Upper heat and lower cold are the most common symptoms of modern people, and its main manifestations are the coexistence of heat syndrome and cold syndrome: perennial fire, always mouth ulcers, tongue sores, chronic pharyngitis, insomnia, and at the same time show many symptoms of body cold, such as fat tongue, blue thenar fish, cold lower limbs, etc.
In terms of diet, this kind of people are also very picky, eating a little hot will get hot, eating a little cold will hurt the yang, and they can only eat warm things.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there is actually a more accurate way to express the upper heat and lower cold: "true cold and false heat", or "yang does not return to its place".
In the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", it is said: "Those who are sick with fever today are all typhoid fever and the like...... If a person's injury is due to cold, it is a fever."
This sentence points out that "cold is the cause of fever", and if the cold evil is too strong in the body, the yang energy will be excluded, and the yang energy will float up and disperse, which will manifest as the upper heat sign, and people will have symptoms of fire. In other words, body chill is the root cause of fire!
After some friends get angry, the first thing they think of is to use gunpowder, but they often fall into a vicious circle of getting worse and worse the more they eat. Because the upper heat and lower cold are caused by the cold of the body, and the gunpowder is a cold thing, taking them will only make you cold and cold, and the more you cure the fire, the bigger the fire!
Therefore, before dealing with the fire, you have to distinguish whether it is a real fire or a virtual fire?
Real fire: never on fire, but after eating something, it suddenly gets on fire, most likely real fire;
False fire: Mouth ulcers, tongue sores, pimples, insomnia and other hot symptoms often occur, after drinking herbal tea, it will be better, but when you don't drink it, it will not work, and it will be repeated, it must be a false fire.
The properties of fire are different, and the treatment method is naturally different. In a word: the laxative method is used for real fire, mainly to clear heat and reduce fire, and it is recommended to take gunpowder (such as bezoar detoxification pills); The method of supplementing the void fire is mainly to replenish yang and nourish yin.
Moreover, for the void fire, there is no contradiction between replenishing yang and nourishing yin. Because the weaker the yang qi, the heavier the body cold, the weaker the spleen and stomach, and the spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Therefore, people who are illusory all year round often have a body that is both yin and yang.
The yang ascends, and the yin descends. However, if Yang has been on and Yin has been on the bottom, it is the separation of Yin and Yang, which means that Yin and Yang have no intersection, you are you, and it is it, then it cannot constitute a relationship of opposing constraints and mutual root and mutual use, and there is no interaction between the two, of course, there will be no relationship or any change.
On the contrary, only when the yang is below, rising from the bottom, yin is on the top, and descending from the top, can the two be related, and only with the correlation can the opposite constraints, mutual roots, mutual growth, and mutual transformation, which is called "yin and yang sympathy".
Therefore, the best state of the human body is that yin is above and yang is below, and if you are upside down, it will be hot and cold.
So, why is yin and yang reversed? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main fire of the heart is located in the upper part of the human body, like the sun in the sky; The main water of the kidneys is located in the lower part of the human body, like a river on the earth. If water and fire are not good, the yin and yang of qi and blood in the body cannot circulate normally, and the yin and yang will be reversed.
For example, if the heart fire and kidney water are two cars, in order for the two cars to meet, two conditions must be met: first, the car itself is normal; Second, the road is not blocked.
Let's start with the vehicle:
1. Kidney yang deficiency
Zheng Qin'an, a famous typhoid scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, pointed out in the "True Biography of Medical Sciences": Yang Qi is too weak, Yin Qi is too strong, and the Yuan Yang of the first line of Yin is bound to go up with Yin Qi, so there will be toothache, swollen cheeks, swollen ears, and sore throat.
It can be seen that if the yang energy is too weak, the evil of yin and cold will be excessive, and it will gradually settle and accumulate below, resulting in "lower cold"; At the same time, the Yuanyang (the fire of life) in the kidneys cannot encourage the kidney water to rise, and the heart fire cannot be nourished by the kidney water, so it will "go hot".
2. Kidney yin deficiency
If the kidney yin is deficient, there is not enough material basis to realize the physiological function of "Shangji Heart Fire", and the body will also show a state of "insufficient power", so it is not surprising that the upper heat and lower cold.
3. Lack of heart yin/hyperactive heart fire
Lack of heart yin and hyperactivity often exist at the same time. On the fire heat, the heart is overheated, and it will be "hot"; At the same time, if the heart fire is lost, it will not be able to warm the kidney water, and it will "go cold".
Let's look at the road again:
1. Lack of middle gas
In the circular movement of the body, for the fire to descend and the water to rise, there must be a force to push it, and this force is the middle qi, which is the key to the rise and fall of the qi engine.
Zhongqi is born from the spleen and stomach, and if the spleen and stomach are weak, the Zhongqi will be insufficient, and then the spleen qi will not rise, and the stomach qi will not fall - the kidney water cannot rise with the help of the rise of the spleen qi to help the heart fire, and people will have redness, swelling, heat and pain, irritability and other problems due to the excessive heart fire; At the same time, if the heart fire cannot be lowered with the help of the decline of stomach qi, it will sink down to warm the kidney water, and people will suffer from chills, dysmenorrhea, diarrhea, and cold lower limbs due to the lack of kidney yang.
2. Wet resistance medium coke
If the fire goes up, the cold sinks, and the middle coke is not passed, it will be "scorched on the fire, and scorched on the bottom". The most common is that the wet resistance is in the coke, blocking the road, causing the heart fire not to fall, the kidney water not to rise, and the natural water and fire can not be used at the same time.
As mentioned above, the essence of the upper heat and lower cold lies in "true cold and false heat" or "yang does not return to its place", which puts forward two requirements: one is to replenish yang, and the other is to latent yang (that is, to pull down yang energy).
Some friends with hot and cold constitutions often aggravate the symptoms of fire after taking supplements, why is this? In fact, it is because the yang is simply supplemented, but the yang energy is not pulled down, and the yang energy is not returned to its place, not only can it not play its due role, but it will be a bad thing.
The method that can both replenish yang and latent yang is moxibustion:
First, the fire that appears in the upper heat and the lower cold is a false fire, indicating that the body is cold, andMoxibustion is the best at treating the symptoms of deficiency and cold, and is the most suitable;
Second, the most direct way to pull down the yang energy is to moxibustion the legs;
Third, moxibustion can supplement yin and yang, which can not only replenish yang, but also nourish yin, remove cold and dampness stasis, eliminate middle scorching stasis, and at the same time replenish the middle qi, and help the spleen to rise and lower the stomach...... These are all pushing the heart and kidney to intersect.
Step 1: Open the middle focus
Open up the middle coke, remove dampness and cold, replenish the middle qi, and make the upper and lower qi paths unblocked, so that the fire can go down. Otherwise, after moxibustion, the fire will be completely blocked and unable to come down, and the symptoms of fire will be more serious.
Here's how:
First of all, if the symptoms of fire are severe, moxibustion is applied first to direct yang energy to the chest;
Then, re-moxibustion Guan Yuan - Guan Yuan is the gateway to the closure of the qi of Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang, moxibustion Guan Yuan can be full of true fire, the vitality is replenished, and the true yuan will restore the function of "hiding but not leaking", and will take the initiative to withdraw the heat scattered outside, and the symptoms of fire will gradually disappear (moxibustion of Guan Yuan and Zhongguan together can also speed up the speed of expelling yin and evil);
Again, Zhongjiao is not clear, focusing on regulating the spleen and stomach, such as spleen Yu, stomach Yu, Zhongguan, Zusanli, Taibai, etc. are commonly used acupoints, spleen qi deficiency, can add moxibustion qi; The spleen is damp and heavy, and moxibustion can be added to Yinling Spring, Fenglong, Jiexi, etc.
Step 2: Ignite the fire and return to the source
For the virtual fire caused by the upper heat and the lower cold, it needs to be led to the place where it should go - the lower limbs.
At this time, the acupuncture points on the legs can be ignited by moxibustion, and the commonly used ones are Zusanli, Yinling Spring, Sanyinjiao, Yongquan, etc. The legs are warm, the meridians are opened, and the scorched fire comes down.
It should be noted that the Yongquan acupoint in the center of the foot should be placed at the end of moxibustion, and it is indispensable, so that the process of "returning the fire to the source" can be completely completed.
In addition, it is recommended to soak your feet in boiled water with moxa leaves before moxibustion, and rub your back and waist with both hands while soaking your feet, which has a better effect. After soaking, rub the spring points on the soles of your feet, which can not only nourish the kidney water, but also replenish yang.