-protecting drugs, and two months later, he was asked to take liver-protecting drugs again. Kidney-protecting medicine. Not to mention the 400-500 yuan a month for liver and kidney protection medicines, which cost 400 to 500 yuan at one's own expense. What's even more frightening is that after half a year of treatment, my nephew was so weak that he went upstairs to gasp for breath, suffered from insomnia and poor appetite, and his face turned yellow. This is not the healthy state a young man should have! No energy at all. Alas, tuberculosis has not yet been cured, and liver and kidney functions are being destroyed. What is the difference between this treatment and killing the goose to retrieve the eggs? The indicators of tuberculosis meet the standards of Western medicine, but they are obtained at the expense of liver and kidney function. I asked my nephew to throw all the Western medicine into the trash can, and immediately consulted a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, Mr. Zhao, a famous doctor, for treatment. He only took Chinese medicine and did not go to the tuberculosis hospital to get medicine or do any tests. One and a half months later, my nephew went to the hospital for a re-examination. All indicators were normal. The doctor was puzzled as to why his nephew recovered after "missing" for more than a month. Is it surprising that they can figure it out?

The Canadian classmate mentioned earlier suffered from severe stomach problems, and his health deteriorated. He often suffered from colds and fevers, and later, night sweats. In severe cases, he had to change two sets of pajamas and sheets every night. You may not know that Western medicine is the most powerful bitter-cold medicine. All bitter-cold medicines damage the spleen, stomach and kidney yang. If the yang is insufficient, the yin will definitely be lost, so students will sweat involuntarily. The kidneys are innate, while the spleen and stomach are acquired. The kidneys provide energy for the normal operation of the body's organs, and the spleen and stomach transport supplies to the kidneys. If these two major functions are destroyed, it is like being attacked from the front and back at the same time. Is there any way to survive? After chatting with me on MSN for some time, my classmate flew back from Canada. I called Teacher Zhao about her pulse and tongue condition. According to Teacher Zhao’s prescription, I asked her to bring some of the herbal medicine back to Toronto, and some of the local Chinese Dispensed by pharmacies. The night the classmate took the medicine, the night sweats were reduced to one. After drinking a dose of medicine (one dose of medicine was taken for three days), the problem of night sweats was basically solved. She felt great and asked if I could help cure her stomach problem. I said that all the medicines prescribed by Teacher Zhao are to treat people. The purpose is to restore your own Yang Qi, that is, righteousness. When you have enough righteousness, you will be able to heal and repair yourself. ability. This is the truth stated in the "Nei Jing" that "righteousness exists within and evil cannot be affected".

So Western medicine treats diseases, and Chinese medicine treats people. When TCM differentiates and treats syndromes, it will not be limited to the "symptoms". Instead, it will analyze and study the "symptoms" macroscopically through the "four diagnoses" and then make a judgment, followed by "comprehensive treatment"

Our body, hair and skin are influenced by and originate from our parents. For thousands of years, times have changed, science and technology have changed, but our bodies have not changed. Our internal organs are exactly the same as they were thousands of years ago. However, under the premise that all areas of life, diet, clothing, learning, consciousness, etc. are scientific, we also want to make our bodies "scientific", so we leave our health to scientific instruments and our daily life to scientists. recommendations, how many glasses of water a day, how many vitamins, how many minerals, how many carbohydrates... We are led by science, but are we healthy? In today's prosperous world of science, why are there more and more types of diseases? Why are terminal illnesses increasing? We believe too much in the "principles" of science, and thus stay away from the "Tao" of traditional Chinese medicine. However, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine contains the principle of the highest good of life, that is, the highest principle. This principle is the way of life, the unity of heaven and man, the balance of yin and yang, and the harmony between man and nature. This is consistent with Western medicine's focus on the organs, cells, and organs of the human body. There is a world of difference between static, individual substances such as tissues, data, and bacteria.

However, many people fall into the misunderstanding of physical examination, thinking that a body with normal physical examination indicators is healthy, and a body with abnormal physical examination indicators is sick. As we all know, the data and indicators from the physical examination only represent our physical condition at the moment of the physical examination. It is dead and static. But life is dynamic, and qi and blood are dynamic. People are affected by the "seven emotions" (joy, anger, worry, sadness, and fear) and the "six evils" (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire) at all times. A physical examination a week ago The results cannot indicate your physical condition a week later.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said: "It is impossible for a person to step into the same river twice at the same time." So, why doesn't a person's health condition change with time and place? ?

I have a relative who is over 70 years old. His physical examination indicators every year are normal, more normal than those of people in their forties. However, he collapsed on the road a few months ago and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He is still lying in a coma in the hospital. Not awake. There are many more people who had a good physical examination in the first half of the year, but were diagnosed with tumors in the second half of the year, and the diagnosis was in the advanced stage. How many lucky people can achieve "early examination, early treatment, and early recovery" as Western medicine preaches? How many people don’t get early examination, early treatment, early suffering and early death? In this case, why should we trust physical examination indicators? Why should we accept all kinds of negative information and psychological suggestions that Western medicine gives us? Why not believe in our body’s own repair function and self-healing ability?

2500 years ago, Lao Tzu told future generations: "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature." So I try to let my health take its course, regardless of medical examination indicators. and the interference of data, leave your health to the natural science and evergreen medicine of observing heaven and earth - traditional Chinese medicine, and try to "follow nature" as much as possible to achieve the unity of nature and man. However, there are still many people who firmly believe in the various and dazzling array of so-called advanced physical examination instruments, thinking that these instruments are the arbiters of their own health. As everyone knows, no matter how scientific and authoritative these instruments are, they will be replaced by more advanced ones in less than 20 years, and very few of them will survive.

So, are these medical testing methods that cannot stand the test of time worthy of our trust? Besides, physical examination standards are decided by instrument manufacturers and drug manufacturers. Only when medicines are available can the disease be diagnosed, and if there is a disease, there will be corresponding examination equipment. All of this is a trap dug by these interest groups to make you spend money. Jump into the trap.

It’s ridiculous to think about it. Smart Chinese people would rather throw away our health culture that has lasted for thousands of years, throw away traditional Chinese medicine that can stand the test of time and coexist with heaven and earth. They don’t believe in their own medicine. Ancestors don’t believe in themselves, but they believe in diagnostic methods and drugs that will be eliminated in ten or twenty years.

? At this time, I couldn't help but think of Lao Tzu's words: "My words are easy to understand and easy to do. No one in the world can understand it and no one can do it." Could it be that Lao Tzu expected him 2,500 years ago? Will future generations make such a choice because of today's choices? ■