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What? My project introduces a healing way that addresses daily health issues inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Why? Problems Sub-health - Gray Area Myself - Symptoms - Fatigue - Numbers - Anxiety People with Illness Healthy people - Backaches 20% 20% 60% People with Sub-health
Prevention Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy Potential disease
What causes Sub-health? Irregular daily patterns Bad habits Mental stress How to cure it? Habits - regular pattern Food & Herbs Acupoints - massage
How? DIY, Self help book Problem with TCM Distanced friendly Alien westernize Complicated simple Boring playful
Concept 1 Symptoms Cartoon: cute + playful
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Concept 2 Time Zen: simple + elegant
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6 o’clock Rise and Shine Many young people stay up and get up late. It is already noon when they get up, so they take breakfast and lunch at the same time, which misses the most active hours of intestine and stomach meridians, this is a big loss in the supply to vitality and activity of human body. So, only when you do right things at right times can you achieve double result by making half effort. In accordance with the meridian theory of Chinese traditional medicine, Qi-blood circulation reaches the large intestine meridian between 5am to 7 am, and the stomach meridian between 7am to 9am in the morning Benefits: morning. Both thinking and immune functions are in Clenching teeth may dredge meridians of upper and lower jaws, strengthen the unimpeded and active status, even the concen- muscles of face and cheek, which makes face and cheek lifted and tightend; tration of steroid reaches the highest level during Clenching teeth also helps keeping brain and mind clear, enhances absorption those hours. In addition, intestine and stomach are function of intestine and stomach, prevents teeth diseases. generally responsible for digestion, absorption and Swallow your naturally secreted saliva. There are many digestion ferments, nutrition supply in human body, namely the source nutritive ingredients and antibody abzymes in saliva. They can improve diges- of postnatal vitality. Ancient Chinese said: “An hour tion and absorption functions of intestine and stomach, and enhance anti- in the morning is worth two in the evening. “, that disease capability of human body. means exactly this stage. While you’re home 5am-7am Time of the Large Intestine Defecate While you’re in bed, Defecation during 5am-7am can detoxify the body. Dur- clench teeth & swallow ing these two hours, the Large Intestine is in the most active status. Lung interacts with large intestine, lung pumps fresh blood though the whole body and prompt saliva large intestine to exiting status. Large intestine absorbs water and nutrition from food taken during day time, makes residue stool and excrete it from body. The method of health preservation: you’d better drink Method: open your mouth widely, then clench your upper and lower warm boiled water after getting up, the fjrst benefjt to teeth, making tooth rows hit each other and sound. Pay attention not to do this is to supply water to body, the second is to pro- clench your teeth too hard so that the root of teeth won’t be hurt. Rinse mote open bowels so that residue and toxicant will be your moth a few times using saliva secreted naturally when clenching excreted from the body without trouble, as a result, the 5am ~ 9am teeth, then swallow saliva slowly. body will be refreshed. 5 6 Red bean Observe stool 3~5 o’clock Method: 1. Get yourself seated on a chair of appropriate height that will let your legs touch the fmoor naturally, best time to STUDY the buttock should be at the same level as knees so After defecation in the morning, observe that you won’t sink down due to the height of the your stool. Check if it is sticky to the chair. toilette so that a tank of water can’t fmush. You may also observe stool on toilet 2. Relax your shoulders, push forward your waist paper if it is not convenient to observe slightly but do not apply much strength, place your that in toilet. Normally, one or two pieces hands on your legs, with palm facing up, fjngers of toilet paper are enough, if 3 even 5 stretched, thumb and middle fjnger pulp overlap, this pieces can not work out completely, that Coix seed is so called “lotus fjngers” indicates dampness in the body. 3. Open your eyes, stare at a point straightforward The color and shape of the stool help also right in front of you, close your mouth, breathe indicating if there is inner dampness in body. deeply through nose four times, inhale and exhale Normal stool is usually golden and in the slowly, the more slowly, the better. Close your eyes shape of banana. Unfortunately, few people after 4 breathing 4 times and start sitting still. have such healthy stool, if there is damp- ness in body, the stool is a bit green, too 4. When sitting still, breathe naturally, you may count soft to form a shape, and is endless. If this breath or number, you may think about nothing, just situation lasts for long, toxicants stay inside The Sheng hours refer to hours from 3pm to 5 pm in the afternoon, which are relax yourself, in short. body, which may result in various diseases. major hours of the bladder. 5. Prepare an alarm clock, set 10 or 20 minutes. Af- The Bladder meridian starts from the posterior median line of sura, goes all ter time is up, open your eyes, look forward, breathe soup the way up, circulates cross two sides of the spine and reaches the top of the deeply and slowly for 4 times, the method of breath head where it converges with Du meridian. It is the meridian that covers the most Soup of red bean and Coix Seed is the same as previous. surface of human body. It is responsible for the function of “evaporation” of hu- This soup can treat the dampness of the body. man body, namely, the capability of evaporation and converting into kidney Qi. 6. Point two palms to face each other, rub your Bladder meridian passes the top of the head, so it can treat headache, in addi- hands together, when your hands warm up, rub them Ingredients: tion, diseases of bladder meridian demonstrate symptoms of eye disease because against your face as you were washing your face; Red bean is mild-natured, it nourishes bladder meridian reaches eye. then pat on your hands and feet, now you can fjnish blood. You may lose weight if you take red the meditation, stand up and move around, you will bean often. What we should do during major hours of bladder meridian? Ancient Chinese be refreshed! gave us very good instructions, when sun rises in the morning, functioning of Qi arises, it is time to absorb, study and do something. In the afternoon, it is time to review and practice. Coix seed is cold-natured, its major function Sheng hours are time to practice what has been learned in the whole day, is clearing heat and removing dampness. this is because during Sheng hours, Qi activities in whole body are in the most active stage, the body is energetic and vigorous, the brain is in most active and effjcient status, so we never waste hours between 3 to 5pm in the afternoon. In daily life, you may take advantage of the regulation of the human body. If you have too much work to do and you stay up late, not only does this lower work- Preparation: Boil red beans and coix seeds ing effjciency, but also does harm to your health, so you should fjnish your work in a pot of hot water, cook approximately when brain is in clearest status therefore working effjciency is the highest, do for 30 minutes. not waste those hours. 33 34 7
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