The principles and characteristics of traditional health care

(1) Principles of traditional Chinese health care(1)

1. What is health care

Health care refers to the techniques and methods of rationally choosing various health care methods to achieve the purpose of maintaining the body, reducing diseases, improving health and prolonging life through long-term exercise and practice. Health care is all the material and spiritual activities to maintain the body, reduce diseases and improve health for the sake of one's own survival and health and longevity, according to the objective law of life development.

2. What is Chinese medicine and health science

Chinese medicine and health science is under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory, exploring the laws of human life, summarizing the experience of psychological and physiological health care in China through the ages, and researching the theory of health care and health care technology, in order to achieve the purpose of human beings to strengthen their physical condition, prevent diseases and prolong their life. Traditional Chinese medicine attaches special importance to "treating the future" and paying attention to the prevention of diseases.

3. The object of health care

Besides normal people's health care, the following three kinds of people are the main object of health care:

(1) the old and the weak: human beings in the process of aging, the function of the body organs and organs gradually decline, which will seriously affect their health, so it is necessary to slow down the aging process and improve the quality of life of the old and the weak. Good health care people life.

(2) a variety of chronic diseases: such patients with slow progress or recurrent episodes, resulting in dysfunction, and dysfunction and aggravate the condition of the original disease, the formation of a vicious circle. Nutrition can not only help the patient's functional recovery, but also help to prevent the further development of the original disease. The health of patients with chronic diseases must be targeted, there are corresponding effective measures and methods.

(3) all kinds of disabilities: including limbs, organs and organs and other damage caused by all kinds of disabilities, but also includes mental illness patients' health.

4. Essence, qi, blood and spirit are the basic elements of health care

Essence, which is the basic substance that constitutes the human body and promotes its growth and development, is divided into the essence of the innate and the essence of the acquired. The innate essence comes from the parents; after birth, the nutritional essence obtained from the diet is called the essence of the innate, the innate, the essence of the innate transform each other, complement each other, and become the driving force of the foundation of life activities.

Qi is the driving force behind the functional activities of the internal organs, as well as the driving force behind the flow of various vital substances in the human body, which is the fundamental guarantee of vitality. The strength of the human body's vitality, the life of the life, lies entirely in the gas. The life is a product of the gas.

Blood is the basic substance that nourishes the body's internal organs, tissues and organs and ensures the body's metabolism, and it is the source of the material that generates vital substances such as essence, gas, spirit, milk, menstrual blood, semen and body fluids in the human body. Blood is always accompanied by gas, complement each other, mutual nourishment and mutualization, *** birth **** glory.

God, the general term for the life activity of the organism, is also the external manifestation of the life activity of the human body, including spiritual consciousness, thinking activity, movement, perception and so on. God takes essence and blood as the material basis, and when essence and gas are abundant, God is healthy. Therefore, the health of life can be judged by the condition of God.

"Essence, gas, God for the three treasures of the human body", the three are interdependent, each other for the use of, one with the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness of the fullness.

It can be seen that life activities, is determined by the essence, gas, blood, God and the functional state of the internal organs. Essence, gas, blood, God is sufficient, the internal organs function to maintain a normal dynamic balance, the human body will be healthy and disease-free, not easy to age, life can be extended.

5. Factors affecting human life

Longevity is the goal of people, and aging is the natural law of normal human life activities. Reasonable health maintenance and rehabilitation measures can slow down physiological aging and block the process of pathological aging (premature aging), thus prolonging human life. The main reasons that affect life expectancy and lead to premature aging are introduced as follows:

(1) Chinese medicine's understanding

①Insufficient essence: when kidney essence is scarce, life will decline prematurely. The main reasons for the lack of essence are: congenital insufficiency (underdevelopment in the mother's body), excessive sex life (indulgence), and disease depletion.

②Malnutrition: diet is the body to obtain the source of nutrients, malnutrition, including insufficient intake and malabsorption of two aspects.

3 ③ damage to the five organs: the heart hides God, the liver hides blood, the lungs of the body of the gas, the five organs are damaged, the function of the whole body will be affected, is bound to affect the life expectancy.

4 emotional: long lasting mental stimulation or sudden intense mental trauma, will cause the body of yin and yang qi and blood imbalance, viscera and meridian dysfunction, thus accelerating aging.

5 labor and leisure: too much labor or too much leisure are not conducive to health, not conducive to health and longevity.

6 genetic endowment: strong innate endowment is strong, energetic, not easy to age. On the contrary, aging will be advanced or accelerated.

7 Social environment and poor natural environment will jeopardize health and promote premature aging.

(2) Western medicine's understanding

Western medicine believes that pollution of the natural environment is the cause of many diseases and an important cause of premature aging; there are also psychological (or mental) stimuli; poor lifestyle, diet, nutritional disorders, heredity, diseases and accidental injuries, etc., which can lead to premature aging. Contemporary science proposes a variety of doctrines on the causes of aging.

6. Conformity to Nature, Correspondence between Heaven and Man - The Basic Concept of Traditional Chinese Health Care

In the theoretical system of traditional medicine, conformity to nature is an important part of the concept of health care, whether it's health care, or rehabilitation of diseases, all methods and functions, all of which embody the characteristics of conformity with nature, and are also full of dialectical views.

(1) Tianren Correspondence

The Chinese medicine believes that people are born between heaven and earth, all life activities are closely related to nature, and must be kept in harmony with it at any time and place, which is the "Tianren Correspondence" idea. In the practice of health, must follow this basic law, in order to achieve good health effects. The "transformation of nature", "challenge nature", "fight the sky and the earth" and other ideas and behaviors, in the field of health should not be promoted. We have to adapt to the season, grasp the time, obey the geography, adapt to the society, so as to comply with nature, enjoy the days of life.

(2) form and spirit of unity

Shape, refers to the human form of the entire structure, namely, muscle, blood, tendons and bones, internal organs, meridians, limbs and other tissues and organs, and blood and fluids and other basic nutrients, is the material basis of the human being; God, refers to the mood, consciousness, thinking and other spiritual activities, and refers to the external expression of the whole of the life activity, is the function of the human body to reflect. The dialectical relationship between the two is interdependent, mutual influence, is inextricably linked as a whole. God is born in the form, dependent on the form and the existence of the form, the form of God's foundation, God for the form of the Lord.

Form is the basis: "form" is the "God" of the material basis, Chinese medicine "five gods" (God, soul, spirit, will, will), " The "Five Spirits" (God, Soul, Spirit, Spirit, Will and Intention) and "Five Spirits" (Anger, Happiness, Thoughts, Sadness and Fear) are generated by the five organs (Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lungs and Kidneys) respectively. The "gods" need a lot of qi, blood and essence to nourish them.

God is the commander-in-chief: the human body plays a commanding and coordinating role is the heart and god. Life activities show the overall characteristics, the overall function, the overall behavior, the overall law, are managed by the spirit, coordination, unity. Therefore, health care should be "nourishing" and "adjusting the spirit" as the first.

Form and spirit **** nourishment: form and spirit **** nourishment, that is, not only to pay attention to the maintenance of the body and rehabilitation, but also pay attention to the spirit of the regimen and rehabilitation, the two complement each other, complement each other, the body and the spirit of the body and the spirit of a balanced and unified development.

(3) static and dynamic mutual connotation

Yang moving Yin static: organs and organs are Yin, characterized by static, functional activities are Yang, characterized by movement. Maintaining a coordinated state of movement and static in order to make the organs vibrant, thereby delaying the aging of the organs change.

Movement and static harmony: most health practitioners advocate the combination of movement and static, in order to achieve the effect of form and spirit **** nourishment. The combination of movement and static, and the appropriateness of movement and static is an important principle of traditional Chinese health care.

(4) Coordination and balance

Coordination of the body's own physiological functioning state and its interrelationship with the external environment, balancing the normal functioning of the body's various systems and tissues and organs, as well as the exchange of substances between the body and the outside world, is also an important element of traditional Chinese medicine and health care.

Neutralization is the highest guideline for health maintenance and rehabilitation. The core of all the theories of Chinese medicine is the "Nei Jing", which puts forward the "careful observation of the location of yin and yang and adjusted to the period of peace", that is, emphasizing the concept of "neutralization" and coordination and balance is also a manifestation of this idea.

The dysfunction, symmetry, and instability of the human body are important causes of low physiological function, premature aging, and disease.

Expelling evil is an important part of balance and coordination. Traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the "elimination of evil", and health care attaches more importance to the body's positive energy to get rid of disease, which is actually a reflection of the idea of regulating balance.

(5) positive qi for this

Modern concept of health, no longer only emphasize the supplementation of nutrients in the body. The real state of health, should be the normal operation of the body's internal organs function. Positive for this, analyzed from the concept of Chinese medicine, is to give full play to and strengthen the function of the internal organs, so that the essence of the micro-organisms, waste excretion in order, which is to seize the fundamental health. Only to help the right to get rid of the evil, to support the right to prolong life.

7. Chinese traditional sports health treasure --- taijiquan

Chinese traditional sports health captures the essence, gas, God, "three treasures", adjusting the intention to nourish the spirit to the intention of leading gas, gas to promote the blood movement, gas guide shape, through the form of the body and sinews of the movement, so that the peripheral meridians and veins, nourishment of the entire body.

Taijiquan is the treasure of traditional Chinese exercise and health care, and the above principles of traditional Chinese health care are fully embodied in taijiquan. Taijiquan is closely related to the five organs, blood, body and spirit, so it has obvious effect on health and is popular among the public. Taijiquan can enhance the functions of the heart, lungs, spleen, stomach, liver and kidneys, and make the body's qi and blood run smoothly. Therefore, it can make a person's form and spirit, all the veins smooth, internal and external interlocking, and internal organs coordinated, so that the organism can reach the state of "yin and yang secret", so as to enhance the immunity of the human body, and promote the health in order to maintain the vigorous vitality.