I can heal myself. 12. Preventive treatment of disease

In “Hwangjenaejing,” the best scripture of Oriental medicine written over 2,200 years ago, the word “weibing (未病)” appears. Mibyeong is a disease whose cause and reason cannot be known, so it is called ~~ Syndrome or ~~ Symptom. It is mainly caused by fatigue, headache, dizziness, tinnitus, and pain in the back and neck area. Pain, cold hands and feet, numbness in hands and feet, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, irregular heartbeat, rapid pulse, difficulty breathing, residual cough, sensation of a foreign body in the throat, insomnia, allergies, erectile dysfunction, menstrual irregularities, etc. am. Alternatively, it may include critical hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, obesity, fatty liver, etc., which do not have severe subjective symptoms. In some cases, this is also called a semi-health state or chronic fatigue syndrome. When these symptoms overlap with other factors, it turns into a chronic disease.

The main other factors here are judged to be poor diet, lack of exercise, and stress.

The main causes of poor eating habits are skipping breakfast, excessive consumption of white foods (white rice, white flour, white sugar), fried foods, preservatives, and trans or saturated fatty acids containing chemical additives. Lack of exercise significantly reduces the expression of genes for insulin secretion, and in middle-aged people, metabolic ability deteriorates due to rapid muscle loss. Lastly, chronic stress causes various hormonal and metabolic problems, which can either cause the disease or become a decisive factor.

Problems arise in maintaining the vital energy that strengthens the natural healing power mentioned earlier, and the state of minor illness is converted into a state of disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that approximately 80% of the world’s population is suffering from a minor disease.

I definitely have uncomfortable symptoms, but hospital test results are only diagnosed as normal or symptoms of unknown cause, so it is easy to overlook them, so I need to be careful.

The Emperor’s Internal Classics states, “A skilled doctor does not miss this stage of treatment and does not wait until the patient gets sick.” Oriental medicine uses various dialectics from different angles to explain in great detail the causes and mechanisms of numerous micro-diseases, sometimes comparing them to natural phenomena and even suggesting cures, which I would like to share one by one.
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Dr. Jin-man Kim, director of Peace Oriental Clinic