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What are the philosophical ideas of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine?

What are the philosophical ideas of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine?

I'm a clinical Chinese physician who has been reading the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine over and over again for the past two years, and my biggest individual several would be. A few of the ideas from Huang Di Nei Jing:

First, the idea of the unity of heaven and mankind

The idea of the unity of heaven and man starts from the opening chapter, saying that in order to be able to live a long and healthy life, one must follow the natural way of heaven and the laws of nature. The specific laws are reflected in the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons.

You have to adapt to the loss of change to live, there are four seasons in a year and four seasons in a day, the laws of the century, reflected in the spring, summer growth, fall harvest and winter storage. If people want to be healthy, they have to follow the laws of nature to live and synchronize with nature.

Second, unity of mind and body

Neiqin emphasizes the internal guarding of the spirit, the quietness and emptiness of the gem, and the unity of form and spirit, so that the internal body will not suffer from miscellaneous diseases. Most internal illnesses stem from uncontrolled diet and excessive emotions. Joy, anger, sadness and joy, any of which exceeds the range, will cause the body to fall ill.

Thirdly, the treatment of illnesses is concerned with the examination of the realities

Do not recognize, the vertical lines in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine or Lin Shujin in the process of healing and conditioning are very much emphasized in the real and virtual, virtual is the lack of positive energy when it is too much evil. Must when it is also a state of conditioning people from bias to peace and neutrality. The specific operation is not false diarrhea.

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Taoism is one of the core values of Taoism. Taoism believes that the movement and change of the universe and nature is a 'metaphysical' eternal and unchanging objective law, which is the highest state pursued by human beings. In the face of the nature of the universe and nature, people must seek to achieve: no desire, no desire, no action, no action. To the extreme of emptiness, to keep the peace is based on the great law. Imitate the excellent quality of water: benefit all things without competing. Goodness is like water is the fundamental law of Taoism and nature.

The unity of heaven and man is the Taoist's way of complying with and recognizing the specific laws of nature in the universe. When the sun rises, the body's yang qi begins to rise, and when the sun sets in the west, the body's yang qi begins to hide. This law requires people to: work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Spring is birth, then we must sow; summer is growth, then we must flourish; fall is harvest, then we must cut; winter is hiding, then we must go into the warehouse. It is only by following the natural rhythm of the universe that one can live and nourish oneself.

Therefore, the philosophical thought of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is: Taoism is based on nature, and heaven and man are united.

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First, the idea of the unity of heaven and mankind

The idea of the unity of heaven and man starts from the opening chapter, saying that in order to be able to live a long and healthy life, one must follow the natural way of heaven and the laws of nature. The specific laws are reflected in the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons.

You have to adapt to the loss of change to live, there are four seasons in a year and four seasons in a day, the laws of the century, reflected in the spring, summer growth, fall harvest and winter storage. If people want to be healthy, they have to follow the laws of nature to live and synchronize with nature.

Second, unity of mind and body

Neiqin emphasizes the internal guarding of the spirit, the quietness and emptiness of the gem, and the unity of form and spirit, so that the internal body will not suffer from miscellaneous diseases. Most internal illnesses stem from uncontrolled diet and excessive emotions. Joy, anger, sadness and joy, any of which exceeds the range, will cause the body to fall ill.

Thirdly, the treatment of illnesses is concerned with the examination of the realities

Do not recognize, the vertical lines in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine or Lin Shujin in the process of healing and conditioning are very much emphasized in the real and virtual, virtual is the lack of positive energy when it is too much evil. Must when it is also a state of conditioning people from bias to peace and neutrality. The specific operation is not false diarrhea.

The human body is the universe, people should follow the laws of nature to live, in order to be able to unite heaven and man, to reach the state of the most good and beautiful saints.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, or Nei Jing for short, as the earliest classical work of Chinese medicine in China, covers the main ideas of traditional Chinese philosophy, such as qi, yin and yang, and the five elements.

Philosophical categories of the Neijing

  During the period when the Neijing was written, Chinese medicine already had its own unique theoretical system. Any discipline is made up of some of the most basic components, the so-called concepts and categories. The theoretical system of the Nei Jing is based on qi, yin and yang, and the five elements.

1. Gas

  The category of qi is one of the core categories of ancient Chinese philosophy, which has determined the basic direction of Chinese philosophy since its formation and has had a significant impact on ancient science and technology such as astronomy, geography, agronomy and medicine.

  The idea of qi originated very early, and the word "qi" is known to have appeared in oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions. After a long period of observation of natural phenomena such as clouds, fog, wind and temperature before the Spring and Autumn Period, people gradually formed the idea that everything has qi. The "Nei Jing" considers qi to be the material from which all things are generated, and believes that all things and human beings are generated by qi. Su Wen - Yin and Yang should be like the Great Theory" said: "Accumulation of yang for the sky, accumulation of yin for the ground ...... yang into gas, yin forming." Under normal circumstances, the vitality of the human body depends on the vitality of the gas, under the action of pathogenic factors, the human body depends on the strength of the positive gas.

  The Nei Jing thought that the origin of the world was qi, and we can understand this idea very clearly from some chapters, such as:

  Heaven and earth are united by qi, six sections are divided and everything is born. --Suwen zhi zhen yao dalan (The Essentials of the True)

  In the sky for the gas, in the earth to form, the form of gas and the sense and the birth of all things. --Su Wen - Tian Yuan Ji Da Lun

  Qi begins with biochemistry, Qi disperses and takes shape, Qi spreads and reproduces, and Qi ends and changes, and the result is the same. --Su Wen - The Five Changes of Politics and Greatness

  The qi in the Neijing has the qi of the hierarchy, which includes the qi of yin and yang, the qi of the five elements and the five viscera (wood, fire, earth, gold, and water corresponding to the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys), the qi of the five colors (green, pale, red, yellow, white, and black), and the qi of the five counts (eight, seven, five, nine, and six); and there is the qi of the heavens and the earth, the qi of the four seasons, and the qi of the human form, among other things. Among them, qi appears 233 times.

 2. Yin and Yang

  Like qi, yin and yang is one of the concepts widely used in the Nei Jing. It is both a medical and philosophical concept.

  The idea of yin and yang has a long process of development from simple to complex, and the combination of qi and yin and yang is an epoch-making event in the history of the development of yin and yang ideas. According to the Neijing, everything in heaven and earth is divided into yin and yang, and the classification of yin and yang is hierarchical and infinite. The Suwen - Yin and Yang Clutch Theory argues, "Heaven is yang and earth is yin; the sun is yang and the moon is yin." The article goes on to say, "The yin and yang, the number of which can be ten, the push can be a hundred, the number of which can be a thousand, the push can be ten thousand, ten thousand of the great uncountable, but the key to the one also." The "Neijing" of the human body and all things in heaven and earth as a huge network system composed of yin and yang, the seemingly chaotic world by the yin and yang of this general outline woven into a clear and well-organized a large network. Yin and yang two qi coexist in a unity, the nature of the opposite but each other interdependent, the role of the different and coordinated, and jointly realize the overall function of the unity. Yin and Yang are two aspects of the same thing, growing and decreasing at the same time. "Suwen - pulse to the essence of the theory" said: "is why the winter solstice forty-five days, yang qi slightly on, yin qi slightly down; summer solstice forty-five days, yin qi slightly on, yang qi slightly down." Yin and Yang can be transformed into each other under certain conditions. The cycle of the four seasons and the alternation of day and night are the best examples of this transformation.

  Yin and Yang is the way of heaven and earth, the program of all things, the parents of change, the beginning of life and death, the house of the gods, and the treatment of disease is based on this. --Su Wen - Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun (素问-阴阳應象大论)

  From here, we can understand that the essence of Chinese medicine is nothing but the change of yin and yang.

 3. The five elements

  Ancient Chinese people attached great importance to the number of five, in the social life of the five establishment has a long history, five has a special significance. ② The doctrine of the five elements of Chinese medicine puts forward a relatively complete theoretical system, proving that everything contains five components or factors of functional attributes within wood, fire, earth, gold and water, and that these five aspects are interconnected in accordance with a certain law to form the overall functional structure of the thing, which can be dynamically balanced by the phases of the five elements.

  "Su Wen - yin and yang should be like the great theory" said: "the east gives birth to wind, wind gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to acid, acid gives birth to liver, liver gives birth to tendons, tendons give birth to the heart. The liver is the main eye. In the sky for the wind, in the ground for the wood, in the body for the tendons, in the Tibetan for the liver, in the color for the pale, in the sound for the horn, in the sound for the call, in the change for the grip, in the orifices for the eyes, in the taste for the acid, in the will for the anger ...... South born heat, heat begets fire, fire begets bitterness, bitterness begets the heart ...... Central begets dampness, dampness begets earth, sweet begets sweet, sweet begets sweet, sweet begets sweet. begets earth, earth begets sweet, sweet begets spleen ...... west begets dry, dry begets gold, gold begets pungent, pungent begets lung ...... north begets cold, cold begets water, water begets salty, salty begets kidney ...... "Here is the relationship when the ancient medical doctors in the anatomy and medical practice based on the human body's internal organs of the liver, heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys in order to correspond to the wood, fire, earth, gold and water of the five elements of the system. And these five systems also exists in the relationship between the phases of birth and restraints and systemization.


  I'm a clinical Chinese physician who has been reading the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine over and over again for the past two years, and my biggest individual several would be. A few of the ideas from Huang Di Nei Jing:

First, the idea of the unity of heaven and mankind

The idea of the unity of heaven and man starts from the opening chapter, saying that in order to be able to live a long and healthy life, one must follow the natural way of heaven and the laws of nature. The specific laws are reflected in the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons.

You have to adapt to the loss of change to live, there are four seasons in a year and four seasons in a day, the laws of the century, reflected in the spring, summer growth, fall harvest and winter storage. If people want to be healthy, they have to follow the laws of nature to live and synchronize with nature.

Second, unity of mind and body

Neiqin emphasizes the internal guarding of the spirit, the quietness and emptiness of the gem, and the unity of form and spirit, so that the internal body will not suffer from miscellaneous diseases. Most internal illnesses stem from uncontrolled diet and excessive emotions. Joy, anger, sadness and joy, any of which exceeds the range, will cause the body to fall ill.

Thirdly, the treatment of illnesses is concerned with the examination of the realities

Do not recognize, the vertical lines in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine or Lin Shujin in the process of healing and conditioning are very much emphasized in the real and virtual, virtual is the lack of positive energy when it is too much evil. Must when it is also a state of conditioning people from bias to peace and neutrality. The specific operation is not false diarrhea.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, as a classic of traditional Chinese culture, has gone beyond the realm of medicine and is a profound cultural masterpiece, an encyclopedia centered on the issue of life and containing a wealth of knowledge from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, politics, astronomy, and other areas.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine discusses the relationship between heaven, earth and human beings, and talks about the unity of heaven and human beings, following nature and adhering to the way of heaven, which talks about "virtue" as an important category of the ancient Chinese view of nature, and the talent of the inner "virtue" externalized into the talent of "carrying things" is a kind of internal and external unity that adheres to the harmony of nature. The "virtuousness" of the inner talent is externalized into the talent of "carrying things", which is a kind of internal and external unity that conforms to the harmony of nature. "Virtue" is the heart of the management, physical and mental incompatibility, there is no way to "help correct and eliminate evil", the selection and appointment of talent, should also follow the virtue and talent, virtue first, advancing with the times, the harmonious development of the new era, which is also our selection and appointment of talent standards.

The concept of life in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine tells us that the human body, mind, and behavior together constitute life, and the integration of the three can lead to the harmonious development of human beings, and the same is true for society. Our contemporary society speaks of the Chinese Dream, which is the goal of our contemporary people, and the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is becoming clearer and clearer, and it also requires the harmonious development of all aspects, and the unification of the pace, in order to be suitable for the development of the country.



This book describes the historical process by which the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine was profoundly influenced by the traditional Chinese doctrines of yin and yang, the five elements, and essence and qi, and through its development and refinement, it eventually formed its own dialectical philosophical thinking. The cosmology of the Neijing is explained; the materialistic viewpoints of the Neijing on the production structure of the universe, the creation of the heavens and the earth, the origin of life, and the forms of life's movement are introduced; and the concept of "correspondence between heaven and man", which states that "human beings are in harmony with heaven and earth, and with the sun and the moon", is discussed. In addition, a considerable amount of space is devoted to the materialistic view of life and its forms of movement. In addition, a considerable amount of space is devoted to the introduction of the Neijing's view of the overall movement of human life, the overall dialectical view of the causes and mechanisms of disease, the four diagnostic dialectics, and the ideas and methods of overall dialectical control of disease. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the book also tries to explore the ideas and theories of the Neijing in the fields of medical astronomy, bio-meteorology, mass-energy cycle transformation in nature, biological evolution, etc., and finally draws the inspiration from the epistemology and methodology of the Neijing.

The human body is united with heaven and earth.

the idea that man and heaven are one

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