The most comprehensive feature of traditional Chinese medicine health exercise therapy

1. Comb your hair

Gently comb your hair with a comb for 100~300 strokes, from the front hairline to the back hairline, and it is advisable to have a warm feeling on the scalp.

You can follow this method to comb with a comb 3~5 times a day during your leisure time, for 3~5 minutes each time, and it is best to “take” it 3 times before going to bed at night. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that combing the “Five Meridians” can stimulate the acupuncture points of the head, which play a role in dredging the meridians, regulating nerve function, enhancing secretory activity, improving blood circulation, and promoting metabolism. It can prevent and treat stroke and other diseases.

Eight sections of Nishiki

Baduanjin is a traditional Chinese medicine health care method, invented by German John Hopkins, it is a fitness exercise that can work the waist and back muscles.

2. Friction noodles

Close your eyes slightly, rub your palms together and cover them on your cheeks and jaw, put your fingers together, put your little fingers on the side of your nose, and push your palms up.

After rubbing it with both hands, rub your face with the palms of your hands more than ten times. Or gently rub or pat your face with both hands for 1-2 minutes each time, 2-3 times a day. It has a facial cosmetic effect. Every morning, rub both hands together, use the middle finger along both sides of the nose from bottom to top, drive the other fingers, rub to the forehead to the sides apart, through the cheeks, like washing the face, rub more than ten times. It can make the complexion ruddy, reduce wrinkles, and prevent facial nerve paralysis. At the same time, it has the effect of eliminating fatigue and invigorating the spirit. This method helps to improve peripheral blood circulation to the face, especially the ears.

Shadowboxing:

Tai Chi is widely regarded as one of the best TCM health exercises. It is characterized by gentle movements and slow rhythms, which can adjust and balance the body’s qi and blood circulation, enhance physical fitness and endurance, and improve the body’s coordination and flexibility.

3. Eyesight

Close your eyes slightly and move your eyes slowly.

“Eye movement” can promote the filling of essence, qi and blood in the eyes, the growth of fluid, the abundance of divine water, and the moisturizing of the eyeballs, so as to eliminate “internal cataracts” and “external pannus”, prevent visual fatigue and delay presbyopia, etc., and are not prone to eye diseases.

Meditation regimen:

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the importance of recuperation. By meditating, relaxing, and adjusting the breathing, you can achieve the effect of calming the mind and adjusting the flow of qi and blood. Meditation is good for stress, soothing emotions, and improving concentration and concentration.

4. Drum sounding

After rubbing the palms of the two hands together to warm each other, the palms of the palms cover the ears respectively, and let the index finger slide down to hit the pillow so that the ears can hear the sound of drumming. Nourishing kidney qi is conducive to delaying aging and prolonging life.

5. Percussion

When you wake up in the morning, don’t talk about life first, calm your mind, and abandon distracting thoughts. Relax your whole body. The lips are closed, the mind is united, the eyes are closed, and then the upper and lower teeth are rhythmically percussed to each other, sonorous and sound, the number of times is not limited, 36 times is the best.

6. Swallow Tsu

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, the end of percussion should be supplemented by “Red Dragon Stirring Heaven Pool”, that is, after percussion, use the tongue to stir the upper and lower gums and tooth surfaces in the cavity, and the force should be soft and natural, first up and then down, first inside and then outside, stirring 36 times, which can massage the gums, improve local blood circulation, and accelerate the nutritional blood supply to the gums. When you feel the saliva (saliva) is generated, do not swallow and continue to stir, wait for the saliva to gradually increase, press the tongue against the palate to collect the saliva, and rinse the cheeks with saliva (drum gargle) several times, and finally swallow slowly in three times (pharyngeal jin). The fluid produced can moisturize the kidney yin, and the feeling of “urinating a lot, backache and fatigue” in diabetic patients will slowly disappear, and the kidney qi will gradually fill.

7. Rub your belly

The abdomen is where the gastrointestinal tract and other organs are located, and abdominal massage is often done to facilitate digestion. The ancients called it Mo’s umbilicus abdomen and Moshengmen. That is, rubbing the abdomen around the umbilicus. Rubbing your abdomen with your hands often can eliminate bloating and help food digestion. Lie on your back on the bed, stretch your legs, toes up, rub your hands together, fold your hands, and rub your palms on the abdomen centered on the umbilicus, and rub them 12 times in a clockwise direction in a small, middle, and large circles. It can strengthen the kidneys and waist, nourish yin and strengthen yang, invigorate qi and strengthen essence, strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion, and have curative effects on kidney weakness and constipation after long-term practice.

8. Pugu Road

Gudao refers to the anus, and the anus is consciously lifted at ordinary times, which can prevent and treat hemorrhoids, anal fissures and other diseases. Take a standing or lying position, use a little force as you inhale, lift and tighten the anus and rise with the perineum, pause for a moment, and then relax and exhale. Repeat 5-7 times. Regular qi lifting actions can raise yang qi and prevent diseases. It has the effect of preventing prolapse of the anus and hemorrhoids.

Qigong:

Qigong exercises guide the flow of breath in the body by regulating breathing and body posture, so as to achieve the purpose of harmonizing yin and yang and adjusting the function of internal organs. Different qigong methods can have the effects of channeling meridians, enhancing qi and blood circulation, adjusting endocrine, etc., which are suitable for people’s daily health preservation and rehabilitation exercises.

9. Rocker

Regular movement of the limbs not only exercises the muscles, muscles and bones of the limbs, but also promotes the movement of internal organs and qi and blood through the movement of the limbs, and enhances physical fitness. Make fists with both hands, together with your shoulders, and rotate forward, first from the inside to the outside, from the outside to the inside, and then from the outside, to the inside, and then in the opposite direction, 20 times each. You can also start left and then right. Sit flat, lift your left foot forward and slowly straighten it, toe up, and when you want to straighten, push your heel forward and down forcefully, do this five times, and then do it with your right foot. Able to stretch the joints of the limbs. This method is beneficial for middle-aged and elderly people to prevent shoulder disease and improve physical function.

10. Rubbing springs

Rubbing the left foot (Yongquan acupoint) with the palm of the right hand (Laogong acupoint) can communicate the heart and kidneys, make water and fire intertwined, and the heart and kidney intersect, which can prevent insomnia and dreams. Vice versa.

11. Shoot four litters

The lungs and heart are evil, and their qi is retained in the cubits (cubital fossa). The liver has evil qi, and its qi stays in the armpits (armpits). The spleen is evil, and its qi stays in the two hips (the base of the thighs). The kidneys are evil, and their qi stays in the two popliteals (the back of the knees). For the corresponding viscera health care, you can use the virtual palm to pat the corresponding position until it is slightly hot or sandy.

12. Grip

“Gripping” means placing the thumbs of the left and right hands in the palms of the hands, holding them firmly with the remaining four fingers, and then pressing the left and right hands on the waist, abdomen or back. Gripping helps to calm the soul and collect energy.

13. Practice grip strength

Regular exercise of the muscle strength of the ten fingers can maintain the dynamic balance of the fingers, toes and the rhythm of the muscles of the whole body, which is conducive to the health of the body. It can strengthen muscles, enhance blood circulation, help promote blood circulation, keep joints alive, and contribute to longevity.

The best time to exercise in TCM is from 5 to 7 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the morning. Exercise during these times can improve the body’s ability to fight diseases and improve the body’s immunity. In general, exercise is best done during the day, and it is better not to exercise at night. At the beginning, you should prevent strenuous exercise, and then slowly increase the time and amount of exercise according to your physical fitness, usually develop good living habits, go to bed early and get up early, and do not stay up late.