Experts tell us that the essence of health preservation lies in balance, that is, promoting the balance of the body and harmony with the external environment. Traditional health preservation has existed since ancient times. Folk proverbs, such as "covering spring and freezing autumn" and "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer", are widely recognized and feasible among the people. Traditional health preservation is an important part of China's 5,000-year cultural tradition. Learning knowledge from the traditional health treasure house is helpful to maintain a healthy body scientifically.
In fact, traditional health care is in daily life. As long as the correct methods are mastered, health care is everywhere.
Here, I will focus on the ways to keep healthy by eating, drinking, sleeping and walking.
Diet should be light and stress five natures.
First, the diet should be moderate and light. "Huangdi Neijing" tells a truth: the amount of food is just to replenish qi, and eating too much hurts the body; Too strong a taste is harmful to health, and light a taste can refresh you. Lao Tzu also said in the Tao Te Ching that eating too much delicious food hurts the stomach. The second is to look at the nature of food and the needs of the body. Everything that can be eaten is sexual, and it is inseparable from the five attributes of cold, heat, warmth, coolness and flatness. When the body is hot, it will be cold, and when it is cold, it will be hot. Such as: stomach heat, should eat cold bananas; Drink hot ginger soup when your stomach is cold. If you eat backwards, you will get sick. For example, the climate between beginning of autumn and the autumnal equinox is hot and dry every year, so it is not suitable for spicy food, which may easily lead to fever in the stomach and large intestine, deafness and tinnitus.
Eating fruit properly is nutrition, but eating it improperly is harmful to your health. Don't eat fruit when the spleen and stomach are weak and relaxed, and eat more fruit when you are full of energy and dry.
There is a difference between drinking and drinking tea in moderation.
Drinking should follow the rules: first, moderate. Excessive metabolism without timely metabolism will damage internal organs. Second, beginning of spring to the vernal equinox, beginning of autumn to the autumnal equinox, be careful to drink white wine. Drinking white wine in these two periods is easy to cause internal organs to be hot and dry.
Drinking tea is good for health. One of the main functions of tea is to clear the dirty air. Drinking tea often can get rid of people's odor. However, tea is also divided into different varieties and different properties.
Green tea: cool, suitable for people with stomach heat.
Scented tea: It is a kind of tea smoked with jasmine. Jasmine is warm, and people with cold stomachs drink jasmine tea to warm their stomachs.
Black tea: warm nature helps digestion. People with cold stomachs drink it to help warm their stomachs. Oolong tea combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea and is flat.
Sleep soundly and rhythmically at four o'clock. Traditional health care thinks that sleep is the first supplement. There are many sayings among the people: "A good night's sleep is full of energy; I couldn't sleep all night and was exhausted. " "A good sleep is like eating a hen." Why is sleep so important? What Laozi said is "One Yin and One Yang is the Tao." Sleeping at night is to recuperate and recharge your batteries; Working and studying during the day is the release of energy. Yin and Yang are equally divided and indispensable.
We should grasp the time scientifically when we go to bed and get up. The first principle of health preservation in Huangdi Neijing is that "it must be appropriate in cold and summer." Only when people adapt to the changes of the four seasons and live in harmony with the changing time and space can they be beneficial to life and health. The same is true of sleeping and getting up.
There are four seasons in a year and four seasons in a day. Twenty-four solar terms in twelve months a year; There are twelve hours and twenty-four hours in a day. One day is a year's concentration. Therefore, the rhythm of people's daily life should be consistent with the changes of "spring, summer, autumn and winter". 9 pm to 3 am is a winter day, called Sunday winter; 3 am to 9 am is the spring of the day, called Richun; 9 am to 3 pm is a day of summer, called the sun; From 3 pm to 9 pm is an autumn day, called Riqiu.
Beginning of winter at 9 o'clock in the evening at 9 o'clock in the evening, heaven and earth fell asleep. People don't sleep, just like people are tug of war with heaven and earth. "Man's strength is not as good as that of nature", and the result of "tug of war" is that nature will win. The rhythm of human body changes is consistent with the rhythm of heaven and earth, so as to "borrow the power of heaven to return manpower"
There are two situations when you go to bed too late at night: one is that you can't sleep at night, and the other is that you don't sleep when you are sleepy. Can't sleep is the time when the sun be the spirit should be collected. Autumn is the main harvest, and it is autumn from 3 pm to 9 pm. People should gradually enter the state of harvest. "The yang is full of eyes, and the yin is full of eyes." If you do something exciting at night, the yang will not come back, and it will be difficult to sleep if the yin can't dominate. The second situation is to stay awake, which is a deviation of ideas. I don't know the truth of day and night, and I don't know how to conform to the laws of nature.
Sleeping too late at night will hurt your courage. In severe cases, people will suffer from depression. Huangdi Neijing said: "Qi encourages courage." "Eleven collectors rely on courage." 23:00- 1:00, the gallbladder meridian is the most prosperous. People accumulate bile during sleep. Not sleeping will consume bile, and when it is serious, it will appear "timidity", which is called depression in modern medicine. 9 pm to 3 am is the best time for people to sleep. Sleep in other time periods can hardly replace "day and winter".
Get up in time.
At 3 am, it is "beginning of spring" and at 6 am, it is "vernal equinox". Heaven and earth wake up at 3 o'clock, and the cells of human body wake up under the induction of this time and space. You don't need to sleep when you wake up from three to five every day, but sometimes you will get more and more tired when you sleep. People who wake up in the morning and don't get up are just like "tug of war". People can't pull out heaven and earth. If you don't get up before 5 o'clock, you won't be able to get out at 6 o'clock in the vernal equinox, and you will lose mentally.
Some civil servants often stay up late because of their work, which affects their health for a long time. Because if you sleep at night, you can kill the yang, and you can kill the yang in the morning. This is called "double kill". Therefore, even if you sleep late, you should get up before 5 am and take a nap at noon to prevent "double killing".
In addition, the bedroom should not be too big, mainly for gathering yang. Traditional health care pays attention to closing doors and windows when sleeping. Don't turn on the electric fan and air conditioner to sleep in summer, no matter how hot it is. When people fall asleep, a protective layer of yang will be formed on the body surface. If the wind blows this yang away, it will be replenished in the body. Wash Yang repeatedly, get up bored in the morning, his face is yellow, and his head is wrapped in cloth. If it is too hot in summer, you can close the bedroom door and turn on the air conditioner to blow the room cool, so that people can go to bed soon after taking a shower. The cool wind can last more than 1 hour, and people have fallen asleep. If you wake up halfway, you can do it again.
Take a moderate walk in the morning
Walking should also be dialectical. When you walk, you should put all your energy on your legs. God can regulate his anger; Qi can mobilize the essence and inject it into the joints of the legs. The water flowing in the human body is called body fluid, which is relatively thin and runs through the skin. When the body temperature is hot, it passes through the sweat gland channel and when the body temperature is cold, it passes through the urethra. This liquid is viscous and flows through human bones and muscles to lubricate joints. If people's walking energy is not on the legs, hip joints, knee joints and ankle joints, these "human bearings" will not get enough lubricating oil, and will wear the joints over time.
Walking also needs to grasp the strength. "Life lies in exercise." This is a common saying. If you add the word "moderate", that is, "life lies in moderate exercise", this sentence will be scientific. Walk lightly, and rest when your legs are tired. Because a tired leg is like a hot engine cylinder of a car, if you start it again, it will wear out parts.
Walking time should be in the morning. Morning is spring, and spring takes the initiative; The liver is active, and it should be in the spring, governing the meridians and moving the meridians in the morning.
Life-preserving method refers to the method that people follow the traditional health-preserving principle, arrange their daily life reasonably and achieve health and longevity. Living health includes living environment, room structure, room environment and climate, living rules, moderate diet and so on.
Traditional daily health preservation in China has a history of thousands of years. As early as 2000 years ago, there was a discussion about personal health in the classic of Chinese medicine, Su Wen of Huangdi Neijing: "The ancient people, who knew it, had a moderate diet and a regular life, so they could live in harmony with God and die at the age of 100."
With the development of productive forces and the progress of human civilization, people's living conditions have been continuously improved, and people have gradually developed good living habits such as regular life, moderate diet, frequent bathing and changing clothes, cleaning the courtyard, killing insects and rodents, and formed a set of effective health care methods, which have contributed to the prosperity, health and longevity of the Chinese nation.
Traditional Chinese medicine has deepened the theory of qi center gasification structure of zang-fu organs and meridians. Doctors in ancient times, in particular, have a profound knowledge of internal cultivation, and can look back at the tunnels inside the human body and understand the laws of gasification inside the human body, so they can set up a sink, which is as effective as a drum.
Laozi believes that before the appearance of the material world, "Tao" is the beginning of all things in the world, the foundation of the derivation of the material world, and the unified law of various laws of motion, that is, "everything in the world is born in existence, and everything is born in nothing." Tao Te Ching. Zhuangzi said, "All over the world." "Huainanzi Astronomical Training" holds that "the universe has life and boundless gas". In the Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizhi said in "Introduction to Physics": "Everything is made of qi; Empty, everything is true. " Qi "fills all emptiness, is consistent and practical", just like the "field" of modern physics. Therefore, qi exists objectively, is the basic substance that constitutes the human body, and is the most basic substance that maintains human life activities. Form and air tightness are inseparable, form contains gas and gas fills form. Harmony and obedience, life is not over. As "Su Wen. "On Wuchang Political University" said: "Qi begins to produce chemistry, but it is scattered and tangible, while it is distributed and educated, and eventually changes, resulting in one." Qi is a kind of substance, which forms various tissues and organs through gasification, communicates with various tissues and organs through gasification to form a whole, endows various tissues and organs of the human body with vitality, and makes the human body and its system become living bodies and structural units. At the same time, due to the information function of qi, human body and celestial bodies are induced one by one, thus coordinating their development and evolution ("man is related to heaven and earth, corresponding to the sun and the moon").
Although qi is a substance, it does not occupy space, has no image and cannot be measured. Therefore, how the physical and chemical properties of gas and gasification change is still unknown. However, looking up at astronomy and looking down at geography, there is everything, all of which are gasification movements that make individuals as big as cosmic objects and as small as dust show endless life movements. ]
As far as the human body is concerned, the theory of zang-fu organs and meridians in traditional Chinese medicine does not depend on the morphological structure of anatomy to explain its theory, but takes the holistic view as the leading thought to explain its physiological function, thus forming a unique theory of TCM gasification and viscera-state. "Su Wen. "Six Micro Themes" said: "If you enter, you will die; if you leave, you will die; if you rise, you will die; if you are lonely, you will be in danger. Therefore, if you don't advance, you will go out, and you can't grow old; If it doesn't rise, it will fall, and if it doesn't rise, it will be closed. Just up and down, nothing. " Ascending, descending, opening, closing, gathering and dispersing are the manifestations of gasification. All kinds of changes caused by gas movement are called gasification. Once the movement of Qi stops, it means the cessation of life activities. "Su Wen. "On Yin-Yang Image" briefly discusses the gasification process inside the human body: "Yang turns into qi, and Yin becomes ... Yang is qi, and Yin is taste. Taste belongs to shape, shape to gas, gas to essence, and essence to domestication. The gas of eating carefully, the taste of eating. Refinement produces essence, and qi produces shape ... refining into qi. "
Traditional dietotherapy focuses on regulating yin and yang, nourishing internal organs and preventing diseases according to the "taste of food". Therefore, in traditional health care, food is also divided into different types according to its "sexual taste".
Food can be divided into five categories according to its "nature": hot, warm, flat, cool and cold. Among the foods we eat every day, most of them are flat foods, followed by warm foods and cool foods.
Hot food: mustard seed, trout, cinnamon, pepper, pepper, etc.
Warm food: glutinous rice, sorghum rice, chestnuts, jujubes, walnuts, almonds, leeks, fennel, coriander, pumpkin, ginger, onion, garlic, longan, litchi, papaya, cherry, pomegranate, ebony, fragrant rafters, bergamot, eel, silver carp and silver carp.
Vegetarian dishes: rice, corn, peanuts, soybeans, broad beans, adzuki beans, black beans, peas, lentils, sweet potatoes, potatoes, taro, lotus seeds, hazelnuts, euryales seeds, mushrooms, tremella, auricularia auricula, Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse, kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, carrots, onions and so on.
Cold food: millet, barley, wheat, buckwheat, coix seed, mung bean, tofu, water chestnut, mushroom, eggplant, white radish, wax gourd, loofah, rape, spinach, amaranth, celery, oranges, oranges, apples, pears, duck eggs, etc.
Cold food: bitter gourd, tomato, cucumber, bracken, bamboo shoots, water bamboo, lotus root, water chestnut, sugar cane, persimmon, banana, mulberry, watermelon, wax gourd, laver, kelp, razor clam, snail, etc.
Food can be divided into five categories according to its "taste": pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Among the five flavors, the sweet one is the most, the salty one and the sour one are the second, the spicy one is the least and the bitter one is the least.
Sweets: rice flour, miscellaneous grains, vegetables, dried and fresh fruits, chicken, duck and fish, etc.
Sour food: tomatoes, hawthorn, grapes, apricots, lemons, oranges, etc.
Spicy food: ginger, green onions, onions, peppers, leeks, etc.
Salty food: seafood, pork, dog meat, pig offal, etc.
Bitter food: bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, etc.
The so-called "meridian tropism" of food means that different foods have different nourishing and therapeutic effects on the internal organs of the body. For example, according to the traditional health preserving theory, wheat, mung bean, red bean, watermelon, lotus seed and longan belong to the heart meridian, which has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. Millet, rice, soybean, coix seed, hawthorn, apple, jujube, etc. all belong to the spleen meridian and have the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach. Tomatoes, cherries, rape, Chinese toon, etc. Entering the liver meridian has the effect of soothing the liver and regulating qi. White radish, carrot, celery, persimmon, ginger, onion, etc. Entering the lung meridian is beneficial to relieving exterior syndrome. Egg meat, mulberry, black sesame, medlar, etc. Entering the kidney meridian has the effect of tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. Traditional health science also divides food into different types, and there are four main categories of nourishing food:
Foods for invigorating qi: rice, millet, yellow rice, glutinous rice, barley, wheat, naked oats, soybeans, lentils, peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, mushrooms, chicken, beef, rabbit meat, herring and silver carp.
Blood-enriching food: carrot, longan, litchi, mulberry, blood tofu, animal liver, animal meat, sea cucumber, flat fish, etc.
Tonifying food: leek, kidney bean, cowpea, walnut, mutton, dog meat, venison, animal kidney, pigeon eggs, eel, shrimp, mussel, etc.
Nourishing food: Chinese cabbage, pear, grape, mulberry, medlar, black sesame, tremella, auricularia, lily, milk, pork, turtle, squid and fish.