Introduction to TCM health preservation
Traditional Chinese medicine health preservation is a health care activity based on the law of life development, which can maintain the body, reduce diseases, improve health and prolong life. A practical science that uses this theory and method to guide people's health care activities.
The theory of health preservation is guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, absorbs the essence of each family and puts forward a series of health preservation principles. Supplementing physical and mental nutrition, coordinating yin and yang, conforming to nature, paying attention to diet, living cautiously, harmonizing viscera, dredging meridians, abstinence, nourishing essence, benefiting qi, regulating breath, etc., so that health-keeping activities can be followed by rules and laws.
Overview of TCM health preservation
Chapter VI Environment and Health Care
Environment and health care are people-centered, and environment refers to the sum of objective things around people. This chapter mainly discusses the influence of the environment on human health, clarifies the occurrence and development law of environment-related diseases, and puts forward some basic methods to improve the quality of the environment, guiding people to choose and create a suitable living environment, so as to coordinate it with the law of human life activities, thus preventing diseases, strengthening physique and protecting human health.
Basic concept and classification of health preserving environment
Basic concept of health preserving environment
The so-called healthy environment refers to the external conditions that are formed by air, water, sunshine, soil, vegetation, housing, social humanities and other factors and are conducive to human life, work and study.
The relationship between man and nature is an organic whole. Because Engels was blind. ? People themselves are the products of nature, have they developed together with this environment in their environment? . Man and the environment are as inseparable as fish and water. Environment creates human beings, and human beings depend on the environment, are influenced by the environment, and constantly adapt to the environment. Human beings constantly transform the environment through their own production activities, making people and nature more harmonious.
The living environment is of great significance to human survival and health. A suitable living environment can ensure normal work and study, promote human health and longevity, and contribute to the prosperity of the nation. On the other hand, all kinds of harmful substances produced in human production and life activities will not only endanger human health, but also cause long-term potential harm and threaten future generations if they are not handled properly. Mencius pointed out; ? How big is it to live in the air and practice? It shows that people have long recognized the significance of living environment to protect human health and change residents' physique.
Environmental science believes that in a normal ecosystem, energy flow and material circulation are always going on, but at a certain stage, the input and output of energy and material, the proportion and quantity of biological population are in a relatively stable state, and information transmission is smooth. This state of balance is called ecological balance.
Ecological balance is a dynamic balance, and changes in internal and external factors, especially human factors, will affect or even destroy the ecological balance. An ecosystem can keep balance because it has the ability of self-regulation, or the environment has the ability of self-purification of pollutants. But there are certain limits. When there are too many pollutants in the environment, this regulation no longer works. If the ecosystem is destroyed, the environment will be polluted. Serious environmental pollution will lead to ecological crisis and human disaster. Epidemiological studies have proved that 70%-90% of human diseases are related to the environment. If people want to live a long and healthy life, they must establish and maintain a harmonious relationship with the external environment.
Environmental classification
There are many ways to classify the environment. This chapter introduces two commonly used methods.
(a) according to the formation of the environment.
Human-centered environment includes natural environment and artificial environment on which human beings depend.
Introduction to TCM classics
There is a saying in the history of China called "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs? The legend of "seventy poisons a day" reflects the arduous process of discovering drugs and accumulating experience in the struggle against nature and diseases in ancient times, and is also a true portrayal of the origin of traditional Chinese medicine from productive labor.
As early as the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties (about the end of the 22nd century BC-256 BC), medicinal liquor and decoction appeared in China. The Book of Songs in the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1 1 century-77 BC1years ago) is the earliest book with drugs in existing literature in China. Neijing is the earliest extant classic of TCM theory, which puts forward the theories of "cold is hot, heat is cold", "five flavors enter" and "five internal organs are bitter and want to tonify diarrhea", which are the basic principles of TCM.
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Theory laid the foundation.
The earliest existing pharmaceutical monograph "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" was collected and summarized by many medical scientists during the Qin and Han Dynasties (2265438 BC+0-220 AD). This book contains 365 kinds of drugs that are still in clinical use. Its appearance marks the initial establishment of traditional Chinese medicine.
More than 3,000 years ago, in Oracle Bone Inscriptions during the Shang Dynasty, there were records about China's medical care and more than ten diseases. In the Zhou Dynasty, methods of diagnosis, medicine, acupuncture and surgery were used. A systematic work Huangdi Neijing was formed in Qin and Han Dynasties. This book is the earliest classic of TCM theory. Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases specifically discusses the principles of syndrome differentiation and treatment of various miscellaneous diseases, which lays the foundation for the development of clinical medicine in later generations. Surgery in Han dynasty has reached a high level. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Hua Tuo, a famous doctor, has started to use the general anesthetic "Mafeisan" for various surgical operations.
From Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (AD 220-589) to Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (AD 58 1-960), pulse diagnosis has made outstanding achievements. Wang Shuhe, a famous doctor in Jin Dynasty, summarized 24 kinds of pulse conditions in Pulse Classic. This book not only has a great influence on medicine in China, but also has spread abroad. During this period, the specialization of medical disciplines has matured. Acupuncture monographs include Acupuncture A&B Classics; Bao Puzi and Elbow Queen are the representative works of an alchemist. In pharmacy, there is the theory of Lei Gong's baking; Surgery has "Liu Gui Yi"; On the Origin of Disease and Syndrome is a monograph on etiology, and Cranial Meridian is a monograph on pediatrics. The newly revised Materia Medica is the first pharmacopoeia in the world. Ophthalmology monographs include Hai Yin Jingwei, etc. In addition, some large-scale prescriptions appeared in the Tang Dynasty, such as Sun Simiao's "Thousand Women" and Wang Tao's "The Secret of Outside Taiwan".
The economic prosperity in Tang Dynasty (6 18-907) promoted the development of traditional Chinese medicine. The Tang government took the lead in completing the compilation and revision of the world's first Pharmacopoeia-Tang Herbal Medicine. There are 850 kinds of drugs in the book, and the drug atlas is added, which further improves the scale pattern of traditional Chinese medicine.
In the Song Dynasty (960- 1279), acupuncture teaching was greatly reformed. Wang wrote "Illustration of Acupuncture at Tongren Point". Later, he designed and manufactured two acupuncture bronze figures of the same size for students to practice. This pioneering work has a great influence on the development of acupuncture in later generations. In the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368- 1644), a group of medical scientists proposed to separate typhoid fever, epidemic febrile diseases and epidemic febrile diseases. In the Qing Dynasty, the theory of typhoid reached a mature stage, and monographs such as Treatise on Febrile Diseases appeared.
Since the Ming Dynasty, western medicine was introduced into China, and a group of medical scientists advocated "integration of Chinese and western medicine" and became the pioneers of integration of Chinese and western medicine.
In the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368- 1644), pharmacologist Li Shizhen completed Compendium of Materia Medica, a masterpiece of traditional Chinese medicine, which included 1892 kinds of drugs and became the greatest integrated work in the history of China's materia medica.