Chinese medicine believes that winter is the season of storing essence, and the way of "storing winter" should be observed. Winter is a static period of the year, and everything is harvested. For people, winter is also a window for people to enter a state of leisure. At this time, the metabolism in the human body is relatively slow and the consumption is relatively reduced. Therefore, winter is the best time for health care, and the best time for winter tonic is from winter solstice to spring. Health preservation in winter mainly refers to sleep, diet, exercise, drugs and other means to achieve the purpose of nourishing essence, strengthening body and prolonging life.
However, due to the high humidity in Lingnan area where we live, and after a long summer, people live in an air-conditioned environment for a long time and often eat cold drinks, many people have the phenomenon of weakened spleen and stomach function. If you take supplements rashly at this time, you may have abdominal distension, anorexia, bad breath, diarrhea and acne, which is what we often say.
People who live in Lingnan area for a long time should adjust their spleen and stomach functions before tonic. The spleen and stomach are responsible for transporting and absorbing nutrients needed by the human body, and distributing them throughout the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five elements of the spleen and stomach belong to the soil and the middle energizer, which are all "the source of qi and blood biochemistry", while * * * bears the heavy responsibility of transforming qi and blood and is the foundation of the day after tomorrow. Therefore, only when the function of spleen and stomach transport and transformation is normal, the effect of winter tonic can be significant.
Nourishing the spleen and stomach begins with diet therapy.
Recommended diet therapy:
Poria cocos, white beans and keel soup
Materials: 500g of keel, 0/5g of poria cocos/kloc-,20g of white lentils.
Accessories: 3 slices of ginger, 5g of dried tangerine peel and lotus seed 10g (core removed).
Steps:
1. Clean the keel and put it in water for later use.
2. Wash Poria cocos, lentils, dried tangerine peel and lotus seeds.
3. Put all the materials into the pot and rinse with cold water. Turn the high fire to low fire 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of salt before taking out the pot.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, attacking and reinforcing simultaneously.
Suitable for people: people with spleen deficiency, wet sleep, loss of appetite, heavy head and tiredness, and rotten stool.
Yam, atractylodes rhizome and pigeon soup
Material: pigeon 65438+ Rhizoma Dioscoreae 0g Atractylodis Macrocephalae10g.
Accessories: 3 candied dates, 3 slices of ginger, 5g of medlar and 5g of dried tangerine peel.
Steps:
1. Wash pigeons and water them for later use.
2. Wash yam, atractylodes macrocephala, candied dates, medlar and dried tangerine peel for later use.
Put all the ingredients in the pot and rinse with cold water. Turn the high fire to low fire 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of salt before taking out the pot.
Efficacy: spleen and stomach, qi and dampness.
Suitable for people: those who are tired and sleepy, have poor appetite, are heavy-headed and sleepy, and have bad stools.
Yam, lotus seed and millet porridge
Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh yam, 50 grams of lotus seeds and 200 grams of millet.
Accessories: 5 grams of Lycium barbarum, Euryale ferox 10 grams.
Steps: Wash and peel the above materials, pour them into the pot, add enough water to boil, and then turn to low heat and slowly boil them into porridge.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying middle energizer and nourishing stomach.
Suitable for people: indigestion, loss of appetite, constipation.
Health care method
Quiet oriented
In winter, we should give priority to stability and tranquility, and maintain spiritual pleasure and emotional stability.
Eat more warm food and less cold food.
Warm foods include glutinous rice, sorghum rice, chestnuts, jujubes, walnuts, almonds, leeks, coriander, pumpkin, ginger, onions and garlic. Nutrition in winter should be based on increasing heat energy, and carbohydrate intake can be appropriately increased. For the elderly, the intake of fat should not be too much, and protein should be enough, such as lean meat, eggs, fish, milk, beans and other products.
Go to bed early and get up late to keep warm from the cold. "Do it at sunrise and rest at sunset."
It is not advisable to do morning exercises too early, but after sunrise, the temperature rises, which is the best time for morning exercises. However, middle-aged and elderly people are not suitable for morning exercise, because myocardial infarction, ischemia and arrhythmia peak in the morning to noon within 24 hours a day, and it is not easy to occur in the afternoon to night.
It is not advisable to do morning exercises too early, but after sunrise, the temperature rises, which is the best time for morning exercises.
However, middle-aged and elderly people are not suitable for morning exercise, because myocardial infarction, ischemia and arrhythmia peak in the morning to noon within 24 hours a day, and it is not easy to occur in the afternoon to night.
Keep your neck, back and feet warm.
Cold air in winter is easy to hurt the trachea, leading to cough in winter. Keeping the neck warm can effectively prevent coughing in winter. The back is full of yang, and pathogenic wind and cold can easily invade the body through the back, which can easily lead to exogenous diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Pay attention to keep your back warm.
A cup of warm water in the morning can promote intestinal detoxification and relieve winter dryness.