Research On Tao Hongjing's Medical Health Care Idea

Tao Hongjing,known as Tongming,was named Huayang seclusion in his later years,posthumous name of Mr.Zhenbai,born in Moling,Danyang(now Nanjing,Jiangsu Province).He was a famous Taoist thinker,alchemist,medical scientist and writer in the Southern and Northern Dynasties,and one of the representatives of the Upper Qing School of Taoism.He was born into a noble family.He became an official at an early age,resigned from the government in middle age,and retired to Buddhism in his later years.He was one of the earliest representatives in Chinese history who advocated Confucianism,Taoism and Buddhism.Tao Hongjing has a detailed understanding of the geography of mountains and rivers and the products of the square map.He also has an extremely in-depth research and attains in medicine and herbal medicine,health treatment and so on.At present,the study of Tao Hongjing’s health preservation is mainly carried out from the health works "Record of Nourishing Sex and Extending Life",and other works are less involved.This paper takes Tao Hongjing’s medical health thought as the research object,including "Record of Nourishing Sex and Extending Life" "Zhengao" "Notes on Materia Medica","Records of Famous Doctors" " and Collection of Tao Hongjing’s Seclusion" are the research materials.The methods of literature research,theoretical analysis,deductive induction and other methods are mainly adopted to dig deeply into the medical regimen and academic characteristics of Tao Hongjing.In the perspective of "healthy China" to carry on scientific interpretation of its health concept,in order to "serve the present".This paper is divided into six parts: The first part introduces the life of Tao Hongjing and related works on medical health preservation,the second part introduces the background of the formation of Tao Hongjing’s medical health preservation thought,the third part introduces the practice method of Tao Hongjing’s medical health preservation thought,the fourth part introduces the medical health preservation principle of Tao Hongjing’s co-cultivation of form and spirit,the fifth part introduces the influence and limitation of Tao Hongjing’s medical health preservation thought.The sixth part introduces the contemporary value of Tao Hongjing’s medical health preserving thought.Through the research,the following conclusions are drawn:1.Tao Hongjing’s thoughts on medical health are mainly reflected in his works such as Record of Nourishing Nature and Extending Life,Zhengao,Notes on Materia Medica,Record of Famous Doctors and Collection of Tao’s Seclusion,etc.,which reflects Tao Hongjing’s academic characteristics of "co-nourishing the form and spirit" and "integrating diversity".2.The practice methods of Tao Hongjing’s medical regimen mainly include drug supplement,diet regimen,qi guidance regimen,daily living regimen and house regimen.Among them,the supplement method was mainly supplemented by the addition of top-quality drugs in the Notes on Materia Medica and the Record of Famous Doctors by Tao Hongjing,supplemented by the prescription and prescription commonly used in the book of Zhentao.The part of diet health advocates timely eating,and puts forward the related dietary taboo;The part of taking qi guidance includes regulating and performing qi and guiding massage;The daily life health section introduces personal hygiene,living environment and other aspects;The health section of the room advocates that men and women should be in love with each other,abstinence and semen.3.Tao Hongjing’s medical health ideology is based on the principle of "co-cultivation of form and spirit",focusing on the cultivation of spirit through "moral cultivation,meditation and spirit cultivation",and the cultivation of mind through "diet,work and leisure".Tao Hongjing will cultivate virtue and health treatment closely combined,pay attention to personal virtue,to "cultivate virtue" to lead his health thoughts,for the later medical health scholars.4.Under the background of advocating "national health",Tao Hongjing medical health concept has certain practical significance.It can play a positive and effective role in promoting moral health concept,improving national health awareness,reducing national medical costs,promoting social and economic development,leading the direction of medical development and so on,which is worth our further inheritance and exploration.