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Hello

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My project introduces a healing way that addresses daily health issues inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine.

What?

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Why?

Problems

Myself

• Fatigue
• Anxiety
• Backaches

Sub-health

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• Symptoms
• Numbers

People with Illness Healthy people People with Sub-health 60%

20% 20%

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Prevention

Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy

Potential disease

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What causes Sub-health?

Irregular daily patterns Bad habits Mental stress

How to cure it?

Habits - regular pattern Food & Herbs Acupoints - massage

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How?

DIY, Self help book Problem with TCM

Distanced friendly Alien westernize Complicated simple Boring playful

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Concept 1

Symptoms Cartoon: cute + playful

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Sketches

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Concept 2

Time Zen: simple + elegant

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Sketches

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SLIDE 14 5am ~ 9am

While you’re home

morning

6 o’clock Rise and Shine Method: open your mouth widely, then clench your upper and lower teeth, making tooth rows hit each other and sound. Pay attention not to clench your teeth too hard so that the root of teeth won’t be hurt. Rinse your moth a few times using saliva secreted naturally when clenching teeth, then swallow saliva slowly. Benefits: Clenching teeth may dredge meridians of upper and lower jaws, strengthen muscles of face and cheek, which makes face and cheek lifted and tightend; Clenching teeth also helps keeping brain and mind clear, enhances absorption function of intestine and stomach, prevents teeth diseases. Swallow your naturally secreted saliva. There are many digestion ferments, nutritive ingredients and antibody abzymes in saliva. They can improve diges- tion and absorption functions of intestine and stomach, and enhance anti- disease capability of human body. 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. Both thinking and immune functions are in

the unimpeded and active status, even the concen- tration of steroid reaches the highest level during those hours. In addition, intestine and stomach are generally responsible for digestion, absorption and nutrition supply in human body, namely the source

• f postnatal vitality. Ancient Chinese said: “An hour

in the morning is worth two in the evening. “, that means exactly this stage. 5am-7am Time of the Large Intestine Defecate Defecation during 5am-7am can detoxify the body. Dur- 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 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 warm boiled water after getting up, the fjrst benefjt to do this is to supply water to body, the second is to pro- mote open bowels so that residue and toxicant will be excreted from the body without trouble, as a result, the body will be refreshed.

While you’re in bed, clench teeth & swallow saliva

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. 5 6 After defecation in the morning, observe your stool. Check if it is sticky to the toilette so that a tank of water can’t fmush. You may also observe stool on toilet paper if it is not convenient to observe that in toilet. Normally, one or two pieces

• f toilet paper are enough, if 3 even 5

pieces can not work out completely, that indicates dampness in the body. The color and shape of the stool help also indicating if there is inner dampness in body. Normal stool is usually golden and in the shape of banana. Unfortunately, few people have such healthy stool, if there is damp- ness in body, the stool is a bit green, too soft to form a shape, and is endless. If this situation lasts for long, toxicants stay inside body, which may result in various diseases. Soup of red bean and Coix Seed This soup can treat the dampness of the body. Ingredients: Red bean is mild-natured, it nourishes

• blood. You may lose weight if you take red

bean often. Coix seed is cold-natured, its major function is clearing heat and removing dampness. Preparation: Boil red beans and coix seeds in a pot of hot water, cook approximately for 30 minutes.

Observe stool

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Coix seed

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7 Method:

• 1. Get yourself seated on a chair of appropriate

height that will let your legs touch the fmoor naturally, the buttock should be at the same level as knees so that you won’t sink down due to the height of the chair.

• 2. Relax your shoulders, push forward your waist

slightly but do not apply much strength, place your hands on your legs, with palm facing up, fjngers stretched, thumb and middle fjnger pulp overlap, this is so called “lotus fjngers”

• 3. Open your eyes, stare at a point straightforward

right in front of you, close your mouth, breathe deeply through nose four times, inhale and exhale slowly, the more slowly, the better. Close your eyes after 4 breathing 4 times and start sitting still.

• 4. When sitting still, breathe naturally, you may count

breath or number, you may think about nothing, just relax yourself, in short.

• 5. Prepare an alarm clock, set 10 or 20 minutes. Af-

ter time is up, open your eyes, look forward, breathe deeply and slowly for 4 times, the method of breath is the same as previous.

• 6. Point two palms to face each other, rub your

hands together, when your hands warm up, rub them against your face as you were washing your face; then pat on your hands and feet, now you can fjnish the meditation, stand up and move around, you will be refreshed! The Sheng hours refer to hours from 3pm to 5 pm in the afternoon, which are major hours of the bladder. The Bladder meridian starts from the posterior median line of sura, goes all the way up, circulates cross two sides of the spine and reaches the top of the head where it converges with Du meridian. It is the meridian that covers the most surface of human body. It is responsible for the function of “evaporation” of hu- man body, namely, the capability of evaporation and converting into kidney Qi. Bladder meridian passes the top of the head, so it can treat headache, in addi- tion, diseases of bladder meridian demonstrate symptoms of eye disease because bladder meridian reaches eye. What we should do during major hours of bladder meridian? Ancient Chinese 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. Sheng hours are time to practice what has been learned in the whole day, 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- ing effjciency, but also does harm to your health, so you should fjnish your work when brain is in clearest status therefore working effjciency is the highest, do not waste those hours.

3~5 o’clock best time to STUDY

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SLIDE 15 diarrhea diarrhea Acu-points that heal diarrhea: 1 Shen Mai Acupoint People applicable to this method: Those who suffer from frequent cold often, diarrhea, aversion to cold Efficacy: Dizziness alleviation, fmare, swelling and pain of eyes, sore waist and aching back, pain- ful ankle joints, etc. May assistance in relieving dyspepsia and indigestion. Shen Mai acupuncture point is an important point where Yan Qiao merid- ian and The Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang con-

• verge. It is easy to locate Shen Mai acupuncture

point, it is where inner side of lateral malleolus de- presses down. F

• od and herbs that heal diarrhea:

1 Dark plum congee Ingredients: 15 -20 grams of dark plum 100 grams of rice appropriate amount of rock sugar Method: put dark plum into pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it until the juice is thick and concentrated, remove residue, add rinsed rice to the juice, boil the congee until the rice is cooked thoroughly, add crystal sugar and boil the congee a little bit more. Usage: 2 times a day, take the congee when it is warm, may use the conjee as replacement of breakfast or dinner.

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eye fatigue

Eye fatigue is a common subhealth status. When we concentrate on staring at the computer screen, our eyes blink less frequently, which results in less secretion of tear, in addition to strong stimulation of the screen on eyes, this may cause eye strain. Eye strain may cause pains at neck, shoulders, and cause or worsen various kinds of eye diseases. Dry eye, nianniansuo, sour and swollen eyes, blurred vision and hy- popsia have direct impact on people’s work and life. F

• od and herbs that heal eye fatigue:

1 Tea of Goji Berry Ingredients: Goji berry 2 Dandelion tea This tea can clear away heat to remove toxin, it also clears the Liver and improves vision. Ingredients: Dry Dandelion Preparation: Boil 30 grams of dandelion in water. Efficacy: Dandelion has bitter taste, may act on liver, clear away heat to remove toxin, clear liver and improve vision. Dandelion tea may alleviate swelling and dissipate nodulation if taken often. Drink dandelion tea after meal, 2 times a day. Eye fatigue Preparation: Use 15 grams of Goji berry, add water and boil it for 30 minutes, take it as tea after it cools down. Efficacy: The Goji berry contains rich betacarotene, vitamin B1, vitamin C, Calcium, iron, it has function of nourishing liver, reinforcing kidney, improving eyesight. It can effjciently help with treating sour eye, eye strain and worsening eye vision, no matter it is chewed directly or used to make tea. Acu-points that heal eye fatigue: 1 Compress on eyes with warm palms Rub two hands until they are warm. Close 2 eyes, use palms to cover eyes, do not press eyes. Breathe deeply and slowly, and im- age darkness. This exercise can alleviate eye strain if you do it for 20 minutes each day. 37 38 backache

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Backache

More than 20 years ago, backaches might

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days, you can fjnd everywhere patients of cervical spondylosis among the twenties. The cause is very simple: they are seated for too long, they have too much pressure, but they don’t know how to nurse their health, so cervi- cal spondylosis emerges earlier. If one keeps one single posture at desk for long, the upper part of the body tilts forward, the cervical vertebrae gets strained, which suppresses Du meridian, this means sup- press on all Yang (positive) qi in the whole body because Du meridian is responsible for Yang(positive) qi of the whole body. If this situation lasts for long, the whole spine is totally destroyed, the person loses all vital es-

• sence. Vital essence of the human body may

be run out by incorrect posture. Acu-points that heal backaches: Hou Xi acupuncture point Efficacy: May prevent hunchback, pains at cervical vertebrae, waist, leg, may also protect vision, alleviate strain, replenish essence to invigorate qi. Location: Clench fjst, Hou Xi acupuncture point is at the transverse striation on far side of the palm behind the 5th fjnger joint, namely, make your hand a fjst, the acupuncture point is located at the furthest end behind fjnger joint. Method: If you are seated in front of the computer, you may place the area of Hou Xi acupuncture point on the edge of the desk, roll back and forth your hands easily by using wrist joints, this can stimulate Hou Xi acupuncture point. You may feel slight sour and pain when you roll your

• hands. You don’t need to do this exercise intentionally, you may do it ca-

sually for 3 to 5 minutes everyday. If you persist, this can have very good curative effect on backaches, it also good for vision protection. 48 backache 2 The rolling pin rolls away backaches If you feel pain of cervical vertebrae, you may warm up a rolling pin in your kitchen over the stove, then lie down and put a towel on your shoul- der, roll the rolling pin over the towel. If you can not do this yourself, you may ask your family or friends for help, this exercise can alleviate back pain quickly. backache F

• od and herbs that heal backaches:

1 Soup of mulberry branch and chicken Ingredients: 60 grams of old mulberry branch

• ne chicken, about 1000 grams

Preparation: rinse chicken, cut it into pieces, put chicken and mulberry branch into pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil and season it with salt. Efficacy: Invigorates the essence of the kidney, dredge meridians. Ap- plicable to backaches. Usage: Drink soup and eat chicken 2 Soup of Pueraria Root and pork backribs Ingredients: 30 grams of pueraria root 49 50

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