What is the limit of human sexual desire?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sexual intercourse can give life or kill people. It is like water and fire. Those who know how to use them can maintain health; those who don't know how to use them will die immediately." Sexual life should be based on the way of nature and avoid damage. It requires the right technique, which is also an indispensable part of maintaining health and prolonging life. Practice has shown that moderate and enjoyable sexual activity is beneficial to people's mental and physical health. However, human sexual behavior is influenced not only by the body itself but also by factors such as social environment, psychology, genetics, and disease. Therefore, correctly understanding and living a good sex life is beneficial to physical and mental health.

Don’t enter the room drunk

Alcohol is a highly irritating substance that can easily cause congestion and excitement in the sexual organs, making people lose self-control, leading to excessive sexual intercourse and excessive dissipation of kidney essence. Therefore, the ancients repeatedly warned, "Don't have sex when drunk. If you have sex while drunk or full, the worst case is a dark face and coughing, and the worst case is damage to internal organs and life." "If you have sex when you are very drunk, your liver and intestines will be exhausted. Men will have less semen and impotence. Women will have weak menstruation and prolonged menstrual discharge." Modern medicine believes that long-term drunkenness before sex will weaken the adaptability of the regulatory function of the human immune system. Clinically, diseases such as impotence, premature ejaculation, and irregular menstruation are often related to sexual intercourse after drinking.

Abstinence, sperm preservation and longevity

The "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor" says: "Essence is the foundation of life." Essence is the basic substance that makes up the human body and is the material basis for maintaining human life activities. Preserving essence is an important part of strengthening the body. Essence is the master of the kidneys. Excessive indulgence will not only damage the kidney essence, but also damage other internal organs, affect physical health, and even promote premature aging or shorten life. Modern medicine believes that long-term excessive sexual activity will cause a decline in the regulatory function of the human immune system. This is because sexual intercourse can cause high excitement throughout the body, leading to high energy consumption and reduced adaptability of organ function.

According to statistics, there are 209 ancient Chinese emperors whose birth and death years can be found. Their average life expectancy was only 39 years old, and 31 of them died before the age of 20. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty learned from the lessons of short-lived emperors and summed up health-preserving techniques such as "don't get drunk with alcohol, don't indulge in sex too much", and as a result, he lived to be 88 years old. Sun Simiao, a great doctor in the Tang Dynasty, lived to be 102 years old. His famous saying about keeping in good health is: "In extreme cold and heat, do not be lustful, do not have sex when drunk or full, the five internal organs are all in turmoil, the fire of desire is slowly burning, and the body will struggle to sleep alone."

There are many ways to strengthen the kidneys and maintain health. Here are a few simple and easy ones.

(1) The method of knocking teeth and swallowing saliva: knock teeth 100 times after getting up every morning, then lick the upper palate and gums under the tongue, fill your mouth with saliva, swallow it frequently, and send it to Dantian. Xi Zhou means contracting the anus. Tighten the anus when inhaling and relax it when exhaling. One contraction and one relaxation counts as one time. Do it 50 times in a row. This method can nourish yin and reduce fire, strengthen teeth and improve essence, and can prevent and treat sexual dysfunction.

(ii) Massage the Yongquan acupoint: Sit down and rub the Yongquan acupoint 100 times with your palms. While rubbing, you should focus on the Yongquan acupoint and keep your movements slightly rhythmic. This method has the function of connecting the heart and kidney and guiding fire back to the origin, and is effective for insomnia and spermatorrhea.

(3) Rub the waist with both palms: Sit down, place both palms on the Shenshu point, with the middle fingers pointing to the Mingmen point, focus on the Mingmen point (below the spinous point of the second lumbar vertebra), and rub the palms from top to bottom 40 to 100 times until the local area feels warm. This method has the effect of warming the kidney and retaining semen, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on male spermatorrhea, impotence, premature ejaculation, female leucorrhea due to deficiency and cold, and irregular menstruation.