Now, let's take a look at where the aging of the human body is mainly manifested: white or withered hair, poor vision and auditory memory, dry and wrinkled skin, dull skin, tooth loss, slow response, slow action, soft muscles, poor digestion and absorption ability, shortness of breath, loose urine and urine, timidity, easy fracture, sexual dysfunction, decreased reproductive ability and decreased resistance. Overall image: lack of energy!
First, TCM health preservation is to nourish the kidney and spleen and stomach.
Kidney qi is in the hair, but kidney deficiency is not; The kidney begins to understand the ear and the two yin, and kidney deficiency makes the ear hard to hear, and the two yin is hard to fix; Kidney governs bone marrow, teeth are bone surplus, and brain is marrow sea. Kidney deficiency leads to weak bones, unstable teeth, brain failure, forgetfulness, slow action and slow response; The essence and blood are homologous, the kidney stores essence, and the liver stores blood for liver orifices, but the essence and blood are insufficient, so it is unclear by visual inspection; Kidney governs water, and kidney deficiency makes skin dry and wrinkled, which is not easy to moisturize; Kidney governs growth and reproduction, while kidney deficiency stops growth and development, and sexual desire and reproductive function decrease or lose; Kidney governs qi, while kidney deficiency leads to shortness of breath.
Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, while spleen deficiency leads to poor digestion and absorption ability, poor qi and blood biochemistry, dry and dull skin and no qi and blood nourishment; Spleen governs muscles and limbs. Spleen deficiency makes muscles weak, and limbs like to be quiet and fidgety. As for timidity, the decline in resistance is caused by insufficient qi and blood.
From the above text, we can easily see that TCM health preservation is actually nourishing the kidney and spleen and stomach! Because kidney is congenital, kidney qi is also called true qi and vitality; Spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry, so they are considered as the foundation of the day after tomorrow! Isn't keeping in good health in traditional Chinese medicine just seeking the source and consolidating the foundation? We put our roots in Yang's world. Can the underworld please you easily? Of course, it doesn't mean that Chinese medicine doesn't pay attention to other viscera, but these two viscera are the key to Chinese medicine. In addition, we should pay attention to resting our hearts, benefiting qi and nourishing the liver, and breathing and nourishing the lungs!
Second, how to judge spleen and stomach weakness
Can eating healthy food be healthy? That may not be true. Food is eaten, but if it can't be digested and absorbed by our bodies, the benefits of food can't be used by us, and even the best food is useless. Therefore, before food supplement, we must first have a healthy spleen and stomach, so as to transport delicate nutrition normally.
Spleen has the functions of transporting and transforming, clearing heat and regulating blood; The stomach has the functions of receiving, dispersing and healthy. Spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry and the foundation of the day after tomorrow. Spleen and stomach weakness will lead to dysfunction, which will affect the normal digestion, absorption and distribution of food, and then affect health.
There are three simplest ways to judge whether a person's spleen and stomach are weak: look at the hands, look at the bags under the eyes and look at the tongue.
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When you look at your hand, look at your index finger (forefinger) first. Indications can reflect the function of the whole spleen and stomach. If the index finger is deformed and the inner root of the little finger feels sore, it indicates that the digestive system is dysfunctional. There is an acupoint called "Ear Tip" at the root of the index finger near the thumb. Patients with constipation and abdominal distension can relieve constipation by massaging this part for a long time. If the indicator is hard and turns purple, it means that the spleen and stomach are extremely weak. At this time, symptoms such as indigestion, loose stool, and stomachache often appear.
Judging the spleen and stomach by looking at the hands, we should look at the whole palm besides the fingers. Put the+fingers together and observe the gap between them. Too many finger joints indicate that there is something wrong with the spleen and stomach, and it is easier to suffer from superficial gastritis and atrophic gastritis.
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The reason for the formation of eye bags is that the spleen and stomach are weak for a long time and water stays in the body. The starting point of the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming is exactly where the bags under the eyes appear, and water and dampness will stay here first. The skin around the eyes is thin and slack. When the moisture around the eyes is wet and stagnant, the eyelids will bulge and form bags under the eyes.
Chinese medicine judges whether the spleen and stomach are weak and often looks at the bags under the eyes. If you want to completely eliminate bags under your eyes, you must replenish your spleen and stomach. After the spleen and stomach are strong, the transportation has strength, the water in the body gradually decreases, and the bags under the eyes will disappear.
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The color of the tongue can reflect the condition of the body. Healthy people's tongue is reddish; If the tongue is pale, it means blood deficiency; If the tongue is red, it means that there is heat in the body; If the tongue is purple, it means there is blood stasis in the body. The biggest feature of the tongue quality of people with spleen and stomach weakness is the hypertrophy of the tongue body and the traces of teeth on the edge of the tongue. This is because the spleen and stomach can't transport water and dampness, and the tongue will become hypertrophy when the water stays in the body. The hypertrophy of the tongue presses on the teeth, resulting in tooth marks on the edge of the tongue.
When you look at the quality of the tongue, you can also look at the tongue coating. The tongue of a healthy person has a thin, moist white coating, which is not dry or slippery; If the tongue coating is yellow, it means that there is heat in the body; The tongue coating is brown, indicating that there is heat in the body; White tongue coating indicates that there is cold in the body; Black tongue coating indicates that the body is full of cold; Thick and greasy tongue coating with white coating indicates weakness of spleen and stomach.
Third, how to replenish the spleen and stomach
After knowing how to judge the weakness of the spleen and stomach, how to replenish the spleen and stomach?
People with weak spleen and stomach are most afraid of drinking Chinese medicine, so I advised them to drink porridge. I suggest you add four ingredients to the porridge-lotus seed meat, yam, coix seed and Euryale ferox seed. Mix these four foods according to the ratio of1:1:1:1,grind them into powder, and put a few spoonfuls of porridge each time. This "four treasures porridge" is especially helpful for strengthening the spleen and stomach.
Throughout the ages, many doctors have regarded lotus seeds as the first choice to replenish the spleen and stomach. Yam is a good medicine for nourishing the spleen and stomach, which is beneficial to qi and nourishing yin. The biggest effect of coix seed is to get rid of dampness. Transporting water and dampness is one of the functions of spleen. Too much moisture in the human body will increase the burden on the spleen, and eliminating dampness is to reduce the burden on the spleen. Euryale ferox is similar to lotus seed meat, and it is also one of the best products for strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Euryale ferox is stronger than lotus seed in astringency, and it is a good medicine for invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea.
There is also the simplest way to replenish the spleen and stomach, that is, chiropractic, which should be pinched from the coccyx to the neck. There is no need to stick acupoints when kneading, because the spine and its two sides are the route of Du Meridian and Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian, and chiropractic can stimulate many meridians, thus achieving "leaving the acupoints without leaving the meridians".
The method of chiropractic is simple. Pick up the meat on your back, then let it go, pick it up again, and repeat. Chiropractic can benefit the spleen and stomach, strengthen the whole body's qi, regulate viscera, dredge meridians, raise qi, nourish yin and blood, and calm the heart fire. Generally, people with spleen and stomach problems have yellow skin color. This kind of people are lazy and partial to food, and chiropractic helps to regulate the spleen and stomach. Chiropractic therapy also has a good effect on children with congenital weakness of spleen and stomach, and has a miraculous effect on infantile malnutrition.
Fourth, the way of nourishing kidney and tonifying kidney
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One is that the kidney tastes salty.
Salty hurts the kidney. Eating too salty will damage the nerves, leading to insufficient essence, while rising deficiency fire will lead to symptoms such as hypertension and stroke.
Avoid salt after fracture, because the kidney dominates the bone, and once the bone is broken, it can no longer hurt the kidney. In other words, all bone diseases, including bone tuberculosis, bone cancer and osteoporosis, need to avoid salt or less salt, so that the treatment effect is good.
Even if you have never seen kidney damage, you should have less salt in your diet. Modern research holds that the salt per person should not exceed 6 grams per day, which is not easy to grasp, but we should always be careful not to eat salty food.
Some people say that if cooked food or soup is too salty, would it be better for me to add some water before drinking it? In fact, it is meaningless to do so, because there is no less salt entering the body.
Patients with long illness and serious illness need to avoid salt most, need a light diet, recuperate slowly, and drink cereal together to recover. Moreover, all kidney diseases, such as acute or chronic nephritis, renal failure, renal insufficiency and so on. Salt needs to be avoided until they recover. If you can't avoid salt, it will be difficult to heal, and it will also lead to unpredictable consequences. Modern research believes that patients with hypertension and heart disease should not eat too salty, otherwise it will increase the burden on the heart. In fact, this is also the embodiment of salty injury to the kidney.
Chinese medicine believes that if pathogenic factors enter the kidney, its symptoms are mostly abdominal distension, swelling of lower limbs, heavy body, lethargy, bone pain and so on. Furthermore, if it belongs to kidney yin deficiency, it is manifested as dizziness, tinnitus, forgetfulness, soreness of waist and knees, hot flashes and night sweats, red cheekbones, dry mouth, dizziness, tinnitus, nocturnal emission and female sexual intercourse. If it is kidney-yang deficiency, it is manifested as mental fatigue, weakness of waist and knees, cold limbs, dysuria, impotence and nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation and cold sperm, and female infertility due to cold uterus. If you have such symptoms, you should pay attention to eating less or not eating salt to avoid excessive kidney damage and affect your recovery.
Chinese medicine believes that: sweet wins salty. Sweetness can alleviate the kidney-purging effect of salty taste. People with kidney deficiency may wish to eat something sweet and black, and can use the sweet and salty effect to achieve the effect of tonifying kidney. In fact, kidney-tonifying foods such as "Black Five Categories" are mostly sweet.
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Second, the kidney is afraid of ambition.
I'm afraid of hurting my kidneys. Fear leads to anger. When people encounter fear, their lower limbs are often weak, they can hardly stand up, and even have incontinence, which is a manifestation of fear of hurting their kidneys.
It is not easy to nourish the kidney, so we should try our best to avoid damaging the kidney. So things that are prone to fear should be avoided as much as possible.
For example, don't go alone at night. Night is cloudy, especially in the mountains. If the human body has insufficient yang, it is easy to get sick at night due to the invasion of yin. If there is a ghost in your heart, walking at night will scare yourself and hurt your kidneys and essence. Especially at night, when a person passes through the cemetery, he is most taboo to raise kidneys.
Some people are afraid of heights. If they stand on a high place and look down, their lower limbs will be weak. In this case, try not to stand too high and look down, lest you hurt yourself because of fear. For example, the Oriental Pearl, hundreds of meters high, is the last place for people who are afraid of heights.
Horror movies are so popular that I can't understand them. I'm too scared to turn off the lights to sleep and stay in the house alone. Why bother? Watching a horror film will form a horrible memory for many years, and you will be afraid in the dark or when you sleep alone, which will make kidney essence consume all the time.
Some people like to listen to ghost stories and even tell them. It's exciting to scare others silently. Don't you know that fear comes from listening to ghost stories, which can also hurt the kidney and essence? Why did Confucius "not talk about Machamp's confusion"? I think Machamp's confusion is illusory, which hurts the kidneys and is not conducive to the progress of life. Why do you say it?
Some people like to scare others, hiding in a corner first, waiting for someone to come over, and suddenly jumping out to scare people; Or, jump out at night in ghost clothes to scare people; Even medical students lie in the autopsy room and suddenly sit up, scaring people when they come to study, and so on. It is very inappropriate to hurt other people's kidney essence for their own stimulation. People are frightened by fear, from mental disorder to palpitation, from fear to kidney deficiency and coma and death.
Chinese medicine believes that thinking is better than fear. Do you remember the fable of bow and snake shadow? This is an example of thinking over fear. I'm not afraid when I understand.
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Third, the kidney produces fluid.
Saliva is produced by the essence in the kidney. Saliva gets kidney qi, which is most helpful for warming kidney.
You can pat your teeth 72 times in your spare time, and then stir your tongue 12 times in your mouth, which will slowly produce saliva. Then swallow it slowly in three small mouths and introduce saliva into the abdomen with your mind. This is the best way to keep fit and help digestion.
Spitting everywhere is a bad habit. Spitting everywhere is unhealthy and harmful to the kidneys.
If you don't spit, you can nourish your kidney, but if you spit, it will hurt your kidney. As the ancients said, if you spit far, it hurts far, if you spit near, it hurts, and if you don't spit, it doesn't hurt. When I was a child, I was ignorant and competed with children to see who vomited far. Now think about it, this is not a good game, at least it will hurt the kidney. It's just that the child's kidney is healthy and healthy, and it doesn't hurt. Furthermore, from the point of view of Chinese medicine, spitting is harmful to qi and spirit. Because saliva is the fluid of the kidney, and because the heart is in charge of storing the spirit, the essence can turn qi into vitality, so too much saliva will lead to the loss of yin essence in the kidney and damage qi and spirit.
Saliva is different from sputum. If you have phlegm in your mouth, you need to spit it out. It has nothing to do with spitting.
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Fourth, the kidney is black.
Black nourishes kidney. There is a folk saying in China that black food has the unique effects of anti-aging, health care, longevity, disease prevention, treatment and blackening hair, which is actually the embodiment of black entering the kidney.
To nourish the kidney, you can eat more black food, such as black beans, black sesame seeds, black dates, black rice, black fungus and so on. Another example is black Chinese medicine, such as Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Mulberry, Colla cornus Cervi, and Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata. In addition, dark chocolate also has the function of nourishing kidney. Modern research believes that it can resist oxidation, which is probably the performance of tonifying kidney. It is believed that the darker the color of chocolate, the higher the cocoa content, and the stronger its antioxidant effect, especially the pure cocoa bar without sugar.
In addition, European supermarkets also have juice drinks made of blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, etc., which are black in color, sweet in taste and have a good kidney-tonifying effect.
Black-bone chicken bone color black, into the kidney. Black-bone chicken stew soup can best tonify kidney essence. In ancient times, Wuji Baifeng Pill had the effect of tonifying kidney and regulating menstruation.
There are many ways to tonify the kidney. The above is just a brief introduction.
Moreover: long-term sleep will consume the essence in the kidney, so avoid long-term sleep when tonifying the kidney; Sleeping at sea can tonify the kidney; Teeth are bones, and healthy teeth can nourish the kidneys; Kidney is full of qi, and hair care can nourish the kidney; The kidney is the ear and the second yin. Kneading the ear or massaging the scrotum and testicles can nourish the kidney. Nourishing the heart can keep the heart from moving, so the kidney is fine; Homologous essence and blood, homologous liver and kidney, mutual transformation of essence and blood. Blood injury means sperm injury, and liver injury means kidney injury. Kidney governs water, Shui Han, cold will hurt the kidney, so keep warm and cold to nourish the kidney; This and so on are all ways to tonify the kidney. If it is summarized by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it will be meaningful.