The first thing in winter is to tonify the kidney.
It is very cold in winter. Eating more warm food can increase physical strength and even tonify the kidney to keep out the cold. However, due to the variety of dietary tastes of people in Taiwan Province Province, eating the wrong food may also consume kidney qi.
The temperature has dropped again, and many people are beginning to doubt whether they want to eat mutton stoves tonight. Or Kyubi no Youko chicken? Or is ginger and duck good for your health? Lin Zongyue, a Chinese medicine practitioner in Jingxing Modern Chinese Medicine Clinic, said that in fact, the temperature drops suddenly in winter, and the focus of health care is not to take tonics, but to tonify the kidney. If you blindly think that you can take supplements every day, but you don't have a good kidney, your health will turn red.
Why do we have to raise kidneys in winter? According to the five elements theory of Chinese medicine, a year is divided into spring and summer, long summer, autumn and winter and five seasons, which are matched with liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney meridians respectively. Kidney is the beginning of life, and winter is the season with abundant kidney qi, so it is necessary to tonify kidney. Since ancient times, there has been the idea that "spring has four seasons, summer is long and Changchun is long, autumn harvest is long and winter is long". "that is, the yang of the human body should be hidden in winter, and the yin meridian should be kept inside" to accumulate energy. Among the five internal organs, kidney governs essence, which is the foundation of congenital and the root of life. Kidney qi determines the strength of a person's innate endowment, which is related to the rise and fall of healthy qi. It is also because it is congenital. Although food supplement is helpful, it is difficult to make up after exhaustion. Many people often ignore bad living habits and may exhaust kidney qi.
What behaviors are easy to hurt kidney qi?
Go to bed too late.
Going to bed late and getting up late in winter is a bad habit of modern people, because it is mentioned in the record of Huangdi Neijing that "winter and March are called hiding, water and ice are buried, and there is no disturbance from 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 you have your own interests, if you already have them, you will warm up when you are cold and won't lose your skin. 」
Stay up late.
Staying up late will make kidney yang excited and strong, and overwork will lead to hyperactivity of liver fire. In winter, the sun's yang needs to be hidden to store energy, and too much loss of the sun's yang will be hurt. However, if kidney yang is hyperactive and liver fire is hyperactive, it will consume kidney water and damage kidney yin. However, the kidney belongs to water and the liver belongs to wood. Excessive liver fire will also reduce kidney water in disguise.
Get up too early.
In addition to young people who like to stay up late, even the elderly who pay attention to health are easy to ignore and hurt their kidneys. Most elderly people have formed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early to exercise. In summer and peacetime, going to bed early and getting up early is of course very helpful to your health. But in winter, the sun rises late, and going out to exercise too early will be attacked by cold wind, which will consume their innate essence. Besides, it is not safe. Therefore, it is suggested that winter exercise should wait until the sun rises before going out.