There are three magic weapons for health preservation: regulating qi, enriching blood and calming the nerves. Regulating qi is the first of the three treasures. Huangdi Neijing said: "All diseases are caused by qi, anger leads to qi, happiness leads to qi stagnation, sadness leads to qi elimination, fear leads to qi depression, cold leads to qi exhaustion, shock leads to qi disorder, fatigue leads to qi consumption, and thinking leads to qi depression", so the occurrence of diseases is related to human qi. Another example is Wang Chong's "On Balance": "Heaven and earth are in harmony, and everything comes into being." As the saying goes, "people live a breath." For Chinese medicine, "people live in three tones, namely weather, local atmosphere and popularity". How to cultivate the "three qi" in health preservation? "Popularity" is an innate qi, which is bred by the blood of father and mother. "Tiki" is Shui Gu's subtle qi, which comes from food and enters from the mouth. "Weather" is the air absorbed by the human body and enters through the nostrils. The qi of the human body comes from the innate qi produced by the innate essence (i.e. primordial qi), the Shui Gu qi produced by the essence of Shui Gu and the essence in nature, which are also called acquired qi (i.e. ancestral qi) and are combined into one. For the elderly patients, it is particularly important to nourish vitality, transport valley qi and adjust clan qi. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Jiebin's "Annotation of Qi in the Pure Moon Book" mentioned: "Qi can be used everywhere, and if it is not adjusted, it will cause all diseases." Zhang Zai's "True Dreams and Taihe Articles" also said: "Too empty can't be without qi, qi can't be gathered by all things, and everything can't be too empty." The importance of human qi is mainly qi, and qi disorder has different manifestations in different diseases. Hyperactivity of qi refers to hyperactivity of fire syndrome; Qi deficiency is the syndrome of functional decline and diffuse yin and cold; The obstacle of qi is qi stagnation, qi reverse or blood stasis. The key to longevity is to regulate qi, to nourish three qi, and to regulate qi is to soothe the liver, invigorate the spleen and tonify the kidney.
Researcher Zhang zhen has more than 60 years of clinical experience in traditional Chinese medicine, mainly regulating liver qi, spleen and kidney, and taking into account other related syndromes. That is, the liver is the main body, the spleen and kidney are the two wings, and the two wings are "one body". On the whole, the liver is the main body, and the spleen and kidney are the two wings. This is a full day. And other therapeutic principles. The core of regulating qi is soothing the liver and regulating qi, restoring, adjusting and activating its normal function of regulating qi, so as to maintain the smooth operation of human qi. The disease characteristics of elderly patients are mostly stagnation of liver qi, weakness of spleen and stomach, and deficiency of kidney qi. Stagnation of liver qi is often manifested as impatience, irritability, unhappiness, insomnia, dreaminess, chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms. Spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, while spleen deficiency leads to disorder. Therefore, elderly patients often show eating less, boredom, abdominal distension, constipation and emaciation. Deficiency of kidney qi leads to backache, knee weakness and joint pain. Over the years, Zhang Lao summed up the method of regulating qi with Shutiao Qi Tang as the basic prescription, and the prescription and medicine were flexible with the symptoms. Its basic prescription includes Bupleurum, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Cyperi, Radix Curcumae, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Poria, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Herba Epimedii, etc. Bupleurum root in the prescription tastes bitter and flat, which is to regulate liver qi, clear the hair, and shun qi as the monarch medicine; Paeonia lactiflora nourishes liver yin; Bupleurum chinense and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus have been raised and lowered successively to smooth the qi movement; Poria cocos and Atractylodes macrocephala transport the spleen and stomach, so that the five internal organs can be peaceful. Saviae Miltiorrhizae Radix, Rhizoma Chuanxiong for removing blood stasis, promoting qi circulation for relieving depression, Herba Epimedii for tonifying kidney, and Radix Glycyrrhizae. Clinically, middle-aged and elderly patients not only drink soup medicine, but also have many health preservation methods to relax Qi.
Chuanxiong is pungent and warm. Meridian tropism belongs to the gallbladder pericardium meridian.
In addition to drinking soup medicine, you can cooperate with the following points every day:
1, keep a calm mind and avoid strong emotional changes such as great joy and great sorrow; Slow down the pace of life appropriately, eat lightly, get enough sleep, and take a nap for half an hour every day.
2. Take a deep breath and achieve four words: deep, long, even and thin. Deep, that is, a breath must end; Long means that time should be lengthened and slowed down; Even, even; Good, but not rough and fierce.
3, pressing the abdomen, can calm the liver fire, make people calm, blood circulation. Specific operation method: it can be done before going to bed and getting up at night, emptying urine, washing hands, taking a lying position, bending your knees, relaxing your whole body, pressing your left hand on your abdomen, palms facing your navel, and stacking your right hand on your left hand. Massage around the navel clockwise for 50 times, and then counterclockwise for 50 times. When pressing and rubbing, you should use moderate force, concentrate and breathe naturally. It is effective for elderly patients with constipation.
For the health care of the elderly, we can also insist on eight-segment brocade morning exercises every day, but it can make the qi flow smooth and the five internal organs stable. Friends might as well try.