Baduanjin is a kind of gentle health qigong and also an exercise. Baduanjin can relax tendons and activate collaterals, promote blood circulation and enhance metabolism. After practicing Baduanjin, you will feel sweaty, want to defecate and urinate, which is the performance of accelerating metabolism and discharging waste from your body.
2. Detoxification phenomenon of practicing Baduanjin 1. Physical fatigue Some people will have physical fatigue when they just start practicing Ba Duan Jin. This situation is actually a phenomenon of detoxification and disease discharge.
Because Baduanjin is a health qigong, it can dredge the triple energizer meridian, pericardium meridian, lung meridian, liver meridian and gallbladder meridian, and dredge the second meridian of pulse. However, some people with weak constitution will feel weak and tired after practicing Baduanjin due to lack of qi and blood.
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In this case, in fact, as long as the intensity and frequency of practicing Ba Duan Jin are gradual, from weak to strong, from less to more, only one or two moves should be practiced at first, and the number of times should not be too much. After adaptation, the movements and times should be gradually increased, and the body will gradually become stronger, so the fatigue situation will be improved after practice.
2. Farting increases. Some friends will have this experience. After practicing Baduanjin, farting increased, which was embarrassing. In this case, don't hold back your fart, you can find a remote location and let it out happily, because fart is also a reaction to expelling toxins and diseases after practicing Ba Duan Jin.
When practicing Baduanjin, the breathing methods adopted are "Breathe, Stop, Inhale" and "Breathe, Stop, Breathe", which can increase the ventilation function of the lungs, facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide, and discharge polluted air. Some polluted air is discharged through breathing, and some polluted air will be discharged through digestive tract, resulting in continuous fart.
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Don't hold your breath, otherwise these waste gases will continue to be absorbed by the intestine, and the effect of detoxification and disease discharge will not be achieved. Usually stick to it for a period of time and practice Baduanjin every day, and the accumulated waste gas in the body will be discharged, and the situation of fart will gradually improve.
3. The whole body aches. Some people will feel sore all over after practicing Baduanjin, which may also be the detoxification phenomenon of practicing Baduanjin.
In the process of practicing Ba Duan Jin, the qi and blood in the body will impact the meridians of the whole body, but there is a saying in Chinese medicine that "pain is not enough", and it will hurt to impact some blocked meridians. So some people who don't exercise for a long time, people in sub-health state, etc. You will feel sore after practicing Baduanjin for the first time.
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Generally, the body ache will be relieved in one or two days, and you can continue to practice Baduanjin the next day; However, if the body hurts badly, it is recommended to rest for a day or two before practicing Baduanjin.
Who is not suitable for practicing Baduanjin 1? People with unexplained acute spinal injury are not suitable for practicing Baduanjin. For example, if you don't know what causes the waist to suddenly stop moving or suddenly feel pain, don't practice Ba Duan Jin or other exercise behaviors easily at this time, because practicing Ba Duan Jin will make people's spine bend, stretch, bend and rotate. At this time,
2. People with spinal cord symptoms such as spinal cord compression and spinal cord injury are not suitable for practicing Baduanjin. The treatment and rehabilitation training of such patients need to be carried out under the guidance of doctors. If you have the intention to practice Ba Duan Jin, you can consult your doctor before deciding the time and way of exercise.
3. Patients with serious heart, brain and lung diseases, although the movements of Ba Duan Jin are simple and easy to learn, will feel feverish and sweaty all over the body after a whole set, just like doing strenuous exercise, so people with serious heart, brain and lung diseases are not suitable for practicing Ba Duan Jin to avoid inducing diseases.
However, people with mild symptoms can practice Ba Duan Jin after consulting a doctor.
4. People with too weak constitution Many people with weak constitution will feel dizzy and exhausted if they walk a little more and move something. Baduanjin belongs to health qigong, which needs to be combined with breathing practice. Those who are too weak and lack strength are not suitable to start practicing suddenly.
4 The efficacy and function of practicing Baduanjin 1. Eliminating fatigue The first style of Ba Duan Jin "Holding Three Jiao with both hands" is a stretching action of limbs and trunk, which is similar to stretching. It can strengthen the stretching activities of limbs and trunk, affect the redistribution of blood flow in chest and abdomen, help the expansion of lungs, deepen breathing and inhale more oxygen, which has a certain effect on eliminating fatigue.
2. Correcting Ba Duan Jin's shoulder and back "Holding Three Jiao with both hands" is a kind of stretching activity of the whole body, accompanied by deep breathing, which can adjust various parts of internal organs, has a good effect on the musculoskeletal structure of the back, and is helpful to correct bad postures such as shoulder adduction and round back. Therefore, young people who often study and work at their desks can also practice Baduanjin.
3. Add strong blood circulation to the body. The second style of Baduanjin is "opening the bow left and right like a sculpture". The focus of this action is on the chest, which is the focus in Chinese medicine terms. This action will affect the heart and lungs of the hands, arms and chest. By expanding the chest and arms, we can strengthen the muscles of the chest ribs and shoulder arms, strengthen the blood circulation of the body, and help to further correct the pathological conditions caused by incorrect posture.
4. Regulating the spleen and stomach, preventing and treating gastrointestinal diseases. The third type of Ba Duan Jin "single lifting and regulating the spleen and stomach", this action is to hold one hand and press it with one hand, and forcibly pull it up and down to further pull the internal organs and muscles on both sides, especially the liver, gallbladder, spleen and stomach, so as to enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestive function. Long-term training is helpful to prevent and treat gastrointestinal diseases.
5. Enhance blood circulation in the head. Ba Duan Jin's fourth style, "Looking back with five strains and seven injuries", this movement is that the head rotates left and right repeatedly, and the eyeball looks back as far as possible, which is obviously a head movement. Head exercise has obvious effects on blood circulation of the head and enhancing the activity of neck muscles, which is helpful to prevent and treat cervical spondylosis, maintain the normal movement function of neck muscles, improve the balance function of patients with hypertension and arteriosclerosis, and reduce the feeling of dizziness. It can also promote the elimination of brain and central nervous system fatigue and some physiological dysfunction.
6. Enhance physical fitness The fifth style of Ba Duan Jin "shake your head and wag your tail to get rid of the heart fire" is a whole-body action, which has a good effect on the whole body. Swinging the head and tail and turning the body can relax the spirit, improve the functions of various organs and systems in the whole body and enhance physical fitness.
7. Exercise the waist muscle Ba Duan Jin Sixth Style "Climb your feet with both hands and strengthen your kidney and waist". This action is both forward and backward, which can fully stretch your back muscles and stretch your arms as much as possible. Sticking to practicing climbing feet with both hands can stretch and exercise your lumbar muscles, and strengthen various tissues and organs of the waist, especially the kidneys and adrenal glands, which not only helps to prevent and treat common diseases such as lumbar muscle strain, but also helps to prevent and treat common diseases.
8. Strengthen eye muscles and prevent myopia. In Baduanjin, the fourth style of "looking back after five injuries and seven injuries" and the seventh style of "gathering fists to stare and strengthen strength" can respectively expand the range of eye movement and stare, which can strengthen eye muscles and prevent myopia.
9. Dredging the Meridian Baduanjin Eighth Style "Seven pimples disappear after illness", this action is simple, tiptoeing, stretching the spine, falling and vibrating, relaxing the body, dredging the meridians and massaging the internal organs, which is very comfortable.