A Summary of Health Preserving Thoughts of Confucianism，Buddhism，Taoism and Medicine (Ⅱ) / 中国实验方剂学杂志

ABSTRACT

Health-preservation thoughts of the four major schools (Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Medicine) have important reference values for the health preservation and health care industry. The core of health-preservation thought of the Taoism is taking mind training as the focus and physical exercise as the supplementary means, Taoism is nature-admiring, emphasizes the idea of natural laws and inaction and humanity follows natural laws, as well as advocates following nature's courses, realizing the passive inaction, and keeping calmness, also, it advocates the way of keeping good health through preserving vital essence, energy and mentality, in order to achieve the purpose of training vital essence into energy, training energy into mentality and maintaining complete vital essence, energy and vitality. Through long-term development, Medicine has formed a relatively complete set of theoretical and systematic health-preservation methods. The holistic concept of Medicine emphasizes the uniformity among human, nature and society, considers human body as an organic whole, and advocates the health-preservation thoughts of living in harmony with nature, accommodating the four seasons, keeping good circulation of energy and blood, dredging collaterals, nourishing essence and replenishing energy, accumulating healthy energy and repelling pathogenic factors, maintaining the inseparability of the body and spirits, as well as taking proper exercises and keeping mental calmness. Based on the health-preservation thoughts of the four major schools, this paper summarizes the modern health-preservation guiding thoughts of dredging collaterals, nourishing essence, taking exercises and keeping mental calmness, in order to provide the theoretical guidance for traditional Chinese medicine health-preservation services.