Spring, summer, autumn and winter?
Interpretation: spring germination, summer growth, autumn harvest and winter storage. Refers to the general process of agricultural production. It is also a metaphor for the occurrence and development of things.
From the perspective of TCM health care, conforming to the four seasons, nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter, treating winter diseases in summer and treating winter diseases in summer, is to adjust one's life according to the law of spring, summer, long harvest and winter storage, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort in health care.
1, the spring tree grows and grows, and it is suitable for nourishing the liver.
Liver governs spring, liver likes green food, and should eat more green vegetables in spring. Strengthen the health care of the liver, keep an optimistic mood, and be neither sad nor happy nor angry. In addition, excessive liver qi and rising internal fire in spring will adversely affect the spleen and stomach and hinder the normal digestion and absorption of food, so it is necessary to strengthen the regulation and maintenance of the spleen and stomach.
2, summer is a fire, growth and development, should be nourishing.
The heart governs summer, and the heart likes red foods such as hawthorn, red dates and medlar. In summer, you sweat more and lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be affected. At this time, we should eat more sour taste to strengthen the exterior and more salty taste to replenish the heart. In the long summer, the climate is humid and warm. In the human body, it corresponds to the "most yin" spleen. The weather is hot, and the first thing is to prevent dampness and replenish spleen.
3, autumn is gold, the main convergence, it is appropriate to raise the lungs.
Lung governs autumn, and lung likes white food such as white radish. In autumn, dryness is in season, which is easy to hurt body fluids. The diet is mainly nourishing yin and lungs. In addition, sour food can converge lung qi, and spicy food can dissipate lung qi. Therefore, eating more sour fruits such as pears, tomatoes, lemons, ebony, grapes, hawthorn, pomegranate and kiwifruit in autumn can nourish and moisten the lungs, and can also achieve the functions of stopping diarrhea and dehumidification, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, invigorating the stomach and promoting digestion, and stimulating appetite.
4, winter is water, the main seal, it is appropriate to raise the kidney.
Kidney governs winter, and kidney likes black food such as black bean products. Cold corresponds to the kidney, which is the easiest to consume the yang of the kidney. When yang is injured, people are prone to symptoms such as weakness of waist and knees, easy to catch a cold, and nocturia. Therefore, we must pay attention to tonifying the kidney in winter. Eat more warm foods such as walnuts, medlar and mutton to tonify the kidney with food.
Extended data:
Xunzi? ? Heaven said, "Heaven is always there, not for the existence of Yao, not for the death of Jie. It is advisable to be good at governance and to be violent. " This is the idea of "learning from nature" advocated by modern natural philosophy, warning people to correctly handle the relationship between "artificial nature" and "natural nature" and not to be enemies with "heaven".
Dong Zhongshu, a famous scholar in the Han Dynasty, put forward the theory of "the unity of heaven and man" in Three Stories in the Spring and Autumn Period, arguing that if the monarch does not obey the "Heaven" and does not implement the policy of virtue, it will arouse the wrath of heaven and cause disasters such as water, fire, insects, drought and earthquake. Here we can get a glimpse of his thoughts on the importance of coordinating the relationship between man and nature.
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Spring grows in summer and autumn harvests in winter.
Baidu encyclopedia-four seasons health