1, healthy diet
Dietotherapy and medicated diet are deeply rooted in the concept of China people. Food is the most important thing for people, and diet provides essential nutrition for life and allows life to continue. However, "water can carry a boat and also overturn it." A scientific and reasonable diet is good for health, while an improper diet will harm your health.
From the point of view of nutrition, the principles of healthy diet are: regular diet, diversified varieties, comprehensive and balanced nutrition and reasonable collocation.
At the same time, we should also pay attention to food hygiene and food safety, and avoid overeating and being hungry.
In addition, dietotherapy and medicated diet are the most distinctive features of Chinese medicine diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that medicine and food are of the same origin, and they all come from nature, and the four qi and five flavors are the same, which can regulate different viscera. For example, pears in fruits are sweet and slightly sour, cool in nature, enter the lung and stomach meridians, and have the effects of moistening dryness, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. When the climate is dry in autumn, eating more raw pears can nourish yin, promote fluid production and relieve autumn dryness. When cough and polydipsia are caused by lung heat, it can be used to moisten lung and relieve cough, and promote fluid production to quench thirst. Stewed Sydney with rock sugar is a classic dietotherapy prescription for clearing heat, moistening lung and relieving cough. Moreover, medicated diet can preserve health and prevent diseases, which is helpful to treat some diseases. For example, stewed chicken with astragalus has the function of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, which can enhance the body's immunity and prevent diseases. Another example is women with dysmenorrhea, which belongs to qi stagnation and blood stasis. Taking Chuanxiong boiled eggs two or three days before menstruation can improve dysmenorrhea.
In short, there are many contents of diet and health preservation. According to each person's specific illness or physique, different dietotherapy or medicated diet can be selected to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and preventing and treating diseases.
Step 2 live and stay healthy
Our ancestors have always lived a life of "working at sunrise and resting at sunset".
However, the pace of people's life has obviously accelerated and the competition is fierce. It is common to stay up late and work overtime in daily study and work. While the material life is getting richer and richer, the spiritual life is becoming more and more colorful. Some people indulge in entertainment and squander their health. Bad living habits have prompted many diseases, such as cervical spondylosis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and so on. Unhealthy lifestyle makes the disease younger and younger.
Various indications tell us that lifestyle has an important impact on health. It is necessary to develop good habits of living and rest, such as regular daily life, not staying up late, moderate entertainment and a combination of work and rest; Keep the room and household items clean and hygienic, often bask in the sun and ventilate the room regularly; Pay attention to keep warm in winter, don't blindly catch up with fashion, and don't "just seek elegance and not temperature"; Sweat properly in summer, and don't get "winter sickness" by staying in a cold and air-conditioned environment all day.
3. Emotional health
The classic ancient book Huangdi Neijing records that "sadness leads to qi dissipation, fear leads to qi depression ... shock leads to qi disorder,
Thinking leads to qi stagnation ",and" If you are angry and unhappy, you will get dirty, and if you are dirty, you will get sick from Yin. "These theories emphasize that people's emotional state of mind and mental activities are closely related to physical health.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the seven emotions, that is, people's various emotional activities, can affect the functions of viscera and qi and blood.
Operation, thus causing various systemic diseases. Modern medicine also attaches importance to the influence of psychological factors on health, transforming a single biomedical model into a "biological-psychological-social" medical model.
Modern medical research has found that when people are angry, they will stimulate the adrenal gland, which will lead to an increase in adrenaline secretion and an increase in the excitability of the body. Breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure may all rise, which will become the inducing factors of migraine, hypertension, and coronary heart disease.
The competition in modern society is fierce, and the pressure of study and work is great. Many negative emotions such as nervousness, anxiety, irritability and depression have become one of the important pathogenic factors of many diseases. In such a big environment, we should learn to keep in good health emotionally. That is, self-regulating emotions, maintaining a peaceful attitude and treating life positively and optimistically; In interpersonal communication, we should learn to tolerate others, learn from each other's strengths, live in harmony, and try to reduce or avoid contradictions; When you are in a bad mood, you should learn to talk to friends and relatives and tell your troubles. Don't be upset, you are ill. You can also choose to travel and see the beautiful scenery of nature, which is also a good way to relax. In short, let yourself have less troubles and more happiness!
4. Exercise for health
With the rapid development of science and technology, there are fewer and fewer manual workers and more and more mental workers. Many people are sedentary in their daily lives, which is one of the important reasons for the high incidence of diseases in modern lifestyles.
Life lies in exercise, which can make qi and blood circulate. Proper physical exercise can strengthen the body and improve the body's disease resistance. Such as aerobics, jogging, walking, swimming, ball games and so on. Are all fitness methods suitable for the public.
However, exercise should not be extreme, and it is inappropriate for some people to be too obsessed with exercise and fitness. Excessive exercise may lead to the injury of bone joints and soft tissues, and sudden heavy exercise may also make the heart hard to load and cause dangerous events. Therefore, it is suggested that the exercise should be gradual, and it is advisable to sweat slightly, and avoid sweating and panting.
Chinese medicine believes that there are two main reasons why people get sick, one is "not as good as" and the other is "too much", so you can't do it without exercise, and you can't do it too much.
4, four seasons health
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of man and nature, and advocates timely maintenance, that is, it advocates adapting to the changing laws of climate in the four seasons of nature to arrange daily life activities. "Nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter" is one of the basic principles of TCM health preservation.
In spring, everything recovers, so we should pay attention to nourishing yang in health care. At night, you should lie down and get up early, get more sunshine, do more outdoor activities on sunny days, breathe fresh air, get rid of the old and change the new, and regulate your blood.
Everything grows and prospers in summer, and people's yang is the easiest to vent. At this time, we should pay more attention to Yang. You should go to bed late and get up early, take a proper nap, avoid the high temperature at noon, and exercise moderately, preferably in the early morning or evening.
Autumn is a mature season, and the yang begins to converge, so the human body should also converge essence, protect body fluid and nourish yin, so it is most important to prevent autumn dryness. Ancient health experts believe that autumn sleep should be "lying early and getting up early, taking chickens as fun", that is, going to bed early and getting up early, which is similar to the time when chickens crow and flap their wings. Get up early and stretch your lungs; Lying early conforms to the income of yang and prevents the leakage of yin essence. At the same time, clothes should be adjusted at any time according to the temperature change. Keep an optimistic mood, don't be sad about autumn.
Winter is the season of collecting everything, and the human body also needs to save energy to resist the cold. Health maintenance
Based on the principle of protecting yin and suppressing yang, it should be supplemented appropriately according to personal circumstances. Should I go to bed early and get up late, and do morning exercises?
It should be too early. Outdoor sports should be carried out after the sun comes out. It is obviously inappropriate for some old people to go out early to exercise in rainy and snowy days.
5. Good health
Universality and individuality are the inherent essence of everything, so is TCM health preservation. If the above five aspects are common, then physique is about personality.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation, which is aimed at diseases. So, for healthy people, is there no difference? There must be a difference. No matter healthy people, sub-healthy people or patients with certain diseases, they all have different constitutions, so they will have different performances or choices in eating habits, daily life, sports, emotional psychology and so on. This is the individual difference of the body.
For example, a small cold, some people mainly show sneezing, runny nose or coughing and expectoration, some people show headache, sore throat and fever, and some people feel sore limbs, top-heavy and weak. These differences are related to genetic factors, eating habits, geographical environment, climate factors, social environment, family life, interpersonal communication and other innate and acquired factors, which is the difference in physique.
Traditional Chinese medicine divides people's physique into nine types: peace, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, qi deficiency, phlegm-dampness, damp-heat, blood stasis, qi stagnation and endoplasm. Just like the syndrome differentiation in TCM diagnosis, people with different constitutions have different health preserving methods.