[Yu Jian Traditional Chinese Medicine] Medical Eye Watch "Water Margin": "Waterfire Stick" says yin and yang

"Water Margin" is one of the four major literary books. We can appreciate the historical stories described in it, and we can also glimpse one of the medical development of my country during the Northern Song Dynasty. At the same time, we can also harvest many traditional medicine knowledge and allusions in accidents.

The eighth round of the book "Lin Jiao's head assassin with Cangzhou Dao Lu Zhishen Big Wild Pig Forest" wrote that Lin Chong was framed, with Cangzhou. The luggage wrapped, took the water and fire stick, and came to the court room to take Lin Chong and the prison on the road.

Water and fire sticks are official law enforcement supplies in the ancient gates. We often see in costume TV series. A stick is coated from the middle to two colors -red and black, calling "water and fire", but in fact, the meaning of "yin and yang", which means "doing justice between heaven and earth, not tolerance of private affairs" Essence

"Su Wen · Yin and Yang Yingxiang's theory" says: Water and fire people, the signs of yin and yang also.

What is yin and yang? Is it superstition?

Yin and Yang are actually a pair of concepts of ancient Chinese philosophy. Yin Yang theory is a unified theory of plain opposition in ancient China. The two opposite aspects of Yin and Yang run through all things, and are the roots of all things and the root causes of the movement and development of everything.

The original meaning of yin and yang was very simple, that is, it means the back of the sun -the sun is the sun, and the back is yin to the sun.因为朝向太阳的一方面比较光明和温暖，背向太阳的一方面的比较黑暗和寒冷，于是呢，我们的祖先就将阴阳的概念进行了引申，将天地、上下、日月、昼夜、水火、 The opposite things and phenomena such as lifting, static, inside and outside, and male and female are summarized by yin and yang.

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, people had used the contradictions of yin and yang to explain a variety of natural phenomena such as solar terms and earthquakes.

Zhou You had an earthquake in the second year of King Zhou You. The father of Poyang used the concept of yin and yang to explain the formation of the earthquake. He believed that "the yang is not out, the yin is forced and cannot be steamed, so there is an earthquake." In short, there is calories below the ground. When it comes out, the heat strives to break through the restraint of the earth, just like the seeds must work hard to open the soil to grow out of tender seedlings, so the earthquake -is it very reasonable?

Yin and yang can not only represent the opposite things and phenomena, but also the two aspects of the same thing in the same thing.

For example, things and phenomena that indicate relatives include: Tianhe, Di, Night, Water and Fire, Cold and Heat, etc. The two aspects of the same thing are: qi and blood, viscera, and internal internal qi and blood, viscera, and coolness in the human body.

Generally speaking, all exercise, extroverted, rising, warm, intangible, bright, excited belong to the yang.

Relatively static, internal, declining, cold, tangible, dull, and suppressed, all belong to yin.

Just like the legend of Pangu's openness, the light rising part of the "big egg" has become the heavens, and the part of the heavy turbid sinking becomes the earth. The turbid belongs to yin. Water is cold and moisturized, belongs to yin; fire is hot and inflamed, and it is yang.

When the relative attributes of Yinhe and Yang are introduced into medicine, they have material and functions that have the functions of promoting, warm, excitement, etc., which belong to yang. The substances and functions that have a cohesion, moisturizing, and suppressing effect are yin. This is why we always hear the vocabulary of Chinese medicine saying "yang qi", "yin blood", "nourishing yang", "nourishing yin".

(Author: Book Xiaoyan Editor: Yang Hua)

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