To preserve our health, firstly, we should learn to control the seven emotions and six carnal desires. In the view of  Taoist cultivating -practicing-preserving -health theory, the seven emotions is the influence of the invisible material's upon human body ,and a cause of failing ill. It's regarded as state of the spirit in general, but in a sense of strictness, it's the changing state of the subjective spirit influenced by the profound and subtle material consciousness in human body, and, its manifestation is the corresponding reflection of human body on objective things, under the normal situations, one can't be ill so long as it doesn't exceed the physiological valve-quantity. Only when suffering sudden and overmuch excitements or in the exciting state for a long period ,making the seven emotions exceeding the normal physiological limits, leading to  disorder of the Qi , unbalance between Yin -Yang Qi and blood of internal organs ,will we get ill. Because the seven emotions is the main elements of illness, traditional Chinese medicine calls it  seven- emotions internal damage. 

There are many adverse effects of anger to health

Modern medicine concludes that anger does a serious harm to health: 

Overtax the liver:  The liver, which governs the dispersion, if being angry, Qi of it will be blocked, the harmony between the liver and the gallbladder will be destroyed, which will cause liver disease, hiccough, costal pain, bitter taste, headache, dizzy, high blood pressure and decreased food appetite, etc.  

Overtax the stomach: Exploding with rage will lead to the following associated symptoms such as  hyperemia of gastric mucosa, hyperacidity, decreased gastrointestinal peristalsis, anorexia, dyspepsia, and causing gastric ulcer, gastrorrhagia and gastric retention. 

Rack the heart: when outraging, the muscles become tensing, heartbeat speeding, blood vessels contracting, blood pressure increasing, which will induce angina ,myocardial infarction, haemorrhage of the brain, etc. 

Overtax the kidney: The antidromic Qi' s ascending to the kidney will decrease kidney function, and causing the ache and limp of waist , knees and back; decreased sexual function, urinary frequency, precipitant urination, enuresis and seminal emission, etc.  

Overtax the nerves: To get anger frequently is very easy to induce neurasthenia, psychosis, dementia praecox, agrypnia, being dreamy, aprosexia and hypomnesia, etc. 

Cause senium praecox: If often in the state of being furious, Qi and blood will be disaccorded and disordered, and leading to dry and lack of luster of the skin, endocrine disturbance, menoxenia, skin aging, diabetes mellitus, etc.  

Cause sudden death: The examples of sudden death caused by palpitation, vomiting blood and hemoptysis after frenzy are countless, so may I offer a piece of advice to learning to mediate the emotions, being at peace, and keeping in good health. 

(See Shaanxi Newspaper for the Aged 3rd,Aug.2001, by Wang Jinrong) 

Optimize the emotions 

Our affection world is very rich and colorful. We  have various kinds of feelings in our life, including not only elation, gratification and happiness, but also vexation, worry and disappointment, especially at the old age, the sight often stirs up the feelings, and   as time passes, which will influence our health, therefore, we should give attentions to optimizing the emotions, the  measures are as follows: 

1.Dialectic thinking. Dialectic thinking helps us to understand things roundly, treat present and  past and deal with the relationships to others or to our family with correct attitude, and avoiding becoming depressed or unable to pick ourselves up when something crop. 

2.Being humorous. The noble humour can bring happiness, dull contradiction, relax mood, clear up pangs, ease  mind, comfort ourselves ,and maintain good humor.  

3.Doing according to one's abilities. The aged has the time superiority and can do something he wants before, which can disperse the loneness, meditating the mood, and  bringing health. 

Setting-up exercise in bed for old people 

Old people usually wake up earlier, and if they can do the setting-up exercise in bed every morning, the idle hours will be whiled away, furthermore, the body- building effect can be achieved, which may be said killing two birds with one stone.

1.Lick the hard palate and then knock the teeth. Calm down and concentrate the attention firstly, then lick the hard palate lightly, and swallow slowly till the saliva is enough, stop a while, put  the upper teeth and lower teeth in order, then knock the incisors and the front teeth fifteen times. 

2.Rotate eyes : Rotate  the eyes clockwise ten times, look ahead for a while, then  rotate counterclockwise ten times, and  shut the eyes faintly, cover the pupils of the eyes closely with the palms of the hands, then support the back of the head with the ten fingers, and snap the middle fingers ten times. 

3.Extend neck and massage cervical vertebra: Lie on the back, support the back of the head with ten crossing fingers, extend the neck slowly until the low jaw leans on the collarbone, repeat it seven times; then turn the head to the nearside and right side until the ears touch the pillow and repeat this seven times, too, and lie on the side, separate the thumb from the index finger, massages the two sides of the neck from up to down, left to right.  

4.Shrug shoulders and broaden chest: Fist, and raise the shoulders strenuously, drop them down slowly, repeat this seven times; then, pull apart the dropping hands to the left and right, broaden chest until both shoulders and chest have the extending sense. 

5.Massage the abdomen: Lie on the back, fork the legs, keep the left hand on the left side of the abdomen, the right hand, the right side, then, massage around the abdomen seven circles clockwise with the center of the palm, and then, massage  around it seven circles counterclockwise, and overlap two hands to massage the umbilicus, unfold the fingers gradually, and extend the massaged range.  

6.Respire and contract the anus: Lie on the back and relax, overlap hands on the abdomen, inspire and shrink the abdomen, at the same time, contract and raise the anus for five seconds; then expire and bulge the abdomen, release the anus, and repeat this for ten to fourteen times. 

7.Turn the tiptoes upwards and raise the heels backwards: Lie on the side, straighten and put the legs in order, turn the tiptoes upwards until the pain of the crus being felt, then plumb  the tiptoes downwards vertically, raise the heels backwards till the back of the feet felt nervous, proceed seven to ten times. 

Repose and close the eyes fifteen minutes after the setting-up exercise ends.

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