As we age, our lungs weaken, and if we do, our whole body weakens. So how to strengthen the lungs? Three Exercise Prescriptions to Help You!
Wang Lei, Chief Physician
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Middle-aged and elderly people often have rapid wheezing and shortness of breath, especially when going up stairs, which is a manifestation of weak lung function.
Dangers of weak lung function:
Weak lung function can lead to a lack of oxygen to the brain and muscles. Lack of oxygen to the brain can lead to memory loss, dizziness and mental loss; Lack of oxygen in the muscles will cause weakness in the limbs, and Chinese medicine believes that if the lungs are weak, the whole body will be weak.
1. First of all, the doctor should check whether the cause of weak lung function is caused by other diseases.
2. When there are no other diseases, the doctor will prescribe exercise, that is, rehabilitation training. Because drugs have limitations on improving weak lung function, the use of "drugs + exercise" is more conducive to the recovery of patients.
Tip: Exercise prescription is suitable for both people with weak lung function and healthy people.
Three Exercise Prescriptions:
1. Bow pulling
The bow holding pose mainly squeezes the ribcage through the pulling of the left and right hands of the body and the tilt of the body. This helps the lungs to absorb and clear turbidity, and spit out the old and absorb the new.
Tip: It is recommended to do the bow pull pose during the day, about once or so, 20 times a day.
. Bird Flying Bird Flying Pose mainly exercises the auxiliary respiratory muscles of the chest and back in the way of simulating the wings of a bird, promotes the rapid descent of the lungs, and improves the function of the lungs.
Tips: Practice 10~20 times a day according to your own situation.
Five body exercises and five organs:
Lung health is the cornerstone of whole-body health. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five organs and the five bodies are mutually influencing and interrelated
The five organs manage the inside of the body, and the five bodies are the manifestation of the state of the five organs, and the effect of strengthening the five organs can be achieved through the practice of the five bodies, that is, the five organs are trained by the five bodies.
The five organs are the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, and the five bodies are the pulses, muscles, flesh, bones, and skin. The pulse is in the heart; tendons pass through the liver; The flesh passes through the spleen; The lungs pass through the fur; The bone leads to the kidney. When a person breathes, not only the lungs are moving, but the pores of the whole body are also helping to breathe. Just as: bones are connected to the kidneys, and the kidneys should be replenished when the joints are not good or osteoporosis.
exercisesThe five-body balance exercise is divided into four sections: pranayama and lungs, strengthening muscles and spleen, clearing the pulse and nourishing the heart, stretching the muscles and soothing the liver, which can adjust the breathing rhythm, smooth the spleen and stomach qi, promote the flow of qi and blood, and strengthen the bones and kidneys.
As you get older, it's important to pay attention to your lung health! Three exercise prescriptions, not only to exercise the lungs, but also to strengthen the body, hurry up and practice!
P.S.: Breathe into the waist, and all diseases will be eliminated!
If your breath is only inhaled into the lungs, then it is just to sustain life, and if your breath can go beyond the waist and into the kidneys, it is the real way to maintain health.
Ancient Chinese medicine believes: breathe into the waist, all diseases are eliminated! Why?
Because the continuation of our lives and the operation of our internal organs depend on the circulation of qi. The qi of the five internal organs, the qi of the six internal organs, the qi of the meridians, and the qi of the muscles and muscles...... Our limbs are hundreds, and our whole body is all running with qi. The implementation of the function of any viscera is a manifestation of the rise and fall of qi.
So, how did the qi of this body come about, and how did it lose cloth? Let's start at the beginning.
The qi of the body is the essence of the water valley transported from our spleen and stomach and the pure qi of heaven and earth breathed by the lungs, which are mixed together to form the zongqi in our chest.
Our sect qi is like the sky above, like a dot of stars, and the vitality of people is below, like the boundless earth. This sect qi and the vitality merge to form a single qi. After the qi of the body is fused and generated, it is distributed in the viscera and forms the qi of the viscera meridians. Therefore, our sect qi must be blended with the vitality along the three cokes and down to complete the mission.
So, how does our sect qi go down? It depends on the calming effect of the lungs. What is the suppression of the main lung qi? In addition to the function of the lungs themselves, there is another important factor, which is our kidneys.
It turns out that our kidneys are believed to have the ability to seal them in Chinese medicine. The manifestation of this sealing energy, in addition to solid sperm ejaculation, has another one, that is, absorbing qi. If the kidney qi is strong and the qi is rooted, then the lungs' ability to suppress can be carried out normally. If the kidney qi is not accommodated, it will not be able to be suppressed. Therefore, breathing must be "into the waist and into the kidneys" to be the best.
This means that the kidneys have exerted the function of absorbing qi, the lung qi can be suppressed, the zong qi can descend, the vitality can be nourished, and the qi of the whole body can circulate. When the circulation of the body's qi is normal, the function of the internal organs will be normal, and our body will be healthy. This is the so-called "breathe into the waist, all diseases are eliminated".
So, how can such a goal be achieved?
When we ordinary people, the easiest way is to take a deep breath, when we take a deep breath, not only the chest expands, but also the waist, especially the kidneys, also expands vigorously, feeling like qi entering the waist, making the breathing profound and long, so as to maximize the effect of the kidneys.
In this way, the sect qi can go down and blend with the vitality. We take 200 deep breaths a day in a place where the air is relatively fresh, and over time, it will have unexpected health effects. But unfortunately, there are too few people in life who can take the initiative to do this. Most people just take a shallow breath. This has to be said to be a pity.
How do you breathe deeply into your waist?
This has to talk about abdominal breathing, in fact, ancient Chinese doctors have long recognized that abdominal breathing has a unique miracle of dispelling diseases and prolonging life, so they created "breathing", "turtle breath", "qi sinking dantian", "fetal breath" and other fitness methods.
The famous doctor of the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao, particularly admired the deep abdominal breathing, he performed the method of regulating qi between dawn and noon every day, lying on his back on the bed, stretching his hands and feet, holding the thumbs in both hands, four or five inches away from his body, and four or five inches apart between his feet, counting his teeth and drinking jade syrup (saliva).
Then, the breath is drawn from the nose into the abdomen, until the breath is sufficient, and the breath is exhaled from the mouth until the breath is exhausted, and then the breath is drawn through the nostrils into the chest and abdomen. This abdominal deep breath is refreshing and refreshing.
Leng Qian, a health practitioner in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a sixteen-character order for health preservation in the "Essentials of Cultivating Age": "When you inhale, you will lift it, and the qi will return to the navel; When you mention it, you swallow it, and you see each other. This sixteen-character secret includes three health care practice methods of levator anus, pharyngeal jin and abdominal breathing, which is the magic weapon for dispelling illness and prolonging life.
