What are the health-preserving functions of Tai Chi?

Regular Tai Chi exercises are beneficial to us and can effectively help us promote the body's metabolic circulation, move the joints, and avoid rheumatic orthopedic diseases. It is also very effective for catching up with symptoms such as fever and colds that we are prone to. So let's take a look at the health-preserving functions of Tai Chi.

Improve cardiopulmonary function - When practicing Tai Chi, you should keep your breathing natural and solid. Through deep, long, fine, slow and even abdominal breathing methods, you can increase the gas capacity of the chest cavity and the number of times you inhale and exhale oxygen, ensuring that the gases can be fully exchanged, which relatively increases the amount of oxygen available to each organ. Because practicing Tai Chi takes a long time (it takes about 20 minutes to practice the 24-posture Tai Chi four times in a row), this aerobic activity can train and improve cardiopulmonary function.

Treatment of chronic digestive tract diseases - when practicing boxing, the joints, muscles, and bones will pull, entangle, squeeze and relax each other, and the internal organs will produce a self-massage effect due to abdominal breathing (abdomen and chest are solid); plus the diaphragm's up and down range increases, which has a positive stimulating effect on intestinal peristalsis; and when practicing boxing, the tongue pressed against the palate and the lips and teeth lightly closed can increase the secretion of saliva and improve digestive function.

In short, scientific research from both China and the West has proven that long-term practice of Tai Chi can help treat various chronic diseases such as neurasthenia, high blood pressure, heart disease, indigestion, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, etc.

The health-preserving functions of Tai Chi are far more than those listed above. Practicing Tai Chi regularly can also help us cultivate our sentiments, help us reduce our own stress, help us improve our insomnia and dreaminess, and achieve a very good deep sleep effect.