The protagonist, Lu Beichen, explains System Medicine, which is centered on "circulatory homeostasis." He believes that the essence of health is not the absence of illness, but the ability of blood throughout the body to nourish every cell smoothly and remove metabolic waste in time: "When circulation flows freely, disease cannot take hold." The root of illness lies in the loss of circulatory homeostasis, progressing from functional disorders (stage one) to a deteriorating microenvironment (stage two), and finally to structural lesions (stage three). This process is the law of increasing entropy in the universe manifested within the human body.
Circulatory Medicine deeply integrates ancient wisdom with modern science:
- Physical foundations: the law of increasing entropy, electromagnetic field resonance, and negative entropy flow.
- Medical models: five states of balance (autonomic nervous system, blood pressure, coagulation, inflammation, and oxidative balance); four major regulatory hubs (the abdominal vascular axis, the heart-mind-circulation axis, the six-channel-circulation axis, and the essence-heart-mind axis).
- Core tool: electromagnetic wave therapy, which uses ordered electromagnetic fields to guide disordered bioelectricity back into order. It is noninvasive, precise, and quantifiable, achieving "acupuncture without needles and moxibustion without fire."
- Integrated strategy: medication as strategic cover, surgery as the final repair, with rehabilitation, nutrition, and psychology working in tandem through tiered interventions (foundational, targeted, and supportive).
Circulatory Medicine does not reject modern medicine. Instead, it fills in the missing piece of a "system-wide perspective." It teaches us to heed the body's cries for help as soon as the first stage of imbalance appears, and to reverse sub-health and prevent chronic illness through simple measures such as abdominal heat therapy, brisk walking, going to bed early, and not worrying. The ultimate goal is to make one's circulatory age younger than one's chronological age and keep the river of life flowing, so that "when vital energy is strong within, no evil can intrude."
Theme: Circulatory Medicine reveals that the common root of chronic disease and aging is the loss of circulatory homeostasis. It advocates a shift from "fighting disease" to "protecting the river of life," returning medicine to a system-wide perspective and human warmth. It has three dimensions: 1. A systems perspective: disease is not an isolated mechanical failure, but stagnation and entropy increase throughout the body's circulatory network. The fundamental treatment is not patching things up, but clearing the waterways and restoring order. 2. A preventive perspective: even at the first stage of imbalance, the body has already sent signals such as fatigue, feeling cold, and insomnia. Only by understanding these cries for help can we stop the slide toward structural lesions before illness takes hold. 3. A humanistic perspective: medicine is not only a technique, but also companionship. Electromagnetic waves are physical negative entropy, but the true agents of entropy reduction are the people willing to listen to their bodies and take responsibility for their own health. Ultimately, the goal is for everyone to learn to communicate with their body, keep circulatory age below chronological age, and let the river of life flow without end.
