Scholars at all times and all over the world have discussed the importance of people mastering health care knowledge. Cold Talk, an ancient medical book in China, once pointed out: "Every time a doctor lives a long life, he can explore the purpose of life, take care of himself and keep his life forever." Shen Fu, the author of Six Chapters of a Floating Life in the Qing Dynasty, once warned people: "Treating the disease before illness, treating the body if you don't treat your heart, will make you be especially kind to yourself." Lu You, a great poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, said in his poem "Feeling of Flowers in Spring": "Young people like the prescription, but they also learn from Huang Lao at night", "Health depends on massage" and "There is a needle stone", from which we can see the benefits and fun of his "liking prescription and loving medicine". British scholar Bacon once said: "A person's observation is the best health care medicine for what is beneficial and harmful to his knowledge."
Today's experts and scholars have a more comprehensive analysis and a deeper understanding of the role of health care knowledge. Dr. Gauss, head of the National Gerontology Research Association of the United States, once pointed out: "The phenomenon of getting old before the age of 70 cannot but be attributed to the improvement of human knowledge in the whole era. The more medical knowledge a person knows and grasps, the stronger his ability of self-protection and maintenance. " James grant, a world-renowned health care expert, believes that men, women and children all over the world are facing a common task, and all families in the world should learn and master the existing health science knowledge and put it into practice. Wu Jieping, a famous medical scientist in China, once emphasized that we should pay attention to the propaganda of health care knowledge and improve people's self-care awareness and ability. In other words, when people master the knowledge of medical care, they will consciously pay attention to the maintenance of their own health, and they can be the masters of their own lives and even their work, and they can also be the masters of their own health and even their lives. For the elderly, with the growth of age, the number of diseases increases quietly, and it is too much trouble to run to the hospital with a slight illness. Therefore, it is more important for the elderly to learn some medical care knowledge, know their own names, understand their own reasons, and be good at their own skills, so as to care for themselves.
Middle-aged and elderly people should learn some medical and health knowledge according to their life experience in the first half of their lives, understand the medical truth of diseases from word of mouth, and develop good living and health habits; Understand the characteristics of some common diseases in order to find their own diseases in time; I probably know what kind of diseases I have, what kind of drugs I take, what role they play, what side effects these drugs may have, and how to prevent them; What kinds of substances are the elderly easy to lack, how to supplement nutrition, what to eat and how to eat? Most of these questions have ready-made answers. These health care knowledge are indeed more important than health care drugs for the elderly.
Under normal circumstances, every middle-aged and elderly person has a certain ability to maintain their own health. The richer the knowledge of medical care, the more scientific it can be, and the stronger the ability of disease prevention and health care. To this end, everyone should be responsible for their own health, learn the knowledge of disease prevention and health care, enhance their awareness of self-care, consciously use healthy behaviors to prevent diseases and maintain physical and mental health.