Introduction to Xiong Chunjin's "Taoist Medicine"
Introduction to "Taoist Medicine" by Xiong Chunjin
Basic concepts of Taoist medicine:
Taoist traditional culture is a treasure in the treasure house of Chinese traditional culture.
Taoist culture is divided into: "Wen Dao" and "Martial Dao".
The Taoist "Wen Dao" is a cultural system with very rich content and huge system.
Tao medicine is one of the five arts in the Taoist "literary way".
The five Taoist arts are divided into five categories: "medicine", "divination", "star", "phase" and "mountain".
Taoist medicine ranks first among the five Taoist arts. It is one of the compulsory courses for Taoist cultivators of all ages. It is also an important part of the inheritance of Taoist dharma, passed down orally and heart to heart from generation to generation. However, due to the characteristics of the inheritance and secret teaching of the Dharma lineage, which are mostly continued through manuscripts and oral transmission, there are few written monographs in history that have been circulated in the world.
Taoist medicine is an important part of the field of traditional Chinese medicine and a wonderful flower in traditional Chinese culture. The content of Taoist medicine has long been taught by masters and disciples in different dharma lines within Taoism and passed down from generation to generation, contributing to the prevention, treatment and health care of people's health.
Taoist medicine is an important tool for those who cultivate themselves to "extend expedients, save lives and heal the wounded, moralize all living beings, and accumulate merit" in the world. Throughout the ages, Taoist medicine can be said to be the medicine closest to the people. There are still many popular stories about Taoist figures who have given medical advice and brought people back to life.
Taoist medicine is famous for its "easy medicines", "simple methods" and "reliable curative effect". With the changes of the times, it has been popular in China for thousands of years and has gradually developed into an independent medical system.
Basic conditions for engaging in Taoist medicine:
The theories and methods of Taoist medicine, because it is a medical technology based on its own empirical basis, have surpassed the secular wisdom of "seeing is believing" The limitation of epistemology is a subject in human life science that must overcome the obstacles and constraints between Tai Chi Yin and Yang and freely cross the Tai Chi strings in order to truly master and apply it. It is a deep-level and high-field life medicine field.
Really superior Taoist medicine must be achieved on the basis of systematic inner strength cultivation and attainment to the corresponding level and stage. Only then can it be truly mastered and applied through the guru's heart seal. Therefore, Taoist medicine has been passed down from master to disciple throughout the ages, and the theories and methods are limited to written records and oral formulas, and are not printed in official manuscripts. Although many of these methods have been integrated with traditional medicine throughout history, the fundamental essence of them is still hidden deep in the Dharma and is not easily grasped by the secular world. Therefore, there are few monographs on Taoist medicine in history.
Taoist medicine and worldly medicine (Taoists refer to traditional Chinese medicine or traditional Chinese medicine as worldly medicine) have the same source of blood and originate from the natural avenue. There is an ancient saying: "Qihuang originates from Tao", and this statement is true.
World medicine is elucidated based on Tao's Yili, yin and yang, five elements, and qi and blood theories. These explicit medical theories and methods are beneficial to the secular world and can be learned, mastered and applied purely with acquired wisdom. They only need to "learn more and more" to master the essence of arts and sciences before they can apply medical skills clinically.
Taoist medicine must integrate the theory and practice of implicit and explicit, yin and yang, be able to penetrate the Tai Chi strings, and master the explicit and implicit simultaneously, so that Taoist medicine can be applied in clinical practice.
Therefore, compared with secular medicine, Taoist medicine is a highly professional discipline that is difficult to fully master and apply.
It must be based on the practitioner's solid and systematic "purifying consciousness", "purifying muddy blood" and "transforming muddy flesh" and practicing the internal energy of spirit and energy as the basis.
Must have the real ability to freely activate and call the hidden matter element, matter element, and body element.
The fundamental difference in epistemology between Taoist medicine and secular medicine:
Theoretical and practical understanding of the three basic life substances of the human body: "Jing", "Qi" and "Shen" The difference between them is the fundamental difference in epistemology between Taoist medicine and worldly medicine.
The world’s medical doctors’ understanding of the “essence”, “qi” and “spirit” of the human body only remains at the level of theoretical understanding of “jing” and “qi (qi)” and within the realm of rational and intellectual mastery. middle.
Taoist medicine not only has rational understanding, but also has direct perceptual understanding of "jing", "qi" and "spirit" in its own internal environment. Learn and master on the basis of dual understanding and overall combination.
Within Taoism, there are two differences in research and practice methods: the "Shou Yi" of self-cultivation 2500 years ago and the golden elixir cultivation 2500 years later.
The "Shou Yi" method of self-cultivation 2500 years ago was a way of using "Shen" to command "Qi" and "Jing".
Since the past 2000 years, it has been a practical method that uses "Qi" to handsome and "Jing" to enter the "Shen" realm.
The difference in methods is due to the fact that human beings have been deviating from Taoism for a long time, acquired intelligence has been over-strengthened, and it is difficult to follow the brain from the heart, the heart from the nature, and the mind to see the nature. Therefore, it must be adopted A step-by-step approach.
Differences in the basic theoretical characteristics between Taoist medicine and traditional medicine:
Taoist medicine is based on a very profound insight into internal medicine, and uses its own deep tranquility and wisdom to treat Conduct long-term comprehensive and detailed observations of life, and gradually establish a theoretical basis for human medicine based on the observations.
Historically, secular medicine inherited and applied these basic theories in Taoist medicine, and only learned, applied and developed them based on wisdom.
Traditional Chinese medicine, as it has developed to the present, has focused on the development and enrichment of pure wisdom and contemplation, and has even rashly discarded most of the basic theories obtained and established through wisdom contemplation in Taoist medicine as dross. Lose.
For example: in a period of time, the theories of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are completely denied, the theory of three souls and seven souls is abandoned, and even the theory of meridians and collaterals, the theory of qi, etc. are abandoned. Remove the soul of traditional Chinese medicine and abandon it, and fully develop into the field of pure wisdom and outlook. This phenomenon is impossible to occur in the field of Taoist medicine.
Tao medicine pays attention to the study and practice of everything with wisdom and wisdom, and uses the wisdom gained as the basis for guiding wisdom. It is a science that studies medicine with "wisdom and wisdom".
The study and mastery of Taoist medicine first lies in the comprehensive inheritance of traditional theories, rather than rashly denying them and blindly promoting them. Taoist medicine was born from the long-term and repeated research and practice of Taoist self-cultivation practitioners for thousands of years using their own lives as a laboratory. First, they carried out comprehensive transformation practices within their own bodies to explore the tangible and intangible "essence" The essential relationship between "Qi", "Shen" and the material and tangible "consciousness (intellect)", "blood (body fluids)" and "flesh (organs and tissues)" in the body has achieved thousands of Ancestors enabled them to step into the ranks of real people and at the same time gave birth to Tao medicine.
The evolution process of the natural road:
Voidness transforms into nature, nature transforms into Qi, Qi transforms into spirit, Qi transforms into form, form is born to produce all things, once the physical form is formed, due to the Due to the shielding effect of the body, the Qi energy of Tao is most likely to be blocked in the body.
The reverse return process of the natural road:
Form turns into Qi, Qi turns into spirit, and deity turns into nature. When entering the realm of virtuality and brightness, the virtuality and reality are connected, and all things can be connected and return to nature. road.
Human beings must go through six correct processes to understand Tao and nature:
Become aware of “body” by embodying things;
Be embodied in form And know "Qi";
Being in Qi, you can know "Shen";
Being in God, you can see "nature";
Being in the nature, you can know "Empty";
The body is empty and returns to the "Tao".
Among these six stages and processes, most human beings are stuck in the primary stage and process of "being aware of the body through being in the object". Through the observation, research and practice of logical thinking and acquired knowledge, people explore all things in nature, thereby gradually understanding and knowing the dialectical dependence between ourselves and all things. However, if we do not conduct internal verification and produce high-quality, systematic and controllable inspired and intelligent thinking regarding the truth that "all things have Qi, and all things are one thing", we don't know how many years of research and practice it will take to produce true knowledge. Form *** consciousness.
Taoist self-cultivation is different from the secular world. The method they use is to synchronize inspiration, intuitive thinking and logical thinking under the control of sexual wisdom.
Qi stagnation is not only an obstacle for human beings to understand the nature of things, but also the fundamental cause of disease. Use the three-cause theory to study the real cause of this "blockage" of Qi, and explore the outcome of relieving this "blockage" and blocked "cause". This "end" is the fundamental driving force for opening the "block", which is a special substance that is temporarily invisible and intangible but actually and objectively exists - "Qi".
Qi is the source of biochemistry and the end of change. Although Qi is invisible, it determines the success or failure, life and death, and vitality of the form.
The Taoist cultivator's "body is in the object and the body is known", first of all, is to inherit the successful experience of the ancestors with integrity. It is a comprehensive practice of Qi that combines the explicit and implicit with a high degree of integration.
At the end of the road, the body refines the true Qi, the mind returns to the empty light, and the head returns to the innate world. A gentleman understands the body by observing the object, and understands the body by observing the body. This is the inevitable and correct practice process of a cultivator.
Knowing Qi through the body is a long-term and arduous practice process, and it is also the basis for mastering Tao medicine.
The definition standard of the realm of doctors:
Those who know the essence can be regular doctors.
Those who know Qi can be good doctors.
Those who reach the gods are miracle doctors.
This classification method of determining the level of Taoist medical knowledge based on the level of internal cultivation is fundamentally different from that of worldly medicine.
Only by "connecting the virtual and the real and mastering it in one body" can we truly and comprehensively grasp the essence of Tao medicine.
Taoist medicine is based on moral theory, yin and yang theory, and five elements theory, is based on meridian science, and Tibetan image science, and uses "qi and blood" as its rationale. Particular emphasis is placed on the flexible use and adjustment of Qi, grasping this source of biochemistry and the end of creation, and serving human health. This is exactly what modern medicine has ignored.
Different focuses of treatment methods:
World medicine focuses on the restoration and maintenance of human health, focusing on the use of drugs, acupuncture and other methods to adjust the human body's energy and spirit. , to restore dynamic balance and achieve the purpose of treatment.
Taoist medicine, based on the principle that "everything has Qi", directly mobilizes various corresponding "Qi" for flexible use on the basis of using the methods of world medicine at the same time.
For the qi in the human body, it can remove diseased qi, turbid qi, and evil qi, replenish vitality, clear qi, and righteous qi, so as to restore the dynamic balance of the energy and spirit in the body, thereby achieving the purpose of treatment.
Differences in understanding of diseases and analysis of etiological mechanisms:
World medicine only pays attention to the pathogenic effects of two causes, namely internal causes and external causes.
Taoist medicine, in its understanding of diseases, attaches great importance to three causes, namely the original cause, internal cause and external cause.
This is also the fundamental difference between Taoist medicine and secular medicine.
Essential causes refer to the disease-causing factors carried by a little spiritual light in historical time and space. They are factors that can be gradually released in the body and work closely with internal and external factors to produce diseases.
The original cause is a disease-causing factor that is stored and carried in the form of holographic information and exists objectively in the form of Qi.
Modern medicine has discovered the phenomenon of DNA genetic disease carrying in the microscopic field, but it will take time to discover the holographic carrying phenomenon of diseases in Huiguan. The current scientific research methods are still difficult to fully enter the field of "qi".
Disease prevention and treatment have different focuses:
World medicine focuses on the research and application of internal and external causes.
Taoist medicine attaches great importance to the coordinated research and application of the three overall causes: original cause, internal cause, and external cause.
The medical methods and emphases of Taoist medicine:
"Working to treat the disease before it occurs", prevention is better than cure, and treatment is better than blockage.
Taoist medicine regards preventing and resolving the effects of the three causes on the human body as important medical methods.
Taoist medicine also attaches great importance to the impact and role of various Qi fields in the external environment on human health, as well as their adjustment and resolution.
Using "Feng Shui" from the "Mountain" technique of Taoism to skillfully handle the external environment of the Yin house and the Yang house can often speed up the cure of many chronic diseases or cure them without medicine.
Using the basic principle of "everything has Qi", we use various methods to adjust and create a good Qi field environment to maintain and maintain human health.
Summary:
In short, Taoist medicine and worldly medicine have the same origin.
Everything that exists in worldly medicine exists in Taoist medicine.
Because the principles and meanings of Taoist medicine are more profound and many contents cannot be fully understood and accepted by world doctors, it still maintains its own independence and is inherited within Taoism.
On the other hand, Taoist medicine and secular medicine have been interpenetrating and blending for thousands of years, and many contents have been assimilated into secular medicine. This can be seen from the large number of terminology in the famous works of secular medicine. It's just that there are big differences in the depth, breadth and accuracy of their respective interpretations. In particular, today's explanations lack their own internal experience, and there are many misinterpretations that mislead the latecomers.
If people today want to practice Taoist medicine, it is not a very difficult process if they start on the basis of mastering worldly medicine.
For example: medical ancient Chinese, basic Chinese medicine, diagnostics of traditional Chinese medicine, acupoint science, meridian science, acupuncture, Chinese internal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, prescriptions and other knowledge are the basis for entering Taoist medicine.
Message:
The book "Taoist Medicine" will further discuss relevant theoretical aspects that have not been discussed by traditional medicine in each chapter, based on the author's teachings and practice. The introduction is for the readers’ convenience.
The author of "Tao Medicine" is a disciple of You Chengjia, who taught Taoist healing methods under the guidance of his teacher. He has been engaged in Taoist and Buddhist internal strength cultivation and clinical medicine practice for decades, and has conducted traditional internal strength and medical teaching. For more than ten years, I have had some profound feelings about the profoundness and simplicity of Taoist medicine. The author is aware of the needs of the times for the inheritance and development of traditional culture and the prosperity of medical forests, so he does not hesitate to present his personal gains from medical science to Xinglin colleagues. He hopes that all those who are destined can enter the palace of Taoist medicine and truly inherit and inherit the traditional Chinese medicine. Carry forward Chinese traditional medical culture, save the world and benefit mankind.