1. What is health preservation?

Health preservation refers to the techniques and methods to maintain the body, reduce diseases, improve health and prolong life through long-term exercise and practice. Health preservation is all material and spiritual activities to maintain the body, reduce diseases and improve health in accordance with the objective laws of life development for self-survival and healthy longevity.

2. What is TCM health care?

Under the guidance of TCM theory, TCM health preservation studies explore the law of human life, sum up the experience of psychological and physical health care in past dynasties in China, and study the theory and technology of health preservation, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening human physique, preventing diseases and prolonging life. Chinese medicine pays special attention to "prevention before illness" and disease prevention.

3. The target of health care

In addition to normal health, the following three kinds of people are the main health objects:

(1) Elderly and infirm: In the process of human aging, the functions of organs and viscera gradually decline, which will seriously affect their health, so it is necessary to delay aging and improve the quality of life of the elderly and infirm. Health will lead to longevity.

(2) Patients with various chronic diseases: The course of this kind of patients progresses slowly or recurs, which leads to dysfunction, aggravates the primary disease and forms a vicious circle. Health preservation can not only help patients recover their functions, but also help prevent the further development of the primary disease. The health care of patients with chronic diseases must be targeted and have corresponding effective measures and methods.

(3) All kinds of disabled people: including all kinds of disabled people caused by injuries to limbs, organs and viscera, as well as health care for mental patients.

Essence, qi, blood and spirit are the basic elements of health preservation.

Essence is the basic substance that constitutes the human body and promotes the growth and development of the human body. There are innate essence and acquired essence. Congenital essence comes from parents; After birth, the nutritional essence obtained from diet is called acquired essence. Congenital essence and acquired essence transform each other and complement each other, becoming the dynamic basis of life activities.

Qi is the driving force to promote the functional activities of zang-fu organs, and it is also the driving force to promote the continuous flow of various life substances in the human body, and it is the fundamental guarantee of life vitality. The strength of human vitality and the length of life depend entirely on the rise and fall of qi. Life is the product of qi.

Blood is the basic substance that nourishes human organs, tissues and organs and ensures human metabolism. It is also the material source of vital substances such as essence, qi, spirit, milk, menstrual blood, semen and body fluid. Blood always goes hand in hand with harmony, complementing each other and nourishing each other, and * * * gives birth to * * * glory.

God is the general name of biological life activities, and also the external expression of human life activities, including mental consciousness, thinking activities, sports, perception and so on. God takes essence and blood as the material basis, and when essence and qi are full, God will be healthy and prosperous. Therefore, the health of life can be judged by the condition of God.

"Essence, qi and spirit are the three treasures of the human body", which are interdependent and mutually utilized, and one glory will be honored and the other will be lost.

It can be seen that life activities are determined by the functional states of essence, qi, blood, spirit and dirty. Only when the essence, qi, blood and spirit are sufficient and the functions of zang-fu organs maintain a normal dynamic balance can the human body be healthy and disease-free, not easy to age and prolong life.

5. Factors affecting life

Longevity is the goal that people pursue, and aging is the natural law of normal human life activities. Reasonable health care and rehabilitation measures can delay physiological aging and block the process of pathological aging (premature aging), thus prolonging people's life. The main reasons that affect life span and lead to premature aging are as follows:

(1) Understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine

① Deficiency of essence: Without kidney essence, life will be premature. The main reasons for the deficiency of essence and qi are congenital deficiency (stunting in the mother), excessive sexual life (indulgence) and disease consumption.

② Malnutrition: Diet is the source of human nutrients, and malnutrition includes two aspects: insufficient intake and malabsorption.

③ Damage to the five internal organs: the heart stores the spirit, the liver stores the blood, and the lung controls the qi of the whole body. Damage to the five internal organs will affect the whole body function and inevitably affect the life span.

4 Excessive emotion: Long-term and lasting mental stimulation or sudden severe mental trauma will cause imbalance of Yin and Yang, qi and blood in the body and dysfunction of zang-fu organs and meridians, thus accelerating aging.

⑤ Burnout by combining work and rest: Overwork or overwork is not conducive to health, health and longevity.

⑥ Genetic endowment: Strong innate endowment means strong body, full of energy and not easy to age. On the contrary, aging will advance or accelerate.

⑦ Bad social environment and natural environment will endanger health and promote premature aging.

(2) Understanding of Western Medicine

Western medicine believes that natural environmental pollution is the cause of many diseases and an important cause of premature aging; There are also psychological (or spiritual) stimuli; Bad lifestyle, improper diet and nutrition, heredity, diseases and accidental injuries will all lead to premature aging. Contemporary science has put forward many theories about the causes of aging.

6. Conforming to the nature and the correspondence between man and nature-the basic idea of China's traditional health preservation.

In the theoretical system of traditional medicine, conforming to nature is an important part of the concept of health preservation. Whether it is health preservation or disease rehabilitation, all methods and functions reflect the characteristics of conforming to nature and are full of dialectical views.

(1) Harmony between Man and Nature

Chinese medicine believes that life is between heaven and earth, and all life activities are closely related to nature, so we must keep harmony with nature at any time and place. This is the idea of "correspondence between man and nature". In the practice of health preservation, we must follow this basic law in order to achieve good health preservation effect. However, in the field of health care, we should not advocate ideas and behaviors such as "transforming nature", "challenging nature" and "opposing heaven and earth". We should adapt to the season, grasp the time, obey the geography and adapt to the society, so as to conform to nature and enjoy the years.

(2) Unity of form and spirit

Shape refers to the overall morphological structure of human beings, that is, basic nutrition such as muscles, blood vessels, bones and muscles, viscera, meridians and limbs, as well as qi, blood and body fluid, which is the material basis of human beings; God refers to spiritual activities such as emotion, consciousness and thinking, and also refers to all external manifestations of life activities, which is a reflection of human functions. The dialectical relationship between them is interdependent and interactive, and it is an inseparable whole. God is born of form, attached to form and exists. Form is the foundation of God, and God is the master of form.

Form-based: Form is the material basis of spirit, and the five spirits (spirit, soul, spirit, will and mind) and five senses (anger, joy, thinking, worry and fear) in TCM are produced by five internal organs (heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney) respectively. "God" needs a lot of subtle qi and blood nourishment.

God is the commander-in-chief: it is the brain that plays the role of commander-in-chief and coordinator in the human body. The overall characteristics, functions, behaviors and laws of life activities are managed, coordinated and unified by the mind. Therefore, when keeping in good health, we should take "nourishing nature" and "adjusting mind" as the first priority.

Physical and mental cultivation: physical and mental cultivation, that is, not only pay attention to physical maintenance and rehabilitation, but also pay attention to mental maintenance and rehabilitation. The two complement each other and bring out the best in each other, so that both body and spirit can develop in a balanced and unified way.

(3) Dynamic and static interaction

Yang moves while Yin is static: Zang-fu organs belong to Yin, characterized by quietness, functional activities belong to Yang, characterized by movement. Only by maintaining the state of dynamic and static coordination can all organs be full of vitality, thus delaying the aging changes of all organs.

Combination of motion and static: most health-preserving people advocate the combination of motion and static to achieve the effect of body and mind integration. It is an important principle of China's traditional health preservation to pay equal attention to activity and activity.

(4) Coordination and balance

It is also an important content of TCM health care to coordinate the physiological function of human body and its relationship with the external environment, balance the normal functions of various systems, tissues and organs, and realize the material exchange between the body and the outside world.

Neutralization is the highest criterion of health preservation and rehabilitation. The core of all theories of TCM is the concept of "observing the position of Yin and Yang and adjusting it to a level" put forward in Neijing, which emphasizes "neutralization", and coordination and balance are also the embodiment of this idea.

Dysfunction, symmetry imbalance and unstable state of human body are the important reasons leading to low physiological function, premature aging and diseases.

Eliminating evil is an important part of balance and coordination. Traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to "eliminating evil", while health care pays more attention to healthy qi in the body to eliminate evil, which is actually the embodiment of the idea of regulating balance.

(5) Righteousness is the foundation.

The modern concept of health preservation no longer only emphasizes supplementing the body's nutrition. The real state of health should be the normal operation of various functions of human organs. Based on healthy qi, from the concept analysis of traditional Chinese medicine, it is the basis of health preservation to give full play to and strengthen the functions of zang-fu organs, make subtle and endless, and excrete waste in an orderly way. Only by strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits can we prolong life.

7. China traditional sports health treasure-Tai Ji Chuan.

China's traditional physical health preservation has grasped the "three treasures" of essence, qi and spirit, regulating and nourishing the spirit, drawing air with intention, activating blood with qi, guiding the shape with qi, dredging the whole body meridians and nourishing the whole body through the movement of bones and muscles.

Tai Ji Chuan is a treasure of traditional sports health preservation in China, and the above-mentioned China traditional health preservation principles are fully reflected in Tai Ji Chuan. Tai Ji Chuan is closely related to the five internal organs, qi and blood, form and spirit, so it has obvious health preserving effect and is deeply loved by the public. Tai Ji Chuan can strengthen the functions of heart, lung, spleen and stomach, liver and kidney, and make qi and blood flow smoothly in the body. Thus, the human body is integrated with spirit, the pulse is smooth, the inside and outside are interlocked, and the viscera are coordinated, so that the body can reach the state of "yin and yang are secret", thereby enhancing human immunity, promoting health and maintaining vigorous vitality.