Talk less and nourish the true qi
Talking less means being quick, quick and talkative. If people often chatter or shout, it will inevitably consume lung qi, resulting in insufficient vital qi in the body.
Wu, chief physician of Acupuncture Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Many people have this feeling. Sometimes they don't exercise much, but they feel tired when they talk too much, or they feel hoarse and sore throat when they talk too much. This may just hurt!
Although people speak and make sounds from the throat, they rely on the encouragement of qi when breathing, and the lungs control the breathing of qi. Therefore, mild long-term words are often the easiest to hurt lung qi. Slight pain in the throat, hoarseness and swelling in the throat are the initial manifestations of lung qi injury, and long-term lung qi injury is more likely to cause colds, cough and asthma, and even emphysema. Engaged in teachers, broadcasters and other occupations for a long time. Loud voice, easy to consume gas and damage body fluid, dry mouth and throat and other symptoms frequently appear.
Injury to the spirit is injury to the body. A talkative person should learn to nourish qi and replenish qi. First of all, you should adjust your way of speaking. Talking for a long time doesn't mean not talking, but avoiding talking all the time, keeping your tone as calm as possible, speaking as slowly as possible, and not talking for too long.
Abstain from prostitution and nourish essence.
Abstinence refers to abstinence during sexual intercourse. Essence is the foundation of health preservation. The loss of essence shakes the foundation of life, and it is difficult to guarantee health and longevity.
Chen Luquan, Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Tongren Hospital: Kidney is the innate foundation of human beings, from which both Yuan Yin and Yuanyang of human body come, and it is the source of human vitality. So people say that a person's deficiency is often related to kidney deficiency.
To tonify kidney-qi, you might as well do foot lifting frequently. There is a very important acupoint in the center of the foot called Yongquan, which belongs to the kidney meridian. Qi and blood gush from this acupoint like spring water, and then nourish the whole body along the meridians. Lifting the heel can not only massage this acupoint, but also extend to the renal meridian of the sole of the foot, thus stimulating the renal meridian.
When the old people are deficient in kidney-qi, they are prone to listlessness and can't wake up. No matter how long they sleep, their mental state is still very poor. They get flustered when they move, and their heartbeat is not good. Simply lift the heel, practice several times a day for a few minutes, and then lift the kidney qi. You can do this while waiting for the bus or at any leisure time. If you persist for a long time, you can also prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and hypertension.
Light taste, nourishing blood and benefiting qi
Thin is light, as the name implies, thin taste is light diet. Eat less fat, spirits and high-fat products. It is harmful to your health to covet cream and taste and indulge in wine and delicacies.
Chen Luquan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Forensic Medicine of Beijing Tongren Hospital, said in Qian Jin Fang: "Diet should be thrifty in the current season, and greed will hurt the taste, so the spleen and stomach of the elderly will be thin, and it will be unnecessary if there is more." So when people are old, it is useless to eat more fish and meat. It is better to eat less or moderately. Eating some rice properly is a good choice.
Three hundred rice originated from Su Dongpo, a great writer, that is, "a pinch of salt, a dish of white radish and a bowl of rice". Rice has the effects of tonifying middle energizer, benefiting essence and strengthening ambition. Raw white radish can promote digestion, and cooked radish can also relieve cough. Salt is an indispensable condiment in the diet. It enters the kidney and stimulates kidney qi, and the vitality in the kidney is the driving force to maintain life, so people will be full of energy after eating salt.
The ancients said: there are three treasures in the sky: the sun, the moon and the stars; There are three treasures on the earth: water, fire and wind; And people have three treasures: essence, qi and spirit. And this simple bowl of rice can fully supplement the essence and spirit. Anyone who suffers from high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, poor mental state, poor physique, asthma by climbing stairs, and eating and dozing off all day can try it.
Pharyngeal fluid nourishes dirty qi.
Body fluid refers to saliva. The ancients believed that body fluid was the essence of human body. Often stir with your tongue in your mouth, change saliva (body fluid) through salivary glands, and then slowly swallow it to nourish dirty qi.
Wu, chief physician of Acupuncture Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: In summer, the water consumption inside our body is increasing, so we must nourish yin and moisten dryness during this time to replenish the water inside our body. Practicing "swallowing body fluid" will have a good effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Of course, you can also refer to Sun Simiao's action when he swallowed Tenshindon in the Tang Dynasty.
The method is simple. Before getting up in the morning and going to bed, you can do the action of biting your teeth with your mouth closed, so that the upper and lower teeth collide and make a sound. Generally we take 36 times as a cycle. After knocking on the door for 36 times, some saliva will be secreted in our mouth, and we will drum up the saliva in our mouth like gargling. In the process of drum washing, we also secrete a lot of saliva, and then divide the saliva secreted in our mouth into three mouthfuls and slowly swallow it, imagining that it will enter our abdomen. Diabetic patients can take ten minutes to do this action every day, which is helpful to relieve a series of symptoms caused by yin deficiency.
Think less and nourish your heart more.
It means don't think about it when you are free. People should think and worry about everything, but thinking too much will lead to sadness and loss of life. Don't worry about personal gain and loss, reputation and status.
Chen Luquan, Deputy Chief Physician of Forensic Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Tongren Hospital: According to the emotional theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "thinking leads to qi stagnation", and thinking too much will hurt the spleen. Modern medical research has also confirmed that people who have been engaged in mental work for a long time and make their brains highly nervous are prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and digestive tract ulcers, which is consistent with the theory of "thinking damages the heart and spleen" in traditional Chinese medicine.
Therefore, no matter how busy your life and work are, you must "think clearly", give yourself more time to relax your body and mood, and avoid the emotional invasion of your personal foundation. In addition, we should pay more attention to calm down, don't be too happy and sad, and don't worry too much about things that haven't happened. Instead of being troubled by illusory troubles, it is better to cultivate a positive and optimistic attitude to look at the present.
Beauty diet nourishes stomach qi.
A good diet means a reasonable diet. In ancient times, people realized that different foods contained different nutrients, and only a comprehensive and reasonable diet could meet the needs of various physiological functions.
Peng Xin, Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: In our traditional diet, it has long been said that "five grains nourish the five internal organs". Broadly speaking, whole grains remind everyone to eat all kinds of whole grains. Of course, the health value of five grains (rice, millet, sorghum, wheat and soybean) is not low. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the so-called "whole grains" are the seeds of plants, which concentrate all the essence of plants, have a complete flavor of the four seasons, and can best replenish essence.
Wheat, japonica rice, rice, millet, etc. It is sweet in taste, flat in nature, full of grain and qi, and has the best vitality. It has the effects of "nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and blood, growing muscles and calming the five internal organs". Usually dietotherapy can nourish qi and blood and regulate spleen and stomach.