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The Role Of Cleansing, Replenishing, Strengthening, And Balancing In The Traditional Chinese Regimen
As the basis of longevity, health means the absence of harmful matter and factors inside the body. Nowadays, people can be divided into three categories: the healthy, accounting for 5% of all people, the sick, 15%, and the predominately sub-healthy, at approximately 80%. The sub-healthy are in a dangerous state characterized by the constant presence of hidden damage, which has yet to cause significant inconveniences. Such people need to CLEANSE the spleen, stomach, and intestines, REPLENISH qi, the blood, Yin and Yang, and STRENGTHEN nutrition that is deficient so as to reach the health care goal of BALANCING.
The human body is an organic whole, where an imbalance between Yin and Yang will lead to the malfunctioning of the internal organs. When 1 organ gets damaged, all the others are affected, which results in an imbalance in the human body. Therefore, unfavorable factors should be removed from the body beforehand by restoring balance and strengthening nutrition. As stated above, "the body is able to resist the harmful qi when the vital qi is inside." When the harmful qi enters the body, the vital qi actively combats it; the subsequent struggle disturbs the balance between Yin and Yang in the body or causes the internal organs to malfunction, which results in the operational disorder of qi and blood reflected by a series of pathological changes. If the vital qi prevails and the harmful qi recedes, the disease tends to improve and be cured. If the vital qi is weak and the harmful qi dominates, the disease tends to worsen and even leads to illness and death.
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Maintaining Good Health And "Man-Heaven Harmony"
The above shows how important it is for people to preserve their health on a daily basis. Usually, when one does not have any diseases, she/he easily overlooks the pathological factors hidden in the body and considers himself/herself to be healthy.
However, "a huge dam can be ultimately destroyed by seemingly insignificant ant holes." The body is like that dam, which can only be saved from harm by ridding itself of latent risks beforehand. However, people often only begin to act after they are diagnosed with a disease. As the saying goes, "A three-foot-thick layer of ice is not caused by one day of wintry rigor." In order to have health that is as strong as ice, one must pay attention to health preservation at regular intervals. Thus one can easily fend off the onslaught of epidemics.
How should a person conserve ones health? Everyone needs to understand that because man lives in nature and depends on the interactions of Yin, Yang, and the five elements for his balance with nature, adjustments should be made according to differences in season, region and time zones which meet the individual conditions of the patient. Only in this way can "man-heaven harmony" be realized.
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