How to know if you are healthy or cured?

A normal person must have six physiological phenomena occurring every day. These are also the six major health standards set by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM):

1st: Sleeping through the night

Sleeping through the night every day without insomnia or waking up in the middle of the night for no reason.

Of course, some things may bother you, such as arguing with your husband and considering divorce, which will naturally prevent you from sleeping, and this is normal.

Explore our insomnia remedies section for practical health guides if you are are having trouble sleeping.

2nd: Normal appetite

A normal appetite is not overeating, but rather eating a normal amount of food and feeling satisfied. It's not about eating a lot and still wanting to eat more.

A normal appetite means not overeating, nor lacking appetite; food is enjoyed, and there are normal feelings of fullness and hunger at each of the three meals a day.

3rd: The first thing you do every morning after waking up is to defecate

Eliminate first thing upon waking and only eat breakfast after that because of the urge. 

If you don't have a bowel movement first thing every morning, your should start paying attention to what your body is trying to tell you.

4th: Urinate five to seven times a day

With a large volume and a pale clear yellow color, urinating five to seven times a day is normal.

However, less urination is natural in summer due to increased sweating, and more in winter due to less sweating.

5th: Head and body are always cool, while hands and feet are warm

All year round, regardless of whether you are in the north or south, you always have to keep your feet uncovered while sleeping each night. If you try to cover yourself with a blanket, it gets unbearably hot.

You constantly feel your head and face are cold, while your hands and feet are warm.

6th: Every morning upon waking, there's an energetic (Yang) reaction 

Men experience an erection, and women feel their breasts become very sensitive.

Both men and women experience this natural vitality upon waking. It's called the morning energetic (Yang) reaction.

(For the 6th physiological phenomenon, most men experience normal sexual responses in their teens and twenties, which usually subside by their fifties or sixties. If you're taking medication to lower blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, or triglycerides—basically any Western medicine that lowers these levels—once you start taking it, everything else will still be high, but one thing will definitely decrease. That's why Viagra sold so well. A man's sexual function is controlled by his heart, so taking Viagra can cause heart problems. It's like a woman going through menopause; her sexual function is controlled by her heart. If you don't know that the heart is in charge, and you give a woman hormone medication—the secretion of female hormones is actually controlled by the heart—it's like telling the heart to rest, causing it to degenerate, and of course, leading to heart disease.)

Therefore, after you took a medicine and these six physiological phenomena reappeared, that means your illness is completely cured.

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(Dr. Ni Haixia will be the first-person after this line)

If your feet become icy cold after taking my medicine, it means I, Ni Haixia, am terrible, and my medicine is completely useless. Then don't take it; seek other treatment.

You should think of yourselves, not of me, and not of any doctor.

Once you understand the six standards of health, you can look at it from the opposite perspective.

It doesn't matter if you get pancreatic cancer, spleen cancer, heart disease, or lung disease today. Or, it doesn't matter if I undergo chemotherapy, cobalt-60 testing, surgery, take Chinese medicine, or have acupuncture. Anything, any treatment method, or vitamins are irrelevant. If your hands and feet become colder the more you treat them, it means you're on the wrong path; you're preparing to die.

You've gone down the wrong path; stop immediately. It's not about money, it's not about faith; it's about losing your life. What's the point of talking if you're dead?

However, if you've undergone chemotherapy, and before the treatment your feet are cold, but after chemotherapy your feet are warm, you sleep soundly through the night, and you no longer need sleeping pills, you can continue chemotherapy because it's very effective. But so far, this hasn't happened (after chemotherapy).

Therefore, everyone must remember these six principles.

Why do doctors need to know the six physiological phenomena present in healthy individuals?

Simply put, firstly, we can use these six physiological phenomena to determine whether a patient has progressed or regressed during treatment.

Today, whether a doctor uses surgery, chemotherapy, or cobalt-60 radiation, if the patient exhibits these six physiological phenomena afterward, I can say the treatment is effective; otherwise, it's ineffective.

For example, a leukemia patient today will inevitably experience cold hands and feet, insomnia, loss of appetite, and severe constipation when the disease flares up. After Western medicine treatments such as bone graft replacement or chemotherapy, if a patient's hands and feet become warmer, sleep improves, bowel movements become regular, and appetite returns, it indicates the treatment is effective, and the patient's recovery is imminent.

However, if the opposite is true, and the patient becomes more constipated, suffers from insomnia, has a poorer appetite, and experiences colder hands and feet, it indicates the treatment is ineffective and the condition is worsening.

To date, I have seen countless cancer patients, and all of them have reported that after undergoing Western medical treatment, their hands and feet became increasingly cold, their appetite worsened, their insomnia intensified, and they became constipated.

Western medicine can only prescribe sleeping pills and laxatives to control these symptoms; they cannot fall asleep or defecate on their own. Because of this, I am quite certain that Western medical treatment is ineffective.

Patients taking traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions from the Warm Disease (Wen Bing) School of TCM do not exhibit these six physiological phenomena, therefore, these treatments are also ineffective.

Secondly, currently, only practitioners of classical Chinese medicine can truly cure diseases.

According to TCM practitioners, recovery from illness is defined as follows:

Generally, it's divided into two categories: First, external symptoms, such as a cold. If the patient has a good appetite the day after taking the medicine, it indicates complete recovery.

Second, internal symptoms, including various cancers. If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling hungry while taking Chinese medicine, it means the medicine has reached the affected area, and a cure is imminent.

If, after taking Chinese medicine, your hands and feet become colder, you have more trouble sleeping, and you experience more constipation, it means you should change doctors.

In other words, if you take the right Chinese medicine, your body will experience these six physiological phenomena.

When these six symptoms are stable, it's time to stop taking the medicine. The illness is already cured, so why take more medicine?

Many fools who blindly believe in Western medicine take Western medicine and vitamins every day, while simultaneously congratulating themselves on the invention of these life-saving drugs.

Just ask them if their hands and feet are hot or cold, and they'll definitely tell you they're cold. These fools are slowly heading towards death without realizing it; the more they take, the shorter their lives become.

Currently, I require my cured patients, such as those with liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, leukemia, and stomach cancer, to come for follow-up appointments every so often.

I only need to ask them if their hands and feet are hot or cold; I don't need their blood test reports.

I don't believe blood test reports can prove anything. For any cancer patient, as long as they exhibit the six major signs, including warm hands and feet, it's considered cured by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. If they are still cold, the medication should not be stopped.

Many patients experience vomiting, diarrhea, or itchy skin while taking Chinese medicine.

This is because the patient's body already contains toxins from the disease itself, plus toxins from the Western medicine. These are inevitable phenomena during the detoxification process after the Chinese medicine enters the body.

In other words, the more toxins accumulate in the body, the more vomiting, diarrhea, or itchy skin will occur.

However, those fools who don't believe in TCM mistakenly interpret this as the medicine being ineffective or an allergy, stemming from ignorance. Little do they know that if they continue taking TCM, their illness will improve.

In other words, if you don't experience these symptoms while taking TCM, there's only one possibility: you've never taken Western medicine before.

If you've taken many Western medications or undergone chemotherapy before taking TCM, then experiencing vomiting, diarrhea, or itchy skin means you're taking the right TCM.

Don't panic. If you don't believe it, it's simple: give the same medicine to people around you. They're healthy, so they won't have any reaction.

One of my liver cancer patients experienced itchy skin for about a month while taking TCM, so much so that he often couldn't sleep. His skin gradually returned to normal, which meant the virus was completely eliminated from his body.

Last week, one of my liver cancer patients came to see me. He brought his Western medical test results, saying he was completely normal. After receiving them, I still asked him if these six physiological phenomena were normal.

All six physiological phenomena must be present to indicate a complete and stable recovery, with no recurrence.

Once readers understand this simple self-diagnosis method, they can protect themselves as well as immediately identify which doctor can truly cure their illness.

The above six physiological phenomena seem simple, yet they contain the entire physiology of TCM.

(This post was adapted from 2 articles written by Dr. Ni Haixia on 19 November 2003 and 26 January 2005)