Music is an art that uses sound to express people's understanding, feelings, emotions and moods of life and the objective world through melody, rhythm, harmony and other means of expression.
Music has excellent therapeutic effects on some diseases that are not well treated with drugs, such as diabetes, bronchitis, neurasthenia, low back pain, insomnia, etc.
Music can be divided into instrumental music and vocal music. Music therapy focuses on instrumental music. Melodious music enters the human body through hearing. Its rhythm and harmony can stimulate the brain nervous system and promote the body to secrete some biochemical substances that are beneficial to physical and mental health, such as hormones, enzymes, acetylcholine, etc., which can delight the body and mind, eliminate fatigue, reduce stress, It can lower blood pressure, help digestion, improve circulation and increase blood flow, and can help improve people's immune function.
Infants and young children often listening to music can promote intellectual development. Pregnant women can listen to music for prenatal education, but they must carefully choose music tapes that have been certified by experts and technical supervision departments to prevent damage to the fetus' hearing.
According to domestic and foreign medical clinical experiments, it is generally believed that music can be used for physical and mental diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, pain, neurasthenia, listlessness, insomnia and dreaminess, psychological disorders, and bad emotions. The therapy works.
However, not all music is good for people's health. Psychologists have conducted a survey and analysis and found that most of the band members who mainly play classical music are in a calm and happy mood, while more than half of the band members who play modern-style music or mainly play classical music have short tempers and suffer from neurological disorders. Allergies, and others often suffer from insomnia, headaches, earaches, and diarrhea. The international noise deafening standard is 90 decibels. According to measurements, the volume of rock music is 90 to 110 decibels, disco music is 104 to 114 decibels, and symphony is generally around 80 decibels. Ear experts point out that playing loud, fast-paced, and highly stimulating music all day long can cause sensorineural deafness.
Scholars have also found that loud and harsh music can strongly stimulate the nervous system and even destroy the normal functions of the heart and vascular system. People who often enjoy romantic music have a cheerful personality, active thinking, and responsiveness. Sharpness, mental health. Therefore, music therapy uses music that has been proven to be effective through clinical experiments. Generally, classical instrumental music in the genres of dance music, concertos, symphonies, etc., or some classic movie music, classical music sketches, and ethnic folk instrumental music Wait for brisk and fluent light music.