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What does four seasons health care mean?
1, Four Seasons Health Care: The theories and methods of TCM health care are extremely rich, but the most important thing is timely health care. As "Neijing Lingshu Benjing" said, "Therefore, the wise man's way of keeping in good health must be suitable for cold and summer ... If so, it will be far from the evil of deviance and the vision will last for a long time." Seeing and living meaningfully; Longevity means prolonging life, and it is not easy to get old. Why can you prolong life? It's because "eccentric evil is out of reach", and evil means that healthy qi is not upright and eccentric evil is out of reach, that is, disease and evil can't invade. The key to the invasion of pathogenic factors lies in "four seasons should be cold and summer", which is an extremely important principle in TCM health preservation and can also be said to be a magic weapon to prolong life.

2, the principle of health:

(1) First, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Humidity is a great scourge in summer. In addition, the spleen and stomach function is low in summer, and there are often symptoms such as poor appetite, diarrhea, and white greasy tongue coating. Always take something that strengthens the spleen and promotes diuresis. Generally, products with the functions of invigorating spleen, aromatizing and eliminating dampness, lightly infiltrating and promoting diuresis are selected, such as Pogostemon rugosa, lotus seeds and Eupatorium odoratum.

(2) The second is to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. In summer, the temperature is high, the summer heat is evil and people's hearts are strong. Therefore, some drugs with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heart-fire and purging fire are often used to dispel summer heat, such as chrysanthemum, mint, honeysuckle, forsythia, lotus leaf and so on.

(3) The third is to nourish the lungs and kidneys. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that according to the law of five elements, the heart is full of fire in summer, and the lung and kidney are weak, so it is necessary to pay attention to nourishing the yin of the lung and kidney. You can choose Lycium barbarum, Radix Rehmanniae, Lily, Mulberry, and drugs that use acid to collect lung qi, such as Schisandra chinensis, to prevent excessive sweating and damage body fluid.

(4) The fourth is to treat winter diseases in summer. The so-called treatment of winter diseases in summer means that the human body and the outside world are full of yang in summer, and some diseases that are prone to occur in winter are treated by oral Chinese medicine combined with acupuncture and other external treatments. Frostbite in winter can be prevented if fresh sesame flowers are used to wipe the places that are prone to frostbite; Applying ointment to acupoints in winter can treat asthma and rhinitis.