Spring and summer to nourish the sun, fall and winter to nourish the yin, in order to be from its roots, so with all things sinking and floating in the door of growth, against its extreme, then cut down its base, bad its true." -Su Wen - the four air conditioning God's great theory of summer heavy Yang due to the spring of the gas is the lesser Yang, the summer of the gas of the long nourishment of the Sun, so the birth, the growth of the gas are Yang; fall astringent gas is the lesser yin, the winter of the gas of the closure of the taiyin, so the collection, the hiding of the gas are yin. Therefore, the meaning of "spring and summer Yang" is to require people in the spring and summer seasons, to maintain, grow, regulate the body's energy of life and growth, in order to adapt to the natural life and growth of the gas. The meaning of "nourishing yin in fall and winter" is that people should maintain, grow and regulate the energy of the body's closing and hiding qi in the fall and winter seasons in order to adapt to the natural closing and hiding qi, so as to conform to the way of health maintenance and thus to prolong the life and slow down the aging process. In fact, people in their daily lives to adapt to natural changes in the formation of living habits, such as cold days to add clothing, hot days to cut down the so-called cold, heat prevention measures, in fact, is the "spring and summer Yang, autumn and winter yin" of the specific content. Chinese medicine often say yin and yang, outsiders have been accustomed to seeing flowers in the fog, but understand some of its basic outline, it is also necessary. To make an analogy: a candle is lit, candle paste and wick is yin, candlelight and heat for the sun; a car in a hurry, the car apparatus and gasoline for the yin, show the speed and power of the car is yang. The same is true of the human body; the body, organs and fluids are yin, and the vitality of life and the functions of the organs are yang. It is a relationship between matter and function; together they are one and apart they are two. Ming Dynasty Zhang Jingyue said the most apt and thorough: "the road produces yin and yang, the original same gas", which is two for one; "yin and yang, divided into two," which is divided into two. It shows that it can be divided but cannot be separated from the truth. Summer season, the natural world is vigorous, everything grows, the ancients believe that is full of Yang Wang's sake, human health should also be in line with the time to maintain the maintenance of instinctive Yang has sprouted, so as to enhance the body, or repair themselves. The Nei Jing says: "In March of summer, this is called Fan Xiu, the air of heaven and earth meets, and all things are gorgeous." At this time, green shade luxuriant, crops ripe, the human body is the same, the whole body cells with the nature of yang qi drumming and growth, even hair is not easy to fall out, must have experienced, among the four seasons of the year, summer hair washing is the least hair loss, a hair can be known to the whole body, the internal organs and organs is not the same? Yang qi hair on the human body's influence, can thus be imagined. The earth has been running for billions of years, in the past one or two decades, nature is facing the greatest challenge to mankind, as big as the nuclear fission of the earth shaking, as small as the countless vehicles, machines, air conditioners, uninterrupted roar and sewage, glaciers for the ages for the melting of hurricanes, tsunamis, torrential rains, earthquakes, deserts one after another, in the long term, I really do not dare to think of our descendants of the flesh and blood will be how to live on this earth again. I don't dare to think how our descendants will live on this crisis-ridden earth. In fact, people alive today have the responsibility to respect nature and protect the environment, rather than focusing only on themselves. Everything to follow the laws of nature, not all means to deter and reverse the climate change, abuse of air conditioning is a significant example: many citizens today, out of the cold car, work eight hours huddled under the air conditioning fiddling with computers, and at night embracing the duck down quilt sleep, and the spring and summer when the seasonal yang Qi births and development of the contrary, the human body thousands of years cum gradually formed the instincts of the biological clock, was not the time of the cold inverted to the dizziness of the head, the face of the face, the ability to resist disease and then decline, then the human body will be able to resist the disease. Anti-disease ability to decline, so colds and fever, lung infections, lumbar and cervical spondylosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular lesions are increasing day by day, the previous winter diseases have come to the summer in advance, it can be predicted that the cold will become a summer threat to the human life of the No. 1 killer, which is the summer does not nourish Yang's legacy of the bad results. Tang Dynasty scholar Wang Bing notes "Nei Jing" said: "health care must be respectful of the time of day," to comply with the law of spring and summer long autumn harvest winter storage of the chronological order, "spring and summer Yang" in addition to living and living must maintain good hygiene habits, highlighting the point is to avoid excessive cold stimulation! It is conducive to the development of Yang Qi, is conducive to the memory of positive energy, Wang Bing said to "respect the time of day", I said that we should also add a little reverence, nature can not be insulted, when the fire candle carefully. Accept winter disease summer treatment of patients, in the three ambient days within 30 days to pay attention to diet and other life: (1) to stay away from air conditioning, because the skin will be cold and pore contraction, affecting the penetration of drugs, but also reduce the rate of meridian conduction and activity. (2) Eat less cold drinks, cold drinks on the one hand, can hurt the spleen and stomach yang qi, so that the already yang deficiency of the body even weaker, on the other hand, cold food can make the cold deposited in the body stagnation and affect the therapeutic effect. (3) Sufficient sleep, sleep can make the whole body muscle relaxation, nerve tension is adjusted, thereby improving the meridian points to drug stimulation response. (4) Moderate exercise can increase neuromuscular coordination, inspire the occurrence of yang qi, and increase the excretion of sweat, in order to drive the stagnant cold qi in the body to send out the body surface. (5) pay attention to diet and nutrition, can choose to take some spleen and lung, tonic lungs and kidneys of the medicinal diet, avoid alcohol, tobacco, spicy, fishy hair. Spring and summer seasons due to the human yang qi dispersed in the outside, the internal organs of the relative emptiness of yang qi, appropriate use of some of the yang products. Quite beneficial to the human body, for example, some of the spring yang qi insufficient people are prone to spring sleepiness. Manifested as lack of spirit, body sleepiness, fatigue, drowsiness and so on. In addition, the lack of yang qi can also lead to a decline in external defenses, prone to morbidity, and in the summer is also prone to gastrointestinal system diseases. So 'Neijing-Suwen' pointed out in the spring and summer Yang is very scientific. Autumn and winter seasons and gradually hidden in the body, Yang heat gas back to the body, Yang heat gas smoked matchmaker yin liquid, resulting in the body of yin liquid relative to the lack of. At this time, the bitter does not pay attention to the cultivation of yin and blood, will cause the balance of Ming Yang imbalance. Diseases. So the vegetative body Yin deficiency people to the autumn and winter seasons are prone to autumn dryness, cold wrapped in fire caused by evil, but the root cause is still the body Yin deficiency and cause; cold wrapped in fire evidence is the body of Yin deficiency and yang bloom. Imbalance of yin and yang, low defense and external function, and the cold evil invasion. Treatment of this disease, the appropriate use of nourishing yin and blood products, will receive twice the result with half the effort. So "autumn and winter yin" is very reasonable. It should be noted that the so-called winter yin nourishing tonic, only for yin deficiency or chronic disease yin deficiency patients: summer yang medicine. Also only for Yang deficiency constitution or long illness Yang deficiency. For the general constitution of people, or acute diseases, should not adhere to the "spring and summer Yang, fall and winter Yin", and should pay attention to the "cold far from cold, with heat far from heat" principle of treatment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI-MEIJING) says: "Nurture the yin in the fall and winter, and the yang in the spring and summer". Many people may be very strange, the fall and winter are already very cold, you still let me raise Yin. Spring and summer are already very hot, why do you still let me nourish yang? In my previous blog posts, in fact, has talked about some of the problems of spring and summer Yang (see "why should" spring "and" spring health heavy Shu Fa "). Today is dedicated to focusing on explaining why spring and summer to Yang. Chinese medicine believes that people are products of nature, human life activities must follow the laws of nature, so as to ensure good health, all diseases. This reasoning is very easy to understand, just like the treatment of floods. Yu's father used plugging to control the flood, which resulted in the flood breaking through the dyke, and Yu used dredging, and the flood was cured. The same is true for human beings. To follow the laws of nature is to maintain health; to go against nature is to seek death. In recent years, nature's retaliation against mankind is evident to all, and these are the results of mankind's destruction of nature. (Because more concerned about the environment, so here more long-winded, back to business). So, spring and summer is how the laws of nature? Spring, the weather is warming up, everything is recovering, everything is renewed, and all living things are beginning to glow. That is, as we usually say, yang qi begins to develop, yin qi begins to collect. It is a process of yang growing and yin disappearing. And in summer, when everything grows most vigorously, Yang Qi is also the most vigorous. That is to say, these two times, nature requires all creatures is to put the Yang Qi Shu Qi, can not be held back, we people are the same. "Nurturing Yang in spring and summer" actually contains two main meanings. One is to let the yang qi be released. That is to say, we should cooperate with the natural environment to let the yang qi in our body come up. What are the ways to achieve this purpose? For example, increase exercise and sweat a little. Go outdoors more often and breathe more fresh air. Wear slightly more clothes to keep your body warm at all times. Eat some spicy foods that will encourage rawness within the body. Get up early in the morning. All of these are ways of soothing the Yang energy. Many people, however, always do things against nature. For example, do not love sports, do not love to go outdoors, self-proclaimed themselves as a homeboy and homewoman. In order to be beautiful, early spring early to put on the summer clothes, the night does not sleep, daytime sleep non-stop, these moves, are prompted by the yang elimination of yin long, so now many young people's physique is very weak, can not walk, climb a few stairs to gasp more than moving to be sick. Many people are still very strange, I live a normal life every day ah, everyone is not like this, why does the body feel so bad? Yes, everyone is like this, so such everyone's body is not good. Even now you feel okay, that's just your innate base is good, but as long as you continue to be so tossed, your body will sooner or later revenge you. Of course, the summer weather is so hot that it has exceeded our regular human tolerance, so at this time, we have to sweat, but we can't sweat a lot. Otherwise, you will also lose your yang because you sweat too much. And modern people, summer is always blowing air conditioning, eating cold drinks, and is to hold back their yang, this is the summer health taboo, must be changed. Therefore, spring and summer Yang, first of all, to allow Yang Qi can be comfortable, this is the first meaning of Yang. Secondly, to protect Yang Qi. Some people want to ask, so hot, but also to protect what? This protection is caused by our own people. Because it is hot, people like to be cool. Spring performance is too fast, in fact, "spring cover" is to tell you to wear a little more in the spring, cover a little sweat in order to maintain Yang. And in summer, as mentioned earlier, blowing cold air and eating cold drinks. Well, it's really hot outside, but because of people's own sins, they make the inside of the body very cold. So, in order to protect our yang energy, this is the time to nourish yang. So how do we do that? Spring is to wear more, more outdoor exercise. Summer, is not always blowing the air conditioning, cold drinks to eat less, every day to let themselves sweat a little. There is a saying that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", because ginger is to drive away the cold, can drive away the cold in our body, to achieve the purpose of protecting yang. Therefore, in summer, it is still necessary to eat some hot food. In many areas, it is popular to eat mutton in summer, because mutton also nourishes yang, which is in line with the rationale of "nourishing yang in spring and summer". Having said that, some people may say: Oh, I know what to do. And then in the spring time desperately wear, wrapped up breathless. In the summer, ginger ah, mutton eat all the time. If you do that, you're done for. Everything is about moderation, and the ultimate goal of nourishing the yang is to be in balance with nature. You cover too much, eat too much hot food, beyond the balance with nature, as usual, to get sick. To master this balance and do it perfectly, that requires the guidance of professionals. How do we in general control this degree? Simply put, in the spring, daily wear to slightly sweat is appropriate, of course, exercise a little more sweat does not matter. In summer, don't blow the air conditioner directly on people, in the air-conditioned room, it is also appropriate to sweat a little. Slow down when eating cold drinks and don't eat too much at once. Every two weeks or a month, specialize in eating hot foods. In this way, you can basically meet the requirements. Therefore, "spring and summer Yang", one should match the Yang Qi Shu Fa, and the other should protect Yang Qi, so that, it is the correct method of Yang.