1. Medical Treatment and Health Maintenance

Medical Treatment

If there is life, there will be aging, illness, and death. To resolve this issue, treatment must combine medical treatment and health maintenance to ameliorate Tishang and Heat Energy Deficiency from which, if there is illness, healing can be accelerated so patients with severe disease and illness can turn from peril to safety; if there is no illness, aging can be countered, longevity increased, and disease and illness prevented.

Medical treatment can be divided into internal and external treatment. Both must be implemented under the guidance of diagnosis. Medical treatment methods such as oral medications, injections, rehabilitation, traction, surgery, acupuncture, and Antui, regardless of whether they are treating from the Effect or the Cause, serve to improve the functioning of tissues and organs to achieve the goal of resolving the Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness. But because disease and illness not only cause human suffering, a cardiac arrest can also be lifethreatening, medical treatment must be timely and effective.

The diagnosis and treatment methods of Western medicine primarily consist of assessing the patient’s condition based on results detected by medical instruments. Then, through medical treatment methods, Western medicine targets the Affected Area to achieve the goal of treating from the Effects. Through internal treatment methods of dispensing pharmaceuticals, and delivering medications into the body orally, via injections, or administered intravenously, etc. and external treatment including the invasive method of surgery or non-invasive methods such as rehabilitation and traction, it treats Symptoms and Signs or abnormal forms and tissue damage detected by medical instruments directly. This serves to change the functioning of tissues and organs from the Effects to quickly resolve abnormalities and Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness.

The diagnosis and treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Yuan Shi Dian (YSD) are through observation of Symptoms and Signs and in internal treatment methods, using the four diagnostic methods (四診心法) to differentiate cold-heat body constitution (寒熱體質 ); or based on whether there are Symptoms of poor stamina, determining the relative severity of the disease and illness, and then prescribing medicine and diet. Although this can improve the body constitution to achieve the goals of self-healing disease and illness, antiaging, and increasing longevity, the internal treatment of medicine and diet cannot directly stimulate the tender points and the meridian acupuncture points ( 經絡穴位 ) on the surface of the body to quickly resolve Symptoms caused by Remote Tishang. Therefore, they have the efficacy of health maintenance but not medical treatment.

The external treatment method of TCM and YSD is based on the location of the Symptoms and Signs, determining Remote and Affected Area acupuncture points and tender points through the meridian theory, or identifying the location of Tishang. It then uses the medical treatment of the invasive method of acupuncture or the non-invasive method of Antui to improve the functioning of tissues and organs. But the difference is that because disease and illness are caused by Tishang and Heat Energy Deficiency, Antui from YSD must be coordinated with warming by External Heat Sources to accelerate resolving Remote or Affected Area Tishang and achieve the goal of treating disease and illness from the Cause. In addition, the YSD medical treatment (Antui of the tender points “along the Spine and Seven Regions of the Body”) can quickly resolve Remote Tishang to eliminate disease and illness instantly or make them disappear. The treatment process can also identify the location of Tishang of pre-existing disease and illness or pre-disease. TCM and Western medicine, however, do not have this medical treatment method of integrating diagnosis and treatment for pre-existing disease and illness or pre-disease. 

Health Maintenance

Health maintenance can be divided into internal treatment, external treatment, and other methods. Under the guidance of diagnosis, these methods can be used to regulate the body to achieve the goals of health preservation and self-healing of disease and illness. That is, through observation of Symptoms and Signs, apply External and Internal Heat Sources and other health maintenance methods to improve the body constitution to accelerate the repair of Tishang. This serves to not only eliminate disease and illness to invisibility but can also restore weak stamina or facilitate the recovery of tissue damage and abnormal forms. Thus the goals of disease prevention, delaying senescence, selfhealing of disease and illness, and increasing longevity can be achieved. Therefore, health maintenance is an indispensable core of treatment.

However, unlike Chinese herbal medicine taken internally and moxibustion of TCM, YSD uses primarily ginger powder, ginger powder paste, and ginger soup as diet and medicine of Internal Heat Sources and External Heat Sources for Wenfu. As such, the External Heat Sources for Wenfu can be applied to a large area at the location of Tishang and can be absorbed by the skin to warm the body directly. Diet and medicine of Internal Heat Sources can be used to improve the body constitution through food consumption. They can also be used for enema, eyewash, spray or drip at the nasal cavity, oral cavity, vagina, etc., which enable the Heat Sources to go straight to the Affected Area Tishang and warm the organs directly. In addition, YSD’s medical treatment of Antui and health maintenance of Heat Sources must be used in combination. In the meantime, other health maintenance methods such as appropriate exercise, adequate rest, and a good state of mind must be coordinated. Thus at specific areas, Tishang and Heat Energy Deficiency can be ameliorated, and the body’s selfimmunity and self-healing power (represented by the human body’s physical stamina) enhanced. If there is no disease and illness, antiaging, increasing longevity, and prevention of disease and illness can be achieved; if there is disease and illness, healing can be accelerated so patients with critical and severe disease and illness can turn from peril to safety.

In contrast, because TCM’s external treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion and internal treatment of Chinese herbal medicine are not necessarily used together, it would be difficult to address Tishang and Heat Energy Deficiency. Although moxibustion can be used at the location of Tishang, it would be difficult to comprehensively improve cold body constitution ( 體寒 ) because the area applied is small and the duration is short. Chinese herbal medicine cannot be directly applied at the Affected Area, so it has to be through comprehensive improvement of the body constitution for self-healing to occur. Hence the achievement of self-healing, anti-aging, and increasing longevity would require perseverance and a long period of time for its effect to materialize. For these reasons, for patients with critical and severe disease and illness who are already in dire straits and unable to cope, if there is no attempt to improve these shortcomings and locate the principal switches to Antui, the fear is that the desperate situation cannot be remedied. There is not much hope to turn things around.

As for the treatment methods of Western medicine, although they can directly change the functioning of tissues and organs and quickly resolve abnormalities and Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness from the Effects, Western medicine does not have the health maintenance methods of TCM and YSD. There is no comprehension that External and Internal Heat Sources must be used to improve the body constitution from the Cause to achieve the goals of self-healing of disease and illness, anti-aging, and increasing longevity. Therefore, regardless of whether internal or external treatment methods are used, they have the efficacy of medical treatment but not of health maintenance.

In summary, in terms of treatment, be it internal or external treatment methods, Western medicine has the capability to change the functioning of tissues and organs to achieve the medical treatment effect of quickly resolving abnormalities and Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness. The internal treatment methods of TCM and YSD do not. Regardless of internal or external treatment methods, TCM and YSD have the capability to ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency to achieve the selfhealing of disease and illness, and the health maintenance effect of antiaging, increasing longevity, and disease prevention. Western medicine’s internal and external treatment methods do not. In terms of diagnosis and treatment, TCM and YSD target Symptoms and Signs as objects of diagnosis and treatment, so they treat disease and illness from the Cause. They do not require examinations by medical instruments and do not treat abnormalities. Western medicine primarily targets results detected by medical instruments as objects of diagnosis and treatment. So it treats disease and illness from the Effects. It not only requires medical examinations but also treats abnormalities. That is the fundamental difference between TCM and YSD as compared to Western medicine.  

To treat severe disease and illness, the first priority is to safeguard life; resolving Symptoms and Signs is secondary. As Heat Energy is the driving force for the normal functioning of tissues and organs and the major factor in sustaining life, if there is severe disease and illness, using Heat Sources to ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency is primary. Hence Heat Energy is the Cause of all Causes and is of utmost importance. Therefore, when one is severely ill, rather than seeking medical treatment externally, through surgery, injections, and oral medications to modify the functioning of tissues and organs from the Effects and quickly resolve abnormalities and Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness, it is better to seek health maintenance internally, through exercise, state of mind adjustments, and warming methods to ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency from the Cause, enhance stamina to safeguard life, and self-heal disease and illness. It can be seen that in treating severe disease and illness, compared to medical treatment, health maintenance is by far simpler, easier, more fundamental, and more important.   

2.  Internal Treatment Methods

In internal treatment methods, diet and medicine influence the body via two key elements: medicinal properties and ingredients. (Medicinal properties herein only refer to the characteristics of food and medicine of cold, cool, neutral, warm, and hot nature.) Medicinal properties and ingredients can both affect the function of Heat Energy and the functioning of tissues and organs. However, medicinal properties primarily ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency from the Cause and enhance stamina to achieve the goals of preventing disease and illness, delaying senescence, self-healing disease and illness, and increasing longevity, thus categorized as health maintenance. Ingredients primarily affect the functioning of tissues and organs from the Effects to quickly resolve abnormalities and Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness, thus categorized as medical treatment.

In daily life, people often use ingredients and medicinal properties of diet and medicine to heal disease and illness, counter aging, increase longevity, and prevent disease and illness. From the perspective and indepth analysis of medical treatment and health maintenance, current popular health maintenance and medical treatment methods, such as consuming more alkaline foods (supposedly can change the acidity of the body), raw food diet (supposedly can preserve the nutritional ingredients), artificial vitamins, fruit enzymes, and pharmaceuticals including vaccines, etc., are mostly cold or cool and focus on ingredients and not medicinal properties. Only pharmaceuticals, except for vaccines, are categorized as medical treatment. With vaccines and various current popular health maintenance and medical treatment methods, their ingredients do not change the functioning of tissues and organs to quickly achieve the effect of resolving Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness; their medicinal properties do not ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency to achieve the effects of self-healing of disease and illness, anti-aging, increasing longevity, and prevention of disease and illness. They cannot be classified as medical treatment and cannot be regarded as health maintenance either; they do more harm than good to the body. Western medicine claims that vaccination can produce antibodies, and even if infected with the virus, the symptoms will be alleviated and the number of deaths reduced. But no matter how the statistics support this view, the extreme coldness of the vaccine cannot be eliminated. In fact, vaccination will severely deplete Heat Energy, aggravate Tishang, and lead to disease and illness, and even death. By requiring folks to be vaccinated, damage may be received long before getting the benefit. Besides, the viruses will disappear as time elapses, so for the time being, they only need to be avoided. In case there is a virus infection, and there are Symptoms and Signs, the fundamental way to resolve is to improve the body constitution from the Cause by the use of YSD’s Antui and Heat Sources. In this way, our body’s self-immunity and self-healing can be enhanced to achieve the goals of safeguarding life and healing disease and illness. 

Diet and medicine of warming and hot nature differ from diet and medicine of cold and cool nature. It is through the medicinal properties of diet and medicine of a warming and hot nature that Heat Energy Deficiency is ameliorated from the Cause and stamina is enhanced. Although they do not seek the effect to cure disease and illness, they can yield the effect of modifying the Cause to change the Effects to achieve the health maintenance goals of preventing disease and illness, delaying senescence, self-healing disease and illness, and increasing longevity. So not only are they suitable for all types of body constitution, but they are also safe for long-term use. However, diet and medicine of a warming nature are unlike cold and cool Western medicine, which can resolve Symptoms and Signs through their ingredients. To help the reader understand, let’s illustrate with an example of External and Internal Heat Sources: A heated red bean bag applied externally can improve various Symptoms and Signs; if its ingredients are effective, how come eating red beans is ineffective? Why does the red bean bag have to be warmed before applying externally? Another example: Dried roasted ginger slices have the same ingredients as fresh ginger slice; why do they have different treatment efficacy? When ginger soup is consumed cold, its ingredients have not changed; why is the effectiveness not apparent?

So a heated red bean bag is the same as ginger; it is only a Heat Source. It is this kind of Heat Source that can ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency, enhance stamina to achieve the effects of safeguarding life and self-healing disease and illness. In summary, it can be seen that it is through their medicinal properties that enable diet and medicine of warming and hot nature to heal Symptoms and Signs, not their ingredients.

If this rationale is understood, regardless of using medicine to cure disease and illness or diet to preserve health, if we were to treat from the Cause to ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency to achieve the efficacy of health maintenance (self-healing of disease and illness, anti-aging, and increasing longevity), one would only need to make good use of the medicinal properties of diet and medicine, target the conservation of Heat Energy, and not have to be concerned with ingredients. The selection and compatibility of medicine and diet regimens would be greatly simplified. Conversely, if we were to target the Effects for changing the function of tissues and organs and achieve the treatment efficacy of quickly resolving abnormalities and Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness, we would have to emphasize ingredients to treat the constantly changing state of the disease and illness. Therefore, the selection and compatibility of diet and medicine or drug research and development would become extremely complicated. [Note: The above discussion on de-emphasizing ingredients when using diet and medicine of warming and hot nature means not to pursue the so-called individual “active ingredient”; it is not to deny the relationship between medicinal properties and ingredients. Although medicinal property is not the same as ingredients, it cannot be separated from ingredients. Medicinal property is the effect of the overall synergistic function of all ingredients. Extracting a single “active ingredient” from diet and medicine would lose the overall function. It would be analogous to a plant needing chlorophyll to photosynthesize. Extracted chlorophyll by itself will lose the function of photosynthesis.]

The body’s Heat Energy derives primarily from food; the medicinal properties of foods differ between warming and hot nature versus cold and cool nature. Both can be converted to Heat Energy after being digested and absorbed by the human body. But the cold and hot nature of medicinal properties affects the human body. If food were analogous to fuel, then the medicinal properties of warming and hot nature would be an accelerant that can reduce Heat Energy depletion during the process of food absorption. Medicinal properties of cold and cool nature would be like a flame retardant, which will increase Heat Energy depletion in the process of food absorption and are unbearable for folks with weak bodies. 

Therefore, to reap the benefit and avoid harm, we must differentiate between the cold and hot nature of diet and medicine to our advantage. After years of observing the reactions of patients with severe disease and illness towards diet and the use of medicine, the rules of differentiation are summarized as follows:  

Differentiation by taste: sweet and sour are cold; slightly sweet (gan 甘 ) salty, and bland are cool; pungent (xin 辛 ) is warm; spicy is hot; bitter is not definite, but mainly cool or cold.

Differentiation by type: water and seafood are cool; tea and fruits are cold or cool; oil and alcoholic beverages are all cold (as alcohol is cold in nature).

Since diet and medicine of cold and cool nature must rely on the body’s Heat Energy to drive the functioning of tissues and organs to be absorbed and transformed to exert their effect, the proper level of consumption may not cause harm to those with mild or severe Symptoms and with stamina that is still good. But for those with severe disease and illness and their stamina is already poor, consumption will cause Heat Energy to become more deficient and, therefore, not appropriate. Hence the use of diet and medicine of cold and cool nature depends on one’s level of stamina and the relative severity of disease and illness. If one feels discomfort or the stamina is weakened after ingestion, it indicates that Heat Energy is already insufficient and consumption is harmful; consumption should be decreased or stopped. To remedy, one should enhance the warming and hot nature of the diet combined with intensifying exercise. In summary, if one suffers from severe disease and illness and already has poor stamina, it is best to abstain from alcohol, ice treats, cold and raw seafood, cold and raw fruits and vegetables, fruit enzymes, and artificial vitamins; also be less dependent on pharmaceuticals and avoid vaccination. It is appropriate to have a daily diet with less sugar, oil, salt, vinegar, water, processed and genetically modified foods, and consume more of diet and medicine of a warming and hot nature.

Since diet and medicine of a warming and hot nature are so important, why can’t they be said to have treatment efficacy? Take ginger, for example; when fever, sore throat, and coughing with phlegm are cured after consuming warm/hot ginger soup, most people would think ginger can bring down fever, has an anti-inflammatory effect, stops coughing, and eliminates phlegm. When menstrual pain, diarrhea, and constipation are cured after using ginger powder or ginger soup enema, people may also think ginger can improve blood circulation, stop pain, has diuretic and laxative effects. By extrapolation, ginger appears to have a variety of treatment efficacy. But this is not true. Just as a car that runs out of gasoline loses all its abilities, upon refueling, all functions resume. Can one say then that gasoline has navigation, sound, and airconditioning functions? If this is true, by buying a barrel of gasoline, would one know locations, have access to music, and get cold air? Obviously, gasoline does not possess any specific function. It is merely an energy source that provides the energy needed to operate a car. When the workings of various devices of the car (driven by this energy) resume normal operation, the various functions of the automotive system are exhibited. By the same token, ginger does not possess any curative effect; it is only a Heat Source that is absorbed by the body and is converted into Heat Energy. When driven by this Heat Energy, the body’s tissues and organs resume normal functioning so that the efficacy of treatment can be achieved. It follows that the reason disease and illness can be cured is primarily dependent on the body’s selfrepair. If this fact is ignored, one would mistakenly think that it is due to the effect of diet and medicine of warming and hot nature when one recovers from disease and illness. That is the beginning of the myth of treatment efficacy.

In other words, although diet and medicine, through ingredients or medicinal properties, can resolve the Symptoms and Signs, diet and medicine cannot be said to have treatment efficacy. It is because diet and medicine are only a type of “Contributing Factors” and must ultimately go through the “Cause” (the operations of the body’s Heat Energy and the functioning of tissues and organs); only then can the “Effects” (the Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness) be resolved. Therefore, if the operations of the body are not addressed, and one claims that diet and medicine can produce antibodies or anticoagulant, etc., or supplement thyroid hormones, other hormones, and so on; or cure hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, tumors, etc.; this would be like saying that gasoline, a “Contributing Factor,” can produce air conditioning, an “Effect” without the functioning of the car’s ventilation system, the “Cause.” This clearly commits the fallacy of “Ignoring the Cause, addressing Contributing Factors, and asserting that Contributing Factors would cure Effects.” 

3.  External Treatment Methods

Western medicine treats disease and illness from the Effects by treating the Affected Area(s) through medical treatment methods such as surgery, rehabilitation, and traction. It directly treats Symptoms and Signs or abnormal forms and tissue damage detected by medical instruments. Such treatment can certainly help resolve disease and illness caused by Affected Area Tishang, but it may not necessarily help resolve Symptoms caused by Remote Tishang. Further, surgery could severely damage the body and deplete Heat Energy. For patients with severe disease and illness, not only would healing be difficult, it could even be life-threatening. So treating from the Effects is not the best way to cure disease and illness.

By comparison, TCM and YSD treat disease and illness from the Cause and not only provide medical treatment but health maintenance. Among these, medical treatment is through acupuncture or Antui to directly treat the acupuncture points or tender points of the Remote and Affected Area(s) to improve the functioning of tissues and organs. Health maintenance is through the use of External Heat Sources of moxibustion or applying ginger for warming at the location of Tishang to be absorbed by the skin and directly warm the body to enhance the amelioration of Heat Energy Deficiency at specific areas. However, YSD’s medical treatment and health maintenance cannot be separated. That is, Antui and Heat Sources must be used in combination. This serves to resolve the Symptoms and Signs caused by Remote and Affected Area Tishang and can also benefit from modifying the Cause to change the Effects and resolve abnormalities and tissue damage detected by medical instruments. Hence treating from the Cause is a beneficial way to cure disease and illness. 

In addition, before the onset of disease and illness, one’s stamina is normal, and Heat Energy is still sufficient; treatment should be Antui as primary and applying Heat Sources secondary. Through the medical treatment of Antui of the tender points from “the Spine and Seven Regions of the Body”, YSD can identify the location of Tishang of the disease and illness before their onset and can quickly resolve Remote Tishang to eliminate disease and illness to oblivion. However, TCM and Western medicine do not have such a medical treatment method that integrates diagnosis and treatment for treating disease and illness before their onset. Under these circumstances, if one wants to improve the body constitution through Heat Sources from health maintenance to eliminate disease and illness to oblivion, perseverance is required, and it will take a long time for its effect to materialize. Therefore, it follows that to treat disease and illness before their onset, health maintenance cannot be done alone and can only be used as a medical treatment aid.

Although external treatment methods can resolve Symptoms and Signs through Contributing Factors favorable in medical treatment and health maintenance, external treatment methods cannot be asserted to have a curative effect. For example, when a cold is cured after moxibustion or applying ginger for warming, can one claim that moxa or ginger has the ability to eliminate cold or kill germs? If so, placing them in a house should warm the house and make it germ-free. Similarly, if headaches are cured after Antui using a wooden stick or an elbow, can one claim that they can dispel the wind and relieve pain? If so, why would one still have headaches as most home furniture is made of wood, and the elbow is part of the body? Obviously, disease and illness are cured because “the Cause of disease and illness” - Heat Energy Deficiency or Tishang - has been ameliorated. Therefore, one can see that there must be both Contributing Factors and Causes for the Effects to improve.

Further, if Antui, acupuncture, and slapping (Paida 拍打 ) are effective, would Antui the hip area to cure the eye problems be like “scratching an itch through one’s boot” (a useless attempt)? Or would acupuncture of acupoints lead to fainting during an acupuncture treatment? Or would slapping (Paida 拍打 ) directly on the eyes result in pandalike eyes? Obviously, pain Symptoms are mostly caused by Remote Tishang. If the Symptom is not resolved, it is because “the Cause of disease and illness,” i.e., Remote Tishang has not been ameliorated. Therefore, one can see that if there are Contributing Factors but no Causes, the Effects not only cannot improve but targeting patients who are weak or targeting the Affected Area would even aggravate the Effects. Hence the reason disease and illness can heal is undoubtedly related to Contributing Factors, but the key is whether the Cause can be improved. So surgery, rehabilitation, acupuncture, moxibustion, Antui, applying ginger for warming, slapping (Paida 拍打 ), and various Contributing Factors, of course, help to heal disease and illness. Still, if one ignores the Cause - the functioning of the body or constitutional differences - one would commit the fallacy of ignoring the Cause, addressing Contributing Factors, and asserting that Contributing Factors would cure Effects, similar to internal treatment methods.

In summary, whether the methods belong to internal or external treatment, medical treatment, or health maintenance, they cannot be asserted to have any curative effect. In other words, to resolve the Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness, one must ultimately seek internally from the functioning of the body. That is, various “Contributing Factors” including Antui, Heat Sources, and other health maintenance measures must be processed through the operations of the body’s Heat Energy and the functioning of tissues and organs to ameliorate Tishang and Heat Energy Deficiency, the “Causes” of disease and illness. This serves to enhance the innate immunity and self-healing power (represented by the body’s physical stamina) and achieve the goal of self-healing of Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness, the “Effects.” It can be seen that for the Cause to influence the Effects, it requires the assistance of Contributing Factors. Similarly, for Contributing Factors to affect the Effects, they must be via the Cause. Contributing Factors alone have no curative effect.

4.  Conclusion

Regardless of using internal or external treatment methods, whether they are invasive or non-invasive, treating from the Effects or the Cause, the goal of medical treatment is to improve the functioning of tissues and organs to quickly resolve Symptoms and Signs of disease and illness. However, if medical treatment is not combined with proper health maintenance measures, for patients with chronic illness who have Heat Energy Deficiency and weaker stamina, not only would it be difficult to sustain treatment efficacy, their lives could be endangered. Therefore, to ameliorate Heat Energy Deficiency and enhance stamina to achieve the goals of safeguarding life and selfhealing disease and illness, medical treatment should include health maintenance. Conversely, to directly stimulate the tender points or the meridian acupuncture points on the surface of the body to improve the functioning of tissues and organs from which the goal of quickly resolving Symptoms caused by Remote Tishang can be achieved, health maintenance should include medical treatment. Hence in treatment, medical treatment and health maintenance must be implemented jointly with internal and external methods complementing each other. They cannot be separated or emphasized at the expense of another. This enables Contributing Factors favorable in medical treatment and health maintenance to supplement each other and fully exert their impact. In this way, the amelioration of Tishang and Heat Energy Deficiency can be accelerated to reach the goals of safeguarding life and the healing of disease and illness.

In fact, many diseases and illnesses are caused by unhealthy lifestyles and habits; therefore, with urgency, the priority is to incorporate correct concepts of health maintenance in daily living, form good habits such as no smoking, no drinking, no drug use, etc., and actively implement a diet of warming and hot nature. Also, pay attention to keeping warm, getting appropriate exercise and adequate rest, and maintaining a good state of mind. If the condition of the illness requires, External and Internal Heat Sources from health maintenance of ginger powder, ginger powder paste, or ginger soup can be applied to the location of Tishang to directly warm the tissues and organs. In addition, one can apply the medical treatment of Antui of Yuan Shi Tong Dian and the tender points of the Affected Area, coordinated with other External Heat Sources for warming. This is the only way to enhance the improvement of the functioning of tissues and organs and the amelioration of Heat Energy Deficiency at specific areas. If there is no pre-existing disease and illness, this serves to counter aging, increase life expectancy, and prevent disease and illness. If there is disease and illness, this will quickly heal the disease and illness and allow patients with severe disease and illness to turn from peril to safety. Without a doubt, these life-oriented, non-pharmaceutical, and non-invasive Contributing Factors favorable in medical treatment and health maintenance are the best means to resolve the issues of birth, aging, illness, and death.