Some Chinese Life Cultivation Methods
The following is the essential part translated by
W.Zhiliang from some Chinese Traditional Medicine books
published in Qing Dynasty:
15 Advisable Actions:
It is advisable to comb your hair often.
It is advisable to rub your face often.
It is advisable to move your eyeballs often.
It is advisable to rap on your ears(occiput --->see
picture) often.
It is advisable to click your teeth often.
It is advisable to swallow your saliva often.
It is advisable to warm your back often.
It is advisable to protect your chest often.
It is advisable to massage your abdomen often.
It is advisable to contract your anus(muscular
contraction)often.
It is advisable to rub your soles often.
It is advisable to shake your limbs often.
It is advisable to touch your palate with your tongue often.
It is advisable to keep your skin dry often.
It is advisable to be silent when you relieve yourself.
Various Impairments & Injuries:
Reading for too long brings impairment of blood.
Sleeping for too long brings impairment of Qi.
Sitting for too long brings impairment of flesh.
Standing for too long brings impairment of bone.
Walking for too long brings impairment of tendons.
Thinking for too long brings impairment of spleen.
Too much anger brings impairment of liver.
Too much worry brings impairment of heart.
Too much sorrow brings impairment of lung.
Too much horror brings impairment of kidney.
Too much food brings impairment of stomach.
Too much exertion brings impairment of diaphragm.
Being injured by wind in spring usually causes diarrhea
in summer.
Being injured by heat in summer usually causes malaria in
autumn.
Being injured by dankness in autumn usually causes a cough
in winter.
Being injured by cold in winter usually causes seasonal
febrile disease in spring.
Being full and drunk to copulate causes exhaustion of
spirit and strength.
Speaking during midnight's sleep causes much loss of Qi.
Sitting(or sleeping) in wet places causes numbness,
arthralgia or leprosy.
Braving wind and rain causes somatic heaviness and pain.
Overeating causes dysentery and abscess.
Do not take food after your anger.
Do not be angry after your meal.
Do not take cold food or drink after being drunk.
Do not sleep immediately after being sated with food.
Energy Flow(Qi) Cultivation Methods:
In the midnight, a little while of still and quiet
sitting(without thinking) is substantial to generate Qi in your
whole body.
Whenever you are free, stir your tongue in the mouth, touch
your palate with your tongue, wait for the saliva to be
produced, gargle with the saliva in the mouth, gulp the saliva
down with a gurgling sound, meanwhile quickly draw in a breath
of fresh air through your nose and mentally direct(envision,as
if you see) the fresh air accompanying the saliva(regarded as an
energy flow) to flow down to "Dantian" (the point 2" below the
navel inside the underbelly---> see
picture1 ), hold on for a little while. Now slightly
contract up your anus, mentally direct the energy flow to go
backwards to "Weilu" , then to flow upwards through "Jiaji" and
"Yuzhen", and finally to arrive at "Niwan" (see
picture2). Now this is a completed circle. So go round and
begin again.
Frequently doing this exercise will make you
healthy, strong and energetic. And you will have a sensation of
the energy flow flowing in your body.