Health Promotion with the Five Àyussadhammas

Abstract

This academic article aims to explain the 5 principles of ¿yussadhammas. The results of the analysis are as follows, Health promotion is the important principle of the live and the age. The balance of the body and mind is appropriate to support life, because when good health, life will be long. There are 5 principles of ¿yussadhammas. They are: 1) to do what is suitable for oneself and favourable to oneís health 2) to be moderate even as to things suitable and favourable 3) to eat food which is ripe or easy to digest 4) to behave oneself properly as regards time and the spending of time 5) to practise sexual abstinence. These 5 principles of ¿yussadhammas are suitable for the age which are in compliance with the way of protecting the health or the united happy states of life on four sides, namely: the bodily one, the social one, the mental one and the intellectual one. It is the idea or the principle of practice which unites the method of carrying out the good and right life according to the natural law to be in compliance with the happiness which is in compliance with the aim of life. ¿yussa dhammas are things conducive to the building up of the health truly.