In the classroom, Yun Heng continued to speak.
"Many students think that Traditional Chinese Medicine is difficult. I felt the same way when I first started school. Why do I think Traditional Chinese Medicine is difficult?"
"The main difficulty is that there's no quantification. We don't seem to have any clear basis for judgment. It's so difficult."
The students couldn't help laughing.
Many of Yun Heng’s words really touched the hearts of his classmates.
The gap is not big. As a fresh graduate, I can really understand what these students are thinking.
"But after I started working in the clinic, I realized that the lack of quantification in traditional Chinese medicine is actually the best quantification. The lack of clear basis for judgment is the best basis. Conversely, this is also the most special feature of traditional Chinese medicine and the essence of traditional Chinese medicine."
"Some students will ask, if there is no basis, how can it be special?"
"It's not that there's no basis for this, but rather that the basis is in what we see and hear every day. We don't need to take a temperature. If a patient feels thirsty, hot, or uncomfortable, it means they have a fever. As long as they don't feel any discomfort, have a good appetite, and sleep well, then what does it matter whether they have a fever or not?"
"I'm a perfectly healthy person, not feeling unwell at all. I eat well, sleep well, and feel energetic. But just because my temperature is a little high, we try to lower it, and when it doesn't come down, we pull my hair and make things difficult for ourselves."
"In my opinion, this is actually unscientific. Human bodies are different. Take children, for example. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there's a term called 'variable fever'. Growing children will have abnormal fevers every once in a while, with slightly elevated body temperatures. However, this is completely normal..."
"The pain, chills, fever, and various other discomforts exhibited by the patient are the best evidence. No disease is without symptoms; they will all manifest themselves through complexion, pulse, and spirit..."
"The great way is simple!"
Having said that, Yun Heng turned around and wrote four more words on the blackboard.
“Traditional Chinese medicine may seem complicated, but when you strip away all the details, it boils down to just two words: balance.”
"This balance is mainly manifested in yin and yang, deficiency and excess, cold and heat, etc."
"Whether it's yin and yang, deficiency or excess, or cold or heat, they all broadly divide everything into two parts. Determining the cold or heat, yin or yang, deficiency or excess of a symptom within a complex illness is the simplest division."
"Take cold and heat, for example. It's actually very easy to understand. The patient's feelings—the patient knows whether he's afraid of cold or heat, whether he likes cold or heat, whether he has a sore throat or cold feet—are the most intuitive manifestations of cold and heat."
"Normally, a person's yin and yang, cold and heat, deficiency and excess, should be in a state of balance, which perfectly aligns with the optimal mode of coexistence. Any illness is caused by internal or external factors that disrupt this optimal mode of coexistence, resulting in the inability of cold and heat, deficiency and excess, and yin and yang to coexist peacefully, thus manifesting various symptoms..."
At this point, Yun Heng paused and said, "Only when we understand the cause of the disease can we know how to treat it. Since all diseases are caused by the disruption of the state of cold and heat, deficiency and excess, and yin and yang, then during the treatment process we must find a way to adjust and restore the original state, so that cold and heat, yin and yang, deficiency and excess, can return to their original track."
"So what method should be used?"
Yun Heng turned around and wrote on the blackboard: "Herbs, acupuncture, massage..."
"Everyone knows that Chinese medicine relies on the bias of Chinese medicine to treat diseases. It relies on the four properties and five flavors of Chinese medicinal materials: warm, cool, cold, and hot. These properties are used to correct the imbalance."
"Acupuncture also has the function of relieving excess and replenishing deficiency, thus adjusting the balance..."
"In clinical practice, we know what the problem is and then choose the appropriate medicine to correct and regulate it. This is the principle of Chinese medicine."
As he spoke, Yun Heng looked around and slowly said, "Actually, from this perspective, Chinese medicine is more intuitive and simpler than modern medicine. It's broadly divided into yin and yang, and the sublimation of cold and heat is actually yin and yang. To put it bluntly, deficiency and excess are also yin and yang."
"Our Chinese ancestors were very clever. One gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things. This one gave birth to two, and what was born was yin and yang. From a broad perspective, all things in the world are composed of yin and yang. Then, from a detailed perspective, we can divide them into many things, such as gold, wood, water, fire, earth..."
"Yin and Yang and the Five Elements can be said to run through the entire TCM medical system and form the backbone of TCM. When we first came into contact with it, we were a little confused. In fact, Yin and Yang is a straightforward theory of relativity. There is no absolute Yin or Yang. It is just that in specific symptoms, we judge relatively. The normal activities of the five internal organs, muscles and bones, meridians, Qi and blood, and spirit and essence are the body's 'Yin and Yang balance'."
While Yun Heng was talking, he occasionally wrote and drew on the blackboard.
"In general, daytime is Yang and nighttime is Yin. So, is there Yin and Yang within the daytime area? Yes, there is. The areas where sunlight can reach are Yang, and the areas where sunlight cannot reach are Yin. So, is there Yin and Yang in the shadow area? Yes, there is..."
"So, in clinical practice, we also need to identify the location of the disease. The TCM approach to identifying disease locations is something everyone learns in school... Learning TCM is like finding dragon points in feng shui. We first determine a large area, then gradually narrow it down within that large area until we identify a single point..."
"In this way, the entire course of the disease is clearly displayed, and we can see it clearly when treating it."
The classroom was completely silent. No one was whispering or talking to each other anymore. Many people started taking notes. Some students who had forgotten to bring their notebooks were so frustrated that they were almost crying.
Although Yun Heng didn't talk about any specific aspects today, he did explain to students from a broad strategic perspective how to study Chinese medicine, how to dialectically analyze symptoms, and how to treat illnesses...
These things are more valuable and important than detailed explanations of a certain case or a certain field.
These things are what Yun Heng summarized from hundreds of thousands of clinical treatments. When practicing in the simulated space, Yun Heng also made mistakes and took detours before gradually finding the clue. Now, Yun Heng is sharing all his experiences without reservation.
Not only the students in the classroom, but also several professors such as Han Kaiping in the front row, and Lei Yi and Wang Zhiqiang outside the window, were all listening quietly and attentively.
What Yun Heng talked about was actually not very profound, but it was very systematic and very beneficial.
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