Great cold is one of the six solar terms in winter. At this time, the weather is extremely cold, hence the name Great Cold. So how to keep fit in the cold season? Below I will introduce you to the knowledge of keeping in good health in the great cold, hoping it will be useful to you!

Great cold health 1, ginger soaking feet-dispelling cold.

As the saying goes, "cold starts from the feet and cold starts from the legs." When people's legs and feet are cold, they are all cold. Soak your feet with hot water before going to bed, and add some ginger when soaking your feet. Ginger can capillary and improve local blood circulation and metabolism. It has a good effect on people who are afraid of cold and easy to get cold hands and feet.

It should be noted that soaking feet with ginger does not mean soaking ginger in hot water for a while. Generally, take 15-30g of ginger * * * about half a slice of ginger * * * with the same size, pat it flat, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot, and boil it in hot water for about 10 minute. Pour out all the Jiang Shui after cooking, and add a proper amount of cold water to about 40℃ * * * generally, it is better not to feel hot * *. When soaking your feet, don't let the water pass over your ankles. You'd better rub your feet when soaking.

Cold health 2, cold food acid blood vessels

Wu Danming, deputy director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in the coldest time, the principle of "less spicy and more sour" should be observed when taking complementary food. Eating acidic food properly is good for cardiovascular system. Especially around the Great Cold is the high incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and the incidence of myocardial infarction and stroke has reached a high level throughout the year. Acidic foods such as vinegar can soften blood vessels and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

In addition to vinegar, acidic foods include apples, oranges and other acidic foods rich in vitamin C.

Great cold health 3, wearing traditional Chinese medicine clothes-treating chronic diseases

In the severe cold season, people who have been ill for a long time and the elderly are prone to feel cold evil, which leads to the onset of stubborn diseases, such as bronchitis, asthma, arthritis and rheumatism. Might as well make a cough vest, dispel cold, protect waist and warm knees to cure old diseases.

The cough vest is made of Herba Ephedrae, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Asari, Semen Sinapis Albae, Zi Yuan, Flos Lonicerae, Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparata10g, Rhizoma Zingiberis, and Folium Artemisiae Argyi, 5g. * * * Grinding into coarse powder, mashing with Folium Artemisiae Argyi, mixing with cotton, and sewing the vest with cloth. For people with chronic bronchitis and emphysema, wearing this vest can play a role in dispelling cold, relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma.

Take 30g of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Dipsaci and Lignum sappan, 20g of Radix Saposhnikoviae, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Radix Aconiti and Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii for dispelling cold and protecting waist. Grinding the above medicines into fine powder, making a cotton bag with thin cotton cloth, spreading the powder inside and wearing it on the waist, which has the effects of warming kidney-yang and dispelling cold.

Take 30g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, 65438 05g of Asari, 65438 00g of Radix Aconiti, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Radix Cyathulae. Grind the traditional Chinese medicine * * * into fine powder, put it into a small cloth bag and put it into bilateral knee pads for later use. This kind of kneepad has the function of warming channels and dispelling cold, and can treat the cold pain of knee joint. You can also put a hot water bag on the kneepads for hot ironing 15 ~ 20 minutes, once a day 1 time, and the effect is better.

Great cold health 4, drink two cups of winter wine-nourishing the heart.

"Warm your body first, warm your heart, warm your body" means that your mind should be vigorous, your qi should be smooth, your qi and blood should be harmonious, and all your limbs can be warm to keep out the cold. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to nourish the heart, so that the qi and blood in the body are smooth, and you can drink a cup of "Erdong wine" at noon every day.

How to make two kinds of winter wines:

1. Take 50g of Radix Asparagi, 50g of Radix Ophiopogonis, 20g of Rhizoma Chuanxiong, 20g of Achyranthis Radix, 20g of Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae, 0g of Ramulus Cinnamomi10g, 50g of honey, 50g of brown sugar and 0/000ml of Chinese liquor/kloc-0.

2. Pick out all the medicines, put them into clean gauze bags together, and tie the bag tightly.

3. Take a large-mouthed porcelain bottle, put honey, brown sugar and white wine into the porcelain bottle and stir evenly;

4. Then put the medicine bag into a porcelain bottle and soak it for 5-7 days before drinking.

This medicated wine nourishes the heart and lungs, strengthens the tendons and bones, and is of great benefit to palpitation and insomnia, middle-aged and elderly people with numbness of limbs and cold pain in bones and muscles.

Great cold health 5. Make a pillow-have a good sleep.

In order to adapt to the characteristics of winter closure, try to go to bed early and get up late. Going to bed early is to nourish the body's yang, and getting up late is to maintain one's own yin. People who can't sleep well might as well make a sleeping pillow.

Sleeping pillow practice:

Take 200 grams of fried jujube kernels, 300 grams of black beans, 250 grams of calcined magnets and 250 grams of cassia seed, crush and mix them evenly, wrap them with gauze, sew them up, make a thin pillow core and put them on the pillow.

The medicated pillow has the effects of nourishing yin, suppressing yang, tonifying kidney, replenishing essence, tranquilizing mind and calming dizziness, and is suitable for insomnia patients with deficiency of both yin and yang and deficiency of kidney essence. The main symptoms are mental fatigue, dizziness, weakness of waist and knees, tinnitus, dreaminess, forgetfulness, palpitation and so on.

Cold health 6, cold water rubbing nose-anti-rhinitis

After the cold weather, "cool dryness" is more obvious, and rhinitis has become a big worry for many people. In the coldest season, wipe your nose with cold water in the morning to control your cold! Rubbing your nose with cold water every morning or before going out is beneficial to enhancing the immunity of nasal mucosa, is a good method to prevent and treat rhinitis, and helps to relieve symptoms of allergic rhinitis such as stuffy nose and sneezing.

Great cold health 7, suffering-increase appetite

The great cold solar term is the season when the kidney meridian is vigorous, while the kidney dominates salty and the heart dominates bitter. Judging from the five elements, salty wins bitter, and kidney water wins heart fire. Therefore, the principle of winter diet is to reduce salt and increase bitterness to ensure the intersection of heart and kidney and the balance of yin and yang.

You can choose some bitter vegetables, such as celery, lettuce, lettuce and bitter chrysanthemum. These bitter foods have many functions such as clearing away heat and purging fire, stimulating appetite and eliminating fatigue.

Great cold health 8, great cold tonic-according to age

Cold is the coldest season of the year. Proper food supplement can enhance physical fitness and help stabilize winter.

Children: The colder the screen cream, the easier it is for children to have repeated respiratory infections. Huping ointment can benefit qi and guard, strengthen spleen and protect lung.

Raw Astragalus membranaceus180g, fried atractylodes120g, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Radix Paeoniae Alba preparata, Radix Glycyrrhizae and Colla Corii Asini each 60g, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Fructus Jujubae each 30g, and honey 250g. Wash, soak for a while, decoct in water to get juice, decoct for three times, combine the three liquids, decoct for a while with slow fire, add the broken colla Corii Asini, and then add honey to collect paste after colla Corii Asini melts. Each time10g, twice a day with water or rice porridge.

Middle-aged: stewed beef with kumquat is a bit thick and greasy, but stewed beef with kumquat can not only eliminate this feeling, improve the taste, but also have the effects of warming kidney, dispelling cold, moistening lung and relieving asthma. Suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to eat in winter.

Wash the fat beef with clear water, cut it into large pieces, put it in a pot, add clear water to boil, skim off the blood foam, add kumquat, soaked soybeans, ginger and cooking wine to boil, simmer on low heat until the meat is rotten and the beans are crisp, add carrots to simmer until cooked, and season with monosodium glutamate, chopped green onion and refined salt.

Old age: ginseng jujube soup The elderly are weak, and it is easy to catch a cold with a slight cold. Try to take ginseng jujube soup regularly. 3 grams of ginseng and 8 jujubes are boiled in water and fried together for 5 minutes. Jujubes can be eaten twice. You can also tear the jujube into pieces, soak it in fresh boiling water, cover it with 10 minute, and then drink it.