Exclusive view | dialectical materialism and the thinking of traditional Chinese medicine

Time: 2015-09-18

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

Author: wen hong

Philosophy is a highly generalization and summarization of the natural science and social science. As an important part of Chinese traditional culture of traditional Chinese medicine, always runs through simple materialist dialectics. In a certain sense, the traditional Chinese medicine and is accompanied by the ancient Chinese philosophy, development and development, such as "yi said" a Yin and Yang is called dao ", Lao tzu said that "all things negative Yin and embrace Yang", and then think and ebb and flow of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. Because of this, more easily than other natural science and philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine.

The following example elaborates from five aspects to understand the traditional Chinese medicine thinking from the Angle of marxist philosophy.

Look from the law of unity of opposites and balance of opposites in TCM

The law of the unity of opposites is the basis of materialist dialectics to other laws. Quantitative change and qualitative change, affirmation and negation, essence and phenomenon, reasons and results, and so on, its essence is the unity of the opposites. Is the embodiment of the law of the unity of opposites. It is like a red line, through all aspects of materialist dialectics. Understand it, is fundamentally understand the materialist dialectics.

From the heart kidney of the relationship of traditional Chinese medicine; Heart belongs to fire the kidney water. Although incompatible, this is their opposition instead of on the one hand; But can fire and water both economic again. This is their unity each other's side. Cold water not suppress fire inflammation, hot also inhibits renal water not too cold, fire and water both economic, heart kidney was formed by the dynamic balance of the intersection. Other sigh of relief, such as liver, kidney of collection, dispersing pertains and the descending of the lung is opposite each other. Again such as courses of meridians is foot three Yang from the top down, the foot three Yin from down to up. Before after disease cure, stomach disease cure back. The disease, left disease treated right. When walking and taijiquan left arm and right leg move together, also is on the contrary, the opposite effect is relatively better more. Because more to each other, more unified, more balance.

Ye Tianshi said. "Spleen should be up is healthy, the stomach should be reduced and the". Is litres of qing dynasty, is the material. A liter of a drop, this is their opposition instead of on the one hand, but they have united each other side again. Spleen rose clear inhibits gastric not drop too much, the stomach drop also inhibits the spleen not rise too much, avoids the disadvantages of too much to break the balance. To form a dynamic balance.

Look from the quantitative change law of qualitative change cold pole raw cold hot, hot

Change always starts from the quantitative change of any things. Increase or decrease the amount of beyond a certain limit, can cause fundamental changes things, and then on the basis of new material and started a new process of quantitative change. So continuous cycle, make up things from junior to senior development process. Water filled with overflow, waxing is deficient, things too much will reverse, the so-called extremes meet.

TCM theory, Yin and Yang are also think that "cold pole cold hot, hot. Heavy Yin Yang, chongyang will Yin". That is to say, in the process of change of Yin and Yang, Yin in the extreme, it can be converted into Yang, or will show Yang phenomenon. Conversely, too; Such as hot or cold to the bone is the turning point. Very hot cold, such as xia yi bao Yang; A sun cold pole heat production, such as the winter solstice. Such as clinical really hot winter vacation again, true hot false cold. Why the ancients laid special stress on the weight and very? This is because the ancients thought transformation between Yin and Yang, is not a mutation, but the gradient, only to a certain extent, to complete transformation in the opposite direction. Spring shall belong to the sun, but the spring is just the beginning of Yang. Fire in the winter to spring is as the sun be the spirit of fu. This time, not only won't change, and often have a real fire. Such as headaches, nosebleeds, cough, sore throat, etc. But to continue to develop, on top of the world are qualitative change. Blisteringly hot like summer, because of sweating, sun be the spirit large divergence at outside. Because of thirst, a large number of cold, melon and fruit drinks served within, the big sun be the spirit injury caused in the cold. The author participated in the eight years of foreign aid medical team. Africa hot, invaded by invading cause whole body painful disease but more than the domestic cold places. Reason is that hot day sweating, sun be the spirit big injury, who ability is poor, thermal, cou justified, invaded more intrusive. So the author thinks that "Yang chun xia qiu dong Yin" should be changed to "xia Yang, dong Yin." Chinese medicine "Yang chun xia qiu dong Yin" and saying "winter turnip eat summer eat ginger", is a reason. It is in order to change and to prevent the above phenomenon.

Early as again, facial paralysis, the risk of the lateral relaxation is weak, so the face to the healthy side. But not more, after many days of side due to long-term meridian qi and blood is not smooth, develop to the fullest; By impotent soft weakness, into JuLuan tic, stiff and strong, face and head to one side, appear "perversion" phenomenon. Hemiplegia has this kind of situation. One appears at the end of the side by impotent soft weakness in the early days to the strephenopodia JuLuan rigidity. These changes in weight and the degree of qi and sooner or later. If people just die when the body is flat, at this time should be put on the clothes as soon as possible, or dead in one day will be stiff. This is because the circulation of qi and blood is completely stopped after death, is a reason. From the perspective of philosophy, this is too much, this is the philosophy of predictive of the development of things, forward-looking, guidance of law of things found.

The ancients said: the secret of TCM is not preach on the quantity. This includes the number and dose of the drug. Included in the depth direction Angle of the needle technique strength, and so on, determines the effect of different amount. A similar phenomenon, such as exercise, life lies in movement, and life is to rest, all right. Two aspects of a problem. Key in degrees, right? Because each person also condition. These we can use the philosophy theory to analyze, predict and understand.

The view from the perspective of dialectical materialism

Materialism thought; Material is the first, spirit is the second, material decided to spirit, the spirit is a reflection of the material. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the objective material base in the guiding ideology, admitted that the primacy of matter, such as neijing cloud: "depending on the outside should be to know its internal organs, know disease yi". Explicitly put medical research on human objective external performance. Stressed there she will a wide-ranging at outside. To inspecting organs through the body's external change, such as listening, pulse feeling and palpation, diagnosis, such as through the points of shenshu point back,

Marx's materialism is the dialectical materialism, is it decided in recognizing material spirit at the same time, and that spirit of material also has a huge backlash, the so-called spiritual change material. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine has always attaches great importance to the spirit of emotional impact on the human body, the so-called seven emotions more than six evils. Surprised, sorrow, fear of too much or less will affect the health of the body.

Start from neijing, advocated "for god" is also known as "god" "the god" "the god" and so on, is the spirit of both doctors emphasize the consciousness or psychological factors in the application of acupuncture treatment. Refers to by a doctor to concentrate, to a certain acupuncture technique, prompting needle under more appropriate gas, gas to disease. And ask client to also keep acupuncture point, in order to improve the clinical curative effect. This method is confirmed by clinical, the effect of get twice the result with half the effort. As the pivot, the nine. "the cloud:" to meet, then to meaning and, needle bi yi tao." The meaning, is refers to obey god, and the air is used to reconcile, it is also a mental reaction in the concrete application of matter.

From the main respect of contradiction and the secondary side of Yin and Yang

The nature of things, mainly by a dominant contradictions of the main aspects. So, when we are in the understanding and treatment of disease, must distinguish the major and minor, clear the development direction of the disease. To highlight the key, seize the key, make disease recovery. Can't move, such as in patients with hemiplegia early clinical acupuncture Yang mainly by the first, because Yang, Yang meridians easy to recover. But the main aspect and the secondary aspects, under certain conditions can be transformed each other. And you can along with the changes in the nature of things. We emphasize the role of Yang meridians, but do not deny that under certain conditions, the Yin meridians can also become the main aspects of contradiction, when patients with initial move, will seriously Yin meridians, otherwise easy to appear strephenopodia hemiplegic gait syndrome. So-called soldier impermanence, capricious, water use by seconds, stored in a heart. So in clinical must use development, change, and the dialectical view of disease. This is also so-called, same also.

The two contradictory aspects and interdependent under certain condition, were in a continuum. Yin and Yang opposites, and interdependence and unified. According to the identity of Yin and Yang, dependency, according to the practice of traditional Chinese medicine think again: good for Yang, Yin and Yang, good filling Yin, Yang, in Yin, both sides should give attention to two or morethings arrives, just different emphasis.

From the material form of exercise to see

In MAO zedong's "on contradiction", said: "people understanding of the material, it is to know the material form of exercise, because in addition to the movement of the material, nothing in the world, while physical exercise will take a certain form. For each kind of movement form material, must pay attention to it and other forms of various kinds of sports in common, however, is particularly important, as we know the basic things, is must pay attention to its special point."

Such as the rise and fall is a concrete manifestation of material movement, is the unique function between TCM theories viscera. Between the zang-fu organs, there must be a lowered a contradiction unified form of exercise, to produce physiological function. The so-called ", and not have ". Such as the six fu-organs transfar content and not hide, five zang-organs hidden nutrients without diarrhea. And lung belongs to the five zang-organs. Located in the upper energizer, namely the dispersing pertains, and transforming. Main tend to focus on, and don't have to cough and gasp the reduction. It is must pay attention to the special points. "Only pay attention to this, can be the difference between things." "On contradiction" is complex due to the lifting of lifting, until, drop JiangSheng litres, nozzle-vessel junction, and constitutes the whole of human life movement, motion picture.