Keyword 1: nourishing the liver
1. Stay up late and sleep on your back.
According to the theory of "blood returns to the liver when lying down" in traditional Chinese medicine, blood will fully return to the liver when lying down. The purpose of nourishing the liver in spring is to coordinate the balance of yin and yang in the liver. Therefore, it is necessary to adapt to the weather at this stage and avoid the burden on the liver caused by staying up late.
2. Drink more warm water, and you can make tea with secret recipes such as medlar and rose.
Early spring is cold and dry, and it is easy to lack water. Drinking more water can replenish body fluids, enhance blood circulation, promote metabolism, and reduce the damage of toxins and "internal heat" to the liver. Usually, you should drink more warm water, or add Lycium barbarum, rose or dried tangerine peel to the water as a tea substitute, which can nourish the liver and kidney, benefit the eyes, soothe the liver and regulate qi.
Rose Wu Mei drink
Material: Rose 10g, Mume 10g.
Practice: put a little rose and ebony in the teacup and stew for ten minutes as a substitute tea.
Note: The daily consumption of ebony and rose should not exceed 10g.
3. Drink soup to nourish the liver
Danshen soybean soup
Ingredients: Salvia Miltiorrhiza 10g, soybean 50g, and appropriate amount of honey.
Practice: Wash Salvia Miltiorrhiza Radix and soak soybeans in clear water 1 hour. Put Salvia Miltiorrhiza and soybeans in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and cook the soup until the soybeans are rotten. Pick out Salvia Miltiorrhiza and season with honey.
Efficacy: tonify deficiency, nourish liver, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter and slightly warm, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, calming the nerves and calming the heart. Soybean can strengthen the spleen, widen the middle energizer, replenish qi and middle energizer, promote fluid production and moisten dryness, and clear away heat and toxic materials. All these are beneficial to tonify deficiency and nourish liver.
Ji Chun Hugan Decoction
Materials: pork liver 100g, shepherd's purse (or spinach) 100g, 20g of Lycium barbarum, and 4 slices of ginger.
Practice: blanch the shepherd's purse in advance, and add salt to the pork liver slices to hang water starch. First add shepherd's purse, medlar and other ingredients, and finally add pork liver to cook.
Efficacy: shepherd's purse is called "health-preserving grass and intestine-clearing grass", which has the effect of soothing and nourishing the liver; Pig liver nourishes blood and wolfberry improves eyesight, which is suitable for protecting liver in spring.
Keyword 2: Massage
1. Knock the liver meridian and gallbladder meridian.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, in spring, liver yang produces hair, and liver qi begins to promote qi and blood circulation, nourishing the whole body. However, if liver fire is caused by hyperactivity of liver yang or stagnation of liver qi, it is easy to damage the liver. Tapping the liver meridian and gallbladder meridian often can help the liver drain water, clear the liver and purge fire, which is a good health care method.
Shoulder-width feet, squat down, hands empty, starting from the inside of the knee joint, four beats, knocking to the groin, then turning to the gallbladder meridian, starting from Huantiao point, four beats, knocking to the outside of the knee joint, and slowly recovering.
Understand these points related to the liver:
Dadun point
It is the first point of the liver meridian, located at the edge of the toenail of the foot, farthest from the second toe.
Massage Dadun point can clear the liver and improve eyesight, make the mind clear and refreshed.
Taichong point
At the place where the big toe is sewn to the instep 4 cm, some people compare "Taichong point" to the punching bag of the human body, because it is the original point and acupoint of the liver meridian, and it is also the fire point of the liver meridian, which can dissipate liver qi and liver fire.
Pressing too hard in spring can dredge the liver qi, and then smooth the whole body qi, thus achieving the purpose of protecting the liver and preserving health.
Xingjian point
On the seam between the big toe and the second toe. It's a fire, the liver belongs to wood, and wood makes a fire. If your liver is too angry, you will be relieved. And "Xingjian point" is the point for purging heart fire.
Excessive liver fire in spring will lead to toothache, oral ulcer, nosebleeds, blistering on the tip of the tongue and other symptoms, indicating that fire enters the heart meridian from the liver meridian, and you can rub "points between the lines" from here to disperse heart fire.
2. Always stretch.
Early spring is a turning point from "nourishing yin in autumn and winter" to "nourishing yang in spring and summer". At this time, it is easy to feel sleepy in spring, and you can often stretch, which can get rid of old things, promote blood circulation, dredge meridians and joints, invigorate the spirit, stimulate liver function, and achieve the effect of nourishing the liver and protecting health.
3. comb your hair once or twice in the morning
"Comb your hair one or two hundred times every morning in March of the vernal equinox" also helps to promote qi circulation, relieve depression, dredge qi and blood, promote Yang Qi, and promote scalp blood circulation and hair growth.
Keyword three: soaking feet
There is a folk proverb: "Spring is chilly and feet are cold." When it is warm and cold, the feet are cold, which is particularly easy to cause the capillary contraction of the upper respiratory tract mucosa, leading to the decline of human resistance. It can cause exogenous cough, bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases.
If possible, it is best to soak your feet in hot water once before going out, which can prevent respiratory infectious diseases, dilate blood vessels, speed up blood flow, improve the nutrition of skin and tissues of your feet, reduce the occurrence of lower limb soreness and make people energetic. When soaking feet, you can add some Chinese medicines according to your own needs. For example, you can put some salvia miltiorrhiza and Paeonia lactiflora to promote blood circulation; To eliminate fatigue, you can put some codonopsis pilosula and poria cocos; People who are prone to get angry can add some salt, Evodia rutaecarpa and mature vinegar to the foot bath water; If you don't sleep well, you can put some acacia bark and mugwort leaves.
Keyword 4: Drinking tea
Health preservation in early spring should focus on nourishing and protecting the liver. Some people worry that too much liver tonic will lead to excessive liver fire, so drinking tea is one of the simplest ways to nourish and protect the liver. But first of all, we must distinguish whether we belong to empirical or deficiency syndrome, so as to choose the right tea to drink.
1. Be lively and drink chrysanthemum tea.
Those who are usually irritable and irritable, or those who are particularly prone to red eyes in spring, are all too angry, which is empirical. It is suggested that they might as well drink chrysanthemum tea every day, because chrysanthemum is a spicy and refreshing medicine. The taste is bitter and slightly cold, mainly clearing liver and purging fire.
2. Liver yin deficiency, drink medlar tea.
If you always feel dry eyes and can't see clearly in spring, it means that your liver yin is insufficient and belongs to deficiency syndrome. At this time, you can try to drink wolfberry tea every day. Lycium barbarum is sweet and has the functions of nourishing kidney, liver, moistening lung, improving eyesight, strengthening bones and muscles and improving fatigue.
3. Get angry and drink Chen Yin honeysuckle tea.
Chinese medicine believes that one of the common causes of headache is excessive liver fire, that is, there is something wrong with the liver, and this kind of headache caused by excessive liver fire is most likely to appear in spring. You can take Herba Artemisiae Scopariae 15g and Flos Lonicerae 15g, soak them in appropriate amount of water for half an hour, cook them for another half an hour, then drink tea instead, and season them with honey. After drinking for about half a month, the symptoms of headache can be improved.
Keyword 5: Empty
Chinese medicine believes that happiness comes from the heart, and once the mentality changes, it will always be fresh. The perspective of seeing the world will not be as negative as before, and the mood will be smooth, and the heart will naturally return to joy. And this kind of happiness will spread to our eyes and let us find more happy people and things, which have been in a virtuous circle and endless. After the Spring Festival holiday is over and a new life begins, it is better to empty your original self and start over with joy from this moment.
Synthesis: Health Times, Healthy China