Asking the Ancestors About Medicine

All things in heaven and earth are driven by Qi. Qi follows the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the five elements generate and restrain, and the Meridian flow flows back and forth. The human body is a miniature universe. The meridians, internal organs, Qi and blood flourish and wither, and they always resonate with the stars and solar terms. When modern technology suddenly arrived, humans used microscopes and genetic sequencing to try to disassemble the human body into cells and molecules. But the instrument can see the entity of the lesion, but it cannot capture the invisible Qi - it is not a tangible substance, but the order of the laws of heaven and earth projected onto the body. It's like staring at the ink strokes on the canvas, and you can never understand the joy and sorrow behind the painting. The device can only sound the alarm after organic damage has occurred to the organs. Ancient Chinese medicine can detect imbalances when the Qi movement is first disrupted: for example, if you are unable to sleep when you are ugly, you will know that the liver meridian is disturbed. But as civilization rushes forward, it also creates blind spots in the order of heaven and earth. Drugs that kill germs break the interaction of Qi between the human body and the flora of heaven and earth; the artificially stimulated immune response traps the Wei Qi that should be traveling along the meridians on the surface of the muscles, laying the hidden danger of internal weakness and depletion. A medical system based on material reductionism sees flesh and blood, but loses the complete "person". When separated cognition prevails, how can the sleeping way of unity between heaven, earth and man be awakened? Until a desperate young man opened the dusty ancient book in his ancestors' cellar—— Only then did I realize that technology can see cells but not "Qi"; The instrument can detect indicators, but it cannot detect the laws of yin and yang changes in the human body.