Health care first emphasizes "harmonizing yin and yang". Diet is the main way for people to absorb nutrition and energy from the external environment, and it is the basis of life activities, which is closely related to people's survival.
There are four main schools of health preservation in China, all of which have a source: the Book of Changes. Four schools refer to Taoist health, Confucian health, Buddhist health and physician health. Confucian health care focuses on yang, Taoist health care focuses on yin, and Buddhist health care focuses on nourishing the heart. Of course, strictly speaking, Buddhists are not healthy, but objectively speaking, Buddhists are the most healthy.
Buddhists cultivate the mind, eat vegetarian food, and form good living habits: eat less and eat more, only seven points full. Eat well in the morning, at noon and at night. It is reasonable for Buddhists to say "no food in the afternoon". Buddhism says that bodhisattvas eat in the morning, people eat at noon and animals eat at night.
As far as "drinking" is concerned, China people have three kinds of drinks: drinking, drinking tea and drinking water. Qi Bo's "drinking" here refers to drinking, and drinking should be moderate. Drinking tea should also follow the general principle of "neutralization of yin and yang" Huangdi Neijing divides people into five constitutions, and tea is divided into six types: green tea, black tea, green tea, white tea, yellow tea and black tea. According to the five elements, tea is divided into five categories, and the five types of tea correspond to the five elements one by one. People with different constitutions can choose suitable tea according to the five elements principle.
On the one hand, it is mainly to grasp the four hours of twelve hours-meridian and You Mao's daily life. That is, the midnight period from 1 1 to 1, the noon period from 1 1 to 1, the morning period from 5 to 7, and the afternoon period from 5 to 7.
How should we live and rest? First, when I was a child, I said that children are the darkest time of the day, and Yin Qi is the most prosperous time, that is, when Yin Qi comes to an end and Yang Qi is about to sprout. At this time, everything is quiet and the night is quiet. It's time for a deep sleep. When children are water, water is the source of everything. At this time, vitality began to grow. If you still fidget at this time, it will interfere with the intercourse of yin and yang and damage your vitality. According to the meridian notes of traditional Chinese medicine, the gallbladder meridian is ordered at midnight, and "seasonal" means on duty. There is a saying in Huangdi Neijing that "all the eleven zang-fu organs depend on gallbladder", that is to say, all the zang-fu organs depend on the growth of gallbladder, and the gallbladder will also grow, so that the qi and blood of the whole body can rise accordingly. Therefore, children must sleep deeply and pay attention to the depth of sleep, that is to say, they must fall asleep before 1 1 at night to ensure their deep sleep.
It's 5: 00 to 7: 00 in the morning. At this time, the sky is basically bright, the Tianmen is open, and it is normal to wake up at five o'clock. This time is the season of large intestine menstruation, so after getting up, you should defecate normally and discharge garbage and toxins. It's dawn, so at this time, the landlord should also open his anus and develop the habit of defecation in the morning.
At noon, that is, 1 1 to 1, the sun is the most abundant. I felt tired and sleepy at noon after working all morning. At this point, the heart sutra is at the right time. A study in Spain and the United States shows that 6 am to noon 12 am is the critical period of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is the devil's time. So take a nap at this time of noon. Some people say that I can't sleep or can't sleep. Just close my eyes for a while.
From 5 pm to 7 pm, the kidney meridian is in season. Kidney governs storing essence. Human kidney essence is the source of life, just like water, it can nourish everything. Therefore, it is necessary to tonify kidney essence at this time, so that the kidney water is not exhausted and not static.
"Work" means "labor" and labor work, which is an exercise for health preservation. "Don't be rash" means don't overdo it and don't overdo it. According to modern saying, try not to do too much anaerobic exercise, but do more aerobic exercise. Anaerobic exercise refers to the high-speed strenuous exercise of human muscles in the state of "hypoxia" This kind of exercise is too intense, too much exercise, sore muscles, panting, sweating and exhausted.
Aerobic exercise refers to the exercise carried out by the human body under the condition of adequate oxygen supply. Aerobic exercise is characterized by low intensity, fast pace and long duration. This kind of exercise can improve oxygen intake, better consume excess calories and fat in the body, and enhance and improve cardiopulmonary function. Common aerobic exercises are: walking, jogging, swimming, cycling, dancing, rhythmic gymnastics and so on. Of course, playing Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin and Wuqinxi also belongs to aerobic exercise.
The real first-class health medicine is the vitality in the body. Spirit is called the three treasures of life: there are three treasures in the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars in the earth, the fire and the wind in the earth, and people have spirit, "medicine, essence and spirit". Essence is the most subtle substance of life, Qi is the original energy of life, and God is the supreme master of life.
The symbol of China culture-Taiji Map vividly depicts the relationship between essence and spirit, which nurture and inspire each other. The most fundamental requirement of health preservation is to return to the harmonious blend of spirit and essence, and to maintain an endless and vibrant state. (Zhang Qicheng)