What kind of physician is the best? They said that the high-class, most intelligent physicians, treated disease not yet contracted, because there were high, middle, and lower-class physicians. Middle-class physicians treated disease which were soon to be contracted, and lower-class physicians treated already- contracted disease.
I remember in the first chapter of a famous TCM text, “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of internal medicine in the “Plain Questions” chapter, the Yellow Emperor said to an ancient medical master, Qi Bo, Ancient one, you have lived to 100, and your movements are still nimble, and body still healthy. Why is it that many of our young people are not healthy? What was Qi Bo’s answer back then?
Qi Bo responded, and the first thing he said was “Take your norms from the Yin and Yang.” First, you had to adhere to the Yin and Yang. “Take your norms from the Yin and Yang.” Being in harmony with nature’s arcane. What being in harmony with nature’s arcane meant was to live a healthy life based on the changes of Yin and Yang, which harmonized Yin and Yang with nature’s arcane. And then after that, he said, “Food and drink should be consumed in moderation, daily life should have regularity and labor should have purpose”. That one shouldn’t carelessly expense their own energy. So, he said if a person can live by these values, “Taking norms from the Yin and Yang, harmonizing with nature’s arcane, consuming food and drink in moderation, having a regular daily life, and putting labor to a purpose, then one can live to 100”. One can live 100 years. However, he said that people today don’t consume in moderation, and carelessly expend their energy, so they don’t even make it to 50 years old.