Vitality is a familiar but vague concept. We often hear that if vitality is insufficient, it must be replenished. What exactly is vitality? How to express it in current language?
Vitality is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine that has been circulated for more than two thousand years. To describe vitality in modern Western medicine language, it should be like this: everyone's vitality is different, and this vitality is the vitality of each organ in the human body. Comprehensive indicator of machine function. Each organ function of the human body has a health indicator, which includes: the best health indicator - the upper line of the health indicator; the lowest health indicator - the bottom line of the health indicator; and the threshold - the upper line of health and the bottom line of health. The value in the middle of the line, the larger the threshold, the stronger the person's adjustment ability. Generally speaking: the higher the upper line of the health value, the stronger the health and vitality of the person; if the lower level of health is lower and lower than the lower line, the human body has entered a sub-health state. In recent years, a new term has emerged - sub-health. In traditional Chinese medicine, this sub-health state is "deficiency". Although the various organs of the human body do not suffer from major diseases, they have regular symptoms of discomfort. That is, although the various organs of the human body are not diseased, their functions are insufficient. This sub-health state is often caused by excessive mental stress, excessive ideological burden, excessive thinking, and excessive wear and tear on the neuroendocrine system. In terms of the concept of traditional Chinese medicine, in one sentence: happiness, anger, worry, thinking, Sadness, fear, surprise.
This sub-health state is the "deficiency" of traditional Chinese medicine. It is characterized by: often multi-system, multi-organ, and multi-functional weakness. Rather than the insufficient function of a single system or a single organ.
To be specific: Often due to high mental stress, the nervous system is excessively weak. The initial symptoms are often: longing to sleep, but the quality of sleep is not high. If it becomes more serious, it will lead to dreaming and waking up easily; if it gets more serious, it will lead to early awakening and excessively short sleep time; it will become more serious. Sometimes, it is easy to wake up from a dream. When there are frequent awakenings from dreams, depression, schizophrenia, etc. may easily occur.
The nervous system and the endocrine system are a complete whole. Various symptoms of the nervous system often lead to endocrine disorders. Therefore, people with a weak nervous system are often accompanied by dysmenorrhea, increased or decreased menstrual volume, and uneven menstrual color. Dark, early or delayed menstruation, that is, often accompanied by various symptoms of irregular menstruation. Further aggravation will lead to lesions in the uterus or ovaries, and endocrine disorders such as acne, chloasma, and rough skin may easily occur.
Neuroendocrine disorders, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, are imbalances between kidney yin and kidney yang. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidneys govern the muscles and bones. Therefore, pain in the waist, joints, and knee joints often occurs. Overworked office workers are also prone to cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, and thoracic pain. If kidney yang is deficient, the legs and feet may feel excessively cold in winter. If kidney yin is deficient, symptoms such as dry mouth and ulcers may occur. .
Sub-health state is the "deficiency" in traditional Chinese medicine. Of course, there will also be symptoms of insufficient function of other organs. For example, if the spleen and stomach function is weak, it is easy to produce symptoms such as bloating, indigestion, and constipation; if the lung function is weak, it is easy to produce symptoms such as pain, cold, cough, and rough skin...
This sub-health state, which is a manifestation of insufficient vitality, cannot be treated with traditional nutritional supplements. Because they are not diseases caused by the decline of the functions of various organs. Their real reasons are: insufficient function of various organs, leading to dysfunction of various organ functions. In other words: imbalance is the real cause of sub-healthy and "deficiency" states.
Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that "deficiency cannot be replenished", and this is also true. For this kind of constitution, if you use tonic Chinese medicines such as astragalus, ginseng, angelica, licorice and so on. On the contrary, it will lead to imbalanced evidence. The symptoms include: aggravation of deficiency fire, increased abnormal nerve excitability, easy heartbeat, increased dreaminess, etc.
Western medicine focuses on treating diseases and eliminating diseases in the body, while traditional Chinese medicine focuses on nourishing and conditioning. Therefore, it is suitable for sub-health states, symptoms of deficiency, and those with insufficient vitality. Symptoms, the best way is to regulate with traditional Chinese medicine rather than to treat them.
To replenish vitality, of course you cannot use cold ginseng such as Sophora flavescens, Scrophulariaceae, and Radix Pseudostellariae, which will make the weak body even weaker and increase dampness and coldness; nor can you use ginseng and red ginseng. If the ginseng such as Codonopsis pilosula and Codonopsis pilosula are great supplements, there will be a situation of "deficiency but not supplementation". Causes symptoms such as internal heat, excitement, and insomnia. To replenish vitality, you still need to use Bu Yuan Ginseng.