It is said that in ancient times, truly good Chinese medicine did not use acupuncture or Chinese medicine, but used music. The song is over, the illness is gone and people are at peace.
The classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, "Huangdi Neijing", proposed the theory of "five tones for disease treatment" more than 2,000 years ago. "Zuo Zhuan" even said that music has a taste like medicine and can make people feel better. Don’t get sick, stay healthy and live a long life. In ancient times, aristocratic courts were equipped with orchestras and singers, not only for entertainment, but also had an important function of using music to calm the mind and nourish the body and mind.
All diseases arise from Qi and stop from sound.
Ancient music is different from today. There are only five tones: Jiao, Zheng, Gong, Shang and Yu. These five scales are assigned the attributes of the five elements by traditional Chinese philosophy: wood (horn), fire (sign), earth (palace), gold (business), and water (feather). This is precisely taken advantage of by Chinese medicine.
Music can penetrate deeply into people's hearts. In traditional Chinese medicine psychology, music can infect and regulate emotions, thereby affecting the body. While listening, let the melody, emotions, and internal organs interact with each other to achieve the effect of turbulent blood vessels, smooth spirit and heart vessels. Physiologically, when music vibration matches the physiological vibration in the human body (heart rate, rhythm, respiration, blood pressure, pulse, etc.), physiological vibrations and cries will occur. This is the physical and mental basis of "Five Sounds Therapy".
"All diseases arise from Qi"! This "qi" is not only emotions, but also the internal qi of the five internal organs. According to each person's own body structure and the differences in the internal qi of the five internal organs, combined with different music, Wuyin can prevent diseases and maintain health. Of course, we do not use a certain sound to regulate a certain organ, but use the principle of the five elements to make them mutually reinforcing, inhibiting, and restricting each other. The five tones are combined and appropriately highlighted to harmonize the body.
Using music is like using medicine
In traditional Chinese, the three words music, medicine, and treatment have the same origin, and music has a natural connection with medicine and treatment. Music can soothe the body and mind, circulate qi and blood, and promote the meridians. Like drug therapy, it has the ability to regulate the human body.
Music has meridian tropism, rise and fall, cold and heat, and has various properties of Chinese herbal medicine. Moreover, music needs to be concocted. The same piece of music can use different orchestrations, rhythms, dynamics, harmonies, etc. to coordinate with each other, just like the distinction between monarch, minister and assistant in Chinese medicine prescriptions. ? Using music therapy, there are also positive and negative treatments. It is the most commonly used method to let people who are emotionally excited listen to peaceful and sad music. It can also synchronize the music with their emotions and help the listener vent excessive negative emotions. For example, using tearful music to take away sadness, and fast-paced music Music gives vent to overexcited emotions.
Liver - when the sound is the angle - when the ambition is anger
Heart - when the sound is the sign - when the ambition is happiness
Spleen - In the sound is the palace - in the ambition is the thinking
Lungs - in the sound is the business - in the ambition is the worry
Kidney - in the sound is the feather - in the ambition is the fear
There are many records in ancient medical books about the matching of the five elements, five tones, and five internal organs. For example, the "Huangdi Neijing: The Theory of Yin and Yang Corresponding Symbols" says: The east produces wind, wind produces wood, wood produces sourness, sourness produces liver...the sound is the horn, the sound is the breath... The south generates heat, heat generates fire, fire generates bitterness, and bitterness generates the heart...the sounds are signs, and the sounds are laughter... The center generates dampness, dampness generates earth, earth generates sweetness, sweetness generates spleen,...the sound is the palace, the sound is the song... The West produces dryness, dryness produces metal, metal produces pungent, pungent produces lung,...the sound is business, the sound is crying,... The north generates cold, cold generates water, water generates salty, salty generates kidney,...the sound is feather, the sound is moan,...
In summary, according to what is discussed in ancient Chinese medical books: the sky contains the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) and produces the five sounds (jiao, heng, palace, shang, and yu); the earth has The five seasons (spring, summer, long summer, autumn, and winter) nurture the five transformations (birth, growth, transformation, collection, and storage); people have five internal organs (liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys) and produce five wills (anger , joy, thinking, worry, fear). It reflects the organic connection between man and heaven and earth.
The artistic conception of purity, tranquility, lightness and distance pursued by Chinese music is exactly the same as the law of "tranquility and nothingness" advocated by traditional Chinese medicine.
All diseases are caused by the stagnant Qi in the body. When the Qi is evacuated through music, the disease is almost cured. The classic ancient Chinese medicine book "Su Wen·Ju Tong Lun" says that "all diseases are caused by Qi", and "Lingshu·Five Tones and Five Flavors" also discusses in detail the theory of five musical scales, including Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu, to treat diseases. , and was finally summarized as the music treatment theory that "all diseases arise from Qi and stop from sound".
The following are some quotes from ancient people on music therapy:
"Nei Jing": "The melodious and harmonious sounds of the palace help the spleen to move well and increase appetite; the sounds of Shang are sonorous and solemn. Jin is good at controlling anger and brings peace of mind; the sound of horns is smooth and peaceful, good at dispelling melancholy and helping people fall asleep; the sound of Zhengyin is restrained and chanted to regulate blood circulation and invigorate the spirit; the sound of feathers is soft and thorough, making people daydream and enlightening the soul."
"Bai Hu Tong·Rites and Music": "Harmonize the five tones to nourish all things"
"Historical Records·Book of Music": "Stir the blood, circulate the spirit and harmonize the heart"
"Lei Jing Fu Yi·Lüyuan": Music "can connect the heaven and earth and harmonize with the gods"
"Li Zhen Parallel Prose": "It is also a disease of the seven emotions. Looking at flowers relieves boredom, and listening to music relieves sorrow. , better than those who take medicine."
In short, the five tones and the five internal organs seem to be two completely different concepts, but in fact they can all interact with each other through the universal properties of the "five elements". It is quite wonderful for the five tones to enter the human body and improve the human body's mechanism of action. First of all, when music is introduced into the body, it will cause the human cells and tissues to vibrate harmoniously and synchronously, thereby regulating the human physiological rhythm. Appropriate sound waves can bring the physiological functions of various system tissues into a harmonious state. Such as pulse fluctuations, heart rate, breathing rhythm, gastrointestinal motility, and even muscle contraction and relaxation, can all be well regulated. Music sound waves are also a kind of energy, which can stimulate the potential energy of the human body and make the human body more energetic. Secondly, music sound waves also have a benign stimulating effect on the central nervous system and endocrine system, which can promote the endocrine system to secrete healthy hormones and promote the body's metabolism.