First, pay attention to moral health.
Traditional Chinese medicine health care emphasizes the importance of moral cultivation to health and longevity. It is a basic view of TCM health preservation that people who are highly respected live longer. Confucius' view on the longevity of benevolent people is recorded in The Analects of Confucius, Yongye and The Doctrine of the Mean, which holds that only benevolent, caring and kind-hearted people can live long. Laozi regards charity, frugality and not being the first in the world as three precious spiritual treasures in life, and attaches equal importance to moral cultivation. Zhuangzi's health preserving theory also emphasizes the importance of spiritual life. A caring heart can not only make yourself healthy and live longer, but also make others healthy and live longer. If you are kind, your people will live long. "Han Dongzhong Shu Chuan" says: Yao and Shun are virtuous, and people live long. The whole society has sincere love, and naturally a healthy and long-lived society can emerge. Respect for benevolence and respect for Xiu De is an intrinsic nourishing of healthy qi, which belongs to the category of preserving health, nourishing heart and nourishing nature.
Second, emphasize moderation and restraint.
China's traditional health preserving theory has always focused on moderation and moderation. Too much is too late. For example, the combination of static and dynamic, moderate diet, regular daily life, not rushing, can achieve the balance of yin and yang, which is beneficial to health and longevity. Han said, "The human body wants to walk, but it can't make its ears." This is the embodiment of neutralization principle. Tao Jin Hongjing said: Those who can neutralize live long. China ancient Wuqinxi, Baduanjin, Tai Ji Chuan and other health gymnastics all embody the pursuit of neutralization. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates that through appropriate means, drugs can be used to adjust the deviation of the human body when necessary, so that its qi, blood, yin and yang can return to peace.
Third, invigorating qi is very important.
Qi is a unique concept in China's medicine. TCM health care attaches great importance to invigorating qi. Qi is the most basic substance that constitutes the world. Everything in the universe, including human beings, is transformed through the movement and change of Qi. Therefore, the important task of health preservation is how to maintain human qi, on the basis of maintaining healthy qi.
Fourth, emphasize disease prevention.
"No disease" refers to possible diseases or possible secondary diseases. Huangdi Neijing first put forward the principle of "preventing diseases". The so-called disease prevention, in short, includes two main contents, namely, taking measures to prevent the occurrence of diseases when there is no disease; After the onset, measures should be taken to prevent the development, spread and deterioration of the disease. Therefore, from the first aspect of the significance of disease prevention, it is consistent with the content of health preservation. From the second point of view, if the patient consciously or under the guidance of a doctor, take medication, diet or daily life, qigong, gymnastics and other methods to prevent the development of the disease and promote rehabilitation, it is also a health-preserving behavior. Zhang Zhongjing's theory of "nurturing caution" is the thought of preventing diseases. This idea was put forward in the first article of synopsis of the golden chamber. The core of prudence is to avoid six evils outside and correct qi inside. The idea of "preventing diseases" has always been valued by health preserving scientists in past dynasties.
Fifth, pay attention to healthy diet.
Throughout the ages, health experts have paid the most attention to diet health care. Bian Que, a famous doctor in the Warring States Period, said: People who don't know what to eat are not enough to survive. (See Preface to the Records of Poetry) This paper mainly discusses the diet and health preservation of medical sage Zhang. In synopsis of the golden chamber, Zhang Zhongjing particularly emphasized the significance of diet and health preservation. He said: "Every flavor of the diet should stay in the body. Eating is harmful, but it can also be harmful. " He pointed out that an important principle of diet is to take food to keep it cold, hot, bitter and sweet. (There is a passage in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber Zang-fu Meridian Syndrome and Treatment that clearly expresses the rationality of paying equal attention to both quality and quantity of diet. There is nothing too bad about festivals. Excessive consumption of any kind of food with sexual taste may lead to excessive and aging of viscera function, dysfunction of viscera and diseases. He also said: How can you not eat or drink without taking medicine or refining liquid? If you are eager to meet people, you will not be idle, and you will have a rash. If it wasn't for food? If you live your whole life, you should pay attention to those who avoid it. The taste of food is suitable for illness and harmful to health. If it is suitable, it will benefit the body, and if it is harmful, it will become a disease and lead to danger. All cases are difficult to treat. This passage is concise and to the point: people's food and diet methods, if appropriate, are beneficial to health, otherwise they are harmful to health. People who cherish life should be good at keeping in good health through diet and regulating their bodies. Otherwise, it may cause diseases and affect the quality and quantity of life. Zhongjing also said: The human body is peaceful, but it needs to be nursed back to health. Don't take medicine rashly. The potential of medicine is helpful, making people feel uncomfortable and vulnerable to foreign invasion. Husband contains qi and the like, and there is no shortage of food to make a living. Food does not know whether there is success or failure. People don't know it every day, and fire and water are too close to each other. According to Sun Simiao, it was because of the influence of Zhongjing's language that he wrote the book "Therapeutic Recipe".
Zhang Zhongjing's diet regimen has the following basic principles and contents: (1) Eat food that is beneficial to life. (2) Avoid eating food that is harmful to your health. (3) Pay attention to the reasonable collocation of food. (4) Pay attention to the meal time. (5) Pay attention to food intake. (6) Food is suitable for physical condition. If the tonic diet is adopted because of the deficiency of the body, then the deficiency will be greater than the loss. (7) To master the detoxification methods of food poisoning.
Sixth, emphasize timeliness.
Chinese medicine also attaches great importance to health preservation in order to adapt to the changes of yin and yang in nature. Chinese medicine believes that people are "born with the spirit of heaven and earth, reaching the law of four seasons." (Su Wenbaoming's Holography) People must adapt to the changes of Yin and Yang in the four seasons. "Lingshu Ben Shen Pian" said: "Therefore, the wise man's way of keeping in good health must be that cold and summer are suitable ... If so, the evil spirits will not come and live a long life." Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Cases of Typhoid Diseases says: "A gentleman nourishes yang in spring and summer, and yin in autumn and winter, and he is also flexible in adapting to heaven and earth." People should raise in spring, grow in summer, gather in autumn and harvest in winter. This is the embodiment of the view of "correspondence between man and nature" in traditional Chinese medicine.