The Theoretical Basis |
TCM Life Cultivation and Rehabilitation is a science based on the summarization of the practical experience of thousands of years. It, a comprehensive academic system with health and longevity as its purposes, includes multidisciplinary knowledge like preventive medicine, psychological medicine, behavior medicine, medical health care, astrometeorology, geomedicine and social medicine. It is based on Chinese five thousand year civilization with its unique oriental features and national style.
The integration of life with nature TCM believes that man lives amidst the universe and his vital activities are inevitable influence by the natural laws of material movement. Therefore, all the activities of the human body inevitably has formed close patterns with nature. The relationship between vital activities of the human body and nature as well as society should be harmonious and orderly. Otherwise, it is not good for health. This is the though of “man's relevant adaptation to nature” and “unity of 0physique and spirit.” Accordingly, special emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and natural and social environments.
Health and longevity on harmony The theories of TCM stress the significance of harmony and balance. It hold s that the substance metabolism of the human body should include ascension and descension, that psychology and physiology should be mutually harmonious and that psychological disorders may be regulated with visceral movement while body diseases may be cured with psychological therapeutic methods. TCM life cultivation and rehabilitation follows the patterns of natural changes so that the pace of life process is accordingly adjusted with the changes of time, space, four seasons and climate. For example, emotional health care should be neither supercilious nor obsequious, but mean and moderate; sleep neither excessive nor insufficient; sexual life neither ignored nor excessive while the body needs labor but should not be exhausted, etc. All these are based on the unique theories and methods of health and longevity.
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