Encyclopedia of Family Medicine

Chapter 22 Non-drug Therapy (1)
Exercise therapy
Life lies in movement, and movement strengthens life.When a person is exercising, all organs and parts of the body are exercised, thereby improving the body's resistance to various diseases.Exercise is a kind of magic medicine, and persistent physical exercise will undoubtedly prolong life.

Exercise can promote the brain to take active rest and improve the blood supply to the brain, thus making the head clear and quick thinking; exercise can promote blood circulation and improve the function of the heart, and the coronary blood flow during exercise is 10 times higher than that at rest ; Exercise can improve the function of the respiratory system. This is because the oxygen demand increases during muscle activity, and breathing is accelerated and strengthened, which is conducive to the improvement of lung function; exercise can promote the strength of skeletal muscles.Experiments have proved that the femur of an ordinary person will break as long as it bears a pressure of 300 kilograms, but the femur of a person who exercises regularly can withstand a pressure of 350 kilograms without breaking.Exercise can mediate people's psychology, make people vigorous and full of vitality; exercise can enhance people's adaptability and resistance to the outside world; it can delay aging, prevent and cure diseases, and make people healthy and long-lived.For those who do not exercise, their physical function begins to decline after the age of 30, while the physical function of those who exercise regularly are still quite stable at the age of 50 or [-].

Exercise does not increase the amount of insulin in the body, but it can increase the function of insulin to metabolize glucose by 30%, and the insulin receptor by 50%.In addition, exercise helps to correct the disorder of glucose metabolism, so mild and moderate diabetic patients can especially benefit from exercise.As long as there are no diseases such as cardiovascular and pulmonary tuberculosis, proper exercise will definitely receive therapeutic effects.

(1) Take a brisk walk.Medical scientists believe that taking a brisk walk for 20 minutes can increase the pulse rate to 70% of the limit, and the effect is equal to that of jogging.Walking is something anyone can do as long as they have healthy legs.Walking, like any other exercise, has to be done in the right way.What is commonly called walking does not give the heart the exercise it needs.In contrast, a brisk walk is more effective.Brisk walking is a conscious exercise that starts at your usual walking speed and gradually increases the speed and length of your steps until you feel brisk and comfortable.The correct posture for a brisk walk is: raise your head, straighten your chin, don't push your belly up to your buttocks, keep your feet parallel, and your toes pointing forward.Brisk walking is not only good for the heart and lungs, but also helps people clarify their thoughts, lower cholesterol and other fats in the blood, and help lose weight.Brisk walking must be done on a long-term basis, at least 5 minutes a day, at least 45 days a week.

(2) Jogging.Jogging, the key is the slow word, how slow is it?It is advisable to be able to chat with others while running, so that the amount of oxygen consumed is not greater than the amount of oxygen inhaled.When jogging, the amount of oxygen inhaled is 8 times more than when sitting quietly. If you insist on jogging for half an hour to an hour every day, the function of your respiratory system will be significantly improved.The exercise of the myocardium during jogging is also very significant.For patients with cardiovascular disease, although jogging cannot eliminate clots produced by atherosclerosis, it can strengthen coronary circulation, improve myocardial blood supply, and reduce and prevent angina pectoris.If you insist on jogging for a long time, the function of the central system will also be exercised.The functions of digestion, endocrine, excretion and other systems will also be improved.

(3) Go backwards.The elderly often have different degrees of "postural hunchback", and the best way to cure it is to exercise in a regressive way.The way to step back is: stand at attention and hold your chest high, look up with your head up, put your hands on your hips, thumbs backwards, press the "Shenshu" point on your waist, and the other four fingers forward.When walking backwards, start with the left foot, lift the left thigh as far as possible, and then step backward, the center of gravity of the body moves back, the front foot touches the ground, then the heel touches the ground, the center of gravity moves to the left foot, and then changes to the right foot, and the left and right feet alternately.Walking backwards should choose a flat, obstacle-free site.People suffering from tumors and tuberculosis should not use this method to exercise.

(4) Crawling.Crawling on the knees can also be called a therapy, which can treat lumbar muscle strain and scoliosis, and has a significant effect.From the detailed observation of various crawling movements, it can be found that crawling animals rarely suffer from arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hemorrhoids, and varicose veins of the lower limbs. Patients over the age of 60 crawl on the ground like monkeys for 20-30 minutes every day. After a period of exercise, their health will improve significantly, and their diseases will also be alleviated to varying degrees.

The crawling exercise should be carried out step by step, with the distance from short to long, and the speed from slow to fast. You should also pay attention to the time arrangement. Do not crawl before and after meals, so as not to affect digestion.

(5) Climb the stairs.Climbing stairs is known as the king of exercise. Stair climbing consumes more calories than general exercise. It seems that climbing stairs is just a two-leg exercise, but it is actually a whole-body exercise.Climbing stairs can not only exercise the legs and feet to make them flexible, but also accelerate the blood circulation of the whole body, increase lung capacity, which is beneficial to physical and mental health, especially helpful for obesity patients to lose weight.Climbing stairs is suitable for all ages, and you can choose the height at will according to your physical condition, that is, the amount of exercise.For city dwellers, such sports fields can be seen everywhere.Some people have calculated that every time you climb a flight of stairs, you can prolong your life by 4 seconds.

(6) DANCE.Dancing is not just for entertainment. Medical research shows that no matter what kind of dance you dance, it will greatly benefit people's health and spirit.Dancing can reduce the pressure on the mind, make people feel relaxed and comfortable in the beautiful melody, and then have a more positive attitude towards life.At the same time, dancing can also enable people to get enough exercise, exercise muscles, strengthen the function of the heart and lungs, especially for hypertensive patients who can lower blood pressure during singing and dancing.

(7) SWIMMING.Swimming uses the buoyancy of the water so that the joints of the whole body are not affected by the gravity of the body and are almost completely relaxed. Therefore, it has a therapeutic effect on joints, especially knee joints and shoulder joint diseases.Swimming in water above 22°C can relieve rheumatic pain, and swimming in warm water at 35~36°C can treat rheumatism.Water pressure is particularly beneficial to the flow of lymph and venous blood. Therefore, swimming also has a certain effect on soft tissue diseases.Patients should prepare for a few minutes before entering the water to warm up the body, relax joints, muscles and tendons, and smooth blood flow. Do not swim in super cold water, and dry them with a towel immediately after landing to prevent colds.The amount of exercise should be moderate, and the joints and tendons should not be overtired.Patients with acute arthritis and chronic arthritis should not swim.

Psychotherapy
(1) Control emotions.Psycho-emotions have a big impact on health.Negative emotions caused by unhappiness, grievances and quarrels will produce a series of adverse changes in the human body.Serious diseases such as high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, and ulcer disease are directly related to the negative emotions that often occur.Emotions are completely controllable. There are many ways to control emotions, and self-training is one of them.Everyone can learn to control themselves. If your emotional state makes you depressed, you should calmly analyze the reason and try to get out of the depression as soon as possible.

(2) CHAT.Chatting can prompt people to think and delay brain aging.If you want to talk, you need to focus your brain, ears, and eyes, and use your mouth and hands together, which can reduce the accumulation of brown pigment in the brain.The accumulation of brown pigment is the determinant of brain aging.Chatting with someone when you are unhappy can relieve temporary unhappiness, get rid of excitement, anger, grievance, depression, doubt and other emotions; chatting can increase happiness, learn a lot of knowledge, make people feel rich and colorful in life, and maintain a comfortable mood.

(3) Use your brain.Brain scientists have pointed out that human aging is mainly due to the death of brain cells.Many old people are dull, purely a psychological effect, thinking that they are old.Brain scientists have discovered that although the brain cells of middle-aged and elderly people die every day, new cells are generated every day under active conditions. Appropriate brain exercise and brain nutrition will make new cells more than dead cells.Only brain exercise can directly promote brain health, control the functions of the whole body through brain coordination, and achieve real health and longevity.

(4) Humor is an excellent spiritual regulator in human life.A person with a good sense of humor can always find happiness by himself, get rid of difficulties, and eliminate worries. He is not negative and dispirited in difficult situations, and he is not full of complaints.Humor is an art of creating harmony.There is often humor in the family, which can harmonize the relationship.Especially when there is anger, irritability, tense atmosphere, embarrassment and embarrassment in the family, a decent humor can make all these disappear.In a sense, humor is the lubricant between people, it can make people's communication smooth and natural.Psychologists say: A person with a sense of humor is a happy person and a person with high intelligence.Humor and optimism are twin sisters.Optimism can make people live longer, and humor is also good for health and makes people live longer.

(5) SILENCE.Silence refers to a desire to use the imagination (through meditation or painting) to express one's own struggle with disease.During silent therapy, psychologists enrich the imagination of patients by introducing relevant knowledge and teaching in kind.In the family, self-suggestion can be used as a treatment method by the patient.Silence can produce "deformation of consciousness". Silence therapy can lower people's blood pressure and resist the pressure brought by industrial society.Modern psychosomatic medical research shows that after silence, mental relaxation can change the physiological and biochemical state of the body, slow down the heartbeat and breathing, reduce muscle tension and oxygen consumption, and at the same time, reduce blood lipids.

(6) LOL.When people laugh out loud, the diaphragm that separates the stomach from the abdominal cavity and the chest cavity where the lungs are located vibrates up and down. The movement of this diaphragm can promote the blood circulation of internal organs.

When people laugh, the air inhaled by the lungs can sometimes be 4 times more than the air inhaled at rest. Therefore, laughing loudly helps to expel the air that is stagnant in the lungs and reinhale fresh air, so as to improve the function of the lungs. healthy.

Laughter can also promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract, thereby improving digestion and absorption.At the same time, laughter can also relieve chronic constipation.Because laughter can promote intestinal peristalsis, which is a physical stimulation, so it will not produce adverse side effects, but it is difficult to achieve such an effect by taking laxatives.

How do people manage to laugh a lot in normal times?
① Read more funny and humorous essays or short stories, and it is best to read them where you can make yourself laugh out loud.

② Pay attention to the small humorous articles or satirical cartoons published in newspapers and magazines.

③ Chat more with some humorous friends.

④ I often watch some humorous comedies, which can make me forget my troubles and laugh.

⑤ Always listen to cross talk.

It should be noted that patients with high blood pressure should not laugh.

Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a simple and easy folk remedy.Mainly treat children with malnutrition, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation and other symptoms caused by digestive disorders.The specific method is: let the patient lie in bed or sit upright.The operator clenches both hands into an empty fist, lifts the skin with the thumb and index finger along both sides of the spine, starts from the Changqiang point along the center of the back, and goes from bottom to top, alternately pinches and lifts the thumb and index finger, and pushes forward to Dazhui point, repeat 3-5 times according to the severity of the disease, 1-2 times a day, 6 days as a course of treatment.Chiropractic should be carried out in the morning on an empty stomach. The operator should use even force with both hands, and the thickness of the pinched skin should be moderate. Generally, the height of pinched skin should be about 0.5~1 cm. Chiropractic therapy is suitable for patients with heart disease and back pain. Patients with purulent infection should not use it.

Gua Sha therapy
Refers to using a spoon, coin, etc. to dip in soybean oil or sesame oil, select a certain part, and scrape lightly in a certain direction until some purple-red streaks (Sha) appear on the skin.You can use the index finger and middle finger, dipped in white wine or water, pinch the skin with a certain force, and then pinch after sliding. Repeat this action until Sha scars appear locally.

(1) Headache and dizziness: Scrape 6-8 strips on the front and back of the neck, using the lifting method on the front and scraping on the back.

(2) Nausea, chest tightness, scraping the front chest and two clavicle fossa.

(3) Loss of appetite, abdominal pain and diarrhea, scraping chest and back.

(4) For arthritis, scrape the local area.
When scraping, pay attention to proper force to avoid scratching the skin.Acute infectious diseases and acute abdomen should not be scraped; hairy parts and varicose veins should not be scraped.

cupping therapy

Cupping can dispel cold, remove blood stasis, and relieve pain. It is a common folk method of treatment.The specific method is to take a glass bottle or a cream bottle with a smooth edge, a small enamel cup, etc., and use it as a cupping jar.Let the patient lie down or sit well, expose the part to be cupped, clamp and ignite the cotton ball dipped in alcohol, put it into the jar, pull it out quickly after a few seconds, then buckle the jar on the affected part, and place it for 10~20 minutes minutes to remove.You can also use a small piece of thin paper to ignite and put it in the jar. When the paper is burnt out, put the cupping jar on the affected area immediately.When opening the jar, just press the skin next to the affected part with your hand to let the air enter the jar, and the cupping jar will be separated from the affected part naturally.After opening the can, the skin of the affected area was purple and raised, and the patient felt relaxed.

Cupping has the advantages of being simple and easy to do, and has remarkable curative effects, but it is not a cure-all, nor can it be used by anyone.Do not pull out the heart, nipples, hair, dampness and skin diseases; acute infectious diseases, severe heart disease, edema, ascites, infants, long-term sick and weak patients, and the waist and abdomen of pregnant women should not be cupped .

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