"Rome wasn't built in a day", Chinese medicine believes that many diseases are not caused overnight, but by our long-term "carelessness". Although sitting, standing, watching, walking and lying are the most common human life activities in our lives, sedentary, standing and walking for a long time are not conducive to health. After a long time, chronic diseases will come out. These are the most vulnerable things for us. See how much you won?
Long-term visual impairment
Hyperopia is excessive use of the eyes. Chinese medicine believes that the liver stores blood, enlightens the eyes, the liver gets blood, and the eyes can see things. If you use your eyes too much, you will read things for a long time (such as computers, mobile phones, books, newspapers, etc.). ), it will damage the essence and blood of the liver, thus causing discomfort such as blurred vision and dizziness.
Therefore, after reading books and newspapers for about 30 minutes, it is best to have a proper rest. Looking down or massaging your eyes can greatly relieve eye fatigue and prevent symptoms such as blurred vision and dizziness.
For people who often use their eyes, they can eat some foods that tonify essence and blood, such as longan, black beans, lettuce, red dates, peanuts, walnuts and medlar.
It hurts to lie down for a long time.
"Qi" is one of the most basic substances to maintain human life activities. To put it simply, "lying in bed for a long time hurts the qi" means that the movement of qi will become slow and the metabolic rate in the body will slow down accordingly, which can lead to qi deficiency in the whole body and a series of qi deficiency symptoms such as listlessness, fatigue and shortness of breath. Secondly, Chinese medicine says that "qi is handsome for blood, and qi is good for blood". In other words, if you stay in bed for too long every day, it will lead to symptoms of qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Therefore, normal bed rest or sleep is very necessary to make the body full of blood and energy. However, if you stay in bed for a long time every day and lack proper walking and exercise, your blood will drop, and the circulation of the five internal organs will be destroyed, resulting in a state of laziness and fatigue.
So we must get into the habit of going to bed early, getting up early and sleeping regularly. Of course, for people who are ill in bed for a long time, they should eat more foods that invigorate qi and promote qi, such as ginseng and radix Pseudostellariae.
Sedentary injury
Sedentary injury, that is, people who often sit for a long time without exercise, lack physical activity and muscle exercise, and are prone to muscle fiber atrophy and muscle strength weakening, which will damage the motor function of human muscles for a long time; Secondly, Chinese medicine believes that the spleen dominates the muscles of the limbs. If you sit still for a long time, it will also damage the function of the spleen, leading to loss of appetite, decreased digestive function and weak constitution. Many people will feel sleepy after sitting for a long time, which is the reason.
Therefore, if you often work overtime and sit in the office for a long time, it is best to eat more food such as lotus seeds, yam and barley. It's better to get up and walk after sitting for thirty or forty minutes.
It is good to regularly massage the acupoints around the lower abdomen or other related acupoints: Zusanli, Shangjuxu, Dachangshu, Pishu and Shu Wei.
Zusanli is the acupoint of the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming, which is a big point for strengthening the body and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach.
Long-term bone injury
Chinese medicine believes that the kidney governs the bone marrow, that is, the bone governs the kidney. Standing for a long time will not only hinder the movement and flexion and extension of bones, but also cause joint pain, deformation and fracture, and also cause kidney damage.
Therefore, black foods such as black fungus, black beans, black sesame seeds and broad beans can be eaten properly; Or moxibustion at Shenshu, Yaoyangguan, Mingmen and Ashi is beneficial.
Long-term injury
Chinese medicine says that the liver governs the muscles, and its brilliance lies in the claws. This means that tendons are attached to joints and nutrients come from the liver. Due to the contraction and relaxation of tendons, the muscles and joints of the whole body move freely.
Huangdi Neijing holds that tendons are closely related to the liver. First, the same spirit. When the wood is straight, it is straight, and the tendons are stretched. The key to the flexion and extension of human joints and limbs lies in the relaxation of tendons, which is similar to the property of "straight and straight wood", so the function of tendons is related to the liver. Secondly, physiologically speaking, fascia can play a normal role in nourishing and warming the essence of the liver.
"Su Wen Dialectics" says: "Eating qi enters the stomach, dispersing essence in the liver, and yin qi in the tendons", so the liver blood is sufficient, the fascia is nourished, and the joint movement is flexible and powerful. Therefore, it is said that "the liver governs the muscles", "the liver generates muscles" and "the liver stores the qi of fascia". Thirdly, pathologically, abnormal fascia is often attributed to the liver.
For the fatigue caused by long-term travel, the best way is self-massage, otherwise the pain will exist for a long time. Generally speaking, four methods are mainly used: pressing, kneading, pushing and taking.
The pain point (Ashi point) can be used as the main massage point, supplemented by Zusanli point (3 inches below the external knee), Chengshan point (the depression between the two muscles of calf gastrocnemius), Weizhong point (the center of popliteal fossa) and Jincheng point (the central depression of calf gastrocnemius) to relieve discomfort. It can also be combined with drug therapy, such as Jin Shu Huoxue Decoction or Bujin Pill. Soaking feet is also a good way to eliminate fatigue of lower limbs.
In water at 38-43 degrees Celsius, a proper amount of traditional Chinese medicine bags such as Radix Angelicae Sinensis (tonifying blood), Caulis Polygoni Multiflori (dredging collaterals and expelling wind), Radix Clematidis (expelling wind and removing dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain) and Radix Linderae (smoothing qi to relieve pain, warming kidney and dispelling cold) are added. Soak your feet for 20-40 minutes, preferably sweating slightly, which can nourish your bones and muscles, relieve fatigue and relieve heel pain.
What is seven injuries?
"Seven Traumatic Diseases" means that the human body has been injured in different parts and degrees due to some excessive behaviors or feelings.
Etiology: One day, the spleen is full and the spleen is injured, so it is good. I want to lie down, my face is yellow. Second, great anger hurts the liver, liver injury, less blood and dark eyes. Third, strong weight lifting, sedentary wetland injury to the kidney, kidney injury, oligospermia, low back pain, syncope, fear of cold. Four days, cold and cold drinks hurt the lungs, lung injury, shortness of breath, cough, nasal sound. 5. Trouble, anxiety, heartache, bitter shock, joy, forgetfulness and anger. Six, wind and rain, cold and heat injury shape, shape injury, skin withered. Seven days: great fear, not hurting the will, hurting the will, and being in a trance.
1. Whole spleen:
Eating too much will increase the burden of digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, and then damage the function of the spleen and stomach. So Chinese medicine emphasizes diet and restraint.
2. Anger hurts the liver:
Because the internal heat is too strong, the liver-qi goes up, the liver-fire goes up, the liver-yang goes up, and even a stroke.
3. The kidney damage caused by heavy lifting and sedentary wetland:
It means that you can barely lift heavy objects with greater strength than yourself, or sit in a wet place for a long time, which will cause backache. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the waist is where the kidney lies, and backache is the manifestation of kidney injury.
4. Cold drinks can damage the lungs:
Lung governs fur. If the body is injured by cold evil, drinking cold water will cause cold inside and outside, which is easy to cause cough.
5. Sorrow and sadness:
Worry and thinking will affect the thinking activities of the cerebral cortex, commonly known as "nerve-racking". There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "the heart governs the gods". Thinking, in modern medicine, seems to be the thinking activity of cerebral cortex. Excessive worry can lead to fear, forgetfulness, anger, etc. These are all manifestations of mental anxiety.
6. Wind, rain, cold and heat damage:
Wind, cold and heat, dampness, etc. Can directly affect people's body shape. If you feel that wind evil, cold and dampness will cause joint pain and joint deformation over time.
7. Fear won't hurt your ambition:
Excessive fear will shake people's will, affect their determination to do something, and even be in a trance and depressed.
Traditional Chinese medicine summed these up as five strains and seven injuries. It can be seen that watching, lying, sitting, standing and walking are the most common activities in people's daily life, which have the greatest influence on people and can also influence each other.
Therefore, everyone should pay attention in daily life and work, whether physical or mental consumption, should be moderate, not excessive, should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, regulate nerves and body and mind. This is the correct way to keep in good health.
Five strains look back after seven injuries.
Finally, I would like to introduce Ba Duanjin's action of "looking back after five pains and seven injuries", aiming at the health care of five pains and seven injuries.
This action has two key points:
One is to turn your head, that is, look back. Look back hard, move your eyes back and exercise the Dazhui point at the back of your neck. Dazhui point is a very important point. Almost all yang meridians of human body pass through Dazhui point, such as Du meridian, small intestine meridian, triple energizer meridian and bladder meridian. Seven traumatology is a natural injury to our body from the outside world, first of all, it must hurt the "Yang" level of the human body. By twisting Dazhui point, this action can change the body by improving the function of yang, thus fighting against trauma.
The second is to rotate the arm. In this action, the palm is backward first, and with the "looking back", the palm is fully rotated outward until the palm is outward (at this time, the little finger feels numb), and then rotated inward. In the process of turning the arm, the underarm is actually open. The armpit is the liver meridian, and the arm is rotated, so that both the yin meridian and the yang meridian of the human body have been exercised.
For our arms, the yin meridian is in front, the yang meridian is behind, and the arms turn from inside to outside, and then from outside to inside, in fact, the yin meridian and the yang meridian are opened at the same time. Five pains are internal injuries, and yin meridian is the main body; Seventh, the trauma department is trauma, and the yang meridian dominates the outside. Therefore, this action can achieve the purpose of preventing and treating five strains and seven injuries in the process of rotating arms and exercising yin and yang meridians.