1, winter health knowledge
1, keep warm from the cold
In winter, the climate is cold, so the shelter should be kept warm and windproof, generally above 18℃. When the temperature drops suddenly and the cold current crosses the border, it is best for the elderly and infirm to go out less. If you want to go out, you should keep warm.
2. Keep your head and back warm.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head and back is the part where the Du meridian runs, and it is the yang in the yang. In winter, cold easily invades the human body through the head and back, causing diseases such as colds and lung infections. Therefore, special attention should be paid to keeping the head and back warm, so as not to damage the yang.
3, the diet should be warm
The diet should be warm in winter, and drink some milk, soybean milk and jujube porridge when you go out in the morning. First of all, warm your body. In winter, we should choose foods with high-quality protein, such as lean meat, fish, chicken, eggs, bean products, etc.
Step 4 take a careful bath
Bathing can clean the skin and promote metabolism. However, the cold weather in winter, the elderly and the infirm, taking a bath too often and not paying attention to keeping warm, are easy to induce the recurrence of respiratory tract and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, the elderly usually take a bath once a week in winter.
5. soak your feet in hot water
The foot is the root of the human body and is called the second heart. Soaking feet with 40℃ ~ 50℃ hot water before going to bed (with massage 10 minutes or more) can accelerate blood circulation, eliminate fatigue, and have the function of health care and longevity.
6. A solid mind
Winter is the season of seclusion, so we should pay attention to maintaining our spirit and keeping our inner secrets. The spirit should be hidden, not excessive, so as not to disturb the sun. In severe winter, flowers and trees wither, and some elderly people will feel depressed and depressed. The best way to change your mood is to do more activities. When the weather is fine, it is best to go outdoors to exercise, play and sing, and visit relatives and friends, which are all conducive to refreshing the spirit and stimulating the enthusiasm of life.
7. Exercise at night
Regular exercise can enhance physical fitness and improve cold resistance and disease resistance. Studies have shown that the ability of human body to dissolve thrombus is the lowest in the morning and the highest at night. If the fitness exercise is arranged at night, people's immune ability can reach the best state.
8. Appropriate supplements
In winter, the climate is changeable. Under the guidance of doctors, the elderly and people with diseases should take some traditional Chinese medicines with nourishing and strengthening effects, such as ginseng, astragalus, red dates, chestnuts, walnuts, black sesame seeds, etc., or take some nourishing medicinal liquor according to symptoms, which is conducive to enhancing the body's disease resistance.
2. What soup do you drink to warm up in winter?
First of all, white pepper pork tripe soup
Ingredients: white pepper 15g, pork tripe 1, salt, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate.
Exercise:
1, take white pepper and break it slightly. Wash pork belly repeatedly with salt or raw flour (you can add salt and vinegar and blanch it with boiling water).
2. Put the chopped white pepper into the pork belly, then tie the head and tail tightly with thread, add appropriate amount of water and simmer for about two hours.
3. When the soup is thick and rotten, just add some salt.
This quantity can be used by 2 ~ 3 people. Pork belly can be sliced and eaten with raw oil and soy sauce.
Efficacy: The pork belly in the white pepper pot has a strong smell, has the effect of dispelling cold and warming the stomach, and can also be used for the adjuvant treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers caused by stomach cold, heart cold pain, spitting, or deficiency cold.
Second, Astragalus beef soup
Ingredients: Radix Astragali and Radix Codonopsis each 12g, beef, salt and pepper.
Exercise:
1. Wash Astragalus membranaceus 12g and Codonopsis pilosula 12g, put them in a double-layer gauze bag, and seal them to make a traditional Chinese medicine bag.
2. Wash the beef, cut it into pieces, and boil it with ginger and onion in a Chinese medicine bag, and skim off the foam.
3, add cooking wine, simmer for two hours, and finally add a little salt and pepper.
Efficacy: Chinese medicine believes that the "qi" in the human body has the function of regulating the body temperature and controlling the opening and closing of pores. Therefore, when "Qi deficiency" occurs, the body's ability to regulate body temperature is weakened, and there will be symptoms of fear of cold and love sweating. If you are blown by cold wind when sweating, you are more likely to catch a cold and recover longer than others.
This soup has the effects of invigorating qi and yang, strengthening exterior surface and arresting sweating, Dangshen has the effects of invigorating spleen and lung, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and beef has the effects of strengthening middle energizer and strengthening tendons.
Third, Chili pork tripe yam soup
Ingredients: pork tripe, 50 grams of fresh pepper, 200 grams of yam, appropriate amount of salt, and appropriate amount of cooking wine.
Exercise:
1. Wash a whole pig's belly, mash 50 grams of fresh pepper, put it in the pig's belly, tighten the mouth of the pig's belly, and cook for about 1.5 hours.
2. When the soup is cooked, add 200 grams of peeled and diced yam, pick up the pork belly and cut it into silk belly.
3. Stew in the soup for 20 minutes. Add salt and cooking wine and serve.
Efficacy: Chili is warm, warm and cold; Pork belly nourishes the stomach, dispelling cold and relieving cough. If you feel weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite and cold hands and feet after a cold, drink Chili pork tripe soup quickly.
Fourth, fresh chicken soup with chestnuts and apricots.
Raw materials: chicken 1 piece, chestnut 100g, 8 red dates, 30g apricots, 0/5 walnuts/kloc-0, and 3 slices of ginger.
Exercise:
1, peeled chestnuts and apricots, peeled red dates, washed everything and soaked for 20 minutes.
2. Wash the chicken and remove the internal organs and tail.
3. First, put chicken, red dates, apricots and ginger into a casserole, add a proper amount of water, boil with strong fire, and then change to slow fire 1.5 hours.
4. Add chestnuts and walnuts 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of salt.
Efficacy: In cold weather, a bowl of hot chicken soup can drive away the cold and warm the body, because the chicken contains very high-quality protein, which has the effects of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. Chestnuts have the effects of nourishing stomach, strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons. But Nanxing is good at nourishing and moistening lungs, relieving cough and asthma. For example, "The Origin of Medicine" says that it can "remove lung dryness, and the cure for wind dryness lies in the chest and diaphragm". This soup has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening tendons, moistening lung and relieving cough.