Ancient Chinese medicine says smooth flow is the path to health. Is your body in balance?

did you know there's an actual entire medical book going back to the BC era about why we get sick how we can get well and actually how to live to a 100 ancient doctors in traditional Chinese medicine had described the acupuncture channels meridians and points almost as like these waterways and this analogy or metaphor was very very useful because they said that to live a long life and not get sick you want to make sure the water is flowing in these waterways and it was compared to basically like a stagnant Pond where all the survivalists and Outdoors no you always want to drink flowing water if you can now the stagnant ponds are full of bacteria and pathogens that can make you really really sick and a lot like that stagnant Pond you want to make sure that all of your body's physiological Pathways and even your organs are functioning in a smooth way your digestion your nervous system regular menstrual cycle all of these are little canaries in the coal mine that your body is in balance or out of balance and may be moving down the road towards illness now what these ancient medical books said was that the ultimate path to Health and Longevity was maintaining smooth flow of these riverways and these Pathways and in the same way in your life you can look at all these individual symptoms or all these individual organs and realize if they are functioning properly I'm probably in pretty good health and if there's something that's tilting in the wrong direction long enough that is why we ultimately end up getting sick