How deep is the misunderstanding of traditional culture about health and wellness? Never underestimate the wisdom of the ancients

The Chinese have never attached great importance to health care. A long and healthy life is the universal hope of the nation, but inside the wisdom of our ancestors is definitely not simply to live long as the standard, live out the quality and happiness is the most important. That's why there is the saying "Crane Hair and Childhood". Imagine, even if you live to be a hundred years old, would you be happy if all your physiological functions declined when you were sixty years old and you spent all your days in bed? But over the years, we often praise the Western health concepts, do not know, geography, climate, environment and ingredients of different, ethnically inherited problems, suitable for Western health concepts, can only do a small part of the reference, and can not be copied wholesale, Chinese civilization can be 5,000 years, not only we have always been inherited, and more importantly, our physical fitness, in the early days because of our ancestors! Understanding of the unity of man and nature and the reasoning of nature, to be able to quality preservation. But today most of us have a shallow understanding of the ancient view of health care, which is really something to be lamented. Today we talk about the medical piece, we should understand that people eat grains and cereals, there is no not sick, the ancients is not that this sick is bad, in the view of the ancients, the reason why sick because of some of our incorrect daily behavior caused by the accumulation of lasting. Therefore, in traditional medicine, also known as Chinese medicine, there is the treatment of "un-illness". The so-called "not yet sick" does not mean to give up the treatment of the already sick, or let people not sick to see a doctor, but through a reasonable health care methods, to keep their body functions in normal operation, which includes the four seasons, seasons, diet, emotions and so on related to the daily life to do a state of harmony and unity. Ancient people believed that the reason why people become sick and unhealthy is that their bodies are invaded by evil. This evil is not a demon or a monster, but is caused by incorrect behavior that leads to problems in various parts of our body and slowly breaks us down. For example, in the perception of diet, the ancients never respected the desire to eat, eat not only to maintain their own lives, but also responsible for their own bodies, they believe that a little bit of anything is mutually exclusive. Too much is not enough, so in the view of the ancients, eating is also a kind of treatment and maintenance, medicine is not as good as food therapy is this meaning. China's traditional medicine on the understanding of diet and nutrition has a long history, as early as 2000 years ago in the "Rites of Zhou", there is a record of food medicine, and "five flavors, five grains, five medicines to nourish their illnesses". The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (《黄帝内經》) has a clear boundary ruler in terms of dietary treatment and health maintenance. The medical book "52 Disease Formulas" unearthed in the Mawangdui Han Tomb contains a large number of records of food in medicine, "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica" records about 50 kinds of medicinal food, and the "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever" is rich in dietary treatments, in which ""Angelica and Ginger Mutton Soup," "Pork Belly Soup ", etc., are still commonly used clinical food therapy prescriptions. The Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao's "Preparing for the Emergency Thousand Golden Essentials" listed food treatment chapter, is the earliest existing monograph on diet therapy; Tang Dynasty famous scholar, medical doctor, dietician Monk Monk authored the "Food Therapy Herbal", a collection of more than 200 kinds of food herbs, is the earliest surviving monograph on diet therapy in our country. Chen Zhi in the Song Dynasty, "old-age family book" has a detailed description of the diet of cow's milk. Yuan Dynasty Kusi Hui wrote "dietary preparation", is China's first nutritional monograph, until today, in the diet, reasonable eating and the treatment of certain chronic diseases, still has a guiding significance. Ming and Qing dynasties, therapeutic food herb has further development, some also from the nutritional point of view of the nutritional and therapeutic value of food. In recent times, research on nutritional composition has made great progress, especially the molecularization of food, calorie calculation, etc., which injected the ancient Chinese medicine nutrition with modern scientific content. To this day our older generation will tell every season comes, will eat some local ingredients for internal organs conditioning, in fact, so that their organs can better comply with the changes of the seasons. And eating local seasonal ingredients and not eating ingredients that are out of season has always been enshrined for our ancestors. In ancient times "thirst" is today's diabetes, the so-called disease of the rich, generally poor people do not get, precisely because those at the top of the food chain of the rich, there are enough conditions to enjoy a variety of delicacies of the sea, they have violated the laws of natural health, eat these things are not at all in their own place, although eat up delicious! But the internal organs are not able to absorb them, but instead produce toxins, resulting in the invasion of evil and many strange diseases. On the contrary, those who do not have the conditions of the poor, in addition to the body thin, malnutrition, is not to get these strange diseases. Today's social development, human progress, the well-off era, most people's appetite can be satisfied, so you will see a lot of previously rare diseases of the rich and powerful, the population began to gradually increase, such as what the cardiovascular and cerebral vascular disease, gout, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and so on. All of which were rarely seen before. If you then with the Western fast food diet, then I tell you, you can not health, health and death guarantee can not be wrong. The so-called water and grain essence, also known as grain qi, food qi, refers to a variety of diets provided by the essence of the material, is the main source of dietary nutrition. As the "medical must read" said: "a body, must be funded grain gas, grain into the stomach, sprinkled in the six bowels and gas to, and adjusted in the five viscera and blood, and the person capital for the birth of the person." A Thousand Gold Formula" said: "Ansheng of this, must be funded by food, do not know the food is appropriate, not enough to survive." It can be seen that only a reasonable diet is the nutrition of the human body and the basic reason to maintain human life. Overeating is opening hospitalization for your body. Not only don't overeat and eat things that are not suitable for you and anti-seasonal, some traditional health proverbs also well summarize the wisdom of ancient people's health. If you pay close attention, many ways to maintain health are actually around you: some sayings passed down by word of mouth, some simple habits, contain a proven way to maintain health. In the south and the north, there are some sayings about drinking soup: "A mouthful of soup before a meal, no need to go into the pharmacy"; "Drinking soup before a meal is better than a prescription of good medicine"; "Drinking soup before a meal makes you slim and healthy; drinking soup after a meal makes you fatter and fatter! ". What is this reasoning? From the oral cavity, throat, esophagus to the stomach, as if a channel, is the food must pass through, drink soup before meals, is equal to this section of the digestive tract plus "lubricant", so that food can be successfully swallowed, to prevent dry and hard food *** digestive tract mucosa. From time to time in the middle of the meal into some soup helps to dilute and stir the food, digestion and absorption. If you do not have this habit, then after the meal will be due to a large number of gastric juice secretion so that the loss of excessive body fluids and thirst, this time to drink water, but instead of diluting gastric juice. Therefore, drinking soup before meals can reduce the occurrence of esophagitis, gastritis and so on. Of course, drinking soup varies from person to person. General dinner before half a bowl of soup is appropriate, before breakfast can be appropriate more, because after a night's sleep, the human body loss of water is more. Into the soup time to about 20 minutes before the meal is good, the meal can also be a slow small amount of soup, into the soup to the degree of comfort of the stomach, before and after the meal, avoid "binge drinking". On the contrary, soup after meals is a detrimental to the health of eating, eating a full stomach and then drink soup, easy to lead to excess nutrients, resulting in obesity. Diet enters the body, after digestion and absorption by the stomach and spleen transport, it is transformed into water and grain essence, and water and grain essence is further transformed into gas, blood, essence, fluid and other nutrients to nourish the human body, so that life activities can be continued, so the gas, blood, essence, fluid and other nutrients to play a nutritional role of the basic substances. Drinking soup is also a very important guide for this. The Spiritual Pivot - decision gas" said: "grain into the gas full, Nao Ze injection in the bone, the bone belongs to the flexion and extension, leakage of Ze, tonic brain marrow, skin moisturizing, is liquid", visible fluid is the human body is rich in moisturizing and moistening effect of the normal liquid. One of the clear and thin for the Jin, turbid thick for the liquid. Jin's mobility is greater, mainly distributed in the skin, muscles, orifices and other parts of the body, and can penetrate into the veins to moisturize the body; liquid mobility is smaller, mainly filled with bones, organs, brain and marrow and other parts of the body to nourish the organs and tissues. Another example of these sayings: "" winter eat radish summer eat ginger, do not need a doctor to prescribe medicine "; "" towards eating three pieces of ginger, better than ginseng soup "; "" morning eat ginger, better than ginseng soup; night eat ginger, race over arsenic ";" "Eat a date a day, life does not know old". Winter people are used to tonic and daily less mobile, the body is easy to generate heat and phlegm, especially the middle-aged and elderly performance is particularly obvious. Radish is earth, according to the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine said in the center, the benefit of the spleen and stomach, the benefit of the gas, the choice of radish at mealtime, you can eliminate grain food, phlegm addiction, stop coughing, quench thirst, pass the gas of the internal organs. Summer due to the heat, people are accustomed to cold, like to serve cold products, night and feel the night cold, easy to produce summer moisture, affecting the spleen and stomach, so summer people have a bad appetite, less food anorexia. Drink some ginger soup or cooking with more ginger, both cold dispersal summer, but also can be treated for eating unclean food caused by abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting and so on. But eat ginger to choose the morning, eat radish is best at night. Early in the morning in the stomach to rise, eat some ginger can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, for the day in the digestion and absorption of food and drink to do a good job "paving", and ginger in the volatile substances can accelerate blood circulation, excitation of the nerves, so that the whole body becomes warm; night, Yang Qi convergence, yin outside, so you should eat more heat, down the gas elimination of food, so that it is more conducive to the night Radish is a good choice. The pungent and warm dispersing effect of ginger will affect people's normal rest at night, and eating pungent and warm ginger at night is also very easy to produce internal heat, day after day, the symptoms of "fire". Compared with ginger and radish, jujube is a health care product that benefits qi, nourishes blood and calms the mind, which is beneficial to patients with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, insomnia and anemia. Eating jujube every day can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells. Pharmacological studies have found that jujube can promote the generation of white blood cells, reduce serum cholesterol, improve serum albumin, protect the liver, and contain substances that inhibit cancer cells. All of the above is in fact reflecting a four qi and five flavors is the basic nature of diet and nutrition. Chinese medicine nutrition believes that food also has ""four qi"" and ""five flavors"". The theory of four qi and five flavors is not only the basis for medication and treatment, but also an important basis for dietary nutrition and dietary treatment. Four qi Also known as the four natures, i.e., cold, heat, warm and cool, four different natures, of which cold and cool, heat and warm have their ****ness, only to a different degree, warm is second to heat, cool is second to cold. The four natures of cold, heat, warm and cool are relative to the pathogenic cold and heat. The Su Wen - Zhi Zhen Yao Da Lun says: "The cold is hot, and the hot is cold." This is the general law of treatment and medicine, and is also an important basis for food selection. The five flavors refer to five different tastes: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors into the stomach, divided away from the five organs, in order to nourish the five organs, so that their normal functioning, different foods on the organs of the selectivity is very different, such as the "Spiritual Pivot - five flavors" said: "five flavors to go to its own liking, grain taste sour, first go liver. Cereal flavor bitter, first go heart. Grain tastes sweet and goes to the spleen first. Grain tastes pungent and goes to the lungs first. Grain taste salty, goes first to the kidneys." This division of the five flavors applies not only to the five grains, but likewise to the five fruits, the five animals, the five vegetables, the five colors, etc., which is the theoretical basis of dietary nutrition in Chinese medicine. Understanding these routines doesn't mean we have to become an old Chinese doctor, nor does it mean that you are limited to rules and regulations. Rather, it is to enable us to become more aware of the wisdom of the cosmic pale that the ancients summarized for us. Chinese health care is not a kind of superstition and backwardness, and Western health care is not that it is wrong, but it is more suitable for Westerners' body and region. Today, the development of our society has increased the speed of everyone, slowing down has become a luxury, and the study and examination of traditional culture in the past has been less popular, not to mention the practice of it. However, I think that with the revival of traditional culture, we young people should revive the wisdom of Chinese health care, and do not let it be passed down only among the older generation. Inheriting these things is our precious treasure. Disclaimer: The above content from the network, the copyright belongs to the original author, if you violate your original copyright please inform us, we will remove the relevant content as soon as possible.