Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) color diagnosis is broad and profound, and many of its essentials are difficult for even experts and scholars who have practiced medicine for many years to grasp freely. However, there is a rule in color diagnosis that is relatively easy to grasp and closely related to ordinary people, that is, the color of the tongue.
Zhu Cuiling, chief physician of the cardiovascular department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the heart is the tongue, that is, the health of the heart will be reflected in the tongue first.
For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the tongue or lips appear dark purple or have bruising, most of which are caused by blood circulation disorders, which are caused by blood vessel congestion and a decrease in the oxygen content in the blood, which is a blood vein blockage in traditional Chinese medicine.
If there is ecchymosis on the tongue, accompanied by symptoms such as palpitation, shortness of breath, and even insomnia and dreaming, and tingling in the precordial area, it indicates that there may be cardiovascular disease;
If it is accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness and headache, it may indicate cerebrovascular disease.
In addition, people with blood congestion in the body will also have a variety of symptoms, such as dysmenorrhea, menstrual blood clots, inexplicable bruises and purple patches on the body, particularly poor tolerance to pain, lack of luster on the skin, very dull.
indicates a lack of heart yin
A healthy tongue should appear pale pink. Clinically, some people with cardiovascular disease may have red tongue, and patients are often accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms such as upset, palpitation, premature beats, and tachycardia.
This is a deficiency of heart yin in traditional Chinese medicine. When the heart yin is insufficient, it is easy to cause deficiency and induce cardiovascular disease.
The whitening of the tongue
coating indicates a lack of qi and blood
The whitening of the tongue coating can be divided into two categories:
One is that the tongue is pale and pale, and if such people are also accompanied by symptoms such as arrhythmia, fatigue, and heart failure, it indicates that they may have anemia heart disease.
The second is that the tongue coating is white and greasy, which is mostly related to the dampness resistance of the middle coke, and the patients are mostly accompanied by symptoms such as chest tightness and discomfort in the precordial area, and the patient may have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
There is an "emperor" point on the foot
, and the blood vessels in the heart are also opened
Zhang Minzhou, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said:
People with a bad heart usually rub the Gongsun acupoint to help relieve heart discomfort.
Gongsun, the name of the meridian acupoint, out of the "Lingshu Ben Lose", belongs to the foot Taiyin and spleen meridians, the foot Taiyin acupoint, one of the eight vein intersection points, through the chong pulse.
The Gongsun acupoint can command the four directions just like the emperor, so the whole body can be mobilized by kneading the Gongsun acupoint, so pressing this place can contact the fatigue of the whole body, and it has a regulating effect on the five organs.
If the heart is not good, it can have the function of strengthening the spleen and generating blood, regulate the prosperity and decline of qi and blood, strengthen the vitality of qi and blood, and make the heart with insufficient qi and blood sufficient, and the heart can be nourished and the mind is peaceful.
On the inside of the joint formed by the big toe and the sole of the foot (the first metatarsophalangeal joint), there is an arcuate bone (arch) pushed backwards with the hand, and a depression can be felt at the lower edge of the posterior end of the arcuate bone, and there is a feeling of soreness when pressed.
Press the Gongsun acupoint with the thumbs and fingertips of both hands, pay attention to the pressure when pressing a little heavier, massage for five minutes each time, and massage 2 times a day.
The cardiovascular system is the most afraid of blockage, so you must often massage the "emperor" acupoint on the foot that can open the heart blood vessels, the heart blood vessels are opened, the color of the tongue will slowly recover, and the disease will naturally be far away!
