Modern Taoist · Medical Prophet 【Dao Yi】 · On Dao and Asthma
Why is it that nowadays, the whole world is tormented by disease? On top of ancient rarities like cancer, heart attacks, and strokes now being everywhere, why are modern people also chained to "three highs" or even "four highs", every sort of chronic ailment, stubborn big and small disorders, sickness clinging like vines? In ancient times, wheezing was a minor complaint. Abandon doctors, take no drugs, and it would heal. Yet in our day, asthma has become so hard to cure that it has even "upgraded" into an 【incurable disease】?
【The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon】 sounded the alarm long ago.
【The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon】 says: When morality declines slightly, pathogenic qi arrives at its appointed time... In the present age, one must rely on a full array of poisonous drugs to attack the interior...
This venerable book, completed 2,200 years ago—the granddaddy classic of Taoist medicine (the root of Chinese medicine)—and the other classic, of course, being the 【Dao De Jing】—speaks in the simplest language, almost plain vernacular, to warn the world:
Because humankind rebels against Heaven and abandons the Dao, turning its back on the Way and losing Virtue, the spirit withers, lifestyles become unbridled, and people become dependent on medicines. Yet every kind of medicine is 【poison】, a 【toxic drug】, a complicated arsenal of 【drug toxins】, attacking the body again and again, damaging the person's 【central qi】. Original vitality is gravely wounded, righteous qi is insufficient, and so pathogenic qi (cold qi, toxic qi, chemical drug toxins) invades, and thus disease clings like vines...
A prophecy so precise it leaves one gasping in awe!
That is why 【The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon】, the greatest medical book in human history and the unequalled canon of Chinese medicine, barely prescribes any drugs at all. Its mere dozen or so formulas are all foodstuffs—medicine and food share the same source—【healing without drugs】!
The Yellow Emperor said: ...There are 【True Persons】 who 【uphold】 Heaven and Earth, grasp 【yin and yang】, breathe 【essential qi】, stand alone and 【guard the spirit】, muscles 【as one】. Therefore their life spans rival 【Heaven and Earth】, 【without end】—this is 【life born of the Dao】.
Dao gives birth to 【Oneness】. 【Dao Yi】, the True Person.
Bible, Psalm 51:10-13 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall return to You.