Top 12 Ancient Health Tips for Well-being

Let your teeth meet 36 times, creating a rhythm that balances yin and yang. This promotes blood circulation, meridian flow, ensures robust teeth, strengthens jaw muscles, and prevents misalignment. Additionally, it enhances digestion and antibacterial resistance, safeguarding dental well-being.

Rub your hands together to generate warmth, then press them against your face and rub as if washing your face. Keep your breath in, purse your lips, and rub vigorously. As the face is intricately connected to the entire body, this technique stimulates acupoints and meridians on the face, promoting blood circulation, regulating the brain, and enhancing overall brain function. Additionally, facial stimulation contributes to optimal brain activity.

Run your tongue along the roof of your mouth to generate saliva and fill your mouth. Swallow gradually, repeating this process 36 times while keeping your mouth closed and lips pursed. The saliva, when swallowed, nourishes the organs like the liver, kidneys, abdominal organs, and transforms into vital energy. This practice benefits the digestive system, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and other vital organs (five viscera).

Twist your shoulders 14 times every morning to develop a healthy routine for muscle growth. Shoulder exercises are vital for building muscles in the back, torso, shoulders, chest, and arms. Mobilizing spinal vertebrae and shoulder joints, it expands the chest, improves respiratory function, and regulates blood circulation. This process enhances skin complexion, sharpens the mind, and promotes overall well-being.

Perform ear exercises to promote overall well-being. Cover your ears with your hands, use your index fingers to tap on the back of your head 24 times. This technique stimulates vital acupuncture points related to endocrine and digestive systems, as well as the renal system.

Take a moment for ear training. Place your hands over your ears, then use your index fingers to tap on the back of your head, hitting the occipital bone, 24 times. This practice enhances blood circulation, regulates the nervous system, activates energy flow, and balances body temperature.

Practice rhythmic breathing to enhance respiratory health. Clasp your hands, inhale deeply through your nose, exhale down to your abdomen, then raise your hands to the sky and lower them to your knees. This exercise expands the chest, increases oxygen intake, and improves respiration. Focusing on directing breath to the abdomen tones the abdominal muscles and promotes optimal endocrine function.

Include hand exercises in your routine. Lift your hands towards the sky, then lower them to touch your knees. This movement helps expand the chest, facilitating better air intake and improving respiratory function. Concentrating on directing breath to the abdomen tones the abdominal muscles, fostering overall endocrine activity.

Practice breath control with a simple arm exercise. Extend your left arm straight, stretch your right arm horizontally at shoulder level, and focus your gaze on your right hand. Switch sides, repeating 3 times on each. Remember, controlled breathing enhances mental and physical focus. This movement helps you build strength gradually, concentrating your vision.

Integrate vigorous rubbing of the buttocks into your routine. Apply firm pressure to this area, moving in circular motions. This technique promotes blood circulation, releases tension, and revitalizes the body.

Grabbing both hands, twist them for warmth, then bring your hands behind your back and vigorously rub the lower back (kidney area), 36 times in both directions. Hold your breath evenly while doing so. As the lower back is the reservoir of vital energy and blood, the endocrine organs cannot generate yin and yang energy if the lower back is weak. This exercise promotes a healthy digestive system and enhances blood circulation.

Support the right hand on the lower back, rub the lower abdomen with the left hand 36 times. Our abdominal region houses the digestive and endocrine systems, originating the yin and yang in the blood. Massaging the abdomen enhances blood circulation, facilitates the flow of vital energy, nurtures the nervous system, boosts intestinal activity, prevents constipation, indigestion, and obesity. Particularly beneficial for the elderly with kidney deficiency, experiencing lower back pain and knee fatigue.

Stimulate the Giai Tich acupressure point located below the tailbone, just above the anus. This action gradually improves blood circulation in the anal region, preventing hemorrhoids, chronic inflammation of the intestines, constipation, and rapidly restoring the function of the anus after bowel movements.

Sit cross-legged, place the left foot on the right thigh, tightly grasp the left leg with the left hand, then use the right hand to vigorously rub the liver area of the left foot 36 times. Repeat on the right foot for another 36 rubs. Foot massage balances yin and yang, promotes toxin elimination, increases body warmth, enhances blood circulation in the lower limbs. Additionally, it improves muscle flexibility, benefits the liver, sharpens vision, aids digestion, promotes urination, reduces fatigue, and lowers blood pressure. Especially beneficial for alleviating aging symptoms in the elderly.

Ensure the right foot stands firm, then raise the left foot 7 times. Repeat the same with the other foot. This movement will enhance the endurance of the muscles in the lower limbs and promote flexibility in the joints. Simultaneously, engaging the joints in the legs will reinforce your body's balance system.