Music and painting and calligraphy for tuberculosis patients

  Tuberculosis is a chronic respiratory infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis invading the human lungs. Clinical manifestations include low-grade fever, night sweats, weakness, wasting, cough and hemoptysis. Clinical studies have found that in addition to the use of conventional treatment methods to relieve the disease, the use of music therapy and calligraphy and painting to enjoy the mood achieve this effect.  Music therapy” is very beneficial to patients with chronic diseases, and has gradually gained the attention and application of the medical profession. Experiments have shown that: playing some relaxing, slow tunes before meals will make patients with poor diet increase their diet; listening to beautiful, light music can make patients with tuberculosis fatigue, fatigue and elimination of the feeling. Pleasant music has certain good effects on the nervous system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, digestive system, endocrine system, etc.  1.Music that calms people down: “Song of the Cypress”, “Night of the Spring River Flowers and Moon”, “Ping Sha Falling Geese”, “Fairy Shepherd”, “Little Peach Red”, “Gusu Xing”, etc.  2.Music with hypnotic effect: “Two Springs Reflecting the Moon”, “Autumn Moon on Pinghu Lake”, “The Good Night”, “The Shadows of Candles Shake Red”, “Night at the Military Port”, “The Fishing Boat Sings at Night”, “Out of the Water Lotus”, “Spring Thoughts”, “Green Island Serenade”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Mendelssohn”, “Lullaby”, etc.  3.Music with soothing effect: “Jiangnan Hao”, “Spring Breeze”, “Ah, Moxie”, “The Blue Danube”, “Johann Strauss”, etc.  4.Music that can eliminate fatigue: “Holiday Beach”, “Jinshui River”, “Jinshuaihua”, “The Stride”, “We Walk on the Road”, “The Sea”, etc.  5.Music that can increase appetite: “Good Moon”, “Happy Dance”, etc.  Calligraphy and painting are traditional arts in China, which not only give people the enjoyment of beauty, but also can cultivate sentiment. For patients with chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, practicing calligraphy and painting has several benefits during the longer treatment and recuperation period: First, it is a temperament training. When writing and painting, patients should concentrate and hold their breath, exclude some distracting thoughts, and enter a state of forgetfulness, which can oxygenate the mind, forget about the disease, and cultivate a happy and calm state of mind, which helps recovery and treatment. Secondly, practicing calligraphy and painting is also an excellent fitness exercise. When writing and moving the pen, the posture should be correct, and the wrist force, finger force, arm force and waist force should be used, which is a whole-body exercise, but the amount of exercise is not very large, which is very suitable for patients with tuberculosis.  Patients should pay attention to the music therapy and painting and calligraphy methods in conjunction with dietary regimen, so that not only can they maintain a good emotional state, but also have a good physical conditioning and health care to assist in the regular treatment of tuberculosis.