1. Wide range of interests
Daily life is rich and colorful, and hobbies and interests are also wide-ranging, such as calligraphy, poetry writing, reading newspapers, playing chess, photography, traveling, flower gardening, etc. In the evening, he goes out for a walk or practices Qigong indoors, always maintaining a tense yet leisurely pace of life.
2． Routine eating
It is very important for health to master regular and quantitative meals. Don’t overeat, make sure you have a full breakfast, a good lunch and a small dinner. Never touch food that has gone bad overnight. Eat fresh vegetables and fruits, mushrooms, fungus, soy products, eggs and fiber foods every day, some of which include seafood, chicken, duck, lean pork, etc. Basically avoid eating any animal offal and high-fat foods. Develop a good habit of drinking tea and drink Longjing green tea mostly. Light soy milk, fresh milk, royal jelly, etc. are commonly used as health foods. Among the cooking condiments, ginger has the function of warming the stomach, strengthening the stomach, reducing phlegm and eliminating phlegm, and is often eaten; onions, garlic, and peppers can stimulate appetite, so they are not tabooed.
3. Be honest with others
Whether you can be honest with others has a great impact on your mental health. When your emotions are adverse, you must be honest and generous with others, do not dwell on non-principled issues, and do not put yourself first in everything, but do it with a clear conscience. Treat yourself when encountering setbacks and troubles, try to avoid psychological changes, and use reflection methods to think that even if you have the biggest difficulties today, tomorrow will eventually become a thing of the past, no more than a dream.
4. Self-care
For patients with senile chronic bronchitis, emphysema and mild aortic sclerosis. You should quit smoking and drinking in time, and eat less high-fat, animal offal and sugary foods, so that the disease is relatively rare. In order to improve one's own disease resistance, I occasionally take ginseng, American ginseng and other tonics. However, the commonly used method is to decoct raw astragalus, wolfberry, and Gynostemma pentaphylla instead of tea, which seems to be more effective. As a result of insisting on a reasonable arrangement of food structure, acute inflammation of the digestive system has never occurred for many years, and occasional abnormal stools have occurred. Starvation therapy can reduce the burden on the digestive system.
5． Preventing diseases
When influenza and other epidemics are raging, the anti-flu prescription is: 9 grams of raw astragalus, 9 grams of parsnips, 12 grams of patchouli, 10 grams of guanzhong, 15 grams of commelina, and 9 grams of codonopsis. , 15 grams of silver flower, 7 grams of licorice. Take 3 doses in a row to avoid catching a cold.
For the prevention of hepatitis, the prescription for preventing hepatitis: 30 grams of mushrooms, 15 grams of Polygonum cuspidatum, 6 grams of Bupleurum, 9 grams of licorice, and 20 grams of Scutellaria barbata as water decoction. If it is hepatitis, add 30 grams each of isatis root, silkworm excrement, and 15 grams paeonol bark.
6． Nei Jin One Finger Meditation
Introduction to its techniques is as follows:
(1) Sit cross-legged, keep your back straight, look straight ahead, and complete the preparation posture.
(2) Comb your hair and wash your face: Put your ten fingers together and press from Baihui point from top to bottom to your forehead and temples 10 times. Then rub your palms against your cheeks 10 times.
(3) Intraocular pressure and ear pressure: Use the left and right middle fingers to click on the internal and external acupoints of Cuanzhu, Sizhukong, Jingming, Tongziliilia and Tinggong, Tinghui and Yifengtao 10 times each.
(4) Stir the tongue and tap the teeth: Put the tongue on the upper body, stir it up, down, left and right, swallow the exuded body fluid, and then tap the teeth 36 times.
(5) Moist Dantian: At the Dantian three inches below the navel, use the palms of both hands to overlap each other on the lower abdomen and massage it 36 ??times in reverse directions. At the same time, retract the abdomen and lift the anus, and breathe naturally.
(6) Rub the waist: Place the palms of your hands on the Mingmen acupoint and rub it back and forth 36 times. There may be a local feeling of warmth.
(7) Palm rubbing: Put your hands together, focus on the Laogong acupoint, and rub it 128 times with a little force.
(8) Rub the soles of the feet: where the Yongquan point is located on the soles of the feet, align the acupuncture points with the palms of the hands and rub them 128 times. At this point all actions are over.
The above "little actions" are indeed simple and feasible fitness exercises. If they can be persevered, they have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on high blood pressure, heart disease, reduced audio-visual function, gastrointestinal diseases, or weakness in the waist and feet. .
At present, the incidence rates of common diseases that are common in the elderly, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, chronic bronchitis, diabetes and different types of cancer, are increasing year by year. Traditional Chinese medicine has huge potential advantages in the treatment and prevention of these geriatric diseases.
It is hoped that the guidance of health care work will be strengthened, specialized medical prevention institutions will be established, and both prevention and treatment will be emphasized, so that the cause of health care for the elderly can be implemented effectively. Bring the health level of the Chinese nation to a new level.