TCM health knowledge meridian health

It has never been said on the Internet that "hitting the right meridian will cure all diseases". The core logic is to differentiate based on the meridians, regulate qi and blood, and choose the right method based on your own body constitution.

I met a 62-year-old Aunt Zhang at a community free clinic a while ago. She came to me with her bruised thighs clutched and said that she followed a short video blogger to tap the gallbladder meridian for half a month. The blogger said that tapping the gallbladder meridian can drain moisture, lose weight, and regulate nodules. However, she did not drain the moisture. Instead, she stopped menstruating for a year and suddenly had abnormal bleeding, which caused her to suffer from insomnia for almost a week. In fact, she has a constitution with deficiency of yin and excess of fire, and the gallbladder meridian belongs to yang. Frequent tapping is equivalent to constantly "adding fire" to the body, so it's no wonder that there are no problems.

In fact, there are different tendencies in the traditional Chinese medicine circles regarding meridian health care. The school that specializes in regulating excess disease advocates "taking relief as a tonic". It is believed that modern people sit for a long time, move less, eat a variety of foods, and have a lot of phlegm, dampness and blood stasis in the meridians. Appropriate tapping, massage and dredging can make the qi and blood circulate, such as many For office workers who have been sitting for a long time, their shoulders and necks are as stiff as stone slabs. If you massage the shoulder joints and Quchi of the large intestine meridian of Yangming, and then rub the Tianzong point of the small intestine meridian for a while, your shoulders will be loosened by half in ten minutes. This is the real effect of unblocking the meridians. However, doctors from the warming and tonic school disapprove of everyone tapping and tapping at will, especially those who are deficient in qi and blood. Their qi and blood are not enough. If you tap on the meridians too hard, it will dissipate the insufficient righteousness. I once had a reader born in 1995 who has spleen deficiency and is prone to diarrhea. I heard that tapping on the pulse can slim down the belly. After three days of tapping on the pulse, he even lost the energy to go to work. This is a typical symptom.

To be honest, modern medicine has not yet fully understood what the essence of meridians is. Some studies say that it is a signal transmission pathway in the fascial space, and some studies have found that the course of meridians is highly coincident with the distribution of nerves and blood vessels. There is no unified conclusion. However, after thousands of years of clinical practice, selecting acupoints along the meridians to regulate functional discomfort does have clear effects. This is an objective fact that has been verified by countless people. There is no need to deify or deny it.

We ordinary people do meridian health care at home. In fact, there is no need to memorize all the acupoints on the fourteen meridians. We just focus on the ones we need most first. For example, if you have poor digestion or have a stomachache after eating something cold, you can rub Zusanli on your legs half an hour after eating for three to five minutes each time, which is more effective than taking Jianweixiaoshi tablets. Last time I had a stomachache after eating iced milk tea and drank too much. I rubbed Zusanli for less than ten minutes and most of the pain disappeared. If you often have insomnia or have a bad temper, stop scrolling on your phone before going to bed at night. Sit on the bed and make a hollow fist. Push the liver meridian from the inner thigh to the ankle for three to five minutes. After soaking your feet, press the Yongquan point on the soles of your feet for two minutes. Many people feel sleepy after trying to lie in bed. It is much safer than taking melatonin.

Don't listen to those bloggers who are fooling around. "Tapping on the pericardial meridian for three days will cure coronary heart disease" and "opening up the Rendu and Du meridians will prevent all diseases." These are purely eye-catching gimmicks. The essence of meridian conditioning is to help you bring your imbalanced body back to normal. If you stay up until three o'clock every day and have hot pot milk tea, even if you tap the meridians eight hours a day, it will be useless. If you really have an organic problem, you should go to the hospital. Meridian health care can only be used as a supplement at most, and don't treat it as a life-saving straw.

To put it bluntly, meridian health care is actually a set of methods of talking to your body passed down by your ancestors. When you are fine, rub and press to feel the body's feedback. If there is soreness and pain, rub it twice more. If you feel weak and uncomfortable after rubbing, stop immediately. The one that suits you is the best. There are not so many mysterious rules.