The sudden drop in temperature caused by the cold current, coupled with continuous rainfall, makes people's minds and bodies hibernate, and cold and moisture easily invade the human body, easily causing headaches, shoulder pains and muscle discomfort. Here are some ways to supplement in winter. .

In winter, hiding is the main health care.

Huangdi Neijing records winter health preservation as follows: "Nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", "If you don't store essence in winter, you will get sick in spring." "and so on; Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that everything slows down in autumn and winter, so warm food should be supplemented to warm hands and feet, accumulate energy, improve metabolic rate and resist the cold. Moreover, winter corresponds to the "kidney" in the five elements, so another key point of winter health care is to tonify the kidney.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is best to eat more food suitable for the body according to your own physique in winter tonic season, which is just right. There are many ingredients for warming, such as beef and mutton, while Laba porridge, glutinous rice and glutinous rice are all ingredients for warming and fleshing. But people with a bad stomach should eat glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice in moderation to avoid indigestion.

Kidney-yang deficiency: Common phenomena include cold limbs, chills, backache, incontinence or dysuria, frequent micturition at night, and sexual dysfunction. You can eat mutton, cinnamon, leek, Eucommia ulmoides, walnut kernel, cistanche deserticola, Alpinia oxyphylla and so on.

Kidney yin deficiency: The common symptoms are dry mouth and throat, dysphoria, hot flashes, red cheekbones, night sweats, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, short and yellow urine, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, red tongue and little fur. Sea cucumber, Lycium barbarum, Tremella fuciformis and Polygonatum sibiricum can be selected for nourishing.

Precautions for tonic

Warm and hot food should pay attention to physical fitness: many people are still hot in winter. If you have symptoms of getting angry after warming and warming food, such as dry throat, aphtha, sweating easily due to heat, constipation, etc. It is more appropriate to choose a flat diet that is not easy to get angry, such as Shen Si soup, green bristlegrass chicken soup and Polygonum multiflorum chicken soup. And ask Chinese medicine for treatment.

Tonic needs good health: when there are acute diseases such as sore throat, cold and fever; Or fever, thirst, constipation, upset and other symptoms of excess heat and physiological period are not suitable for rash tonic.

Pay attention to the food properties of collocation: winter tonic should not be matched with raw and cold foods such as vegetable heads, Chinese cabbage, melons, oranges, etc., which will have the effect of dispelling cold and heat and cannot give full play to the benefits of the original tonic.