2022Year June

Father's Day Gifts

2022June 17 -

Father's Day Gifts

Today, my son gave me a Father's Day present.
"Thank you" to my son

Our family, the Ikeda family, has been passed through three generations, including my parents, my husband and wife, my son, and my daughter, and for some reason, it is "bad".
But now both parents and children have remarried and are building a happy family.

I thought about what a married couple is.
Dr. Toshio Maruyama "Shiori of Universal Happiness" Article 5 The couple remembered a pair of reflectors (husband and wife versus mirrors).

"If the husband is kind to his affection, the wife respects and trusts him, and he only depends on him that there is no other man in the world than him.
At this time, the husband also expresses affection for the fact that there is no better woman outside than his wife.
And a cheerful and cheerful family is always created.
On the other hand, if the husband is too aggressive and pretends to be feudal ideology, the wife becomes small, withdrawn, and stubborn like a turtle.
When a wife pulls it off with pride, the husband becomes as good and gentle as a cat, and is ridiculed wherever he goes.
A pair of mirrors illuminating each other, a wonderfully well-aligned couple, are everywhere and here.
It is upside down for a couple to want to fix each other. Just look at yourself. Correct yourself. At that time, the other party will always change naturally. A husband and wife are a pair of mirrors that always face each other."

Why do we get sick???

2022June 11 -

なぜ病気になるのか????

そもそもなぜ人間は病気になってしまうのかを考えてゆきます。
当たり前のことですが病気になるのは何らかの原因があります。
漢方(中医学)では病気をもたらす病因を内因(ないいん)、外因(がいいん)によるものと考えられています。

内因(ないいん)とは
 病因における内因もまた大きく2つに分かれます。
ひとつは内傷七情(ないしょうしちじょう)であり、もうひとつは先天不足(せんてんぶそく)です。
 内傷七情とは怒(ど)・喜(き)・思(し)・憂(ゆう)・悲(ひ)・恐(きょう)・驚(きょう)といった大きな感情の変化とそれによる精神的ストレスを指します。
これらは五臓、特に心(しん)、肝(かん)、脾(ひ)に負担をかけて病気を誘発してしまいます。

「怒」と「肝」の関係
「怒」は「肝(かん)」(肝臓)と関連が深いとされています。
普段の生活のなかで感じる「怒り」は、適度であればやる気を沸き上がらせるなどプラスに働くことがあります。ところが、「怒り」の度が過ぎると気を上らせ、肝を傷めてしまいます。

喜」と「心」の関係
「喜」は「心(しん)」(心臓)と関連が深いとされています。
喜ぶという感情は、適度であれば気分が良くなり、気血の巡りも良くします。
マイナスに働くことがないように思えますが、過度な喜びは気を緩ませ、集中力の欠如、
思考力の低下につながってしまうので、感情のコントロールが必要です。

「思」・「憂」と「脾」の関係
「思」、「憂」は「脾(ひ)」(胃腸)と関連が深いとされています。
勉強でも仕事でもものごとをよく考えることは重要ですが、考え過ぎたり、
同じことを何度も考えて堂々巡りになってしまうと気が結んだ状態になってしまいます。
 例えば、考え過ぎるとため息がでるのは、結ばれていた気が破られて、
一瞬気の流れが良くなって楽になるため。胃腸障害があらわれます。

「悲」と「肺」の関係
「悲」は「肺」と関連が深いとされています。
悲しいときには泣いて涙を流した方が良いと言われています。
しかし、思い出すたびに泣いてしまうなど、悲しみが続いてしまうと、気を抑えて消してしまい、
免疫機能を損傷します。特に免疫機能と関連の深い「肺」が傷つけられてしまうのです。

「恐」・「驚」と「腎」の関係
「恐」は「腎」と関連が深いとされています。
度を超える恐怖が長時間続くと、腎の気が持つ固摂作用(液体が漏れ出ないようにする働き)を失調させ、
気が下がってしまいます。
また、急な驚きは気を乱し、心・腎の働きも乱れてしまいます。恐怖や驚きによって、
尿もれ・流産をしてしまうのは、気が下がり外に漏れ出てしまったためと考えられるのです。

Heart and Chinese Medicine Insomnia

2022年6月7日

Western medicine prescribes sleeping pills to improve the condition called "insomnia".
However, depending on the person, sleeping pills may cause "transient anterograde amnesia" in which the actions taken by the person in the middle of the night are not remembered.
In addition, although you can sleep at night, there may be inconveniences such as feeling poo during the day.

On the other hand, in Oriental medicine, we try to obtain information from patients about what causes the symptoms of "not being able to sleep".
We try to grasp the mental and physical state of the person from all the information that is available.
"Why can't you sleep?" he asked, the way he spoke, the tension of his voice, his complexion, his body odor, his pulse, etc.
We will make a diagnosis by synthesizing all kinds of information.
People who work under a lot of pressure during the day can't sleep until the night because the tension doesn't go away.
In addition, there are people who accumulate fatigue and become nocturia due to the weakening of the power of the "kidneys" that control the life force, and wake up many times.
The constitution of each person is also strongly related to the cause of symptoms.
Therefore, in Kampo, it is prescribed to compensate for the unbalanced part.
In addition, what is important in Kampo is the idea of "curing" in which the person himself changes his or her own life.

If you are nervous due to daytime tension and cannot sleep, if you take a half-body bath about 30 minutes before and warm up to the core of your body, your body temperature will drop just before you go to sleep, and you will be able to fall asleep.
By further contracting blood vessels that have been contracted due to mental tension to the maximum with cold water, it resets the autonomic nervous system and creates a state of relaxation.
In this way, remote control by approaching from the whole body together without touching the autonomic nerve itself is also a method that Kampo is good at.
 
Although Kampo is good at improving insomnia, I sometimes think that there are insomnia that do not need to be cured.
There is an old saying in China, "If you become cathodic, you will turn to yang through apolarity, and if you become anode, you will turn into yin through apolarity."
When you can't sleep, there's a reason you can't sleep, and when you reach the pole of your sleeplessness, there comes a time when you can sleep like a lie.
It is one of the regulatory effects of the body.
One way to do this is to let your body adjust to the adjustment that your body has, rather than dwell on the fact that you couldn't sleep last night.

In order for the regulation of the body body to work, it is very important to live a life that does not go against the rhythm of nature.
It is to blend your body well into the rhythm of day and night, the rhythm of the seasons.
The sunrise time is getting earlier for summer, so just getting up a little earlier than usual will give your body strength.