Free 'longevity medicine' available from nature, practice to stay young and healthy

To be healthy and beautiful is sometimes very simple, just spend a little time every day to practice a few simple available methods to detoxify, comprehensively adjust the body and mind, internal organs, meridians, blood and energy to support health, beauty and longevity.

Drinking enough water is also an important key to improving health - Illustration photo

Small changes, unexpected benefits

Doctor Nguyen Van Thai, Military Institute of Radiation Medicine and Oncology, said that to have a healthy body, you do not need to change your life too drastically, just small daily changes can bring surprisingly great benefits.

- Drinking water - the best detoxifier: Water is not only a factor that sustains life but also plays an important role in maintaining health. Drinking enough water helps the body increase metabolism and improve overall function, especially as age increases, the functions in the body gradually decline.

Every day, replenish your body with enough water at the four best times: one cup in the morning, one cup after a nap, one cup after dinner and one cup before going to bed to moisten the intestines and detoxify the body effectively.

- Walking - a health-enhancing medicine: According to experts, walking is the best exercise to improve overall health and prolong life, because this is an easy and simple form of exercise that brings many good effects to the body.

Regular walking will help improve physical fitness, prevent the risk of cardiovascular disease, and help the elderly improve sleep quality.

- Sunbathing - natural calcium supplement: Up to 80% of the necessary vitamin D is synthesized from exposure to sunlight. For adults, especially the elderly, sunbathing properly will help strengthen bones, reduce inflammation and prevent disease.

It should be noted that the recommended time for sunbathing to avoid harm to the skin is before 8am and after 4pm.

- Sleep - a health and beauty supplement: MSc. Hoang Khanh Toan, former head of the Oriental Medicine Department, 108 Central Military Hospital, said that when you have insomnia, your entire body loses vitality, reduces your biological energy, especially your mental energy.

If insomnia lasts for a long time, it will exhaust the body's essence, energy, and spirit. The body's three main energy streams, blood and internal fluids, will fluctuate, reducing the body's ability to function, causing fatigue, loss of appetite, and mental lethargy, which in turn causes many pathological symptoms to arise, especially mental pathologies.

A good night's sleep not only helps restore health but also helps beautify the skin. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sleep like eating, don't eat too much" and advocates "don't wake up late, don't sleep too much". Modern physiology believes that a sleep cycle has two phases: dream sleep and dreamless sleep, lasting about 90 minutes.

Foreign experts in sleep research have concluded that the average adult sleep time per day is 7.5 hours, which is 5 sleep cycles. Statistical research results show that sleeping less or sleeping more affects longevity, people who sleep an average of 7-8 hours per day often have a longer life expectancy.

Combing hair - an effective health care method - Illustration photo/internet source

Combing hair - an effective health care method

Master Toan said that brushing hair regularly every day is not only a way to beautify and make us look neater, but is also an effective health care method.

Oriental medicine believes that the head is where yang energy converges, connecting to hundreds of meridians. Combing your hair every morning can make yang energy rise and develop, making hundreds of meridians harmonize and blood and qi not decline. The way to comb your hair is:

- Stand up straight, legs shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent, head straight, neck straight, arms hanging down, eyes open, looking forward, relax the whole body, calm the mind, remove all distracting thoughts, breathe naturally, inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth.

- Slowly raise both hands up, press the palms lightly on the forehead, rub down through the nose, mouth to the lower jaw, then around the back of the neck to the top of the head and out to the forehead. Do this 36 times with the intensity of light at first and heavy at later.

- Keep your ten fingers naturally curved, place them at the hairline in front of your forehead, then slowly brush them up to the top of your head and down to your nape, gently grasping your scalp with your hands. Then take the line running along the top of your head from your forehead to the back of your neck as the center, gradually rub your hands out to the sides, combining with gently grasping your scalp, until you reach your ears. Do this 36 times, gently at first, then gradually increasing your strength.

- The ten fingers are still naturally curved, the left and right hands are alternately brought over the top of the head, starting from the hairline at the ear, over the top of the head to the other ear, the hands lightly grasp the scalp, then take a straight line from the two earlobes running through the top of the head as the center, the left hand is brought forward, the right hand is brought back, slowly separate, at the same time lightly grasp the scalp, until reaching the hairline in front and back. Do this 36 times. Start with light hands and gradually get heavier.

- Gently rub your hands as before, with both palms pressed against the scalp, starting from the forehead, rubbing down to the lower jaw, then wrap your hands around the back of the neck, rubbing up to the top of the head to the forehead. Do this 36 times, a little hard at first, then gradually lighter. Finally, use a wooden comb with full, even, and smooth teeth to brush your hair, gently brushing along the hair line you want.

Note: This hair brushing method requires the whole body to be relaxed, the mind to be focused, breathing evenly, and the movements of the two hands to be slow and gentle. You cannot be hasty, confused, or clumsy.

Grasping and rubbing, heavy or light, need to be in the right dosage, starting from light to strong, and finishing from strong to light, the movements of both hands are slow and gentle, cannot be hasty. Light is like a goose feather touching the ground, heavy is just right, the skin should not feel pain.

Facial stimulation to remove wrinkles and beautify

Mr. Toan said that traditional oriental cosmetic medicine has a useful beauty method using your own two hands to practice massage and acupressure on the face, making the blood circulate, the skin becomes smooth and bright, reducing wrinkles and dark spots. The specific steps are as follows:

- Use warm water to wash your face, choose a standing position, relax your face, purse your lips and push air so that your cheeks puff up, keep this state and breathe evenly through your nose for 1 minute.

- Lean the upper body forward so that the face is parallel to the ground. Wait until the blood rushes to the face and feels heavy, then slowly stand up straight. Do this for 1 minute.

- Stand straight, roll your tongue around in your mouth, and rub your hands together until they are hot and saliva is secreted in your mouth. Spit a little into your palms, rub your hands together, and then gently rub them on the wrinkled areas.

At this time, round your lips and mouth and make small "oh...oh...oh..." sounds, in your mind imagine the wrinkles disappearing, your demeanor leisurely, the number of times you pronounce "oh" equals your age.

- Repeat step 1, then return to normal .

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