Four seasons health preservation is an important principle of TCM health preservation. According to the characteristics of winter, the principle of winter health preservation is to avoid hiding yang, that is, to avoid consuming yang. Nourishing yin in autumn and winter is to preserve yang and not consume yin, thus achieving the function of regulating the body. Therefore, in winter, you can use some ingredients that warm or warm the yang to protect the body's yang and avoid damage to the body's yin. Traditional Chinese medicine can adopt the moxibustion method of natural moxibustion, that is, sticking points to preserve health in winter, which has a good effect of helping yang and relieving respiratory diseases. In addition, warm moxibustion can also help or enhance human yang by warming Shu points of viscera, especially Shu points related to spleen, stomach, kidney and liver, and protect human viscera.

Second, winter health soup.

In winter, it is recommended for patients with deficiency of both qi and blood to eat angelica and ginger mutton soup, in which angelica nourishes blood and promotes blood circulation, ginger warms the stomach and mutton nourishes and warms the yang. Angelica and ginger mutton soup can dispel women's cold, body cold, nourish qi and blood, warm the body and warm the palace. Of course, you can also choose to use it for men. If there is fire in winter, it should be replenished and cleared. According to the local characteristics of Lingnan, some of them can be used to tonify qi, spleen and dampness, and when used together, they will have the effect of tonifying without hurting symptoms and leaving no evil.

Third, dietotherapy, nourishing qi and blood in winter.

Health preservation in winter is mainly based on invigorating qi and blood, and the recommended ingredients are Radix Astragali, Ginseng, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Pseudostellariae, etc. It has the effect of invigorating qi and generating blood. Jujube, longan, angelica, donkey-hide gelatin, milk, meat and other ingredients have the effect of tonifying qi and blood and strengthening yang. Pale complexion, pale lips and nails, weakness, easy sweating, cold hands and feet, less menstrual flow and easy syncope and dizziness are all symptoms of deficiency of qi and blood. At this time, you can choose the means of invigorating qi and generating blood in diet therapy. It is suggested that simple Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and eggs should be boiled to make sugar water for drinking, which can nourish blood and produce blood. It can also be combined with brown sugar to nourish and moisten dryness, nourish yin and replenish blood, which is helpful to the generation of qi and blood and promote the operation of qi and blood. Those with severe deficiency of both qi and blood can take Astragalus and Angelica once a day, add eggs and boil sugar water to improve the symptoms of deficiency of both qi and blood.

You can eat radish in winter, and radish has a cooling effect when it enters the lung meridian and the large intestine meridian. For those who are prone to stagnation of spleen and stomach and stagnation of lung qi in winter, it can play the role of resolving food stagnation, resolving phlegm and clearing throat. Moreover, radish seeds can also play the role of resolving phlegm, relieving sore throat and dredging abdomen, which has a good effect on people with lung qi deficiency and spleen and stomach obstruction in winter. Radish can also neutralize the stagnation caused by meat, and also contains more vitamins and minerals, especially zinc, which can improve appetite and improve human immune function. In winter, dry ginger, Alpinia officinarum and ginger products can be used to warm the stomach when the deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach or cold pathogens are removed. If you want to get rid of the coldness of your limbs, you can use pungent food, such as Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Decoction, some meat in Huangqi or cinnamon pot, which can play a role in dispelling wind and dispelling cold.