"One yin and one yang is the way". Chinese medicine and fitness concept from the balance of yin and yang, fire is the Chinese medicine words, equivalent to the modern western medicine of bacterial inflammation and sterile inflammation. Just call it differently.

An adjective that mostly refers to human emotions being out of whack. Chinese medicine says that the heart is the master of fire, which means that positive or abnormal emotions are related to the human heart night and day.

About the concept of the problem, how to say, the essence is not the conflict between East and West, but the conflict between traditional medicine and modern medicine. Write this answer, not the slightest intention to black Chinese medicine, if you want to scold the fight can be washed up.

Both traditional medicine and modern medicine have their own set of ways of interpreting and perceiving the world, and we call this kind of thing a worldview and methodology. Everyone uses their own set of methods to describe the world, as if to say, China has the nine chapters of arithmetic and the West has calculus.

Well, here's the problem. In different discourse systems, the same issue is viewed and interpreted differently, as well as handled differently. For example, traditional medicine emphasizes more on the inheritance of experience and technology, the so-called medical family, which is built on the basis of experience, and there will be some ancestral standards and techniques for treating some illnesses, but why do we use this technique for this illness? In principle, it is difficult to explain clearly, or simply do not want to explain clearly, in the traditional society, this is the fundamental life, or there would not have been any male not female and other provisions.

The system of modern medicine is based on the deconstruction and dissection of disease. More emphasis is placed on the search for the ultimate principle, on the fact that the workings of the human body are knowable, and that any illnesses can actually be attributed to physiological metabolic or structural irregularities, and it's just a matter of getting them back to normal. So everyone is doing the same thing, but bifurcating when it comes to interpretation.

This difference in worldviews has led to the current so-called conflict of understanding. The so-called fire is a generalized concept, for example, constipation is considered to be on fire, acne is considered to be on fire, swollen and painful gums are considered to be on fire, mouth ulcers are considered to be on fire, and if one observes one will find that any condition that does not cause diarrhea and cannot be perfectly explained is considered to be on fire. Of course, the response of traditional medicine, some of them are also reasonable, for example, when the gums are swollen and painful, there will also be some anti-inflammatory drugs, and eventually solve the problem. But this approach is just techno-fluid ah, still do not know what exactly happened in it.

To this day and age, even cancer is considered to be a single disease. Isn't it a bit anachronistic if conventional medicine is still clinging to the old calendar of thousands of years ago?

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There is a science behind all phenomena.

Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years and has accompanied almost every process of the emergence and development of mankind, which contains the valuable experience of mankind in recognizing and exploring nature. Today, we will analyze from a scientific point of view on the fire in the end there is no scientific basis?

What is fire?

When we experience swollen and sore gums, dry mouth and throat, and mouth ulcers, we usually say we are on fire. In Chinese medicine, there is also a term called "heat". There is also a clear definition of fire in Chinese medicine, what is "fire"? The earliest record of fire comes from the book "Shangshu - Hongfan", which reads: "The first record of fire comes from the book "Shangshu - Hongfan".The fire is said to be on the heat'. The Shuowen Jiezi explains it as:"Fire, the burn also. South of the line, hot up. Pictogram". Thus, in Chinese medicine, the term fire refers to inflammation in the body due to some cause.

So what is inflammation?

Inflammation is what we usually call "inflammation" and is often encountered in our daily lives.Inflammation is by its scientific nature an immune response.It is the defense reaction of our body when it encounters some pathogenic bacteria or external causes. For example, viral colds, when the cold virus invasion, the body's immune response will quickly recognize these foreign viruses, and activate the body's own defense mechanism to resist the further invasion of the virus, which will be accompanied by a series of cold symptoms such as fever, sore throat. This is actually an immune response that the body is helping to fight the pathogenic bacteria.

Is there a scientific basis for fire?

There has been a great deal of scientific research on the issue of fire. Research from the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CAMC) has shown that what Chinese medicine refers to as inflammation and what Western medicine refers to as inflammation have similar symptoms, both of which are characterized by redness, swelling, heat, pain, and other phenomena.In Chinese medicine, solid heat is characterized by hyper-immunity, while deficiency heat is characterized by reduced immunity. Both solid heat and deficiency heat are accompanied by T-cell immune dysfunction.For example, inflammation of the gums is usually the result of the accumulation of plaque in the teeth, especially when endotoxins from some gram-negative anaerobic bacteria stimulate the secretion of tumor necrosis factors by monocytes and fibroblasts, for example. When these endotoxins attack the gum tissues, they cause a fire or inflammatory response. At the same time, there is a close correlation between fire and some inflammatory biomarkers, for example, fire causes the release and synthesis of inflammatory factors, including interleukin-1, interleukin-, interleukin-10, and tumor necrosis factor monocyte chemotactic protein. The current research opinion is that catching fire is a major indicator of inflammatory factors, oxidative stress factors and energy-related factors.

Therefore, fire has a rich scientific basis. Here, we also have to admire the wisdom of the old ancestors, good at finding and summarizing the problems around us, in fact, these are the real practical scientific problems. Chinese medicine is a very broad and profound Chinese wisdom, which is the treasure of mankind. 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Tu Youyou is a good example.

Science is not a tribute on the Buddha's shrine; science that actually solves human problems is real science.

Why is fire always mentioned in Chinese medicine and is there a scientific basis for this?

Chinese medicine said fire, asked whether there is a scientific basis, I tell you ah, of course, there is a scientific basis, you think Chinese medicine is how to come, Chinese medicine is the ancient Chinese people observe the characteristics of all things in the world and natural phenomena, and then totaled out, so it also includes the science of the people now long said that the Chinese medicine encompasses all things, profound and profound.

Let me ask first, what are the properties of this fire?

The characteristic of fire is hot, right, you say fire is hot or not, and then is the fire is upward, this is not science? That's why the ancients said, the fire is hot, the fire is hot upward。

But we can't raise the bar about people being on fire inside unless they go there to be on fire inside.

Body temperature is also an expression of fire and heat, for example, the head is more resistant to cold than the feet, indicating that the fire above the head is strong.

Some people's eyes suddenly red, or suddenly a toothache, you yourself will say, doctor give me a look ah, I'm on fire, suddenly a toothache, no one said I, on fire, foot bean pain. Why, the body below the disease rarely say on fire, are above the disease say on fire, is because we all know that the fire nature of inflammation, the fire is upward.

How did the fire get up there?

The five viscera and six bowels have their fire, the five viscera open orifices, heart open orifices in the tongue, lung open orifices in the nose, liver open orifices in the eyes, kidney open orifices in the ears and two yin, spleen open orifices in the mouth, these orifices and the fire is easy to go to, of course, the fire is divided into virtual and real.

The five organs are connected to the five orifices through the meridians, and under normal circumstances, these fires should go where they are supposed to go.

But instead of going where it should for special reasons, such as the meridians being impassable, or the internal organs being dysfunctional, it goes against the meridians, or up the meridians.

• For example, if you have a toothache, the stomach fire should go down the meridian, but because you ate too much chili pepper, you forced the fire upward, and the meridian of the stomach encircles the lips and also enters the teeth, so you will suddenly have a toothache.
  

• The fastest way to cure a toothache is to needle Hegu, Xiaguan, and Cheek Che points, which can stop a toothache in a few minutes, even if the tooth doesn't hurt after the needle is placed.
  
• The liver opens the orifices to the eyes, and the meridians of the liver are connected to the eyes, and also to the top of one's head, so when liver fire is exuberant, it will follow the meridians upward, causing redness of the eyes, or pain in the top of the head.
  

Characteristics of the five elements

We summarize ah, Chinese medicine said the fire, water, wood, gold, earth, the five elements in the body with science can be detected? Of course, it is not detectable, the five elements is based on the characteristics of the five elements, and take the analogical image.

• For example, the wood is said to be straight, liver function is the characteristics of wood, wood can not be separated from the water, the more water the more moisturizing, the liver, the same ah, so that the liver blood, such as liver blood less, it is not cirrhosis of the liver.
  

• Fire is said to be on fire, which anyone knows is on fire, the fire is upward, and it is also particularly hot. For example, the heart fire comes up, tongue ulcers, upset and insomnia.
  
• Jin said from the leather, leather is a revolution, you see the fall, Jin Qi downward, most of the leaves fell, is not a revolution, the lungs is this function, the lung Qi XuanDaSuLiu ah. If the lungs are not purged, you will cough.
  
• Water is said to moist down, its nature is cold, the water is not downward ah, ah, said all the old cold legs, it is afraid of cold, the kidney is the main water, the main cold, the main bones of the bone to produce bone marrow, it is not all linked together.
  
• The soil is said to be crop stingy, planting crops are not all planted in the soil ah, we are not every day to eat, to feed ourselves ah, the spleen and stomach on the main earth, you see we do not care what are thrown into the stomach.
  

Well without further ado, welcome to the discussion ah.

The answer is yes, fire is a very common thing that basically occurs to all of us, so there are so many symptoms of fire such asMouth ulcers, tongue blisters, nosebleeds, constipationetc., all of these symptoms are explainable from the point of view of modern medicine.

For example, tongue blisters are caused byHerpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV)Caused by a germ that multiplies and replicates when a person's immunity is lowered, the final appearance is a blistered tongue as well as mouth ulcers.

Secondly, we also have the thinking that there are certain foods that if consumed on a regular basis can cause fire over time, for example, fried foods, and this is because once a food is fried it tends to become very crunchy and hard.

This leads to people in the consumption, more likely to scratch the mucous membrane of the human mouth, and then cause some damage to the oral cavity cells, so under the invasion of bacteria, redness, swelling, pain and inflammation and other symptoms appeared, and these symptoms in the view of our ordinary people, it is the mouth on fire.

Finally say constipation, some people will be constipated when the fire, this is because some of the so-called fire food, basically are high protein, more fattening food, these foods have very little fiber, or even some do not have fiber at all.

So then when the body's intake of fiber is insufficient, constipation occurs naturally, so you want to avoid the occurrence of constipation, consume more fiber-rich foods, as well as increase physical activity is the key, because they can increase intestinal peristalsis, so Chinese medicine mentioned the fire, there is a scientific basis and scientific basis .......

Modern medicine also recognizes that the human constitution is divided into hot body and cold body. Does Chinese medicine say that fire is not right?

This "on fire" is abstract, the human gender is divided into men and women, nature is divided into day and night, the position of the upper and lower and left and right, so Chinese medicine with yin and yang to open the generalization and take the analogies. The fire naturally refers to the body's Yang side of the Yang, of course, there may be a Yin deficiency caused by the fire of the virtual fire. This fire mainly emphasizes the body's self-perception, such as acne, such as mouth ulcers, such as mood irritability may also be on fire, there is no way to use scientific instruments to measure. It is abstract.

Fire in Chinese medicine has nothing to do with fire in the physical world, it is a surrogate.

It's akin to fire and fury, and has nothing to do with fire in the physical world.

So is it reasonable for Chinese medicine to generalize a lot of things as being on fire? There is some truth to it, but of course it's less than perfect.

It's like we in the 21st century see all cancers as a class of disease with similar treatments. If someone from the 22nd century traveled back in time they'd probably laugh their asses off.

People in the 22nd century may laugh at the backwardness of our modern medicine in the 21st century, which allows human beings who can live an average of 200 years to live only an average of 80 years. We would also laugh at the backwardness of traditional Chinese medicine or traditional other kinds of traditional medicine of a thousand years ago, which made humans who could live an average of 80 years only live an average of 40 years. Traditional Chinese medicine would have laughed at the medical backwardness of some backward peoples, which gave rise to words like Mongolian dafu.

That's the chain of contempt.

Western medicine is quite shallow and ignorant, and these losers don't get on fire when they learn Western medicine. They get angry and on fire, and they get blisters on their mouths. Just get antibiotics. Other than that they won't be anything else.