The bits and pieces of our daily life, accumulated over time, can achieve unexpected results. Every day, our actions, thoughts, and whether they are correct or not will change in quantity, but the results we create will be vastly different. This is what Laozi said: “The wood that embraces each other is born in the slightest detail. The platform that has been built for a long time starts from the earth. The journey in heaven begins with a single step.” Therefore, whether one is in line with the Tao or not is a matter of life and death that cannot be ignored. Even the diet of three meals a day, whether it conforms to the natural way or not, is also related to a person’s life, death, and poverty, because eating can lead to health, but it can also lead to diseases. Taoism believes that those who can understand diet and health are considered immortals.
In the past, people lived in poverty and simplicity, and the food they ate was not as rich and nutritious as modern people. However, at that time, there were very few people who suffer from the diseases of wealth and civilization. Why is this? This is because people at that time and modern people ate different things, so their illnesses were also different. Cancer, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, obesity, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, etc. are all caused by overnutrition and poisoning due to excessive fat. Hypertension is caused by high blood lipids, as the name suggests, which means that the fat content in the blood is too high. If the fat content in the blood is too high, it will cause the blood to lose its lightness and become viscous. If blood becomes viscous, it cannot flow well, resulting in microcirculation in the limbs and insufficient blood supply to the brain. To solve this problem, the body can only stimulate blood circulation by increasing blood pressure. To increase blood pressure, it is necessary to increase the contraction force of the myocardium. However, if this continues for a long time, the heart will be damaged due to fatigue. The lungs are responsible for descending, and blood flows back to the lungs through veins. Due to the viscosity of their blood, the lungs can only work harder to complete the task of recovering descending blood. Over time, the lungs will also be affected.
Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the liver is responsible for storing blood and promoting diuresis. The liver is like a warehouse, it converts excess and unused nutrients in the human blood into glycogen, which is stored in the liver. When the body’s nutrition is insufficient, glycogen is then converted into plasma for use. However, nowadays people eat three full meals a day, and these stored energies have no chance to be used. This kind of energy can only enter but not exit, and over time, the liver will gradually grow and become fatty liver. Once it becomes a fatty liver, it will cause the liver to lose activity and elasticity, and develop into fibrosis and sclerosis. Once the liver hardens, it will reduce its detoxification and detoxification abilities, thereby posing a threat to human health. In addition, the nutrition in the body is too high, and part of the nutrition will be converted into sugar under the action of various enzymes into the blood. As the sugar in the blood increases, the pancreas will work harder to secrete more insulin to transform and degrade, but because the workload of the pancreas increases, the efficiency will be reduced, the insulin secreted will be less and less, and sugar cannot be converted, which will lead to diabetes. When diabetes is serious, people’s lower limbs will fester, and some patients can only amputate limbs. Due to the high levels of sugar and fat in the blood, it can increase the workload of kidney filtration and metabolism, leading to strain. So, excessive nutrition can increase the workload of the five organs and six viscera, leading to overwork and the development of diseases. The source of all of this is caused by overnutrition and fat poisoning. Where does fat come from? The meat we eat is fat, and the oil is fat! Especially animal fat is prone to coagulation, and when people are in a state of inner turmoil and tension, it can easily form qi stagnation and blood stasis. At this time, when encountering the Yin cold qi accumulated in the human body, the stagnant blood can easily form the core of coagulation factors under the action of this Yin cold qi. Once this core is formed, it will adsorb the surrounding fat and adhere to it, like a snowball that grows bigger and bigger over time, forming a blood healing process. After the formation of this blood therapy, if it is blocked in the heart, it is called a heart attack, and if it is blocked in the brain, it is called a cerebral infarction. Once a cerebral infarction is formed, it will cause insufficient blood supply to the brain, and brain cells will not receive nutrition, leading to death and cerebral atrophy, which is the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. The viscosity of blood, like water rust, adheres and deposits on the walls of blood vessels. Over time, it thickens, loses elasticity, becomes brittle, and narrows the blood vessels, preventing smooth blood flow. This is the reason why human brain blood vessels rupture under high pressure.
All of this is caused by eating, and of course, there are many diseases related to eating, drinking, and unhealthy lifestyle habits, which will not be listed here one by one. In short, all of this stems from the human heart, which is the root of all diseases. Psychology and physiology are synchronized. If a person is in a tense and negative psychological state for a long time, qi stagnation and blood stasis will become a physiological norm. This is because the blood that is stagnant is viscous, and once this viscous blood is formed, even the appearance of “three highs” symptoms will occur, because this is the internal cause of the formation of “three highs”. High fat foods are the external cause of the formation of “three highs”. The combined effect of internal and external factors is the root cause of human diseases. In this physiological environment of qi stagnation and blood stasis, cells will force their genes to change and induce cancer in order to adapt to this living environment. On the other hand, in a stable state of qi stagnation and blood stasis, the immune system of the human body will be greatly reduced, providing an ideal space for the survival of cancer cells.
The Taoist health preservation method teaches you a healthy lifestyle, allowing people to return to simplicity, simplicity, and follow nature. This is the self-cultivation secret passed down to us by Laozi: “To see simplicity and embrace simplicity, to think less and have fewer desires. Only by doing so can one achieve inner peace, and inner peace will activate the body’s self repair ability. Once the body’s self repair ability is activated, all your illnesses will heal on their own. Then use fasting to eliminate excess nutrients in the human body, and teach people to eat vegetarian and raw food. This will avoid excessive intake of animal fats, oils, salts, and seasonings. After frying, stir frying, cooking, and deep frying, food will absorb the properties of fire, and people will become overheated after eating it. Eating raw vegetables preserves their natural properties, active energy, and spiritual energy. However, the more they are processed by humans, the more they lose. Therefore, eating raw vegetables preserves their active energy and spiritual energy, and has detoxification, beauty, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, laxative, weight loss, blood cooling, blood clearing, and fire reducing effects. If you choose this lifestyle, many of your illnesses will be cured without medication.
So, when one falls ill, the first thing to do is to reflect on oneself, find one’s own reasons, repent one’s thoughts and feelings, and whether being a person is correct? Are there any issues with the food and drink? Instead of rushing to the hospital, many people’s first thought when they get sick is the hospital and doctors. Pushing everything onto the hospital and letting them solve it for them is completely opposite. The result can be imagined, it’s like owing someone money and not wanting to pay it back, but finding an unrelated person to repay it for oneself. Is it feasible? Diseases like this caused by excessive nutrition need to be treated with medication. Not to mention whether it can really solve your problem, “medicine is three parts poison”. Long term and large amounts of medication can cause real harm to your body due to its toxic side effects. The grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits in vegetarianism contain all the essential nutrients needed by the human body, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, fiber, and so on. As long as people can eat normally, they will never lack nutrition. If they want to eat so much oil and meat again. It has exceeded the requirements of the human body by several times, and these additional components are the cause of modern civilization diseases. Excess or deficiency can bring harm to the human body, which is the natural way of diet.
