A. About health and wellness 1. The concept of health and wellness Simply put: health and wellness is the maintenance of life, to maintain life, the primary condition is to be healthy, life can exist better, so our theme today is how to maintain a healthy state of the body. More precisely, how to use the theory of Chinese medicine to maintain the health of the body. 2, health —- human health can be described from two aspects, one is the human body organs, qi, blood, fluids and other material form and its function for the normal state, the second is the spiritual pleasure, peace of mind and spiritual state. In fact, the normal state of matter is ultimately reflected in the normal state of the spirit. This is a feature of human physiological function. When we think about it, most people in real life are pursuing material things as the primary goal of work and life. But ultimately the material must make their spiritual pleasure in order to get their own recognition of the pursuit of the material. Therefore, we have to find the combination of material and spiritual, balance point in the usual work and life, so that they reach a state of harmony, which is an ideal state of life, and only then can our body reach an ideal state of health. For example, some people get material wealth by stealing, when they use these wealth, it is difficult to achieve a happy and peaceful spiritual state, there is a sense of fear in the subconscious, that is to say, they do not achieve a harmonious transformation of material and spiritual state. Over time, it will be harmful to health, which leads to the occurrence of disease. Second, the impact of various conditions on health As we mentioned earlier, the normal material form and function of the five organs, blood and fluids of the human body is the material basis for normal mental activities, so how can we maintain the normal health of these bodily functions and mental activities? Here we discuss from three aspects: 1, working conditions Working conditions include ① whether the work environment is polluted, such as whether passive smoking, whether wet, whether contaminated by toxic substances, whether high temperature or cold, etc., long-term pollution and poor working environment will bring about the impact on our health. ② Workload and nature of work Whether the work is too intense and from the depths of the heart is very reluctant to engage in this work, these can cause harm to the body. ③ Attitude towards work This is important because most of the time is spent on sleep and work, so the attitude towards work is very important. People live in the world, should find a more harmonious balance between work and life at different stages, simply put: not to be anxious, calm, and calmly face the work. Even if there are some unpleasant things at work, you should face the reality and look forward to the future. Whether in good times or bad times, you should keep yourself in a calm state of mind. Do things as far as possible to do with the trend, which will make their mood much easier, against the trend, even if successful, but also may pay for the health of the body as the price. In short, we must understand one thing: work is to live a happy and enjoyable life, rather than the purpose of life is to work. 2, living conditions The living conditions mentioned here mainly include living conditions, diet and nutrition conditions and other material conditions. The impact of living conditions on the body depends on whether it is conducive to health, and can not say that living in luxury, rich diet is conducive to health, such as living in luxury homes, but the surrounding noise, air pollution, over time, naturally harmful to the body. The daily big fish and meat, the diet structure is not reasonable, the day will be born rich disease, such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, gout disease, etc., while living in a simple farmhouse eating simple food farmers as long as the labor intensity is not too much, may be his body will be healthier. 3, living habits mainly refers to eating habits, work and rest habits, rest hobbies and exercise habits and so on. Dietary habits on the body can be said to account for more than 60% of the proportion, we have a saying in Chinese medicine called “disease from the mouth”, one refers to the nutritional structure is not reasonable, suitable for their bodies do not eat food, do not like to eat or eat too much, not suitable for the body’s food intake, resulting in the body’s qi, blood, fluids, internal organs dysfunction. The second refers to eating unhygienic food, leading to the invasion of external evil, resulting in the dysfunction of the internal organs of the body and disease. And rest habits, mainly refers to rest is regular, for example, under normal circumstances, after 11 o’clock at night should go to bed, according to the laws of human qi and blood running, the internal organs of the characteristics of the activities and the relationship between the flow of injection, the human body after 11 o’clock, Yang Qi should be submerged in the rest, recuperation to protect the kidney gas. If you are active at this time, so that the human kidney gas can not recuperate, against the trend, more likely to deplete the kidney gas, kidney gas is the driving force of the human body, is the material basis for the human body to delay aging, health and longevity, so we want to delay aging, health and less disease, should be fully aware of the importance of protecting the kidney gas. Here mentioned rest hobbies, individuals are different; for example, some people like to have time to teahouse, to go to the bar, some people like to QQ do farm, some people like to play online games, some people like to play mahjong, some people like to listen to music, watch TV, practice writing and painting, fishing stream, in short, a wide variety of hobbies, then, which is good for the body? I should say that if you are in a peaceful and relaxed state of mind, and if you are in good health after doing your hobby, then this is the right hobby for you. You can play back your hobbies to see if they are good for your health. Exercise habits, in this modern materialistic society, most people are keen on the pursuit of material things, often ignoring the exercise of the body, many people on a word “no time.” Is it really no time? No, that is just an excuse, playing mahjong has time, watching TV has time, on the teahouse has time, the Internet has time, why the health of the body plays a very important role in the exercise is no time? Because, first of all, did not recognize the importance and urgency of exercise, followed by the lack of the habit, lack of patience. Therefore, here, I once again tell you carefully, exercise is the protector of health, “life is exercise” is true. Since we are talking about exercise, about exercise, then I am here to talk about how to exercise scientifically and reasonably, most people here may think that the athletes must have great bodies, the answer is no, why? Because most of them are too strong, thus causing sports injuries, in Chinese medicine, also known as “overwork”, so we must pay attention to the intensity of exercise, exercise needs to stop when appropriate, for example, your physique in Chinese medicine identified as qi deficiency type or yin deficiency type, and you often do exercise to sweat profusely, panting before stopping. Panting before you can stop, the result is the fatigue of the injury and exhaustion, abnormal fatigue after exercise, a few days are not recovered, over time, your body not because of exercise and strong, but more weak, this is called “moderate exercise”; and then, for example, you have joint lesions, but you insist on doing mountain climbing exercise every day, such mountain climbing exercise will aggravate the joint injury, which is not conducive to your health, this is called “exercise reasonableness”. Therefore, we need to develop good habits of exercise, but also to do exercise moderate and reasonable. This will bring health to the body. I am here to recommend several exercise methods, relatively simple is the fast walking method, the main point is to loosen the hip abdomen twist waist step fast, like a race to walk, after meals exercise should be after 1 hour after meals, exercise time in roughly 30-40 minutes, to sweat slightly as degree. The advantage of this exercise is not limited by the site, and the intensity and difficulty of the exercise are not too big, but can achieve the purpose of stretching the muscles and bones, and Yi Jin Jing and Taijiquan, etc., these two items have greater difficulty, because the moves must be with breathing and ideas. If the exercise is not appropriate, it will have the opposite effect, it is recommended to find a teacher with a certain amount of strength to teach. If conditions allow, you can swim or play table tennis, are better sports, while basketball, badminton, tennis, soccer and other sports are prone to sports injuries, it is recommended to make a choice according to their physical state. Third, the role of physical identification and food characteristics of Chinese medicine on health 1, the main features and advantages of Chinese medicine Chinese medicine is the essence of China’s excellent culture, for thousands of years, not only has made a significant contribution to the inheritance and development of Chinese culture, but also has a positive impact on the progress of the world. The theory and practice of TCM have a profound inspirational effect on the development of contemporary medicine. According to the World Health Organization, medicine in the 21st century will evolve from “disease medicine” to “health medicine”, from treatment to prevention, from antagonistic treatment of disease sources to holistic treatment, from improvement of disease foci to improvement of ecological environment, from group treatment to individual treatment, and from the development of Chinese medicine. From group treatment to individual treatment, from biological treatment to integrated treatment of body and mind, from emphasizing the role of doctors to emphasizing the role of patients’ self-care, from disease-centered to patient-centered development, etc. These shifts are very similar to the theoretical claims of TCM. In a certain sense, some of the concepts of TCM are also inspiring some important areas of modern biomedicine. The emphasis of TCM on “balance of yin and yang” is similar to the basic concepts of modern systems biology; the emphasis of TCM on “unity of heaven and man” is very similar to the health environment factors of modern western science; the emphasis of TCM on “discriminatory The emphasis of TCM on “diagnosis and treatment” coincides with the emphasis on pharmacogenetics in Western medicine in recent years, which emphasizes finding the most suitable drug for each patient. In fact, the theoretical system of TCM is rigorous and meticulous, and no matter how many variations of diseases there are, all of them do not deviate from the theory of TCM. Therefore, even if the symptoms are not the same, the prescriptions and medicines will be completed and the diseases will be treated by following the symptoms and seeking the causes and treating them according to the evidence. Chinese medicine has its own unique theoretical system, which has two basic characteristics, one is the concept of the whole, and the other is the discriminatory treatment. The whole is unity and integrity. Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the unity and integrity of the human body and its interrelationship with nature, believing that the human body is an organic whole, and that the various components of the human body are structurally inseparable, functionally coordinated and complementary to each other, and pathologically interacting with each other. In the process of adapting and transforming nature, human beings maintain normal life activities. This idea of the unity of the organism itself and the internal environment is the holistic concept. The holistic concept is the embodiment of ancient Chinese materialism and discriminatory thinking in Chinese medicine; it is integrated into all aspects of Chinese medicine, including physiology, pathology, diagnosis, identification and treatment. Discriminatory treatment is the basic principle of Chinese medicine in understanding and treating diseases, and is a special method of research and treatment of diseases in Chinese medicine. The evidence is a generalization of the pathology of the organism at a certain stage of the disease development process. Since it includes the site, cause, nature of the lesion, as well as the relationship between evil and positive, reflecting the essence of pathological changes at a certain stage of the disease development process, it reveals the essence of the disease more comprehensively, profoundly and correctly than the symptoms. “The clinical understanding and treatment of diseases in TCM is based on the identification of both diseases and evidence, but the main focus is not on the differences and similarities of ‘diseases’, but on the differences of ‘evidence’. The main focus is not on the differences and similarities of the ‘diseases’, but on the differences of the ‘evidence’, and the further understanding of the diseases through the identification of the evidence.” How is this understood? For example, Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of diarrhea can be divided into superficial diarrhea and internal diarrhea, and not only that, internal diarrhea can also be divided into cold, heat and deficiency, and its location is related to the large intestine, spleen and stomach, as well as the heart, liver, kidney and lung, so the clinical symptoms are very different when administering medicine, although they are also diarrhea. “Discernment is completely different from the kind of allopathic treatment that gives painkillers for headaches, antipyretics for fever, and specific countermeasures for only one symptom, and is also fundamentally different from the mere discernment treatment that treats all patients suffering from the same disease with the same prescription.” In addition, TCM believes that the same disease at different stages of development can have different types of evidence; different diseases in their development process may have the same type of evidence, so in the treatment of diseases can be adopted “different treatment for the same disease” or “different disease with the same treatment” respectively. The principle of “different treatment for the same disease” or “different treatment for the same disease” can be adopted in treating diseases. The same disease is treated differently, that is, the same disease at different stages of different types of evidence, the use of different methods of treatment. For example, in the early stage of measles, when the rash is not yet transparent, the treatment method of publishing the rash should be used; in the middle stage of measles, the lung heat is usually obvious, so the treatment needs to clear the lung heat; in the late stage of measles, the residual heat is usually not exhausted, and the lung yin and stomach yin are injured, so the treatment at this time should be based on nourishing yin and clearing heat, while “different diseases with the same treatment” refers to the development of different diseases in the process of appearing For example, chest paralysis (angina pectoris of coronary heart disease) and amenorrhea are two completely different diseases, but both of them may have the evidence of blood stasis, and both of them can be treated with Blood Mansion and Stasis Removal Soup to activate blood and remove stasis. This principle of using different methods to address different qualitative contradictions in the development of the disease is the embodiment of the essence of discriminatory treatment. Example: A female patient, 25 years old, suffered from stress gastric ulcer for one week after childbirth, with pyloric obstruction and gastric tube insertion for drainage. She had symptoms of gastric distension and pain, and could not eat, and water flowed out from the gastric tube. Gastric mucosal ulcer, edema aggravated, pyloric obstruction, Western medicine recommended a major gastric incision, but the patient and family could not accept it, so they turned to traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. During the consultation, the patient was asked in detail about her prenatal diet, and it was found that she ate a very large amount of food before delivery, including one chicken, beef and a lot of thick and greasy food such as desserts every day. On the second day after delivery, she had stomach distension and vomiting, and later, after the doctor’s consultation, her symptoms did not improve but worsened, and she vomited when she ate, with a little blood and increased stomach pain. I thought carefully about the cause of her illness and concluded that it was caused by overeating and overeating, which resulted in food stagnation in the stomach and damage to stomach qi. The six internal organs are used to pass, Li Dong Yuan in the “Spleen and Stomach” said: “the sufficiency of vital energy, all by the spleen and stomach gas without injury, and then can nourish the vital energy, if the stomach gas is weak, eating since the times, the intestines and stomach gas is injured, and the vital energy can not be filled, and all the diseases from the birth.” It can be seen how important the stomach qi is to the human body, and the stomach is the main passer, to descend for peace, if food injury to the stomach qi, resulting in the loss of the stomach passer, not only can affect the appetite, and the turbid qi does not descend, stomach qi upward rebellion can lead to distension, pain or vomiting and other symptoms, so the use of qi and stomach, spleen and eliminate food drugs to give treatment, such as Hou Pu, Citrus aurantium, rhubarb, jiao hawthorn and so on. After a gradual treatment process, the patient was cured and discharged in 15 days, which shows that TCM has its unique role in treating difficult diseases. 2, Chinese medicine to identify the differences in physique and food therapy characteristics Different people have their individual differences and their physique has its own characteristics, for example, some people are qi deficiency type, some are blood deficiency type, some are yin deficiency type, some are yang deficiency type, some are damp-heat type, some are spleen and stomach weakness type, and so on. There are many types from different perspectives, such as qi, blood, fluids, and internal organs positioning. Since there are different kinds of physique, then, there should be different dietary focus, such as the qi deficiency type of physique, which is characterized by the usual easy fatigue, weakness, easy to catch a cold, moving then sweating, tongue edge with teeth marks, etc., usually appropriate to astragalus or raw ginseng stew or tea. The blood deficiency type is characterized by a white face, dark lips, light tongue, light eyelids and nails, easy dizziness and weakness, women’s menstrual flow is small and late, usually available angelica, jujube, wolfberry stew, here to explain, we often confuse red dates and jujube, red dates is mainly to strengthen the spleen and stomach, but its viscous nature, easy to produce wet, jujube is mainly for blood, high sugar content, more difficult to digest, in the consumption of the best with a small amount of Chen Pi It is best to eat it with a small amount of Chen Pi to help digestion. In short, individual physique varies from person to person, to be clear about their own physique characteristics, in the usual diet maintenance will be the right food therapy, but to figure out their own physique characteristics, it is best to find a good Chinese medicine experts to give you a full diagnosis, so as to avoid the wrong judgment of your body physique, resulting in therapeutic damage. What is therapeutic damage? Here is an example, Zhang, female, 40 years old, family, full-time wife, rich life, usually pay more attention to body maintenance, often stew some cordyceps, angelica, jujube, ginseng to nourish the body, but still often feel tired, sleepy, body feeling uncomfortable, but can not say where uncomfortable, twice a year physical examination did not see obvious lesions, gynecological examination of the mammary gland mild hyperplasia. She was referred by a friend to see a TCM doctor: her face was slightly yellow, her color was not fresh, she had a small amount of chloasma, her tongue was light and dark, her tongue was thick and greasy, her pulse was weak and slippery, and she was diagnosed as having a spleen deficiency and dampness, and a blood deficiency. It should be said that the deficiency is positive and the evil is real, and the deficiency is mixed with the real. This kind of physique should not be directly tonic in Chinese medicine, because the evil Qi is strong, tonic products are more easily absorbed by the evil Qi, which makes the evil Qi more powerful and harmful to the body. Taking tonic medicine all make up for the evil, which is a hundred harm but no good. In this case, we should focus on Qi, Blood, and Dampness, and less on the products that strengthen the spleen. So it’s not that tonic medicine is good for the human body, and it’s not that laxative medicine is harmful to the human body, it depends on whether it’s the right medicine. Speaking of laxatives, we are likely to think of the constipation of constipation, modern people suffer from this disease is also quite a lot, people often do not see a doctor, because the pharmacy of many health care drugs, such as: laxative, Bi Shengyuan intestinal tea, etc., which have rhubarb or senna and other laxative ingredients, often take very easy to hurt the body’s vitality, for the elderly and frail may cause irreparable damage. In fact, constipation has a deficiency of real, deficiency for gas deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, etc., are not to attack, otherwise easy to hurt the body. The actual symptoms, such as real heat in the large intestine is more common, this disease can be attacked and cured. So, usually if you have this situation, it is best to find a real Chinese medicine expert to see, so as not to accidentally hurt the body. Here I introduce a simple self TCM physical evidence method and diet combined with a reasonable mix. Chinese medicine focuses on the dynamic changes in the body’s qi, blood, fluids and internal organs function, while Western medicine is more objective and clear to make a diagnosis, but Chinese medicine in the process of paying attention to the quantitative changes can be prevented in advance to prevent qualitative changes, which is the Chinese medicine of prevention before the disease, while Western medicine has a clear diagnosis, but for the results of the disease has developed, sometimes it is quite tricky, and even say that there is no way back. Example: Chen, male, 45 years old, usually do not feel obvious discomfort, physical examination also did not see abnormal indicators, occasionally have panic chest tightness, check the electrocardiogram and other indicators of cardiac function are not abnormal; referred by a friend to the clinic, but the diagnosis of his pulse see string thin and astringent, the left pulse is particularly, check his tongue dark slightly purple, the side of the tooth marks, Chinese medicine diagnosis of heart Qi deficiency, heart pulse stasis, quantitative process, if not timely diagnosis and treatment, after a few months may occur qualitative changes, the patient also do not care too much. The patient did not care too much, and after taking 10 doses of Chinese medicine, the symptoms of panic and chest tightness basically disappeared, and it was recommended to continue taking Chinese medicine for one month, but the patient was busy at work and the Chinese medicine was difficult to eat, so he did not listen to the doctor’s advice. Six months later, the mitral valve was found to be incomplete, confirming my opinion that it was much more difficult to treat at this time. This is a quantitative change triggered a qualitative change. Chinese medicine says that human pathogenesis is nothing more than the struggle between good and evil, the internal meridian cloud: positive energy within, evil can not dry. It means that as long as the human body is harmonized, the balance of yin and yang, and the positive energy to protect the human body is strong, it is impossible for evil to invade the body and cause disease. The evil qi that causes disease in Guangdong is commonly dampness, phlegm and stasis, which can be simply expressed from your tongue. A normal tongue is light red with a thin white coating, if the tongue is dark purple, bright red, light white, yellow, thick and greasy coating indicate that your body’s qi and blood organs may be somewhat out of balance. So, it’s time to go see a Chinese doctor. Since we are talking about health, we have to talk about the nutritional structure. The human body’s nutritional intake is based on protein, sugar, fat, fiber, vitamins, trace elements, etc. In the modern diet structure, most people consume too much sugar (including starch) and fat, which causes the body’s metabolism to become dysfunctional and retain too much powdered sugar and fat in the body, resulting in the occurrence of cardiovascular and endocrine diseases, and even immune diseases, which may lead to cancer and other When the deficiency is strong, it may lead to cancer and other terrible diseases. Therefore, in the usual diet structure, to maintain adequate protein, such as lean pork, chicken, fish, duck, tofu, eggs, etc., and calm products as little as possible to eat beef, goose, mutton, dog meat and other warm and dry products. Eat less sugary foods (including starchy) and fatty foods, try to eat more stem and leafy vegetables, and eat some calm fruits, such as raisins, grapefruit and oranges. For people with weak spleen and stomach or hot and humid body, try to eat less warm and wet fruits, such as: pear, mango, lychee, durian, banana, etc., so as not to hurt the spleen and stomach and provoke dampness.