Discussion On The Academic Health Preserving Thoughts Of Chen Zhi And Its Practical Significance

With the expanding of the elderly, it is an important task for us to prevent and cure the senile diseases, improve the living standards of the elderly and prolong their lives. With the improvement of living standards, people are more and more concerned for health preservation. Yang Lao Feng Qin Shu, which is written by Chen Zhi of North Song Danasty, is one of the older monographs on preserving the elderly's health. It mainly discourses the theories and ways on how to preserve the elderly's health as well as prevent and cure diseases. It has a great effect on posterity. For now, the study on the acdemic thought of Zhen Zhi is mainly about food therapy and nursing, while there is not a complete and systemetic discourse on his acdemic thought, the origin and practical significance of which is rarely mentioned.According to the study and analysis on Yang Lao Feng Qin Shu, the summary of his rich thoughts and ways to preserve the elderly's health, the study on academic origin, thoughts and ways to preserve the elderly's health as well as the study on the academic thoughts of the works made by later generations such as Shou Qin Yang Lao Xin Shu, She Sheng Xiao Xi Lun, Zun Sheng Ba Jian, Yang Sheng Sui Bi, the great influence on the latter development of health preserving and the practical significance by Zhen Zhi's thoughts of preserving the elderly's health are detailed discussed in this article. Yang Lao Feng Qin Shu, which attachs great importance to the physiological features and the clinical characteristics of the elderly, considering the food therapy, medicine and conservation of health, puts forward the idea that it is better to prevent the disease than cure it, while it is better to cure diseases by food than by medicine. The prescriptions in this book are detailed, in which are mostly common things, conveniently made and practical.The study on Yang Lao Feng Qin Shu is of academic inheritance and guiding significance for preserving the elderly's health. It makes a great contribution to the development of our traditional health preserving and food therapy.