赵金香宗师之中华医疗养生问答 Q & A on Healthy Living by Grandmaster Zhao Jin-Xiang (No. 10)

10. 动脉硬化、肿瘤和糖尿病是怎样得的呢?

答：得这些病有两个原因: 一是内因，二是外因。内因即遗传基因，外因即环境因素。

（1）内因：它是一种遗传倾向，比如父母高血压，生下孩子也是高血压占45%，如果父母单方高血压，子女高血压占28%，如果父母全无高血压，子女高血压只3.5%。对遗传的影响，举例说明，小白兔应吃萝卜青菜，假如让小白兔改吃猪油拌鸡蛋黄，四个星期，胆固醇增高，八个星期，动脉硬化，十二个星期得冠心病。另例球试验；让鸭子吃猪油拌鸡蛋黄，结果奇怪，动脉不硬化，不得冠心病。为什么两种生物却结果不同呢？很简单，兔和鸭不一个类型，遗传基因也不同，有的遗传是100%，有的是没有遗传，遗传只是一个倾向，不是千扁一律。

内因还有一个因素，如喜、怒、忧、思、悲、恐、惊七情变化无常，也会造成疾病。如喜伤心、怒伤肝、优思伤脾、悲伤肺、惊恐伤肾等。内因在各种慢性病中占20%，而外因占80%。

（2）外因：环境污染影响，卫生影响，社会风气影响，情绪影响，包括风、湿、暑、热、噪、寒等六淫，对人体有一定影响，如果人贪凉，就易感风寒甚至中风，适当处理好社会人事关系也是非常重要的，由于社会文明教育减少，人的道德品质发生了危机，气急败坏者比比皆是，损人利己，损公肥私之事无处不有，提高文明，加强涵养事在必行，否则会引来很多意外的疾病。比如，我们每日的饮食物之中，由于化学污染和谋取私利需要，不顾他人受害，我们要从自身做起才对。

Hardening of Arteries, Ulcers and Diabetes: How are they contracted?

There are two reasons: the first is internal and the second is external. Internal means hereditary while external is due to environmental factors.

(1) Internal reason: It is inclined to hereditary factors. For instance, if both father and mother are suffering from high blood pressures, the chance that their child is having the same disease is 45%. If only the father or mother is a sufferer of high blood pressure, the chance that their child is having the same is 28%. If neither father nor mother is having high blood pressure, the probability of their child have the same is only 3.5%. Let us site another example of hereditary factors: rabbits should by right eat carrots and vegetables. If we let them eat instead pork oil mingled with egg yolk, they will suffer high cholesterol levels in 4 weeks. By the eight week, their arteries harden and by the 12^th week, they contract coronary heart disease (CHD). Another example: Let ducks eat pork oil mingled with egg yolk, the results are surprisingly different. Their arteries do not harden and they do not contract CHD. Why the difference is the results for these 2 species of animals? The reason is simply because they are 2 different species. Their hereditary genes are different. Some are 100% while some have none. Hereditary factors are only inclination and they cannot be the same for all.

There is another external factor which is due to changes in our 7 emotions, viz. happiness, anger, worry, thought, sorrow, fear and shock. Happiness affects the heart. Anger affects the liver. Worry and thought affects the spleen. Sorrow affects the lung. Fear and shock affect the kidneys.

External factors constitute 20% of all chronic diseases while internal make up the remaining 80%.

(2) External reason: Influences from environmental pollution, hygiene, society, emotions, including wind, wetness, heat, dryness, noise & coldness. They have certain influences on our human body. Take for instance, if you are exposed to cold weather, you can get a cold easier. It is important to have good social human relationships among people. Owing to lack of education, morality declines. Many get angry easily. They can be selfish, corrupted. We need to enhance civilization and strengthen our moral qualities; otherwise more diseases can be contracted. For example, there may be harmful chemicals added to our daily food consumed for greater profitability without due consideration for others health. We need to rectify this situation all by ourselves.

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