From Experience

I was rather weak from birth and due to the bad time during the Japanese occupation , I was rather undernourished. So I remember having to eat a lot of medicines and sometimes drink some sort of bitter mixtures like quinine etc. I recalled even after I started working, I still had a lot of flu and cold, still requiring to boil the water to mix with tap water for my bath. My health turned better when I started taiqiquan which really improved my health so that I no longer needed hot water for my baths. Later I did not continue the taiqi for some time and was not too healthy going towards late 50s but then after a major operation in 2000, I went back to be scrupulous in my diets and exercise. I found out that a cold treatment is better for health. I would try to take cold showers at leat once a day and with that I would say cold or flu no longer trouble me any longer. It is more so when the weather is warming up now and to add warm water to your bath would be uncomfortable enough so cold bath is my first rule of good health. Of course stop drinking alcohol, stop consuming butter , sweets, chocolates, cakes and event honey is not commendable as the sugar content is high too. With regular exercise, discreet diets and spiritual health, I feel rejuvenated and of happy in the golden years.