In spring, you must pay attention to nourishing the liver. The simplest thing is stretching. As the saying goes, "When a person lies down, the blood will return to the liver, while when a person moves, the blood will flow through the meridians". After stretching, the joint muscles get activity and the liver gets "exercise". Try to stretch, straighten your limbs and exert your muscles. Try to inhale when stretching. When you relax, relax your muscles and try to exhale. Stretch yourself!
2. Pay attention to nourishing the liver
Chinese medicine believes that in spring health care, we should pay special attention to maintaining our liver, because spring is characterized by rising yang. Therefore, according to the above characteristics, eat more divergent foods and eat less foods with acid-collecting effects.
It is easy to get angry in spring, especially pay attention to the rise of "liver fire" Every time I encounter continuous spring rain or early morning fog, or encounter setbacks, I often feel depressed, angry and get burned. So at this time, in addition to diet conditioning, but also to regulate the spirit, cultivate self-cultivation, cultivate sentiment, optimistic and open-minded, eliminate depression, control anger and nourish the liver.
3, cold
Go to bed late and get up early in spring, do more outdoor activities, stretch your body and make your day more energetic. In spring, we should pay special attention to preventing wind and cold, nourishing yang and astringing yin. According to the characteristics of cold and warm weather in early spring, clothes cannot be reduced, and winter clothes are taken off too early, which is easy to catch cold and hurt the lungs, causing respiratory diseases. According to the principle of "covering spring and freezing autumn", clothes must increase or decrease with the change of temperature to adapt to the changeable climate in spring.
4. Add some sweetness to your diet
In spring, the human liver is most affected by yang. People with strong liver qi are most likely to lose their temper in spring, and it is easy to "anger from the heart". This sudden outbreak of emotions can easily lead to a sudden increase in blood pressure, headache, eye pain, tinnitus and even cerebral hemorrhage. Such people are also prone to diarrhea. People with weak liver qi often feel weak, listless and always lazy in spring.
If you belong to the former constitution, you can eat some acidic foods such as hawthorn and ebony to nourish your liver. People with the latter constitution had better add some sweetness to their diet.
5. Eat more Toona sinensis and coriander.
In early spring, green buds will appear on the Chinese Toona tree. Squeeze the tender buds to make a plate of scrambled eggs with Toona sinensis, or chop them up and add some oil and salt to make cold Toona sinensis buds, which is the best health-care home-cooked dish. Aromatic vegetables such as Toona sinensis and coriander have a strong dredging effect, which can help the human yang to rise.