The northern song dynasty Chen straight to the endowment serve close book "proposes:

Older health four method (one)

CaoYing WangRuiFang Liaoning university of traditional Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Chen straight life is unknown, he only know life in the northern YuanFeng years (1078 ~ 1085), has been RenTaiChuan XingHua county (now of jiangsu) officials. His representative work the endowment serve close book "is the earliest elderly health monographs.

        According to the old book of physiological characteristics, main discusses the old people's diet aftercare method, form pulse weathering and drug use appropriate certificate whiskey, XingQi good a feast, in daily life, JieJi protection, taken at a measures, etc, the content rather JingXiang, is a high academic value and practical value of older preserve one's health by Jane.

        The book had recorded at the old man heal some universal prescription, and dietary food prescription. The book insightful discourses and prescriptions listed more than reference "daughter YaoFang" and so on the medical books, and combined with its own experience, most simple are easy, convenient and practical. It is said that people at that time if who could get Chen this book, would fondle admiringly, treat as s choi and cherish it. Visible, people at that time to the attention of the book.

        Methods a maintenance of spleen and stomach for food to give priority to

        Common people a proverb: "the person is iron, steel and at one meal is not to eat and hungry." So in the article emphasizes straight Chen, who is the foundation of the essence, gas, god. Food is human body, subtle essence, gas, god's source, is the basis of life. Eating into essence, gas, god depends on taste. Eating the body is the gas of the grain filling, valley gas filling the blood fill, fill the bones and muscles have qi strength and strong body. So say, taste is the root of the organs of the strong. Especially the old, and the true qi depletion, all depend on diet to endowment angry blood, and viscera function decline, taste function also is poor, more want time to protect, reduce burden of spleen and stomach sheng, reduce the stimulus as a prerequisite, so the cold food, food festival, easy cause disease.

        Therefore, Chen put forward the elderly straight daily law of protecting stomach. For example: not a eat satisfied, need to diet frequently, spleen, easy to digest, grain of the gas in the long. If a eat too full, is easy to form the stomach full bilge, can't digest absorb. Best take care 1200 again after the meal step, let the food in the movement to wear off. In the choice of food, Chen straight also points out, the old man of the food should be warm familiar soft, most avoid is sticky cold hard.

        Chen straight in old people should pay attention to regulate emphasis on diet, maintenance of spleen and stomach at the same time, emphasize heal your wound is not. Chen say, most elderly people with the disease, should first use the method for food, food to not to heal, garnish with drugs. To cure cold heat, heat cure with cold, but the diarrhea, virtual is the patch, this is the drug laws. People to know if food sexual flavour, regulate use, so effect can double is better than drugs. Because the old blood gradually failure, taste is weak, the WuLaoQiShang, empty caustic win thin, use drug treatment often appear attack coming over phenomenon, such as with sweat easy appear sun be the spirit of diarrhoea, spit method with easy appear stomach QiNi, reducing method with easy appear power to take off. That is, for old people to use drugs is very limited. So if switch to food therapy, as long as correctly grasp the variety of food to the and sexual flavour efficacy, then dietotherapy method can also remove the evil of illness, and the most important is effect downy, do not hurt the viscera. Using food to the other-the advantage is food category is various, easy to scouring, easy to choose.

        The endowment serve close book "article 14 for the old people to eat a party, a total of 16 kind of common old flora and prescriptions for food, the ingredients for people often eat most of the food, it is of practical value. Chen straight dietotherapy party, there are many drug and food to match the cooking methods. So to the food raises is given priority to, YaoEr is complementary, not only keep the efficacy and tastes delicious, old people is more easy to accept. Chen straight dietotherapy party contains food varieties is extremely rich, and the use of the figure is more, such as soup, drink wine, milk, and tea, pulp, porridge, soup, cream, bread, and Kuai, Fried, grilled, wonton, making the old meet the needs of the enjoyment in at the same time, to the effect of preserve one's health.

        Method 2 avoid loneliness spiritual care

        Chen according to old people has form straight virtual failure, living alone ability is poor, even to people everywhere care and other characteristics, puts forward the old to prolong life, must pay attention to mental health care.

        Old people often stay at home never leave home, in the heart very empty, of loss. On the one hand work the spirit is willing, but the insufficient, and anyone can't hdesire; On the other hand, the but again nosey, temperament unstable, like children. Old people are generally exists in temperament characteristic.

        According to the characteristics of the old people, children to take the pointed measures, that the old man had a health happiness life, and extend the life of the old people as possible. First of all, don't let the old man would sit solitary alone. Children although work is very busy, but should also try to find time to spend more time with the old man. The younger generation people to fully understand the old man mentality, consideration for the old man's mind and miseries that ever beset mankind, life with care, don't let the old man angry. Anger can lead to blood weak because she can eat and not solid, if when angry eating is more likely to get sick.

        Next, try to meet the old man's hobby. No matter the old man is like the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or like birds, or like YaoEr keeping in good health, even like the antiquities exotic and so on, their free time widely sought, selecting one of these pure top grade, put in the old man's around, make old man mood cheerful, enjoying unceasingly. So that the old man won't feel lonely, to get away from depressed, also beneficial to health of body and mind.