Comrades of Wulin Editorial Department: I was deeply impressed by your enthusiasm for serving people's health after reading your letters. My reply to several questions in your letter about practicing the six-character formula is as follows, that is, it was published in your magazine, and I am sorry that I can't reply separately, and I attach Wang Meilan's experience in practicing the six-character formula. I hope it can be published for readers' early reference. First of all, the best time to practice the six-character formula is in Yin Shi. Because the sun comes from the shade, you can practice in combination with the weather. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, lung qi begins with yin, and people often say that it is full of vitality. Zhang Huimin, a Qigong scholar, explained in detail the benefits of acrobatics in Yin Shi. According to my personal clinical experience, the effect of Yin Shi's acrobatics is two or three times greater than other times. 198 1 year, I took 96 students as interns in Dalian Maritime College. I get up at five in the morning and take them to practice. After three months, the effect was over 90%. There is a group of evening self-study, which takes twice as long as usual and the effect is only over 70%. Twenty comrades of the municipal party Committee will pick me up at five o'clock in the afternoon to teach, and send me back at half past six, three times a week, one and a half hours at a time. Results Only 1 person recovered from diabetes, 4 from chronic enteritis, 2 from hypertension and 5 from insomnia and headache. This is twice as bad as the students of the Maritime College. Because I am tired in the afternoon and my blood drops, it is naturally not easy to make achievements. Second, the problem of practicing the six-character formula: if the patient is sick, first, insist on it three times a day for more than half an hour each time. If he is too weak to support for a long time, he can shorten his activity time and do it more times so as not to be overtired. Third, practice the six-character posture; Pay attention to the posture when practicing the six-character formula. After washing your face and gargling in the morning, find a place where the air is fresh with flowers and trees (if you live in downtown, you can stand with the window open in the morning), relax your clothes, be calm, keep your feet on the ground thick, keep your head empty, with your jaw slightly closed (Baihui point is in the spinning nest on your head), your neck is hungry like a tiger, your chest is empty, your back is pulled out, your shoulders are loose, and your spine is loose. Facing east in the morning is called Bindong Day. Facing west in the evening is said to be a good day; Due south in the afternoon, that is, away from the fire; Facing north in the middle of the night, call for ridge filling. (See Book of History, Volume 1 ..) This is to cooperate with the qi of heaven and earth to repair the disability of human body. Let nature take its course, effortless, hollow head, relaxed muscles, quiet mind and good health. You can't plant from front to back, plant from left to right, eliminate distractions and concentrate your will. That is, the so-called independent spiritual cultivation in Neijing, and the so-called refined spiritual cultivation in Neijing, that is, the so-called Confucianism: only the essence is exclusive, the truth is upheld first, and then Zhi Zhi can be calm at regular intervals. Mencius told us: Don't be tempted. At this time, with the nature of breathing, the internal qi is mobilized in response to the external qi, and the turbid qi contained in the viscera, that is, the so-called carbon dioxide, is sprayed from the inside of the abdomen to the outside. This is a kind of abdominal breathing. When reading in each room, due to different pronunciations, lips, tongue, teeth, teeth and throat will have different shapes and positions, which will lead to different activities of zang-fu organs and meridians, which can strengthen their activity functions, dredge qi and blood, and improve their bloated lesions. Because I can't draw, I only use words to describe the shape and position of my lips, tongue, teeth, teeth and throat. Soon, I will find friends and linguists who can draw pictures to explain in detail and help patients exercise. If necessary, I may also go to Guangdong once to give oral guidance. At this stage, I hope you can pinyin according to the phonetic dictionary, so there is not much difference in mouth shape. Comrade Shen, don't worry about your liver disease. There are more than 20 cases of liver disease cured by six-character prescription. The method is to practice six words in a row in the morning, each word is called six times, and * * * is called Little Sunday. After practicing again, practice booing and focus on nourishing the liver. At the same time, practice blowing words to make up for its mother. When exhaling, use gestures to guide, lift anus and shrink kidney; When inhaling, the muscles of the whole body relax. A loose and tight abdominal breathing can mobilize internal forces. Five, the child, ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, there are six hours, from midnight to noon, when Yang rises, and at noon, Wei, Shen, Emirates, Xu, Hai, from noon to midnight, when Yin rises. You can do the math yourself; 1 1 At night, it is a child, one to three is ugly, three to five is cloudy, and so on. Ancient doctors used these twelve hours to calculate the vitality of an organ at a certain moment, which is convenient for guidance and related to diagnosis and treatment. If you are interested, you can buy my book "Introduction to Nourishing Qigong Meridian" from Wang Meilan, Ritan Station of Beijing Qigong Society (you can send it to 50 cents by post). It takes too much ink to write here. Seven, for a cold, many people can get results after practicing. Most people don't catch a cold after practice, and they don't have to stop work if they catch a cold. Eight, I intend to publish Qigong practice instructions in your magazine for reference. Ma Litang is in Beijing.