Theoretical Research On Traditional Chinese Medicine Hydrotherapy Based On Metaphor Cognition

"Shang han lun " section 75 "after sweating,drinking water will cause asthma as well as pouring" and section 141 "sick in the exterior,the solution should be to sweat,instead of sprinking cold water,if irrigation etc.",In these two sections,the general treatment of the soup was not used for the treatment of the disease.Instead,drinking water,irrigation,and springking,which are not currently known.If the water here is what without any drugs added,then the theoretical basis behind this is that "water is a therapeutic substance." For such a theory that surpasses modern clinical cognition,it may be speculated that such hydropathy therapy at the same time with the decoction and acupuncture therapy as a parallel mainstream treatment.Unfortunately,the record of this ancient therapy has not been completely preserved.Hydrotherapy is now defined as a treatment that uses liquid water to treat disease without adding any drugs.A summary analysis of the content of hydrotherapy in the book"Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" found that the utility of hydrotherapy can be summed up as cordinating stomach qi,sweating,and stoping diarrhea,and its operation methods include drinking,sprinking,irrigating,and soaking.There are descriptions of contraindications to the three methods.What is the specific content of a lost therapy?How did ancient ancestors create it?What is the reason why it was buried in the long history of Chinese medicine?These series of problems has led us to "seek the glimpse of miracles" in history.After sorting out the existing ancient medical works,the scope of hydrotherapy treatment includes internal medicine,surgery,gynecology,pediatrics,obstetrics,ophthalmology,otorhinolaryngology,and the methods of operation include drinking,irrigating,sprinking,pouring,showering,washing,shampooing and zhuo.The pouring has two meanings,the first refers to a portion of the water filling the outer body,the second meaning of the water filling inlet.Alough the pouring and irrigating have no essential difference,but in content of Chinese medicine hydrotherapy,irrigating method only will pour in some parts of the body outside the meaning,there is no meaning to pour in the mouth,and in the treatment of disease and irrigation method is basically the same.Showering method in most ancient medical literature,there is no significant difference between the pouring method and the irrigating method.They all belong to the hydrotherapy method with high stimulating intensity.The method of showering drops is used in the treatment of ophthalmic hemorrhage.Showering water to treat cramp,according to the literal meaning and related cases,suggesting that showering method here is actually the soaking,so called showeirng and soaking.The content of showering divided three parts:shower-pouring,drop-showering and shower-soaking.Soaking method has two meaning,one is the the body-soaking,the other is water-soaking.Water-soaking method can be further divided according to the whole and part of the function body.The body-soaking method is also known as the bathing method.In some cases,the hand-foot area is more.In addition to direct immersion body,but also has to the object water immersed and then applied to the body,known as water stains method,although the water stains method used medium to a multi-towel,in the "Zhou hou bei ji fang",with cold water Cold stone and the treatment of Wushi powder appear to be embarrassed.The original meaning of zhuo is washing,but rinsing is an open talk,so the form can be varied.But from the current literature on the tactics,the main parts of operation are hand and foot,which is similar to body-soaking.The two kinds of therapies points respectively reasons discussed is to avoid this result is due to literature deletion leads.Sprinking is water or liquid from mouth,so this method can be defined as the spraying water out of the mouth for therapeutic purposes,either from his population or from other population.Springking water by self mostly is a form of witchcraft.Drinking water is a physiological requirement for humans.In general,drinking water is not considered to have therapeutic effects.This phenomenon is listed in order to provide people with a new perspective to understand the relevant therapeutic effects of drinking water;Shampooing and washing method should be the treatment of ancient hydrotherapy,but in the existing literature,many of them are in the form of "precautions".From the existing medical literature,we can find that the interpretation of the traditional theories of hydrotherapy treatment diseases is added by the later generations of doctors themselves,and it is difficult to explain whether ancient hydrotherapy has the signs of combining with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine before disappearing.Based on literature review and found that irrigating,showering and sprinking in treatment of consciousness disorders select different sites,suggesting that it may be under the different theoretical guidance "Heart control mind" and "Brain control mind".Then speculation that hydrotherapy has been combined with traditional Chinese medicine theory.TCM theory is a theory based on metaphor cognition.If you want to clarify the principle of ancient hydrotherapy treatment of diseases,you need to find out its original source domain and its construction relationship with the target domain.From aspects of water nourish,water inclined to downward water and gas promotion,water extinguishing,water-based main static,water cold and heat to analyze and reconstruct the related hydrotherapy out of the literature,and find that most of the hydrotherapy is produced by the ancients,which including understanding of water in nature or life maps to the result of water for human treatment.Chinese medicine has now formed a pattern in which acupuncture and medicine are the main treatment methods.Among them,the development path of needles and moxibustion is similar to that of ancient hydrotherapy.Water,needles,and fire(moxibustion is one of the forms of the fire method)are compared in the development of the law.It is found that the ancients have far less control of water than needles and fire.This is probably an objective technical reason that restricts its continued development.The lack of technology can be compensated by time,or water needles can be considered as a development of hydrotherapy,but in the ancient water law we did not see similar creation.Therefore,the deep-seated reasons for the loss of hydrotherapy should be attributed to the cognition of ancient people’s cognition of water.This study takes the ancients’ understanding of water as the entry point,and introduces the concept of“original source domain" to discover the ancient people’s water worship.This gives more spiritual and cultural content to the water.In such a metaphorical relationship,there is a change or confusion in the nature of the concept between material water and abstract water(the water is not only material).If the development of hydrotherapy is based on the substance category,the abstract properties of water change in people’s perception is the root causes.of hydrotherapy disappearance.