Discussion on the “micro diseases” of preventive treatment of disease in Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor
KANG Pengfei1 QIN Mingzhen2 MENG Jia1 SHEN Yifan1 LI Bing1 QIN Jianguo1
1.Department of Nephrology, Dongfang Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100078, China;
2.Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
Abstract:The concept of preventive treatment of disease includes several items such as prevention before disease onset, prevention of microscopic disease, prevention of transmission, and prevention of relapse after disease. But nowadays, the literature has few separate discussions on the prevention of microscopic disease. Therefore, through reading and analyzing the original text of Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor, the concept of “micro diseases” prevention and control is discussed. After sorting out the original text of Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor, it is known that the micro diseases is not serious, the healthy qi is slightly damaged, the disease position is shallow and the disease is light, and the symptoms are not obvious, which is easy to be ignored, but it can be turned into a serious illness, and it needs excellent medical skills to identify. On the basis of the five zang viscera, micro diseases can be divided into five categories, “Shenzhiwei”, “Baiqiweixie”, “Liuxue”, “Weifeng” and “Gujiedong”, which can be found in the vellus hair, skin texture, collaterals, muscles, joints and other parts. Its manifestations include abnormal body surface sensation, skin discomfort and micro sweat, blood stasis, abnormal movement of muscle and bone segments, etc. In the treatment, according to the characteristics and diseases of the five zang viscera, regulating qi and blood, unblocking collaterals and expelling pathogenic factors is taken as the principle. The use of medicine and food recuperation, acupuncture, guided massage, emotional counseling and other methods with the use of conditioning, so that the human body qi and blood, meridians unobtrusional, five zang viscera stability, micro diseases to recover, no longer trouble.