Old stork is the name of the bird. It has gray-white feathers and a long and straight beak. They generally live near rivers, lakes and swamps and make a living by hunting fish, shrimps, etc.

Here is a story. According to legend, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Sun Simiao, a famous Chinese medical expert, traveled to the Zhenren Cave on Mount Emei in Sichuan, where he refined elixirs and medicines to treat patients' illnesses and resolve their doubts. Since Sichuan has a basin climate with high humidity, many patients with rheumatism who went up the mountain to seek medical treatment were helpless.

On this day, Sun Simiao took his disciples up the mountain to collect medicine, and suddenly found a gray stork pecking at an unknown grass on the cliff. After a long time, he dragged Shen Ben's The body slowly flew away. A few days later, Sun Simiao saw the stork pecking at the grass again, and then flew away. The strange thing is that the old stork is no longer sick and flies lightly and vigorously.

Sun Simiao said to his disciples: The old stork forages for fish and shrimps in the water all year round and is very susceptible to rheumatism. The fact that the old stork can eat this grass shows that it is non-toxic and can treat rheumatism. Disease, we also picked this grass back and tried it.

Rheumatism patients decocted this herb in water and drank the juice. After taking it for a few days, a miracle happened. The red and swollen joints in their legs were all swollen and pain-free, and they could walk freely.

As the good news spread, people came to seek treatment in an endless stream, and more and more people were cured. Everyone asked Sun Simiao to name the grass. Sun Simiao said: This herb is known to the old stork. , just call it "geranium"!

Modern plants are Geranium, an annual herbaceous plant of the family Geranium, or Geranium, a perennial herb. The whole plant, with the remaining roots removed, is used as medicine. Bitter, pungent and flat in nature and flavor, dispels wind, activates blood circulation and unblocks meridians. Treat rheumatic pain, limb numbness, joint pain, carbuncle, bruises, enteritis, and dysentery.

According to "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", geranium can dispel winds, treat itchy skin, pass through the twelve meridians, and treat muscle and bone pain, phlegm-fire flaccidity and softness, spasticity and numbness of hands and feet, etc. Usage and dosage: decoct in water and take 6-15 grams of dry product orally, or soak it in wine or make a paste. Among the people, geranium is used to treat rheumatism. Due to its remarkable curative effect, it has been passed down to this day and has endured for a long time.

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Basic theory

The basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine is a theoretical summary of the human body’s life activities and disease changes. It mainly includes yin and yang, the five elements, and luck. , viscera, meridians and other theories, as well as causes, pathogenesis, diagnosis, syndrome differentiation, treatment principles and methods, prevention, health preservation, etc.

Yin and Yang

It is a category in ancient Chinese philosophy. The theory of yin and yang believes that everything in the universe has two opposite and unified aspects of yin and yang, which are constantly moving and interacting. This kind of movement and interaction is the root of the movement and change of all things. The ancients called this constant movement and change "unceasing biochemistry".

The Great Theory of Yin and Yang Yingxiang in "Su Wen" says: "Yin and Yang are the way of heaven and earth (the existence of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of all things), and the order of all things (nothing can violate this law. existence), in the parent of change (the change of things is formed by the constant movement and interaction of the yin and yang aspects of the thing itself),

The origin of life and death (the creation and destruction of things are both from "Based on this fundamental law), it is also the home of the gods (this is where all the mysteries of nature lie), so the cure must be based on the root (so if you want to cure the disease, you must seek solutions from this fundamental problem - yin and yang)." It clarifies that the growth, development and demise of all things in the universe are the result of the constant movement and interaction of the yin and yang aspects of things.

Therefore, the Yin and Yang theory has become a way of thinking to understand and master the laws of nature. Medicine belongs to the scope of natural science. It is believed that human physiological activities and the occurrence and development of diseases cannot transcend the principle of yin and yang. Therefore, if we want to grasp the development process of the disease, explore the essence of the disease, and obtain satisfactory curative effects, we must explore the changes in yin and yang of the human body.

The Five Elements Theory

It uses the five philosophical categories of wood, fire, earth, metal and water to summarize the attributes of different things in the objective world, and explains it with the dynamic model of the five elements' mutual generation and mutual restraint. The interconnection and transformation rules between things. The "Five Elements Theory" refers to the movement changes of these five types of substances and the interrelationships between them. Mutual generation and mutual restraint are used as reasoning tools to explain the interrelationships between things and the laws of movement changes.

Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses the Five Elements theory to explain the functional relationship between the five internal organs and the six internal organs and the mechanism of disease when the internal organs are out of balance. It is also used to guide the treatment of internal organs diseases.

The Theory of Luck

Also known as the Five Luck and Six Qi, it is a theory that studies and explores the impact of natural astronomy, meteorology, and climate change on human health and disease. The five fortunes include wood fortune, fire fortune, earth fortune, metal fortune and water fortune, which refer to the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter in nature in a year.

The six qi are the six climate factors of wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire throughout the year. The theory of luck estimates annual climate changes and disease occurrence patterns based on astronomical calendar parameters.

Zang-Fu theory

Mainly studies the five internal organs (heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney), the six internal organs (small intestine, large intestine, stomach, bladder, gallbladder, triple burner) and the Qiheng internal organs (brain, marrow, bones, pulses, gallbladder, female cells) physiological functions and pathological changes.

The theory of meridians

is closely related to the theory of viscera. Meridians are the channels through which Qi and blood circulate in the human body. They serve to communicate with the inside and outside and network the whole body.

Under pathological conditions, changes in the function of the meridian system will lead to corresponding symptoms and signs. Through these manifestations, diseases of the internal organs can be diagnosed.