Modern people attach great importance to self-care, and put forward many health care measures. In fact, the ancient people’s awareness of health care is not weaker than modern people, they also continue to explore the way of health care, and summed up a number of effective methods, some of which are still widely used even today. According to the information, the ancient people had the following health care methods.
1, Jing Shen regimen
Jing Shen nourishment in the traditional health care occupies an important position. The ancients believed that God is the master of life activities, to maintain a clear and quiet mind, psychological balance, you can maintain the true essence of heaven, so that the five organs and peace, help prevent disease, improve health and prolong life. On the contrary, anger hurts the liver, happiness hurts the heart, thinking hurts the spleen, worry hurts the lungs, fear hurts the kidneys, and even induces various physical and mental illnesses.
2.Moving shape for health
The ancients believed that “people want to labor in the shape, a hundred diseases can not become”; poet Lu You said “shape to small labor of”, all show that the ancients recognized the positive effect of moderate exercise on health. The ancients in the practice of the formation of such as massage, qigong, taijiquan, bagua palm, five avian play and other forms of movement to strengthen the body and prolong life. If people are greedy for comfort, exercise is not enough, or overwork, it is easy to cause “labor injuries”, also known as “five labor injuries”, that is, long vision injury blood, long lying injury, long sitting injury meat, long standing injury bone, long walking injury tendons.
3, diet for health
A proper diet can regulate the essence, correct the yin and yang of the internal organs, prevent disease and prolong life. Diet to “five grains for nourishment, five fruits to help, no storage for the benefit of five dishes for the full”, but also pay attention to the five flavors and harmony, otherwise, will cause disease due to nutritional imbalance, physical bias, dysfunction of the five organs and six dips.
4.Tonic for health
Traditional medicine is very respected with tonic drugs to regulate the yin and Yang, tonic organs, nourish the essence of blood. Reasonable tonic can strengthen the body to prevent disease, remove disease and prolong life. It is important to identify the evidence and to take the right amount of tonic, and to consider the four seasons. When taking tonic medicine, if it is a lung medicine, it is more suitable in autumn; if it is a warm tonic, it is more suitable in winter.
5, meridian health
Meridians are a “network” system throughout the body, which controls the flow of blood and gas to ensure the normal function of the tissues and systems. The Emperor’s Internal Canon says that the meridians can control all the functions of the human body and have the role of deciding life and death, dealing with all diseases and regulating deficiency. According to ancient health practitioners, the easiest way to unblock the meridians as an important measure of health is to regularly stimulate, massage, and acupuncture three important points on the body, namely the Hegu point, the Neiguan point, and the Foot Sanli point. Hegu point can prevent and control facial and five senses diseases, Nei Guan point helps prevent heart disease, the foot three points are effective for the five internal organs, especially digestive system diseases.
6, fix the essence of health
The ancients believed that the essence of the body’s nutrients, is the material basis of life, the internal organs to be moistened by the essence of blood, in order to maintain normal function. If sexual desire is not restrained, too much loss of essence and blood, will cause physical weakness and loss of life. If women have excessive sexual desire, it will also lead to kidney failure. Late marriage, birth control and other measures to maintain Yin essence, can prevent Yin essence delusion consumption, slow down aging.
7, with the time to maintain health
The sky has different changes in the four seasons of the climate, and everything on earth has the laws of birth, growth, harvest and storage, and the human body is no exception. People’s internal organs, yin and Yang qi and blood operation should be adapted to the four seasons, not the other way around. Therefore, the ancients put forward the rules of health from clothing, food, housing and transportation. Adjust their own life behavior according to the appropriate time, to help health and disease prevention, otherwise, against the spring gas easy to hurt the liver, against the summer gas easy to be sad, against the autumn gas easy to hurt the lungs, against the winter gas easy to hurt the kidneys.
8.Cultivate the body to maintain health
Anyone who pursues a long and healthy life should first start by cultivating their bodies and nurturing their nature. You should exclude all kinds of delusions, say more good things and do more good deeds. The Tang Dynasty medical doctor Mon Monk cloud: “If you can protect your body and nourish your feelings, you must always speak well and not leave your mouth.” “If you have good words in your mouth, you should also do good deeds in your body.” Sun Simiao, on the other hand, said, “If the heart is sincere and the mind is right, the thoughts are removed, and the body is cultivated in accordance with reason to remove troubles.” Therefore, often do things that are beneficial to others, can make their hearts and minds open, emotional stability.
9, adjust the gas to maintain health
Human vital energy has the function of transforming, promoting and fixing blood, warming up the whole body, resisting diseases, and enhancing the function of internal organs. Many factors, such as nutritional imbalance, improper work and rest, emotional and mental disorders, disease and evil attack, can lead to deficiency, trapping, stagnation and reversal of vital energy, which in turn can cause pathological changes in the body. The method of regulating qi for health advocates that through a series of measures such as careful living, following the four seasons, abstaining from overwork, preventing over-exposure, regulating diet, harmonizing the five tastes, regulating the seven emotions, saving speech, and practicing vomiting to regulate the vital energy and eliminate diseases and prolong life.
10, reduce toxicity to maintain health
People who are uncontrollable in their anger and joy will lead to the imbalance of yin and yang, qi and blood in the body, overwork will damage the spleen qi, injury to the diet will produce dampness, heat, phlegm, offend the six sexes, epidemics (infectious diseases), injury to the external evil will be a variety of diseases. All these disease-causing factors can be regarded as “poison” to human health, so we propose the way to maintain health by “reducing poison” to preserve true qi. Through diet, medication and other measures, we can reduce the poison accumulated in the body to avoid diseases, prevent premature aging and prolong life.
Prevent illness before it happens, and prevent change after it happens! The reality is that we cannot wait until the appearance of disease to pay attention to, only to treat; after the disease is not all to be treated with drugs; also not with drugs will certainly be able to cure; survival environment is deteriorating, life, diet habits are not healthy today, comprehensive conditioning for the prevention of disease, conditioning is particularly important. A saying comes to mind: medicine is better than food, and food is better than God’s tonic. The old saying cannot be ignored.