The essence of life lies in "Qi"

The human body, like the universe, is a tangible thing condensed by the five elements of qi, which maintains vitality and vitality by the orderly circulation of qi between zang-fu organs. Therefore, shun is safe; Qi is there, then people are there.

We can't help asking, what is qi? Where did it come from? What does prosperity and decline depend on?

Qi is essentially a philosophical concept. In pre-Qin works, qi can be seen everywhere. For example, there is a saying in Zhuangzi that when a person is born, qi will gather. If you gather, you will live, but if you disperse, you will die. Mencius' "Qi can replenish the body", Xunzi's "Treating Qi for Health" and "Controlling Qi from Qi" in Huangdi Yinfujing are all important foundations of TCM's theory of Qi.

Qi's most outstanding contribution to the human body is also manifested in its various effects on blood. Qi is yang and blood is yin, which are closely related. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has said that "qi leads to blood circulation, and qi stagnation leads to blood stasis".

People have seven emotions: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock, which correspond to our heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys respectively. The seven emotions are also divided into yin and yang, because happiness belongs to yang and sadness belongs to yin, so if we are happy every day, we will invisibly nourish yang. If we are always pessimistic, depressed and unhappy, it is equivalent to damaging our yang. Therefore, we should live happily every day, keep an optimistic attitude, and infect our yang from worldly desires.

Blood is the mother of qi, and qi goes with blood.

In the relationship between qi and blood, qi is the motive force of blood generation and operation, and blood is the material basis and carrier of qi. Qi mainly drives away temperature, while blood mainly nourishes and moistens, so wherever blood goes, it must go, and wherever it goes, it does not necessarily follow.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi is yang and blood is yin, and the two are closely related. Huangdi Neijing once pointed out: "The master of man is blood and qi." "People are the spirit of blood, so those who serve life and live for life are also." "Jing Yue Quan Shu" in Ming Dynasty said: "People have yin and yang, which is blood gas. Yang governs qi, so qi is full of vitality; Yin governs blood, so it is bloody.

How can I regulate qi and blood? Here, what we want to remind you most is that we must pay attention to the storage and maintenance of qi and blood.

As energy of human body and food of viscera, qi and blood can be pre-stored. Innate and childhood, people have stored a lot of qi and blood energy, which is equivalent to having a large deposit in a health bank. But when we grow up, some people don't pay attention to continuing to store, but they are profligate and ignorant. "Silly boy sleeps on a cold kang and relies on strong firepower" is what it says. If you put your youth on tomorrow, you will consume a lot of physical strength, cope with the harsh environment, lack of sleep for a long time, feel deeply worried or furious ... it may not be obvious at that time. Once people reach middle age and get older, the consequences will appear. Otherwise, why are so many people premature aging? Therefore, we should pay attention to "deposit" in the blood bank, and "deposit" in the blood bank is much more important than deposit in the bank. Money is a thing outside the body, life does not bring death, but qi and blood are the basic deposits of life.

Then, can we keep a healthy figure and healthy skin while we are busy, and make ourselves fresh, natural and radiant?

Of course, the way is: regulate qi and blood. Because qi and blood are the most powerful protectors of health and beauty of modern people.

How to make qi and blood our protector? Let's move on to the next article!