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. So how to keep healthy in winter? Let me introduce it to you, I hope it will be useful to you!

Characteristics of health preservation in winter

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 yang of human body gathers, the qi and blood tend to flow inward, the panel is dense, and the 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, which spreads 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 is prone to urinary symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency. Older men can aggravate the symptoms of dysuria and even have acute urinary retention. Therefore, winter health care should pay special attention to the maintenance of kidneys.

Traditional Chinese medicine health care methods in winter

1, go to bed early, get up late and get some sunshine.

This language comes from Huangdi Neijing. Going to bed early in ancient times meant going to bed at nine o'clock in the evening. The sun comes out in the morning and then gets up. As the saying goes, I sleep during the day, and I wake up when I wake up. Modern people don't have to stick to this, but it is very necessary to go to bed early and get up late in winter without staying up late. Because it gets dark early, the sun be the spirit closes early, and going to bed early can nourish the sun; It's morning, and the sun's spirit rises too late, so you can get up late.

Tip: A small ceremony after waking up before going to bed. Going to bed early at night, practicing yoga meditation and pranayama, or rubbing the soles of your feet at Yongquan point, rubbing your lower back with your palm at Shenshu point, and moxibustion or hot compress at Guanyuan point all have the effect of tonifying the kidney and sleeping peacefully. Wake up in the morning, don't get up in a hurry. You can tuck your knees in your hands and let your back roll back and forth on the bed. Legs up, short pedal, first forward and then backward. Lie on your stomach, with your head and feet as high as possible, and do swallowing movements. Exercise the main joints of the body before getting up to make the blood flow smoothly.

2. Three main points of keeping warm in winter

Warm head, warm back and warm feet in winter. Women should pay special attention to keeping their abdomen warm during the physiological period. Especially for people with yang deficiency, these three parts are vulnerable to cold evil. The experience of traditional Chinese medicine is that "typhoid fever in winter will be hot in spring." If it is too cold in winter, you will get fever in spring. * * * is an exogenous acute disease characterized by fever, such as influenza.

People with yang deficiency should spend less time on their backs when doing physical exercise in winter. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the abdomen is yin and the back is yang, and the back * * * and * * * are easy to disturb the yang, leading to yang leakage. On the contrary, we should pay attention to the health care of the yin meridian. We can moxibustion any meridian located in the midline of the chest and abdomen, which is connected with the Liuyin Meridian. Known as the "sea of yin meridians", it has the function of regulating the qi of all yin meridians in the whole body. You can focus on acupuncture points such as breast * * *, Shenque * * *, navel * * *, Guanyuan * * *, and the four fingers under the navel.

Tip: A small remedy to prevent colds. If you accidentally catch a cold, you can boil water with ginger slices and brown sugar. You can also cook porridge with scallion, ginger slices and glutinous rice, and add a proper amount of rice vinegar to make "fairy porridge" to prevent colds and colds. The effect is very good.

3, no drainage board-moderate exercise in winter.

Chinese medicine says that winter sports should have "no leakage", that is, the yang should not leak from the board. The human body panel is like the leaves of a big tree. In summer, you can help your body detoxify by sweating. In winter, it should be folded like a pine needle to avoid sweating. Otherwise, if the panel is opened, the yang will be lost, which is not conducive to hiding. Especially for women, there are many people with yang deficiency and blood stasis, so be especially careful, and it is best not to swim, or choose an indoor swimming pool. Warm up fully before exercise, mainly with moderate-intensity exercise, so that the body is hot or slightly sweaty.

Tip: Keep warm after exercise. Wear a hat, scarf and gloves to keep warm immediately after exercise or sweating. After strenuous exercise, wait until the heartbeat and breathing are basically normal, and then take a bath with warm water. After taking a shower, blow dry your hair, put on your coat and hat before going out.

4, more back drying, aphrodisiac

Winter is the high incidence season of depression, which is related to insufficient sunlight. In winter, Chinese medicine advocates "basking in the back" for health preservation. The back is the most important intersection of the seven meridians to transport the yang, and you often sit with your back to the sun, so that the sun warms your back a little, and the yang will be absorbed into the body through the acupuncture points on your back, and then transported to all parts of the body. When you feel full of harmony in the sun, it is a sign that your body is full of yang and your meridians are unobstructed. When the spirit of the sun is replenished, we can enjoy life again in high spirits.

Tip: The sunny mood in winter is very important. Faced with workplace challenges such as year-end assessment, it is also stressful. Health experts remind you to actively adjust your mood when you encounter something unsatisfactory. You can also vent by talking, singing, rational argument and other appropriate ways to maintain inner peace.

5. Consolidate kidney and store essence, and have a gentle temperament.

In winter, the kidney meridian becomes active, and the kidney is the innate foundation and the house of storing essence. Winter is the best time to nourish and store sperm, and people with kidney deficiency are most effective in tonifying kidney in winter. Kidney essence can last for a long time mainly by nourishing and saving use. The first point of tonifying kidney is to control * * *. The ancients advocated that couples sleep in separate beds in the lunar calendar 1 1 and May. It is this two months that excessive sexual intercourse will make the body consume more and should be controlled.

6, tonic does not forget to control weight

For girls in the workplace, the most worrying consequence of winter tonic is weight gain. After the age of 35, women may often feel hungry because of visceral dysfunction, especially in winter, when their appetite increases, they unconsciously gain weight.

Here are two ways to help you solve the problem of tonic and weight. Tonic depends on your taste. Have your tastes changed? As you get older, you find that your taste has changed. For example, you used to have a light taste, but now you like salty food. I didn't like sugar before, but now I like sugar, and I feel very happy after eating it. The change of these habits can reflect the deficiency and excess of organs to some extent. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors affect the five internal organs, namely, bitter into the heart, spicy into the lungs, sour into the liver, salty into the kidney and sweet into the spleen. If you want to eat sour food, it may be because you are too angry. People with kidney deficiency instinctively want to supplement salty things to mobilize kidney qi. We can satisfy our appetite moderately, but don't spoil it. It is necessary to take targeted complementary food measures in time. For example, seafood such as sea cucumber and kelp are salty foods that enter the kidney and can be used to supplement kidney deficiency. Poria cocos, millet and lotus seeds can strengthen the spleen. Tomatoes, oranges, bananas, purple rice and medlar can all nourish the liver.

Tip: "Vegetarian tonic" is just the right time. In ancient times, resources were scarce, and nourishing meat birds supplemented the body with heat to resist the cold. In modern society, tonics don't have to be high in fat and calories. Vegetarian food can warm meridians and dredge collaterals. Pears, lotus roots and radishes are cold when eaten raw, but they don't hurt when heated and cooked. There are longan, papaya, lily, yam, taro, sweet potato and other cereals; Peanuts, almonds, walnuts and other dried fruits are vegetarian and can be supplemented on the spot.