The western concept of health preservation aims at physical health and the cultivation of physique, and often pays attention to all levels of problems. However, the concept of health care in China emphasizes the parallel of health care and nourishing the heart. The purpose of health care is to achieve overall harmony and combine existence, yin and yang, qi and blood, viscera, life and humanity. Especially the "sex" and "destiny" which constitute the limited life and infinite life of human body, and the development and harmony of their potentials are the key points of China's traditional health preservation. Healthy body and mind, harmonious life, can make life produce wisdom, thus producing real life value and significance, which is the basis of our traditional concept of health preservation. This conservation of * * * existence and non-existence may be one of the reasons why ancestors used incense as a health treasure.
Traditional health care is rich in content. In fact, it can be summarized as: diet health care, moral health care, cultural health care, environmental health care, self-cultivation health care and so on. In these links, incense is always in a very special position and plays a unique role.
In the life of our ancestors, incense entered people's whole lives from the nature that people liked and needed, and then came to the important role of this kind of incense in the human body, just as the Yellow Emperor said, such as Du Fu's "heart is clear and fragrant", Su Shi's "nose view is the first" and Huang Tingjian's "hide a few incense sticks and a few empty halls." When it is close to the heart, it is also close to daily life and ordinary people.
Starting with a furnace of incense, reading and writing should be fragrant, welcoming guests and friends, different guests should have different incense, and piano, chess, calligraphy and painting should be accompanied by incense. Cigarettes can always be seen everywhere in courts and temples. What's more, this kind of car, BMW, also brought Xiang Xiang to the street. Incense not only regulates the environment, but also has the functions of cultivating temperament, caring for the soul, eliminating epidemic diseases, strengthening the body and eliminating diseases. Historically, many famous doctors, such as Ge Hong, Tao Hongjing, Zhang Zhongjing, Li Shizhen, etc., have directly used fragrant medicine to treat diseases, involving oral administration, wearing, coating, fumigation, steaming and other uses. Therefore, incense plays an extremely important and irreplaceable role in the daily life of ancestors. From external fragrance to natural fragrance (called heart fragrance and sexual fragrance by the ancients), it is precisely people's prayer for health preservation. The ancients believed that a noble person, whose life, viscera and qi and blood are in harmony, will naturally produce a fragrance in his body. So aroma is the embodiment of a person's health and virtue. This kind of fragrance is considered as the natural fragrance of all things in the world and a prerequisite for people to enter the ideal "fragrant country". Ancestors' yearning for Xiangguo is also the pursuit of health and happiness.
Aromatic drugs are mostly plants and are also aromatic drugs in traditional Chinese medicine. Such as agarwood, sandalwood, storax, frankincense, clove, etc. But there are also a few secretions from animals, such as musk, civet cats and Long Xianxiang. There are about 130 kinds of commonly used perfumes. The medicinal properties of fragrant drugs are defined in detail and authoritatively in the Compendium of Materia Medica, Shennong Materia Medica Classic and other Chinese medical classics. They are similar in that they all have the functions of "exorcising evil spirits, strengthening body resistance, dysmenorrhea, treating diseases and preserving health". For example, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says that "all evil spirits must enter through the nose and mouth. The mouth and nose are the orifices of Yangming, and the deficiency of Yangming is easy to cause evil. Get Qing Xiang Yang, evil spirits disappear, and the spleen and stomach are safe. " In recent years, research and analysis by scientists have proved that odor molecules can promote the production of human immunoglobulin and improve human resistance after being absorbed by respiratory mucosa; Odor molecules can stimulate human olfactory cells, inhibit activities through the excitement of cerebral cortex, regulate systemic metabolism, balance autonomic nervous function, and achieve relative stability of physiological and psychological functions. This proves the important role of aroma in people's health preservation from the perspective of modern science.
Traditional incense burning can be basically divided into several aspects: middle-aged incense burning; Sacrificial incense; Practice with incense; Treat health with incense; Item one or item road use item. In the form and content of burning incense, we should start from the heart of a child and even have respect. It is also essential to purify the soul in the process of treating diseases with incense. Irritability will not have a good effect. A form produces an atmosphere; A state of mind produces an effect. These are also to make the incense burner enter a state, a realm. Even in this pure-hearted state, there will be many desirable effects. Therefore, the most basic process of traditional incense burning is to sit down, relax, purify the soul, taste incense, watch incense and prove it. In fact, it is similar to the traditional practice of "purity, stability, prospect, luck and truth"
Through such a form and process, incense is beneficial to people's purification and relaxation. In this process, people are in a special atmosphere, so that the fragrant gas of incense can fully act on the human body, thus achieving natural sublimation and physical health. For the maintenance of sex, the ancients regarded it as the foundation of health preservation. For example, Sun Simiao's "A Thousand Daughters Should Be Prescribed" said: "A husband nurtures his nature and wants to learn it. There is no harm in not learning well. Self-kindness, internal and external diseases are naturally not born, and disasters have no cause. This is also a great experience to nourish nature. "