My elective course "Sub-health" happens to be an elective course for medical students. Let's talk about my understanding of this medical term & phenomenon.
First of all, what is sub-health? This is relatively healthy.
In 2007, the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued the Clinical Guide of Sub-health Chinese Medicine, which clearly described the concept, common clinical manifestations and diagnostic criteria of sub-health from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, and pointed out that sub-health refers to a state in which the human body is between health and disease. People who are in sub-health state can't reach the health standard, which is manifested by the symptoms of decreased vitality, decreased function and adaptability in a certain period of time, but they don't meet the clinical or subclinical diagnostic standards of diseases in modern medicine.
This concept has triggered a heated discussion and produced a wider impact. The main reason is that one party thinks that sub-health is a stunt, and it is not unhealthy if there are no real symptoms on the body-that is, it still belongs to the health category. Therefore, they despise the concept of sub-health; On the other hand, as long as physical and mental problems appear, it means that they are no longer in the category of health, but because the symptoms are simple and cannot be classified as diseases, they support the creation of this intermediate state term to describe the modality that seems to be sick but not sick.
At that time, I listened to the old professor of medical college talking about all kinds of sub-health situations, but I was actually a little confused, because I didn't expect that such small problems as playing mobile phone before going to bed, being distracted in class, being listless, obesity and obsessive-compulsive disorder also belonged to the sub-health category. However, if you think about it carefully, no matter whether you are sick or not, the sub-health state is almost equal to the harbinger of disease germination. This description is beyond doubt.
Therefore, it is more important to pay attention to the small warning issued by the body in time without asking whether sub-health is really true or just a gimmick!