The first frost is the season of the first frost.
First frost means cold, and it will be very cold this year. Do you feel cold?
From the perspective of TCM health preservation, it is necessary to make appropriate supplements at this time to prepare for the cold winter. How to maintain health in the first frost period?
Health strategy of first frost solar terms
1. Add clothes in time
As we all know, autumn is coming, so don't wear too many clothes. Proper "autumn freezing" can exercise the ability to resist the cold. However, as soon as the first first frost solar term arrives, the "autumn freezing" can be stopped, because at this time, the cold air drops greatly and the temperature difference between day and night is large, so it is necessary to add clothes in time.
Get up early and go to bed early.
Nourish yang in spring and summer and yin in autumn and winter. Staying up late is the most harmful to yin and blood. The first frost has entered the second half of late autumn, and autumn qi hurts the liver. At this time, it is necessary to nourish the liver and replenish blood, and pay special attention not to stay up late.
Staying up late hurts the liver and blood. In the case of liver blood deficiency, it is easy for people to lose sleep in the middle of the night, and they have a bad temper, even dry eyes, thin nails, numb hands and feet, and everything from heart to urine will be affected.
The first frost needs mending.
There is a folk proverb that "it is better to make up the first frost every year", which is enough to explain people's concept of the first frost: it is time to make up. The focus of autumn health care is "nourishing yin and moistening dryness". You should eat more moist and moist food. Big fish and big meat can make people sick because of heat, which is absolutely unacceptable. There are flowers in spring and fruits in autumn. Sweet potato, sweet potato, yam, lotus root and water chestnut are all foods suitable for this season. In addition, you can eat more food such as lily, honey, jujube, sesame and walnut, which is also very healthy.
It is very important to regulate the stomach.
First frost tonic first, the most important thing is to maintain the stomach. The stomach is the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Whether winter tonic can achieve high efficiency depends on whether the stomach "supplements" or "does not supplement". If you don't nourish your stomach first, and you can't bear it after tonic, you will have bloating and other phenomena.
Moderate exercise
In ancient times, the first frost had the custom of climbing high and overlooking. People often say that climbing a mountain is climbing a mountain. Mountain climbing can increase lung ventilation and vital capacity and strengthen blood circulation. Diseases such as mountaineering asthma can also play the role of adjuvant therapy, which can lower blood sugar.
However, the climbing time should avoid the morning and evening when the temperature is low, and the climbing speed should be slow. When going up and down the mountain, clothes should be appropriately increased or decreased according to the temperature change.
5. Pay attention to moistening the lungs.
The first frost is in late autumn, and the five elements belong to gold. Chinese medicine talks about six evils: "wind, cold, summer heat, warmth, dryness and fire", with emphasis on dryness, wind and cold in autumn. The most typical autumn dryness, people are prone to dizziness, irritability, dry throat and dry mouth. For example, the symptoms of dry nose are caused by dry environment in autumn and winter and deficiency heat in human body. The nose is the key to the lungs. Autumn is prone to lung yin deficiency, so pay attention to nourishing the lungs.
7. Prevent autumn depression.
Autumn is particularly easy to hurt spring and grieve for autumn, because there is a bleak scene in late autumn, which makes people feel depressed, depressed and worried. Therefore, we should do some distracting sports, such as mountaineering, dancing and other group activities, which can satisfy the habit of communicating with people at ordinary times and release our mood. Furthermore, you can eat some high-protein foods, such as milk, eggs, mutton and so on.