Winter health preservation, Chinese medicine terminology. Chinese medicine believes that winter is the season of storing essence, and the period from beginning of winter to beginning of spring is most suitable for winter tonic. Health preservation in winter mainly refers to maintaining the essence, strengthening the body and prolonging life through diet, sleep, exercise, drugs and other means. In winter, the climate is cold and cold, which easily leads to poor circulation of qi and blood, and makes many old diseases relapse or aggravate. Especially those serious life-threatening diseases, such as stroke, cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial infarction. Not only has the incidence increased significantly, but the mortality rate has also increased sharply. Therefore, winter health should pay attention to cold protection. In winter, the human body's yang accumulates, and qi and blood tend to flow inward, so the skin is dense and water is not easy to leak from the body surface. However, after the kidney and bladder are gasified, a small part of them become body fluid and spread all over the body, and most of them differentiate into water, and urine is poured into the bladder, which invisibly increases the burden on the kidney and easily leads to nephritis, enuresis, urinary incontinence, edema and other diseases.

Pay attention to drinking water in winter, and replenish your body's water in time when the weather is dry and irritable. You can't wait until you feel thirsty. When you feel thirsty, your body is short of water. Be sure to drink a large glass of boiled water when you get up every day, so as to ensure that your body needs enough water and will not get angry.

Eat more fruits and vegetables. Because it is easy to get angry in winter, you can eat more fruits and vegetables, such as apples, pears, sugar cane, bananas, cabbage, cucumbers, etc., which can effectively prevent and control getting angry in winter. Drinking pear soup in winter has the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst.

Diet should be coordinated. In winter, in order to resist the cold, people will choose to eat some hot food, but eating too much hot food will cause excessive internal heat. At this time, you can add some sweet and cold foods to your diet, such as chicken, eggs, carrots, spinach and so on. Do a balanced and reasonable diet so as not to get angry.

Pay attention to dressing in winter. In the cold winter, people will wear thick cotton-padded jackets, cotton caps and scarves to keep warm, but when they get home, they will take off their thick clothes and put on their clothes according to the indoor temperature. Special attention is paid to children. Parents are always afraid that their children will be cold, so they will wear thick clothes when they go home and get angry easily.