Meat: Eat more mutton, dog meat, chicken and soft-shelled turtle.
Vegetables: yam, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, pumpkin, celery, etc.
Fruits: strawberry, horseshoe, sugarcane, persimmon, kiwi.
Others: lotus seeds, lilies, chestnuts, walnuts, jujubes and longan pulp.
All the above foods have the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, warming kidney and strengthening yang, strengthening spleen and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and tonifying lung. Of course, people who are hot and easy to get angry should pay attention to slow tonic and eat less.
Eat less cold foods such as seafood and cold drinks this season, because the weather is cold, it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach inside and outside, and then damage the righteousness.
Recommended recipe: stewed mutton with angelica and wolfberry
Materials: angelica 15g, longan 10g, medlar 15g, and mutton 500g.
Method: Cut the mutton into pieces, add ginger and water, drain it in Shui Piao, add various medicines, serve soup, boil it in water, and eat the meat with soup.
Function: Mutton is warm and contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins (A and B). Has the effects of nourishing yin, strengthening yang, relieving fatigue, invigorating qi and blood. Longan tonifies the heart and spleen, and you can smell mutton. Angelica sinensis nourishes blood and blood, promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis. Stewed mutton with angelica and medlar can nourish yin and yang, heart and spleen.
How to exercise in January?
Man:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is the main qi in winter, and cold is yin evil, which is easy to hurt the yang of human body. Therefore, the key to health preservation is "tonifying kidney and preventing cold". Keep warm during exercise to prevent respiratory diseases. Diet should be "nourished", which can not only replenish qi, blood and body fluid in time to resist the cold, but also make young people suffer less from diseases and achieve the goal of getting twice the result with half the effort.
Lady:
In winter, people are used to closing the doors and windows of the house tightly, which will cause the indoor carbon dioxide concentration to be too high. If you add the decomposition products of sweat and the bad gas discharged from the digestive tract, the indoor air will be seriously polluted. In this environment, people will have dizziness, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite and other phenomena. In addition, winter is the season of carbon monoxide poisoning, so we must keep the indoor air circulating and fresh.
Old man:
During this period, besides paying attention to mental conditioning, going to bed early and getting up late, we should also pay attention to conditioning kidney qi. Since ancient times, there has been a folk saying that "it's very cold, and the wind catches a cold. Drink ginseng and astragalus wine early and eat Qiju Dihuang pills late". In this solar term, people often use Liuwei Dihuang Pill to nourish liver and kidney to supplement kidney qi. Because the kidney is full of qi, it can resist cold evil, improve human immunity and achieve the effect of strengthening the body and preventing diseases.
Pregnant women:
In winter, cold air attacks people, which is very easy to damage the yang of human body. Therefore, winter health care should start from gathering yin and protecting yang.
First of all, try to go to bed early and get up late. Going to bed early and getting up late in winter, keeping a long rest time, can make the will quiet and the latent yang of the human body will not be disturbed, which is the first thing to pay attention to in winter health care. Secondly, pay great attention to keeping your back warm. The back is the yang in the yang, and pathogenic factors such as wind and cold can easily invade through the back of the human body. Expectant mothers should pay attention to keeping their backs warm so as not to hurt the yang. Then keep warm from the cold. It is cold in winter, so people should pay attention to stay in the greenhouse as much as possible and reduce the number of outings. If you want to go out, you should wear warm clothes, shoes and socks. Taking a bath in winter, if you are not careful, you will catch a cold and induce respiratory diseases. You should take fewer showers and keep warm when taking a shower.
Precautions for health care in January
In January, all kinds of medicinal hot pot became delicious for people to cool down and dispel cold and strengthen heat dissipation, but many people ignored the problem of reasonable tonic, especially young people. They should make tonic selectively according to their own situation, and never crave thick and spicy food, otherwise they will easily get angry. Ordinary food should be high-calorie and vitamin-rich food. In addition to cereal products, red sweet potatoes, red beans, sesame seeds, peanuts and walnuts should also be selected.