The essence of Taoist health preservation can be summarized as eight words: conform to nature and purify nothingness. It means that birth, illness, death and illness are natural laws, and people should have less desire for survival and pursue purity of mind.

1. Informal

The fundamental purpose of Taoist health preservation is to remove all external factors that interfere with life activities and seek physical and mental liberation. Therefore, advocating nature has become the basic principle of Taoist health preservation. From the Taoist point of view, taking the change of natural laws as the law, abandoning artificial rational factors and adopting natural behavior for health preservation can prolong life.

Laozi said: "People should be everywhere, the land should follow the sky, the sky should follow the Tao, and the Tao is natural." . Everything about man should conform to the laws of nature and not violate the principles of heaven and earth. Man's initial state is the closest to nature, so he proposed to return to nature, taking the baby as the ideal standard of "simplicity" and "truth", and the highest standard of health preservation is to return to the state of baby. Zhuangzi believes that the harmony between man and nature is the highest state of health care, and advocates that health care should be pursued by Taoism from the perspective of all mankind. He believes that "inaction", "selflessness" and "freedom" are the fundamental ways to preserve health. Achieve the unity of man and nature.

2. Quiet nothingness

Laozi advocates "seeing simplicity and keeping it simple, selfish and lacking desire", and rejects all people's desires and temptations brought by foreign things. And "empty your heart, strengthen your stomach, weaken your intentions and strengthen your bones", and refuse the interference of inaction, emptiness and self-protection, so as to achieve the goal of returning to nature.

"Cultivating the body with deficiency"-that is, Zhuangzi's health-keeping methods: nourishing the heart, preserving the shape, forgetting myself, having no desire, turning a blind eye, listening but not listening, but ignorant with the heart ... Zhuangzi Health-preserving Son says: "Follow the wishes of the county magistrate, protect his life, protect his relatives and protect his life. For a whole year. "

If we look at Taoist culture and Taoist health care from the perspective of health care, it is an in-depth exploration and vivid summary of health care theory and methods. What Taoism pursues more is how to get rid of the essence of life and get peace of mind. It pays more attention to the detachment of spirit and the independence of personality, and the yearning for life freedom is its highest realm.

The content of the article is for clinical reference only. Non-Chinese medicine professionals should not try drugs.