Jade's Health Benefits: Trace Elements and Biological Effects for Disease Prevention and Longevity

Since ancient times, jade has been revered as a precious adornment combining aesthetic value with health-promoting properties. Over two thousand years ago, the Chinese ancients applied jade in medicinal and health preservation practices, with detailed accounts found in traditional medical compendiums such as the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" and the "Compendium of Materia Medica." These texts extolled jade's abilities to alleviate internal heat, soothe irritability, moisten the lungs and heart, strengthen the voice, nourish hair, harmonize the five organs, calm the mind, invigorate blood circulation, and brighten the eyes. They documented 106 types of jade and their internal and external uses in medicine, even suggesting that prolonged consumption of jade could resist extreme temperatures, fortify the body, prolong life, and even lead one closer to immortality.

Incorporating findings from modern biological, physical, and chemical research, numerous types of jade contain over a dozen trace elements beneficial to human health, including gold, silver, silicon, zinc, iron, selenium, magnesium, manganese, among others. Leveraging jade's unique characteristic of storing 'qi' (energy), long-term wear allows these trace elements to permeate the skin and enter the body, assisting in achieving a balance of yin and yang and vital energy, thereby facilitating disease prevention, health preservation, and slowing down the aging process. For instance, zinc is crucial for activating insulin, regulating energy metabolism, maintaining immune function, and promoting intellectual development in children. Manganese defends against damage caused by free radicals, participates in protein and vitamin synthesis, enhances blood circulation, accelerates metabolism, combats aging, and prevents conditions like Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, and arteriosclerosis. Selenium, a key component of glutathione peroxidase, effectively converts toxic peroxides, protecting biomembranes from damage, thereby exhibiting anti-aging effects. It also aids in eliminating harmful heavy metals such as cadmium and lead from the body, enhancing immune function, and increasing the body's resistance to diseases, demonstrating anti-cancer properties.

Research conducted by the Department of Bioengineering at Southeast University using modern scientific methods revealed that the human body generates a "bio-information field" comprised of temperature fields, magnetic fields, and electric fields, which in turn produces a "bio-wave" spectrum capable of generating bioelectricity with fascinating photoelectric effects. Science has discovered that jade possesses a similar "photoelectric effect," emitting far-infrared rays that can be absorbed by the human body when subjected to appropriate pressure, cutting, or fine polishing. This induces strong resonance in the water molecules of body cells, creating a mild massage effect, improving microcirculation, accelerating blood flow, enhancing metabolic rates, stimulating cellular vitality, and precisely regulating the flow of meridian qi, thereby reinforcing the body's emergency response and immune functions. This scientific evidence supports the traditional Chinese medicine theory that certain ailments resistant to medication can be alleviated through prolonged wearing of jade, elucidating the underlying scientific principles at play.