The balance of yin and yang and the unity of man and nature are the basis of TCM health care concept. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that heaven and earth are the big universe, and human body is the small universe, which is connected with heaven and man, and people are not influenced by heaven and earth all the time. Traditional Chinese medicine health care emphasizes the unity of man and nature, and health care should be adjusted appropriately with the climate changes of four seasons, cold and hot summer, so as to achieve the harmony between man and nature and the balance of human body itself.
Traditional Chinese medicine health care also pays equal attention to body and mind, not only paying attention to physical exercise and maintenance, but also paying attention to spiritual cultivation and recuperation. The body will affect the mind, and the mind will also affect the body. They are two sides of a whole, and they are indispensable.
The whole theory of TCM is health preservation in a broad sense. Medicine is defined as "the way to survive" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals-the former is the verb "improve", the latter is the noun "vitality", and "Tao" is the fundamental law. Health preservation is the knowledge that human beings improve their self-organization and self-rehabilitation ability, so as to achieve the realm of prolonging life.
The knowledge of eliminating diseases-therefore, it is different from the "medicine" for treating diseases in modern western countries. In Huangdi Neijing, Huangdi and his teacher Qi Bo had a wonderful conversation. When talking about the plague, the Yellow Emperor asked the teacher why some people were infected but could not get sick. Qi Bo's answer is that "healthy qi should be kept inside, and evil should not be done"-this is why the whole Chinese medicine is a great health preservation. Of course, the Chinese medicine mentioned here refers to the original Chinese medicine, not the "modern Chinese medicine" that has been unrecognizable since Kangxi castrated Chinese civilization.
Generally speaking, health preservation is a narrow sense of health preservation, which refers to the knowledge of improving self-rehabilitation ability through non-drug methods. The formation of the holistic view of harmony between man and nature in the 50 th century BC marked the maturity of the concept of health preservation; In 6 10 AD, during the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, Chao, a doctor of Taiyi at that time, concentrated on the sources and symptoms of various diseases in Treatise on Diseases, but there were no prescriptions in the book, only 2 13 kinds of health-preserving prescriptions and guiding methods were listed. Therefore, since then, China has regarded health preservation as a routine treatment method, which has been officially advocated.
The whole long summer health preservation talks about the traditional Chinese medicine health preservation system has been very mature in the era of Huangdi Neijing. The book Huainan Lie Hong in the Western Han Dynasty is the best expression of "keeping in good health". The book holds that the whole human life system (called "Qi" in ancient times) consists of three elements: first, shape-"the shape of a person, the house of life", that is, the "house" of human life; Second, God-"God is the master of life", that is, people's self-organization and self-healing ability are the masters of life ("master"); The third is qi-"full of qi." Qi is the messenger of the relationship between form and spirit. In today's language, it is information. The first is "God", followed by "Shape", and finally "Qi". "Losing one's position will hurt three". This is the principle of primitive medicine in China, and so is "keeping in good health" in a narrow sense. So, how to deal with the relationship between the three? "Huainan Lie Hong" makes it very clear: first, "it is necessary to raise its gods"; Second, "weak harmony"; Third, "flat its shape." Now we limit "health preservation" to dietotherapy and medicated diet, which is suspected of being partial. Health preservation means "nourishing the heart", or "nourishing the heart" or "nourishing the nature". Dietotherapy and medicated diet are only part of health preservation. Although valuable, it is not the most important part-because the first is "nourishing the heart" and the second is "keeping fit". The purpose of dietotherapy and medicated diet is also to improve the self-organization ability of the human body, that is, to nourish the heart. That is to say, what modern people call "Qigong" (strictly speaking, it should be "medical Qigong", which was also called "guidance" and "health preservation" in ancient times) is the most critical content of health preservation, and its guiding ideology is the holistic view of oriental civilization.