Simple Daily Health Preservation Techniques
1. Scalp Combing: Use any comb or fingers to comb your hair dozens to hundreds of times daily. This massages the scalp, clears the mind, and benefits vision and hearing.
2. Ear Drumming: Press both ears tightly with palms for several seconds, then quickly release. This vibrates the eardrums and slows ear degeneration. You may also frequently massage your ears using various techniques—rubbing, pinching, or tapping—which immediately relieve headaches, motion sickness, and other discomforts. Regular ear massage helps prevent colds in physically weak individuals.
3. Eye Rubbing: Use soft parts of your hands to gently rub around the eyes and eye sockets, promoting blood circulation in the eye area, improving vision, clearing the mind, and offering cosmetic benefits.
4. Nose Pinching: Frequently rub the sides of your nose near the Yingxiang acupoints with index fingers or pinch the bridge of the nose. This enhances olfactory sensitivity and reduces risks of nasal allergies and respiratory infections.
5. Teeth Chewing: Lightly tap teeth together or perform empty chewing. This prevents gum recession and periodontal disease, stimulates facial muscles, plumps cheeks, and prevents sagging cheeks.
6. Swallowing Saliva: Close your mouth and mimic rinsing water several times, then swallow the saliva. Unoxidized saliva has no odor and tastes sweet. It contains many digestive enzymes and nutrients; regularly swallowing saliva aids digestion.
7. Neck Rotation and Shoulder Shrugging: The neck and shoulders contain the spine and vital blood vessels leading to the head. Regularly rotating your neck and shrugging shoulders helps keep muscles flexible, significantly reducing the risk of cerebrovascular diseases in old age.
8. Dry Rubbing: Use your palms or a dry towel to rub your face several times, or apply the same method to exposed areas like arms. This promotes skin circulation and keeps skin smooth.
9. Shoulder Slapping: Naturally swing your left hand to slap your right shoulder, then alternate with your right hand slapping your left shoulder. You may also alternately slap your legs with your palms.
10. Waist Rotation: Extend your right hand forward as you bend forward toward your left foot tip, then return upright. Switch to extend your left hand toward your right foot tip. Repeat several times.
11. Fist Clenching: Firmly clench both fists and relax repeatedly. Can be done while standing or sitting.
12. Toe Treading: Place the heel of your right foot on the toes of your left foot, then switch—place the heel of your left foot on the toes of your right foot. Alternate several times.