"Huangdi Neijing" describes winter health preservation: "In winter and March, this is called closing Tibet. Water and ice lie on the ground, not disturbing the sun. If you go to bed early and get up late, you must wait for the sun, so your ambition will be hidden. If there is private intention, if there is, it will warm the cold, and if it is not vented, it will make the skin exhausted. This winter's qi should be the way to nourish the viscera, but if you go against it, it will hurt your kidneys. Spring will wither, and few people will survive. "
Every winter, many women and the elderly will have chills in their hands, feet and waist, and even in severe cases, they will often stay awake at night because of cold limbs. Although it is better during the day, it is also cold. At this time, massaging Yangchi point has a warming effect, which can make your hands and feet no longer cold.
Acupoint selection: Lift the back of your hand upward. Among the wrinkles on the wrist, there is a wrinkle closest to the back of the hand, and there is a tender point in the center-Yangchi point.
"Yangchi" itself means accumulating solar heat energy. Sometimes the yang of the human body doesn't work, indicating that there is turbid gas in the stomach. "If the turbid gas does not go, new blood will not be born." Stimulating this acupoint can restore the function of triple energizer meridians and conduct heat energy to the whole body.
As the temperature drops, especially in winter, people are more likely to catch a cold and get sick, and people's immunity will decline with the change of seasons. So how to improve your immunity in winter? I suggest you press the following four acupoints for a long time.
1, Fengchi point
Acupoint selection: Fengchi point is horizontal to Fengfu point, located in the depression behind mastoid, belonging to the gallbladder meridian of foot shaoyang-the gallbladder meridian absorbs the heat of qi and blood and turns into yang-hot atmosphere, hence the name. When operating, the tip of the needle is inclined to the tip of the nose by 0.5 inch, or it can be stabbed directly. At ordinary times, you can fix it with four fingers at home and twist your thumb hard to achieve a feeling of soreness.
Efficacy: Fengchi point has a good therapeutic effect on headache, dizziness, insomnia, stiff neck and facial diseases, and it will not cause harm to the body if pressed more.
2. Quchi point
Acupoint selection: Quchi point belongs to the large intestine meridian of hand Yangming, which is located outside the arm and at the end of right-angled elbow flexion. When you massage, you can hold your elbow with the palm of your other hand and press your thumb down hard until you feel sore and swollen during the massage. Repeat three times.
Efficacy: Quchi point is helpful for all kinds of fever, upper limb disadvantage and inflammation, and female friends with irregular menstruation can also stimulate this point frequently.
3. Hegu point
Acupoint selection: Hegu point is a common acupuncture point for TCM health preservation, and the muscle protrusion is the highest after the thumb and palm are close together. Clinically, it is often used as an acupoint for hemostasis and analgesia, and attention should be paid to avoiding the underlying bone structure when operating.
Efficacy: It belongs to the large intestine meridian and has a certain therapeutic effect on various lung diseases. In addition, constipation, amenorrhea and other problems can also be alleviated here.
4. Zusanli point
Acupoint selection: When sitting up, Zusanli is located three inches below the external knee and one finger on the outside of the tibia. Press and knead until you feel sore, and then rub your legs repeatedly from bottom to top and from top to bottom along your calf.
Efficacy: Zusanli is located on the stomach meridian, which has the functions of drying spleen and dampness and generating stomach qi; Because the meridians follow the legs, it can also relieve cough and asthma, soreness of the waist and knees, bowel sounds and abdominal distension.
It must be a good enjoyment to soak your feet in such cold weather. But can you soak your feet? Four ingredients should be added to soak feet in winter.
① Ginger can dispel cold.
Ginger is a pungent and warm medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the function of dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, and has little toxic and side effects.
Take ginger15-30g, pat it flat, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot, and boil it in hot water for about 10 minute. When cooked, pour out all the Jiang Shui and add some cold water to 40℃.
② wormwood warms the lungs.
Wormwood is a mild, bitter and nontoxic drug. It has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to ginger. Generally, 30-50g of dried wormwood is boiled to soak feet, and the cooking method is the same as above.
③ Swelling of cinnamon bark
Cinnamon has the function of warming and tonifying kidney yang. Soaking feet with it can relieve edema caused by kidney disease. In the case of edema of eyelid or face, foot and ankle, depression may occur when you press the skin in the edema area with your fingers.
You can use15g pepper and cinnamon to soak your feet, just like ginger.
④ Safflower can prevent frostbite.
Safflower is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in gynecology, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. People who are prone to chilblain and chapped skin in winter, using safflower to soak their feet in early autumn can play a very good preventive role.
Take safflower 10- 15g and soak your feet with boiling water as mentioned above, which can prevent and improve chilblain.
In winter, we should pay special attention to the warmth of the stomach and add clothes in time to prevent the stomach from catching cold and causing stomach pain or aggravating old diseases.
1, have a cup of clove warm stomach tea.
"Clove warming stomach tea" can warm the middle warmer, dispel cold, promote qi circulation and relieve pain, and prevent cold from hurting the stomach.
Ingredients: 3 grams of clove, 5 grams of Amomum villosum and 2 slices of ginger.
Practice: put the above three medicines into a teapot and soak them in boiling water. Do not make tea. Or add 300 ml of water and decoct to 150 ml, and take it after meals.
Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, promoting qi circulation, relieving pain, lowering adverse flow and stopping vomiting.
Avoid: It is suitable for patients with epigastric pain, abdominal distension, hiccup and vomiting after catching cold. It is contraindicated for patients with insufficient stomach yin or accumulated heat in spleen and stomach. (If the symptoms are not relieved after taking it, be sure to seek medical advice in time. )
2, chestnut lotus root ribs soup
Ingredients: 200 grams of shelled chestnuts, 500 grams of lotus root, 300 grams of ribs and ginger slices (3-4 people).
Practice: cut the ribs into pieces, blanch them with cold water to remove blood, and pick them up for later use; Peel lotus root, wash and cut into pieces for later use; Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, add 2000ml of clean water, bring to a boil, reduce the heat to 1- 1.5 hours, and finally season with salt.
Efficacy: nourishing yin and tonifying middle energizer. Is suitable for people with recurrent oral ulcer.