Do you often feel that you are panting after a little exercise and are often called "weak"? When you go to the amusement park with friends, when you see the roller coaster, will you be afraid? Will you be laughed at as a "coward" happily? In fact, the root of all this may be that your constitution belongs to qi deficiency constitution. If you don't want to be said to be weak, just have a good look at today's article. How should qi deficiency constitution keep in good health? It's all in there!

Chinese medicine believes that human beings have three treasures: essence, qi and spirit. Qi is the most basic substance that constitutes the human body and maintains human life activities. As long as human beings can maintain their vigor, they can naturally get rid of diseases and prolong life. Health preservation is mainly to cultivate people's essence, qi and spirit. Ancient hygienists who followed the correct training methods usually lived a long and healthy life. People with qi deficiency are prone to fatigue, weakness, dull complexion, low voice, reticence, loss of appetite, sweating, fear of cold, visceral ptosis and other diseases, and recover slowly after illness. Therefore, people with qi deficiency should pay more attention to the external exercise of bones and muscles and the internal adjustment of internal organs in order to achieve the purpose of invigorating qi and keeping in good health.

Exercise-both form and spirit, kinetic energy increases qi.

The traditional exercise regimen has gradually formed a regimen of exercising limbs, self-massage, breathing, adjusting nose and ventilator, calming the mind and nourishing the spirit, and cultivating the mind and nourishing the nature through the continuous summary and supplement of health experts in past dynasties. Here is a brief introduction to the matters needing attention when people with qi deficiency exercise and several basic methods of traditional exercise.

Selection of sports events for people with qi deficiency

Long-term correct exercise can effectively improve people's physique. People with qi deficiency are weak, so they should choose sports with little exercise, such as walking, jogging, push-ups and aerobics. Traditional health care programs, such as Tai Ji Chuan, Taiji Sword, Wuqinxi, etc. In short, it is recommended to focus on moderate and slow sports, which are not suitable for long-distance running, football matches and other sports that require strong endurance.

What should people with qi deficiency pay special attention to when exercising?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with qi deficiency have low physique, and overwork is easy to consume gas. Therefore, people with qi deficiency should pay attention to the time and intensity of exercise besides choosing appropriate exercise. They should adopt low-intensity, multi-frequency exercise methods, appropriately increase the number of exercises, step by step and persevere. It is best to exercise outdoors in a better environment after sunrise and before sunset. At this time, the temperature is suitable, the oxygen is sufficient and the effect is good. You should try to avoid exercising in cold air. Don't sweat all the time, especially in autumn and winter, and don't sweat a lot. If you feel hot all over, you can stop.

Diet-strengthening the spleen and stomach, calming qi and blood.

What food is suitable for people with qi deficiency?

As the saying goes, "medicine is better than food." People with qi deficiency have weak spleen and stomach function, while Chinese medicine believes that spleen and stomach are acquired and are the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Therefore, people with qi deficiency should pay more attention to diet and aftercare, especially to protect the spleen and stomach and promote the effective absorption of nutrients. Only by paying attention to the combination of meat and vegetables, comprehensive nutrition and regular diet can we achieve the ideal effect. People with qi deficiency should make up, and choose sweet, flat or warm food, which is nutritious and easy to digest. Qi deficiency foods include: japonica rice, glutinous rice, millet, yam, potato, lentil, red date, longan, lotus seed, pumpkin, tofu, beef, chicken, pork, goose, rabbit meat, herring, crucian carp, carp, quail, eel, shrimp, mushroom and so on. You can often choose alternately.

What food should people with qi deficiency eat less?

Generally speaking, there are basically no side effects in diet, but raw cold, hard and spicy food is more likely to damage the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with qi deficiency should try to avoid eating stale and gas-consuming food, greasy and sticky food, and cold and hard food.

Ingredients: 800g hen, 30g astragalus, jujube 10, 20g yam and a little seasoning.

Practice put astragalus and red dates in the stomach of chickens or in a steaming basin. You can add rice wine appropriately, sprinkle with ginger, onion, salt and other seasonings, steam for 2 hours, and eat it with meals several times.

Efficacy of invigorating qi and blood, strengthening spleen and stomach, strengthening bones and muscles. It is suitable for qi deficiency and qi and blood deficiency, such as dizziness, cold limbs, mental fatigue or fatigue, irregular menstruation, hypotension, etc.

2. Black bean lotus root pigeon soup

Ingredients: lotus root 500g, black beans 100g, dried tangerine peel 10g, 5 red dates, squab 1 each, a little salt.

First, put black beans in an iron pot, stir-fry until the skin of the beans cracks, then wash them and put them in water to dry; Slaughtering, cleaning, unhairing and taking out the viscera of young pigeons; Wash lotus root, dried tangerine peel and jujube respectively, cut lotus root into pieces, and remove the core of jujube. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, first boil it with strong fire until the water boils, then add the above materials, boil it for 3 hours on medium fire, add a little salt to taste, and serve. Black bean soup should generally be cooked, otherwise it will cause bloating and indigestion.

Has the effects of invigorating qi and blood, tonifying deficiency, strengthening body constitution, benefiting liver and kidney, and caring skin. Suitable for people with low blood pressure, mental fatigue, spleen and stomach deficiency, loss of appetite and dizziness. People with intestinal constipation should drink less, and pregnant women should drink carefully.

3. jujube and pepper pork tripe soup

Ingredients: 5 candied dates, white pepper 15g, streaky pork 1.

Practice cut off the fat of pork belly, scrub it with a little fine salt, marinate it for a while, then rinse it with clear water and blanch it in a hot water pot; Wash white pepper and candied dates. Put the white pepper into the pork belly, put it into the casserole with the candied dates, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with strong fire, simmer for 2 hours with slow fire, and season.

Efficacy: Warming spleen, dispelling cold and nourishing stomach. It is suitable for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency cold, stomach cold pain, abdominal distension and vomiting, reduced diet, tepid limbs and fear of cold. Or sore throat, eye diseases, hemorrhoids, hypertension, diabetes and other patients should not drink.

Daily health-conform to the four seasons and combine work and rest.

Comply with the four seasons and work regularly.

A year is characterized by warm spring, hot summer, cool autumn and cold winter. The days are long in summer and the nights are long in winter. The length of sunshine is closely related to the rise and fall of yang in nature. Since ancient times, there has been a regimen of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter". According to the four seasons regimen, it is advisable to go to bed late and get up early to nourish yang in spring and summer, and to go to bed early and get up early to nourish yin in autumn. Different people can adjust their schedules according to their own specific conditions. Long-term combination of work and rest, impermanence in daily life, will aggravate the state of qi deficiency, make people listless, listless, pale complexion, loss of appetite, insomnia and dreaminess.

Adapt to the four seasons and adjust your living habits.

People with qi deficiency have poor ability to keep out the cold, and their daily life should be adjusted according to the changes of seasons and climate. The climate changes greatly in spring, and it is hot and cold at first. As the temperature rises, the human skin becomes slack and the ability to resist cold evil weakens. Therefore, it should be covered in spring, especially for people with qi deficiency. It is especially prudent to reduce winter clothes, and it cannot be greatly reduced. In hot summer, skin pores are open, and pathogenic wind, cold and dampness are easy to invade. It is not advisable to use a fan to supply air when sleeping, nor to sleep in the cold. Don't stay in the air-conditioned room for a long time, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too big. Also, in summer, you should avoid long-term activities in the hot sun to prevent colds. From hot to cold in autumn, it is not advisable to wear too many clothes at once in early autumn, otherwise it will easily weaken the adaptability of the body to cold climate; In late autumn, the cold is getting worse and worse, so we need to add clothes.

Reasonable exercise methods and exercise time are beneficial to tonifying lung qi, strengthening spleen qi and nourishing kidney qi. For qi deficiency constitution with less qi and laziness, it is suggested to make your body and mind move as much as possible, use more brains and exercise more. However, people with qi deficiency have weak physical strength and are prone to fatigue, which requires a combination of work and rest. For example, keep enough regular sleep, don't stay up late, don't be too tired; Avoid outdoor sports when the weather is too cold or too hot. In hot and humid summer, cold winter, cold morning and evening, hot noon, we should reduce the time of outdoor activities, or even do not engage in outdoor activities.