In winter, the weather is cold, and cold pathogens are most likely to hurt the yang of the kidney and the body. Therefore, winter health care should focus on regulating the yin and yang of the kidney.

For the elderly, diet adjustment is very important for tonifying kidney and preventing colds. Winter is the season of storing essence, so we should eat some high-calorie foods, such as beef and mutton, milk and soybean milk.

Chinese medicine believes that "black enters the kidney", so eating "black" is a supplement. Black rice nourishes yin and kidney, spleen and liver, black beans nourishes liver and kidney, strengthens bones and muscles, black sesame nourishes liver and kidney, improves eyesight, blackens hair, flattens stomach and strengthens spleen, tonifies kidney and fills marrow, black fungus nourishes yin and moistens lung, nourishes stomach and tonifies kidney, etc. It is a good product for tonifying the kidney.

Massage is also an effective way to tonify the kidney. Two methods are often used: one is rubbing the waist and rubbing the eyes. Press the waist tightly after the hands are hot, and rub hard for 30 times. "The waist is the house of the kidney", rubbing the waist and rubbing the eyes can dredge the tendons and enhance the function of the kidney. The second is to put pressure on Tian Chan. Rub your hands and massage your abdomen for 30 ~ 50 times.

2. The diet is mainly warm.

After beginning of winter, you should eat more warm and nutritious food. However, the temperature rise needs a gradual process. First of all, we can start with warm porridge and warm soup, such as drinking lotus seed jujube millet porridge and longan walnut sesame chestnut porridge. By warming the spleen and stomach, we can improve the function of transportation and transformation, and then increase the intake of warm food, and eat stew and stewed sheep scorpion moderately. Eating a little spicy food properly is also a good supplement to the body's yang.

After beginning of winter, the climate is relatively dry. While keeping warm, don't forget to protect the essence of lung and kidney yin. In diet, you can pay attention to choose foods that nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as tremella, lily, water chestnut, lotus root, fungus, pear, citrus fruits, various fresh vegetables, etc., to prevent symptoms such as irritability, dry skin of mouth and eyes, toothache, aphtha and nosebleeds. After the fire injury in the shade.

3, distinguish the physique before filling the cream.

After beginning of winter, it is also a good time to make up the ointment. Eating cream in autumn and winter is a good way for middle-aged and elderly people, patients with chronic diseases and sub-healthy people. However, Wu Xiaojing reminded that before taking the cream to supplement the body, it is best to ask Chinese medicine to make a comprehensive syndrome differentiation: first look at whether the body is "virtual" and whether it needs tonic.

Clinically, people with different constitutions have different tonic drugs. For example, people with qi deficiency are very tired and tired, and they will have asthma when they move. Ginseng, astragalus and atractylodes macrocephala can be used as main ointments. People with blood deficiency are pale, dizzy and forgetful, so they can choose a cream based on Ejiao, Angelica sinensis and Paeonia lactiflora. People with yin deficiency constitution are emaciated, dry mouth and throat, and can choose ointment mainly composed of Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Adenophorae, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis and Fructus Lycii. For those with cold urination and frequent enuresis due to yang deficiency, antler glue, Eucommia ulmoides and walnut kernel can be used as the main ointment.

4. Go to bed early and get up late to save your strength.

From beginning of winter to beginning of spring, it is called "March in Winter", which is the coldest season in a year. People should give priority to "keeping Tibet" in their daily life.

Sleep in winter should follow the principle of going to bed early and getting up late, and adjust the work and rest with the rising and setting of the sun. In winter, the days are short, sunny, long and cloudy. It is precisely because of nourishing yin in winter that I sleep longer at night than in summer. Go to bed early at night, sleep late in the morning and get up after the sun rises. If you violate the activity law of Yang, your body will be easily weakened by evil spirits.

After beginning of winter, people who are old and weak are prone to catch a cold. It is suggested that soaking feet in hot water once a day can improve the blood circulation of soles, dispel wind and cold, and prevent colds. Moxibustion on bilateral Zusanli points can enhance immunity and prevent colds; You can also smoke indoor air by burning mugwort leaves or moxa sticks to expel viruses and bacteria in the air, but people with respiratory allergies should use it with caution.

5. A quiet and carefree mood.

In terms of emotion, Chinese medicine pays attention to calming the mind after winter, which can make the spirit inward and help to raise Tibet. Everything withers in winter, which often makes people emotional and unhappy. The best way to change this bad mood is to take part in more recreational activities. Old people can dance, play chess, read books, enjoy music and exercise. , can eliminate the depression in winter and cheer up.