A health practitioner's personal reflections
If you want to understand the principle of this method, let's first get to know the "Yongquan Cave", which is easier to understand. The Yongquan point is in the middle of the anterior third of the soles of the feet, in the herringbone groove on the soles of the feet. As the name suggests, a spring gushes out.
In TCM meridians, Yongquan acupoint is a very important acupuncture point. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Yongquan acupoint is the spring of our human life. Many people know the saying: "When people grow old, they grow old first, and they cure their feet first", and the center of the foot is a spring.
The kidney is the innate foundation of human beings, 'the main water of the kidney, which is responsible for the water metabolism of the human body and the genitourinary system, and the starting point of the kidney meridian is the spring. It can be seen that Yongquan Acupoint can be described as a combination of many "top priorities".
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Yongquan acupoint has such effects: clearance, opening the body, calming the nerves, sedation, and its main symptoms are: neurasthenia, loss of energy, fatigue, women's disease, insomnia, hypernosis, hypertension, dizziness, anxiety, diabetes, allergic rhinitis, menopausal disorders, cold intolerance, kidney disease, top pain, dizziness, dizziness, sore throat, dry tongue, loss of voice, unfavorable urination, difficulty in defecation, convulsions in children, heart fever, epilepsy, cholera tendons, fainting and so on.
Why did the ancients call this acupuncture point in the lowest position of the human body "Yongquan". As we all know, spring water is called spring water that spouts upwards.
We all know that there are seventy-two springs in Jinan, and all of them spew water from the ground to the ground. And on the soles of our feet, we walk every day, even if we don't walk, the soles of the feet are basically downward, unless we deliberately put the soles of the feet up, otherwise, the soles of the feet are at the bottom relative to our body, so we can think that if we open this acupuncture point, then, the meridian qi in our body is flowing downward, just like the teacher told us to discharge the sick qi from the Yongquan acupoint, so that it cannot be called the word "spring".
We all know that the ancients were very cautious about the use of a name, why should this acupuncture point in the lowest position of the human body be called "Yongquan"?
Last month, due to many reasons, I suffered from pneumonia, and because I started going out outside, coupled with my own carelessness, I didn't pay attention to this disease, because I never took illness seriously before, and the so-called illness is to insist on not taking medicine for three days, and generally rely on my own resistance, or I believe very much in my cultivation ability, and believe that my true qi will drive the disease away. So, for so many years, this is how I have faced the disease.
Generally speaking, it is cured within three days without medicine. This time I thought the same thing, and I didn't take this disease seriously at all. What to do, just don't take medicine. Maybe it's providence, but the disease didn't heal as quickly as expected, and it got worse and worse, and I was a little tired outside.
The condition is getting worse day by day. In the end, the disease progressed to the point that I couldn't sleep with a cough every day, and my whole body ached, and I didn't dare to cough because my whole chest hurt. Every time you cough, first clamp your arms tightly around your chest before coughing.
In the dead of night, I could even feel my lungs detaching from the pleura as I breathed in a diastolic contraction. I knew my pleura was already inflamed. Only then did I know that the illness was not light. That's when I thought about treatment.
At this time, he had already returned home, so he prescribed himself a prescription for treatment, Chinese and Western medicine together, using the lowest level of antibiotics, and then with Chinese herbal medicine. After six days of continuous treatment, the symptoms were reduced, and I stopped taking the medicine and began to think about how to find the good medicine in my body.
The doctors in the hospital are persuading them to continue taking the medicine and not stop taking it. Just smiling because I know my condition. Although the symptoms have been alleviated, there is still a lot of cough and phlegm every day, especially my throat is like touching chili noodles.
If you have a little phlegm in your throat, you will cough immediately and will not stop until you cough up that phlegm. I understand that this is a typical phenomenon of kidney water deficiency.
At that time, the lung qi was very weak, and sometimes I tried to spit out the phlegm in my mouth with all my strength, but I ended up spitting the phlegm to my mouth. You can't spit out a mouthful of phlegm far away like you used to.
How can I treat my disease? Where to start? Think about it slowly. The condition is still the same, there is no progression, and there is no aggravation.
Last Friday, I chatted with a colleague online. In the chat, he talked about meeting a footwalking monk these days. Walking barefoot, and in good health.
He said he had asked him where the secret of walking was, and the footwalking monk had only told him to walk with his heels. Nothing else. He told me that I could also walk around on my heels, maybe it would be good. To be honest, I don't believe it at all. Because it doesn't make sense in theory.
I remembered this again when I was walking in the evening. Thinking that since the monk has his own secret in this way, this secret will not be easily revealed. Where is the secret? Think as you go.
There is an acupuncture point on the sole of the foot, which is the Yongquan acupoint. Does it have anything to do with this spring cave? After a period of frequent thinking, it suddenly understood. The above questions have been solved one by one, and I understand how to treat them.
When he returned home that night, he followed the method of the foot monk to "seal the spring". The results came out quickly, and after ten minutes, my two feet began to heat up, and the whole foot was hot, and this heat started from my feet, went up the Three Yin Meridians, and then went up along the Du Mai.
Half an hour later, the whole waist was warm and very comfortable. The next thing is that the back begins to sweat, the head begins to sweat, the front chest sweats, and then I understand the meaning of "Yongquan", it turns out that when the Yongquan acupoint is sealed, the first yang under the feet rises, and the head sweats along the meridians to the front chest and back, which is not a fountain.
You must know that after sealing the Yongquan acupoint, you are not in meditation, but you are in a normal state. This result is still not fully confirmed. Because, maybe it's a coincidence, the weather was hot and humid in those days, maybe it's a coincidence.
The next morning, I found that the phlegm was much less, and the cough was much lighter. That night, I still did what I realized, and the result was still the same, the yang energy began to go up from the soles of the feet, and passed through the Du pulse to the Ren pulse, and the whole body was hot. When the yang energy passes through the front chest, back and head, it still sweats, and the sweat is like a spring.
On the third day, the condition was almost gone, only an occasional cough with very little phlegm.
At this time, I suddenly found that the knee pain caused by riding a motorcycle was no longer painful. And there are several large red dots around the knee joint, which is slightly itchy. This is a manifestation of the disease within.
In the past, my feet were very sweaty, even in winter. So the insoles need to be changed almost once a day. And today I found that the insole has not been changed in the past few days, and I took out the insole to see, it was dry, and the foot sweat was actually better.
I still did this last night, and I took out the time I used to walk every night, and I still went for a walk as usual, but I used the invisible soil to seal the Yongquan cave and walk, which was really comfortable!
I finally understood the intention of the ancients to call this acupuncture point "Yongquan". After sealing the Yongquan acupoint, the "spring water" can be sprayed out on the top of the body, which is wonderful, sealing the Yongquan acupoint, the yang energy will be emitted from the soles of the feet, which is not in line with the meaning of the beginning of the yang of the "Zhen" hexagram.
Many friends don't understand how to use the invisible "soil" to seal the Yongquan acupoint, its trick is: walking with the heel when walking, so when walking, in order to maintain balance, the toes will be secretly cocked, so that the muscles can be tightened, and invisibly play a role in sealing the Yongquan acupoint.
Another way is to rub the Yongquan acupoint, some friends may ask, why can the Yongquan acupoint be sealed? Because rubbing the Yongquan acupoint can generate heat, and the heat is rising, it can run the yang energy upward, thus sealing the Yongquan acupoint.
Remember that only by rubbing the Yongquan acupoint can you seal the Yongquan acupoint, the hotter the rubbing, the firmer the seal, and the more significant the effect.
In the same way, moxibustion or scraping moxibustion can also play the role of sealing Yongquan acupoints.
The great writer Su Dongpo of the Northern Song Dynasty is not only proficient in literature and science, but also proficient in the way of health preservation, and rubbing his feet is his daily homework, so although he is over the age of six, he is still energetic.
According to records: Once, Su Dongpo went to the mountains to visit his friend Buddha Yin, where he chatted about the world, drank wine and recited poetry, and unconsciously passed the middle of the night, unable to return to the city, so he had to stay in the temple to sleep.
Before going to bed, Su Dongpo took off his clothes, hats, shoes and socks, sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, first massaged the left foot with his right hand, and then changed his left hand to wipe the right foot. Seeing this, the Buddha Yin, who was sleeping on the opposite bed, quipped: "The bachelor meditates, meditates on Amitabha, and wants to go with Guanyin, and has a wife at home, but what!" After Su Dongpo wiped his feet, he opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Dongpo wiping his feet, not with Guanyin, just to see the eyes clearly, and the world can be seen clearly." ”
He said that this method can make people ruddy, light legs and feet, and not infected with diseases, so he always treats it as a homework every day.