In fact, TCM health preservation is not as simple as a few prescriptions, a few herbs and a few acupoints. Its profound connotation can be summarized in six words: smoothness, quietness, repair, adjustment, supplement and reality. If you really understand and do this, you will live a long life.
Huangdi Neijing said: "The right time, the right place and the right people." The "time" here refers to the four seasons of Yin and Yang, specifically, nourishing Yang in spring and summer and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter. Nourish the lungs and yin, go to bed early and get up early, and be calm, otherwise you will hurt your lungs. Diet and daily life, food, clothing, housing and transportation must also be suitable for the season.
Huangdi Neijing said: "Nothing is indifferent, the true qi follows, the spirit is hidden inside, and the disease is always safe." When people are quiet, they can reduce a lot of unnecessary consumption, especially the consumption of "qi", and realize "energy saving" in the body, thus preventing diseases and prolonging life.
"With a good house, there will be Qing Yu; If you are poor and weak, you will have troubles. " Refers to people who usually accumulate virtue and do good deeds, are open-minded and often live in harmony with the world, which reduces a lot of troubles and is also very happy.
It can be seen that you will gain health, happiness and longevity by cultivating your self-cultivation, being lenient with others, being indifferent to fame and wealth and being kind to others.
Huangdi Neijing says: We should adjust our spiritual will and secular desires according to the changes of the four seasons. It also emphasizes adjusting breathing, that is, "pranayama" and practicing breathing and breathing.
I suggest you breathe slowly and evenly for a long time. You can practice "dantian breath". After inhaling through your nose, you can send your breath to the lower Dantian Sea through your mind, which is 1.5 inches below your navel. Then slowly exhale the air. When practicing "abdomen suction", swallowing saliva and adjusting body fluid will have better health preserving effect.
The ancients advocated the use of tonic drugs to regulate yin and yang, viscera and qi and blood. There are three principles: one is syndrome differentiation, the other is food supplement first, and the third is the combination of reinforcing and reducing.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the homology of medicine and food, and all foods have the function of conditioning the body. In terms of taste, sour tonics liver, bitter tonics heart, sweet tonics spleen, spicy tonics lung and salty tonics kidney. As far as color is concerned, red tonifies the heart, black tonify the kidney, yellow tonify the spleen, green tonify the liver and white tonify the lung.
Fixing sperm is to protect kidney qi, and the most important thing is abstinence.
Solid gas: First, reduce gas consumption and talk less; Second, we should bask in the sun more and make up the yang; Third, do more aerobic exercise and increase oxygen; Fourth, sleep can nourish the five internal organs, and never stay up late; Fifth, we should bring the spirit of Shui Gu through diet, and drink more nutrition porridge, who can replenish blood and qi. Natural organic foods such as black rice, Redmi, glutinous rice, millet, red beans, coix seed, longan, red dates, walnuts and lotus seeds are all added. Insisting on drinking can achieve the goal of supplementing both qi and blood.
The content of the article is for clinical reference only. Non-Chinese medicine professionals should not try drugs.