The Culture and Thinking of TCM ——The Story of Me and TCM
My first impression of Chinese medicine was traditional Chinese medicine. At that time, my family lived in a village, and there was an old Chinese medicine doctor in the next village. Although he opened a clinic combining Chinese and Western medicine, he preferred to prescribe Chinese medicine to patients who went to him. Looking at the small drawers that were opened, there were cicada sloughs and ground tigers written on them. In fact, these are my favorite things to play on the way home from school. In the ravines on both sides of the road, ground tigers, wormwood, mint, etc. can be seen everywhere. It's the flowers of the land tiger that suck the sweet liquid inside, and it also picks dandelions, blowing them everywhere.
Later, Chinese medicinal materials such as burdock began to be grown in the village, but at that time, I happened to be in high school, and I didn't see their planting process. However, I vowed to my parents: "The few acres of land in our family cannot be given to others. When I go to the University of Chinese Medicine, I will contract all the land around our house, test the soil and nutrition, and then plant suitable land. I want to build a planting base for traditional Chinese medicine.” My enlightened dad also said, “I will help you when the time comes.” But by mistake, when I chose a major in college, I didn’t stick to my own ideas. So the rhetoric at that time seems to have become a joke now.
Recalling that time, perhaps the deepest feeling is the magic of traditional Chinese medicine. The plants and trees that can be seen in daily life can cure diseases and save people. It can be said that there is greatness in the simplicity and ordinaryness.
In fact, I really became attached to Chinese medicine at the end of 2012. At that time, I was still in the fourth year of university. The season of late autumn and early winter was also the harvest season. I had just been admitted to graduate school, and the pressure of studying seemed to be much less. One night, after watching a movie in the dormitory, it was almost 10 o'clock. I was about to rest, but suddenly fainted, which scared my roommate. They pinched the person, and then poured sugar water. After about 10 minutes, I woke up. I didn't take it seriously, I always thought it was hypoglycemia caused by not eating dinner. But a week later, the syncope occurred again. Immediately, I felt bad, so I went to the general hospital accompanied by my roommate, and had a brain CT, EEG, and blood test. After a series of processes, the doctor didn't say anything, but prescribed a bunch of medicines. After taking the medicine for a week, fainting occurred again. It turned out that things were not as simple as I thought, so I went to a tertiary hospital. After the same process, the doctor still said that you are just too stressed and there is no problem, and then there is a bunch of medicines. He persisted in taking the medicine every day but fainted again when he took a bath one month later.
Feeling helpless, I thought of Chinese medicine, so I went to the hospital by myself, and met a doctor named Li in this way.
I still remember that day, when I opened the door and walked into Dr. Li's consulting room, I saw a thin but hale and hearty old man with gray hair, sitting at the table, with kind-hearted and elegant features. There is no sense of the vicissitudes of their age in their eyes, nor a sense of worldliness, as if they are outsiders who are used to seeing the world.
After sitting down, Dr. Li began to ask about the basic situation while feeling the pulse, then got up and pressed some acupuncture points on the head, and asked me how I felt when pressing these acupuncture points. After completing a series of diagnoses, he patiently explained my symptoms and pathogenesis to me. My causes were mainly liver depression and weak spleen and stomach, and the syncope was caused by evil wind entering the body. But I need to adjust my mood and learn to let go, so as to relieve the liver depression, and finally prescribed a heavy traditional Chinese medicine. And asked for a follow-up visit in a week. In the next two weeks, I went back to the clinic and took the medicine on time. Since then, the syncope has never occurred again.
In fact, with this visit, the most surprising thing is the resolution of another disease. Since high school, whenever I am tired, I always have a very painful back (behind the heart), but I have seen a doctor and I don't know how to solve it. When I came to Dr. Li for a follow-up visit, I just said something casually, and Dr. Li knew the cause of the disease and gave him treatment. And this disease has not recurred after I worked, even in front of computer graphics for a whole day.
Since then, I have fallen in love with Chinese medicine. I hold a copy of "Emperor's Internal Classic" in my hand. I can't read it, but I can understand it in combination with the courses on NetEase, and I only want to find a suitable way of life for my parents and myself.
I have read two books by Mr. Luo, "Ancient Chinese Medicine" and "The Miracle Doctor Treats Diseases This Way", and I have read some "Multiple Channels", but I don't want to understand it.
In the process of reading Chinese medicine books, I have learned a lot of truths. In fact, people are a complete individual, and so are everything in nature. They all have their own best state of existence, so we can only look at things as a whole , and keeping them in the state of Yin and Yang is the most natural and healthy. I am currently engaged in the design of architectural structures. Buildings, like people, are composed of different components. Although the components perform their own functions, only when they are combined together can they form a complete shape. When there is a problem with the architectural model, it is also necessary to start from the overall situation and then adjust the local area to obtain reasonable results. Every time I adjust the building model, I always have this concept in my mind. I firmly believe that every building structure has the most reasonable state, and this state should also be simple and coordinated. Although it is not yet possible to achieve flexible applications, it has been working hard to achieve this.
Traditional Chinese medicine also contains traditional etiquette and customs. I still remember the habit of taking traditional Chinese medicine at home. If you borrow a medicine jar from someone else’s house to boil medicine, you can’t take it back after using it. You can only wait for others to pick it up; , you can’t throw it casually, you have to dump it at the crossroads, with people coming and going, cars coming and going, crushing... There should be many more, but I don’t know.
In my understanding, rather than saying that Chinese medicine is a discipline, it is better to say that Chinese medicine is a kind of thinking and a kind of culture. He has inherited the cultural connotation of China for thousands of years. He has a big picture and a holistic view but is reserved and introverted.
As a person who has benefited from Chinese medicine and loves it deeply, I hope that the essence of traditional culture can be promoted more widely and not be submerged in the impetuous social torrent.
