Wan Mizhai, who is as famous as Li Shizhen, is honored as a medical sage in China because of his flexible and effective prescription and health preserving thought. Wan Mizhai's health preserving thought is the four essentials of health preserving, in which the ways and contents of health preserving are elaborated in detail. In the fifth volume of the book, Wan Mizhai proposed: "As long as you don't think about voice, victory or defeat, honor or disgrace, your heart will be carefree, and you can guide it and help it take the bait. If you don't live forever, you will be yang. " Although Gongfangtang mainly studies Wan Mizhai's prescriptions, it also has a good understanding of his regimen. In order to help you keep healthy, today I want to talk to you about the four elements of keeping healthy.

Want to nourish the spleen and stomach first

Wan Mizhai's primary health care is no desire, which shows its importance. If you have no desire, you are just right. Whether you are eating or having sex, don't indulge your desires excessively. Wan Mizhai believes that excessive sexual intercourse will damage people's kidney qi and essence, and then affect the normal operation of viscera, and finally get sick into the bone marrow. Deficiency of kidney qi and menstrual period are the main causes of gynecological diseases, so the first condition for the treatment of most gynecological diseases is abstinence, that is, lack of desire. The second is to subsidize kidney qi and essence, and then prescribe the right medicine. In terms of diet, Wan Mizhai advocates moderate diet, and even the favorite food can't be greedy. Although whole grains are fundamental to raising people, eating too much will hurt the stomach. Protecting the spleen and stomach can ensure the normal absorption of nutrients and achieve the effect of health preservation. Only when the spleen and stomach are healthy can women replenish qi and blood and prevent gynecological diseases.

Carefully move the second work-rest combination.

People often say that life lies in exercise, but too much exercise will bring a burden to the body, but it will hurt the body. Wan Mizhai advocated that "long-term injury to blood, long-term lying injury, long-term injury to meat and long-term injury to tendons is called five-strain injury." At the same time, people should keep a good mood and not be overjoyed. Wan Mizhai thought: Sudden joy and sudden sadness, anger hurts the liver, sudden fear hurts the kidney, sadness hurts the lungs, and thinking hurts the spleen. Therefore, it is necessary to combine activities with rest, but it can achieve the effect of nourishing the heart and benefiting the liver. Only by not overworking and consuming people's energy can we achieve the purpose of health preservation.

Fashi No.3 Shi Si Health Care

China has had the habit of exercising and eating according to the 24 solar terms since ancient times, so it can be seen that health preservation is also due to the change of seasons. Wan Mizhai put forward the theory of "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", arguing that wheat and mutton can be eaten in spring, beans and chicken in summer, vegetarian dishes and dog meat in autumn, and rice and pork in winter. In addition, adapting to the weather of the four seasons and paying attention to cultivating one's emotions are also compulsory contents of health preservation. Wan Mizhai pointed out that in spring and summer, when everything grows, it is the time for the sun to vent. At this time, learning rites and music, chanting and singing can cultivate temperament. You can also learn some dances appropriately. Dance can promote the growth of blood vessels in the body and is one of the effective ways to strengthen yang.

However, disease is the fourth most important moderation.

But the disease is to maintain the body and resist the disease. Wan Mizhai thinks that instead of taking medicine after getting sick, it is better to take some medicine before getting sick to prevent the disease. Therefore, eating some medicated diet every day to eliminate pathogenic factors and improve physical fitness is also an important part of health preservation. Wan Mizhai also pointed out that people who are good at keeping in good health should know these five points: the main thing is to maintain their own health, treat diseases in time, treat according to the doctor's advice, pay attention to the timing and dosage of medication, and don't replace doctors to believe in wizards' superstitions.

Even from the perspective of modern Chinese medicine, we can find that Wan Mizhai's theory of health preservation completely conforms to the essence of Chinese medicine, that is, paying attention to the prevention and early treatment of diseases, the timing and dosage of drugs in the middle stage of diseases, and paying attention to moderation to avoid damaging the essence. In addition, Wan Mizhai combined his theory of keeping in good health with gynecology, thinking that women are inherently delicate, lacking in qi and blood, and should avoid taking strong drugs, and should be warmed up.