Once upon a time, among the Yellow Emperor, he was born as a god, weak and eloquent, young and unbiased, long and sensitive, and achieved great success. This sentence first introduces the emperor, because "The Inner Diameter of the Emperor" mainly talks about the dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and Zeebe, and makes a foreshadowing at the beginning.
I asked Shi Tian: I heard that ancient people were 100 years old in the Spring and Autumn Period, but their mobility did not decrease; Now people, half a century later, have failed in sports. Times are different. Will people lose?
First, the Yellow Emperor asked his teacher Zeebe. It is said that people in ancient times could live to 100 years old, and their movements were not aging. Now people are over 500 years old, and their movements are weak. Is this caused by different generations? Or is it that people can't keep in good health now? Please note that the ideal age of ancient people is Jiazi and Jiazi are 60 years old, which means that the ideal age is 120 years old. So how did ancient people keep in good health?
Qi Bo said to him: "Those who know in ancient times, based on Yin and Yang, take technique as harmony, eat frugally and live regularly. They didn't work rashly, so they were all in harmony with God, and they lived to 100 years old. " . Today's people, on the other hand, take wine as the pulp, do whatever they want, lead a drunken life and dream of death, want to exhaust their essence and dissipate their truth, do not know how to be generous, from time to time, be quick with their hearts, go against the joy of life, and live without restraint, then half a hundred will fail.
The ancients believed that the changing law of human body was the same as that between heaven and earth. Tao is the natural law of heaven and earth. "The law lies in yin and yang, and in several strokes." Transportation is understood as human practice, and the number can be understood as human qi and blood flowing into meridians 24 hours a year. Do things according to the laws of heaven and earth, four seasons and one day. Health preservation must first abide by the laws of natural changes. Spring life, long summer, autumn harvest, winter storage and four-season health preservation are all different, which will be introduced later.
"Eat and drink in moderation, live regularly, and don't be hasty." The law here is a festival, not an economy. Old people often say that we are only 7 minutes full, so we must eat early, have a good lunch and eat less dinner. In fact, we are talking about some rules and common sense. Go to bed early and get up early to be healthy, don't stay up late and don't impose labor on your body. This is to keep healthy and form certain correct eating, living and working habits.
To achieve the above two points, so "harmony of form and spirit", the form is our body, what is the essence that people often say, and what does the "spirit" of Chinese medicine mean? The next section explains.
What is "spirit"? "Essence" is the material basis that constitutes the human body and maintains human life activities; "Qi" is the motive force of life activities; "God" is the supreme commander in chief of life activities, as well as human consciousness and cognition. Adhering to "spirit" is the secret of health and longevity.
Essence is a delicate substance that constitutes the human body and sustains life activities. According to the source, function and function of essence, it can be divided into congenital essence and acquired essence. Among them, "innate essence", also known as "meta-essence", is the basis of human growth and development, mainly from the blood of parents, and is regarded as the original microscopic substance of human life activities. It is the essence of reproduction, which can form a fetus and give birth to offspring. Acquired essence, also known as "essence of zang-fu organs", mainly comes from the nutrition of the acquired five-grain diet, which is formed by transforming the subtle part of nutrition into various zang-fu organs of the human body through the respiratory regulation of the lungs and the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. It can nourish the viscera. Although "essence" is different from "innate" and "acquired", they are complementary and interdependent. The innate essence depends on the continuous supplement of the acquired essence, and the acquired essence must rely on the vitality of the innate essence, which is also stored in people's two kidneys to form the so-called kidney essence. Therefore, the traditional health-preserving theory has always attached great importance to the health-preserving functions of "nourishing essence", "preserving essence" and "refining essence". Kidney storing essence is the basic principle of TCM health preservation.
The production of "Qi" is closely related to organs such as kidney, spleen and stomach, and lung. Among them, the kidney governs the absorption of qi, and the kidney has the physiological functions of inhaling lung and clearing qi, keeping breathing stable and deep, which is conducive to the full exchange of qi. Spleen and stomach absorb Shui Gu's essence from various dietary nutrients, which is called "the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry" by Chinese medicine. Lung governs qi and regulates breathing. Breathe the turbid gas in the lungs, clear the old and absorb the new, and complete the gas exchange inside and outside the body; The lung governs the qi of the whole body: the clear qi inhaled by the lung is combined with the essence of Shui Gu, which is the force of the whole body (the generation of clan qi); The breathing of the lungs regulates the ascending and descending movement of qi; In addition, the qi and blood of the whole body converge to the lungs through meridians, which can help the heart circulate blood. The existence of "Qi" is manifested through certain physiological functions, mainly in the following five aspects:
Promoting effect: "Qi" can promote the activities of viscera and blood circulation;
Warming effect: "Qi" has the function of maintaining the normal temperature of human body and keeping the body in harmony with the external environment;
Defense function: "Qi" has the ability to protect the muscle surface and defend against the invasion of foreign pathogens;
Fixation: Qi has the function of controlling blood, sweat, urine and sperm leakage;
Qi: "Qi" has the function of maintaining normal activities of zang-fu organs and smooth metabolism of essence, blood and body fluid.
"Life is full of qi and death is full of essence" just emphasizes that "qi" and "essence" belong to the material elements of life activities. Emphasize the role of "nourishing qi", "invigorating qi" and qigong exercise in health preservation.
"God" usually appears as the general name of human life activities, including mental and conscious thinking activities in the brain, as well as all functions and external manifestations of viscera, meridians, camp and health, qi and blood, body fluid and so on. The generation of "God" is mainly based on innate essence and nourished by acquired essence. Therefore, the rise and fall of "God" is inseparable from the gains and losses of essence. Only when the essence as the material element of life is sufficient can the "God" as the external expression of the function of life activities flourish. As for the physiological function of "God", medicine believes that it is mainly reflected in its dominant position in human life activities. The whole human body, from the brain to the internal organs, from the five senses and seven orifices to the meridians, qi and blood, essence, body fluid, and even the activities of limbs, all rely on "God" as the internal vitality to maintain its normal movement.
In the traditional health preserving theory, essence, qi and spirit are the three basic elements of human life activities. Among them, essence and harmony are the material basis of life activities, while god is the external expression of life activities, or as the overall functional information of life structure. There is an internal connection between the three: only when the essence is sufficient can our consciousness and some activities of life spread outside. The ancients thought that eating meat was better than eating grass, and eating grass was better than eating gas. In ancient times, there were practitioners who meditated, adjusted their breathing and felt the natural changes of heaven and earth. After specific practice, they can make the blood circulation in our body reach a very highly orderly state, a state that can be controlled by our gods, and this state is the state we are in.
Next, how do people keep fit today? "Take wine as the pulp, enter the house as drunk as a fiddler, run amok, try your best to exhaust its essence, dissipate its truth, be careless, conquer its spirit from time to time, speed up its heart, and be unrestrained." They drink wine as porridge every day and have had sex with men and women after getting drunk. After being drunk, most of the blood in the liver is replaced by alcohol, and the liver should be detoxified. Sexual life will mobilize a lot of essence and qi and blood of the human body to complete. After being drunk, the liver will be in a state of low energy. Having sex again will make the liver overworked. What are the consequences? That is to exhaust its essence and disperse its truth. Parents gave us so much essence, you used it up ahead of time, don't think about the consequences. What is the true qi? As I said before, saving energy is true. If the true qi dissipates too much, God will be insufficient, and people's mental state will be bad, and there is no way to concentrate on one thing. Nowadays, people often overdraw their vitality in advance for temporary happiness, which belongs to fate. If they want to live a good life, they must cultivate their vitality.
In view of a physical condition of our contemporary people, this paragraph should be discussed in particular. I'm mainly talking about our younger generation, our next generation.
Our generation of post-80s and post-90s children is zero zero zero zero. Their living conditions, their living conditions, are what I said above: "Try your best ...", which means that young children in China generally have the habit of "zw". This "zw" itself, including the "zw" of children, is normal and understandable; But the current situation is that the "zw" frequency of contemporary teenagers and little boys has far exceeded the level that the body can bear.
The ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine say that children are pure yang with full yang, but this is an ancient child. Nowadays, few children can find pure yang, and most of them are yang deficiency and yang deficiency. At first glance, many teenagers look dull, sallow or dark, which is rare in ancient children's faces, but it is common today. This situation has a lot to do with the development of our current social culture, popular culture and internet information, which will give people constant stimulation, and both adults and children will be affected, but children's self-control ability in this respect is very weak.
Nowadays, the proportion of infertility in China is getting higher and higher, and many infertility are related to physical overdraft when young. Therefore, this problem is now a very serious one. In a big way, it is related to national rejuvenation and the foundation of the country. We may really become the "sick man of East Asia" one day. I didn't expect it to be so serious before, but from my actual contact now, it is really unexpected. I put forward this problem, but I don't know how to solve it. I hope everyone will think more and pay more attention to the people around them and our children.
These will become one of the biggest hidden dangers of contemporary China people. No matter from the health point of view, or from the social and economic level of the country, it cannot be overstated. In the past, if others said this, I might feel a little out of line, but today, through my experience and observation, my real contact and feelings are really like this. I hope everyone has this awareness. At least we can be self-conscious. When the people around us are just beginning to sprout these signs, we know how to influence them.
There is another problem, that is, playing games. Children's addiction to games is beyond our reproach, but it is enough to make us fear. Scientists have specially studied that the brain reaction of children addicted to games is the same as that of drug abuse. We can observe the children around us who like to play games. Outside the game, they are slow and indifferent to people and things in life, and often show a dull look. When a child is really addicted, it is actually more difficult than detoxification, and it cannot be changed by simple discipline, because the child has lost his self-control ability in this respect. In the development stage of children's body and brain, game addiction will have a very negative impact, which is very unfavorable to the growth of children's intelligence, the cultivation of social skills, and the development of temperament and personality.
Under the guidance of ancient sages, my husband was called "the thief wind of virtual evil", sometimes avoiding it, being indifferent to virtual quietness, obeying the true qi, keeping the spirit inside and preventing illness. In ancient times, under the guidance of people who knew how to keep in good health, many evil thieves could be avoided, and diseases would not occur if the mind was free from distractions, the qi was smooth, and the spirit was trapped inside. So what is virtual evil thief wind?
Virtual evil, external evil is solved. When we are weak, we are easily influenced by external evils, such as typhoid fever and cold, which is often when we are weak.
More in line with the original explanation, virtual evil refers to virtual wind, which refers to our unhealthy trend at four o'clock, and in layman's terms, it is the wind against the season. For example, the northwest wind blows normally in winter, and then suddenly comes to the southeast wind, which is a virtual wind. The southeast wind should have blown in summer, but the northwest wind came. This is a virtual wind. In winter, the northwest wind is very strong, and you will be shivering and cold when facing the wind, but you will rarely catch a cold when being blown by such a strong wind unless you are very weak. When we are blown by the northwest wind, we feel very uncomfortable, but we seldom catch a cold. It is precisely when there is a warm winter in winter that the southeast wind blows out of season, and it is easy to catch a cold when it is blown by this wind. From the point of view of the ancients, the reason why anti-fashion makes people sick is because it violates the Yin and Yang Qi endowed by God. Today, we understand that if the southeast wind blows in winter and there is a warm winter, it means that many viruses and germs will be active in the environment, which will cause harm to people.
What is thief wind? Quietly approach your wind. What harm does this do to people? Such a small wind may not be felt. If our bodies are exposed to strong winds, our pores will instinctively close, and we can protect ourselves and adjust ourselves. It's just a thief wind. It's too weak. If we encounter some problems and do something, our energy will be hindered by some external things, and our body's sensibility will decline. At this time, the thief wind will easily invade our bodies when our bodies are unprepared. When will this thief wind easily happen? At home or in the office, with the windows open, there is no wind outside, but there is a temperature difference between indoor and outdoor, which will form convection and a very weak thief wind, which is not easy for us to detect, but in fact we have already caught a common cold, which will stay in our bodies and we will not feel anything strange in our bodies for a long time. But this thief wind has accumulated in our body for a long time, which will bury some hidden dangers. This hidden danger will one day break out when the body is in an abnormal state for some reason. At this time, our physical diseases may be more serious and difficult to treat than the cold and fever we are suffering from at present.
Why can the virtual evil thief wind hurt people? In other words, the wind and yin that violate the laws of nature hurt people. Wind is the first of all diseases, so three parts of the human body should pay special attention to avoid cold: neck and shoulders, waist and abdomen, knees and ankles.
Women are afraid of hurting their stomachs, while men are afraid of hurting their backs. For men, pay special attention to the back. Once they get cold wind, it will do great harm to their kidneys and kidney qi. For example, our current air conditioner, artificial wind, such as the current air conditioner, used to be hot air in summer, but it turned out to be cold air. When the human body is deficient in qi, such a thief wind can invade our body. Many times, I turn on the air conditioner in summer to blow air conditioning to sleep, and I get up the next day with neck pain or diarrhea. When we sleep, the yang is hidden in it, which is qi deficiency, so it is easy for the wind to invade. Air conditioning helps us spend the hot summer in our lives, but because of air conditioning, we have to
There are many diseases, many cervical spondylosis and menstrual pain of girls, which are all related to blowing air conditioners in summer. Therefore, you must turn off the air conditioner when you sleep. If we don't turn it off, don't let it blow to people. Some people sleep with the north and south windows open at noon and wake up with their mouths crooked or unable to move. In fact, they are all strokes. Don't open the north and south windows when you sleep, which will form a window wind. When it is too hot, open a window.
Peace, leisure, nothingness and no distractions mean that our mind is in a state of peace and our spirit is in an empty state. When a person is often in a bad mood, or his mood is unstable, ups and downs, or his mood is ok, but he thinks a lot every day and his thoughts are confused, this state will make our body very upset, make our body's blood flow very disordered, and it is very unfavorable to our body.
That is to say, when we are in a state of indifference and nothingness, our emotions are stable, and we are not so thoughtful, the qi and blood of our bodies can run in the original way of our lives. In this case, our body's immunity will reach an optimal state. No matter what foreign evil thief we encounter, our body will have enough ability to defend against it and destroy it in time. We can observe that animals in nature are vulnerable to trauma, but rarely catch colds and colds. Of course, apart from plague, there are no chronic diseases. Because the biggest difference between animals and people is that they are calm and have no thoughts, and in most cases they are in a state of indifference and nothingness, so the immunity of animals themselves is stronger than ours. After escaping from the chase, animals will tremble all over after they feel no danger, and then return from a state of tension and pressure to a state of indifference and nothingness. We can learn the truth of keeping in good health from it, and so can our ancients. The true qi is the qi and blood of our body, and the original running state is our body energy, the original running state.
That is to say, when we are in a state of indifference and nothingness, when we have less emotions and less thinking, the qi and blood of our body can operate and operate according to the original lifestyle. In this case, in our current words, our body's immunity will reach an optimal state. When we encounter any evil, whether it is virtual wind, thief wind or other evil, our bodies will have enough ability to defend themselves and destroy them in time. In other words, we are upright and upright.
Spiritual introspection is the consciousness of self's current life.
In fact, when we are aware that we are angry, and can be sensitive to awareness and understand the current state, we will not be angry at this time. Naturally, this spirit is not tied to this angry thing and this person. When we can be in this state of awareness, we know what we are doing and what I am now. No matter how upset, tired, under much pressure and hardship, as long as we can be aware, we have a sense of our current physical and mental feelings and our own thoughts in this situation. At this time, although our thoughts are still there, our thoughts are still there.
You can try to feel whether you are happy, unhappy, crying or laughing at the moment. Knowing that you are crying, laughing, happy and unhappy is enough. When we are sensitive to this kind of consciousness, our life and body are in a state of "the true qi obeys it"