Chinese medicine health yoga is a combination of Buddhist health yoga and Chinese medicine meridian health yoga, which has a history of more than 1000 years. The purpose of this technique is to balance the yin and yang of the human body and to prevent and treat diseases.
The efficacy of this health yoga technique includes: 1. adjusting the human cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine to prevent cervical spondylosis, thoracic spine and lumbar spine small joint misalignment caused by long-term ambulation, abnormal body position, etc.
2, so that normal people to maintain full of energy, to prevent the occurrence of disease.
3, adhere to the exercise, can achieve the effect of weight loss and beauty.
4, increase disease resistance: this health yoga art yoga exercise a pair of strong body, immune energy can also be enhanced.
5, increased vitality, appearance and mood of youth, can reduce facial wrinkles, produce a natural “facelift” effect.
6. Exercise for the brain, glands, spine and internal organs, thus improving eyesight and hearing.
Chinese medicine health yoga principle of disease prevention: To understand the Chinese medicine health yoga principle of disease prevention, we must first understand the relationship between the human spine and disease.
Some human diseases and discomfort or fatigue symptoms are caused by disorders of the small joints of the spine, which can compress the nerves that govern the internal organs of the body in and out of the spine, thus causing many discomfort symptoms.
Cervical spondylosis – sub-health – premature aging – emotional instability – serious impact on the quality of life and work. Compression of the area innervated by the cervical spinal nerve is consistent with the inadequate blood supply caused by compression of the basilar artery and a series of sympathetic nerve compression symptoms. Cervical spondylosis – an important cause of unstable blood pressure, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease and chronic pentacranial disease. Sympathetic nerve compression. Cervical spondylosis – causes headache, vertigo, tinnitus, blurred vision, poor memory, and unresponsiveness. Inadequate blood supply caused by compression of the basilar artery Cervical spondylosis – causes panic, chest tightness, shortness of breath, erratic heart rate, atrial fibrillation, etc. Sympathetic nerve compression. Cervical spondylosis – More than 90% of various symptoms with menopausal syndrome and plant nerve dysfunction can be caused by cervical spondylosis. Sympathetic nerve compression. Cervical spondylosis – can cause chronic stomach pain and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Sympathetic nerve compression. There are as many as 40 spine-related conditions, accounting for about 80% or more of all types of chronic diseases, which are easily misdiagnosed. Any “chronic disease” of unknown etiology that is recurrent and untreated for a long time can be considered – the possibility of spondylosis.
Causes of cervical spondylosis: The cervical spine is between the head, which is subject to frequent activity and weight, and the thoracic spine, which is relatively stable due to lack of activity, and is relatively weak anatomically, lacking other bony protection around it, and is susceptible to direct blows from external forces, especially the lower cervical spine and its surrounding soft tissues. The cervical spine is between the head, which is frequently active and heavy, and the thoracic spine, which is lacking in activity and is relatively stable, and is relatively weak anatomically, lacking other bony protection around, and is vulnerable to direct blows from external forces, especially the lower cervical spine and its surrounding soft tissues are prone to strain lesions. 1, strain injury: long-term so that the head and neck in a single posture position, such as prolonged low head work, prone to cervical spondylosis. Cervical spine patients younger than 30 years old are mostly engaged in low-headed work. 2, head and neck trauma: 50% of medullary cervical spondylosis is related to neck trauma. Some patients with cervical spine osteophytes, cervical disc bulge, soft tissue lesions in the spinal canal, etc. make the cervical spinal canal in a narrow critical state, cervical trauma often triggers the symptoms. 3, bad posture: such as lying in bed watching TV, reading books, high pillow, sleeping in a sitting position, etc.; sleeping in a recumbent car, poor muscle protection when sleeping, easy to neck injury when braking. 4, chronic infection: mainly pharyngitis, followed by dental caries, periodontitis, otitis media, etc.. Inflammation in these areas stimulates the soft tissues of the neck or causes soft tissue lesions in the neck and occipital area through the rich lymphatic system. It is believed that chronic pharyngeal infection is an important factor in the pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis, which may be aggravated by the interaction of soft tissue chronic strain inflammation. 5, wind, cold and wet factors: wind, cold and wet factors of the external environment can reduce the body’s tolerance to pain, which can cause muscle spasm, small blood vessel constriction, slow lymphatic flow, soft tissue blood circulation disorders, followed by aseptic inflammation. Therefore, wind, cold and damp factors are not only causative factors, but also can be used as a cause to cause lesions to produce symptoms. 6, cervical spine structure dysplasia: congenital small spinal canal, cervical degeneration, etc. is the basis for the pathogenesis of some cervical spondylosis.
Foreign statistics 40-50 years old with degeneration accounted for 25%, more than 55 years old with degeneration accounted for 85.5%. The incidence of cervical spondylosis is one times higher than normal in people with narrow central cervical spinal canal and nerve root canal. Generally speaking, the onset of cervical spondylosis is over 40 years old and its symptoms are very painful, in fact, most people are left with the roots of the disease in their youth. Young people, white-collar workers, students and those who often use computers and work at a desk should carry out correct functional exercises under the guidance of a doctor to prevent the problem before it happens. Misalignment of the small joints of the thoracic and lumbar spine can also compress the spinal nerve, pay sympathetic nerves and cause a series of symptoms. Such as gastrointestinal dysfunction, pain, etc. Acute and chronic injuries to the small joints of the thoracic spine cause aseptic inflammatory exudation and edema of the surrounding soft tissues, which stimulate the compression of the corresponding spinal nerve or thoracic sympathetic nerve and produce a series of symptoms such as pain, muscle spasm, restricted lateral rotation and chest tightness and palpitations. Posterior thoracic spine joint disorder is the main cause of pain soft tissue injury and concomitant symptoms are secondary, X-ray examination generally has no special changes, some patients can be found to have lateral deviation changes in the spinal prominence, so we cannot rely completely on X-ray to confirm the diagnosis. (Bright TCM January 2006, Vol. 21, No. 1 Chinese medicine treatment of posterior thoracic spine joint disorder) The principle of conditioning the spine: Chinese medicine health yoga by moving the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine and achieve the spine in the movement of conditioning to achieve balance, but also strengthen the muscles around the spine, improve the blood supply to the cervical, thoracic and lumbar muscles and ligaments, make the muscles and ligaments stronger, relieve the spastic muscles on both sides of the spine, and also Bone density increases, preventing osteoporosis. This exercise yoga not only makes the neck, thoracic and lumbar spine exercise by matching breathing, but also makes the chest, abdomen and internal organs exercise. This exercise method does not require a sports field and can be performed anywhere, anytime, and is also an active method of rest. Anatomically and biomechanically speaking, the muscles around the cervical spine can be divided into two major parts: the anterior cervical muscles and the posterior cervical muscles. The muscles around the cervical spine form the Dynamic equilibrium system of the cervical spine. The anterior cervical muscles include: ① superficial cervical muscles: broad cervical muscles, sternocleidomastoid muscles; ② superior and inferior hyoid muscles: sternocleidomastoid muscles, scapulocleidomastoid muscles, sternocleidomastoid muscles and metacleidomastoid muscles. Among them, the superior and inferior hyoid muscle groups have little effect on the flexion of the cervical spine. The anterior cervical muscle group mainly plays the role of flexion of the cervical spine. The posterior cervical muscle groups include: ① superficial cervical muscle groups: cervical rhomboid, cephalic rhomboid; ② deep cervical muscle groups: cervical pinch muscle, longest muscle, cervical skeletal rib muscle, cervical half head spine muscle. The posterior cervical muscle group mainly plays the role of posterior extension of the cervical spine. The role of lesions of the muscular system around the cervical spine in the pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis was successfully modeled by Hao Yongqiang et al. (Chinese Orthopaedic Injury, 1999, 12 (1): 11) through direct excision of the cervical dorsal extensor muscle groups in animals, which proved that the cervical muscular tissues, i.e., the dynamic balance factors, are significant in the pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis. 1. When the dynamic balance of the cervical muscle tissue is out of balance, it has a greater impact on the intervertebral discs of the cervical spine. Abnormalities in the optimal stress of the cervical intervertebral discs disrupt the morphology and nutrition of the discs, leading to a series of histological and biochemical changes in the intervertebral discs. 2, after the cervical spine dynamic balance disorder, the cervical spine has a tendency to shift forward, the stress in the posterior cervical synovial joint is redistributed, and the direction and size of the pressure on the joint surface are changed. The joint capsule is stretched and relaxes early, and after a period of time the capsule becomes hypertrophied and glassy. The calcified cartilage layer of small joints is thickened, the migration layer is incomplete, the cell arrangement of radiation layer is disordered, the subchondral bone is proliferated and protrudes into the calcified cartilage layer and the subchondral bone osteoblasts are active. 3, cervical spine dynamic balance disorders change the original intrinsic stress balance state, the anterior longitudinal ligament, posterior longitudinal ligament and yellow ligament of the cervical spine form strain, especially the posterior longitudinal ligament and yellow ligament. Continuous, repeated and excessive strain can cause bleeding, hematoma and mechanization of the subligamentous space of the posterior longitudinal ligament to form a bony flab. At the same time, glassy degeneration of the ligament occurs, and the number of fiber cells in the ligament decreases significantly. The degenerated ligament is grayish in color and adheres to each other in a beam-like manner, losing its normal fiber structure.
Mechanism of action of dynamic balance disorder on cervical spondylosis ① destabilization of the cervical spine. ②Disruption of blood supply. Dynamic balance disorders lead to long-term excessive forward flexion of the cervical spine, resulting in distortion of the large and medium-sized blood vessels in the neck and vascular spasm, which will affect the local blood circulation of the cervical spine, including the blood supply in the spinal canal, and even affect the nutrient metabolism of the intervertebral disc, thus accelerating its degeneration and necrosis. ③Stress abnormalities. On the one hand, it induces differentiation of fibroblasts to chondrocytes, on the other hand, it can promote endochondral ossification of chondrocytes and eventually form bone redundancy. The abnormal stress state can change the nutritional environment of the cells in the intervertebral disc, accelerating the degeneration and necrosis of the intervertebral disc cells, thus activating collagenase to increase its activity, which leads to the disorder of collagen metabolism in the disc and accelerates degeneration. ④Stretching effect. Long-term low head position keeps the internal pressure of the intervertebral disc increased, which also accelerates the degeneration of the intervertebral disc; the increased internal pressure of the intervertebral disc and the posterior displacement of the nucleus pulposus in low head position can form a pulling effect on the posterior longitudinal ligament and can cause the formation of hematoma in the subligamentous space. After long-term action, the hematoma can be mechanized and ossified to form bone superfluous. The formation of bone superfluous is the result of local bone metabolic changes caused by the adaptation of the cervical spine to stress changes, which is a physiological protective response and can stabilize the unstable cervical spine; however, it can also cause compression of the surrounding nerves and blood vessels and produce pathogenic effects. This is the reason why in clinical practice some patients have severe osteophyte hyperplasia on cervical spine X-rays, while clinical symptoms are mild or even occur without symptoms for a long time.4 Changes in the muscular system around the cervical spine in cervical spondylosis Wharton et al. Pathological changes in the deep posterior cervical muscles may be an important factor in the pathogenesis of degenerative cervical instability. (Tim Yeh, Chinese Journal of Bone and Joint Injuries, Vol. 20, No. 2, Feb. 2005) In summary, factors of dynamic balance in the musculature of the neck play a considerable role in the pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis. Nowadays, most of the health care exercises for treating cervical spondylosis are designed to strengthen the muscles around the spine through exercise and improve the blood supply to the muscle ligaments.
Analysis of the current exercise therapy for cervical spondylosis popular in the society mostly has the following points: (1) compete with the item for force, exercise the neck extensor and flexor muscles. (2) Look backward , exercise the muscle groups on both sides of the neck. (3) lateral bending of the neck, exercise the muscle groups on both sides of the neck. (4) forward stretch to explore the sea, exercise both sides of the neck, the extensor and flexor muscles and the fine muscles. (5) looking back at the moon, exercise the muscles of the neck rotation. (6) Golden lion shaking head, exercise the muscles of neck rotation. (7) shrugging , exercise both sides of the neck, the extensor and flexor muscles and the fine muscles. By exercising the neck muscles, cervical spondylosis can be relieved.
Chinese medicine health yoga, also known as meridian guiding technique movements explained: a. Tongzhonghe chakra: broken down as (1) the whole body relaxed upright, cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae back extension; inhalation. (2) Hands up from both sides, palms together; inhale; (3) hands together, stretching the whole body, clasping the jaws; reside in the air. (4) Return the palms of both hands together from the front chest. Exhale at the same time.
Second, the white crane bright wings: decomposition for (1) the whole body relaxed upright, hands from both sides up for the flying action, inhale. (2) as flying, stationary air. (3) hands from both sides back to position, exhale.
Third, the river pillar river flip (also known as the abdominal back movement) decomposition for (1) the whole body relaxed feet apart wide than the shoulders, for the abdominal back movement, but the person’s whole body must be relaxed, stretch back movement inhalation, the head and chest to stretch back, in order to be comfortable. (2) flexion of the abdominal movement to be fast, while exhaling. This section can be done alone. Such as long-term ambulation can be made at rest 20-30 times.
Fourth, rotate through the belt: broken down as (1) relax the whole body feet apart wider than the shoulders, crossed hands, from the left side up, inhale, slowly rotate to the right. (2) Continue to slowly rotate to the right and exhale. When you reach the bottom to the opposite direction.
Five, rhinoceros looking at the moon: decomposition of the whole body relaxed feet apart wide than the shoulders, the first left hand up and down, the right hand backward and up, for the drawing circle action, the first half of the drawing circle action inhalation, the second half exhale, head backward looking at the moon, the activities of the rotating neck.
Six, lotus swing: decomposition of the whole body relaxed upright, the center of the body for the rotation of the hips. Natural breathing, for the first left and then right rotation action, to 9 times 15 times for a time. Left rotation is complementary right rotation is diarrhea.
Seven, the top of the sky: broken down as (1) the whole body relaxed upright, inhalation lift the heel, back hook hands, shrink the neck. Stop breathing. (2) exhale, tongs heel, front hook hand, relax. Each section can be done 6, 9, 15 times. Can be done 1-3 times a day. As much as is comfortable.
Practice Chinese medicine health yoga precautions: 1, practice time: daily practice, half an hour after meals on an empty stomach.
2, practice place: ventilation, quiet, beautiful environment, can be in the outdoor or in the office, as long as the movement is not restricted. But require good air.
3.Clothing: whatever you want, but loose, light and comfortable, with as few ornaments as possible. 4.Breathing: breathe through the nose, and the movement should be coordinated with breathing. Breathing exercise is the practice way that this health yoga cannot be jumped. When practicing this yoga, you can practice breathing first. By practicing breathing exercises (breath regulation) can strengthen and cleanse the practitioner’s middle chakra. This yoga focuses on the practice of the middle chakra and the exercise of the spine. In general, breathing exercises lead to a healthier respiratory system and a more powerful life. The significance of breathing exercises is not only in the physical changes, but also in the calming of the practitioner’s mind, which allows the practitioner to enter a state of calm and serenity. At the same time the diaphragm up and down movement can also massage the abdominal organs.
5, diet: half an hour after the practice can eat, try to eat fresh, natural food.
6, age: suitable for people of all ages, but the strength of the movement should vary from person to person.
7, posture exercises: must be subject to their own comfort, should not be too hard, if the body is too painful should stop and relax.
8, do not laugh or talk when practicing, to focus on breathing. Keep a regular, deeper breathing, which helps the body loose.
9, such as those with serious heart disease, hypertension uncontrolled, lumbar disc herniation, medullary cervical spondylosis, fractures, etc.
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