Don't waste your saliva! It is a valuable health liquid!
Many traditional Chinese medicine health preservation methods are as vivid as idioms. For example, the traditional Chinese medicine method of health preservation "red dragon stirs the sea". So, what does Chinese medicine compare to the red dragon and the sea? And how did you put this "red dragon" into the "sea"?
Chilong Ruhai is actually a traditional Chinese medicine oral health care method. When it comes to oral hygiene, many people think of Western medicine. In fact, Chinese medicine has attached great importance to oral health since ancient times, especially on preventive health care.
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, is one of the few doctors over 100 years old recorded in ancient documents.
It is said that when he wakes up every morning, he moves his tongue until he uses it to churn out saliva, which he then slowly swallows. This kind of pharynx and pharynx health-preserving exercise, Taoism called it "Yuye Huan Dan", and carried it forward. It was very popular during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and later generations called it Chilong Stirring the Sea. Commonly known as "tongue work", the tongue is used to stir in the mouth to promote the production of saliva.
Li Shizhen, an expert of traditional Chinese medicine in the Ming Dynasty, also praised saliva in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "There are four orifices under the tongue, two orifices open the heart qi, and two orifices open the kidney fluid. It is spiritual fluid, Taoism calls it golden syrup and jade liquor, overflowing into Liquan, gathering into Huachi, dispersing into body fluid, and descending into nectar, so it irrigates the viscera and moistens the limbs, so it is said that the pharynx of the home is nourished and the qi is absorbed. ."
Modern medical research has also confirmed that parotid hormones in human oral saliva can increase the vitality of muscles, blood vessels, connective tissue, skeletal cartilage and teeth, especially can strengthen the elasticity of blood vessels and improve the vitality of connective tissue. Saliva also helps neutralize and eliminate carcinogens from food.
To practice this oral health care method, you must first be calm. Then, gently stir the tongue up and down, left and right in the mouth 9 times, first left and then right, stir the body with the tongue, and stir the tongue to promote the production of saliva, and then rinse the saliva produced by the practice for more than ten times. Next, divide into three mouthfuls and swallow slowly. Pay attention to sending your mind into the lower dantian. When swallowing, you should gurgle loudly, but not too violently. Regular practice can strengthen the teeth and strengthen the spleen. Some scholars have found that the ancient Chinese characters took the meaning of "water on the tongue" as the word for "living", which has a different meaning.
There is another oral health care method that is worth learning, that is, gargling with tea. Regarding the cause of dental caries, Chao Yuanfang, a famous physician in the Sui Dynasty, believed in his "The Origin and Syndrome of All Diseases" that the cause of dental caries was not gargling after meals. In fact, the old ancestors paid great attention to the concept of mouthwashing after meals. In the health preservation book "Sanyuan Counselor's Longevity Book" in the late Song and early Yuan Dynasty, there was a record of using strong tea to rinse the mouth: "When you are finished eating, you should roll with strong tea. Rinse the mouth, the tiredness is gone, and the spleen and stomach are in harmony. All the flesh in the teeth can be washed and washed with tea, and it will take off without being bothered. It’s gone.” Modern medical research has found that tea contains tea polyphenols, and green tea has a high polyphenol content, which has a strong scavenging effect on free radicals and a certain antibacterial activity, and has a good inhibitory effect on Streptococcus mutans that causes caries.