Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has always been regarded as a relatively harmless treatment. To refresh yourself, Chinese medicine has various countermeasures, depending on your personal preferences. Here are three main refreshing methods.
Strategy 1: Herbal tea helps me refresh myself.
Tea has always been regarded as the first choice for refreshing. Maybe you are limited to simple green tea, black tea or ordinary tea. In fact, many fashionable and delicious herbal teas are also our good companions to refresh our minds.
◆ Mint tea
Drinking mint tea is the most admirable way to refresh oneself, and it has recently been recommended as a healthy drink by American fitness magazines. It tastes spicy and cool, and mainly contains volatile oil. The main components of the oil are menthol, menthol, menthone, menthyl ester, terpene, limonene and so on. It has the effects of expelling wind and cold, removing filth and detoxifying. However, mint can reduce the amount of maternal milk, which is irritating to some extent and should not be used by women and children during lactation and pregnancy.
1 rock sugar mint tea
Ingredients: mint leaves 5- 10 tablets of rock sugar or honey and juice.
Preparation method: Wash the mint leaves with cold water, put them into a teacup, add 200ml of hot water, cover them with 15-20min, and add rock sugar, honey or fruit juice according to personal preference after cooling, which can improve the taste of tea.
Efficacy: According to the recent research report, mint can prevent spasms, relax muscles and reduce muscle stiffness and pain. Mint tea can stimulate the movement of food in the digestive tract and help digestion, especially suitable for gastrointestinal discomfort or eating too greasy food. Office workers who work in front of the computer should drink a cup of cool mint tea when they are depressed, which is conducive to refreshing their minds and relieving stress. In addition, because mint has a unique fragrance, gargling or drinking with mint tea can not only maintain the fragrance of teeth and cheeks, but also eliminate the swelling and pain of gums.
2 cups of rose mint tea
Ingredients: 4-5 dried rose buds and a small amount of mint (2, 3 yuan is enough)
How to make it: Put the dried rose and mint into the cup and cover it with 10- 15 minutes. The refreshing effect will be better when the tea is cold.
Efficacy: In spring, people's mood is prone to fluctuation, and roses are often deeply loved by office women, which has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and relieving emotions. Peppermint can drive away fatigue and make people look brand-new, while the sweet and pure fragrance of roses can dilute the bitter taste of mint, killing two birds with one stone.
3 mint chrysanthemum tea
Ingredients: mint 3 money chrysanthemum 2 money.
Production method: put chrysanthemum and mint together in a teacup, cover and brew for 5- 10 minutes.
Efficacy: Chrysanthemum can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve fatigue, and has better drinking effect with mint.
◆ Chrysanthemum ginseng tea
Materials: 4-5 dried chrysanthemum buds and 2-4 ginseng.
Production method: chop ginseng into small pieces, put them in chrysanthemum buds, cover them with hot water and soak them for about 10- 15 minutes.
Efficacy: Ginseng contains saponins and vitamins, which has a good regulating effect on human nervous system, can improve human immunity and effectively eliminate fatigue. Chrysanthemum has a fragrant smell, which has the function of clearing fire and improving eyesight, and both of them have the function of refreshing the brain. However, patients with hypertension should not use ginseng, and ginseng should not be eaten with tea, coffee and radish.
◆ Lavender lemon tea
Ingredients: 5-6 slices of lemon or lemon juice from dried lavender buds.
Production method: put the dried lavender buds and lemon slices into a teacup, add boiling water and cover it for 5- 10 minutes. If it goes with lemon juice, wait until the tea turns pale green and cool before adding it.
Efficacy: The fragrance of lavender is loved by women. It has nourishing, relieving stress and relieving fatigue since ancient times. Lemon has the functions of diuresis, promoting digestion and blood circulation, and relieving headache. Its faint fragrance can make people feel refreshed, but pregnant women should not drink tea containing lemon.
Strategy 2: Medicine incense drives away fatigue.
You always feel listless and inefficient in spring, but you just don't like the refreshing tea that needs to be brewed every day. What should I do? It doesn't matter. You can make your own sachet and wear it on your body or beside your desk every day.
Recommendation for making sachets simply: Take 3 grams of Borneolum Syntheticum and Camphor, 0/5 grams of Alpinia officinarum/KLOC-and 30 grams of Cinnamomum cassia, mix and mash these four Chinese medicines, sew the cloth for making sachets into small bags, and then put them into the prepared medicine. After a period of time, if the smell in the sachet may weaken, the refreshing effect will also decrease, and it is necessary to replace it at this time.
Efficacy: The principle that the sachet can refresh is that the unique aroma of traditional Chinese medicine in the sachet acts on the brain or nasal mucosa, thus regulating the nervous system and making people refreshed. According to the research, the fragrant smell of the medicine in the sachet can stimulate the nasal mucosa and increase the content of immunoglobulin A(SlgA) secreting antibodies on the nasal mucosa. The increase of its content makes it difficult for the virus to survive on nasal mucosa and respiratory mucosa, thus greatly reducing the chance of people catching a cold.
Strategy 3: TCM self-massage
1 Massage the head and temples
Massage method: Massage the upper and lower eyelids with four fingers, then move the fingers from the corner of the eye to the temple and massage for a few minutes. When massaging, it is best to have a stable mood, chest out and abdomen in order to achieve a certain effect.
Efficacy: We are familiar with the temple. The correct position of the temple is about one-third from the brow to the ear. Touching the most sunken part with your hand is the temple. Regular massage of the temples can promote the blood circulation of the brain and relieve fatigue, and the operation is very simple, suitable for doing at any time.
Massage Yongquan point on the sole of foot
Massage method: First of all, choose the right points. Yongquan point is what we often call the foot center, which is at the bottom of our feet and the midpoint of the second metatarsal space. It is equivalent to the junction of 1/3 and 1/3 in the front of the palm. Massage time is best before going to bed every night. Massage methods include shiatsu, rubbing and so on. , about 50- 100 times each time, mainly due to foot fever.
Efficacy: This point is the starting point of kidney meridian of foot shaoyin. The kidney controls the storage of essence, has the physiological functions of absorbing, storing and sealing essence, and is in charge of the growth, development and reproduction of human body. Massage Yongquan point, through the conduction of meridians, can make the kidney have a good effect, regulate endocrine and autonomic nervous system, and refresh the mind.
Three common mistakes in refreshing the mind.
There are many incorrect refreshing methods in life, which can really restore our energy to a certain extent, but if we use these methods to drive away fatigue for a long time, what effect will it have?
1 refresh yourself with alcohol and tobacco.
There is no denying that alcohol and tobacco can refresh you. The main mechanism is to stimulate the cerebral cortex through some chemicals in tobacco and alcohol, so that the brain remains excited. It may be ok occasionally, but it is wrong to regard it as a way to eliminate troubles and fatigue for a long time. Smoking and drinking for a long time will not only bring great harm to your body, but also reduce your immunity, distract your energy and make you more prone to fatigue.
As long as you sleep more, you will feel good.
Spring is not because people sleep longer in spring, but because they can't adapt to climate change at once. People's sleep time is scientific. Adults sleep about 8- 10 hours a day. If they sleep too long, the cerebral cortex will be in a state of inhibition. I can't seem to sleep, but my mind is in a daze.
The best advice is that you get up early to exercise every day. The temperature is suitable in spring, suitable for getting up early. After getting exercise, you can get rid of some inertia, improve your immunity and feel refreshed.
Coke and coffee drinks are more effective for refreshing.
Cola coffee contains caffeine, which can refresh the mind and keep people excited. But for different people, cola coffee drinks have different effects. For those who need to concentrate, it can refresh themselves. For those who have complicated jobs, they can feel excited at first, but they will feel tired after a while. In addition, women who often drink cola can also lead to osteoporosis, heart and liver diseases, which need to be paid attention to.