CONTENTS

preface

Introduction

Longevity in Ancient Chinese Centenarians

Follow the Principles of Yin and Yang

Body-Building Exercises Best Suited to One's Conditions

Temperance in Food and Drink

A Regular Daily Regimen

Avoid Overexertion

Keep calm and cheerful

Genetic Strength and Long life

Virtue and Long Life

Wisdom and Long Life

Longevity in Contemporary Chinese Centenarians

Urban Centenarians

Regular physical Labour; Body-Building Exercises

Brain Usage and Dedication to Work

Strict Daily Regimen

Rational Diet; Avoid Smoking and Alcohol

Prompt Treatment; Proper Rest and Nourishment

Environment and Hygiene

Rural Centenarians

Quiet Environment and Fresh Air

Plain Living; Energetic Life

Eating what Is Available; Whole grains As the Staple

Family Harmony; Dutiful Posterity

Longevity Linked to Heredity; Marry Late, Bear Few Children

Medicines to Strengthen Fragile Physique

Service to Others; virtue

Traditional Chinese Body-Building Art

Mawangdui Daoin Exercises

Five-Animal Games

Brocade Exercises in Twelve Forms

Limbering Exercises for Tendons

Daoyin Curative Arts of Ancients of Longevity

Quiescent Qigong

Massage

Teeth-Taping Exercise

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Medicine for Attaining a Tortoise's Long Life

Male Treasure

Precious Triple-Whip Pill

Thorny Slender Acanthopanax Nutrient

Youth Treasure

Life-Prolonging Tea

Chinese Life-Preserving Wine

Dongtian Chinese gooseberry Wine

Shaolin Medicinal Wine

Food Therapy

Chinese wolfberry Porridge

Walnut Porridge

Knotweed Porridge

Lean Pork Steamed with Sealwort

Eight -Treasure Chicken Soup

Multi-Herb Nourishing Soup

Whole Duck Steamed with Chinese Caterpillar Fungus

Carp Steamed with the Tuber of Elevated Gastrodia

Eel Broth with Chinese Angelica and Dangshe

Shrimp, Sea horse and Young chicken

Double- Whip Soup

Prevention and Self-Treatment of Common Old-Age Diseases

Common Cold

Chronic Tracheitis

Coronary Heat Disease

Hypertension

Hypotension

Apoplexy (Stroke)

Chronic Gastritis

Cholecystitis and gallstone

Senile Habitual Constipation

Obesity

diabetes

Hypertrophy of Prostate

Sexual Decline

Climacteric Syndrome

Senile dementia

Senile Lumbago and Leg Pain

Cervical vertebra Disease

Senile Deafness

Senile Cataract

Cancer