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The easiest thing in the world is to make fun of laborers and labor every day without doing either mental or physical labor, that is, without labor; another is to have no knowledge at all, to know nothing, to know only a few words, and yet to point out this and that, to deny that, to denigrate this line of work, to sneer at that line of work, to be like the blind describing the five colors, the deaf arguing about the five tones, the illiterate evaluating an article, the son scolding his father for not having any fertility, the grandson sneering at his grandfather's bachelor. A son scolds his father for not having the ability to give birth to children, and a grandson ridicules his grandfather for being a bachelor. ....... It is really like a blind man describing the five colors, a deaf man arguing the five sounds, an illiterate man commenting on an article, a son scolding his father for not having the ability to give birth, or a grandson mocking his grandfather for being a bachelor!

Ancient medical theory that "gas is born in the sky, taste becomes in the ground", and so summarized the four qi and five flavor (four sexes and five flavors) of the herbs and food, lifting, floating and sinking.

The four qi: warm, hot, cool and cold. Although there is also flatness, the flatness is actually on the cool side. The four qi correspond to the four seasons, i.e. spring warmth, summer heat, fall coolness, and winter coldness. These should be things that are understood without being taught.

Five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. Different flavors have different effects.

--Let's simplify things here for the time being and put the four qi and five flavors together. I'm afraid that some people's brains won't be able to respond if we break it down into smaller parts.

A lot of people are into the "five flavors correspond to the five organs" of the tip of the bull's-eye, some people put the "Su Wen - Anger Tong Tian Theory" in the "taste is too sour, the liver gas to the Jin, the spleen gas is off, taste is too salty, the big bone qi labor, short muscles, the heart qi suppression, too much sweet, the heart qi gas asthma full of color, the kidneys qi imbalance, too much bitter, the spleen is not moistened, stomach qi is thick; taste is too pungent, the muscles and veins frustrated, the spirit is central". The taste is too bitter, the spleen qi is not moistened, the stomach qi is thick; the taste is too pungent, the tendons and veins are depressed, and the spirit is centralized." This is where the problem lies.

Sour harvesting, sweet slow, salty soft, bitter firm, pungent opening and bitter descending, is only one aspect of the properties of the five flavors. Therefore, many people make the mistake of taking it as "all".

As a matter of fact, in "Su Wen - Zang Qi Fa Shi Lun", there are also "Liver is bitter and urgent, eat sweet food to slow down", "Heart is bitter and slow, eat sour food to collect", "Spleen is bitter and wet, eat bitter food to dry", "Lung is bitter and rebellious, eat pungent food to drain", "Kidney is bitter and dry, eat pungent food to moisten". "Lung bitter gas upward reversal, urgent food bitter to drain the", "kidney bitter dry, urgent food pungent to moisturize the". It also says: "the liver wants to disperse, emergency food to disperse the pungent, with the pungent complementary, acid diarrhea", "the heart wants to be soft, emergency food salty to soft, with the salty complementary, sweet diarrhea", "the spleen wants to slow down, emergency food sweet to slow down, with the bitter diarrhea, sweet complementary "," the lungs want to collect, emergency food acid to collect, with acid tonic, Sin diarrhea "," the kidneys want to firm, emergency food bitter to firm, with bitter tonic, salty diarrhea ". This is the later so-called "the five viscera bitter desire tonic diarrhea" theory.

Has introduced, a certain flavor into a certain organ, "into" is only its effect on the organs to show the "fastest", but not the "biggest".

For example, if you take an exam and you hand in your paper within 10 minutes of it being handed out, that's "in". But how many marks can you get? Handing in the paper quickly is not the same as getting a high score. In this case, "getting a high score" means "suffering to compensate for diarrhea".

--The use of medicines in clinical practice is just like the need to hand in your paper quickly at times and the need to get a high score at other times. Different theories should be applied to different needs, and you can't just focus on the five flavors entering the five organs from beginning to end, or else you won't be able to bring out the effects of the medicine.

Therefore, what you perceive as a contradiction is because you only know one and not the other.

In addition, the five flavors are not mechanically applied. If you don't even know how to "elevate, float and sink", of course you will think that the four qi and five flavors are in conflict with the medicinal properties.

For example, if you think that warmth is fire, corresponding to the five organs as the heart, or use bitter flavors, this is a mechanical application.

Fire has two, the king fire, phase fire, floating for the king, descending for the phase, so in fact, this is also the five flavors into this half of the theory is not reflected, with fire, but also cold water phase fire into the warmth of the wood gas, moving and rising, up to the king fire.

Since the human body is dynamic, the use of medicine should be combined with dynamics, and should not be set in stone. The use of drugs need to know the changes, only know the addition and subtraction, do not know the multiplication and division, rigid to apply a fixed theory, do not know the example, and how to truly understand the four qi and five flavors.

The four qi and five flavors refer to the nature of the medicine, but it is suitable for the four seasons and the seasons correspond to the five elements. The same flavor of the nature of the medicine, points to the seasonal diseases and the appropriate season, the medicine will be effective. (such as spring temperature, summer heat, autumn cool, winter cold), it also belongs to the five elements, spring wood, summer fire, long summer earth, autumn gold, winter water, the use of medicines to identify the nature of the treatment of disease identification, diagnosis can be key!

Four gas "cold, hot, warm, add" five flavors "sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty" five flavors into the five viscera, four gas has five flavors of the return to enter the internal organs, a total of twenty combinations, described as "sour cold, sour temperature, sour cold, sour heat "

Four qi: cold, hot, warm, cool for the four qi, cold, cool is yin, warm, hot is yang. Five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty for the five flavors, sour, bitter, salty belongs to the yin, pungent, sweet (light) belongs to the yang. Lifting, floating and sinking, sinking is yin, lifting and floating is yang.

I've always had a point of view that it's hard to learn a fake to be real

The four gases and five flavors are the best footnote to my argument.

The four qi and five flavors refer to the nature and taste of Chinese medicine. The four qi refers to the "cold, heat, warmth and coolness" of the drug, also known as the four sexes; the five flavors refer to the sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty flavors of the five medicines.

This primitive method of dividing the properties of drugs into four qi and five flavors is both backward and inconsistent with the properties of actual drugs.

Moreover, there are no boundaries between "hot, cold, warm and cool", and it is not possible to find out the interrelationships and differences between them. Everything depends on personal grasp. Such a theory of medicine is no different from counterfeiting.

How do you categorize the more than 100 substances on the periodic table of chemical elements by "hot, cold, warm and cool"? Which of the five flavors do they belong to?

These two problems, enough to the four qi and five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine and five flavors theory knocked to the ground. Any what national medical masters, engineering academicians, Chinese medicine masters have to dumb down in front of these two problems shut up and fall off the chain!

A theory of Chinese medicine is a pseudo theory. It is not difficult to memorize it, nor is it difficult to understand it. But it is much more difficult to mentally "recognize" such false theories as scientific theories.

Unless, of course, you also turn out to be a TCM academician who makes lying a family affair. But that would be beyond the scope of our discussion on the topic of TCM theory.

In a nutshell, it's hard to study the fake as if it were real and serious! It's painful!

When you refer to the four qi and five flavors, you are referring to the basics of Chinese medicine in terms of medication. The four qi and five flavors, the nature and taste of Chinese medicine. One of the basic elements of the theory of the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine. Drugs all have a certain nature and flavor. Nature and flavor are an aspect of drug properties. Since ancient times, all kinds of Chinese medicine books are in every discussion of a drug first marked its taste, which for the understanding of the commonality and individuality of various drugs, as well as clinical use of drugs have practical significance. This is of practical significance to the understanding of the commonality and individuality of various drugs, as well as to the clinical use of drugs. The properties of drugs are repeatedly verified and then summarized according to their actual therapeutic effects, and are highly generalized from the nature of various medical effects of drugs. As for the determination of the taste of medicine, it is obtained from the taste of the mouth, thus discovering a number of regular links between the different tastes of various medicines and their medical effects. Therefore, the concept of taste not only represents the real taste perceived by the sense of taste, but also reflects the actual properties of drugs.

We often refer to the four qi: it means that the drug has four different medicinal properties, namely cold, heat, warmth and coolness, which is what we call the four properties; and the five flavors mean that the drug has five different medicinal flavors, namely sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. The four qualities and five flavors of each Chinese medicine are different, and thus have different therapeutic effects. The theory of the four qi and five flavors was first contained in the Shennong Ben Cao Jing, which tells us that in the future, when doctors of traditional Chinese medicine use medicines to treat diseases, they will use medicines according to their four qi and five flavors to treat diseases that have already been dialectically proven.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine also tells us, "The five flavors enter the body: sour enters the liver, spicy enters the lungs, bitter enters the heart, salty enters the kidneys, and sweet enters the spleen.

Since ancient times, there are four qi and five flavors, and has been inherited to this day. Each flavor of the drug has a certain sex and taste, and the four qi and five flavors of the drug is also a lot of Chinese medicine people's blind spot, drug flavor is always silly. In the end, what is the four qi and five flavors? What is the four qi, five flavor and what is it? And see the text!

"Medicine has five flavors: sour, salty, sweet, bitter and pungent, and four qi: cold, hot, warm and cool." The four qi is cold, heat, temperature, cool four different medicinal properties, also known as the four sex. It reflects the tendency of the drug on the body of yin and yang, cold and heat changes in the role of the tendency for the theory of the important part of the drug, is one of the main theoretical basis for the role of the drug. If the patient manifests for the high fever and thirst, the face is red and the eyes are red, the throat is swollen and painful, the pulse is flooded, belongs to the yang heat evidence, uses the gypsum, the mother of pearl, the gardenia and so on the drug treatment, the above symptom to alleviate or eliminates, explains that their medicinal properties are cold; On the contrary, if the patient manifests for the limbs are cold, the face is pale, the epigastric cavity is cold and painful, the pulse is weak and wants to be extinguished, belongs to the yin cold evidence, with the epiphyllum, the cinnamon, the dry ginger and so on the drug treatment, the above symptom to alleviate or eliminates, explains that their medicinal properties are cold. or eliminated, indicating that their medicinal properties are warm.

Generally speaking, cold medicines have the effect of clearing away heat and fire, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, nourishing yin and removing steam, diarrhea and laxative, clearing away heat and diuretic, clearing away hot phlegm, clearing away the heart and opening up the mind, cooling the liver and resting the wind, etc., whereas warm-heat medicines have the effect of warming the li and dispersing cold, warming the liver and dispersing the knots, tonifying fire and helping the yang, warming the yang and benefiting the water, warming the meridians, inducing fire back to its original source, and returning the yang to the reverse.

The five flavors mean that medicines have five different tastes: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty, and thus have different therapeutic effects. Some also have a mild or astringent flavor, and thus actually have more than five. However, the five flavors are the most basic five tastes, so they are still called five flavors.

Pungent, "can disperse and move", has the effect of dispersing and moving qi and blood. Generally speaking, the medicines for dispersing the surface, promoting qi and activating blood have pungent flavor, and are used for the symptoms of surface and qi and blood obstruction. For example, Su Ye disperses wind-cold, Mu Xiang moves Qi and removes flatulence, and Chuan Xiong activates Blood circulation and removes Blood stasis. In addition, the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" cloud "pungent to moisten the", that is, pungent medicines also have the role of moisturizing and nourishing, such as winter flowers to moisturize the lungs and relieve coughs, dodder seeds nourishing and tonifying the kidneys, and so on. Most of the pungent medicines have the function of dispersing.

Gan, "can tonic and can ease", has the role of tonic, and neutralization, harmonization of medicinal properties and pain relief. Generally speaking, nourishing and nourishing weakness, harmonize the nature of the medicine and stop the pain of the drug has a sweet flavor, mostly used in the weak, body pain and harmonize the nature of the medicine, poisoning rescue and so on several aspects. Such as ginseng to replenish vital energy, ripe earth nourishing essence and blood, caramel to ease the pain, licorice to harmonize the nature of medicine and medicine and food poisoning, etc..

Sour, "can collect and astringent", with astringent, astringent effect. General solid surface to stop sweating, astringent lung cough, astringent intestinal antidiarrheal, astringent shrink urine, solid collapse stop band of drugs with acid flavor, used for excessive sweating, lung deficiency, chronic cough, chronic diarrhea and slippery bowel, spermatorrhea, dysuria, urination and more than the collapse of the band of other diseases. Such as schizandra solid surface to stop sweating, plum astringent lung cough, five times as astringent intestinal antidiarrheal, Cornus officinalis astringent spermatozoa, red stone resin solid crash stop belt.

Bitter, "can drain, can dry, can firm", has the effect of clearing fire and heat, draining and descending the rebellious Qi, pass stools, drying dampness, firming the yin (diarrhea of fire and storage of yin) and so on. Generally speaking, clear away heat and fire, lower gas and calm asthma, lowering reverse vomiting, clearing stool, clearing heat and drying dampness, bitter temperature and drying dampness, diarrhea fire and store yin of the drug has bitter flavor, used for heat, fire, wheezing, coughing, vomiting, constipation, dampness, yin deficiency and fire, and so on. Such as scutellaria, gardenia to clear heat and fire, almonds, scape hebecarpembemerosa hebecarpa to lower the gas and asthma, half-sia, Chenpi to lower the reverse vomiting, rhubarb, hedgehogsia diarrhea heat laxative, gentian herb, Huanglian clearing heat and drying dampness, Cangzhu, thick Park bitter temperature and dryness of dampness, motherwort, cypress to diarrhea fire and storage of yin, and so on.

Salty, "can go down and soften", has the effect of laxative and laxative, softening and dispersing lumps. Generally speaking, most of the drugs that laxative or lubricating laxative and soften hardness and dissipate lumps have a salty flavor, and are used for dry stools, phlegm nuclei, gall tumors, and obstruction in the abdomen and lumps. For example, manganese nitrate is used to remove heat and relax the bowels, seaweed and oyster are used to dissipate gall tumors, and turtle shell is used to soften the hardness and eliminate the symptoms of impediments.

Faint, "can seep and can benefit", has the effect of seeping dampness and facilitating urination. Some of the water seepage and dampness medicines have a light flavor, and are mostly used for edema, foot fungus, and urinary incontinence. Such as Job's tears, Tongcao, Lanternwort, Poria, Poria, Zeloda and so on. As the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" did not mention the taste of light, later medical practitioners advocate "light attached to the sweet", so only said five flavors, not six flavors.

Astringent, similar to the action of acidic medicines, it is mostly used for symptoms such as deficiency sweating, diarrhea, frequent urination, seminal emission, spermatorrhea, and bleeding. For example, lotus seed fixes sperm and stops banding, Yu Yu Liang astringes the intestines and stops diarrhea, and Squid Bone astringes and stops bleeding. Materia Medica literature often use sour flavor on behalf of astringent efficacy, or juxtaposed with the sour flavor, indicating the medicinal properties.

Different odor, the role of different, such as Huanglian bitter cold, the party ginseng sweet warm, Huanglian function to clear heat and dry dampness, the party ginseng is complementary to the gas. And gas with different flavor, flavor with gas different drugs have different roles. For example, ephedra, almonds, jujube, umeboshi, cistanchis are warm, due to the different flavors, ephedra is pungent and warm to disperse cold and relieve the symptoms, almonds are bitter and warm to stop coughing, jujube is sweet and warm to replenish the spleen and benefit the qi, umeboshi is acidic and warm to converge the lungs and astringent intestines, and cistanchis is salty and warm to replenish the kidneys and help the yang.

These are the characteristics of the drug, and the real application to the formula is still based on the theory of Chinese medicine for identification and treatment.

The four qi and five flavors are not difficult; the difficulty is that recent times have confused these. If it is cold, it is hot; if it is hot, it is cold; if it is warm, it is cool; if it is cool, it is warm. Go against nature and cure the disease. Pungent flavor removes wind, while the textbooks now say that pungent moistens and dries. Bitter can dry dampness, sour can collect astringency, salty can soften hardness, and sweet can moisten dryness. However, the drug is mostly the four qi and five flavors coexist. The use of each other and judgment, do not be mistaken.