Comprehensive Guide to Chinese Health Preservation

Author: Yan Dexin
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: "Health and Longevity" is not only the main theme of medical research and healthcare, but also one of the concerns of everyone. To have a healthy body and achieve longevity, one must learn to cultivate health. The concepts, theoretical systems, and technical methods of health cultivation in traditional Chinese medicine throughout history are rich and diverse, inexhaustible and boundless. This book comprehensively and systematically excavates and organizes these aspects, accompanying you throughout your life. The book consists of three parts and twenty-two chapters. The first part is the foundation of health cultivation, mainly outlining the origin, development, enrichment, and debates of traditional Chinese medicine's health cultivation, spanning five thousand years of history, as well as the academic thoughts and contributions of famous figures in each historical period. The second part is health cultivation methods, mainly introducing more than 140 self-care methods and health cultivation practices that contribute to self-cultivation and disease prevention, from nine aspects such as mental regulation, daily routines, exercise, sexuality, acupuncture, massage, herbal medicine, dietary therapy, and external treatments, making it convenient for you to practice anytime. The third part is the application of health cultivation, mainly categorizing and introducing 300 common diseases and syndromes according to internal medicine, external medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics, and ophthalmology, covering clinical manifestations, syndrome differentiation, health cultivation and treatment principles, health cultivation and health preservation methods, and precautions.