Seven Methods of TCM Health Preservation Based on Expert Research
According to expert research, TCM health preservation mainly includes the following seven aspects:
Psychological Cultivation: Includes mental and emotional regulation, interest and hobby cultivation, and moral character refinement. Involves traditional Chinese culture, religious culture, and folk customs.
Living Habits Cultivation: Includes clothing, diet, housing, travel, and sexual life—regulating daily routines.
Qi Cultivation: Primarily involves internal exercises from medical qigong, such as inner cultivation techniques. Involves TCM culture, religious culture, and martial arts culture.
Body Shape Cultivation: Mainly includes physical exercise and sports activities. Integrates medical and martial arts cultures.
Dietary Cultivation: One of the main components of TCM health preservation, widely applicable and suitable for diverse populations. Mainly involves selecting, preparing, and using health-promoting foods, as well as dietary methods and moderation. Encompasses medicine, herbs, food, tea, alcohol, and folk culture.
Medicinal Cultivation: Mainly involves selecting and preparing health-preserving herbal formulas. Most preparations are purely natural plant-based medicines; preparation methods are mostly crude processing; formulations often blend with food. Hence, TCM commonly refers to "medicated cuisine."
Technique Cultivation: A non-food, non-medicinal method of health preservation, utilizing therapies such as massage, tuina, acupuncture, bathing, fomentation, magnetic therapy, and instrument stimulation.