Post Date December, 03 2023
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What is yang deficiency
It is understandable to be afraid of cold in winter, but also in summer. When others only feel cool in an air-conditioned room, they feel cold, and their hands and feet become cold over time. If this happens, it is important to note that your physique has deteriorated, which is referred to as yang deficiency in Chinese medicine.
Yang Qi is easily damaged in summer
In summer, the five elements belong to the heart, and the heart belongs to fire. "The Internal Classic" says, "Yang is nourished in spring and summer, and Yin is nourished in autumn and winter." Health preservation in summer is mainly about Yang.
In summer, when the climate is hot and everything grows, with Yang Qi outside and Yin Qi inside. The Yang Qi of the human body floats in the skin while the internal organs are relatively empty. At this time, our body surface is hot and our body interior is cold. Due to weather reasons, people tend to prefer cold and ice products, wear scanty clothing, overwork or stay up late for a long time, and live in cold and humid air conditioning environments for a long time, which can damage the yang qi. Therefore, summer is more likely to consume the body's yang than other seasons.
Effects of Yang Deficiency
In the "Su Wen Qi Tong Tian Lun", there is a precise explanation of Yang Qi: "Yang Qi is the essence that nourishes the spirit, and softness that nourishes the tendons." This means that the encouragement of Yang Qi rejuvenates one's spirit, and the warmth of Yang Qi makes one's joints and muscles flexible.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, "cold is a yin evil, which can easily damage yang qi", and "yin exuberance can lead to yang disease". Cold stagnation can easily damage the yang qi of the human body. The movement of qi, blood, and body fluids in the human body can only be achieved through the warm promotion of yang qi;
If you live in an environment with low room temperature for a long time, cold pathogens invade the human body, causing the meridians and blood to lose their warmth, which can easily lead to stagnation and astringency of the qi and blood, and the physiological functions of the yang qi such as warmth, promotion, excitement, defense, and retention decrease, resulting in various pathological changes.
Therefore, insufficient yang qi can easily make people feel depressed and depressed, causing pain and stiffness in bones and joints, dysmenorrhea, delayed menstruation, infertility, edema, fear of cold, and various pain symptoms. It can also cause stagnation and turbidity in the river of life, impeded metabolism, and a series of metabolic diseases such as obesity, polycystic ovaries, and disorders of glucose and lipid metabolism.
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Symptoms of yang deficiency
1. Fear of cold, limb lukewarm
This is the main symptom of yang deficiency. Many women with yang deficiency cannot catch cold before and after menstruation. If they catch a slight cold, they will be more sensitive than others, resulting in delayed menstruation or dysmenorrhea. Yang Qi is like the sun in nature. If it is insufficient, the internal environment will be in a "cold" state.
2. Complete the valley without melting
It refers to the mixing of undigested food in stool. The ancients had a vivid metaphor for this phenomenon: the digestion of food was like cooking uncooked rice, the stomach was like a cooker for cooking, and yang was like a fire for cooking. Without "fire," rice cannot be cooked into "rice.". Therefore, when the yang qi is insufficient, the food entering the stomach cannot be "decomposed" (digested) well, and is directly discharged from the intestinal tract.
3. Low spirits
Deficiency of yang is manifested as lethargy and laziness.
4. The tongue is light and fat, or has tooth marks
The consumption and metabolism of water in the body depend on the transpiration of Yang Qi. If the yang qi weakens and the consumption of water transpiration is insufficient, excess water accumulates in the body, causing the tongue to become fat. The tongue is fat and large, with tooth marks caused by tooth compression.
5. Deep and thin pulse
Yang Qi is insufficient to drum up the arterial canal, so the pulse is thin and weak.
Can't eat cold food: People with yang deficiency can't eat cold food. Eating cold food can cause diarrhea.
"A person suffering from yang deficiency often suffers from a cold. For example, if someone else has a cold, they may have a sore throat, yellow runny nose, yellow sputum, and swollen tonsils.". People with a yang deficiency constitution catch a cold, and they will have clear water, runny nose, sneezing, and an itchy throat. The phlegm they spit is clear, thin, and white, reflecting a cold appearance.
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Yang qi is divided into innate yang and acquired yang
Yang Qi is divided into two parts: one is the innate Yang, which is also called Yuanyang; The second is the sun of the day after tomorrow.
The innate yang comes from the inheritance of parents, which is equivalent to a spark, an energy rod; The sun after tomorrow comes from the food we eat. Just like a bonfire, only kindling is not enough. It also requires wood to burn continuously. Kidney is our innate kindling; The spleen and stomach are our acquired wood.
In this sense, the biggest characteristic of Yang deficiency is the lack of firepower. From the perspective of our human body's feeling, it is the word "cold". Therefore, the yang of the human body mainly comes from the innate origin of the kidney and the acquired origin of the spleen and stomach. When we talk about yang deficiency, we usually refer to the yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney.
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Yangyang is suitable for summer
Yang Shangshan's "Inner Classic - Tai Su Shun Yang Chapter" states that "Sages float with all things, that is, to nourish Yang in spring and summer.".
According to the "Su Wen · Four Qi Regulating Spirits", "The four seasons of Yin and Yang are the same for all things, the root of death and life, the reverse for disasters, and the subsequent for severe diseases. This is the Tao."
Human beings live in heaven and earth, and are a part of nature. They are constrained by the laws of yin and yang. The changes in the growth and decline of yin and yang at four times of the year affect the changes in yin and yang within the human body.
In order to prevent diseases and prolong life, it is necessary to adapt the growth and decline of the human body's yin and yang to the natural changes in the growth and decline of yin and yang. Illness can occur if you violate the natural law of yin and yang changes.
In summer, the weather drops, and the earth's qi rises. In nature, the qi of heaven and earth intersects, with a strong yang qi, and everything flourishes. Health preservation should focus on nourishing yang qi, and should not contain damaging yang qi.
Raising yang means maintaining yang qi. For example, to maintain yang in summer, it is necessary to at least avoid unnecessarily damaging yang, such as staying in an air-conditioned room with very low temperature for a long time, sleeping at the tuyere at night, and drinking a large amount of chilled beer and cold drinks. Further yang nourishing can be called warming yang, such as acupuncture, moxibustion, or yang warming drugs in acupuncture and moxibustion.
In summer, the body's yang qi is exuberant outside, while the yin is trapped inside. In addition, the heat often carries dampness, while the spleen likes dryness and detests dampness. When it is external to the stomach, the middle energizer has insufficient power to warm and dissipate cold and dampness, which can easily lead to resistance of cold and dampness. Therefore, it is recommended to use a product with a positive effect of pungent warmth to promote yang qi and warm up cold and dampness.
Yang cultivation in summer is to prepare for Yin cultivation in autumn and winter. If a person has a Yang deficiency constitution, their symptoms decrease in spring and summer each year and worsen in autumn and winter. Such a person is suitable for Yang nourishing drugs. The yang qi of the medicine can be used to cultivate and replenish yang qi through the collective growth of yang qi, and moxibustion in autumn and winter can alleviate symptoms.
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How to maintain yang in summer?
Avoid eating cold and cool foods, and eat warm foods to replenish yang
Eat in moderation. Don't eat too much, but also be careful to eat cold drinks to avoid damaging the spleen and stomach yang qi. You can appropriately eat some warm food to warm the spleen and stomach yang qi that is depleted in the body. Especially for people with a yang deficiency constitution, they can eat more food that can nourish qi and warm yang, such as crucian carp, jujube, walnut kernel, and so on.
In summer, when sweating is high and salt loss is high, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to strengthen the surface and more salty taste to replenish the heart. In addition, mung bean soup, watermelon, honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea, sour plum soup, and other excellent products for quenching thirst and relieving heat, are mostly cold and cold in nature. People with yang deficiency should eat less, and healthy people should preferably not overeat them chilled.
People with yang deficiency most avoid cold food. The summer climate is hot, and cold drinks have become people's favorite drinks. Excessive consumption of herbal tea can easily damage the qi of the spleen and stomach, causing symptoms such as decreased appetite, stomachache, diarrhea, etc. Over time, it can also damage the yang qi of the kidney, leading to yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney.
According to the law of "nourishing yang in spring and summer", you can choose a diet that supplements and helps generate yang qi, such as angelica lamb soup. In summer, you can eat monkshood Congee or mutton monkshood soup once every time when the sun is strong.
Replenishing yang through activity, never tired of the sun
In summer, the external yang qi is the most vigorous, and people with a yang deficiency constitution should go outdoors more to stimulate their own yang qi movement, regulate qi and blood flow, and maintain yang qi. However, it is not advisable to exercise excessively, and should be protected from sun when going out.
The sun is best at seven or eight o'clock in the summer morning, when it is neither strong nor weak. The air quality is also the freshest at this time, as plants begin to emit oxygen through photosynthesis. This is the best time to exercise. In the morning, Yang Qi begins to pass from the body to the outside. During this time, walking and aerobic breathing can strengthen and protect Yang Qi, which helps the human body maintain sufficient Yang Qi and make people energetic throughout the day.
Exercise appropriately. In summer, don't hate the heat of long days, but still insist on participating in labor and physical exercise to adapt to the atmosphere of growing up in summer. More outdoor activities, especially in sunny mountains and forests, are great for health.
Massage Yongquan acupoint:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "essence originates from the soles of the feet", which refers to the energy of the human body. There is an important acupoint on the sole of the foot, namely Yongquan acupoint. "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" says, "The kidney originates from a spring, and the spring is the heart of the foot." It means that the qi of the kidney meridian is like water from a source, originating from the foot and flowing out to irrigate all parts of the body and limbs. ". In your spare time, you should often massage Yongquan acupoint.
