Health-preservation thoughts of the four major schools (Confucianism

Buddhism

Taoism and Medicine) have important reference values for the health preservation and health care industry. The core of health-preservation thought of the Taoism is taking mind training as the focus and physical exercise as the supplementary means

Taoism is nature-admiring

emphasizes the idea of natural laws and inaction and humanity follows natural laws

as well as advocates following nature's courses

realizing the passive inaction

and keeping calmness

also

it advocates the way of keeping good health through preserving vital essence

energy and mentality

in order to achieve the purpose of training vital essence into energy

training energy into mentality and maintaining complete vital essence

energy and vitality. Through long-term development

Medicine has formed a relatively complete set of theoretical and systematic health-preservation methods. The holistic concept of Medicine emphasizes the uniformity among human

nature and society

considers human body as an organic whole

and advocates the health-preservation thoughts of living in harmony with nature

accommodating the four seasons

keeping good circulation of energy and blood

dredging collaterals

nourishing essence and replenishing energy

accumulating healthy energy and repelling pathogenic factors

maintaining the inseparability of the body and spirits

as well as taking proper exercises and keeping mental calmness. Based on the health-preservation thoughts of the four major schools

this paper summarizes the modern health-preservation guiding thoughts of dredging collaterals

nourishing essence

taking exercises and keeping mental calmness

in order to provide the theoretical guidance for traditional Chinese medicine health-preservation services.