Zhonglibaren - A good opportunity to cure diseases and nourish the liver in spring

In spring, if you feel a bitter taste in your mouth for no apparent reason, you can take Xiao Chaihu Pills or granules; if you have shoulder pain, migraine, breast and flank pain , you can choose Jiawei Xiaoyao Pills; if you have pain in the buttocks and outer thighs , you can choose Pinggan Shuluo Pills.

If you suffer from leg cramps, diarrhea, and frequent sleepiness in spring, you can take Xiaoyao Pills, Shenling Baizhu Pills, red dates, and yam and coix seed porridge. This will help to balance your liver and spleen.

In spring, the ice and snow melt, the wild geese come and startle the birds, all things come back to life, and life is everywhere. This growth force is inexhaustible and injects powerful power into everyone's body. This kind of energy is by no means comparable to medicine. If we can borrow the power of nature to cure diseases at this moment , it will really be like " Spring water rose by the river last night, and the huge battleships became as light as a feather."

In spring, old diseases in the human body are most likely to recur. Why is this? This is because the season injects yang energy into your body. The human body has an instinct that once it has power, it will attack the lesions in the body and expel the pathogens from the body. This is like a diligent housewife who will clean the house when she sees it is dirty. This power is expressed with the help of the liver. Spring is the time when liver qi is the most abundant and liver fire is the most vigorous. The liver belongs to the element of wood in the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine. Its function at this time is like the growth of trees in spring. People are most likely to get angry at this time. The liver and gallbladder are the exterior and interior of each other, and the liver's heat needs the help of the gallbladder meridian to be released outwards. Therefore, many people will inexplicably feel bitter taste in the mouth (bile overflow), shoulder pain, migraine, swelling and pain in the breasts and flanks, and pain in the buttocks and outer thighs. At this time, if you observe carefully, you will find that the places where symptoms appear are all along the meridian route of the gallbladder meridian. In fact, the most smooth way is to release the liver's depressed energy through the gallbladder meridian . If you have a bitter taste in your mouth, you can take Xiao Chaihu Pills (or granules). If you have migraine or breast pain, you can choose Jiawei Xiaoyao Pills. If you have shoulder or leg pain, you can take Pinggan Shuluo Pills.

Yesterday, a netizen who is a teacher told me that he was angry with a student during the day, and at around eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening (the time when the gallbladder meridian is most active), his shoulder pain intensified (Jianliao point of the triple burner meridian). At this time, he massaged the Taichong point on the liver meridian for one minute, and the pain stopped immediately, and he slept soundly. I really appreciate this netizen's idea of ​​treating the disease at its root, because this is a shortcut to learning practical Chinese medicine. This kind of insight cannot be found in books, but you can find it in yourself every day. However, although inspiration often comes to us, we ignore it immediately, thinking that it is a coincidence and not worth capturing or thinking about, so the mysterious ideas pass us by.

Someone asked: "Since liver fire radiates outwards from the gallbladder meridian, why did the teacher mentioned above feel pain at the acupoints of the triple burner meridian? " This is a very good question. You will understand it if you pay close attention to the names of the gallbladder meridian and the triple burner meridian. The Gallbladder Meridian and the Triple Burner Meridian are both called the Shaoyang Meridian. In fact, they are the same meridian. The one on the arm is the Triple Burner Meridian, and the one on the leg is the Gallbladder Meridian. So for those friends who tap the gallbladder meridian, if they suffer from headaches and insomnia after tapping the gallbladder meridian, it is usually because the evil qi has been driven to the triple burner meridian . If they tap the triple burner meridian again, the problem will be solved.

In spring, the liver fire is strong, the body's yang energy begins to radiate outward continuously, and the skin pores also dilate and open. This is when people are most susceptible to wind and cold. Therefore , the saying "cover up in spring and keep cold in autumn" makes sense. Many people often suffer from cough and asthma at this time, especially at night. The lungs belong to metal in the five elements, which can just suppress the release of liver fire (wood) (metal overcomes wood). However, spring is the time when wood is prosperous, and liver qi is the strongest and no one can suppress it, so the situation of "wood and fire injuring metal" occurs. At this time, the lungs are bound by wind and cold outside, and their function of dispersing and releasing is blocked. At the same time, there is liver fire inside, and it is difficult to release the anger. Therefore, the only way to eliminate the internal fire and external cold is to use the pathological phenomenon of coughing.

A friend called me a few days ago and said that her 3-year-old child had a fever and cough at night for some unknown reason. She went to the hospital for an IV drip but the fever did not go down . She asked me if I had any good solution. I asked her to push Tianhe water 500 times for the child before going to bed (use the thumb to push from Laogong point to Quze point). The next day, we learned that the child's fever and cough had subsided. Another friend said that he had nosebleeds every morning in recent days. I asked him to scrape the pericardium meridian on his left arm, and it was cured in one session. For these two different diseases, I chose the pericardium meridian because considering the spring season, the pericardium meridian and the liver meridian are both Jueyin meridians, which are originally one meridian. The pericardium meridian in the arm is the liver meridian in the leg, so the stasis of liver blood can be released through the pericardium meridian.

A friend asked again: "Didn't you say that the Qi of the Liver Meridian is released through the Gallbladder Meridian? Why is there a Pericardium Meridian here?" In fact, these two are both pathways of the Liver Meridian. The Gallbladder Meridian relieves the Qi stagnation of the Liver Meridian, and the Pericardium Meridian relieves the blood stagnation of the Liver Meridian . They just have different emphases.

In spring, some people will experience eye swelling and headache, some will experience dizziness and tinnitus. These are all caused by excessive liver fire that has no way to vent, so it is necessary to open up the pathways for venting liver fire in time: tap the gallbladder meridian and triple burner meridian to unblock liver qi, scrape or massage the pericardium meridian to circulate liver blood, scrape the bladder meridian on the back or use the sneezing method (see "It's Better to Help Yourself than to Seek Medical Help" P202-P203) to disperse superficial cold, thereby borrowing the power of nature to eliminate the body's pathogens.

In spring, some people often have leg cramps , some often suffer from diarrhea, and some often feel sleepy. This is another situation called "liver hyperactivity and spleen deficiency." In the five elements, the liver belongs to wood and the spleen belongs to earth, and the two are in a mutually restraining relationship. When the liver qi is too strong, too much qi and blood flow into the liver meridian, and the spleen meridian will appear relatively weak. The spleen governs blood and is responsible for transporting blood to irrigate the whole body. Spleen deficiency will lead to insufficient blood production and inability to transport blood, resulting in the above symptoms. At this time, you can take Xiaoyao Pills, Shenling Baizhu Pills, red dates , and yam and coix seed porridge to strengthen the spleen and nourish blood. Once the spleen blood is sufficient, the liver and spleen will be peaceful and unbiased.

Having said all the above, it is simply to remind my friends that humans are the cells of the universe and need to act in accordance with the will of heaven. The same is true when learning Chinese medicine. The ancients said : "If you don't know the twelve meridians, you will be wrong when you open your mouth or raise your hand. If you don't understand the Five Elements and Six Qi, reading all the prescriptions is useless." What I talked about today is only a glimpse of the Five Elements and Six Qi. You only need to have a brief perception of it and there is no need to delve into it. However, as the essence of Chinese medicine, it is something you cannot ignore.