How does traditional Chinese medicine regulate sub-health?

The core logic of TCM in regulating sub-health is not at all "taking supplements" as everyone thinks, but first finding the "deviation point" where your body deviates from the normal balance, and then focusing on lifestyle correction, supplemented by syndrome differentiation intervention. Most people can restore the state without complex physical therapy or precious medicinal materials.

When I was doing Chinese medicine health education at a community health station, I would meet young people in their twenties and thirties every week. They were sitting in the office typing on the computer for eight or nine hours, and checking their mobile phones until midnight after get off work. The physical examination reports were all normal. However, their shoulders and necks were stiff all day long, or they had diarrhea after eating something cold, and they were out of breath even after climbing the third floor. In other words, they were "too tired to say that they were uncomfortable." Many people think that they are just tired and can rest for two days without special conditioning. Some people just go to the other extreme and follow the trend of buying red ginseng slices and donkey hide gelatin cakes after seeing the recommendations of health bloggers. After eating them for half a month, they develop acne, swollen and painful gums, and feel that they are "removing moisture".

A 25-year-old girl who works as an e-commerce operator came to me before. She stayed up late for more than half a year until 2 or 3 o'clock to do activities. She lost three times more hair than before. Her mouth felt bitter when she woke up in the morning, and even milk tea tasted tasteless. She had bought more than 3,000 supplements and stored them at home. I looked through all the supplements and refused to let her eat them. She was asked to move her bedtime forward one hour, turn off her cell phone before 11 o'clock even if she couldn't sleep, and lie down. Put a 1.5L kettle on her desk, brew 3g of chrysanthemum and 2 slices of tangerine peel every day, don't touch ice drinks, and walk briskly around the community for 20 minutes twice a week in the evening. She gritted her teeth and persisted for a month. Last week, she came for a free pulse check.

When it comes to this, we have to mention the ongoing controversy: there is actually no clear diagnosis of "sub-health" in the Western medicine system. Many Western medicine colleagues believe that these discomforts are essentially the result of the accumulation of bad lifestyles. They can be improved by adjusting work and rest and regular exercise, and there is no need to use additional interventions such as moxibustion and traditional Chinese medicine.； There are also many practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine who believe that external treatment methods such as cupping and moxibustion can relieve discomfort faster if the syndrome differentiation is accurate. Both opinions are actually reasonable. To put it bluntly, our body is like a mobile phone that has been used for two or three years. The motherboard is not broken and needs to be repaired. However, if there are too many apps opened in the background, the power will be consumed quickly and it will get hot easily. At this time, you don’t need to replace parts. Turn off the useless background and charge it for a while to recover. This is the state of sub-health.

I often tell people who come for consultations, don’t think about regulating health too complicated, and don’t think that TCM conditioning is expensive. It is nothing more than getting you back on track little by little from the late nights, the blood stasis caused by sitting for a long time, and the cold eating. If you pay more attention to your body, the feedback it gives you will be more effective than any supplement.