1, Top Ten Taboos of TCM Health Preservation
1. Avoid getting up early. "Kotou" means no hat. Morning is the time when Yang was born. At this time, Yang is like a small sapling. Although it grows vigorously, it is very weak and vulnerable to cold evil. The characteristic of yang is upward, so from the human body, the head is the place where yang gathers. If you don't pay attention to keeping your head warm when you go out in the morning, it is easy to let cold evil enter your brain and cause diseases.
2. Avoid being insatiable in a dark room. To keep healthy, a person's body must be full of yang, and yang is afraid of being attacked by yin and evil. If a room can't be exposed to sunlight, the yin will be heavier, the temperature will be lower, and cold pathogens will easily invade the body surface, and even cause a series of diseases from the outside to the inside. Of course, modern people live in buildings, and it is difficult to ensure that every room has sunshine. At this time, heating or air conditioning is needed to keep the room temperature.
3. Avoid settling in wetlands. Some people don't quite understand the diseases caused by dampness. They think that the body is protected by skin, and the skin is impermeable. How does external moisture affect the body and cause diseases? Of course, the real moisture can't directly enter the body, but the gas in the body and the gas in the outside world are mutually induced. The external moisture is a kind of stagnant gas, which induces the gas in the body to move slowly, thus producing dampness evil in the body. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid staying in a humid environment for too long.
4. Avoid cold sweat. In the case of low temperature, clothes will become wet and cold as soon as they sweat. At this time, the pores of the skin are opened and the resistance to external evils is reduced. Cold and dampness are likely to take advantage of it. Therefore, after sweating, you should dry your sweat in time and put on dry clothes.
5. Avoid drying clothes at high temperature. Xu Wen _ thinks that clothes that have been dried for a long time have heat toxicity and should not be put on immediately. This may be a bit exaggerated. After the clothes are dried, even if there is still a certain amount of heat, it will not cause any harm to health. Of course, if you are a person whose fever has not gone down, you may want to be careful not to wear clothes that have just been dried or dried.
6. Avoid sweating out of the fan. This should also be treated flexibly. If it's dog days and your body is sweating all the time, it's normal to take a fan to cool down. This means that the temperature should not be too high. When sweating, don't fan the wind because of gluttony, or drink cold drinks immediately. Although fan wind is pleasant, it is the first of all evils, and it unconsciously enters the body with cold or wet evil.
7. Avoid sleeping by candlelight. Some people like to sleep with the light on, which is not good either. Because the nature of light belongs to Yang, people need Yang to enter Yin during sleep. When there is light, it is difficult for the yang to sneak into the yin, which is easy to cause mental anxiety and affect the quality of sleep.
8. Avoid sexual intercourse. In a day, the sun be the spirit reaches its peak during the day, but it is born at midnight (23:00~ 1:00). At this time, Yang has just sprouted and is very delicate. If you don't take care of it and have sex, it will make this childish yang go out, and the yang will be insufficient the next day, which will make you tired easily.
9. Avoid wiping the mat with cold water in Xia Yue and drying clothes at high temperature in winter. These two habits may not be so harmful, and few people are drying clothes now, but this article is still of practical significance, that is, you can't violate the seasonal laws for a moment's pleasure. Don't be greedy in summer, adjust the air conditioning temperature too low, which will easily lead to insufficient sweating and the air conditioner can't be fully opened; Don't be greedy for heat in winter. If the heating is turned on too hot, it will easily lead to excessive sweating and leakage of essence.
10. Avoid watching a play for a long time. This article is to advise us to pay attention to spiritual cultivation. Nowadays, there are many TV network entertainment programs, and we can't be too addicted to them, because when watching the programs, our spirits will unconsciously move with them and no longer pay attention to the feelings in our bodies. Chinese medicine believes that the heart is the "official of the monarch." If the monarch keeps chasing, he can't observe the people's feelings well, and he can't feel the imbalance at any time. Therefore, entertainment should be moderate, so as not to get hurt after listening for a long time.
2. Healthy Chinese medicine
1, atractylodes macrocephala
Atractylodes macrocephala is warm, bitter and sweet. Entering the spleen and stomach meridian has the effects of strengthening the spleen, strengthening the stomach, eliminating dampness and harmonizing the middle energizer. It is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine for treating spleen and stomach qi deficiency, anorexia, fatigue, abdominal distension, diarrhea, phlegm, edema, jaundice, dampness, dysuria, dizziness and spontaneous sweating. In the market, the root of chrysanthemum notoginseng is used as Atractylodes macrocephala, so attention should be paid to identification when using it.
2. Chinese yam
Eating yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion, and help treat diseases such as weakness of the spleen and stomach, lack of food, and diarrhea. The choice of yam is also particular. Generally, yam with complete appearance, straightness, uniform thickness, no abnormal spots and no rot should be selected.
3. Polygonatum
Polygonatum sibiricum has the effect of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and is also suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. For people with fatigue and loss of appetite, Polygonatum sibiricum can be mixed with Codonopsis pilosula and Atractylodes macrocephala. For patients with deficiency of stomach yin such as dry mouth, tasteless diet and red tongue, Polygonatum sibiricum can be combined with Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus and Dioscorea opposita.
4. Lotus seeds
Lotus seeds are mild in medicinal properties and slightly sweet in taste. Chinese medicine believes that they can tonify the qi of the spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea and have the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. It should be noted that lotus seeds need to be pitted before eating.
5. Jujube
Many Chinese medicine books have records about the health care function of jujube: tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach. It is a good health nutrition for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, loose stool, palpitation, deficiency of qi and blood, fatigue and insomnia. Making tea after frying red dates can treat stomach cold and stomachache.
6, licorice
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that licorice can tonify spleen and qi, relieve cough and moisten lung, detoxify urgently and harmonize hundreds of medicines. Clinical application is divided into "raw use" and "honey preparation". Can be used for treating sore throat, sore, ulcer, gastrointestinal ulcer, antidote and food poisoning. Honey baking is mainly used to treat hypofunction of spleen and stomach, thin stool, fatigue and fever, cough and palpitation.
7. Adenophora adenophora
Adenophora adenophora is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold. Enter the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production, and is suitable for dry cough, scanty phlegm and dry throat caused by lung dryness due to yin deficiency or heat injury to lung yin, and dry mouth and throat, red tongue with little fur and dry stool caused by heat injury to stomach yin due to warm disease or chronic disease due to yin deficiency and fluid deficiency.
8. Radix Astragali
Astragalus membranaceus, also known as Astragalus membranaceus, is the dried root of Astragalus mongolicus or Astragalus membranaceus. It has the effects of invigorating spleen, invigorating qi, invigorating yang, relieving depression, strengthening exterior surface, arresting sweating, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, promoting fluid production, nourishing blood, expelling pus, healing sore and promoting granulation. Suitable for people with liver injury, hepatitis, gastric ulcer and gastritis.
9.poria cocos
Poria cocos is sweet, light and flat, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, eliminating dampness and promoting diuresis, and also has the effect of anti-aging. In addition to the most common poria cocos cakes, poria cocos can also be ground into powder, cooked in porridge, or mixed with honey and steamed on the cakes for use.
10, Euryale ferox
Euryale ferox, also known as chicken head rice, is one of the best products for nourishing the spleen and stomach, and also has the effect of consolidating body fluid. Similar to lotus seeds, but the convergence is stronger than lotus seeds. If the spleen and stomach are weak and have diarrhea, Euryale ferox can also help stop diarrhea. Because Gordon Euryale is hard, it needs to be cooked for a long time, or it can be ground into powder and put into porridge.