Embracing the Paradox of Health and Disease

Everyone wants a disease-free life. If we reverse this sentence, it indicates that everyone will get sick or hurt. Sickness is expected to occur throughout life. Why are humans sick? Is it impossible to have a healthy life? Illness raises these questions. People seek healthy meals and treatments, exercise, and doctors who claim to heal to address these issues. Without understanding sickness, these earnest attempts often fail.

People usually think of disease negatively. It is avoided at all costs and must be thoroughly cured if contracted. In morphological medicine, disease isn't always bad. Its reputation is mixed. Illness is both good and bad. Illness results from human faults and incompleteness, but it also motivates people to improve. Physiognomy medicine considers "existence itself a disease." 

Humans cannot be flawless. Because people are narrow-minded Five Elements. Humanity is flawed. Simple example. Hands exist. We eat, drink, and exercise with our hands. However, hands are always inconvenient and can cause severe pain if they get sick or injured. Removing hands would make them a fault and cause distress. Everyone has defects, including humans. 

Anything new does not cause illness. Instead, it starts inside humans and manifests as the body weakens. Humans with huge, weak lips have weak spleens. This flaws. Weak kidneys cause narrow ears. Another fault. Pale skin implies inadequate lung function, another defect. Excess weight puts one susceptible to dampness-related illnesses, making it a defect. Overwork makes it easy to get sick. Wrinkles around the eyes suggest weak heart, whereas nose bridge wrinkles indicate weak liver. Also faults.

Other faults exist. Freckles might suggest faults. Flaws can also include resemblance to men or women. Laziness and overwork are both bad. Both huge and little buttocks are flaws. Pale, black, blue, or yellow skin are flaws. Aging can be a defect. In clinical practice, a 70-year-old who claims back discomfort without doing anything is common. How could a 70-year-old patient have done nothing? After 70 years, a house's infrastructure will deteriorate, requiring frequent repairs. As humans age, the Five Zang and Six Fu naturally weaken and lose vigor and essence, causing lower back pain.

Strengths can become defects too. In physiognomy medicine, broad cheekbones indicate thick bone structure. These people can handle tough tasks because to their strong skeletons. They labor hard and rarely tire. These traits cause them to overwork. They overexert. People with prominent cheekbones work themselves to exhaustion, causing bone problems. Fitness becomes a weakness. We've talked about people's internal defects. The environment also causes defects. Wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, and fire are faults. Failure to resist these extrinsic factors causes illness. Everyone has flaws, and nobody can live without them. Flaws do not usually cause sickness. Flaws aren't bad. If one attempts to overcome defects, they might become motivators for growth and wellness. It's said, "A weak person lives to eighty." Because they compensate for their defects, physically inferior people live longer. Many who overestimate their health die prematurely. Due to an unshakeable trust in their health, they lead unhealthy lifestyles. Whether faults cause pain

Growth and health depend solely on human actions. We need to rethink our lifestyles.