The Most Fundamental Cornerstone of Traditional Chinese Medicine

After Su Ziyang finished speaking, the people below the stage split into three formations.

The first type of person thinks this young man is indeed different and is prepared to learn from him seriously.

The second reason is that Su Ziyang completely overturned their worldview, so they disregarded him and prepared to leave.

The third option is to wait and see.

Ignoring what everyone was thinking, Su Ziyang opened his computer slides and began the main lesson.

The PowerPoint presentation contained a row of titles without any special effects.

The core thinking model of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Yin and Yang and Yang and the Five Elements.

"In this lesson, we'll talk about Yin and Yang and Yang and the Five Elements. Everyone should know that these are the foundational tools of Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, not some mysterious origin of the world, nor are they feudal superstitions!"

"Instead, they are two classification methods and systems thinking models created by the ancients to describe the functional state of the human body and the interrelationships between the internal organs."

You can think of it as a coordinate system in mathematics; x, y, and z are the symbols used to represent it!

"Before discussing Yin and Yang Five Elements, we must also discuss the theory of Qi Monism, which is the premise of Yin and Yang Five Elements."

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Qi is the fundamental substance that constitutes the human body and maintains life activities; it is also the general term for all bodily functions. The Separate Yin and Yang is the most basic classification of the human body.

Seeing that everyone had fallen silent and was looking at him intently, Su Ziyang noticed that they were all looking at him seriously.

Then he began to speak point by point, according to what he had prepared.

The core of Yin and Yang Theory is the classification of opposites in a unified way.

Everything in the world can be divided into two categories, Yin and Yang, according to their attributes.

Upward, outward, warm, bright, and dynamic belong to Yang;

Downward, inward, cold, dark, and still belong to Yin.

In the human body, the surface belongs to Yang, and the interior belongs to Yin;

The six fu organs belong to yang, and the five zang organs belong to yin;

Qi belongs to Yang, blood belongs to Yin;

Hyperfunction belongs to Yang, while insufficiency belongs to Yin.

At this point in Su Ziyang's speech, everyone became drowsy again, because it was too dry and lacked energy.

So Su Ziyang asked a question appropriately!

"I'd like to ask, what do you all think constitutes health?"

Everyone perked up again!

I'm pondering this question carefully.

But there was no answer.

Su Ziyang chuckled and said, "Health is the balance of Yin and Yang, which means that the body's functions are within a stable and coordinated range. That's health."

"In our plain language, it means being able to eat, sleep, and defecate normally; being hard-working; having good hearing and eyesight; not being afraid of the cold or the heat; and having plenty of energy for work. That's the balance of Yin and Yang!"

As Su Ziyang was speaking, a middle-aged woman in the audience immediately said, "Teacher, my palms and soles are always hot!"

Su Ziyang immediately chimed in, "That's an imbalance of Yin and Yang! The Yang energy is in your palm, not inside your hand, so the Yin can't control the Yang, which is why it's hot!"

Whenever specific matters are involved, everyone becomes active again.

The audience erupted in discussion.

After everyone had finished discussing, Su Ziyang took the opportunity to supplement his knowledge.

"The essence of disease is an imbalance of Yin and Yang, either an excess or a deficiency."

An excess of Yang will cause heat symptoms, while an excess of Yin will cause cold symptoms.

"A deficiency of Yang leads to deficiency-cold, while a deficiency of Yin leads to deficiency-heat."

Therefore, the principle of traditional Chinese medicine in treating diseases is to adjust Yin and Yang, correct imbalances, and restore balance.

However, we should pay attention to two points:

First, Yin and Yang are relative, not absolute, and the criteria for their division change depending on the reference object.

Secondly, Yin and Yang are attribute classifications, not specific substances. Do not imagine that there are two independent "Yin Qi" and "Yang Qi" flowing in the human body.

This is different from feudal superstition, so it is definitely not feudal superstition!