| With changes of social and improvement of people’s requirements on living standards, health has become an issue obtaining increasing attention. Health care and health preserving, a very important topic in modern life, has become an indispensable part of modern life. In this social context, the importance of rehabilitation medicine which is apposition to preventive medicine, clinic medicine and health care medicine is increasingly outstanding. Possessing a long history, prominent characteristics and remarkable effects, traditional Chinese rehabilitation is widely used in medical practice with large potentials and a bright future. To promote the development of traditional Chinese rehabilitation medicine, abundant thoughts and methods of rehabilitation in human history need to be explored and learned from. Taoism which takes health preserving culture system in traditional Chinese medicine as an integral and important part has unique insights and regular sequence in medicine, diet, psychology and spiritual philosophy and its essential ideological arguments with constant generalization and refinement are highly valued and recognized by modern people.The birth and development of health preserving thought is contained within that of the unique philosophy and theory in Taoism. So in the process of getting mature, the emergence of health preserving is based on Taoism and in accordance with its core concept, Taoism mainly illustrates ways of health persevering and cultivate oneself. In Taoism, the health preserving thoughts are rich and comprehensive which cover the life view of integrating the form and the spirit and the life value of enjoying life and loathing death and its core concepts are penetrated by the oneness of creation. Health care and health preserving methods in Taoism pursues quietism and moral cultivation from inner spirit while advocates body shape building exercise externally. Through internal and external integration, cultivation of pranayama should be developed to the cultivation of mind of internal alchemy. In addition, Taoism has its own unique views and analysis in various aspects such as tonic food and cleanliness in room. All these cognitives and methods offers indispensable reference and rich clinical practice experience for health care and preserving in traditional Chinese medicine for they serve as an all-around reference to the traditional Chinese medicine. Health preserving in Taoism does not simply refer to individual health care and rehabilitation method, but also to concerns to living environment of human beings through thinking. In line with the Taoist thoughts, people facing today’s tough living environment cannot essentially survive as long as the nature. This is the valuable ideological essence of Taoism, which stresses the significance of coexistence and mutual prosperity between human and attaches the importance to the attitude that the whole society today has to protect environment.There are tremendous valuable methods and arguments of Taoism in disease prevention. Follow the law of nature is the core cognitive of health care in traditional Chinese medicine; to purifying the mind and diminishing desires are important principles for disease prevention and rehabilitation; venerate softness and harmony; and a balance of yin and yang is the highest pursuit of rehabilitation in traditional Chinese medicine. Among all Taoist thoughts about health preserving, spiritual health preserving is the focus. Through cultivating original nature, reducing the material desires, keeping peaceful mind and pursuing for inaction, letting nature take its course, purifying mind and diminishing desires, stillness and emptiness and integrating into the nature, one can enhance his or her value of life and improve himself or herself when facing deficiency. For rehabilitation from mental illness caused by busy life or excessive pressure, it has great has a good clinical significance.With popularization of health care knowledge and development of modern health preserving concepts, traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture rehabilitation are accepted and valued by Chinese people. Digging out the principles contained in traditional Chinese medicine, we can find that Taoist thought about health preserving is representative of classical tradition and practice essence nurtured by oriental civilization. Having won increasing recognition and attention from all over the world, the value and connotation of Taoist thought about health preserving have been gradually discovered and affirmed. With systematic methods and unique philosophy, Taoism health preserving method in modern health care illustrates the road to longevity. At the same time, there has been a boom to explore traditional Taoist culture in Taiwan in recent years. In addition to the recognized memorial ceremony, the growing attention to mental attitudes of individuals makes great contributions to ease the sharp and intense atmosphere of the utilitarian society and fill the empty spiritual world. Moreover, one can back to his or her roots in Taoist thoughts of health preserving and recognize the value of China’s traditional culture. The methods and ideas extended from these thoughts can also inspire the development of the Chinese medicine health care and rehabilitation, as well as enrich the recognized culture of Chinese nation itself. |
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