Enjoying tea is an integral part of Chinese life. However, tea-drinking customs vary throughout China. Scented tea, like jasmine tea, is popular in north China; people in the east prefer green tea while people in the south usually drink black tea.
Being one of life's daily necessities and considering its special healing effects, tea is a common ingredient used in folk remedies. For example, it is said that tea is good for elderly people or for people who are recovering from serious diseases. When such people present with fatigue, gastric and abdominal distention after meals, it is recommended that they drink old fermented tea for several days.
2008年11月16日星期日
2008年10月29日星期三
The medicated diet treatment for essential hypertension
In light of its common symptoms of vertigo and headache, essential hypertension is divided in TCM into three types on the basis of the differentiation of syndromes: flaming-up of liver-fire, deficiency of both the liver-yin and the kidney-yin, and hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency.
1) Flaming-up of liver-fire. It is mainly manifested as distending pain in the head, dizziness, flushed face, conjunctival congestion, impetuosity and liability to anger, bitter taste, dry throat or accompanied with tinnitus, deafness, vexation, insomnia, which are aggravated by anger or overstrain, red tongue with yellow fur, wiry and rapid pulse.
2) Deficiency of the liver-yin and the kidney-yin. This type of syndrome is mainly manifested as dizziness, headache, dim eyesight, tinnitus, dry mouth, dryness in the eye, insomnia, dreaminess, feverish sensation in the palms and soles, lassitude in the loins and knees, mental tiredness, amnesia, red tongue with little fur, thready and wiry pulse or thready, wiry and rapid pulse.
3) Hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency. The syndrome of this type is marked by more serious distending pain in the head, occasionally flushed face, impetuosity and liability to anger, vexation, ted tongue with thin and yellow fur, wiry, thready and rapid pulse as well as the symptoms of syndrome of deficiency.
Dietetic Chinese Drugs
1) Hawthorn fruit (frucutus crataegi). The drug has the function of bring down blood pressure and is to be taken 9 to 15g per day. It is applicable to patients with essential hypertension or that accompanied with hyperlipemia and coronary heart disease.
2) Chrysanthemum flower (flos chryasnthemi). It can bring down the blood pressure and can be taken as a drink for a long time, 6 to 12g per day. This drug is applicable to essential hypertension marked by the types of flaming-up of liver-fire or of hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency.
3) Celery (apium). It contains apin which functions in bringing down blood pressure. Cut up 250g of fresh celery and extract its juice, which is to be taken twice a day. Or decoct not for long 30 to 60g of fresh celery for oral administration. This drug is applicable to essential hypertension manifested as the type of flaming-up of liver-fire or hyperactivity of yang due to yindeficiency.
4) Onion (bulbus allii capae). Having the function of promoting digestion, onion can prevent and treat hypertension. It can be either pounded to get its juice for drinking or eaten sautéed.
5) Garlic (bulbus allii). Garlic contains allin that can bring down blood pressure and is to be eaten raw, stewed, or cooked in gruel. It can be decocted, or pounded and made into boluses or pills for administration.
6) Carrot (radix dauxi carotae). It can be eaten taw or cooked, or be decocted, or extracted to get its juice, or decocted, for oral administration.
7) Shepherd’s purse (herba capsellae). Fresh shepherd’s purse is to be extracted to get its juice, or decocted, for oral administration. It can be eaten stir-fried, too. It is applicable to essential hypertension marked by the type of flaming-up of liver-fire. The common dosage is 30 to 60g each time.
8) Japanese sea tangle (thallus eckloniae) the laminine the drug contains can bring down blood pressure. Usually it is to be taken 15 to 60g per day. It can be eaten cooked, or decocted for oral administration, or used as an ingredient of boluses or pills or powder.
9) Straw mushroom (volva fungorum). Fresh straw mushroom should be eaten boiled or stir-fried. The common dosage is 30 to 60g each time.
10) Miscellanies. tremella (tremella), jew’s ear (auricularia), wild rice shoots (fhizoma zizaniae), apple (malum silvestre), pear (malum piri), persimmon (fructus kaki) and tangerine (fructus citri tangerinae) can be selected for eating. In addition, corn stigma (stigma maydis) decoction, when taken orally, can also bring down blood pressure and induce diuresis.
Composite Medicated Diet
1) Drink of Hawthorn Fruit and Chrysanthemum Flower (Shanzha Juhua Daichayin)
Ingredients: hawthorn fruit 12g; chrysanthemum flower 9g
Process: infuse them in boiling water for drinking.
Directions: patients with essential hypertension or accompanied with hyperlipemia, coronary heart discase can take it regularly as tea; while those with essential hypertension marked by the types of liver-fire or hyperaxtivity of yang due to yin deficiency can take it as a supplementary medicine.
2) Drinking of Chrysanthemum Flower, Sophora Flower and Green tea (Ju Huai Lucha Yin)
Ingredients: chrysanthemum folwer 3 to 6g; sophora flower 3 to 6g, green tea 3g
Process: infuse them in boiling water for drinking
Directions: its indications are the same as those of Drink of Hawthorn Fruit and Chrysanthemum Flower.
3) Thick Soup of Water Chestnut and Jellyfish Head (Xuegeng Tang)
Ingredients: water chestnut 100 to200g; jellyfish head 100 to 200g
Process: cook soup with them
Directions: to be taken twice or three times a day for the treatment of essential hypertension accompanied with syndrome of accumulation of phlegm manifested clinically as vertigo, heaviness sensation in the head, fullness and stuffiness in the chest and stomach, or vomiting, nausea, salivation, white and greasy fur, wiry and slippery pulse.
4) Soup of Tremella and Jew’s Ear (Shuang Er Tang)
Ingredients: tremella 9 to 12g; jew’s ear 9 to 12g; crystal sugar right amount
Process: first soak the first two ingredients in warm water and wash them clean; then place them in a bowl, pour water into the bowl and add in the crystal sugar; and finally steam them in a food steamer for an hour.
Directions: the tremella and the jew’s ear are for eating and the soup for drinking, once or twice per day. It is applicable to patients with essential hypertension, arteriosclerosis or that accompayied with bleeding from the eyeground, especially good for the type of deficiency of both the liver-yin and kidney-yin.
5) Decoction of Celery and Chinese-date (Qincai Dazao Tang)
Ingredients: stem of fresh celery 60g; Chinese-date 30g
Process: decoct them in a right amount of water.
Directions: to be taken twice a day over a month in succession.
6) Decoction of Hawthorn Fruit and Cassia Seed (Shanzha Jueming Tang)
Ingredients: hawthorn fruit 15 to 30g; cassia seed 15 to 30g
Process: decoct them in a right amount of water for oral administration or infuse them in boiling water for drinking.
Directions: applicable to patients with both essential hypertension and hyperlipemia accompanied with constipation. The amount of cassia seed should be reduced when the patient is free from constipation.
7) Soup of Corn Stigma and Tortoise (Yumixu Gui Tang)
Ingredients: tortoise over 500g; corn stigma 120g
Process: place the tortoise in a basin, pour in hot water; after the tortoise has discharged all its urine, wash it clean and cut off its head and feet, rid it of its internal organs; then put it in an earthenware pot together with the corn stigma and a right amount of water. Cook on a strong fire until the water comes to the boil and then cook on with a slow fire until the tortoise is well-done.
Directions: the flesh of the tortoise is for eating and the soup for drinking. It is used to treat essential hypertension manifested as the type of deficiency of both the liver-yin and the kidney-yin.
8) Gruel of Chrysanthemum Flower and Hawthorn Fruit (Juhua Shanzha Zhou)
Ingredients: dried chrysanthemum flower 9 to12g; hawthorn fruit slices 9 to12g; polished round-grained rice 45 to 60g; crystal sugar right amount
Process: Grind the first two ingredients into powder; then make gruel out of the rice, sugar and 500ml of water, when the rice begins to boil with the liquid not thick yet, mix the powder of the first two ingredients into gruel and go on cooking on a slow fire for a while; and finally when the gruel becomes thick, put out the fire and simmer it for five minutes with the pot tightly covered.
Directions: to be taken warm, once or twice a day, for patients with essential hypertension or that accompanied with hyperlipemia, coronary hear disease. Stop taking it in winter.
9) Soup of Mung Bean and Kelp (Haidai Ludou Tang)
Ingredients: mung bean 90g; kelp 45g; crystal sugar right mount
Process: cook the three ingredients together in water over a strong fire until the water comes to the boil; then cook over a slow fire until the mung bean and the kelp are well-done.
Directions: this soup is for eating. Taking it regularly can prevent essential hypertension and hyperlipemia.
Select one or two from among the recipes above that are to patients' taste. If curative, they should be taken for a long time.
1) Flaming-up of liver-fire. It is mainly manifested as distending pain in the head, dizziness, flushed face, conjunctival congestion, impetuosity and liability to anger, bitter taste, dry throat or accompanied with tinnitus, deafness, vexation, insomnia, which are aggravated by anger or overstrain, red tongue with yellow fur, wiry and rapid pulse.
2) Deficiency of the liver-yin and the kidney-yin. This type of syndrome is mainly manifested as dizziness, headache, dim eyesight, tinnitus, dry mouth, dryness in the eye, insomnia, dreaminess, feverish sensation in the palms and soles, lassitude in the loins and knees, mental tiredness, amnesia, red tongue with little fur, thready and wiry pulse or thready, wiry and rapid pulse.
3) Hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency. The syndrome of this type is marked by more serious distending pain in the head, occasionally flushed face, impetuosity and liability to anger, vexation, ted tongue with thin and yellow fur, wiry, thready and rapid pulse as well as the symptoms of syndrome of deficiency.
Dietetic Chinese Drugs
1) Hawthorn fruit (frucutus crataegi). The drug has the function of bring down blood pressure and is to be taken 9 to 15g per day. It is applicable to patients with essential hypertension or that accompanied with hyperlipemia and coronary heart disease.
2) Chrysanthemum flower (flos chryasnthemi). It can bring down the blood pressure and can be taken as a drink for a long time, 6 to 12g per day. This drug is applicable to essential hypertension marked by the types of flaming-up of liver-fire or of hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency.
3) Celery (apium). It contains apin which functions in bringing down blood pressure. Cut up 250g of fresh celery and extract its juice, which is to be taken twice a day. Or decoct not for long 30 to 60g of fresh celery for oral administration. This drug is applicable to essential hypertension manifested as the type of flaming-up of liver-fire or hyperactivity of yang due to yindeficiency.
4) Onion (bulbus allii capae). Having the function of promoting digestion, onion can prevent and treat hypertension. It can be either pounded to get its juice for drinking or eaten sautéed.
5) Garlic (bulbus allii). Garlic contains allin that can bring down blood pressure and is to be eaten raw, stewed, or cooked in gruel. It can be decocted, or pounded and made into boluses or pills for administration.
6) Carrot (radix dauxi carotae). It can be eaten taw or cooked, or be decocted, or extracted to get its juice, or decocted, for oral administration.
7) Shepherd’s purse (herba capsellae). Fresh shepherd’s purse is to be extracted to get its juice, or decocted, for oral administration. It can be eaten stir-fried, too. It is applicable to essential hypertension marked by the type of flaming-up of liver-fire. The common dosage is 30 to 60g each time.
8) Japanese sea tangle (thallus eckloniae) the laminine the drug contains can bring down blood pressure. Usually it is to be taken 15 to 60g per day. It can be eaten cooked, or decocted for oral administration, or used as an ingredient of boluses or pills or powder.
9) Straw mushroom (volva fungorum). Fresh straw mushroom should be eaten boiled or stir-fried. The common dosage is 30 to 60g each time.
10) Miscellanies. tremella (tremella), jew’s ear (auricularia), wild rice shoots (fhizoma zizaniae), apple (malum silvestre), pear (malum piri), persimmon (fructus kaki) and tangerine (fructus citri tangerinae) can be selected for eating. In addition, corn stigma (stigma maydis) decoction, when taken orally, can also bring down blood pressure and induce diuresis.
Composite Medicated Diet
1) Drink of Hawthorn Fruit and Chrysanthemum Flower (Shanzha Juhua Daichayin)
Ingredients: hawthorn fruit 12g; chrysanthemum flower 9g
Process: infuse them in boiling water for drinking.
Directions: patients with essential hypertension or accompanied with hyperlipemia, coronary heart discase can take it regularly as tea; while those with essential hypertension marked by the types of liver-fire or hyperaxtivity of yang due to yin deficiency can take it as a supplementary medicine.
2) Drinking of Chrysanthemum Flower, Sophora Flower and Green tea (Ju Huai Lucha Yin)
Ingredients: chrysanthemum folwer 3 to 6g; sophora flower 3 to 6g, green tea 3g
Process: infuse them in boiling water for drinking
Directions: its indications are the same as those of Drink of Hawthorn Fruit and Chrysanthemum Flower.
3) Thick Soup of Water Chestnut and Jellyfish Head (Xuegeng Tang)
Ingredients: water chestnut 100 to200g; jellyfish head 100 to 200g
Process: cook soup with them
Directions: to be taken twice or three times a day for the treatment of essential hypertension accompanied with syndrome of accumulation of phlegm manifested clinically as vertigo, heaviness sensation in the head, fullness and stuffiness in the chest and stomach, or vomiting, nausea, salivation, white and greasy fur, wiry and slippery pulse.
4) Soup of Tremella and Jew’s Ear (Shuang Er Tang)
Ingredients: tremella 9 to 12g; jew’s ear 9 to 12g; crystal sugar right amount
Process: first soak the first two ingredients in warm water and wash them clean; then place them in a bowl, pour water into the bowl and add in the crystal sugar; and finally steam them in a food steamer for an hour.
Directions: the tremella and the jew’s ear are for eating and the soup for drinking, once or twice per day. It is applicable to patients with essential hypertension, arteriosclerosis or that accompayied with bleeding from the eyeground, especially good for the type of deficiency of both the liver-yin and kidney-yin.
5) Decoction of Celery and Chinese-date (Qincai Dazao Tang)
Ingredients: stem of fresh celery 60g; Chinese-date 30g
Process: decoct them in a right amount of water.
Directions: to be taken twice a day over a month in succession.
6) Decoction of Hawthorn Fruit and Cassia Seed (Shanzha Jueming Tang)
Ingredients: hawthorn fruit 15 to 30g; cassia seed 15 to 30g
Process: decoct them in a right amount of water for oral administration or infuse them in boiling water for drinking.
Directions: applicable to patients with both essential hypertension and hyperlipemia accompanied with constipation. The amount of cassia seed should be reduced when the patient is free from constipation.
7) Soup of Corn Stigma and Tortoise (Yumixu Gui Tang)
Ingredients: tortoise over 500g; corn stigma 120g
Process: place the tortoise in a basin, pour in hot water; after the tortoise has discharged all its urine, wash it clean and cut off its head and feet, rid it of its internal organs; then put it in an earthenware pot together with the corn stigma and a right amount of water. Cook on a strong fire until the water comes to the boil and then cook on with a slow fire until the tortoise is well-done.
Directions: the flesh of the tortoise is for eating and the soup for drinking. It is used to treat essential hypertension manifested as the type of deficiency of both the liver-yin and the kidney-yin.
8) Gruel of Chrysanthemum Flower and Hawthorn Fruit (Juhua Shanzha Zhou)
Ingredients: dried chrysanthemum flower 9 to12g; hawthorn fruit slices 9 to12g; polished round-grained rice 45 to 60g; crystal sugar right amount
Process: Grind the first two ingredients into powder; then make gruel out of the rice, sugar and 500ml of water, when the rice begins to boil with the liquid not thick yet, mix the powder of the first two ingredients into gruel and go on cooking on a slow fire for a while; and finally when the gruel becomes thick, put out the fire and simmer it for five minutes with the pot tightly covered.
Directions: to be taken warm, once or twice a day, for patients with essential hypertension or that accompanied with hyperlipemia, coronary hear disease. Stop taking it in winter.
9) Soup of Mung Bean and Kelp (Haidai Ludou Tang)
Ingredients: mung bean 90g; kelp 45g; crystal sugar right mount
Process: cook the three ingredients together in water over a strong fire until the water comes to the boil; then cook over a slow fire until the mung bean and the kelp are well-done.
Directions: this soup is for eating. Taking it regularly can prevent essential hypertension and hyperlipemia.
Select one or two from among the recipes above that are to patients' taste. If curative, they should be taken for a long time.
Obesity
Obesity spread all over the world, especially in developed countries. Recently the Chinese appears the same problem seriously more and more. Of course, the reasonable food&drink structure and scientific exercise are basic factors for keep fit condition. But there are poor patient including adolescent and adult who have tried very hard with little effect. On the other hand, some of the corpulent did not stop working without pause or beer and skittles, as a result, make a worse. Even though you tell them how the things would be, even though they know what gotten happen, they fail to stand against temptations.
The improper polices also play a role as an accomplice. The policy-makers are definitely start from a good heart, however, sometimes they ignore unexpected consequence. I hear about a news. One cafeteria gives the higher price to the fat customers in order to resist obesity. They put a weighing-machine near the door, the more pounds you are, the more you have to pay. This does not make senses at all. More than that, it encourages the slim customers tend to be fatter.
The improper polices also play a role as an accomplice. The policy-makers are definitely start from a good heart, however, sometimes they ignore unexpected consequence. I hear about a news. One cafeteria gives the higher price to the fat customers in order to resist obesity. They put a weighing-machine near the door, the more pounds you are, the more you have to pay. This does not make senses at all. More than that, it encourages the slim customers tend to be fatter.
2008年10月28日星期二
Life
TCM classic Huangdi Neijing, or Canon of Medicine, holds that life consists of "qi"( "qi" belongs to the classical philosophical category, referring to the basic element which constitutes everything in the world). The balance and harmony of the internal environment of the human body, the wholism and unity of the human body and the external surroundings are the foundation for man to live and exist. In normal cases, the adjustment of the human body can adapt the internal environment to the changes of the external natural environment to maintain normal physiological functions. If human activities violate the patterns of natural changes, or abnormal and violent changes occur in the external natural surroundings, the regulatory function of the human body will fail to adapt it-self to the situation, destroying the relative balance of the internal and external surroundings and consequently giving rise to disease. Therefore, "conforming to nature" is the first requirement for health preservation.
Essence, qi and spirit are the basic substances essential to vital activities.
Essence is the basic material constituting the human body and promoting the growth and development of the human body. Essence is divided into "congenital essence" and "acquired essence". Congenital essence is inherited from the parents. Mter birth, the nutritious cream derived form the diet is called acquired essence. Congenital essence and acquired essence can be transformed into each other and supplement mutually to form the dynamic foundation of vital activities. If essence is deficient, vital activities will decline, causing premature ageing and susceptibility to diseases.
Qi is the important substance constituting life, too. The sufficiency or deficiency of qi determines the strength of the life force and the length of the life span. The vital phenomena are the ascending, descending, coming-in and coming-out of the functional activities of qi.
Spirit is a general term for vital activities of body and also the outward manifestation of vital activities of the human body. It includes mentality, consciousness, thinking, movement, perception, etc. Essence and blood are the material foundation for spirit. And sufficient essence and qi bring on prosperous spirit. Therefore, whether life is healthy or not can be judged by inspecting the state of spirit.
It can be seen from the above that vital activities are determined by the conditions of essence, qi, spirit and visceral functions. Abundant essence, qi and spirit, the balance of visceral qi and blood ensure good health and freedom from diseases, insusceptibility to ageing, and extension of life span.
Essence, qi and spirit are the basic substances essential to vital activities.
Essence is the basic material constituting the human body and promoting the growth and development of the human body. Essence is divided into "congenital essence" and "acquired essence". Congenital essence is inherited from the parents. Mter birth, the nutritious cream derived form the diet is called acquired essence. Congenital essence and acquired essence can be transformed into each other and supplement mutually to form the dynamic foundation of vital activities. If essence is deficient, vital activities will decline, causing premature ageing and susceptibility to diseases.
Qi is the important substance constituting life, too. The sufficiency or deficiency of qi determines the strength of the life force and the length of the life span. The vital phenomena are the ascending, descending, coming-in and coming-out of the functional activities of qi.
Spirit is a general term for vital activities of body and also the outward manifestation of vital activities of the human body. It includes mentality, consciousness, thinking, movement, perception, etc. Essence and blood are the material foundation for spirit. And sufficient essence and qi bring on prosperous spirit. Therefore, whether life is healthy or not can be judged by inspecting the state of spirit.
It can be seen from the above that vital activities are determined by the conditions of essence, qi, spirit and visceral functions. Abundant essence, qi and spirit, the balance of visceral qi and blood ensure good health and freedom from diseases, insusceptibility to ageing, and extension of life span.
The concept of The integration of life with nature
TCM believes that man lives amidst the universe and his vital activities are inevitably influenced by the natural laws of material movement. Therefore, all the activities of the human body inevitably has formed close patterns with nature. The relationship between vital activities of the human body and nature as well as society should be harmonious and orderly. Otherwise, it is not good for health. This is the thought of "man's relevant adaptation to nature" and "unity of physique and spirit. "Accordingly, special emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and natural and social environments.
Smoking absolutely harmful
Smoking is absolutely harmful. Tobacco contains nicotine, ammonia and cyanide. When burnt, tobacco generates carbon monoxide. The acute toxicity of nicotine is not less than ammonium cyanate, and the amount of nicotine generated by twenty cigarettes can make an ox die immediately. The tar in tobacco stimulates the lung greatly, injures the pulmonary tissue and the mucosa of respiratory tract, and weakens the protective function of pulmonary epithelial cells and the phagocytic function of macrophage. This lays the foundation for chronic infection and canceration. Tobacco tar contains carcinogenic substances, mainly some chemical compounds of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. This type of substances is generated when tobacco is burnt. In addition, the substances the tobacco contains such as amine nitrite are also carcinogenic substances. The carbon monoxide inspired enters blood to replace oxygen and hinders the function of blood to transport oxygen. Moreover, the high-concentration carbon monoxide may also injure cardiovascular system and markedly increases the incidences of myocardiac infarction and atherosclerosis. The ammonia generated by smoking can stimulate oral cavity, throat, pulmonary and gastric mucosae, cause poor appetite, unsmooth respiration, even gingival atrophy, gingival bleeding and odontoseisis in severe cases. It can be seen from the above that smoking may influence the functional activities of every system of the human body and is a factor to promote the occurrence of diseases. Meanwhile, smoking is one of the major causes why many diseases are too intractable to be cured.
Smoking is not only harmful to the smoker, but also to the non-smokers around. It has been determined that in the smog exhaled by the smoker, the concentration of tobacco tar and nicotine is two times as much as that of the smog inhaled by the smoker. Consequently, smoking does not only harm the smoker's health, but also causes "public nuisance". Accordingly, please do not smoke or give up smoking as soon as possible for the sake of your and others' health.
One should stress the methods besides his personal determination and willpower when quitting smoking. For instance, the smoker can smoke less and less in order to give up smoking gradually. In addition, he can place himself in the non-smoking environment. In this case, it can make the smoker feel ashamed and fearful and counteract his desire for smoking. Take some methods for another example. Make the smoker feel slightly uncomfortable, even disgusted during or after smoking with certain methods. Then, he can take advantage of it to quit smoking. For instance, add Renshenlu (Rhizoma Ginseng), the mild-natured and atoxic emetic, to the cigarette to make him nauseated. Besides, successful abstention from smoking has been reported, too. For example, puncture the depression between Lieque and Yangxi with the filiform needle, 3 mm in depth, and retain the needle for 15 minutes; apply the needle-embedding therapy on Naodian and Xindian of the auricle. When wanting to smoke, press the two acupoints for several times. It is also effective to some degree.
Smoking is not only harmful to the smoker, but also to the non-smokers around. It has been determined that in the smog exhaled by the smoker, the concentration of tobacco tar and nicotine is two times as much as that of the smog inhaled by the smoker. Consequently, smoking does not only harm the smoker's health, but also causes "public nuisance". Accordingly, please do not smoke or give up smoking as soon as possible for the sake of your and others' health.
One should stress the methods besides his personal determination and willpower when quitting smoking. For instance, the smoker can smoke less and less in order to give up smoking gradually. In addition, he can place himself in the non-smoking environment. In this case, it can make the smoker feel ashamed and fearful and counteract his desire for smoking. Take some methods for another example. Make the smoker feel slightly uncomfortable, even disgusted during or after smoking with certain methods. Then, he can take advantage of it to quit smoking. For instance, add Renshenlu (Rhizoma Ginseng), the mild-natured and atoxic emetic, to the cigarette to make him nauseated. Besides, successful abstention from smoking has been reported, too. For example, puncture the depression between Lieque and Yangxi with the filiform needle, 3 mm in depth, and retain the needle for 15 minutes; apply the needle-embedding therapy on Naodian and Xindian of the auricle. When wanting to smoke, press the two acupoints for several times. It is also effective to some degree.
2008年10月25日星期六
Essentials Diagnosis for Simple Obesity
(1) Overweight: Standard weight (kg) = 〔height (cm) - 100] × 0.9. If the actual body weight exceeds the standard weight by 20 % and muscularity and water retention are excluded, this can be diagnosed as obesity.
(2) Fat accumulation: Fat accumulation can be estimated by the thickness of skin fold. The average thickness of subscapular skin fold of a normal person aged 25 is 14.2 mm. The average thickness of skin fold of the deltoid region of a 25-year-old male is 10.4 mm, and that of a 25-year-old female is 17.5 mm.
(3) It may be accompanied with the following symptoms: listlessness, lassitude, drowsiness, palpitation, hyperorexia, hypologia, short breath, dyspnea, big belly and abdominal distension, or amenorrhea, impotence,aversion to heat, profuse sweating, pain of the back and loins, and arthragia.
(2) Fat accumulation: Fat accumulation can be estimated by the thickness of skin fold. The average thickness of subscapular skin fold of a normal person aged 25 is 14.2 mm. The average thickness of skin fold of the deltoid region of a 25-year-old male is 10.4 mm, and that of a 25-year-old female is 17.5 mm.
(3) It may be accompanied with the following symptoms: listlessness, lassitude, drowsiness, palpitation, hyperorexia, hypologia, short breath, dyspnea, big belly and abdominal distension, or amenorrhea, impotence,aversion to heat, profuse sweating, pain of the back and loins, and arthragia.
2008年10月23日星期四
Diagnostic methods
Diagnostic methods are the methods used to collect data related to pathological conditions, including inspection, listening and smelling, inquiry and pulse-taking. Inspection means to examine the external manifestations and excreta; listening and smelling means to examine the speech, breath and odor of the patient; inquiry means to get to know the occurrence, development and treatment of the disease as well as the present symptoms and other information relevant to the disease by asking the patient or the people accompanying the patient; pulse-taking means to examine the pulse and the related regions of the patient.
The human body is a organic whole. Under morbid conditions, local pathological changes may affect the whole body; internal pathological changes can be manifested through the five sensory organs, the four limbs and the superficies. With the examination of the symptoms and signs of a disease by means of the four diagnostic methods, one can understand the cause of the disease and analyze the pathogenesis of the disease so as to provide evidence for deciding treatment based on syndrome differentiation.
The four diagnostic methods are used to examine disease from different angles and they cannot replace each other in diagnosis. So in clinical practice, they are usually used in combination for systematic understanding of a disease in order to ensure comprehensive analysis and correct diagnosis.
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