If the yang energy of the husband is lost due to the mismatch between heaven and sun, it will shorten his lifespan and fail to manifest. "- Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, Su Wen, On the Integration of Qi and Heaven
In 2005, I treated a patient. This patient is a middle-aged woman, a senior executive of a company, and has a lot of important meetings to attend.
According to her, in the summer of 2004, one day during a meeting, the air conditioning in the conference room was turned on to a low temperature of 17 ℃ and the wind speed was set to the highest. And she happened to be wearing a thin camisole that day, sitting in a place where the cold wind was blowing directly, with the air conditioning facing her back. At that time, there were many people in the meeting, so we couldn't turn off the air conditioning or walk around casually. We just blew cold air for an hour.
From then on, she suffered from neck pain and back pain. My whole back and neck are extremely painful, and I am very afraid of the cold, especially stiff. It feels like I have a big pot on my back all day long.
I asked her if she had tried acupuncture and moxibustion and cupping.
She said, "I have come up with all possible solutions, but they all have certain effects, but cannot cure the problem
I saw that this is a typical disease of "wind cold attacking the lungs". Although cupping and acupuncture and moxibustion can work, it can only dredge the meridians, and the cold air that remains deep in the viscera will not be cured.
So I used traditional Chinese medicine such as Guizhi decoction, Pueraria lobata, Chicken Blood Vine, Chuanfu tablets, and dried ginger, which were used to warm the meridians, dispel coldness, and balance the health of the camp. I remember that at that time, the amount of dried ginger, aconite, and other medicines was so large that the pharmacy director had to sign to take out the medicine.
After nearly two months of treatment, the patient's positive energy gradually recovered, the coldness slowly dissipated, the "big pot" on the back disappeared, and the body regained health.
This shows the depth of the harm caused by wind cold, especially when the exposed back feels the wind cold. The cold pathogen directly invades the internal organs, causing deep-seated diseases in the organs.
Nowadays, many girls prefer elegance over warmth, and their clothing is becoming more and more revealing, especially in summer. Many girls wear suspender, low cut, and low neck clothing for coolness. Although they may feel cool when wearing it, the drawbacks of this type of clothing are also significant.
The camisole exposes the neck and upper back completely, which also exposes many of the body's organs. There is an important acupoint behind the neck called the Dazhui acupoint, which is a major gateway in the human body. If wind and cold invade accidentally, mild symptoms such as headache, neck stiffness, shoulder and back pain may occur. If the physical condition is weak and the intensity of wind and cold is high, symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, asthma, and lung qi damage may occur.
The lungs are the canopy of the whole body, regulating the qi of the whole body. Metal and water are mutually generated. If the lung qi is deficient, it will lead to insufficient kidney qi, and the whole body will become weak. Over time, deficiency and fatigue diseases will occur.
As we all know, in summer, the human body's hair ducts are fully opened, and the interaction between the human body and the outside world is particularly strong. External evil energy is also particularly easy to invade the human body. Nowadays, almost every household is equipped with air conditioning. In summer, women wearing revealing clothes suddenly enter a cooler room with air conditioning from the hot external environment. The cold air from the air conditioning enters the body through these orifices, causing significant damage. One is shoulder and back pain, which is a manifestation of wind cold, and the other is damage to the yang energy in the chest and lungs.
There is a saying in ancient times that goes, 'Avoiding wind is like avoiding arrows' and' Wind is the root of all diseases'. The meaning is that wind evil is like a sharp knife, breaking through the external barriers of the human body the fastest, while cold evil is the most serious in injuring people. The combination of "wind" and "cold" is like a vanguard with extremely strong breakthrough power, followed closely by a large force of heavy equipment. The combination of the two has the most rapid killing power.
So, the ancients taught us to avoid the pathogenic factors of 'deficiency and evil thief wind' in order to maintain our innate vitality.
We have all watched historical TV dramas and have a certain understanding of the clothing worn by ancient people. We have observed that the clothing of ancient people, no matter how hot the summer is, always protects the neck area, especially for women's clothing, emphasizing this point even more, as the saying goes, 'the neck should be warm'. It can be seen that the clothing of ancient people had its own aspect of maintaining ethics and morality, as well as profound principles of health and wellness.
The teachings of the sages, 'nurturing yang in spring and summer, nurturing yin in autumn and winter,' teach us to obey the laws of nature and not go against them. Although summer is originally hot, air conditioning should be used to blow directly, causing cold diseases and exposing ourselves to clothing that exacerbates the invasion of wind and cold, thereby damaging the body.
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