Anatomy tells people that human organs can be divided into nine systems according to their shapes and functions, namely, systemic digestive system, urinary system, circulatory system, endocrine system, reproductive system, sensory organs and nervous system. Although the human body and various systems have a division of labor, they work closely and harmoniously under the control and regulation of Liu Jing-body fluids, so that the human body becomes an organic whole and survives in an ever-changing environment. Once each system or a system is out of balance, it will happen, affecting health and stopping people's lives. It has a good influence on every system of human body and its whole, which is the basis of its promotion of prevention and longevity.
1. Effects of Tai Ji Chuan on nervous system and endocrine system.
To practice Tai Ji Chuan, you should follow Yang Chengfu's Practice Talk in Tai Ji Chuan and Tai Ji Chuan's Ten Essentials of Tai Ji Chuan, and ask the boxers to relax all over. The so-called whole body relaxation means not only the relaxation of limbs, but also the relaxation of mind and consciousness. Relaxation of ideology does not mean being empty and not thinking, but requires concentration of ideology, moving the spirit with intention and moving the body with air. This makes the excitement in the cerebral cortex concentrated in a certain area. According to the physiological negative induction phenomenon, the enhancement of excitability in one area of cerebral cortex will inevitably weaken the excitability in other areas and play an inhibitory role. According to this principle, people who often engage in Tai Ji Chuan exercise can inhibit the excitement of some chronic lesions in the cerebral cortex and play a positive role in the rehabilitation and medical treatment of some chronic diseases.
Modern society is a society with fierce competition. A major feature of modern life is fast pace and high efficiency, and many people are in a state of high tension for a long time. Being in a state of overload and tension for a long time is bound to endanger your health. Because when people's mental burden is at its limit, immunoglobulin in blood and endocrine often disappears. This state will last for several weeks until the tension is completely relaxed. It is during this period that human immunity is very low, and all kinds of infectious diseases and tumors will take advantage of it. According to the survey of American medical experts, 60% patients suffer from diseases related to life stress, especially gastrointestinal diseases, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, migraine and mental illness. It is required to relax and concentrate, so that the cerebral cortex can enter a state of protective inhibition, eliminate brain fatigue, activate emotions and restore the balance of the nervous system, thereby enhancing endocrine balance and immunity and improving people's resistance to diseases.
2. The influence of Tai Ji Chuan on the circulatory system.
The circulatory system is a closed pipeline system, which can be divided into cardiovascular system and lymphatic system because of the different substances flowing in the pipeline. This article focuses on the effect of Tai Ji Chuan on cardiovascular system.
According to the American Heart Association, people suffering from heart disease are caused by high blood pressure, smoking and excessive cholesterol in the blood (some people say that there are too many low-density lipoprotein in cholesterol). According to the survey, about 37 million people in the United States suffer from hypertension, and about 6.5438+0.8 million people suffer from stroke, which poses a considerable threat to the United States with a population of more than 200 million.
According to Health News, there are 80 million patients with heart and brain diseases in China, 70% of whom have lost their ability to work to varying degrees, and 40.7% of the annual deaths in China are due to diseases.
It is not difficult to see that human ""is a disease in Europe, America and China. If diseases are prevented, people will have more chances to live a long and healthy life.
Besides quitting smoking and adjusting diet, the most important means to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is. Tai Ji Chuan is the most effective sport. Because "The Legend of Taiji" requires that "the mind should not be hard", such as the power of the Yangtze River, gushing and spinning like silkworms. This slow and gentle exercise increases the elasticity of blood vessels, strengthens capillaries, strengthens the nutrition of myocardium, and strengthens blood vessels and nerves at the same time, which can better adapt to the outside world. Medical scientists have confirmed that exercise can increase cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), which is benign cholesterol in the blood, and can help the body remove or reduce malignant low-density lipoprotein (LDL), thus reducing the risk of arteriosclerosis and even cardiovascular and cerebrovascular infarction. Scientific experiments have proved that gentle and slow exercise can dilute blood. Therefore, Tai Ji Chuan is undoubtedly an ideal means to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Except for symptomatic hypertension, about 90% of patients are primary hypertension with unknown causes. It is generally believed that this kind of hypertension is caused by long-term mental stress, which leads to cerebral cortex dysfunction, subcortical nerve center dysfunction and systemic arteriole spasm (contraction). Therefore, besides taking medicine according to the doctor's advice, it is an effective method to relax, restore the function of nerve center and avoid systemic arteriolar spasm. According to the observation of Beijing sports medicine research, the average blood pressure of the elderly who often play Tai Ji Chuan is 134. 1/80.8mmHg, and the arteriosclerosis rate is 39.5. In contrast, the average blood pressure of the normal elderly in the control group is 154.5/82.7mmHg, that is, the hypertension is 20mmHg higher than that of the elderly who practice Tai Ji Chuan, and the arteriosclerosis rate is 46.4%, which is 7 percentage points higher than that of the elderly who practice Tai Ji Chuan.
3. Tai Ji Chuan's influence on China Wushu.
Oxygen is an indispensable substance for human life activities. Adults consume at least 0.25 liters of oxygen per minute, and the oxygen stored in the human body is only about 1.5 liters. Therefore, the oxygen needed for life activities can only be obtained by breathing oxygen in the air. Oxygen inhaled into the human body passes through the lungs, passes through the blood and is transported to various organs and tissues of the whole body. Tissue cells use oxygen to oxidize and decompose fat, protein, sugar, etc. Intake into human body and produce nutrients that can be absorbed by human body, which can be used for labor and life activities. At the same time, carbon dioxide will be produced in the body, which can not be retained in the human body, and will be transported to the lungs through blood, and then eliminated by the lungs through breathing. This is a normal physiological process in which oxygen participates in biological oxidation in human body. It is this frequent and uninterrupted breathing and oxygen that participate in the process of energy transformation and maintain the human body and metabolic process.
We can see that some patients lack oxygen. In addition, heavy work, intense study and accelerated pace of life will all cause hypoxia. Hypoxia has a great influence on people's health. Mild people have dizziness, fatigue, palpitation, shortness of breath, difficulty in concentration, slow response and difficulty in thinking. In severe cases, headache, nausea, vomiting, uncoordinated movements of limbs, loss of consciousness, decreased blood pressure and even death occur; Chronic long-term hypoxia, manifested as fatigue, weakness, irritability and impatience, can bring different degrees of damage to various organs of the whole body.
Oxygen can be used for people who lack oxygen, such as oxygen bars, oxygen kiosks, miniature portable oxygen generators, etc. But the most effective way to replenish oxygen is to insist. Tai Ji Chuan requires abdominal breathing, keeping deep, long, thin and even breathing, and cooperating with movements, so that the respiratory muscles (diaphragm and intercostal muscles) can get good results. Long-term practice can strengthen breathing depth and increase vital capacity. In this way, people will not feel "out of breath" as long as they adjust their breathing depth when carrying heavy loads (such as carrying heavy loads and climbing mountains). At the same time, due to abdominal breathing, the movement range of diaphragm is enlarged, the change of chest volume is increased, and the negative pressure and abdominal pressure in the cavity are also increased, so that the venous blood in the next step can return to the heart faster, thus accelerating blood circulation and promoting metabolism.
4. The influence of Tai Ji Chuan on digestive system.
Tai Ji Chuan's active waist is the master of the whole body. You can loosen your waist, then exert your strength with your feet, and the footwall is stable, and the actual situation changes, all of which are rotated by your waist. So: "The source of fate lies in the waist." The waist rotates greatly, which drives the stomach, intestine, liver, gallbladder and pancreas to rotate greatly. At the same time, deep, long, thin and even breathing and the expansion of diaphragm activity can eliminate liver congestion, improve liver function and even cure hepatobiliary diseases such as hepatitis. At the same time, it can strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote the secretion of digestive juice, improve the whole digestive system and treat chronic diseases of gastrointestinal tract, and the effect is very obvious.
When practicing Tai Ji Chuan, the tongue must be placed above the maxilla. At this time, body fluids are frequently produced and slowly sent to the abdomen, which is conducive to helping digestion and nourishing the face. As the Secret of Health Care says:
Body fluid is mostly produced on the tip of the tongue, and the common pharyngeal fluid is in Dantian.
There is no stagnation in the beauty of China, and a hundred days of qi can stay in the face.
Practice has proved that Tai Ji Chuan's abdominal breathing, combined with pharynx and body fluid, can make people keep the essence, keep their color, stay young, relieve their illness and walk briskly.
5. The influence of Tai Ji Chuan on the sports system.
People always start with their feet. Many old people say that they are old, and the mantra is "the legs and feet are not flexible." This shows that the foot, one of the moving organs of the human body, is a strange organ. Although trampled by people, it is closely related to people's health. We can't underestimate that among the 206 bones of an active team, one foot has 26; It also has 33 joints, 20 muscles and 100 ligaments. What's even more surprising is that Huangdi Neijing recorded China's ancient toe observation method, that is, to diagnose people's health by observing their feet. Now there is an international (Wu) Ruoshi Health Research Association in Taiwan Province Province. This seminar will study the relationship between human feet and health. Wu of Singapore has compiled a book called Foot Massage. (Published by China Population Publishing House in August, 1990) The author thinks that the foot itself is a small universe, and every cell is also a small world. * * * and * * are located at the nerve endings of the foot through the reflex zone of the foot, which can have an important and direct impact on the activities of cells, and also affect the activities of various tissues and systems of the human body, even endocrine, gastrointestinal peristalsis, nerve reflex, reproduction and other functions. In short, the nervous system is regulated by the reflex zone of the foot, thus achieving the functional balance of various organ systems in the body.
The condition of the feet marks a person's health, and his steps begin to falter and his actions gradually slow down. In particular, modern people have good material conditions, convenient communication, less walking opportunities and less toe movement, which has become the cause of many "civilized diseases."
Besides the foot, one of the most important organs of the motor system is the knee joint. When people are around 40 years old, muscles begin to atrophy, and the muscle strength related to the knee joint also weakens. Due to gravity, the cartilage of the upper and lower articular surfaces of the knee joint is destroyed, the joint space is narrowed, bone spurs are formed, and sometimes joint effusion occurs, that is, degenerative arthritis, which is often called joint aging.
When walking, the knee joint should bear 2 to 3 times the weight, especially when going up and down the steps. If it is a diseased joint, it will cause severe pain. When people are in pain, they don't want to move. The reduction of activity will further weaken muscles, which in turn will promote the further aging of joints, thus forming a vicious circle.
Tai Ji Chuan asked to distinguish between reality and falsehood, to walk steadily, to move lightly, and to walk like a cat, which is a good exercise for the sports system, especially the bones, muscles and ligaments of the knee joint and foot. According to the viewpoint elaborated by foot massage, in the process of practicing Tai Ji Chuan, we are required to step on the spring and support the whole body independently, which is a benign * * * movement to the reflex zone of our feet. Therefore, it can not only exercise and improve the flexibility and flexibility of joints and ligaments, but also have a good effect on other organs and other tissues of the whole body.
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine have found that exercises like China and Tai Ji Chuan help to strengthen the stability of the legs of the elderly and reduce the possibility of injuries due to falls. This discovery is based on the results of exercise programs for the elderly in eight treatment centers in the United States. These activities lasted from 10 to 9 months, involving weight lifting, limb stretching, endurance and balance training. Participants were followed up for 4 years. The results show that among 2328 elderly people over 60 who participated in exercise, the possibility of falling down was reduced by about 13%. Among these forms of exercise, Tai Ji Chuan has the best effect, and people over 70 are less likely to fall.
As far as the elderly in America are concerned, falling is one of the most serious health problems. Old people around 65 years old fall at least once a year, and 65,438+00-65,438+05% falls will lead to fractures of femur or other parts, which will further worsen the overall health status of the elderly and even lead to death.
Scientists point out that, by contrast, Tai Ji Chuan, who moves slowly and pays attention to balance, may help the elderly realize the limits of their physical strength, flexibility and endurance, make them more careful in their actions, and achieve the purpose of preventing falls.
To sum up, Tai Ji Chuan has a good effect on human nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system, digestive system and motor system. It also has a good effect on urinary system and reproductive system, so I won't go into details because of the limited space. As long as you keep practicing for a long time, you can make the young people superior in wisdom, full of vigor and vitality, and the old people rejuvenate. People have always said, "People live 70 years." It's changed now. Due to social progress and improvement of life, insisting on practicing Tai Ji Chuan may become: "Seventy years old is rare, eighty is still a younger brother, ninety is a contest, and a birthday party is held at the age of one hundred." What needs to be pointed out in particular is that Tai Ji Chuan is also very effective in cultivating people's sentiment and improving their comprehensive quality. We can observe a large number of examples to prove that most people who practice Tai Ji Chuan for a long time are calm, gentle and elegant. We say that Tai Ji Chuan is an advanced and elegant cultural activity and a fitness exercise that pays equal attention to physical and mental cultivation. This is the experience summed up by several generations through practice, not an empty talk.
A traditional China Tai Ji Chuan (Tai Ji Chuan)