Probe into the Breathing Regimen of"Exhale the Old and Inhale the New"
FENG Yichao
LU Mingyuan
Abstract：Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor attaches great importance to the role of breathing exercises in the health preservation and disease prevention,but it lacks systematic discussion,and its theory is scattered in the literature of previous dynasties.There are many kinds of breathing exercises,among which the breathing regimen of"exhale the old and inhale the new"is the most representative.The method has a long history and extensive literature.It contains Taoist cosmology and traditional Chinese medicine outlook on life,which is the wisdom crystallization formed by integrating the physiological structure and gasification function of the human body under the guidance of ancient Chinese philosophical thought.Sort out and integrates the relevant literature of"exhale the old and inhale the new"breathing regimen and health preservation method,discusses it from the three aspects of the classification of its techniques,the essentials of performing exercises,and the health preservation effects in order to explore the connotation and value of this method,and explores the potential extension of its related research combined with modern research results.
Keywords：Inner Canon of Yellow Emperorhealth preservationhealth preservation exercisesbreathingexhale the old and inhale the new
Publication Date：2023-09-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 932-937 )