There are "prescriptions" for health preservation in poems and songs. In the traditional culture of China, "if you are not good-looking, you should be a good doctor" is the life ideal of most intellectuals. People like Bai Juyi, Lu You, Yuan Mei and other "literary immortals" are not only brilliant, but also proficient in medical law. Many methods of keeping in good health are scattered in their poems and songs, and they have become the objects that scholars of past dynasties are scrambling to emulate.
"The food is only half full and there is no time, and the wine is not very diligent for three minutes." This is a poem with seven rhythms, which is included in Shou Shi Bao Yuan. Warn people to limit their diet, not to overeat, and not to overeat. You can drink alcohol in moderation, but don't drink alcohol.
Chinese medicine emphasizes eating less dinner, otherwise it will affect the body and reach seven points full. If you eat too much at night, it will lead to an increase in blood pressure and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Alcoholism is more harmful. Long-term alcoholism can easily lead to liver function decline, and even lead to alcoholic hepatitis, fatty liver, liver cirrhosis and other serious diseases.
"If you drink more, your gas will rise, and if you drink more tea, your gas will fall." . Regulating the spleen and stomach is the king of traditional Chinese medicine, and saving diet is a good way to treat diseases. "It's sick to lie down when you're full" and so on all tell us not to eat too much and drink too much.
"Flower village window afternoon dream long, temporarily forget the world. Huashan Chu Shi, if you can see it, wouldn't you look for a fairy to sleep with the party? " Lu You's Dream in the Afternoon tells us to have enough sleep.
Chinese medicine has long recognized the importance of sleep to the human body. Many health preservation theories have always emphasized that "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic, and food tonic is not as good as sleep tonic".
The function of sleep is to replenish human energy, enhance self-resistance, promote normal growth and development of human body, and make human body get full rest. Sleep is extremely important for protecting people's mental health and maintaining normal psychological activities.
"Eating properly, living regularly and not forgetting to work" is the gold standard of China's ancient health theory.
"Master advised me to wash my eyes when I fell on the bed and stop smelling the bells and drums." This is a poem by Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, which illustrates that foot bath before going to bed is good for health.
Modern medical research shows that people's aging begins with their feet. Often soaking feet can not only stimulate nerve endings, regulate autonomic nerve function, delay brain aging, but also promote the expansion of blood vessels on the body surface and improve blood circulation, thus eliminating fatigue, promoting sleep and prolonging life.
"Green vegetables, radishes, brown rice, crock water and chrysanthemum tea". This is Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" in Qing Dynasty, who summed up his health-preserving experience and recorded his health-preserving methods in just fourteen words.
Only eating light meals and drinking natural water can make people physically and mentally healthy and prolong life. Eating greasy food often will make you gain weight quickly, which will lead to obesity. If you are obese, many diseases will follow, such as hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction. It is also prone to heart disease and stroke.
A light diet will reduce the burden on the body, prevent diseases, relieve constipation and promote detoxification.
"Suddenly, the sky is white, and the short hair is self-combed." This is a poem by Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Lu You combs his hair with a wooden comb as his way of keeping in good health.
China has a "regular grooming" fitness method since ancient times. Modern medicine has proved that combing hair can have a good massage effect on the head, stimulate the blood circulation of the head skin, and is beneficial to the nutritional metabolism of the head.
Therefore, regular combing is not only conducive to stabilizing hair roots and preventing hair loss, but also has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on neurasthenia, nervous headache, arteriosclerosis, cerebral thrombosis and other diseases.
Middle-aged and elderly people should always maintain a good mental state and mental health. It's not terrible to be old, but to be old.
"It's more sad to know what you look like at the beginning of your life than to die in your heart. It's a medicine to get rid of old diseases." This is the way of keeping in good health of Bai Juyi, a poet in Tang Dynasty.
Bai Juyi was born in troubled times and suffered a lot, which led to his illness. When he was not confused, he realized that "unhappiness" was the reason for "insufficient life", so he began to pay attention to emotional health and gradually became a real "optimist" figure. This poem embodies the poet's correct concept of treating the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled correctly.
"Anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock" and other "seven emotions" are different reflections of the human body to the outside world, and are normal phenomena of life activities, which will not make people sick. However, under the sudden, intense or long-term stimulation, if it goes beyond the normal range of physiological activities, it will damage specific organs, such as "anger hurts the liver", "joy hurts the spleen", "sadness hurts the lungs" and "fear hurts the kidney", and then "seven emotions" will become the pathogenic factors.
Therefore, keeping an open mind, optimistic mood and positive attitude towards life is the first essence of health care.
Health preservation is a complex knowledge, including Chinese medicine, nutrition, kinematics and so on.
The ancients had poor conditions and lacked health care products and medical equipment, so they realized a simple but effective way of keeping in good health and wrote poems.
In fact, as long as you have a regular schedule, a light diet, enough sleep and a happy mood, it is the best way to keep fit.
Reading more poems is also a good way to keep fit.