dandelion 蒲公英

dandelion /ˈdændɪlaɪən/ DJ /'dændɪˈlaɪən/ KK

• a small wild plant with a bright yellow flower that becomes a soft white ball of seeds called a dandelion clock 蒲公英 noun

Pre-nup 婚前財產協議

A prenuptial agreement, antenuptial agreement, or premarital agreement, commonly abbreviated toprenup or prenupt, is a contract entered into prior to marriage,..

少用的词汇

If you stand arms akimbo or with arms akimbo, you stand with your hands on your hips and your elbows pointing outwards.雙手叉腰

If someone pouts, they stick out their lips, usually in order to show that they are annoyed or to make themselves sexually attractive.噘起(嘴唇等), 噘著嘴說

余纯顺

Oh my god! 原来那是已经那么久远的事儿了。。。

我都还没加入BDP呢。。。

我看来不会对任何事情太痴迷，否则我早就成名了，成不成就那是另回事儿，

常常觉得自己太理智了，如果目标模糊，就会很容易打退堂鼓，

不会坚持太久，脑子里太多噪音，反省太早太快，也很爱计较付出与成果的对比，

所以绝对做不了先锋。。

跑跑马拉松还可以，因为有前车可鉴，心里比较踏实些，

对这位英雄，我还是敬佩的，更何况他是来自上海的城市人。。。

但是他不是被痴迷所害的，我认为是死于无知。

有那么多人后援，那是多么幸运的探险计划，他却选择了冒险。

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From: Barbara Shen [mailto:barbara_shen6618@yahoo.com.cn]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:24 PM
To: rosemonk@gmail.com
Subject: 回复： Adventurer from Shanghai

余纯顺的事当时很轰动。 只有痴迷于某件事时才会不顾一切。 你达到痴迷状态了吗？ --- 09年12月29日，周二, Shall we dance? 写道： 发件人: Shall we dance? 主题: Adventurer from Shanghai 收件人: "BarbaraShen" 日期: 2009年12月29日,周二,上午2:03 正在观看你们上海余纯顺徒步中国的经历，好羡慕，他不顾摄制队的劝阻，支身独闯罗布泊湖心，壮烈牺牲了，好感人，令我回想起以前有时必需在浪漫与理性之间作抉择。。，你有过如此经验吗？

Obama and Afghanistan: Deciding vs. Deliberating

11:16 AM Monday November 30, 2009
Tags:Barack Obama, Decision making
"The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience." – Leo Tolstoy
"I'm the decider," former President George Bush famously uttered in April of 2006. "I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." Bush's use of the term "decider" captures the essence of his Administration's approach to governing: making "right decisions" as opposed to making decisions the right way. And, as has been ably chronicled by Bob Woodward and numerous others, Bush's "right decisions" were often Texas-cowboy-shoot-from-the-hip-and-ask-questions-later-gut-feelings-of-rightness decisions.
How refreshing it has been, then, to see President Obama engage in a deeply deliberative process over whether to commit more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan. Though accused of "dithering" over war strategy by former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Obama's expected decision to commit 30,000 more troops to the war will actually bring him more into line with conservatives than the rank-and-file of his own party. But the thoroughness and transparency of Obama's process will lay the foundation for support in Congress, support that will be essential given the increasing unpopularity of the war.
President Obama's approach exemplifies key "design principles" that research has revealed to be fundamental to effective executive decision-making: Gather the right minds around the table. Decision-making is a process of converting inputs (knowledge, insight, potential support) into outputs (commitments and plans of action). As with all processes, the old maxim that "garbage in equals garbage out" very much applies to decision-making. You can't hope to get the right outcomes if you don't start with the right inputs. That's why gathering the right minds around the table is key. These minds must have the requisite range of expertise (knowledge of Afghan regional politics, counter-insurgency strategy, etc), range of opinion (both for and against committing more troops), as well as a range of cognitive orientation — creative minds and practical minds, analytical and values-driven, structured and flexible. As you decide whom to have at your decision-making table, then, keep in mind Machiavelli's admonition that, "The first opinion which one forms of a [leader] is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise."
Decide how you will decide. When the stakes are high, it's all too easy for decision-making to degenerate into positional bickering. When this happens, opportunities to reframe the problem, generate creative alternatives, and forge consensus agreements are lost. The result is either lowest-common-denominator comprises or deadlock. Effective executives avoid this by adopting structured approaches that parse decision-making into a set of distinct phases, starting with defining the problem, and proceeding through establishing criteria for evaluating potential outcomes, generating and testing alternatives, and finally reaching closure. The virtue of the phased approach is that it moves people through digestible experiences of education and adjustment, blunting the reflexive resort to position-taking, and avoiding premature convergence on an "obvious" solution.
Take care to define desired outcomes early (and don't lose sight of them). This is a corollary to the previous principle. One well-documented decision-trap is the tendency for the scope of decision-making either to expand dangerously (this is known as mission creep) or to get watered down (laboring mightily and giving birth to a mouse). The best antidote to scope drift is early definition of, and commitment to, a statement of desired outcomes. Is the goal in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban, and if so, over what time frame? Is it building civil society with the Afghan people? Is it buttressing stability in Pakistan? Is it getting U.S. troops home as quickly as possible? The resulting mission statement, along with supporting criteria for rigorously evaluating potential outcomes, provides an essential anchor for the hard work of option generation and deliberation.
Rest the ladder of inference on a firm foundation. The most dangerous things in the world are outdated assumptions. Assumptions, after all, are the foundation upon which the ladder of logical inference rests in decision-making. If "A" is true, "B" and "C" follow. But what if "A" is not true? What if "A" was once true, but no longer holds? For example, is Al Qaeda still the primary threat to U.S. interests in the region? It's essential to explicitly surface the fundamental assumptions that the people around the table are making, and to test their soundness with deep analysis. Done well, the result is a shared foundation of facts and hypotheses on which the group will build their decision-edifice.
Demand diversity of viewpoints. In Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, Michael Roberto persuasively argues that leaders must actively foment disagreement to get good decisions. Too much agreement, too early in the process, is as dangerous as too little agreement later on. Why? Because it raises the specter that decision-makers have fallen prey to groupthink, the tendency for "conventional wisdom" to harden too quickly and crowd out divergent opinions. If leaders don't get enough disagreement naturally, Roberto suggests, then they should demand it by elevating the options of thoughtful minority viewpoints, or appointing a devil's advocate (Vice President Biden appears to have played this role in arguing for a more limited focus in the region) or engaging in scenario generating exercises or setting up a "red team" and a "blue team" to argue different viewpoints.
Know when and how to bring the process to closure. Finally, effective leaders know when and how to drive the process to closure and commitment. "Analysis paralysis" is an ever-present danger when potential outcomes are unpalatable. Deliberation can give way to dithering when the stakes are high and interests are powerful. So decision-makers like Obama have to set deadlines and other action-forcing events to bring the process to a conclusion. They must demand that everyone around the table support the outcome, even if there is not full consensus that it is the right way to go.
These principles of effective executive decision-making will help you to avoid the more obvious decision-traps and reach better conclusions. In the case of President Obama's deliberations on Afghanistan, his careful attention to the design of the decision process should contribute to saving lives and increasing our security.
Michael Watkins is the author of many books, including Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating and Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions

Real Business Geniuses Don't Pretend To Know Everything

Real Business Geniuses Don't Pretend To Know Everything
4:53 PM Monday November 23, 2009
Tags:Innovation, Leadership
The Economist owes much of its popularity to its knack for challenging conventional wisdom. In a recent column, it applied its contrarian mindset to the question of what kinds of leaders make the best CEOs, making the case that what the world needs now are more "raging egomaniacs" and "tightly wound empire-builders" rather than the "faceless" and "anonymous" bosses running so many companies today — "bland and boring men and women who can hardly get themselves noticed at cocktail parties."
The crux of The Economist's argument relies on what's known as the Great Man Theory of History. After trumpeting the virtues of business geniuses such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Lou Gerstner, and Jack Welch, it then generalizes from this handful of larger-than-life moguls: "The best ambassadors for business are the outsize figures who have changed the world and who feel no need to apologise for themselves or their calling."It's an intriguing essay and a good read. It's also a false choice — and a bad reading of history. For one thing, when it comes to larger-than-life CEOs, I can name as many scoundrels and failures as I can geniuses and world-changers. There's a reason Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind titled their bestseller on the Enron disaster The Smartest Guys in the Room, and it goes beyond the criminality those deeply flawed executives displayed. That familiar phrase captures the mindset too many of us expect even our most honest leaders to display — the assumption that being "in charge" means having all the answers. In simpler times, fierce personal confidence, a sense of infallibility as a leader, might have been be a calling card of success. Today it is a warning sign of failure, whether from bad judgment, low morale among disillusioned colleagues, or sheer burnout from the pressures of always having to be right.
That's not a case (and here's the false choice) for aiming low or being dull. The best executives I've met understand that there is a vast difference between advancing big, exciting, important goals — aspiring to change the game in your field — and assuming that you know best how to achieve those goals. Sure, great leaders champion new ideas and disruptive points of view — they have vision. But that doesn't mean they have to see the future on their own.
Just because you're in charge doesn't mean you have to have all the answers. Real business geniuses don't pretend they know everything.
To be sure, it's easier to divide leaders into either-or categories: risk-takers vs. bureaucrats, those with ambition vs. those with humility. Fortune just named Steve Jobs its CEO of the Decade — and while it's hard to argue with the choice, it's even harder to reproduce his talents. The problem with trumpeting the virtues of one-of-a-kind geniuses like Steve Jobs is that — duh — there is only one of them! Memo to The Economist: It's not a good idea to urge CEOs to emulate leaders whose success is, almost by definition, impossible to copy.
Keith Sawyer, a creativity guru at Washington University in St. Louis, has literally written the book on where good ideas come from. In Group Genius, he explains how few leaders are prepared to recognize the messy and hard-to-manage truth about the real logic of business success. Many (perhaps most) executives subscribe to what Sawyer calls script-think — "the tendency to think that events are more predictable than they really are." In fact, he says, "Innovation emerges from the bottom up, unpredictably and improvisationally, and it's often only after the innovation has occurred that everyone realizes what's happened. The paradox is that innovation can't be planned, it can't be predicted; it has to be allowed to emerge."
Harriet Rubin, one of the great innovators in business-book publishing, and an accomplished author in her own right, uses different language to make a similar point about leadership and innovation. "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power," she reminds executives who are eager to make their mark in the world. "Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."
The most effective leaders no longer want the job of solving their organization's biggest problems or identifying its best opportunities on their own. Instead, they recognize that the most powerful ideas can come from the most unexpected places: the quiet genius buried deep inside the organization, the collective genius that surrounds the organization, the hidden genius of customers, suppliers, and other constituencies who would be eager to share what they know if only they were asked. For companies, and the CEOs at their helms, those are the smartest (and most sustainable) sources of greatness.

How to Pick a Good Fight

.....by Saj-nicole A. Joni and Damon Beyer

Conflict-free teamwork can derail a company. Healthy dissent will keep it on its toes.

Strong leaders create the kind of conflict that can spark creativity and innovation.

The Idea in Brief
• A peaceful, harmonious workplace can be the worst thing possible for a business. Research shows that the biggest predictor of poor company performance is complacency. Conflict can shake things up and boost your staff’s energy and creativity.
• Not everything is worth fighting over, however. Before girding for a battle, make sure it involves an issue that affects the future and has game-changing potential. And if your fight has a noble purpose—if it’s about, say, improving the lives of customers—that’s even better.
• It’s also critical to make the fight fair. Opponents should have an equal shot at winning.
• Leaders should structure fights through the formal organization but allow contestants to use informal connections. Good leaders also will help the losing parties turn their pain into opportunities for development.

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When Dick Fuld took over at Lehman Brothers in 1994, he inherited a contentious culture. Traders and investment bankers would not share ideas and competed for business, putting their own interests above the firm’s in nearly every instance. In Fuld’s own words, published in Knowledge@Wharton in 2007, “The early Lehman Brothers was a great example of how not to do it. It was all about me. My job. My people. Pay me.” But by the mid-1990s, the financial services industry had shifted toward an integrated sales model, and such blatant disregard for teamwork didn’t fly any longer. Fuld made unity and collaboration priorities at the firm, nudging them along with employee incentives. By the time of its collapse, in 2008, Lehman reportedly had one of the strongest cultures of teamwork and loyalty on Wall Street. As Fortune had noted in April 2006: “Fuld has incongruously turned Lehman into one of Wall Street’s most harmonious firms.”
The effort to eliminate discord at the firm had backfired. Lehman’s board of directors and management team became too agreeable—and too loyal, content to follow even when they knew better. In 2007 and 2008, numerous signals indicated that the firm was heading into a crisis, but insiders who paid attention to them were afraid to point out the elephant in the room. It turned out that loyalty meant loyalty to Fuld, according to accounts from former employees. That loyalty led Lehman executives to an almost willful blindness. Nobody wanted to disrupt the peace.
The problem is that a peaceful, harmonious workplace can be the worst possible thing for a business, according to consultancy eePulse, which conducts in-depth surveys that measure employee engagement. Complacency, in fact, is the single greatest predictor of poor company performance. The second greatest? An environment in which employees are overwhelmed. In the first case, employees are reluctant to rock the boat. In the second, the level of employee satisfaction is low and the amount of dysfunctional fighting is high. In both situations, low energy levels and fear of political fallout curb action that might address any looming crisis. At Lehman, many alums told us, raising difficult questions could kill your career.
Most leadership experts argue that the best way to manage change is to create alignment, but our research indicates that for large-scale change or innovation initiatives, a healthy dose of dissent is usually just as important. Within an acceptable range of competition and tension, science shows, dissent will fire up more of an individual’s brain, stimulating more pathways and engaging more creative centers. In short, more of what makes people unique, innovative, and passionate is available for use.
Many successful companies are known for their stressful work environments. Microsoft, in its early days, had one of the most contentious, high-strung, and fast-paced corporate cultures in the United States. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were famous for yelling at people. Food distributor Sysco, an unusually successful company built on roll-ups and acquisitions, dismisses district managers who don’t meet annual productivity targets—a pretty tough standard for an operating company with thin margins. Market leaders Goldman Sachs and McKinsey are notoriously competitive, hard-driving places to work. Not places you’d go if you were looking for polite and equal regard for all voices.
We’ve seen this phenomenon play out over and over in our work advising CEOs and senior executives. (Full disclosure: We have done consulting work for some of the companies described in this article.) So it’s time to stop candy-coating what’s taught to executives and their direct reports. It’s time to stop pretending that conflict-free teamwork is the be-all and end-all of organizational life. It’s time to own up to the truth that the right balance of alignment and competition is what pushes individuals and groups to do their best. It’s time to push employees into the right fights.
Let’s be clear—alignment is important. But the purpose of alignment is not harmonious agreement. It is to sustain an organization’s ability to fight for what really matters, and to pull everyone together again once the fight is resolved.
Which Fights Should You Take On?
Not all kinds of conflict promote a successful corporate environment. We have all seen organizations that were poisonously political. We have all watched otherwise rational people go to extreme lengths to sabotage their colleagues or to retaliate against fellow employees who offended them in some way. And we have all seen people fight dirty when they believed that straight shooting wouldn’t get the job done. Those kinds of fights are purely destructive—and are not what we recommend. Conflict is healthful only when people’s energies are pointed in the right direction and when carried out in a productive way.
Copyright © 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.

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敲胆经可以使胆经的活动加速。。。。

如下图，每天在大腿外侧的四个点，每敲打四下算一次，每天敲左右大腿各五十次，也就是左右各两百下。由于大腿肌肉和脂肪都很厚，因此必须用点力，才能有效刺激穴位。敲胆经主要在刺激胆经，强迫胆汁的分泌，提升人体的吸收能力，提供人体造血系统所需的充足材料。

由于敲胆经可以使胆经的活动加速，将大腿外侧堆积在胆经上的垃圾排出，因此，敲胆经直接就会使臀部和大腿外侧的脂肪减少，大约一至两个月就会感觉裤管变大了。

患有脂肪肝和胆结石的人，这个方法是最简单而且最有效改善健康的方法。

在 “人体的系统”章节中，说明人体的能量和血液总量成正比。自然界创造人体时，必定提供了人体良好的造血系统，在正常情形下每一个人应该都能造出足够的血液。当人体出现能量下降的趋势时，必定是人体某一个部分受到阻碍。因此，找出造血系统不能生产足够血液的原因，再予以排除，使人体能够正常造出足够的血液，就能使人体的能量供应呈现上升的趋势。

血气能量就像电器产品的电能一样，是健康最重要的基础。人体造血有两个最重要的条件，其中之一是需要人体准备足够的材料，血才造得出来。

胆汁是从肝脏中分泌出来的，胆囊则是储存及控制胆汁分泌的器官。人体吃进去的食物，有一部分是由胆汁的化学作用，分解成人体造血所需要的各种物质。因此，如果胆汁分泌不足，则食物被分解成可供人体吸收的物质就不够，当然也就不能提供人体造血所需的足够材料了。

造成胆汁分泌不够的原因，主要是现代人对感冒的处理方法上发生了问题。现代人由于长期使用西药，在感冒的处理上，主要是针对疾病的症状，采取压制的手段，而不是真正的把风寒排出体外。经常是利用特效药将症状压下去，症状是消除了，但是引起感冒的风寒却留在体内。

胆经是一条从头到脚的经络，其中大腿外侧是最容易被寒气侵入的部位，也是胆经最容易积存寒气的部位，由于寒气的积存会使这个部位的经络流动不通畅，因而使这个部位附近的组织所排泄的废物难以排出，长时间累积的结果，自然使整条胆经都不通畅，胆的技能也就难以正常运行，同时这段胆经敲打起来最为顺手，因此建议每天适当地敲打胆经。

敲胆经会直接刺激胆汁的分泌，这是治标的方法，没有立即解决胆或肺的问题，只是直接刺激胆经强迫胆汁分泌，使人体能够生产足够的造血材料，血气便能逐渐上升。

肺和胆的问题必须等到身体的血气很高才能完全解决，那需要很长的时间。因此建议最好将这个运动养成为终生奉行的习惯，每天只要10分钟不到就可以完成了。

胆功能不好的症状很多，最明显的就是白发，这是由于人体的能量不足所致，中医有一句话：“发乃血之末”，由于营养供应不足才会造成白发。油性头发也是另一种症状，这是由于胆汁分泌不足，无法有效分解吃进去的油脂，加上肝热的因素，就从头发排出来油了。


敲胆经是最佳的进补方法

早期人类的运输工具不发达，特别是没有运输食物的冷藏设备，多数人终其一生，只吃居住地周围二、三十公里范围的食物，每一个人都或多或少有些偏食的问题。因此，在那个年代的医生，最重要的就是让患者吃到一些平时吃不到的食物，药物和进补在那个时代能够发挥很大的治病功效。几千年下来，人们的经验累积，使得多数人一生病就会想到必须吃药或进补。

现代运输工具发达，多数人在吃的方面，无论多远的食物，都可以成为每天的日常菜肴。只有少数人有偏食的不良习惯，才会有营养的问题，多数人并没有因吃的食物不够而营养不良的问题。

虽然现代人营养都吃进去了，但是由于胆功能不好，使得人体的吸收能力很低，因此实际上是 “有吃没有到”，在这种情形下吃再好的补品也是没有多大作用的。

从这个道理来看，生病吃药并不是天经地义的事，只不过是适合古代人的一种治病方法而已，并不一定就适合现代人。从现代人的食物来分析，问题并不是现代人缺少了什么，而是吃进去的食物能不能被吸收而已，因此，生病吃药也就未必是正确有效的治病方法了。对多数现代人而言，与其经常进补，还不如每天敲敲胆经来得对身体有益。

敲胆经减掉粗大腿 你试了吗

现在很流行中医养生呢，敲胆经就是最火爆的方法，很多MM都说敲胆经对身体好而且能有效的瘦大腿，究竟敲胆经该如何操作呢，一起来看看吧。

你知道最近最流行什么减肥法吗？没错，就是中医养生减肥。其中敲胆经就是流传最广泛的一种方法。

敲胆经的好处：

一：瘦大腿

敲胆经可以使胆经的活动加速，将大腿外侧堆积在胆经上的垃圾排出，因此，这个运动直接就会使臀部和大腿外侧的脂肪减少，大约一至二个月就会感觉裤管变大了。

二：降低食欲

敲胆经可以改变人的食欲，很多喜欢吃高脂脂食物的朋友，经过敲胆经一段时间后，喜欢上了清淡食品，饭量也减少了一半，不再象从前一样总是感觉饥饿。

敲胆经的方法:

如上图，每天在大腿外侧的四个穴位点，用力敲打，每敲打四下算一次，每天敲左右大腿各五十次，也就是左右各两百下。由于大腿肌肉和脂肪都很厚，因此必需用力，而且以每秒大约两下的节奏敲，才能有效刺激穴位。

胆经是一条从头到脚的经络，其中多数的经络都和其它经络相邻，唯独在大腿外侧的一段，只有一条胆经，而且这段胆经敲打起来最为顺手。因此我们经常建议朋友们每天都敲胆经。

敲胆经有没有效果呢，减肥沙龙也有不少网友都在使用此方法：

网友“我爱洋洋”：现在每天都在做，观察效果中。

网友“幸福小女人”：方法不错，我天天坚持呢。

你有没有使用过敲胆经瘦腿呢，来这里和大家一起交流经验吧>>>

(本文来源：网易女人 )

敲胆经

陈玉琴答问: 经络按摩与敲胆经（转载）

陈玉琴 ：中医保健专家，循环指压健康疗法的创始者，《人体使用手册》作者的启蒙老师及其养生观念的原创者。她从中国传统文化中体会出一套独特的人体逻辑，并用这套逻辑，加上推拿的治疗手法，自创了循环指压胆经健康疗法，并以此医好了自身的顽病，又以此套疗法惠及众多疑难杂症患者，使其康复。近年来应邀赴新加坡、马来西亚、泰国、美国等国家演讲，深受欢迎。
Email:yuqin_cheng@msn.com

一.人要健康,只要血多.要血多,只要早睡(每天10:30以前/成人)加敲胆经(大腿外侧各100下 /每天).早睡是造血时间的保证(人并非二十四小时都能造血,古时候的人都是日出而作,日落而息,人体造血是有特定时段的,这是天人相应的结果,是不能任意改变的).敲胆经是造血材料的准备(现代人不缺营养,但胆汁分秘普遍不好--原因后面再讲).

二.症在四肢五官,病在五脏六腑,所有的症都是内脏问题在体表的表现(近视眼---肾水不足以涵木,中耳炎---小肠有细菌感染的病灶,五十肩---大肠有细菌感染的病灶,香港脚是胃有细菌感染的病灶等等).

三.脂肪不是营养过剩,脂肪是人体能力不够时排不出去的垃圾,那个脏器能力差,那个脏器的经络外面堆的脂肪就厚.

四.血色素的及格与否并不能证明人体维持生命所需的血液总量是够还是不够,血色素只是代表一滴血里红血球所占的比例而已,人体健康与否取决与人体总血流量的多少,现在没有这样的指标,也没有检测的方法,但中医通过望证是可以了解的,人体总血流量够的最低标准1.血能进肾脏过滤,每天早晨起来的第一次小便一定是黄色的.2.血液能进肝脏进行清洗,手上的血管不仅看得见,而且颜色是浅绿色的.3.指甲不仅有月芽,而且有横向的条纹(这意味着你的免疫系统在工作 ---详细有机会再说).

五.老化的血管是可以逆转的.血管老化是因为血里的垃圾推积在血管,是因为人体血液总量不够时,肝脏不清洗或清洗比例不够时,血就变得越来越脏.当人体的血液总量回升时,清洗的工作会重新启动,原来沉淀在血管里的垃圾同样会被带到肝进行处理,问题是这时候的检查指标都不可能符合目前西医设定的标准.
六.癌细胞不是人体的敌人,不是变异,是人体能力不够时生产的残次品,当人体能力恢复时,人体会生产巨噬细胞清理这些不及格的产品,重新生产正常的细胞来修复被破坏的组织.癌细胞虽然是残次品,但它对人体是有帮助的,就象穷苦的人,衣服撕破了,他没有同色系的布和线来补他的衣服,只能有什么补什么上去,虽然不好看,但能穿,人体的组织遭细菌病毒破坏后,残次品的癌细胞修复了组织,使人体不会因为失血而死亡,他是人体无可奈何下的产物,对人体是作出贡献的.

七.糖尿病不是病,是人体为了自救而采取的应变措施,就象一户人家,当他的经济不能支持他的生活开支时,他会变卖他的家具来支撑他的生活.当人体维持生命的能量不够时,人体就会分解自己的肌肉为糖分来维持生命,这是一种临时的应变措施,一旦人体蛋白吸收够了,人体首先选用蛋白,这样血液里的糖分就会多起来,因为分解肌肉为糖分的机制并非说停就停,糖分的浓度要达到一定的值才能给大脑一个信息反射,新的指令才会形成,而且原来释放在血液里的指令也一定要用完.所以血糖高的人当他的血糖有时高有时不高时(不包含饮食因素),他的问题就接近尾声了.当人体的肌肉一年比一年消瘦时,肌肉转为糖分的机制已确立,但这时候是检查不出血糖高的现象的,因为糖分都为维持生命消耗掉了.血糖高与人体生病是无关的,人体生病与蛋白增多有关,当人体蛋白增加时,人体造的血就多了,血多了人体的自修复功能就会启动,血糖高只不过是与蛋白多同步看到的二件事,现在没有人去查人体的蛋白多了,无法查人体的血多了,就硬说血糖高了会生病,其实人体自己会把多余的糖分排出体外,等到人体自己调整好了,这个问题也就不存在了.

八.肾素和血管紧张素是使人体血压升高的因素,这是西医界研究的成果,但是当人体血压高的时候,西医检查这些人的血液,并没有明显的肾素血管紧张素增加的迹象,结果高血压的原因就变得不明白了.西医讲究的是空间,中医讲究的是时间,肾素和血管紧张素确实是人体为了提升自身的血压而增加的激素,由于人体的血总量不断下降,血管里有了沉淀的垃圾,血管的弹性变差了,不能帮助心脏把血送到四肢送到大脑,血管紧张素可以使血管弹性强化,血总量的下降使人体五脏六腑的功能随之下降,肺气的下降,使肺的布水能力不足,血液就变得粘稠,这是一种渐变,粘稠的血液使心脏不胜负荷,人体用增加肾素来帮助心脏搏动,但这时候你是看不到血压高的,因为这时候人体血管里的血流量是很少的.当人体的总血流量不断提高,血管里的血多了,而肾素与血管紧张素尚未撤除或减少,这时候我们就看到高血压了。高血压是人体调节过程中看到的一个现象，这个调节是要有条件要有时间，但绝对不是一个终身病。


我没有进过医学院,更没有学过解剖学,思考问题一是简单化,二是直观,循经指压让我得出的结论是：一.经络只不过是五脏六腑的通道.二.指压.推拿.针. 灸.拔罐.刮痧都不治病,只不过是疏通经络,经络疏通了人体的一些症状也就随之减轻或者消失了.三.人体的病是人体自己修复的.曾经与复旦大学经络的物质基础研究小组负责人在上海市六医院做过一次用经络指压去除心包积水的实验,志愿者是复旦大学的一位女教授,她胸闷,气急,四肢无力.很长时间得不到解决, 在核磁共振检查后做指压,指压后再做检查,通过计算,半小时的指压减少积水百分之二十九.后来费教授又与上海市六医院一起做过实验,对象是一癌症病人,心包积水严重,结果是去掉积水百分之五十.心包经可以去掉心包的积水,肺经可以去掉肺的积水,肝经可以去掉肝脏的积水.经络是五脏六腑的通道,用这个方法清除脏腑的积水比服药快,可以立即得到信息反馈.我只能把自己的经验给大家,至于理论问题请高人来研究,论述.循经指压是经络学的临床应用，需要的工具是双手和一套经络系统图及一套说法，而能解决的问题是很可观的，医疗行为是为了保键人民，尤其对于国家来说是为了提高人民的健康水平。把一般的养生保键方法用学习班的形式，用中学生保键课的形式教给人民，全国人民的健康水平将有大幅度的提高，国家的医疗开支会明显下降。循经指压只重经络，不重穴位，背不出经络，照着经络图压就行。循经指压是帮助人体疏通各脏腑的通道，就象打扫房间的卫生，今天扫得不彻底，明天可以继续，它没有错误，没有伤害。是保键，是养生，是治疗。只有当人们自己解决不了的问题才交给医生，而交给医生这件事，国家可以用政策进行干扰，首先交给中医治疗（目前农村要开始实行医保，国家可以不可以稿试点），实际上西医能治疗的病，中医都能治疗，而且应该实行地区医疗自保，中医擅长治未病，用中医的方法对地区民众进行定期健康检查，其保健的结果一定会让全世界惊讶。循经指压疗法希望会得到经络研究专家的关注

二、工具

1、 经络系统图------到下面的信箱： qzswcj@126.com 里去下载，密码： qzswcj

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2、 真空罐------“一拔通”真空拔罐器，有大盒与小盒之分，买小盒就够了，(六个管)，六十八元一套,如果当地没有,可以电话到厂邮购.电话:010 84498504,010 84497179.厂名:北京华明康泰医疗器械有限责任公司.所以推荐你买这个牌子是因为这家厂的东西使用起来较顺手，拔管的好处是不痛,小孩容易接受,而有同样的效果.拔管的要求是管留在皮肤上的时间仅几秒钟,管拿掉后皮肤的颜色马上恢复正常,不要象传统的拔管拔出一个个红红的印子.既浪费人体的血又增加人体的工作量.

3、找穴位------ 可用到动画经络网站： http://mfy.nease.net/am/xue/index.html

4、听诊器------ 地球人都知道

5、按摩尺------ 使用该尺可准确、方便和取穴位并按摩，提高人们利用穴位自我医疗保健的效果。

6、高尔夫球------ 按摩

7、易经或其他难读懂的书------ 是当其他都没有用的时候（我也会有烦恼的时候，有睡不着的时候），就拿易经来读，慢慢地一句一句仔细地读，因为太难，一定要很投入才能读懂一句，这样我的心就不知不觉静下来了。


三、动作

1、敲胆经------ ---敲胆经是要敲两条腿,但一条腿一条腿敲还是两条腿一起敲随便你.敲胆经只是敲得大腿外侧的胆经筋有点热乎乎，就能刺激胆汁的分泌，并不要求很正确的穴位，当然有的先生女士对针灸穴位比较了解，力求到位，那很好，但对一些对针灸穴位不太了解的人就无需苛求，有敲就有作用，既不在乎穴位正确与否，也不在乎是否完全沿着经络线路，这要基本上是在大腿外侧胆经的通道上就一定不会白敲。
也不需要敲到小腿上，一是操作不方便，二是小腿上胆经与胃经的位置太近，用敲的方法要完全分开是不是有难度。我希望的是我们所有愿意用这个方法来养身保健的人既能得到健康，又方便易行。轻轻松松就得到健康。敲胆经不需要很大力，不要造成不必要的伤害，一般力度是敲不出瘀青的，如果分量不重就敲出瘀青来了，那是人体本身的凝血因子不足，需要补充胶汁类的食物，中国人有个补品叫阿胶，就有利于人体的凝血因子，其实阿胶的主要成分是驴皮，如果平时有进食猪皮，鸡皮等，这个问题就没有了。如果瘀青是因为敲得太重而造成的，那就轻一点。

2、拔罐------ 拔管的要求是管留在皮肤上的时间仅几秒钟,管拿掉后皮肤的颜色马上恢复正常,不要象传统的拔管拔出一个个红红的印子.既浪费人体的血又增加人体的工作量.

四、气血衡量

1、指甲上的小月亮------ ---人体手指甲上有的人有一个小月亮,有的人没有,上海有一家医学杂志上曾经征文讨论过这一问题,结果如何我没有看到,因为我不是每一期都看,我的看法是人体指甲上应该有小月亮,因为那代表你的人体有能力与肠里的细菌搏斗.没有人可以说我的身体里没有细菌,因为那是不可能的,这种情况只有在婴儿出生的那一眨那才存在,即使是产房也不可能是绝对无细菌的,细菌与人体是处于长期搏斗长期共存的状态的,有时候处于显性状态,而大部分时间是处于隐性状态,细菌的要求是找一个适合它自身发展的生存环境,人体当然是最佳选择,所以细菌进入人体是悄无声息的,当细菌进入人体时, 人体的反应就各不相同了,有的发烧,有的拉肚子,也有的会呕吐,但也有的人会毫无感觉,有时候朋友聚餐,遇到食物不干净,就会看到上面讲到的情况了,而我们往往还会说拉肚子的朋友是他的肠胃不好,自己的肠胃功能好,所以吃了没有事.有月芽是身体免疫能力的表现.表示你有足够的作战部队.
但是有的人身体并不是那么好,按理说他不应该有月芽,有小月亮,而他也有了,这是因为这个人生活得不愉快,或有怒气,或有闷气,造成木克土现象,脾脏会被迫生产许多白血球与细菌开战,由于各方面的条件都不具备,所以才会造成心包阻塞,有早搏,自汗,半夜会醒,而且醒后就睡不着等症状.所以小月亮是有好还是没有好是不能简单的作为判断的依据的.

2、心跳------ 数数自己每分钟的心跳是多少？70？80？60？人体的心跳在70是一般情况，60跳就是血比较够的人，而80跳则是不够的人

3、牙龈------ ----待整理


五、症状及解决

晚上睡眠会醒;--------------一，十二点左右醒是心包有积水,睡前压一会儿心包经,尤其压膻中穴(两乳连线的正中),天池穴(乳头外侧一寸),昆仑穴(脚跟外侧的外踝直下,脚跟的凹陷处).二,二点后腥是肝热,压肝经,平坐床上,让自己的大腿内侧面朝上,中间就是肝经,用手指压或拳头敲都可以.二点多醒是因为肝热造成这一点比较能理解,中医有二十四小时人体血液流注各个脏器的说法,一点到三点血液是流经肝脏,肝气会比较旺,每个时辰血液流经的脏腑,相对而言那时哪个脏腑的血会比较多血液流经那个脏腑时,人体的脏腑会有对应的工作要做,当一个人的血是由少到多,而且是肝脏的血增加时,人体会有一系列肝热的表现,例如小便的颜色会变黄,头顶的百会穴会比其他地方热,胃口会好起来,本来没有夜尿的现在也有了,而时间往往就在二点左右,睡眠的梦会多,在这时候你如果去压肝经,一定有一边会痛.反复压到肝经不痛了,那么夜尿就会少或没有了,梦也会少了,那个时候睡眠就不会醒了.

说十二点左右醒是因为心包有积水,你知道我看的医学书是不够的,而且从中医学的教材里关于心包经的论述也不多,所以理论我说不上来,但这是事实,是正确的, 凡是脉象是沉脉(中医的说法),凡是有早搏(西医的说法),凡是入睡后,半夜里醒来而且久久不易入睡(那种人醒来的感觉是象早晨睡醒了的感觉),都是人体心包有积水,压心包经就能解决问题,白天压透了,或者半夜里醒时压都能帮助自己的睡眠,要完全解决,让心包经不会积水,一是心血多起来心脏的搏动力强了, 二是人体与细菌的搏斗暂停(当人体本身没有能力与细菌搏斗而在搏斗时,心包才特会积水).

中度的抑郁症--------是心脏有积水,你试试看给自己压极泉穴及心经,时间稍长一点,左右两边都要压.压后心脏积水减少一些,你的体症就会减轻,不舒服就会消失.如果是抑郁症的话,压脚跟外侧的昆仑穴与两乳连线正中的膻中穴,乳头外侧的天池穴及心包经全部.是什么问题对应的穴位就特别痛,人体会给你最正确的信息.患抑郁症的人一是从小心包外的脂肪堆积较多,造成心脏的搏动力不足,心脉经常是沉脉,多早博.二是气血步步下降.你要改善自己治疗自己,只要一,让自己的气血上升.敲胆经加早睡.二,经常压或拔罐上面说的一些主要穴位.半年就可以有变化,一到二年后就不可能是内向的人了.

小便颜色黄--------人体的肾脏是为人体清理垃圾的,当人体的总血流量太少时,人体进入肾脏清洗的血的量也会减少,甚至不清洗, 那时候人体早晨起床后第一次的尿都会是无色透明,或颜色很淡,那是不好的.一般情况人体的尿液应该是有颜色的,但也不会太深,如果你一天内进水量太少或出汗很多时尿的颜色就会深一点.此外,当一个人原来的气血不足,因此身体里曾经留下过很多垃圾没有及时处理,现在能力上升了,也就是你身体里的总血流量增加了,人体不仅能处理现在的废物,同时把以前的垃圾也清理出去时,你的小便颜色就会很黄,这是不是一件好事.你现在在念大学.已过了发育阶段,而在你发育阶段如果气血问题是有缺口的话,现在的现象就是非常正常的了.另外还有一种情况那就是人体的血多了以后,会进入肝脏进行肝脏的修理工作,那时候小便的颜色也是偏黄的,那么你就应该早点睡加一点敲胆经使自己的血更多一些,早日修好你的肝脏.还有一种情况是由于熬夜,大运动量造成人体的肾水制约不住肝肝太旺时也会小便颜色太深的.解决的方法你应该想得出来的.人体是全能的,完美的.善待人体,不要让人体一直透支(人体当然也有一个收支平衡问题),那么发生在人体身上的问题人体应该是都能解决的.

受风寒--------人体感受风寒后的反应可以有三种情况(其实风,寒,暑,热,湿,细菌,病毒侵犯人体时,都是三种状态),最佳状态就是打二个喷嚏把寒气赶走了,其次,就是要赶寒气但能力尚不够就会比较缠绵,甚至头痛发烧,第三种情况则是人体完全无抵抗能力,任寒气入体表入经络入腑入脏.第三种情况人体没有任何不舒服感觉,也没有任何生病迹象,但是对人体的伤害是长期的(外邪束肺),第二种情况的解决除了服中药外,香江愚医先生介绍了灸法,用指压法也可以退烧,去风寒.具体做法如下:一.压风池穴,如果风池穴痛,发烧是因为风寒造成的,左右各压二到三分钟,如果风池穴不痛或不太痛,那么发烧并非因为风寒造成.二.压肺经别,大肠经别(只压感觉明显的一边),压到不痛.三.肺实者压尺泽,鱼际.肺虚者压中府,太渊.上述只能解决外感风寒.

月经提前----------血更虚,肝火比以前旺,所以月经会不断提前,月经越提前失血越多,对她的身体是非常不利的,你要做的第二件事是凉血,清肝热,平她的怒气,所以要压下面的穴位:膈俞(在背上,旁开脊椎一寸半,与女生胸罩横带子相交的位置上下处),血海(用你的左手放在你女友右膝盖上,大拇指按到的地方,另一边就是右手放在左膝盖上),三阴交(在内踝直上三寸的骨头边上,中医的寸是指病人中指的中间一节的长度),上面的三个穴位是凉血用的,其中膈俞穴还有宽胸开膈的作用,会让她的心情好一点.

要压肝经,就先压大腿的内侧面中间部分,让你女友的大腿内侧面朝上,用手指从大腿根部慢慢地压,痛得厉害得地方手指就一直放在那儿,轻一点,然后让你女友用意念一直想那一点,而你可以把耳朵贴在她的腹部听,当里面的水声出去时,那一点就一定没有原来那么痛了,可以一直做到不痛.肝经一直可以压到小腿的,然后再要做的是脚背上的太冲穴,在大脚趾与次趾的中间,脚背骨的紧下面,可以压 (也很痛的,也可以让女用意念去想这一点,那么她的气就会下降.

生殖器起水泡，在糜烂--------肝经环阴器,你的肝偏热,我想你的嘴唇太红,上嘴唇太厚,当你的嘴唇颜色由红转暗时就可以好了,要求如下: 一.清肝胆湿热的中药.二.至少每周有三天在10:30以前睡觉(每天在网上搞到一.二点睡的人,中风一定有份)。三.沿着肝经系统图隔日做二到三次,指压或拔罐均可(罐在皮肤上停留的时间不得超过十秒,不要拔出血来),指压比较痛,但轻轻地压,一会儿就可以压通,也就不痛了。

小便有浑浊尿---------就拿你的小便有浑浊尿来讲,在你生长发育过程中,你的能量,养分,血液都投入了这一大工程,而生命的其它部分是在低调下进行,其中就有血液的清洗问题,你的牙龈颜色深不深,新的牙龈颜色是否很淡,当初留下的问题当人体能力回升时,人体要重新补救,人体只有在有能力时才会排出浊尿,这可是一件好事呢.对于我的病人,我都会在第一次见面时告诉他前进的路上你会遇到的各种可能,其中之一就是浊尿, 中药不可能让你尿浊尿,没有这个能耐,中药只能调整,推动.人体可以由阴虚转到阳虚,你还要有意识让自己由阳虚进入不虚状态,继续努力吧.为了你的健康.

消瘦-------她的表现就是消瘦，其它尚可。不知诸位可有治过此种疾病？在下请教了——中医有不治而治一说,这个病我也没有治疗过.甚至没有听说过,她又如何自知,平时有什么症状.既然人体消瘦,一定是处于阴虚状态,或更差一点是处于阴阳两虚偏阴虚状态(也可能阴阳两虚偏阳虚状态),调节她的状态,让她从目前的状态向好的方面转变,也就是让她的气血上升,再上升,当人体的气血达到一定水平时, 人体必然会去处理以前没有能力处理而留下来的问题,到那时就可以因势利导帮助人体解决这一问题,如果身体好起来了,生存没有问题,有的问题不解决又如何, 人的要求到底是什么?不就是活得久一点,活到一百岁,一百二十岁够不够,就目前而言这个数字对大部分人是可以满意了,人们并不会要求自己是一个完人,所以只要有足够的气血能够维持人体的生存,维持人体的平衡,这应该是中医的治疗理念.

高血压--------不是一个病,是人体自我调节过程中的产物,是可以完全好的,但人体形成不是一天,要重新调整,到调整完毕同样是有一个过程的,也就是说要有一定的时间,一定的条件,而决不是现在西医的治疗方法.用西医的观念与治疗,那么你就得一辈子吃他的药.高血压是有两种,一种是低血压偏高,量血压时低血压是80,90,100,甚至是110,这种情况下,由于下面血压高了上面的血压也随之升高,他的原因是因为生气, 也许你会说我最近都没有生什么气啊,气这个东西在人体里面很奇怪,好象是可以储存的,当你人体的总血流量不足时,气在人体的腹部,而当人体的气血上升后, 这个气也会随之上升,当你的脸是红的睡眠又多梦时,你的低血压就有可能偏高,而这种人如果再大怒,血压就很快升高了,同时其他的病也会显现,医生会说是高血压引起的疾病.而实际上高血压只是一个现象,是人体的大怒破坏了人体的内分泌的平衡,用中医的观念来讲是伤了肝,所以舒肝理气平肝就可以真正解决问题, 当人体里的气都排出去了,你的低血压高的问题也就不存在了.

高血压还有一种情况,那就是高血压高,高血压高是人体当初为了让自己能够生存下去,在身体里增加了肾素与血管紧张素,西医的研究证明肾素与血管紧张素的增加能让人体的血压升高,但他们的研究又告诉他们那些高血压的患者近期内并没有增加肾素与血管紧张素,这样一来西医就没有方向了,所以在西医的教材里高血压就成了不明原因的病了,唯一能做的就是用药把它压下去.西医关于肾素与血管紧张素的研究没有错,错是错在人体是什么时候增加肾素与血管紧张素的?实际上人体是在很久以前就增加肾素与血管紧张素的,那时侯,人体的总血流量越来越少,人体的生命功能在步步下降,肝脏的藏血在减少,肝脏清洗人体的血液的比例在减少,人体的血液的颜色越来越深,血里的垃圾越来越多,垃圾只能沉淀在血管壁上,让血管的弹性变差,肺气的下降,肺布水的能力当然也减弱,血液就慢慢地变稠.血液的变稠,血液流量的不足使心脏原来的搏动力不足以把血顺利地供到全身,人体为了自救才增加肾素,是帮助心脏提升搏动力.是积极的,是人体的本能.人体的血从心脏送出来后要分布到全身还需要血管的一路加压,否则是到不了大脑,到不了手指脚趾的,现在由于血管里堆了垃圾,血管的弹性早已今不如昔,为了让血管运送血液的能力够,人体又为自己增加了血管紧张素,而这一切人体都是默默无声地完成的.当有一天人体的总血流量增加了,这当然是一件好事,但问题的矛盾一面就显现出来了,人体原来加在体内的肾素与血管紧张素还存在,现在血管里的血流量增加了,血管里的血流量多少同样会影响血压的高低.,如果人体的血不上升,人体老化的血管不可能逆转,人体的气机当然也不可能回升.所以血上升是必定的,血上升后,人体会有暂时的高血压高的现象,当人体的大脑得到信息反馈,人体会采取相应的步骤来调整.不要把人体看成是一无是处的另部件组装,要相信人体的能力,他是自然界最优秀的产物.

膝关节疼痛----------我妈妈左脚膝关节疼痛，疑是痛风，很惭愧，作为儿子的我不能为母亲分担痛楚，看了不少医生，也贴了不少膏药，就是不见好，后来老妈心疼钱，就再也不肯去看医生了，可是，有几天看她疼的走路都很难，她自己老说是因为自己睡觉时习惯侧睡，然后右脚压着左脚，长期以往形成的。我真不知道该怎么办了，我们（农村）好象有好几个人都有这种病。我妈妈51岁------------你母亲痛的是膝盖的内侧还是外侧?平时是很辛苦,还是较轻松?但现在先解决她的痛的问题是可以的,你在痛的地方反复做按摩,沿着大腿来来回回去捏,你会发现,越捏越松软,当膝盖附近都变软时就不痛了,刚开始时如果觉得太痛,你叫她把四个手指放在痛的地方,然后闭上眼睛,静心想手指按的地方,时间稍长一点,一定就没有那么痛了, 再开始推拿大腿,大部分可能是肝经和胃经.

糖尿病--------不是一个终身性的疾病,甚至可以说糖尿病不是一个病,他是人体为了自救而设立的一套应变措施.当人体每天的支出大于收入时.人体为了生存下去,就产生了一套正常人体没有的机制.那就是把人体的肌肉蛋白分解成糖分来补充能量的不足,人体是不会做任何伤害自己的事情的.由于分解出来的糖分都消耗掉了,所以已经有这套特殊机制的人在一般情况下也是查不出来的.人体为什么会收入低于支出,是没有食物,还是吃了却没有吸收?是吃了没有得到吸收,人体为什么会吸收不到足够的营养,是胆汁分泌不良.当人体长年累月吸收的营养不足以供人体造血的需要,供人体生存的需要时,在这种不得已的情况下人体才会设立这样一套机制来自救.当有一天人体自身的收入与支出改变了,不仅能收支平衡,而且是收入大于支出时,换一句话来讲就是人体自己吸收的营养多了,也就是吸收的蛋白够了,人体当然是用蛋白,而糖分就成了多余的东西.日积月累血里的糖比例就升高.也就是通常说的血糖高了. 血里的糖分高了人体为什么不回收,人体应该有能力处理这一件事.问题是当人体能力下坡时,也即当人体吸收的蛋白不够时,人体造的血也是越来越不够的,而人体的生命气机会同步下降,人体的许多功能都会随之停下来,胰脏的工作一定会停下来,当初根本没有糖分需要回收.现在虽然蛋白比以前多了,血也比以前多了, 生命的气机比以前活跃了,但那是一个百废待兴的阶段,胰脏的工作能力尚未恢复,人体还不可能回收糖分,这套机制的撤消也要一定的时间,一定的程序.那么血糖的升高会不会让人体造成酮中毒现象,这里有二种不同的情况,一种是会,另一种是不会.这二种不同的患者,西医能否分辨我不知道,但所有的中医都是能够分辨的.当人体的蛋白吸收增加时,人体造的血会逐步多起来,每天造好的血是在人体外循环的,也就是在人体的体表的,我们可以通过观察手背,手臂的血管变化看到这一现象.当人体在外循环的血累计到一定量时,人体会把血抽调到内脏,那时,你会看到原来手背手臂上的血管变细了.而血进了哪一个脏,人体一定会有相应的反映.如血进了人体的右叶肝,因为右叶肝与肺的关系密切,所以人体不仅有肝热的症状,还有肺热的症状,就易口渴,多饮.当人体的血是进了左叶的肝脏,与胃的关系密切,就胃口大开,能吃,善饥.肝与肾是母子关系,子能令母实,会使小便增加,另一方面,人体的能力刚开始回升,要进行大规模的自修复也是不可能的,但清除人体能力不够时堆积的垃圾是完全可以的,脂肪就是人体的垃圾,它是通过小便排出去的.上述情况是好事,人们只不过不了解而已,古代也有消渴这一病,只要解决三消,也就好了.现在有了检查血糖这么一件事,似乎问题就没有那么简单了.因为血糖问题要很长一段时间才能解决.西医为什么要把糖尿病定位在终身疾病这个位置,这有可能是西方医学解决不了,也有可能是财团的利益所在,所有的研究都要化费大量的经费,而研究人员绝大部分应该是没有钱的,财团出钱让你研究,当然有一个投资回报率,研究的最终目的是有点效,但必须长期服药,这才能让老板们满意.但这绝不可能是最好的医学,不可能是最符合广大患者利益的医学.

哮喘--------所有的哮喘都可以根治,永远与它不再见.你不用担心的,中医对哮喘的看法是五脏六腑都会喘,所以我们先要了解你弟弟的喘是属于那一种,你可否把他的情况说得详细一点或填写一张问诊单.但不管是那一种哮喘有两点是一定的都有的,那是所有哮喘病人共有的问题.一是气血一定不足,所以你一定要给他每天敲胆经,当然他自己能敲的话就自己敲,其他家人也可以帮助他敲.至于早睡对于他来讲应该不是问题吧.第二点就是所有哮喘病人都有一个生气的问题,无论什么原因造成的痰多都只是痰多而已,它不会喘,只有在既痰多又有气往上冲的时候才会哮喘.所以吃青陈皮水与压太冲，压膈俞就决不可少.目前你先给他敲胆经与压脚背上的太冲穴,让他营养吸收改善,让他以前生的气慢慢地降下来,你把你弟弟的情况反映上来后,再进一步讨论.

血压----------血压取决于心脏的博动力与血管里血的流量,血管壁的弹性,你还是一个很年轻的人,血管的弹性应该不是大问题,要老化也没有那么快,那么就讨论二个问题.一个是心肌搏动力的强弱,这是可以通过锻炼来强化的,跳绳,跑步,打球等,最后一个是血管里的血流量是够还是不够.西医用血色素的高低来说明人体的血是够还是不够,这样的做法是有很大的不足之处的.一滴血的浓度比不能说明人体的总血流量是够还是不够.目前还没有这样的概念,更没有检测的方法,但中医可以用采证的方法,来了解人体的气血状态.譬如,你的手掌的颜色,手臂血管的状态,嘴唇的颜色,牙床的状态等.要想让人体的血多起来倒是很容易,只要满足两个条件,人体的血就会多起来.有足够的造血材料与足够的造血时间.坚持经常敲胆经让人体吃下去的食物得到最好的吸收,造血材料就一定会够,因为现代人不缺少食物,绝大部分的人是吃了却不吸收.晚上早点睡就有了足够的造血时间,人是自然界的产物,他的造血时间是长期生存的特定环境下形成的,我们今天是无力也无法改变的.现代文明让夜生活变得丰富多采,很多人的睡眠时间违背了人的自然规律,结果伤害了自己,因为人体的造血时间是在天黑以后到半夜一点四十分以前的深度睡眠中,当然现代人不可能每天都在这段时间里睡眠,但你每周至少要有十二小时的深度睡眠是在这个范围内,你睡得对吗?

头痛----------不管是什么头痛,要根治必须要对症才行,但要他不痛到也不难,让你母亲每天早晨在床上未起床时一，先压五分钟或十分钟天池穴,把自己的大拇指压在乳头外侧一寸的地方.二,用自己双手的八个手指从正中开始,掐自己的头皮,八个手指轮流用力,要慢不要快,中间压一分钟后,向外移动一到二分,再压一分钟,再向外移动一到二分,再开始压,就这样把整个头皮压二遍,这样头皮上的积水出去了,心脏的搏动力(压天池)也有所增强,她的头就可以不痛了.但这不是解决根本的办法.

口腔内烂-------,直接的原因是胃热,但造成胃热的原因是胃本身有病灶,加上你的肝热.如果你只想要口腔溃疡好, 那就每天坚持敲五分钟左腿内侧的肝经,肝梢平你的口腔溃疡就会好,但这不解决问题.你的肝热是因为一是肝有病灶,二是自己的能力不够不足以控制肝脏的病, 六味地黄丸是从补肾着手,中医有水能涵木一说,但这也只能解决一时,你一定要解决睡眠的时段问题(也即不要睡得太晚,太晚睡,人体的造血时间不够,血越来越少的人.身体只有下坡一条路),如果有兴趣就再敲敲大腿外侧 (每条腿各五分钟),试一个月,自己体会一下,再来作决定.

口臭--------------一定还要抓一点能造血的时间的睡眠.注意自己观察自己的手掌颜色的变化,观察手臂血管粗细的变化,当你手掌颜色红起来,手臂血管变粗,然后手掌颜色又不红了,血管又变细了,那是告诉你你的血多了一点,人体把他抽进内脏去了,象你们年轻人大部分应该是进了肝脏, 这样反复几次,你的肝脏的藏血就会多起来,你的小便颜色就会比较黄,你人体的寒象就会变的,你现在小便应该是有泡的(看早晨第一次的小便),那时候小便就没有泡了,舌中间的裂纹也会没有了,血上升,肾气上升,肝热现象下降,你的胃热情况就改善.

小叶增生--------------你的女友的小叶增生是在左边还是右边,左边是舒泄肝气为主.右边是为脾解郁为主,无论左右,关键是她生气,除了吃药,一定要调节自己的情绪,要开心,另外可以经常压背上的膈俞穴与脚背上的太冲穴,帮助自己宽胸开膈.

心跳很快--------心跳快在中医里就是数脉,说白了,就是你的血已经少极了,使人体不得不用加快流速来维持你的生命,血越不够人体的正常工作就不能开展,你现在首先要让自己的血多起来,然后才能一步一步解决问题,我们现在的孩子年纪轻轻就疾病缠身,自己活得痛苦,家人也痛苦,其实病虽然各种各样千奇百怪,终极原因却只有一个,那就是孩子在小的时候处理风寒的方法不当,不是用中国人传统的方法解表去风寒,而是西医的压制法对抗法, 造成孩子们从小胆汁分泌不足,身体里养分不足,造的血就少,现在你要做的事情是强化自己的胆汁分泌,可以吃成药,上海有<金胆片>,可以吃汤药,上次网上有个医生开过利胆的方剂,用我的法宝就是去敲胆经,每天两次,每次两分钟.自己没有力气就请别人帮你敲,一个月左右就能自己敲了.晚上早点睡,别人我会说十点钟要睡了,对你我的要求是八到九点就去睡,情愿先睡,半夜里再起来工作.第三,自己为自己压心经的极泉穴,把右手的五个手指捏在一起然后伸到左手的胳肢窝正中,用一点力往里顶,是痛的,在自己能承受的力度范围,一直顶在那里,手酸了休息一会儿,再去做,每天不少于十分钟,心脏里的积水出去了,睡觉就没有关系了.要坚持敲胆经与早睡,你的身体才会有根本改变.

前一段时间生过气,很气--------压太冲穴与膈俞穴.吃三天青皮10克+陈皮10克+三杯水浸泡半小时去煮,煮开就关火,喝水去渣.

发热不退的情况---------人体发热有以下几种情况:一,有细菌感染,人体与细菌搏斗过程中,人体的能力有点不够,会造成心包积水,, 你要让他退热,就压脚跟外侧的昆仑穴,压心包经,压膻中穴,把耳朵贴在病人的腹部听里面的流水声,当流水声越来越响越来越流畅时,病人的左手的寸脉也一定由沉脉变平脉,这时候,他的热度就会退下去,如果身体里的白血球与细菌的搏斗还没有停止,热度到第二天还会上来,但没有关系,你就再照样做,一直到热度退尽为止.二,是风寒问题引起的,压风池穴一到二分钟,再用手摸一下病人的额头,如果有点凉下去,那么就是风寒问题,就压胸前的肺经别(只要压痛的一边), 要求同上,还可以压风池,尺泽,鱼际等穴.三,有时候从表证看很象是在赶风寒,但压风池与肺经别都不会痛,也没有水声,那么问一下最近小便是否较黄,半夜里是否起来小便,那样的话,问题在肝脏,以压肝经为主,尤其是右边的肝经,是肝热造成的肺热现象.四,是由于情绪造成的,你压一下是太冲穴痛还是背部的膈俞穴痛,太冲穴痛是有生气压太冲加心包等,膈俞穴痛是有闷气压膈俞穴加心包等,同时都要吃三天到五天的青皮10克+陈皮10克+水三杯浸泡半小时,然后煮开就好,当茶喝.用来破气与利气.

三年前的肺癌问题,我认为没有必要再在心中留有影印.不要去相信什么癌症复发的说法.等你朋友身体好了,我会说一套完全不同的观念给他听.

近视----------近视与肝脏有关,远视与肾脏有关,近视与远视都是可变的,在发生变化过程中就有散光现象,我们知道近视的人眼睛的黑睛较小,阴虚火重的人,肝血一定不足,如果他的肝脏又有问题(病毒),那么他一定是一个肝热的人,肝热会逼肾水,眼睛的睛体就呈收缩状态.收缩得越严重,近视程度也就越深.当人体的血多了,人体的肝热情况转变了,近视深度就会减轻.这就是许多人年轻时是近视,到老了就不近视的原因.很多孩子在成长过程中,近视的情况会变得很严重,那是因为这个孩子生长发育需要的血的量大于人体自己能造的血的量,血是人体的能量,在身体里有一个总量,而每个局部都占有一定的比例,生长发育对孩子来说是一件大事,人体会倾其所有支持这项工程.如果总血流量不足时,为了确保孩子的生长发育,身体的其他部门都要让道,原来的平衡就会打破.首当其冲的就是肝脏的藏血就要大量外调.这样一来肝热的情况就会变重,眼睛的近视程度就一天比一天加深.

左肾隐隐作痛---------那是因为你每天早晨第一次小便有泡泡,肾脏正在进行自修理,但来不及排除肾脏及肾经里的积水,肾脏积水所以肾脏位置有点隐痛,肾经有积水所以大腿根部会作痛,如果有拔罐器可以用拔罐的方法循经拔罐,不要拔得很深,浅浅地拔三,四个来回,明天再重复操作,有三天时间就可以解决了.

睡眠的品质不好----------是因为你肝火太旺(有外因,烦心的事多,有内因,你本身的肝脏与心脏都有些问题,肾水制约不了),所以最好压一点心经与肝经,当然也可以用拔罐来解决.还可以买100克青皮与100克陈皮分十份,每份加水三大杯浸泡半小时然后煮开当茶喝,开始每周喝两天,两周后每周只要喝一天,目的是帮助你破气与利气.使你身体里的邪气下降,你的睡眠问题就可以改善了.要让人体走向健康,关键是要让人体的血多起来,而要让自己的血多起来只要早睡(满足人体对造血时间的要求)与敲胆经(使人体营养吸收改善,为造血准备好材料).你的其他问题就会自行解决.因为人体是一个活体,他的生命的运转也象工厂生产一样离不开操作工人与原材料,而红血球就是身体里的操作工人,血浆则是身体里的原材料.

足癣-------人为什么会有足癣?是因为脚上有小水泡,当小水泡破了里面会有粘粘的浆水出来,而这浆水里有少量的蛋白,细菌就趁机在此生儿育女了.要使细菌无法生存下去, 光灭菌是不行的,如果没有了细菌的生存条件,你请它来它也不会来.小水泡才是问题的症结.脚上为什么会有小水泡,是因为某一条经络不通畅,经络里的积液带不出去,通往脚上的经络有六条,而经常有问题的是胃与肾,脚指是胃为主,脚跟是肾为主,当胃与肾的情况改善了,也就是它们的经络保持较通畅的状态,脚上的小水泡也就没有了.细菌是与我们共存的,没有条件它们就无法繁殖.

腰椎间盘突出------腰椎间盘突出的起因一定是用力不当,但这件事可以是发生在三，五年前,也可以更遥远,也就是当初曾经有外伤史,由于时间久了自己也忘了,所以腰椎间盘突出只是旧伤的痕迹,你今天提出这个问题,一定有什么不舒服去求医,,是西医给你的诊断结果,这和你的不舒服无关,因没有可供分析的资料,只能推测,你压一下小肠俞和大肠俞,那一个穴位痛就压那一条经,那一条经压通了,你的困扰就没有了.

早搏----------早博是因为心包有积水，你下载一套经络系统图，然后自己去压昆仑穴，膈俞穴，太冲穴与膻中穴及心包经别心包经。

胆结石----------胆结石是用不着开刀的,因为胆结石是当胆汁疏泄通道不畅时,胆汁浓度日益升高造成结晶析出, 当胆囊里有细胞脱落物或虫卵时就凝聚在上面形成胆结石,一旦胆汁疏泄通道畅通,胆结石就自己化掉了.胆结石虽然是石头,但本身是不会痛的,只有肺热的时候或肝脏有积水的时候压迫到胆结石时才会有痛感.你现在不用为结石去烦恼,因为你的结石已在变小,因为结石只有在开始变小的时候才查得出来.你现在只是要解决痛的问题,他有两个可能,一是肺二是肝,我从上面的资料里看不出你是属于那个脏,你就把这两个脏的经络都压一下,哪个脏的经络痛,就是由那个脏引起的. 你只要把那个脏的经络压通,不仅胆结石不会痛了,其他的不舒服也解决了.而肺的风寒不断被赶出去或肝脏的能力不断提升正是胆汁通道在疏泄的表现.

偏头痛---------我曾经是一个象你一样靠止痛片过日子的学生,后来工作了,有很长一段时间不头痛,到了四十几岁又开始头痛, 尤其到了冬天,要带二个绒线帽才好过一点.当然也看了不少次医生,都没有解决,后来因病自学中医,明白了一个道理,头痛的问题并不在头,而是人体能力不够时控制不住肠胃的细菌,当你的肠胃里的病灶与头上的某一部分对应有积水时,那部分就会痛.解决痛的问题只要做二件事,一，直接用你自己的手指甲反复掐痛的地方及周围,指甲掐的时候要慢慢地停留在那儿,让那儿的积水出去(你可以仔细摸摸整个头皮,你会发现,痛的部分的头皮比较厚,当你反复压,掐那部分后,头皮里的积水出去了,头皮就变薄了,也就不痛了).二,压心包经的天池穴,膻中穴或心经的极泉穴,每穴压二分种,同样可以让头不痛.但这这是一种权宜之计, 要彻底解决你的头痛问题还是一句老话,要让人体的气血上升.只有人体的气血上升了,也就是穷人要脱贫生活才会好起来一样,人体的健康才会有保证.

牙痛---------不用去看牙医,应该吃三天青陈皮煮的水,急破肝气与理肝气,同时每二小时压五到十分钟太冲穴,并用冥想的方法让自己的气从上往下导引.求诊者已明确告诉我们是着急生气才引起的牙痛,你让她看牙医是不能解决问题的.她的牙齿问题是由来已久的,是因为她胃有些问题,胃经路过的地方与这牙齿对应,这不是马上可以解决的问题,但肝气破掉后,牙齿的红肿是可以马上解决的.

青皮12克+陈皮12克+水三杯浸泡半小时,然后煮开就可以,喝水去渣.

太冲穴在脚背上,大脚趾与次趾中间,脚背骨的下面,按压时会很痛,反复压,慢慢就会不痛的,太冲穴不痛牙齿的红肿就会退了.

孩子三岁半感冒----------首先,你的孩子会生病,生的病是表示你的孩子身体有能力驱赶已经入侵她身体的风寒, 这是一件好事,孩子一离开娘胎就与自然接触,就是自然界的一员,她的一生必然是与自然界奋力搏斗的一生,这与任何一个人一样,要与风寒暑热搏斗,要与细菌病毒搏斗,长大一点还要与七情六欲搏斗.你不可能创造一个特定的环境,让她与世隔绝.今天她的生病是因为她的血有所上升(与以前比),从你所说的情况看, 她的血是进了左叶肝.左肝与胃的关系较密切,带动了胃,你看一下孩子早晨第一次的小便,颜色偏黄,气味较重.肝主升,所以胃里的痰会往上涌,这样情况下睡觉就易打呼噜.因为胃里有病灶,就易生痰.肝气往上升会使肺热,将原来入侵在肺里的寒气逼出去,就有了似乎是感冒的体症.这就是为什么有人感冒了要吃午时茶,姜茶,而有人感冒了却要吃板兰根.如果不发高烧,最好是什么药也不要吃,人体自己在修理自己,你总要给他一点时间啊,他打胜一仗,自己就会停的,你让她多一点休息,多喝一点水,如果口渴得较厉害,可以煮一点石斛水让她养阴生津,打仗总是辛苦的吗.你也可以用小儿推拿的方法,帮她捏捏肺经,捏捏肝经,捏捏心包经.老实说孩子没有什么大病,无非是有风寒,有细菌.经常捏捏上面三条经,生病时一直捏,即使发烧也会好.但是当孩子有风寒要出去时,因为有些发烧有些表症,我们就人为地用药把它压制下去,造成的后果是极为可怕的.有谁知道现代人的糖尿病特别多就是因为孩子时风寒出不去.现在网上求救的那些年轻人都是孩子时的一次错误治疗造成的后果.让我们的孩子勇敢地去与风寒搏斗,流鼻水打喷嚏发一点烧是没有关系的,千万不要保护过头,爱之反而害之.

干咳无痰----------我知道的有这样两种,一种是喉咙有点痒痒的感觉,咳的时候也一直在喉咙口,这种人吃东西的时候不咳,睡着的时候不咳,但躺下去时与早晨三,四点的时候会咳得厉害一点,平时一直会咳,太冲穴压一会儿,喉咙口的痒痒感觉没有了,就不想咳了,是生气造成肝气上逆,平肝可以止咳.另外一种是肠咳,没有预警的突然有一股气从腹部冲上来,患者就会咳一阵子,过后又没有什么感觉了,但咳的时候有的人很辛苦, 有的时候有点象呛的感觉.患者自己可以知道气是从腹部哪个方位冲上来的.那是因为患者腹部大肠或者小肠有一个病灶有水肿,堵住了肠里气体的排放,达到一定腹压的时候,气体要冲出去,下面不通,就往上面来了.按照患者提供的部位,不难找到病灶所在,轻轻地推压那个部位,可以使那个病灶的积水出去一点,也就是肿的情况改善一点,使肠里的气能从下面出去一点.咳就会好一点.

不怕辣---------四川人为什么爱吃辣,江西人为什么不怕辣,而湖南人又为什么辣不怕?中医有五脏五味之说,肺气不够的人爱吃辣,祖国有一大片土地上的人爱吃辣,而这片土地是在西南方,这片土地有什么奥秘会孕育出一大片辣不怕的人,很早很早以前,这片土地上很多地方有瘴气,生活在这儿的人都会有感染瘴气的可能,有的死了,有的活了下来,活下来的人群中有的已彻底解决了瘴气问题,但一定有很大一部分人群只是暂时平衡而已,瘴气致病的原因用现在的观念来看应该是病毒在起作用,病毒个儿小,它几乎可以到人体的任何部位,而血液里应该是它们最喜欢的地方,所以只要父母双方有一人带有病毒,他们的孩子就有可能带有病毒,带病毒的人肝一定偏热,肺与肝的关系是金克木,木太旺,造成肺气相对不足,也造就了一片爱吃辣,不怕辣与辣不怕的人群. 我罗哩罗唆说了一堆废话是为了告诉你和所有肝炎患者不用为此太烦恼,人体与病毒的搏斗是由来已久的,人体有丰富的经验,问题是你本身的能力够不够,这就是为什么有的人没有事,有的人就有事,要想你的身体能力上升到能控制病毒,上升到能消灭病毒,你要做的事就是让你的血,你人体里的总血流量不断上升,有了血,人体的气机自然会步步上升,血能生气,气能帅血,随着正气的上升,人体能克敌与无形.血上升的方法我只有一招,敲大腿外侧的胆经与适当早睡,注意观察自己手臂,手背上的血管的变化,注意自己手掌颜色的变化,只要你注意了,你一定能知道自己的血是不是多了,当血多了时,你不仅敲大腿外侧的胆经,同时敲大腿内侧的肝经.试试看吧,反正不要钱,等不行时再找要钱的好了.

肥厚性鼻炎--------把你的手指放到你的胃部,仔细地,慢慢地摸,我想你一定能摸到一个块,这个块还会跳.你的鼻炎问题实际上是与胃里的这个病灶有关,你把双手放在病灶上面,用心想那里,同时双手作顺时针转动(很慢很慢),做十分种,你会发现你的鼻塞情况有了改善. 这只是让你知道问题出在那里,但要解决这个病灶,你人体的气血必须上升,以前的治疗所以疗效不佳,关键是你自己的身体水平没有到位,要求如下:一,早睡 (你做得到吗?每周至少有十四小时的深度睡眠时间是在人体能够造血的时段内,在天黑以后到半夜一点四十分以前这段时间,人体深度睡眠时,人体才能造血,人的睡眠从假眠状态到半睡眠状态,大约要一个小时左右,然后才能进入深度睡眠),也就是说你必须十点半以前去睡觉,有时候睡晚了,明后天你必须补回来.二, 去敲胆经(在大腿外侧,从屁股开始沿大腿敲到膝盖),三,敲肝经(大腿内侧),四,敲胃经(大腿的平面),五,晚上睡觉时,放双手在胃部做顺时针转动,意念留在胃部,做十分钟.有兴趣就试试.

口腔异味---------的病不在口腔,在胃,因为胃热,胃热有二个因素,一,你的胃里有细菌感染的病灶.二,是你的肝很热.我虽然不认识你,但我知道你是一个浓眉,头发较黑,粗,硬的人,上嘴唇往上翘,偏厚的人.要解决你的口腔问题,先要解决你的肝脏问题,而要有能力使你的肝脏的热下来,是要你人体的血够,人体才能制约身体里的病毒,你的肝热才会下降.每天敲大腿外侧的胆经三分钟(平坐,右腿搁在左腿上,用自己的空心拳从屁股开始敲.沿大腿外侧一直敲到膝盖,要敲两条腿）(人体的造血材料)

每天十点半以前要上床睡觉(人体的造血时间)可以早睡,不可以晚睡,今天睡晚了,明天或后天要把他补回来,等到你的问题解决了,也要在十一点睡觉.每天敲胆经对面的肝经.尤其是左腿.在床上平坐,让自己的大腿内侧面朝上.中间就是肝经,可以敲,可以用手指去压,会痛,经常压,压到不痛.三个月可以见效,半年左右应该差不多了.试试吧。

風 - 區瑞強

風 - 區瑞強

曲:Hashida Kitayama 詞:區瑞強,林孝昇 主唱:區瑞強

浮雲遊向我伴我身邊借問句,想知道我是誰?
為何常與清風結伴侶,他方裡作一對?
昂然前去呼呼風勁吹,途經多少山與水,
找一處寧靜倦極躺睡,這份閒情願記取.

垂頭還乍見青草似浪裡,輕擺舞腳伴隨,
唯盼無語帶笑,靜望著天地,
斜陽伴這風裡.

老眼不昏花，談老化眼疾病症

老眼不昏花，談老化眼疾病症
【張朝凱 醫師 / 諾貝爾眼科雷射機構】
關鍵字：老人疾病眼部保健老花眼乾眼症
一般人過了三十歲以後，隨著年歲的增長，身體機能就開始退化，各器官也逐漸出現老化的現，就眼科來說，老花眼的現象就是老化的一天警訊。

與老化有關的常見眼疾包括：

老花眼

老花眼的原因是由於人過四十歲之後，水晶體逐漸硬化，調節力日益衰弱。而其症狀包括近距離的看物或工作眼睛易感酸澀、疲勞，甚至頭痛、頭昏等。

要矯正老花眼，需配戴凸面球鏡來矯正。原本就帶眼鏡（凹面球鏡）的近視族，此時若戴著近視眼鏡閱讀反而是看不清楚，而必須脫掉眼鏡或改用度數較淺的近視眼鏡，但看遠時仍需原來的近視眼鏡，不僅不能抵銷，反而增加一道麻煩，所以老花眼鏡對近視族而這並不是一大福音。

老花眼的治療，唯有戴眼鏡一途，基於看遠、看近，不論用手術（雷射）矯正近視或遠視都無法無法一石二鳥，僅能擇其一。

乾眼症

隨著年齡的老化，結膜上皮細胞與淚腺組織的退化，淚液日漸減少，加上經年累月的結膜或角膜病變（如慢性結膜炎、砂眼等），使得眼睛變得乾澀與刺痛，造成怕光、流淚等症狀，病情雖不嚴重，但常給老年人困擾。

單純的乾眼症可用人工淚液來改善，但如伴有其他病變，需至眼科做進一步的檢查與治療，不要自行用藥，延誤了病情。

青光眼

青光眼是因眼球內的房水受阻塞，不能順利排出，使得眼球內壓升高所致。老年人由於水晶體老化及眼內排水系統的退化，導致眼內壓力過高，易造成閉鎖性或開放性青光眼。因此，若不及早治療，會壓迫視神經，除了影響視力及視，甚至會導致失明。

青光眼的治療，目前以藥物、雷射、手術三種方法為主。眼科醫師會依病情選擇適當的治療方式，另外，建議四十歲以上的人，每年至少做一次眼壓檢查，這樣才能達到「早期發現、早期治療」的目的。

白內障

白內障是水晶體不再是清澈透明，慢慢變得混濁，光線進入眼睛無法完全穿透，呈現視覺模糊的狀態。白內障是老年人最普遍的眼疾，其治療方法以手術摘除配合人工水晶體的置換術為主。隨著醫學的日新月異，治療白內障的方法不斷陳新，各種人工水晶體的發明，手術顯微鏡的使用，以及超音波手術及雷射的應用，使得白內障手術不再是老年人的夢魘，一夜之間重建光明也不再是奢求。因此，選擇手術的時機要慎重考量，在決定手術前後，要多與眼科醫師作溝通，以達到良好的治療效果。

老化性黃斑部退化性病變

老年人的視網膜由於血液循環障礙，如高血脂、高血壓或糖尿病等疾病，使得黃斑部容易產生退化性病變，視力減退，中心視力出現黑點或黑影，日漸擴大遮住視力，這也是老人家失明最常見的原因。

退化性黃斑部病變的治療也有藥物及雷射治療等方法，但效果並不顯著，幫助有限。唯有從日常生活作好視力檢查、均衡飲食、適度運動，並作好糖尿病、高血壓等疾病的控制，才是預防老年黃斑部退化的最好方法。

人的老化不可避免，要預防老年人的眼疾，只有從早期發現及早治療，以減低傷害，不論驗光配鏡、白內障、青光眼或黃斑部退化，均可從定期眼科檢查中及早診斷適時治療，因此每年定期體檢、定期眼科檢查及遇有不適立即就醫，是預防老人眼疾的最佳選擇。

What is Center of Excellence

To hell with it!~
It is just a term created by some people for themselves to feel good and important.
We remain a group of plain professional IT Support team.
No matter what others call us eventually, we are still here to serve the users and customers, support and the business and enable new processes and initiatives.
The new label is not going to change the entire business ecosystems. Period.

Gout: 6 Ways to Tame the Pain

6 Ways to Tame the Pain

Last night, you fell into bed, exhausted from the day... you drifted into a peaceful sleep... and then it happened. You awoke to an excruciating pain in your big toe. When you turned on the light and took a look, you found that your big toe was red, swollen, and hot to the touch. No matter what you tried, the pain didn't subside.
When you finally made it in to your doctor's office, she took some blood tests and made her diagnosis. You have gout, she said. But when you reached into your memory bank to pull out what you knew about the disease, all you could think of was reading about it in history books. Well, here's a short refresher course.
"Gout was formally introduced in the Thirteenth century, but was described by
Hippocrates long before that, says Don Stewart, M.D., chairman of the family practice department at Overlake Hospital and Medical Center in Bellevue, Washington.
The classic symptom is pain in the joint at the base of the big toe, he continues. But gout can affect any other joint of the feet and hands, as well as the knees, shoulders, and elbows. Sometimes you'll even get a fever and chills because the joint gets so swollen and inflamed, he adds. Gout comes on very suddenly, produces severe pain, and usually lasts three to five days if untreated. But Stewart warns that it can recur and last a lot longer than that. Many patients describe gnawing pain accompanied by a feeling of pressure and tightening in the area. The pain is like that of a dislocation, yet the parts feel as if cold water were being poured over them, says Denise Kraft, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., a family practitioner in private practice in Bellevue, Washington.
There are several conditions that can result in gout, but the primary cause is an abnormally high level of uric acid in the blood, either from the body's producing too much or from the body's not excreting it properly. Uric acid is a waste product of cell activity. When the level of uric acid in the blood increases, sodium urate crystals may form. The crystal deposition in itself is not sympto-matic, says Peter A. Simkin, M.D., a rheumatologist and professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. It's when those crystals deposit in a joint and cause arthritis that you start to see the classic symptoms of gout.
High blood pressure and obesity are also contributing factors, says Kraft. Stewart adds that diseases involving the breakdown of tissue including cancer, lymphoma, psoriasis, and anemia can cause high levels of uric acid in the blood and result in an attack of gout.
Gout is overwhelmingly a problem in men rather than women because women are more efficient in the way they excrete uric acid in the kidneys, says Simkin. Stewart clarifies this further. Gout is classically a disease of middle-aged men who are fat and who drink too much, he says. But frequently it affects perfectly healthy individuals as well. Severe dehydration can also bring on an attack of gout, says Kraft.
Gout itself isn't necessarily dangerous, but the underlying causes for it are, warns Stewart. Gout, therefore, requires diagnosis and treatment by a doctor. Once you've seen your physician, however, there are a few things you should do on your own.

Don't put any weight on the joint.
This usually means staying off of your feet as much as possible until the episode subsides, according to Stewart. Any pressure you put on the joint will increase the pain and possibly damage the area further. This is a serious condition because it can go on to cause a lot of major joint damage and destruction, warns Stewart.

Keep the joint elevated.
This again will reduce some of the pain and keep the blood from rushing to the area, which can cause additional inflammation, says Stewart.

Immobilize the joint.
This could be achieved by lying still or by actually building a splint for the joint, says Kraft. The less you move the joint, the better it will feel.

Take ibuprofen.
This will help to reduce some of the swelling and decrease some of the pain associated with that swelling, says Kraft. Both ibuprofen and aspirin are anti-inflammatories, but Stewart warns against taking aspirin to relieve the symptoms. Aspirin in low levels can actually exacerbate the problem, he says.

Avoid icing or heating the area.
Heat may feel good on the area, but it also increases circulation to the area and brings in more white blood cells, which can make it more irritated, says Kraft. Simkin adds that icing the joint can cause more crystals to form.

Wear comfortable shoes.
Many people like to wear stylish shoes with narrow, pointed toes. But any shoe that forces the big toe inward can make the problem of gout worse, says Simkin.

Symptoms and Statistics

Although the big toe is a common place for it to start, the painful aching of gout can be felt in joints in almost any part of the body, but never in the spine.
Gout is often extremely painful and it is by no means rare. It affects 16 men in every 1000, but is less common in women (3 in every 1000), who rarely suffer from it before the menopause.

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Preventing Attacks of Gout
If you have a tendency toward attacks of gout, there are a few things that you can do to help ward off these attacks. Taking any medications prescribed by your doctor is the first step. The following measures can also help, whether used in conjunction with prescribed medication or, if no medication has been prescribed, on their own.
Maintain desirable weight. Since obesity is a contributing factor, Denise Kraft, M.D., FA.A.FP, and Peter A. Simkin, M.D., recommend getting down to a healthy weight. This should not be done with a crash diet that promotes rapid weight loss, warns Simkin. Dietary reduction should be achieved with a balanced-calorie diet and should promote gradual weight loss, he continues. Kraft specifically recommends a moderate protein, low-fat diet. Talk to your doctor or to a nutritionist if you need help in setting up such a diet plan.

Avoid alcohol. Beer, wine, and ale are especially bad, as they can precipitate attacks of gout, says Krafi. Alcohol is a problem because it causes urate retention, adds Simkin.

Avoid nonprescription water pills and other diuretics. These things tend to keep you from properly excreting uric acid, which enables it to build up in your system and cause gout attacks, says Don Stewart, MD. If you have been prescribed a diuretic for another condition, such as high blood pressure, be sure the doctor knows that you have a tendency toward attacks of gout.

Drink eight six ounce glasses of fluid a day. In addition to causing gout, high serum urate levels can also cause kidney stones. Keeping your fluid intake up tends to reduce the amount of crystallization and lessen your chance of developing stones, says Kraft.

Wear comfortable, well-fitting shoes. In addition to relieving some of the pain of an attack of gout, wearing comfortable shoes can also help to prevent these attacks, says Simkin.

Check out your diet......maybe. One treatment for gout that was recommended in the past was to stay on a low-purine diet. On theoretical grounds, avoiding the high-purine foods makes all the sense in the world The problem is, going from a regular diet to a diet free of purines in general makes only a modest change in the serum urate levels of patients, says Simkin. Purine is largely found in the organ meats, adds Stewart. Anchovies, sardines, legumes, and poultry are also high in purines. If you are willing to try a low-purine diet, go ahead. It won't hurt you. But don't expect it to help much either.

THE PROBLEM WITH PURINES

People who suffer from gout are generally put on a course of drugs, but they may also be advised to cut down on foods that are high in purines since high intakes of these foods can increase levels of uric acid in the blood, causing uric acid salts to be deposited in the joints. High-purine foods include offal, game, anchovies, sardines, poultry, shellfish and pulses. Low-purine foods include fruit and fruit juices, nuts, dairy produce, eggs and vegetables with the exception of asparagus, cauliflower, peas, spinach and mushrooms.

FISH OILS

Research studies have found that omega-3 fatty acids can decrease the body's output of inflammatory compounds. Gout sufferers may find that fish-oil supplements, which contain omega-3 fatty acids, can offer some relief for painful swelling of the joints.

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Bernard Shaw visited Shanghai in 1933 but just for one day.

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My First Computer is a Commodore 64!

This is my FIRST computer when I bought it in Edinburgh in 1983 along Princes Street. And from then onwards, I began my long and interesting journey into my IT career.

It was a damn big deal at that time since not many people have computer at home. It cost me almost 1000 sterling pound and all I had was a keyboard with motherboard all in one box.

I bought the other items like the monitor and floppy disk drive in 1985 when I was back in Singapore. Since then I was very happy to be programming Basic and play some fantastic games that is rather lousy by today's standard.

It was a great adventure for me since I had no formal education in computing.

5mb Disk Picture Taken in 1956

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.^[1][2] Some of his arias, such as "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La bohème, and "Nessun dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture.

Guggenheim / Bilbao

俺たちの旅／中村雅俊

浪花節だよ人生は 『望月想愛人』～ 細川たかし 【Hosokawa Takashi】

細川たかし 北酒場

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Affinity

affinity [əf'ɪnɪti]

If you have an affinity with someone or something, you feel that you are similar to them or that you know and understand them very well.

If people or things have an affinity with each other, they are similar in some ways.

Clout Depends on Culture Too

The Australian GM is has beentrying hard to change the Singapore office business culture but have not been too smooth about it. He has a number of set-backs since his arrival. His problem is his strong Australian influence. He is unable to convince the others that he is international. In order to make the change, he must have thew clout to push thru his idea and initiatives. He he does not have the clout because of his in-born nature as a foreigner, he must at least have the savvy to win over the company's stakeholders - especially his local key managers.

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Commoditization

Fun Lecture about Spaghetti Sauce Inspiration

康健雜誌：打破迷思》喝水不能排毒、減重

康健雜誌：打破迷思》喝水不能排毒、減重

<<打破迷思>> 喝水不能排毒、減重
喝水並不像一般觀念中認為的會排毒、減重、增加新陳代謝？…菠菜＝纖維＋多種維生素＋礦物質＋抗氧化效果很好的葉黃素＋玉米黃素？菠菜每100克只含鐵量2.7克…感冒吃維生素C並不會減輕症狀？…
文．謝忠道 　攝影．鄭佳玲繪
2008/12 康健雜誌 121期
最近一份美國臨床實驗報告出爐，結果讓大家都傻了眼：原來喝水並不像一般觀念中認為的會排毒、減重、增加新陳代謝。
這份報告也推翻了另一個健康的老梗：每天喝1.5公升的水有益健康。其實沒有。
每人每天喝水量可以依個人狀況調適，運動量大的人自然該多喝，運動量少的人也不一定要兩大瓶，渴了就喝，不渴沒必要強灌，（健康的）身體自然會發出訊息告訴你該不該喝。
活在21世紀，許多東西技術真是日新又新，電腦網路在短短十年間徹底改變我們的生活作息，ipod、iphone幾年內讓世代交替變得更急速，然而，許多陳舊頑固的概念卻始終不會隨世代而修訂，或許是我們對健康、對身體太在意，寧可錯信，不願誤信？
比如，我相信很多人都還堅信「菠菜含豐富鐵質，想補充鐵（尤其補血）的人該多吃菠菜」。其實並不。
牡蠣、蚌殼、內臟、紅肉 含鐵量高
每100克菠菜葉中僅含2.1毫克的鐵，在我們經常攝取的食物中不算特別，牡蠣、蚌殼、動物內臟（豬肝雞肝牛腰等），甚至紅肉（牛豬肉）都比菠菜含鐵量高，而且蔬菜裡的鐵質比動物鐵質較不易被人體吸收。所以除非閣下吃素，不然補鐵（或補血）時菠菜並非最好的選擇。　我做了一個小小的搜尋，發現「菠菜含高鐵質」這個老舊而錯誤的觀念，不完全是大力水手卜派的錯（五年級以上的人應該知道我在說哪一號人物吧），這個錯誤其實是一百多年前發生的，一個科學家小小的筆誤。　1870年德國生物學家E, von Wolf在一份分析食物營養成分的報表上，不小心將每100克的菠菜含鐵量數字上忘了一個小數點，變成10倍。這個無心的小錯隔了幾年又被一個瑞士Bale大學教授Gustav von Bunge引用，變成菠菜乾的含量，而非新鮮菠菜。最後大力水手卜派卡通一上場開菠菜罐頭，讓全世界的媽媽，儘管小孩尖叫狂鬧，淚眼飛飆，還是要逼孩子吞下無數苦澀難嚥的菠菜葉。　很難想像百年後這個觀念仍深植人心吧？
如果要替菠菜驗明正身，它最值得吃的營養該是豐富的纖維、多種維生素和礦物質，以及抗氧化效果很好、對眼睛很好的葉黃素（lutein）和玉米黃素（zeaxanthin），而絕不是鐵質。
不過菠菜也不是完全沒有壞處：它含有草酸鹽，容易讓尿結石或腎結石復發，還可能引起痛風。此外，因為需要大量的氮施肥幫助生長，經常含有對人體有害的硝酸鹽。
法國最新一期《Que Choisir》雜誌做了一份「虛假的健康補充食品」報導，其中對許多宣稱有各種瘦身減重或是增強活力等效果的營養補充食品做測試，也對一些固有觀念或錯解提出澄清和解釋。其中一項就是維生素C。　研究發現，感冒吃維生素C並不會減輕症狀，維生素C真正的好處是抗氧化，延緩細胞老化。
有必要每天一顆嗎？根據法國實驗室AgroParisTech研究員Ines Birlouez表示：沒必要，除非你是攝取極少量蔬果的人。但是如果你的蔬果攝取量過少，建議你改變飲食習慣，做到均衡營養，而不是「補充」營養食品或健康食品，因為「由蔬果帶來的維生素C人體器官較容易攝取吸收」。　報導中也針對Omega-3和瘦身減重的營養產品做深入的解釋，原來我們許多的「健康」觀念都是產品廠商的「置入性行銷」。正確的資訊觀念經常被廣告宣傳淹沒吞食，廠商藥商要我們相信什麼，販賣觀念經常也就是販賣產品，只是一般民眾的警覺心和懷疑心會降低些。更何況，牽涉到健康與身體，我們總是傾向「寧可信其有，不可信其無」。長期過量，會造成細胞老化　根據法國食品安全局的看法：攝取不必要的營養，會造成人體器官的運作失衡。而且有些營養是一刀雙刃的。　再拿維生素C做例子，過量會造成尿結石和消化不良，長期過量，甚至引起反效果，造成細胞提前老化。　每每讀到這些，總想起祖先留下的一些智慧：藥也是毒，端看你如何使用。現在也該補上一句：還要看你的觀念正不正確。◎本專欄反映專家意見，不代表本社立場。◎有其它無解的迷思想要發問，請至【請問Dr.H】。

Fidelity Independent Adviser

Fidelity Independent Adviser

Nutrition.com.sg - Ask the Dietitian - Gout

Nutrition.com.sg - Ask the Dietitian - Gout

Michael Jackson Has A Problem On Stage (Jam In Moscow)

Michael Jackson Has A Problem On Stage (Jam In Moscow)
The stage floor is simple too slippery.

Michael Jackson Dangerous Tour in Taipei

Dangerous Tour in Taipei

Michael Jackson History Intro ( Teaser ) Brilliant work HQ

Michael Jackson History Intro Sharp Picture Film

Dangerous Tour Part 1 Michael Jackson Jam Live Bucharest (High Quality)

This is even higher quality.

Michael Jackson Dangerous Tour

I was there... and we were all lost how he came on stage all of a sudden.
It was so darn cool!

Hyperbaric medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hyperbaric medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Jackson sleeps in one of these capsule...

YouTube - Endless Moonwalk / Billie Jean

YouTube - Endless Moonwalk / Billie Jean

Goodbye Michael...

YouTube - Singlish Valentines Day (Hillarious)

YouTube - Singlish Valentines Day (Hillarious)

Bird Thongchai - Boomerang

Bird Thongchai - Koo Gud

Bird Thongchai McIntyre - Prig kee noo

Royce Chocolate is Japanese..

肖邦革命练习曲

肖邦 黑键

YouTube - Scott Joplin - The Entertainer

YouTube - Scott Joplin - The Entertainer

风花雪月大酒店--大理风花雪月大酒店、大理茶花旅游企业集团、

风花雪月大酒店--大理风花雪月大酒店、大理茶花旅游企业集团、

badminton-Challenger SQ 9200

badminton-Challenger SQ 9200

VICTOR 挑战者 SQ9200 特价羽毛球拍--北京健之乐羽毛球商城

VICTOR 挑战者 SQ9200 特价羽毛球拍--北京健之乐羽毛球商城

Tony Orlando - Knock Three Times Lyrics

Tony Orlando - Knock Three Times Lyrics

List of poker hands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of poker hands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rules of Card Games: Poker Hand Ranking

Rules of Card Games: Poker Hand Ranking

Ranking of Poker Hands
This page describes the ranking of poker hands. This applies to the game of poker of course, but is also used in other card games such as Chinese Poker, Chicago, Poker Menteur and Pai Gow Poker.
• Standard Poker Hand Ranking
• Low Poker Ranking
• Ranking of Suits
• Poker Hand Ranking with Wild Cards
• Hand probabilities and multiple decks - probability tables
Standard Poker Hand Ranking
There are 52 cards in the pack, and the ranking of the individual cards, from high to low, is ace, king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal.
A poker hand consists of five cards. The categories of hand, from highest to lowest, are listed below. Any hand in a higher category beats any hand in a lower category (so for example any three of a kind beats any two pairs). Between hands in the same category the rank of the individual cards decides which is better, as described in more detail below.
In games where a player has more than five cards and selects five to form a poker hand, the remaining cards do not play any part in the ranking. Poker ranks are always based on five cards only.
Some readers may wonder why I deal with how to compare (say) two threes of a kind of equal rank. This obviously cannot arise in basic draw poker, but such comparisons are needed in poker games using shared (community) cards, such as Texas Hold'em, in poker games with wild cards, and in other card games using poker combinations, such as poker menteur.
1. Royal Flush
This is the highest poker hand. It consists of ace, king, queen, jack, ten, all in the same suit. As all suits are equal, all royal flushes are equal.
2. Straight Flush
Five cards of the same suit in sequence - such as J- 10- 9- 8- 7. Between two straight flushes, the one containing the higher top card is higher. An ace can be counted as low, so 5- 4- 3- 2- A is a straight flush, but its top card is the five, not the ace, so it is the lowest type of straight flush. The cards cannot "turn the corner": 4- 3- 2- A- K is not valid.
3. Four of a kind
Four cards of the same rank - such as four queens. The fifth card can be anything. This combination is sometimes known as "quads", and in some parts of Europe it is called a "poker", though this term for it is unknown in English. Between two fours of a kind, the one with the higher set of four cards is higher - so 3-3-3-3-A is beaten by 4-4-4-4-2. It can't happen in standard poker, but if in some other game you need to compare two fours of a kind where the sets of four cards are of the same rank, then the one with the higher fifth card is better.
4. Full House
This consists of three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank - for example three sevens and two tens (colloquially known as "sevens full" or more specifically "sevens on tens"). When comparing full houses, the rank of the three cards determines which is higher. For example 9-9-9-4-4 beats 8-8-8-A-A. If the threes of a kind were equal, the rank of the pairs would decide.
5. Flush
Five cards of the same suit. When comparing two flushes, the highest card determines which is higher. If the highest cards are equal then the second highest card is compared; if those are equal too, then the third highest card, and so on. For example K- J- 9- 3- 2 beats K- J- 7- 6- 5 because the nine beats the seven.
6. Straight
Five cards of mixed suits in sequence - for example Q- J- 10- 9- 8. When comparing two sequences, the one with the higher ranking top card is better. Ace can count high or low in a straight, but not both at once, so A-K-Q-J-10 and 5-4-3-2-A are valid straights, but 2-A-K-Q-J is not. 5-4-3-2-A is the lowest kind of straight, the top card being the five.
7. Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same rank plus two other cards. This combination is also known as Triplets or Trips. When comparing two threes of a kind the hand in which the three equal cards are of higher rank is better. So for example 5-5-5-3-2 beats 4-4-4-K-Q. If you have to compare two threes of a kind where the sets of three are of equal rank, then the higher of the two remaining cards in each hand are compared, and if those are equal, the lower odd card is compared.
8. Two Pairs
A pair is two cards of equal rank. In a hand with two pairs, the two pairs are of different ranks (otherwise you would have four of a kind), and there is an odd card to make the hand up to five cards. When comparing hands with two pairs, the hand with the highest pair wins, irrespective of the rank of the other cards - so J-J-2-2-4 beats 10-10-9-9-8 because the jacks beat the tens. If the higher pairs are equal, the lower pairs are compared, so that for example 8-8-6-6-3 beats 8-8-5-5-K. Finally, if both pairs are the same, the odd cards are compared, so Q-Q-5-5-8 beats Q-Q-5-5-4.
9. Pair
A hand with two cards of equal rank and three other cards which do not match these or each other. When comparing two such hands, the hand with the higher pair is better - so for example 6-6-4-3-2 beats 5-5-A-K-Q. If the pairs are equal, compare the highest ranking odd cards from each hand; if these are equal compare the second highest odd card, and if these are equal too compare the lowest odd cards. So J-J-A-9-3 beats J-J-A-8-7 because the 9 beats the 8.
10. High Card
Five cards which do not form any of the combinations listed above. When comparing two such hands, the one with the better highest card wins. If the highest cards are equal the second cards are compared; if they are equal too the third cards are compared, and so on. So A-J-9-5-3 beats A-10-9-6-4 because the jack beats the ten.
Notes on Low Poker
When playing games in which the lowest hand wins, there are some modifications to the ranking. These may not be universal, so should be discussed in advance when starting a game with new players. As far as I can tell, the most usual rules are:
• straights and flushes do not count as combinations
• aces count as low, below the twos
• a hand is always considered to belong to the highest category into which it fits - for example 7-7-7-5-5 counts as a full house - not (for example) as a pair with three odd cards that happen to be equal.
With these rules the best low hand is 5-4-3-2-A, which does not count as a straight in this case.
Notice that because aces are low, a pair of aces is the lowest, and in this context therefore the best pair, beating a pair of deuces.
Variations that I know of include:
• recognising straights and flushes: in this version the best hand is 6-4-3-2-A of mixed suits;
• playing with aces always high: in this version (with straights and flushes also counting) the best low hand is 7-5-4-3-2 of mixed suits.
Ranking of suits
In standard poker there is no ranking of suits. If two hands are identical apart from the suits of the cards then they count as equal. In standard poker, if there are two highest equal hands in a showdown, the pot is split between them.
However, Franco Pratesi has informed me that in Italy there is a generally accepted ranking of suits in poker. The ranking is: hearts (high), diamonds, clubs, spades (low). These ranks are used to break ties between otherwise equal hands. Other players in different places use other suit rankings - for example Ken Pikus (kpikus@chemonics.com) and John (jqv77@hotmail.com) report that their circles play with the ranking spades (high), hearts, clubs, diamonds (low); Rudolf Lercher (WLNLER@rlb-noe.raiffeisen.at) and his friends play with the ranking hearts (high), diamonds, spades, clubs (low).
Note that if you do play with a suit ranking, it is not at all obvious how it should apply when comparing hands with mixed suits, and careful discussion in advance is needed to avoid unpleasant arguments later. For example, using the Italian ranking, which of the following would you expect to be higher:
Hand A: 8- 8- J- 9- 3 or Hand B: 8- 8- J- 9- 3 ?
Apparently in Italy the majority view would be that hand B is higher because the J beats the J - when two hands are equal in rank, the comparison is between the highest card which is not part of the combination. A surprising consequence of this rule is that K- Q- 7- 6- 2 beats K- Q- 7- 6- 2. The combination is "high card", so the kings are ignored. You compare the highest card that is not in the combination, and the higher queen wins!
Poker Hand Ranking with Wild Cards
A wild card is a particular card, often a joker, which can be used to substitute for any card the holder wishes, even a duplicate of a card the holder already has. Several cards may be designated as wild - for example all the twos. This must be agreed in advance.
The hand ranking is the same as described above, except that it is now possible to have five of a kind - five cards of the same rank - in which of course at least one will be represented by a wild card. Five of a kind is the highest combination, beating a Royal Flush.
Hand probabilities and multiple decks
The ranking order of poker hands corresponds to their probability of occurring in straight poker, where five cards are dealt from a 52-card deck, with no wild cards and no opportunity to use extra cards to improve a hand. The rarer a hand the higher it ranks.
Mark Brader has provided probability tables showing the frequency of each poker hand type when five cards are dealt from a 52-card deck, and also showing how these probabilities would change if multiple decks were used.
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