Blood is the lifeblood

Chapter 9 Distinguishing Qi and Blood by Observing Words and Colors——You can tell if Qi and blood are good (1)
Observing the expression: it is good to have enough energy and blood
[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] A person is listless, which must be caused by insufficient Qi and blood.Pay attention to nourishing qi and blood, and persist in practicing yoga, and the state will definitely improve greatly.

If the human body is compared to a big tree, then the qi and blood are the sunshine and rain, and the lack of qi and blood in the body organs is like a tree that cannot be nourished by the sun and rain, it will wither, the leaves will wilt, the trunk will bend, and it will look listless. look.On the contrary, if there is sufficient energy and blood in the human body, the weather is smooth, and the body energy is sufficient, then the spirit will be good, and the whole person will look radiant and cheerful.

The same person usually looks like two different people with sufficient qi and blood and with unbalanced qi and blood.

Before practicing yoga, Ms. Ge laughed at herself as a "bean sprouts" who lost water. Why did she say that?Don't you see, bean sprouts are yellow, dry, and drooping head, and this is the portrayal of Ms. Ge back then. She often sighed, full of pessimistic emotions about the world, lethargic during the day, and yawned when she was working. A tired face, not interested in anything.Afraid of the cold, everyone else wears thin clothes, but she still has to wrap herself in a thick sweater.

Later, driven by her colleagues, she signed up for a high-temperature yoga training class. Under the guidance of a personal trainer, she formulated a reasonable training plan and persisted for more than half a year. Friends said that Ms. Ge seemed like a different person. Even she herself felt the joy of being reborn. She found that her work became more motivated and her thinking became quicker. She always had the urge to run. As long as she wore running shoes, she could easily run to the door of the house on the eighth floor. , I have traveled three times this year, and I did not feel tired during the journey.When doing yoga in a yoga studio recently, she found that after a whole set of movements, her breathing was very peaceful, and she no longer felt the fatigue at the beginning.

Looking at the photos of myself now and when I was in my twenties, it seems that I can't see the traces of the years, and the flexibility of my body is even better than that in my twenties.Now, Ms. Ge talks to almost everyone: who said that a woman's life is determined by her twenties?I think it's the qi and blood that determine a woman's life, which is about the same...

Why did Ms. Ge undergo such an earth-shaking change through simple yoga practice?This is because yoga harmonizes her qi and blood, which in turn improves her spirit.

"Su Wen Ancient Innocence Theory" said: "Tranquility and emptiness, true qi follows it, the spirit is guarded, and illness is never safe." In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the human body is composed of qi, blood, body fluid and other substances, so qi is the human body. Material basis, gasification movement is the life activity of the human body, so Qi is also the basic substance of life activity.Life activity is the movement of Qi.Only when Qi and blood are sufficient and Qi movement is unobstructed, the human body can maintain normal life activities.When the lungs are sufficient, a person can breathe normally.With enough spleen and stomach qi, people will have appetite to eat and drink; with enough heart qi, blood can flow to the whole body and face, and people can have a beautiful appearance; with enough liver qi, people can have a good mood and a cheerful mood; To be able to have a strong energy.It can be seen how important qi is in a person's life.For women, it is even more important. It can make a woman shine, or it can make her dull.

The reason why yoga can keep fit is because yoga can balance yin and yang, reconcile qi and blood, dredge meridians, especially make the body's vitality strong, and it has a good promoting effect on the functions of breathing, digestion, circulation, nervous system and endocrine system.

(1) Yoga can improve Qi and blood circulation: Yoga exercises the respiratory system more obviously. The most obvious changes are the slowing down and deepening of breathing, the increase of carbon dioxide in the exhaled gas, the decrease of oxygen, and the obvious reduction of gas metabolic rate.Yoga also has a good effect on the function of the cardiovascular system, promotes blood metabolism, eliminates inflammation, and relieves pain: it can not only dilate capillaries, promote microcirculation, increase the amount of oxygen in the blood, but also promote vasoconstriction, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and make blood vessels The deposits on the walls are carried away and discharged.

(2) Yoga can promote material circulation: Driven by the circulation of Qi and blood in the human body, various substances in the human body can also fully accelerate the circulation.On the one hand, the circulation of Qi and blood drives the circulation of nutrients, transporting the oxygen and nutrients needed by the human body to various systems of the human body; on the other hand, driven by the circulation of Qi and blood, various wastes in the human body (including carbon dioxide and metabolites) are excreted from the body.In addition, practicing yoga can speed up gastrointestinal emptying, reduce the body's absorption of toxins, increase saliva secretion, improve gastrointestinal function, eliminate toxins in the body, and promote the body's metabolism and endocrine system functions.

(3) Yoga can promote energy circulation: Since the human body system itself is an ever-changing energy circulation system, the barrier between body and mind often causes a chain reaction of overall energy imbalance.Yoga acts on the human body, forcing the high-purity sequence of the body and mind energy, in a high-energy state, promoting the activation of body fluid molecules, accelerating the synthesis of biological enzymes, promoting the balance of energy circulation in the human body system, achieving the enhancement of human life energy, stimulating the potential of the human body and strengthening the body The purpose of keeping fit and prolonging life.

Below we introduce some of the most effective basic yoga movements for regulating qi and blood:
1. Locust Pose

(1) Preparatory action: lying on the yoga mat, face down, palms down.

(2) Slowly exhale to lift the chest, abdomen, gluteus maximus and thighs up, hold 3 to 5 deep breaths and then relax, 3 times in a row.

Note: It is best to relax the back in the half-turtle pose after the exercise.

2. Boat style
(1) Preparatory action: Sit on the yoga mat with your feet bent and knees.

(2) Keep your body stable, straighten your chest, straighten your spine, tuck your chin slightly, straighten your feet upwards, look straight ahead, and stay for 3 to 5 deep breaths.

Note: For beginners, it is enough for the calf to be parallel to the floor.

3. Spinal Twist

(1) Bend your knees and sit on the sitting bone, with the other foot on the outside of your thigh, and your buttocks as close to the yoga mat as possible.

(2) Slowly exhale and straighten the spine, turn the body to the right to the limit, stay for 3 to 5 deep breaths, retract the chin, and look at the floor obliquely below the shoulders.

Note: Keep the pelvis straight and forward when turning.

Observe the eyebrows, if the eyebrows are good, the qi and blood will be prosperous

[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] Eyebrows are not only an ornament of appearance, but also a barometer of health. Those with beautiful eyebrows have more Qi and blood, while those with evil eyebrows have less Qi and blood.

Some people say that since the eyes are the windows of the soul, the eyebrows are the doors of the mood.It can also be said that eyebrows are an ornament of beauty, a peep window of mood, a display stand of personality, and a barometer of health.The shape of the eyebrows, the thickness of the eyebrows, and whether the eyebrows are strong or not all reflect the health of the body. Early detection of the health secrets in the eyebrows is of great benefit to the prevention and treatment of diseases.

Ran Ran is a 13-year-old girl with delicate features and charming features.But she is introverted, and she keeps all unhappy things in her heart, and she is unwilling to communicate with her parents.For some reason that day, Ran Ran cried again.Mom comforted her distressedly.While wiping her tears, I suddenly found that her eyebrows were falling off badly, which aroused my mother's vigilance.Early the next morning, my mother took Ran Ran to see a doctor, and something even more worrying happened. On Ran Ran’s upper eyelid, the doctor found a bean-sized white spot, which was diagnosed as halo nevus (a type of vitiligo). .My mother was very worried, and the doctor explained: the loss of eyebrows and the appearance of white spots are early signals of insufficient energy and blood, but fortunately she discovered it early, so it should not be difficult to cure.

The earliest surviving medical classic in my country, "Huangdi Neijing", once pointed out: "A person with beautiful eyebrows has more blood energy in the pulse of the sun, and a person with evil eyebrows has less blood energy."From this point of view, long, thick, thick, and moist eyebrows reflect exuberant blood energy; on the contrary, thin, thin, withered eyebrows reflect insufficient energy and blood.Skin diseases such as vitiligo have a lot to do with Qi and blood loss.Although the disease of Vitiligo is superficial, its origin is due to the lack of righteousness. Due to the deficiency of Qi and Yin, the deficiency of the liver and kidney, and the invasion of wind and evil, the target is on the surface of the skin, the veins are blocked, and the skin loses nourishment and the hair is the root. Clinically, it pays attention to nourishing qi and nourishing yin, dispersing pathogens from the surface, nourishing blood and expelling wind, and nourishing meridians. Pure Chinese medicine preparations are used to improve blood circulation of patients, regulate endocrine, and enhance immunity, so as to rapidly increase tyrosinase activity. Promote the balance of melanocytes, restore microcirculation, regenerate melanin, repair melanin defect genes in an orderly manner, promote the healthy growth of normal skin pigmentation, improve skin sensitivity to light, and completely solve recurrence, regardless of the length of the course of vitiligo and the size of the area. After treatment, the spread of vitiligo can be controlled in a short period of time, so that the treatment of vitiligo is no longer a problem.

Since eyebrows are a barometer of health, how should we read this barometer and catch the danger signals sent to us by our body through eyebrows?
1. Shedding eyebrows
The eyebrows are sparse and easy to fall off, which is more common in those with weak qi and blood, weak and sick. Such people are prone to cold hands and feet and weak kidney qi.In patients with hypothyroidism and anterior pituitary hypofunction, the eyebrows tend to fall off, especially in the outer 1/3 of the eyebrows.Severe anemia patients can cause eyebrows to fall off, and leprosy patients have thick skin on the outer side of the eyebrows in the early stage of the lesion, and the eyebrows fall off.Patients with alopecia areata may also experience eyebrow loss symptoms at the same time.

2. Dry eyebrows
Under normal circumstances, the eyebrows should be shiny and shiny. If the ends of the eyebrows are straight and dry, women may have irregular menstruation, and men may suffer from neurological diseases.Some children or malnourished patients have yellow and scorched eyebrows, which is mostly a sign of lung qi deficiency.

3. Sagging eyebrows
Mostly the formation of facial nerve palsy.If the eyebrows on one side are drooping, it means that the side has facial nerve palsy, which makes the eyebrows lower and cannot be lifted upwards.In some cases, the upper eyelid droops on one side (eg, in myasthenia), so that the eyebrows appear higher on one side.

4. Too thick eyebrows
Thick eyebrows are a symbol of a strong physique, but if a woman's eyebrows are particularly thick and black, it may be related to hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex.People with thick and short eyebrows are often irritable and irritable, so beware of emergencies.

5. Eyebrows raised
Rushing eyebrows is a sign of a critical condition. Such patients should hurry up and get treatment.

6. Eyebrow dump

It means that the disease is serious, especially the severe disease of the gallbladder.

7. Eyebrows that are too long
The ancients believed that those with long eyebrows lived a long life, so people called this kind of long eyebrows "shoumei".However, according to clinical observation and family history investigation, some people believe that the appearance of "shoumei" is not a good omen.Studies have found that longevity eyebrows are mainly related to regulatory imbalances, and the appearance of longevity eyebrows in young and middle-aged adults may be the early external manifestations of certain diseases in the latent stage, including tumors and immune diseases.The earlier the appearance of longevity eyebrows, it indicates that the imbalance of body regulation occurs earlier, the faster the pace of aging, and the higher the probability of tumor occurrence. Therefore, it is believed that the appearance of longevity eyebrows after the age of 45 to 50 is more in line with the law of physiological aging, but it should be Mainly single.For young and middle-aged eyebrows, especially those with plexiform and fascicular distribution, regular physical examinations and follow-up observations should be made for early detection and early treatment.

What needs to be specially reminded is that some women often pluck out many "unsatisfactory" eyebrows by force in order to have thinner eyebrows.What's more, pulling out the entire eyebrows and then painstakingly tattooing them is very harmful to health.It should be noted that eyebrows are not useless. The defense function of the human body is accomplished through various tissues. Thin eyebrows also play a defensive role. If the eyes are not covered by eyebrows, sweat and rain will flow into the eyes, irritating the cornea and conjunctiva , causing keratitis and conjunctivitis, which can lead to corneal ulcers in severe cases.Because the nerves and blood vessels around the eyebrows are relatively rich, if the eyebrows are often pulled out, it is easy to cause adverse stimulation to the nerves and blood vessels, causing facial muscle movement disorders, resulting in symptoms such as pain, blurred vision or double vision, and may cause dermatitis and folliculitis.At the same time, often plucking eyebrows will also cause eyelid relaxation and increased wrinkles, which will affect the appearance.Therefore, remind those ladies who love beauty, natural beauty is natural, and don't pluck your eyebrows easily.

Look at the face, the face is the mirror of blood

[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] A bad complexion is a small matter that affects the appearance, but a serious matter that reflects health problems.When the human body is deficient in Qi and blood, it often manifests as a dull, sallow complexion and lack of energy.When the qi and blood are good, the complexion is also good.

"Last year and today in this door, the peach blossoms on the faces of the people are red, and the faces don't know where to go, but the peach blossoms are still smiling at the spring breeze." The woman in Cui Hu's poem has become the dream lover of many men, and she doesn't know where she is. How many women have dreamed of the ideal incarnation.Facing peach blossoms is the common long-cherished wish of every woman who loves beauty. In order to fulfill the "face", women do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy high-end cosmetics. The hospital is just a tactic to delay the attack, because qi and blood are the fundamental force that determines the complexion.With sufficient nourishment of qi and blood, people will look refreshed and moist.

When Xiaohong was a middle school student, her face was flushed all year round, like a red apple, and the neighbor's aunt praised her when she saw her: "Look, this girl's face is red and white, how beautiful it is. I was like this when I was a girl, but I can't do it now..." Xiaohong didn't take her words as compliments at the time, and even felt that such a face was too rustic.

Ten years later, her aesthetic concept matured, and she began to admire the natural beauty with unlimited vitality, but her face did not match, it was no longer so red, sometimes pale, and sometimes even a little yellow... Once when she went to donate blood, She was also rejected by the kind nurse, who asked her to go back to replenish the blood!Only after losing it can she know how to cherish it. At this time, Xiaohong understands why the neighbor aunt envied her "peach blossom face".

Why does the originally rosy complexion turn pale and dark yellow?This is mainly caused by insufficient Qi and blood.

The ups and downs of a person's qi and blood are often shown by their complexion.The complexion can be said to be a thermometer of health, which can reflect the health status of the human body. "Huangdi Neijing" describes a healthy complexion as "white silk wrapped in cinnabar", that is, it looks like white silk wrapped in cinnabar, rosy in the white; unhealthy people often show a variety of abnormal complexions, such as pale, Flushing, cyanosis, yellowing, black, etc.

(1) Pale complexion: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that most of them are deficiency syndrome, cold syndrome or blood loss.Poor respiratory system will make the complexion pale; prolonged illness, physical weakness, hemorrhage, chronic nephritis, etc. will also make the complexion pale; people who are prone to anemia will have pale and yellowish complexion due to insufficient hemoglobin.

(2) Flushed face: mostly due to heat syndrome.When the blood is hot, it flows, the veins are full, and the blood flow accelerates, the skin appears red.Patients with high blood pressure often have flushed faces; patients with tuberculosis will have flushed cheekbones due to low fever.

(3) Yellow complexion: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yellow complexion is a symbol of dampness and heat in the body, and dark yellow color is mostly due to cold and dampness; sallow complexion is mostly due to weak heart and spleen and insufficient nutrient blood; yellow and edema is a sign of spleen deficiency and dampness.

(4) Dark complexion: mostly kidney disease or blood stasis syndrome, often serious illness.In addition, long-term use of certain drugs, such as arsenic and anticancer drugs, can also cause varying degrees of dark complexion.

(5) Bluish complexion: mostly due to blockage of qi and blood and blockage of veins.Heart failure, congenital heart disease, liver disease leading to too much waste in the blood, etc., will make the complexion turn purple.

In terms of complexion and moisture, the secretion of healthy skin sebum (oil) and sweat (moisture) is smooth, and the skin will remain soft.Climate causes can cause dry skin, such as windy, cold and so on.Certain medical conditions can also dry out the skin, such as diabetes, where fluctuating blood sugar levels can make the skin dry and rough to the touch.

Qi and blood loss not only causes poor complexion, but also causes various skin problems. The skin is a "remote organ" in the human body. People mainly rely on it to show their spirit and appearance. Its physiological function is closely related to Qi and blood. Related, if Qi and blood run abnormally, yin and yang are unbalanced, or viscera dysfunction, all can cause various skin diseases.

Qi and blood are generated by the digestion of food by the spleen.If the diet is not temperate, the spleen will be out of balance, insufficient qi and blood production can not moisturize the skin, or because of partial eclipse of spicy and greasy food, damp heat will be generated in the body, rising to the face and becoming spots.

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