Read "Zeng Guofan family book" feeling (5):After-dinner walks and health care

There is a saying, "walk a hundred steps after meals, live to ninety-nine," which indicates that walking after meals is very helpful to health. Zeng Guofan in the "and Jize book" a letter to the family wrote: daily walk after meals thousands of steps, is the first secret of the health of the family.

In Chinese medicine theory, the spleen is responsible for the four ends. The "four ends" are the four limbs of the human body, "the spleen masters the four ends" means that through the spleen qi's role of ascension and dispersal of the essence, its transportation of water and grain essence to the human body's limbs, in order to maintain the normal physiological activities of the limbs. When walking, the limbs are in motion, which helps digestion, and then the spleen is in motion, which achieves the effect of strengthening the spleen. If the spleen is healthy, there will be a source of biochemistry, and qi and blood will be abundant. However, when you take a walk after a meal, don't walk fast, walk slowly. If you lie down and rest immediately after a meal, the bloodstream is congested, the qi is not smooth, and the change of all the symptoms.