Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
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Health Care

The health care(保健), in a broad sense, is maintaining healthy state, preventing diseases, such as stroke(中风), protecting function of viscera(脏腑) and organ(器官) to make sufficient kidney qi and delay ageing.

Ageing is a spontaneously inevitable process of all kinds of multicellular organisms as time goes on. The main presentations are a certain change of tissues, retrogressions of organ functions, adaptability of the body, stability, power of resistance, resulting in many senile diseases with complicated clinical signs, which threaten health of mankind.

The effect of health care lies in resisting tiredness. Tiredness(疲劳) is a kind of subjective discomfort with fatigue and weakness, and also a non-specific symptom of many diseases.

Chronic fatigue syndrome(慢性疲劳综合征) is a kind of disease, which has been paid closed attention in recent years. It many be considered after exclusion of other organic diseases.

The acupuncture(针) and moxibustion(灸) are of a long history in health care. They can effect in both resisting pathogenic factors and strengthening immune function.