Health preservation is something that Chinese has attached great importance to since ancient times. There are clouds in the "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor": "The naïve people of ancient times spent 100 years old in spring and autumn", which shows the ancients' pursuit of life.
So, how did our ancestors maintain their health? In the vast and boundless texts, there is a sentence called "old leakage of residual essence, people are exhausted", this is what the ancients often said, is there any meaning? What is the reference significance for today's middle-aged and elderly people?
What does it mean that old people are exhausted and their lives are exhausted?
This sentence is a saying, its surface meaning is that people from birth from the beginning of energy, essence is limited, people in the process of growth and development of consumption are born parents to give the essence, as the age increases, organs will age, essence will be insufficient, when the essence is exhausted, life expectancy will be exhausted.
If we want to peek deeply, in fact, this sentence can be divided into two meanings, the first layer means the physical "essence"; The second level is the spiritual "essence".
The first meaning is very simple, that is, to warn everyone that as they grow older, do not overdraw their few energy, such as frequent sex, frequent work and overdraft energy, etc., because the aging of organs and organs will lead to very slow energy recovery, excessive consumption will be disaster.
The second level of meaning, many people are not clear, in fact, it refers to the spiritual level. Why are young people so energetic? Because he had unlimited energy, he recovered after sleeping. Why do old people get dull? It is because of the decline in energy, and the recovery is not so fast after the loss of energy, so I often feel tired and exhausted. This suggests that the elderly should not worry too much about it, and nourish their spirit when they should be in order to avoid the situation of overdrafting.
In this way, "old and residual sperm, people are exhausted" is actually telling the elderly how to maintain their health and how to extend their life at multiple levels, but these lost "essences" really can't be restored?
The answer is: some can be recovered.
Chinese medicine theory divides "essence" into innate essence and acquired essence, innate essence refers to the innate "essence" given to you by parents, as the saying goes, "two essences fight with the god", if there is no integration of parents' essence, then no new life will be born, this innate essence is impossible to make up.
Because from the moment the fertilized egg is born, this essence begins to be consumed, and in the process of growth and development, it is consumed.
What can be made up for is the acquired essence. There are many acquired essences, such as you eat, the essence of cereals absorbed by the spleen and stomach, etc., you must know that the spleen and stomach are called "the foundation of the day after tomorrow".
In short, although the innate essence cannot be supplemented, as long as you protect the spleen and stomach, you can extend your life by supplementing the acquired essence.
By middle age, these health proverbs can be looked at
1. Rice porridge is a supplement for people. There are many experts' views that rice porridge is carbohydrates, the glycemic index is very high, everyone must eat less, eat more will get diabetes, high blood pressure, will be obese.
In fact, this is not a problem of rice porridge, in life, everyone has developed the habit of eating Haisei, big fish and meat every day, eat a lot of processed foods, especially refined sugar, which will destroy the function of pancreatic islets, so eating and drinking porridge in this context will definitely raise blood sugar and lead to diabetes. However, if you eat less overprocessed foods and eat and drink porridge every day, it is generally unlikely that something will happen.
Rice porridge is stomach-nourishing, easy to absorb and full, and the cost is low, so the elderly may wish to eat and drink some porridge if they want to be healthy, which is conducive to good health.
2. Righteousness exists within, and evil cannot be done. This sentence is very interesting, there are also two levels, the first level of positive qi is yang, if a person's yang has been very strong, then his health air flow is very smooth, health qi is the outermost layer of yang on the body surface, with protection and resistance, can prevent colds, resist diseases.
Therefore, people with strong yang in the body, diseases rarely appear, and one reason why people get sick is because the yang in the body is insufficient and the body is weak.
The second level of meaning is personal cultivation, if a person is just moving his brain all day long, wants to calculate others, and does not take the right path, then evil qi will slowly entangle you, causing you to get sick, bad luck and so on. But if a person is full of righteousness, then the evil qi will take a detour, the person will be very healthy, and the disease will not easily get close to your body.
3. For health practitioners, it is more difficult to sleep. I don't know why, modern people have more and more "sleepless" symptoms, although everyone seems to attach great importance to health preservation, but the more health, the more insomnia. Especially teenagers and twenties have serious problems with insomnia, which is unreasonable.
The phrase "health caregivers, the harder it is to sleep in the heart" tells us that if the desire in the heart is too great, it will become difficult to sleep. Think about it, do you often have all kinds of desires in your heart? If you think about it every day, then you have fallen into the trap of desire and will sleep more and more sleeplessly. On the contrary, if you have no desire and only do what you should do, then you will rarely have this insomnia problem.
4. Eat less for dinner and live to ninety-nine. This sentence comes from Zhang Zhan of the Tang Dynasty, which is very health-preserving and now many foreign studies continue to report: eating too much dinner is not good for health, dinner and disease have a connection and so on. Does this still need to be studied? Our ancestors have long known about this problem.
Why eat less for dinner? The reason is that after dinner is eaten, you will sleep in a few hours, if you eat more, the gastrointestinal tract is still working when you sleep, not only do not sleep well, but also affect the function of digestion and absorption; In addition, eating too much at night does not require labor metabolism, so the blood sugar in the body will continue to rise, leading to diabetes and high blood pressure.
The above five points are ancient health preservation sayings that doctors think are more important, and I share them with you, hoping to have positive promotion significance for everyone.
In old age, how to invigorate your yang?
Yang is essence, yang is protection, and yang is one of the factors that determine how long you can live, so it is very important to enhance yang. So how do you invigorate your yang?
First, bask in the sun. Yin and yang come from the moon and day, the sun is yang, so sunburn your back more every day, fill the solar bladder with yang, the body will naturally get better day by day, do not hide at home without sunbathing.
Second, drink less cold things. Cold things will destroy the yang in the body, especially the spleen yang and kidney yang. Also, exercise. When exercising, the yang energy in our body can be operated and will flow more smoothly.
All in all, after people pass middle age, in order to be healthy, they must protect their few "essences" and be good at improving their yang.