section_path: Varieties/Internal alchemy/Hygiene Taoism
section_name: Hygiene Taoism
paragraph_text: Hygiene Taoism
  
  Hygiene Taoism is a Taoist tradition meant to increase life and "physical and mental harmony". Some Taoists from the "Hygiene School" believed that they could survive only on their own breath and saliva to purify their bodies.
  
  Much of Taoism in general is about cleanliness in some way and involves free thinking, as well as rejecting the gratification of the senses, in order to purify oneself to make the mind like "the sky", "sun", and nature in general.