"I don't have any special secret to longevity, but to be healthy, one must laugh more, move more and desire less." Jiang Tong, who was born in 1909 during the late Qing Dynasty, is the oldest Chinese medicine practitioner in Taiwan who is still practicing, and when he walks into his Dequan Chinese medicine clinic in Taipei's Yonghe district, patients are waiting to see him. He has been selected as one of the mainland's "Top Ten Technical Doctors Across the Taiwan Straits" and comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners who have been practicing medicine for 11 generations. Although he is 100 years old, he still walks as fast as he can, and he has none of the common problems of presbyopia, diabetes, and hypertension that are common to the elderly, so if we had not known before the interview that he was a century old, we would have thought that he was only 60 or 70 years old. The first time I saw him was when he was 60 or 70 years old.
At the time of the interview, Jiang Tong had just finished seeing 20 patients, but he was not tired at all, and talked to the reporter in good spirits about his regimen; Jiang Tong is now still fixed five days a week to see 40 patients a day, and even the young people have to be inferior to their own physical strength.
Fruit eat a lot of 50 years of persistent exercise
"My diet is very simple, that is, a day 6 big glass of 500cc milk, 50 years do not eat", the reporter asked him not to eat rice whether there is a special reason, his answer is "young in the United States to study, because I can not cook, only good to drink milk. He answered, "When I was young and studying in the United States, I couldn't cook, so I just drank milk", and this habit has been maintained until now. Jiang Tong does not eat beef, pork, occasionally eat fish (only eat deep-sea fish, do not eat farmed fish), but eat a lot of fruit, in addition, every week will be stewed in a ginseng chicken soup, "to supplement the nutrients, increase the antibody".
"Every morning after getting out of bed, I must do exercise for half an hour, and I have not stopped for 50 years". First of all, the feet do pedal bicycle action 100 times, and then hands bent from the top of the head back around 100 times, and finally hands stretched out up to do deep breathing 100 times. He said to reporters, this set of "bed movement" trilogy is young, a white bearded old monk on the train to teach him.
Writing books at night, memory amazing
Unlike the average old man, Jiang Tong memory is amazingly good, the clinic table is full of books, information, "I can always find out the information I want".
Unlike the average old man, Jiang Tong's memory is amazingly good, and his desk is full of books and information. "I can always find the information I need." "In addition to seeing the doctor, the rest of the time is to write a book," he said, adding that he doesn't see the doctor at night now not because of his physical strength, but because he wants to read and write a book. His thirst for knowledge is incomparable to that of young people. "Curing diseases and benefiting people is a pleasure for me." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~! Don't think that old age is the same as the world, this year's ninety-seven-year-old Chinese medicine practitioner Jiang Tong, nearly seventy years of medical practice, still see five days a week, the number of people every day, as few as 50, 60, as many as one hundred and twenty, he relied on the "monk qigong", six cups of HaoLiKe plus milk and open-minded and good mood, never show fatigue.
Jiang Tong may be Taiwan's oldest Chinese medicine practitioner, but the appearance seems to be only seventy-something, in addition to missing teeth, almost no disease, and even the presbyopia glasses do not wear, the health indexes to maintain the level of middle-aged people. The most breathtaking thing is the lightness of step, walking without red face or breath, and the footsteps are faster than young people.
From the age of 53, Jiang Tong stopped eating rice and took chicken soup, Horlicks, milk and steamed buns as his staple food. In particular, three tablespoons of Hollister and three tablespoons of powdered milk, put into five hundred Sisi cups, filled with hot water and stirred well, no sugar. Six times a day, in addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, the other three are scheduled in the morning, afternoon and bedtime. For more than forty years, Jiang Tong has never eaten a grain of rice, but has developed a strong body secret. In recent years, the good Lik no longer imported, the market can not buy, he also asked a friend to regularly bring in from Singapore.
Jiang Tong respected a small number of meals, light taste, he also ate green vegetables, fruits eat cantaloupe, papaya, and occasional teeth, eating out, he ginseng chicken soup nourishing the body, but only drink soup, do not eat meat.
"Monk gymnastics" is a monk passed on to Jiang Tong's bed gymnastics, only three movements, Jiang Tong a do is sixty years. Every day as soon as he opens his eyes, Jiang Tong will lie in bed, the first two movements first in bed to do a hundred, the last movement needs to get out of bed, also a hundred, usually sweaty, but the action is gentle, the effect is not inferior to running the playground.
The Jiang family has been ten generations of traditional Chinese medicine, Jiang Tong believes that he can have today, all thanks to the blessing of his parents, when the Jiang family every New Year's Day to give white rice, not fanfare, but while the sky is dark, without a word to the rice to the people, for the sake of goodness do not want to be known. Now within the ability, Jiang Tong also regularly help others; his memory is superb, decades of past events vividly, but he is never hung up on criticism, open-minded look at life.