Old Chinese medicine practitioners often say that "the lung governs qi and regulates breathing", which shows the importance of the lung to people. However, many people's lungs in today's society are actually not very healthy. They learned to smoke at an early age, so they kept smoking for decades, so their lungs finally gave in. They got sick and just regretted it. The most terrible thing is that if there are smokers around, the lungs will be hurt, and second-hand smoke will do more harm to the lungs. Besides, air pollution makes the air inhaled into the lungs no longer fresh. Therefore, how to ensure the health of the lungs has become a key issue that health professionals attach importance to.

In order to keep the lungs away from diseases, the work of maintaining the lungs should start from daily life. In fact, maintaining the lungs is not a difficult thing. There are many small things that can be done to make the lungs healthy.

Two small moves to improve lung function:

1. Laugh and make your lungs healthy.

Laughing and joking is the cheapest way to maintain your lungs. If you want your lungs to be healthy, you might as well smile more as usual. Because when laughing, the lungs will expand, which can increase the gas capacity of the lungs and improve lung function. Moreover, when laughing, people can't help taking a deep breath and inhaling more oxygen to further improve lung function.

2. Breathe and nourish the lungs

In addition to laughing heartily, it is good for the lungs, and special breathing methods can also play a health care role for the lungs. For example, get up in the morning, take a deep breath and slow down your breath, so that you can breathe in more fresh air and spit out polluted air, promote aerobic metabolism in the body and increase oxygen content in the blood, which plays an important role in lung health.

You can also learn to breathe with your lips contracted, that is, take a deep breath, then contract your lips and exhale others slowly, which can make the gas exchange more full and discharge more carbon dioxide from the alveoli, which is a very beneficial action for the lungs.

You can also learn abdominal breathing at ordinary times, choose to breathe through your nose, bulge your stomach when inhaling, and close your stomach when exhaling, which can expand your vital capacity and improve your lung function.

These actions are very simple, and everyone can do them easily. If you can stick to these little tricks every day, it will be good for your lungs. Besides exercise, there are many Chinese medicines that are also good for the lungs.

Three Traditional Chinese Medicines Benefiting the Lung

Choosing the right Chinese medicine is also a way to keep the lungs healthy.

First of all, Polygonatum sibiricum has always been regarded as a good tonic, with the effects of strengthening the spleen, regulating the stomach and moistening the heart and lungs. According to the words recorded in Cao Zhi Jing, Polygonatum sibiricum is an excellent choice to nourish the five internal organs, which can make the complexion rosy and the bones hard. Therefore, it is a traditional Chinese medicine that benefits the lungs.

Secondly, it is well known that Fritillaria cirrhosa is good for the lungs. It has a very good effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and has a very good effect on treating cough due to yin deficiency. A lot of antitussive drugs will be added to Fritillaria cirrhosa, and cough is also the most harmful to the lungs. People often cook Sydney with Fritillaria cirrhosa or make soup with lean meat.

Finally, Polygonatum odoratum and Adenophora adenophora are both traditional Chinese medicines that benefit the lung, and both enter the lung meridian and the stomach meridian. Polygonatum odoratum is used to treat lung and stomach dryness and heat, and Adenophora adenophora has obvious effects of nourishing yin and moistening lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production, and is often used for making soup.

If you want to keep your lungs healthy, you must learn to maintain them, starting with daily trifles.

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