Analysis Of Health Preservation And Anti-aging From The Perspective Of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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In life, no one can prevent the life process of birth, growth, strength, old age, and death. This is an irresistible natural law. However, throughout the ages, people have all hoped that their youth would last forever and live in the same world, and they have been diligently exploring and searching for this. Although it is difficult for anyone to get rid of the natural laws of birth, aging, disease, and death, our ancestors have developed a very systematic and operational approach to how to improve the quality of life, how to prevent disease, and resist aging, and how to prolong life-based on continuous practice and exploration. Strong ways and means. This is expressed in various aspects of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, medicine and martial arts in our traditional culture, especially the systematic and perfect health care system is mainly concentrated in Taoism and medical culture. Since ancient times, Taoism and physicians have not separated from each other. There is a saying that "the way of medicine leads to the immortal way", and there is also the saying that "ten Taoism and nine doctors" (that is, nine out of ten Taoists are proficient in medicine).

Regarding the way of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine, its unique theoretical system and practical methods stand majestically in the forest of the east of the world, radiating brilliant wisdom.

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1. Maintain the spirit

To maintain the essence, in addition to keeping the emotions and desires as peaceful as possible in daily life, the most important thing is to control lust and prevent housework. The theory of health preservation in Chinese medicine believes that essence, qi, and spirit are the three treasures of the human body. Jing can transform qi, and qi can generate spirit. Jing is full of qi, qi is full of spirit, the spirit is full, the body is healthy, and physical health is disease-free. The Taoist Quanzhen sect is also named after the meaning of "full essence, full energy, and full spirit", which means "full essence". , refining into a golden elixir for billions of years" the ultimate idealistic pursuit of goals. Among these three treasures, the essence is the foundation and root. Without essence, there is no such thing as qi and spirit, and when the essence is deficient, diseases are proliferated, and even a short lifespan can lead to death. Maintaining the essence and restraining lust is not to let people leave life and absolutely abstain from sex, but to "moderate" and "neutralize". Between heaven and earth, everything has two attributes yin and yang. These two attributes are both opposite and unified, and they are indispensable, and the same is true for human beings. Maintaining essence and nourishing qi depends on "moderation", "neutralization", "balance of yin and yang", and "exceeding". This principle is also applicable to other principles, such as eating, resting, working, etc., all should be in moderation and not excessive. Excessive deviating from the way of "neutralization" will lead to all kinds of harm.

2. Adjust the diet

There is a sage who said: "Eating men and women, people's great desires exist." It can be seen that in the world, eating and drinking, men and women are indispensable. This section is devoted to diet.

In daily life, the five flavors of the diet should be properly reconciled as much as possible, and one should not be partial or addicted to a few of the "five flavors" for a long time, so as to avoid diseases. At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to the various taboos of the five internal organs for the five flavors according to the specific conditions of the five internal organs, such as physiology and pathology. The daily diet should be light and not indulge in fatty, sweet, and spicy foods. Fatty stagnation, sweetness is slow, more food is easy to help dampness and phlegm, greasy stagnation and phlegm, phlegm stagnation blocks the channels, blinds the clear orifices, and is prone to stroke, partial dryness or thirst. In addition, the diet should be controlled, not overeating, not too hungry, too hot, or too cold. Excessive satiety will increase the burden on the stomach and cause indigestion, which can lead to gastrointestinal diseases in the long run. Excessive hunger, then lack of food intake, lack of nutrition, dystrophy of the five internal organs, and no source of gasification. Bulimia from hot and spicy things can make the stomach accumulate heat and cause dry stools or hemorrhoids and bleeding. Excessive food is cold, it is easy to damage the spleen yang, and the cold condenses the qi and blood, causing abdominal pain and diarrhea due to cold and dampness, and various symptoms of the flank mass. In short, in terms of diet, you should eat regularly, with sufficient hunger and satiety, with five flavors in harmony, light and moderate, and pay attention to the amount of food you eat at each meal, keeping in mind the ancient adage of "you always have three points of hunger on your cheeks". Today’s people briefly summarize the dietary guidelines as “less tobacco and more tea, less alcohol and more water, less sugar and more fruit, less salt and more vinegar, less meat and more meat, less food and more chewing”, which can be used as a reference for daily life. Cistanche deserticola, known as the nine great fairy types of grass in China, also has obvious anti-aging effects. Cistanche contains the most effective ingredient in anti-aging. Cistanche deserticola has an obvious delaying effect on the aging of the pituitary gland, gonad, thymus, and other parts of the human body. Cistanche is rich in alkaloids, crystalline neutral substances, amino acids, trace elements, vitamins, and other components. It can invigorate kidney yang, replenish essence and blood, inhibit the appearance of "yang deficiency" symptoms, and prevent weight loss. It can effectively prevent and treat diseases such as men's kidney deficiency, impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, and women's irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and infertility.

3. Adjust the spirit

Maintaining a peaceful, optimistic mood and open-minded mental state in daily life plays a vital role in reducing disease, promoting health, and prolonging life. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that excessive emotions and emotional disorders are the main pathogenic factors leading to various internal injury diseases, and believes that "all diseases arise from one qi". Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine health preservation emphasizes the cultivation of the spirit and the regulation of temperament, so as to make the yang qi of the human body calm, yin and yang secret, play the role of maintaining the essence qi and enhancing the function of qi transformation, so as to achieve the purpose of anti-aging and anti-aging. Eliminate the interference of external things, do not act rashly and avoid selfish desires and distractions. Therefore, in life, one should have a pure heart and few desires, be free from hindrance, free from contention and greed, and follow nature, so that the human body can be full of true qi, yin and yang will be kept secret, and various diseases will not invade. Since the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", physicians and health practitioners of the past dynasties have published many incisive expositions on the unique traditional health preservation method of "adjusting the spirit and cultivating the mind". To adjust the spirit, one must also restrain desires and thoughts, convince the mind, lock the ape of the heart, tie the horse of the mind, and cultivate a noble sentiment and perfect personalities like the wind and the moon. In a word, having an elegant mind and reducing greed is the only way to cure disease and strengthen the body, prevent aging, and prolong life.

4. The law of life

In ancient times, people lived in accordance with the way of nature "sunrise" and "sunset rest". However, people living in modern and prosperous societies live irregularly and impermanently due to various subjective and objective reasons. Therefore, all kinds of strange and strange diseases strike modern people one after another.

In fact, our wise ancestors have already made a penetrating and vivid, and incisive discussion on this issue two years ago. How important it is to live longer.

5. Moderate exercise

Exercise can promote the circulation of qi and blood, speed up metabolism, and thus achieve the purpose of strengthening the body, prolonging life, and anti-aging. Hua Tuo, a famous medical scientist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, based on the concept of movement of "hushu is not beetle, and flowing water is not rotten", imitating the movement characteristics of five animals such as tiger, deer, bear, ape, and crow, and created the "Five Animals Show", which is famous for the ages and will be admired by later generations. "Afterwards, the techniques of guiding, breathing, and pressing stilts for healing and strengthening the body gradually increased, and gradually became popular in society. Of course, the national treasure of our country, Wushu, which has attracted the attention of the world, has also been gradually systematic and perfected with the development of the times, and has become a traditional sports project unique to our country and standing in the forest of the world. Today, there are more than 130 martial arts schools in my country that have formed their own systems, which can be described as splendid and colorful. From the point of view of practice, healthy young and middle-aged people with strong physiques mainly focus on stretching, generous, fortitude, and agile strength-type boxing, such as Shaolin, Yanqing, Baji, split hanging, etc.; The elderly mostly practice light and soft, slow-moving internal boxing styles, such as Wudang, Tai Chi, Bagua, etc. However, in terms of specific exercises, the amount of exercise must be flexibly arranged according to each person's physical condition. For example, those who are young and healthy and want to practice real kung fu can appropriately increase the amount of exercise and practice hard, but those who are old and frail, and who are sick and only want to keep fit, must not "practice hard", they must stop in moderation and stay. There is room, otherwise, it is so unhelpful and detrimental. Of course, the practice of martial arts can not only practice movement but also a combination of movement and stillness, with some static exercises (such as stance, sitting, lying, etc.) to practice. In this way, the combination of movement and stillness, as well as the combination of internal and external, is in line with the way of heaven and earth that balances yin and yang, so that those who seek kung fu can practice extraordinary kung fu, and those who seek health can develop a strong body. There are inexhaustible, inexhaustible and practical, and valuable experiences in the health preservation literature of traditional Chinese medicine in my country on health preservation, disease prevention, longevity, and anti-aging. Therefore, some people call Chinese medicine "health preservation medicine", which is very reasonable.