From winter, it experienced light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, slight cold and severe cold, until spring, which is winter.
Beginning of winter, the first solar term in winter, is the beginning of winter in the lunar calendar, and the solar calendar is about 1 1.7 every year. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the arrival of this solar term is that the sun hides, the cathode is full, the vegetation withers and the insects hide, and all activities tend to stop, so as to hibernate and save energy for the next spring. There is a folk custom of "winter supplements winter". The ancients thought that the weather turned cold and needed to supplement the body's nutrition. Remember the word "Tibet" in beginning of winter's aftercare. So in real life, how should we pay attention to diet and health in winter? Eat less cold, but it is not suitable for impatience and heat. Eat some foods with high calories, such as nourishing yin and suppressing yang. At the same time, we should eat more fresh vegetables to avoid vitamin deficiency, such as beef and mutton, black-bone chicken, crucian carp, etc., drink more soybean milk and milk, and eat more radishes, vegetables, tofu and fungus.
Light snow means that it has just started to snow, but it hasn't snowed heavily yet. Every year, it is around Gregorian calendar165438+1October 22nd. Before and after the light snow solar terms, the weather is often cold and gloomy, so it is advisable to eat food that warms and nourishes the kidney this season. Warm tonic foods include mutton, beef, chicken, dog meat and velvet antler. Nutritive foods include cashew nuts, Euryale ferox, yam porridge, stewed chestnuts, stewed chicken with ginkgo, bone soup, walnuts and so on. In addition, eat more stews and black foods such as black fungus, black sesame seeds and black beans.
Heavy snow, literally, means that the amount of snowfall begins to increase, and the annual solar calendar is around 65438+February 7. This solar term is best to be warm, and I recommend kelp to you here. Why should we eat more kelp in the snowy solar terms? This is because, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the sea water is cold, and the kelp growing here itself has strong cold resistance. Kelp is salty, and long-term consumption has the effect of warming kidney and benefiting qi. Therefore, eating kelp in winter can increase the cold resistance of human body. Now we recommend a simple and easy-to-make seaweed porridge: kelp 10 ~ 15g, japonica rice 100g, one preserved egg, cooked together and seasoned with a little salt (or sugar). The porridge has the effects of softening hardness, lowering blood pressure and inducing diuresis, and can be eaten for a long time by patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis, chronic bronchitis and cough and asthma.
The winter solstice is a very important solar term and a very important festival, which occurs on February 22nd or 23rd of the solar calendar 12. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the day is short" and "the day is short and arrives at the time". The arrival of the winter solstice, it is the time when Yin Qi flourished and declined, and Yang Qi began to sprout. The solstice in winter is similar to noon. At this time, it is the sun, which means that the spirit of the sun begins to grow. So what should we eat? Opinions are divided on this issue. But the solar terms in China are very accurate, and the time can be accurate to a few minutes. Therefore, if you want to make up before the winter solstice, you can eat angelica, ginger and mutton soup. If the winter solstice comes after 4: 00 pm and the sun has risen, you can eat ducks at this time. Because ducks are peaceful, you must eat ducks if you want to be peaceful and sunny.
The solar calendar 1.5 is a slight cold solar term every year. Chinese medicine believes that cold is the main qi in winter, and slight cold is the coldest season in a year. Cold is yin evil, which is easy to hurt human yang, and cold dominates stagnation. Therefore, although the slight cold regimen contains a lot of contents, the basic principle is still the motto in Huangdi Neijing: "Nourish yang in spring and summer, nourish yin in autumn and winter." According to the folk tradition of our country, as soon as the slight cold is over, our country will enter the "ice-out" for three or nine days, but people always have a good appetite in cold weather, because they always feel that they can resist the cold weather when they are full. But a good appetite will inevitably increase the burden on our stomach. What shall we do? Here is a simple and easy thing-hawthorn. Hawthorn is warm in nature, and has the functions of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, astringing and stopping dysentery. Its main function is to promote digestion and strengthen the stomach. The Chinese medicine for promoting digestion and strengthening the spleen has its own characteristics, some are pasta and some are meat, and hawthorn is the top grade for eliminating meat stagnation. However, eating too much hawthorn has the opposite effect of promoting blood circulation and breaking qi, so people who are weak after illness and pregnant women should not eat more of this.
The value of severe cold is around 1.20 in the solar calendar every year. According to the custom of our country, especially in rural areas, people are busy taking off old cloth and preparing new year's goods every cold. In ancient times, there was a saying that "it's cold, cold, drinking ginseng and astragalus wine early and taking Qiju Dihuang pills late". Because the Great Cold is the last solar term in a year and is connected with beginning of spring, it is slightly different from the slight cold in diet. First of all, the amount of tonic should be gradually reduced in winter and March to adapt to the seasonal changes. Secondly, some foods with ascending and descending characteristics should be properly added in the tonic to prepare for the ascending and descending characteristics in spring. Finally, it should be considered that the severe cold period is a period of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases such as colds, so it is necessary to eat more foods that warm and disperse the wind and cold to prevent the invasion of wind and cold pathogens. Commonly used foods in daily diet that can relieve pungent smell and dispel cold are perilla leaves, ginger, green onions, peppers, peppers, cinnamon and so on. For example, when someone has a mild cold due to exogenous wind and cold, ginger and brown sugar water are often used for treatment, and the effect is very good.
Second, moderate drinking in winter
The solstice of winter has passed and the weather is getting colder and colder. Many people like to drink more than usual when drinking. Uncle Zhang, who lives in the countryside, likes to drink some white wine to warm himself up every winter. Recently, he specially made an altar of medicinal liquor and drank a large cup every morning and evening. The body was warm at first, but after the wine was strong, people felt colder. Not only that, he has a bad cough recently. When he coughs, he keeps coughing, and he can't breathe. I went to the hospital for examination. It turned out to be an asthma attack. The doctor warned him that the most direct cause of asthma attack was that Zhang drank too much medicinal liquor.
Now everyone will drink a little more or less when they are socializing, but they must be moderate. Uncle Zhang just drank too much. Just drink a small glass of medicated wine. Just like Jin Jiu's advertisement: "Although Jin Jiu is good, don't drink too much", which means moderation is enough. Nowadays, because many people drink too much and have more and more physical diseases, many people think that wine is not a good thing. In fact, in Chinese medicine, wine is not useless. Wine is called "heavy medium", which means that wine can be used to soak medicinal materials. In the history of TCM development, there are sayings that "medicine originates from wine" and "wine is the best medicine". The second half of the traditional Chinese character "medicine" stands for wine in ancient Chinese. In addition, moderate drinking in cold season can promote blood circulation and achieve the effect of keeping warm.
In winter, the qi and blood on the body surface come back, and people eat more than other seasons, which is most prominent in girls. One of my classmates is actually not fat, but he cries every day to lose weight. Last winter, I met her on the road, and she began to complain that she had gained weight again. In winter, she can eat especially and her weight soars. In fact, people should eat more in winter because you have to "hide". If you don't "hide" from dieting in winter, what will you use for hair growth in spring? In previous seasons, we didn't advocate eating too greasy food, but in winter, we can eat some foods with strong taste or a little nourishing effect, because the hot air in our body can melt greasy food. In Confucius' works and Zhou Li Tianguan Physician, it is mentioned that it is best to drink a little wine, which is similar to fermented grains and wine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) always thinks that wine is medicine, and its taste is "bitter and sweet, pungent and hot", which can "dredge meridians, dispel cold, activate blood vessels and activate drug potential" and can also be used to treat "rheumatism and chest pain". This is why moderate drinking is advocated in winter.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, wine is both pathogenic dampness and pathogenic heat. Excessive drinking or long-term drinking can lead to spleen and stomach damp-heat damage, such as nausea and vomiting, thirst, fever, irritability and so on.
Ancient Chinese medicine believes that drinking can be courageous. Why? Because the spirit of wine is very tough. When wine reaches the stomach, its qi will go up, while when wine goes up, its liver and gallbladder will be horizontal. In Huangdi Neijing, it is said that "the liver and gallbladder will float horizontally". People at this time are particularly courageous and dare to talk nonsense. What you say when you are drunk may bring you disaster, so you should pay attention to controlling the amount.
Drinking too much wine will "spoil the stomach and intestines", which is harmful to the stomach and intestines. A large amount of drinking at a time will cause discomfort symptoms of acute gastritis, and continuous intake of alcohol will lead to more serious chronic gastritis; In addition, excessive drinking is also very harmful to the liver. A middle-aged man, after suffering from acute icteric hepatitis, just returned to normal liver function and was discharged from hospital, which coincided with the succession of wedding banquets during the Spring Festival. At first, he could still remember the doctor's repeated instructions when he was discharged from the hospital. No matter what wine, no matter who advised him, he never touched a drop. But at a special dinner table, a close friend asked him what he smelled. He finally couldn't resist the temptation of Maotai, thinking that he would be fine if he only drank a small cup and tasted something new! But the day after drinking this cup of wine, he found that his urine was yellow, weak and disgusting ... It was this cup of wine that caused his hepatitis to recur and quickly developed into acute severe hepatitis, and eventually he lost his life because of ineffective rescue.
As the saying goes, drunken promiscuity means that drinking too much is easy to make trouble and lead to various crimes. After drunkenness, the brain is paralyzed, people's self-control is poor, and their emotions are easily excited. Driving after drunkenness is prone to traffic accidents, and quarreling with others after drunkenness is also likely to lead to fighting and even murder.