1, diet health
Dietotherapy and medicated diet are deeply rooted in the concept of China people. Food is the most important thing for people, and diet provides essential nutrients for life, so that life can continue. However, "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it." A scientific and reasonable diet is beneficial to health, while an improper diet can endanger the health of the body.
From the point of view of nutrition, the principles of healthy diet are: regular diet, variety diversification, comprehensive and balanced nutrition and reasonable collocation.
At the same time, we should also pay attention to food hygiene and food safety, and avoid overeating, hunger and irregular meals.
In addition, dietotherapy and medicated diet are the most distinctive features of TCM diet health. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that medicine and food are of the same origin, and both food and medicine come from nature, which have the same four qi and five flavors and can recuperate different viscera. For example, pears in fruits are sweet and slightly sour, cool in nature, enter the lung and stomach meridians, and have the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. When the climate is dry in autumn, eating more raw pears can play the role of nourishing yin, promoting body fluid and releasing autumn dryness. When cough and polydipsia are caused by lung heat, it can be used to moisten lung and relieve cough, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Stewed Sydney with rock sugar is a classic therapeutic prescription for clearing away heat, moistening lung and relieving cough. And medicated diet can preserve health and prevent diseases, and help treat some diseases. For example, stewed chicken with Astragalus membranaceus has the function of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, which can enhance the body's immunity and prevent diseases. Another example is women with dysmenorrhea, who belong to qi stagnation and blood stasis. Taking Chuanxiong boiled eggs two or three days before menstruation can improve dysmenorrhea.
In a word, there are many contents of diet health preservation. According to each person's specific illness or physique, we can choose different dietotherapy or medicated diet conditioning to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and preventing and treating diseases.
2. Living and keeping in good health
Our ancestors have always lived a life of "work at sunrise and rest at sunset".
However, the pace of people's life is obviously accelerated and the competition is fierce. It is common to stay up late and work overtime in daily study and work. While the material life is getting richer, the spiritual life is also becoming more colorful. Some people indulge in entertainment and squander their health. Bad living habits have prompted many diseases, such as cervical spondylosis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and so on. Unhealthy lifestyle makes the disease younger and younger.
All kinds of signs tell us that lifestyle has an important influence on health. We should develop good habits of living and rest, such as regular daily life, not sleeping late or staying up late, moderate entertainment and a combination of work and rest; Keep the room and household items clean and hygienic, often bask in the sun, and ventilate the room regularly; Pay attention to keep warm in winter, don't blindly catch up with fashion, and don't "just be graceful and not temperature"; You should sweat properly in summer, and don't get "winter sickness" by staying in a cold and air-conditioned environment all day.
3, emotional health
The classic ancient book Huangdi Neijing records that "sadness leads to qi elimination, fear leads to qi depression ... shock leads to qi disorder,
Thinking leads to qi stagnation, "and" if you are angry and unhappy, you will get dirty, and if you get dirty, you will get sick from yin. " These theories emphasize that people's emotional state of mind and mental activities are closely related to physical health.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the seven emotions, that is, people's various emotional activities, can affect the function of viscera and qi and blood.
The operation of, thus causing a variety of systemic diseases. Modern medicine also attaches importance to the influence of psychological factors on health, and transforms a single biomedical model into a "biological-psychological-social" medical model.
Modern medical research has found that when people are angry, they will stimulate the adrenal gland, which will lead to the increase of adrenaline secretion and the enhancement of the excitability of the body. Breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure may increase, which will become the inducing factors of migraine, hypertension and coronary heart disease.
The competition in modern society is fierce, and the pressure of study and work is great. Many negative emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritability and depression have become one of the important pathogenic factors of many diseases. In such a big environment, we should learn to keep in good health emotionally. That is, self-regulating emotions, maintaining a peaceful attitude and treating life positively and optimistically; In interpersonal communication, we should learn to be tolerant of others, learn from each other's strong points, live in harmony, and try our best to reduce or avoid contradictions; When you are in a bad mood, you should learn to talk to your friends and relatives and tell your troubles. Don't be bored in your heart and get sick. You can also choose to travel and see the beautiful scenery of nature, which is also a good way to relax. In short, let yourself be less troubled and more happy!
4. Exercise for health
With the rapid development of science and technology, there are fewer and fewer people who work physically, and more and more people who work mentally. Many people's daily life is "sedentary", which is one of the important reasons for the high incidence of modern lifestyle diseases.
Life lies in exercise, which can make qi and blood circulate. Proper physical exercise can strengthen the body and improve the disease resistance of the human body. Such as aerobics, jogging, walking, swimming, ball games, etc., are all fitness methods suitable for the public.
However, exercise should not be extreme, and it is inappropriate for some people to be too obsessed with exercise and fitness. Excessive exercise may lead to the injury of bones and joints and soft tissues, and sudden exercise with a large amount of exercise may also make the heart difficult to load and cause dangerous events. Therefore, it is suggested that exercise should be carried out step by step, and it is advisable to sweat slightly, and avoid sweating and panting.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are two main causes of human illness, one is "not as good as" and the other is "too much", so you can't do it without exercise, nor can you do it too much.
4, four seasons health
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of nature and man, and promotes timely maintenance, that is, it advocates adapting to the changing laws of climate in the four seasons of nature to arrange daily living activities. "Nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter" is one of the basic principles of TCM health preservation.
In spring, everything recovers, and health care should pay attention to nourishing yang. You should lie down at night and get up early, get more sunshine, choose sunny days to do more outdoor activities, breathe fresh air, get rid of the old and get new, and adjust your blood.
In summer, everything grows and prospers, and human yang is the easiest to vent. At this time, we should pay more attention to yang. You should go to bed late and get up early, take a proper nap, avoid the heat at noon, and exercise moderately, preferably in the early morning or evening.
Autumn is a mature season, and the yang begins to converge, so the human body should also converge essence, protect body fluid and nourish yin, so it is most important to prevent autumn dryness. Ancient health experts believed that autumn sleep should "lie down early and get up early, and be happy with chickens", that is, go to bed early and get up early, and the time of getting up early is similar to that of chickens crowing and flapping their wings. Get up early to stretch lung qi; Lying early conforms to the income of yang and prevents the leakage of yin essence. At the same time, clothes should be adjusted at any time according to the temperature change. Keep an optimistic mood, and don't be sad about autumn.
Winter is the season when everything is collected, and the human body also needs to accumulate energy to resist the cold. health maintenance
It is necessary to take the principle of protecting yin and suppressing yang, and make appropriate supplements according to personal circumstances. Should go to bed early and get up late, and exercise early?
It should be too early, and outdoor exercise should be done after the sun comes out. It is obviously inappropriate for some old people to go out early to exercise in rainy and snowy days.
5, physical health
* * * Sex and personality are the inherent nature of everything, so is TCM health preservation. If the content of the above five aspects is * * *, then physical fitness is about personality.
Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, and this "syndrome differentiation" is aimed at diseases. So, is there no difference for healthy people? There must be differences. No matter healthy people, sub-healthy people, or patients with certain diseases, they all have different constitutions, so they will have different performances or choices in eating habits, daily life, exercise, emotional psychology, etc. This is the individual difference of the body.
For example, a small cold, some people mainly show sneezing, runny nose or coughing and expectoration, while others show headache, sore throat and fever, and some people feel sore limbs, top-heavy and weak. These differences are related to genetic factors, eating habits, geographical environment, climate factors, social environment, family life, interpersonal communication and other congenital and acquired factors, which is the difference in physical fitness.
Traditional Chinese medicine divides people's physique into nine types, namely, peace, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, qi deficiency, phlegm-dampness, damp-heat, blood stasis, qi stagnation and intrinsic quality. Just like the syndrome differentiation and classification in TCM diagnosis, people with different constitutions have different health preserving methods.