Ideology Of Constitutional Health Cultivation In Huangdi's Internal Classic And Its Influence On Later Generations

Objective:The present study systematically collates the origin and development of the ideology of constitutional health cultivation in Huangdi's Internal Classic through literature study,summarizes the related content,principle and its influence.It also rearranges the content of constitutional health cultivation in Spiritual Pivot,classifies and comments on the constitutions of human body from different perspectives.Meanwhile,based on epidemiological investigation,questionnaires and statistical methods were applied to analyze constitutional characteristics of healthy senior citizens in three regions of Jiangsu Province.Accordingly,it explores the influencing factors of constitution of Chinese medicine and proposes reasonable and effective theory of constitutional health cultivation as well as controlling strategies for the health of the elderly.Methods:Literature research:for ancient literature,make sure the relevant content of health cultivation and body constitution of Chinese medicine and choose a better version as the basic literature.At the same time,search in the CD of Chinese Medical Encyclopedia using "health cultivation","health preservation","longevity","constitution" etc.as key words to retrieve the constitution and health related texts.Select and abstract those texts related to constitution and health cultivation in Huangdi's Internal Classic.For modern literature,the full-text data base of CNKI,VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals,WanfangStandardsDatabase were retrieved by key words like "health cultivation in Huangdi's Internal Classic","constitution in Huangdi's Internal Classic" to collect all the relevant literature and materials.Questionnaire survey:the senior undergraduates majored in Chinese medicine student were trained to carry on a one-to-one questionnaire survey among the healthy senior citizens in Jiangsu.The questionnaires were filled in and collected in the act.The investigation content includes the natural condition of the object,medical history and life habit.They were also asked to fill in the Chinese Medical Constitution Classification Table.The questionnaire was screened and statistically analyzed then.Results:1.This study combed the content of health cultivation and body constitution in Huangdi's Internal Classic,and summarizes its theory.2.We collated the development of constitution and health cultivation in Huangdi s Internal Classic,explored the origin of this theory in Huangdi's Internal Classic.From later medical research and achievements of constitution and health cultivation,we summed up the ideology of constitutional health cultivation in Huangdi s Internal Classic and its history.3.Based on the relevant exposition in Huangdi's Internal Classic,the paper reorganized and formats many kinds of constitutional classification,and made a detailed exposition of each classification method.4.Chinese Medical Constitution Classification Table was used to investigate the senior citizens in Rugao,Liyang and Taicang of Jiangsu from the perspective of Chinese medical constitution and health cultivation.The survey showed that:?constitutions of healthy old people distributed in order of moderate,yang deficiency,blood stasis,qi deficiency,yin deficiency,phlegm and dampness,qi stagnation,specialty,dampness and heat.The first three biased constitution are yang deficiency,blood stasis and qi deficiency constitutions.? In terms of eating habits,light food ranks first,followed by sweet,hot food and salt food.There are significant differences in dietary preferences between the old and the elderly with moderate constitution and biased constitution.? As for sleep habits,most of them sleep early and get up early,followed by late sleeper and early getup,early sleeper and late getup,late sleeper and late getup.There is a significant difference between different constitutions.?For characters,peace and optimistic goes first,followed by quiet,introverted,sentimental,irritable.There is still a significant difference between different constitutions.?Combining diet,sleep,personality as a variable,biased physique as a result of variables(moderate constitution as a reference),we carried out logistic regression analysis with the test of the calibration value of a=0.05,the parameter95%CI.The results showed that the moderate constitution are related to peace and light food,early sleeper and getup,peace and optimisms;while biased quality are late night sleepers,irregular sleepers,smokers,quiet and introverted.Results analysis suggests that ? most healthy senior citizens in Jiangsu province are of moderate constitution.?the biased constitutions see more deficiency among these healthy elderly.?diet,living habits and personality are the influence factor of constitution formation.Conclusion:The idea of constitutional healthy cultivation in Huangdi's Internal Classic has special significance for modern large-data medical classification.From the origin of the thought of constitution and health preserving,we organized the idea of later medical research and achievements of constitution and health cultivation and found its applicable method in modern times.The results suggested improve the health level of the elderly from the aspects of optimizing their own living habits,carrying out health management services that conform to their physical characteristics,promoting the application of the constitution identification technology and the differentiation and application of the health management.