A few days ago, I was talking about Chinese medicine on the stage at the shooting scene of Beijing TV Station. Halfway through, the producer suddenly greeted me with a nervous expression, saying that someone was seriously ill. I was taken aback and asked what was wrong.
It turned out that a technician at the scene was very ill and couldn't stand it, so he came to me. The staff member was very tired, unable to speak, and his forehead was very hot, but he didn't know how high it was. At that time, his eyelids were swollen, his tongue was pale, his fur was thin and white, his pulse was tight, his body was cold, and his arms hugged each other tightly. But my throat doesn't hurt and I don't cough.
This situation is very clear. He suffers from cold evil, which is the most prominent evil in winter. His performance is typical.
The most prominent symptom of many people's colds is their fear of cold, which is called aversion to cold in Chinese medicine, and they generally don't sweat. In Chinese medicine, aversion to cold and fear of cold are different. The evil cold caused by the invasion of cold evil is that you still feel cold after covering the quilt and putting on clothes, which is the real evil; It's not cold when you put on clothes. This is fear of blood stasis and a sign of yang deficiency.
So, what should we do at this time?
As I said before, boiling water with perilla leaves can drive away cold evil from the body. But that's in general weather, I feel cold occasionally, and the cold pathogen is not serious, and it's only on my body surface, so I can use perilla leaf. This time, things are different. This is an extremely cold season, and cold pathogens tend to go deep.
This friend's cold germs are very bad and his face is blue. My analysis shows that the cold pathogen is not completely on his body surface, but he feels cold from the inside out, which shows that the cold pathogen has entered the body.
At this point, the best way is to warm up his body and make his blood run normally, so that he can resist evil spirits. I made a diet recipe, told him to go home and cook the broth one by one, put some warm spices such as dried ginger, ginger and pepper in it, and then drank the soup. I asked him if he could go home by himself. He said yes, and dragged his tired body home alone. I went on stage again and recorded the program. It only took five minutes before and after, and more than 200 viewers at the recording site didn't notice it.
So, does drinking broth work?
Two days later, I saw him again, and he was radiant. I asked, "okay?"
He smiled and replied, "The broth is delicious."
What is the reason?
I don't know if you remember, when I told the story of Zhu Danxi, I mentioned a teacher in Zhu Danxi, Luo Zhi Steerforth. He treated a weak monk, so he asked Zhu Danxi to buy pork tripe and beef and cook soup for the monk. As a result, the monk recovered slowly. At this time, he used the method of capture to drive away evil spirits.
Why is this? It turns out that these broths can strengthen our physique, such as mutton. James, one of the four masters in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, said: "Mutton is sweet in taste, hot in nature, and can replenish blood and be tangible. It can replenish the qi of tangible muscles. " Therefore, Japan: "The supplement can be weak."
When the cold pathogen is serious, people with insufficient healthy qi are prone to catch a cold. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement healthy qi, that is, to increase one's physical strength to resist evil spirits from going out. This is different from other seasons. They occasionally feel cold and evil is on their body surface. At this time, the situation is more serious, and they need stronger power to exorcise evil spirits.
The purpose of adding dried ginger to the soup is to strengthen the spleen, strengthen yang and warm the body. It is based on the formula of Lizhong decoction, and adding pepper has the same effect. In extremely cold weather like this, cold pathogens often enter the meridian of Foot Taiyin and even the meridian of Foot Shaoyin and Kidney. The difference is that cold pathogen is in the spleen meridian, which often leads to obvious spleen and stomach symptoms, cold stomachache and diarrhea. Cold pathogen entering the kidney meridian often indicates that people are sleepy and want to sleep in broad daylight. The term is "but they want to sleep", which is called "feeling too little" in Chinese medicine (less sun, yin and qi are both sick)
When cooking soup, it is best to choose beef and mutton (Koreans can use dog meat), and mutton is the most suitable. Recipes that use mutton as medicine, such as Zhang Zhongjing's angelica and ginger mutton soup, are used to treat blood deficiency colds; Beef is used as medicine, and the most famous method is Zhu Danxi's dumping method, which I talked about in my book. Many physicians in later generations learned a lot about the usage of beef from Zhu Danxi, saying that it mainly enters the spleen meridian. Pork is nourishing yin, so it is not suitable.
This is a dietotherapy idea with good effect. Generally, after drinking, the whole body is warm, the energy becomes sufficient, and sweating can be restored soon. If you encounter the invasion of cold evil, if it is not so serious, you can adjust yourself through diet therapy.
This method, the sooner you use it, the better, and it is most effective when you feel cold. It should be noted that at this time, the patient has no symptoms of internal heat such as sore throat, mainly symptoms of body cold. If the disease develops to dry yellow tongue coating, yellow phlegm, yellow nose and sore throat, it is necessary to clear away heat and detoxify.