要先掌握本质，中医不只是「经验医学」

要先掌握本质，中医不只是「经验医学」

今天辅导我家小五的小儿子做数学题目时，出现了以下的题目:

袋中放有同样大小的白球29个，黑球21个．魔术师每次从袋中随意摸出两个球放外面，如果摸出的两个球同色，就另外再拿一个黑球放入袋中，如果摸出的两个球异色，就把其中那个白球放回袋中，这样操作了48次，袋中还剩下几个球？各是什么颜色的？

第一次看到时，脑袋浮现的「是什么鬼啊?这不是国中才会学到的机率吗?怎么用来考小五的孩子呢?真是残害民族幼苗并为难我们家长啊!」

无奈之下，只好上网百度一下答案，看完恍然大悟，人家考的不是把把的机率啊，而是到底有没有掌握变化的本质。

每次拿出两颗，都会塞回一颗，当两球异色时，白球会被塞回去，导致白球数会不变。当两球同色 白球一定会被拿出来，所以白球会以偶数的形式递减。48次会被拿走48颗球，共有50颗球，最后会剩下2颗，而白球原本为奇数，被偶数形式递减，最后只能剩下1颗，所以 一定是1颗黑球和1颗白球。

看，很简单吧。人家原来考的是目前的本质和变化的本质。

其实看病的时候不也是如此?疾病千百万种，遇到的时候，也是得掌握当下的本质到底是什么?

中医不只是经验医学

前几天看有中医师在自己的书上写，中医是「经验医学」，乍听之下，没毛病，除了明师指点外，经验在中医领域的确重要。但人家「经验医学」是个有专门意义名词，是指「只有经验没有理论」，中医岂是没有理论体系?

中医大学花了五年到七年光阴朝夕培养的，不正是这些中医理论，让初学者能透过这些理论快速掌握中医临床遭遇到问题的本质?

古代的医家，以阴阳为总纲，再加上表里、寒热、虚实，成为了八纲，构成了后世所认知的八纲辨证体系，用来掌握疾病变化过程中的八个本质的问题，掌握了本质，便可以轻易的以简驭繁。针对目前本质上的问题来解决。

中医迷人之处，便是在于能够找到本质后，便能像庖丁解牛般，逐次解开各种纠缠，治病如此，养生也如此。

We must first grasp the essence, Chinese medicine is not just “empirical medicine”. When tutoring my youngest son in the fifth grade of mathematics, the following questions appeared:

There are 29 white balls and 21 black balls of the same size in the bag. Every time the magician takes out two balls from the bag and puts them out, if the two balls are of the same color, he puts another black ball into the bag. If the two balls are of different colors, put the other one. Put the white ball back into the bag. After doing this 48 times, how many balls are left in the bag? What color are they?

When I saw it for the first time, “What the hell is it? Isn’t this a chance question to be learned only in junior high schools? How can it be used for children in the fifth grade? It really hurts my kid and embarrass us!”. In desperation, I had to go online to check the answer on Baidu. After reading it, I suddenly realized that what people tested was not the probability of the test, but whether they grasped the nature of the change. Each time two balls are taken out, one will be stuffed back. When the two balls are of different colors, the white balls will be stuffed back, causing the number of white balls to remain unchanged.

When two balls are of the same color, the white ball will definitely be taken out, so the white ball will decrease in an even number. 48 balls will be taken away in 48 times, a total of 50 balls, there will be 2 in the end, and the white balls were originally odd numbers, but the even numbers are reduced, and only 1 ball is left, so it must be 1 black ball and 1 White balls.

Look, it’s simple. People originally considered the current nature and the changed nature. In fact, this is not the case when seeing a doctor? There are millions of diseases, and when you encounter them, you have to grasp the essence of the current situation.

Chinese medicine is not just empirical medicine

A few days ago, I saw a Chinese medicine doctor wrote in his book that Chinese medicine is “empirical medicine.” At first glance, there is nothing wrong with it. Except for the guidance of the master, experience is indeed important in the field of Chinese medicine.

But “empirical medicine” is a term with special meaning. It means “experience but no theory.” Does Chinese medicine have no theoretical system? It took five to seven years for the University of Chinese Medicine to cultivate. Isn’t it just these theories of Chinese medicine that allow beginners to quickly grasp the essence of the problems encountered in clinical Chinese medicine through these theories?

Ancient chinese physicians used yin and yang as the general outline, together with the exterior and interior, cold and heat, as well as the deficiency and actuality, to form the Eight Principal , which constituted the Eight Principal syndrome differentiation system recognized by later generations, used to grasp the eight essential problems in the process of disease change. In essence, you can easily control the complex with simplicity. To solve the current essential problems.

The fascinating thing about Chinese medicine is that after being able to find the essence, it can solve various entanglements one by one like Pao Ding solves a cow. This is the case for curing diseases and health preservation.