Ancient Health and Wellness Rhymes Passed Down by Our Ancestors

1. Cold begins at the feet, illness enters through the mouth.
2. Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, no need to call the doctor for medicine.
3. Soak your feet before bed, better than taking tonics.
4. Keep your head cool, feet warm, and belly not too full.
5. Garlic is a treasure, eat it often and your health will flourish.
6. Three parts medicine, seven parts care, ten parts prevention.
7. Go three days without greens, and stars will dance before your eyes.
8. Grains with red dates added, better than lingzhi mushrooms.
9. Eat rice with a bit of bran, nutrition and health in one.
10. A bowl of mung bean soup in summer beats any immortal's elixir for detox and cooling.
11. Rotten fish and shrimp are life-enders and grudges.
12. Eating lamb three times a month is not as good as soaking feet and going to bed.
13. Take medicine but ignore your diet, and you'll wear out the doctor's feet.
14. Better to eat without meat, than eat rice without soup.
15. Don't touch cold water while sweat is still on your body.
16. Health lies in diligence, wellness of heart lies in stillness.
17. Walnuts are mountain treasures, they tonify kidneys and sharpen the brain.
18. A smile takes ten years off; a frown turns your hair white.
19. Drink tea on an empty stomach, and illness will creep upon you.
20. Smoke and fire-roasted foods are best avoided.
21. Once radish leaves the ground, the doctor has no business.
22. Don't wash your hair when full, don't bathe when hungry.
23. Don't sleep on stone in summer, don't sleep on boards in autumn.
24. Don't expose your navel in spring, don't cover your head in winter.
25. Men should not abandon chives, women should not abandon lotus root.
26. Don't eat too full, don't lie down right after eating.
27. Don't rise before the rooster crows in the morning, don't sleep past sunrise.
28. Walk a hundred steps after meals, and you'll live to ninety-nine.
29. Iron must be forged to become steel, people must exercise to stay healthy.
30. Drink salt water in the morning like ginseng soup, drink it at night and it's like arsenic.