To sum up, TCM health preservation is a series of measures combined with the characteristics of TCM to achieve the purpose of health preservation. It emphasizes the principle of "five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five livestock for benefit and five vegetables for supplement", and combines smells to supplement essence. This dietary guide can be said to be the earliest dietary guide for TCM health preservation in China. It combines the health care experience and research results of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, as well as health care physicians and physicians in previous dynasties, forming a profound theoretical system. In the long history of thousands of years, TCM health preservation has made indelible and outstanding contributions to the prosperity and health of the Chinese nation.
TCM health preservation is a process of self-cultivation by following the theory of TCM and the natural law of human life, or under the guidance of TCM. Health care is an adjuvant therapy, which has a higher standard of health care and of course includes the connotation of health care. People who work all day may wish to rest mainly; People who mainly do mental work, sit still all day and seldom exercise, might as well give priority to exercise. For obese people, vegetarianism is a suitable health-keeping method for a period of time; For those thin people, omnivorous food is more conducive to health.
TCM health preservation is to use various TCM methods to keep healthy. But in fact, many people don't know what Chinese medicine keeps in good health. Through the practice and experience of TCM health experts in past dynasties, it is concluded that there are seven kinds of health preservation, but health preservation varies with individual physique.