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What are the TCM regimen?

TCM health preservation is a treasure of Chinese traditional culture, and its purpose is to nourish vitality, prevent and treat diseases, and pursue health and longevity.

Traditional Chinese medicine health care mainly includes: meridian health care, physical health care, qigong health care, exercise health care, sexual health care, emotional health care, sleep health care, environmental health care, daily life health care, diet health care, timely health care, four seasons health care, entertainment health care, local health care, drug health care, bath health care, detoxification health care, quiet health care, yoga health care and so on.

The characteristic therapy in TCM health preservation can be divided into:

Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Acupuncture and Moxibustion is to puncture a filiform needle into a patient's body according to a certain point, and use acupuncture and moxibustion techniques such as twisting and lifting to treat diseases. Moxibustion is to burn the skin with burning moxa sticks at certain acupoints and treat diseases with heat stimulation. Now people often use it in their lives.

Cupping method: it was called "angle method" in ancient times. This is a kind of therapy with cups and jars as tools, which generates negative pressure by heating the air discharged from them, so that it can be sucked on the skin and cause blood stagnation. Ancient doctors used it to suck blood and expel pus when treating sores and abscesses, and later it was extended to medical diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatism.

Massage: based on the theory of zang-fu organs and meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, it is essentially a kind of physical therapy. From the treatment of massage, it can be divided into health massage, sports massage and medical massage.

Scraping: according to the skin theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the relevant parts of the skin are scraped with tools such as horns and jade to achieve the purpose of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Scraping can dilate capillaries, increase sweat gland secretion, promote blood circulation, and have immediate effect on wind-cold arthralgia caused by hypertension, heatstroke and muscle soreness. Regular scraping can regulate menstruation, relieve fatigue and increase immune function.

Qigong: It is a physical and mental exercise method to strengthen the body, prevent and treat diseases, strengthen the body, prolong life and develop potential by adjusting breathing, physical activity and consciousness (breath adjustment, body adjustment and heart adjustment).

Medicinal diet: It originated from the traditional diet in China and the dietotherapy culture of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a delicious food with certain color, fragrance, taste and shape under the guidance of the theories of traditional Chinese medicine, cooking and nutrition, in strict accordance with the formula of medicinal diet, and by using China's unique dietotherapy cooking technology and modern scientific methods.