The heart in traditional Chinese medicine and the heart in Western medicine are completely different concepts.
The concept of heart in traditional Chinese medicine has two levels. One level refers to the actual heart, specifically the heart, and the other level refers to a function of human mental activity, also known as the spirit of the heart.
The heart contains the spirit and controls the spirit. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the heart is where a person's spirit and thoughts reside.
Why does traditional Chinese medicine say that the spirit is stored in the heart rather than the brain? This issue has caused a lot of controversy, and many people even use this issue to criticize or refute traditional Chinese medicine.
From the perspective of modern medicine, or from the perspective of modern people's understanding of the structure and functions of various organs in the human body, anyone with a little common sense knows that the brain dominates human thoughts, but the heart does not, so the traditional Chinese medicine view that the heart is the master of the spirit is actually a fallacy.
In fact, this is not the case. Traditional Chinese medicine has two concepts about the heart: one is real and the other is analogy, and the two cannot be confused.
What is an analogy?
Just like the Yin-Yang and Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine, the liver belongs to wood, the spleen belongs to earth, and the kidneys belong to water. This is an analogy, not to say that the liver is wood.
Similarly, the heart governs the spirit, which is also an analogy.
The Five Elements and Eight Trigrams in Traditional Chinese Medicine are actually a kind of analogy. The ancients liked to make analogies and other things.
Anyone who knows Chinese culture knows that vernacular was not popular in the past. The more talented and literary a person was, the more they liked to be particular about words. In the past, writing a book was a very noble thing.
Whether a book can be recognized depends not only on the content, but also on its literary quality, quoting classics and making arguments from all aspects. This also leads to the presence of many analogies in some classics, which gradually form a more systematic thing.
Take the heart for example. The shape of the center of the five internal organs is like a pump but is hollow. When fire burns, it is bright on the outside but dark on the inside, giving the appearance of being hollow. Therefore, the image of the Li hexagram (? ) belonging to fire is also hollow. The song about the orientation of the Eight Trigrams says: "Li is hollow in the middle", which represents the heart.
From the perspective of modern anatomy, the heart pumps blood and beats, contracting and relaxing rhythmically, just like the expansion and contraction of a burning fire. This fits with the fact that the Li hexagram is hollow and has space for expansion and contraction. Therefore, this expansion and contraction does not refer only to the heart, but also to the blood vessels, because the blood vessels also produce regular expansion and contraction with the heartbeat.
Li Shizhen, a renowned Ming Dynasty physician, was the first to clarify the relationship between the literal and general heart. In his "Introduction to Medicine," Li Shizhen wrote: "The heart is the master of the body, the sovereign organ. It is a flesh-and-blood heart, shaped like an unopened lotus, situated below the lungs and above the liver. It is also a spiritual heart. Spirit, formed from qi and blood, is the source of life. All things flourish from it, without form or appearance. What is there? It is nothingness, ruling over all things, a clear and ethereal being."
The heart of flesh and blood refers to the anatomical heart, and the heart of God refers to the monarch that dominates the five internal organs and spiritual consciousness and thinking activities of the human body.
From this we can see that the ancients had actually figured out the situation between the two long ago. This is not the truth. Nowadays, many people have not learned much and do not even know this statement, but they use this issue to attack or refute Chinese medicine in a very ridiculous way. It can only be said that they are showing off their ignorance.
The heart is the master of the spirit. The heart is like a king that dominates the human consciousness. Changes in human thinking, emotions, and all aspects of spiritual activities are dominated by the heart.
The relationship between the heart and the five internal organs of the human body is like that between a king and his ministers. Changes in the five internal organs will affect the king's judgment. If the ministers are virtuous and the king is wise, the politics will naturally be clear. If applied to a person, the person will be energetic, have flexible thinking and quick reactions.
If the ministers are not virtuous, they will deceive the emperor and cause chaos in the court. If the same happens to people, they will naturally become listless or confused in thinking.
At the same time, if the ministers are wise but the king is ignorant and a tyrant, a similar situation will also occur.
Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, when treating mania, one must first make a clear dialectical analysis to find out what causes the mental disorder.
Although Ma Tiequan had already told Yun Heng, Yun Heng still observed it carefully for a while.
"How about it?"
Ma Tiequan asked Yun Heng.
"Let me try."
Yun Heng nodded: "But someone still needs to restrain the patient first. We can't give him an acupuncture in this state."
"Director Ma, can you give me a sedative?"
The doctor who came with Ma Tiequan asked.
"cannot."
Yun Heng interrupted directly: "In this situation, forcing yourself to remain calm will not have any effect, but will have the opposite effect."
As Yun Heng said before, any medicine, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, has its bias, and Chinese medicine actually uses the bias in the medicinal materials to treat diseases.
Many people subconsciously believe that as long as it is a Chinese medicine, it is a Chinese herbal medicine or a part of an animal or plant. In fact, this is one-sided.
Traditional Chinese medicine has never been restricted by form; as long as it can cure the disease, any medicine will do.
The "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica" by Zhao Xuemin, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, includes many chemical drugs, and the well-known gypsum is a chemical drug.
The tranquilizers used in modern medicine are also chemical drugs. Since they are drugs, they have biases. The treatment thinking and concepts are different, so they need to be used with caution.
Medicines are different in nature, cold, warm and hot, so they cannot be used indiscriminately.
To some extent, tranquilizers are a type of cold medicine. The patient currently has excessive fire in his heart and liver, and his mind is in a state of confusion. If the fire in his heart is not relieved, the use of tranquilizers will not have any effect. Instead, it will be like pouring a basin of cold water on a blazing fire, temporarily suppressing the flames, but causing internal fire to accumulate and burn.
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