Health preservation refers to a medical activity that uses various methods to nourish life, strengthen physical fitness, and prevent diseases, thereby achieving longevity. Yang means conditioning, maintenance, and nourishment; Sheng means life, survival, and growth. “Health preservation” in the modern sense refers to the active physical and mental care activities of material and spirit according to the laws of human life process. Practicing Baguazhang can make the body and mind agile and light, and can be used for self-defense and strengthening the body, health care, and health preservation.

1, Effect on the motor system

    In the process of practicing Baguazhang, it is required to empty the chest and pull the top, collapse the waist, bend the hips, bend the knees, and grip the ground with both feet, which strengthens the exercise of muscle tissue. Make the muscles of the whole body relax as much as possible while maintaining a certain shape of the body. This exercise opens the capillaries in the muscles, improves the circulation of muscle tissue, and changes the relaxation and contraction of the muscles during the conversion of footwork, body movements, and hand techniques, squeezes the venous network in the muscles to improve venous return. In this way, the muscle tissue is in an aerobic metabolic state during Baguazhang practice, so that the motor system is effectively exercised.

    2, The effect of Baguazhang on the cardiovascular system

      When practicing Baguazhang, you need to relax your whole body, empty your chest, and fill your abdomen. This will reduce the pressure in the chest cavity, improve the venous venous return, and abdominal breathing will make the diaphragm move up and down. This exercise is also a reasonable massage for the internal organs, which improves the circulation of the internal organs. Walking in circles in Baguazhang can make the whole body active, effectively preventing the appearance of atherosclerotic substances in the blood vessel walls, thereby reducing the incidence of arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, etc.

      3, The effect of Baguazhang on the nervous system

        When practicing Baguazhang, emptying the chest and pulling the top of the head will make the clear air rise and the turbid air fall, improve the blood circulation of the brain tissue and spinal cord in the head, and make the brain tissue fully oxygenated. The aerobic metabolism of the brain makes the thinking agile, improves the memory, improves the metabolism of the cerebellum, and promotes the development of the sense of balance. In addition, when practicing Baguazhang, you need to move your body and calm your mind. This kind of calmness in movement makes the brain in the shallow sleep period change the EEG, so that the nervous system can rest and integrate.

        4, Effects on the digestive system

          Baguazhang exercises have two main effects on the digestive system. One is the physical massage of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, etc. through the movement of the diaphragm. The other is to strengthen the role of the visceral autonomic nerves through the regulation of oxygen supply to the brain and spinal cord, making the gastrointestinal smooth muscle movement more rhythmic and the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice normal, thus strengthening the role of the digestive system.

          In short, practicing Baguazhang is a safe and healthy way of fitness and longevity that conforms to human physiology and biomechanics. Its role is not just walking, but a combination of movement and stillness, which is consistent with the Chinese medicine theory of movement to nourish the body and stillness to nourish the spirit. Through the practice of Baguazhang, the body and mind can be better exercised. The practice of Baguazhang is a physical activity that is beneficial to the physical and mental health in modern high-paced life.