Essence refers to all tiny trace substances, including qi and blood, blood and body fluid. Semen refers to the essence produced by men, which is semen. For Taoism, it is very important to preserve health, maintain vigorous vitality and prolong life. As the ancients said, people who are in good health must cultivate their spirits.

Essence is the basic substance of human body and the material basis for maintaining human life activities. Essence governs kidney. Excessive indulgence will damage the essence of kidney, and then hurt other organs, affect health, and even promote premature aging or shorten life expectancy. Modern medicine believes that long-term excessive sexual behavior will lead to the decline of immune system regulation function, because sexual behavior will cause high excitement, high energy consumption and decreased organ function adaptability.

Preserving semen, abstinence refers to controlling sexual desire between men and women. Traditional Chinese medicine has always believed that excessive sex will seriously damage the most precious material essence of the human body. The essence of male and female reproduction is the source of the inherent life of the human body and should not be excessively leaked. Excessive sexual life, semen will dry up, qi will dissipate, and aging will occur first.

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Abstinence and semen preservation methods:

1, controlling sexual desire, nourishing essence, and consolidating yin and essence. In fact, this explanation is not comprehensive, and abstinence is not a simple abstinence. Desire refers to desire, including the desire for wealth, power, material and sex. Abstinence refers to controlling luxury desires, reducing mental burden and stress, purifying the mind, nourishing the spirit, indifferent to nothingness, relaxing the spirit, eliminating troubles and anger, and avoiding hatred and sadness.

2, clear-headed: generally, the mind is only half an hour and a quarter awake. If you want to keep your mind clean and never have any evil thoughts, then you must read 10 minutes or half an hour every morning and evening, especially abstinence books and articles, which are very useful for clearing your mind.

3. Second, obey the rules: always obey the rules and behave appropriately, including not being frivolous in clothes, dignified in words and deeds, serious and cordial in thinking, sitting and lying upright, and not being tempted by many prostitutes.