Health preservation has existed since ancient times. So how did the ancients preserve their health? The following will be introduced in the future, the ancient method of longevity and health.
There are many ancient health aspects are worth our reference now, especially in the aspect of daily health care, so what are the health of the ancient daily health care methods?
- Shake your head often
Hands akimbo, eyes closed, head down, slowly twist to the right, until the recovery position is once, do a total of 6 times. Repeat 6 times in the opposite direction. Often do this action can make the mind flexible, prevent cervical disease.
- Always swing your waist
With your legs shoulder-width apart, do the waist twist. When the body twists to the left, the right hand is in front and the left hand is behind. Gently pat the lower abdomen with the right hand in front and the “life gate” acupoint between the second and third lumbar spine processes with the left hand in the back. Do 50 strokes. Repeat in the opposite direction. This action can strengthen stomach and intestines, solid kidney qi, prevent indigestion, stomachache, lumbago.
- Knead your stomach often
Rub your hands 36 times, after your hands are warm, fold them and cross them, and rub them clockwise around your navel. Do 36. Can help digest, absorb, eliminate abdominal distension.
4, often levator anus
As you inhale, tighten the muscles of your anus. Hold your breath for a few seconds until you can’t stand it, then exhale to relax. Do it 20 to 30 times each morning and evening.
Rub your feet often
Rub your left foot with your right hand and your right foot with your left. From heel up to toe, and then down back to heel for one, a total of 36 times; Two thumbs take turns to wipe the foot heart Yongquan point, a total of 100. Regular rubbing of the feet can strengthen the functions of various organs and help relieve insomnia, lower blood pressure and eliminate headaches.
6, often twist the knee
With your feet side by side and your knees close together, squat slightly with your hands on your knees and twist to the left and right, doing 20 strokes each. Can strengthen knee joint.
Ancient recipe for health preservation
- Dynamic health
The ancients believed that “people who want to work in shape, all diseases can not become”; The poet Lu You said, “The form should be small to work,” demonstrating the positive effects of moderate exercise on health. In practice, ancient people have found out some dynamic ways, such as massage, Qigong, Taijiquan, bagua and Wuqinxi, which can strengthen the body and prolong the life. If people coveting ease, lack of exercise, or overwork, it is easy to cause “strain injury”, also known as the “five fatigue injury”, namely long visual injury blood, long lying injury gas, long sitting injury flesh, long standing injury bone, long walking injury tendons.
- Maintain a healthy diet
The ancients believed that a reasonable diet can nourish the essence of qi, correct the deviation between the zang-fu organs and the Yin and Yang, prevent and cure diseases, and prolong life. Therefore, the diet should not only pay attention to “food” that is to “five grains for nutrition, five fruits for help, five livestock for benefit, five vegetables for filling”, but also to pay attention to the harmony of five tastes, otherwise, will be due to nutritional imbalance, physical bias, the five viscera dysfunction and disease.
- Take a tonic
Traditional medicine highly advocates the use of tonic drugs to regulate Yin and Yang, nourish the zang-fu organs and nourish the essence of blood. Reasonable supplement can strengthen the body, prevent disease, dispel disease. But the supplement should be dialectical, but also appropriate, should also consider to comply with the four. When taking a tonic, such as lung drugs, in the fall is more appropriate; If it is a tonic, it is more appropriate in winter.
- Solid and fine health
The ancients believed that the essence of blood is the essence of human nutrition, is the material basis of life, the five zang organs and six organs to provide the essence of blood, to maintain its normal function. If libido is not jointed, excessive loss of vital blood will cause physical weakness, lesions, loss of life. And maintain Yin jing to be able to defer senility.
- Meridian health
Channels and collaterals are the “network” system throughout the body, which controls the flow of blood and gas to ensure the normal function of each tissue system. According to the Huangdi Neijing (Inner Canon of Internal Medicine), the channels and collaterals have the functions of determining life and death, dealing with all kinds of diseases, and regulating the deficiency and reality. Ancient physiologists believed that dredging the channels and collaterals could be an important measure for health preservation, and the easiest way was to stimulate, massage and acupuncture three important points, namely Hegu point, Neiguan point and Zusanli point. Hegu point can prevent and cure facial and facial diseases, Neiguan point is helpful to prevent and cure heart diseases, zusanli point is the most effective to prevent diseases of the five viscera and six organs, especially the digestive system.
- Keep fit
The ancients believed that there are four seasons of different climate changes in heaven, and all things on earth have the laws of birth, growth, harvest and collection, and the human body is no exception. Therefore, the ancients from the aspects of food, clothing, shelter and travel proposed the timely health law. The movement of the five viscera, Yin and Yang, qi and blood must adapt to the four seasons, not the opposite. Adjust your life behavior according to the time, helps to keep fit and prevent diseases, otherwise, reverse spring gas easy to hurt the liver, reverse summer gas easy to sad, reverse autumn gas easy to hurt the lung, reverse winter gas easy to hurt the kidney.
- Cultivate your mind
The ancients believed that those who pursue a long and healthy life should start from cultivating their moral character. On weekdays, we should eliminate all kinds of wishful thinking, say good things more, do good deeds more. The ancient physician Meng Said, “If you can protect your health and keep your lover, do not leave your mouth with kind words.” “If you have kind words, do good deeds.” Sun Simiao said, “Your sincerity is leading you into thinking and eliminating, and you should cultivate your mind and mind orderly.” Develop a good character, often do things that are beneficial to others, can make your mind open, cheerful.
- Regulate qi for health
The ancients believed that the human body vitality has the function of producing, promoting and absorbing the blood, warming the whole body, resisting diseases and pathogens, and enhancing the functions of the zang-fu organs. Many factors, such as unbalance of nutrition, lack of proper work, maladjustment of emotion and attack by pathogenic factors, can lead to deficiency, depression, stagnation and reverse symptoms of vitality, and then cause pathological changes in the body. The method of regulating qi and keeping in good health advocates a series of measures, such as taking care of one’s daily life, following the four seasons, avoiding overwork, preventing overwork, adjusting diet, adjusting five tastes, adjusting seven emotions, saving words, learning to breathe, and exercising guidance, etc.
- Attenuated health regimen
The ancients believed that if people are moody, it will lead to the imbalance of Yin and Yang, qi and blood in the body. Overwork will damage temper, injury to the diet is wet, hot, sputum turbidity. If thou affront six whoredoms, all sorts of maladies abound besides injury. This kind of pathogenic factor is regarded as “poison” by the human body, so it is proposed to “reduce poison” to preserve the way of keeping the true qi healthy. Reducing the accumulation of toxins in the body through diet, medication and other measures can prevent diseases, prevent premature aging, and thus prolong life.
- Keep quiet and keep healthy
Jing Shen plays an important role in traditional health maintenance. The ancients believed that god was the master of life’s activities. Keeping a quiet air and a stable mind can maintain the vitality of the body, make the five zang organs in peace, and help prevent diseases, improve health and prolong life. On the contrary, anger injury liver, happy sad, sad lung, fear injury kidney, as well as induce a variety of physical and mental disorders.
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