Family Health Maintenance Taboos

Author: Liu Rongxun / Zhang Ruixian, Editors
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is compiled to meet the medical and health needs of families. It is divided into three volumes: the upper volume covers major taboos in daily life health preservation, the middle volume discusses major taboos in seeking medical care and medication, and the lower volume addresses taboos in health preservation for different groups. In the upper volume, it provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to major taboos in daily living habits, daily exercise habits, daily dietary habits, and daily hygiene habits. The middle volume offers an in-depth discussion on general taboos in seeking medical care and medication, taboos in taking Western medicine, taboos in taking traditional Chinese medicine, and taboos in traditional Chinese medicine treatment. The lower volume comprehensively elaborates on issues such as major taboos in children's health care, major taboos in women's health preservation, major taboos in elderly health preservation, and major taboos in patients' health preservation. The book points out that regardless of age or gender, all family members have different issues to pay attention to in terms of health preservation and health care. For example, children have delicate constitutions and are prone to illness, with rapid changes in their health. Therefore, maintaining children's health requires preventive measures starting from the smallest details and protecting against potential minor damages to ensure fundamental health. Women's health preservation often faces common issues related to their unique physiology. The four major characteristics of menstruation, leukorrhea, childbirth, and pregnancy determine numerous taboos in women's health preservation, which must be strictly followed. Elderly health preservation has two main features: it involves many troubles and taboos, which stem from the special constitutions of the elderly. As a result, all family members should comprehensively adjust their lifestyles, health preservation habits, and rhythms, and understand the taboos introduced in this book to fundamentally avoid illness. This book is an important reference tool providing health preservation and health care guidance for all family members. The taboos in health preservation it introduces include both general taboos and individual-specific taboos, so they must be treated differently based on age, gender, and constitution. From this perspective, this book is indeed worth reading carefully by patients of various diseases.