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How to keep healthy during the winter solstice?
Attention, winter solstice health should be early! The solstice in winter is a good time for health preservation, mainly because "Qi starts from the solstice in winter". Because from beginning of winter, life activities began to turn from decline to prosperity, from static rotation. At this time, scientific health preservation helps to ensure vigorous energy and prevent premature aging, thus achieving the purpose of prolonging life.
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Food should be varied, light and warm.
Diet should be diversified: we must pay attention to the balance of diet and ensure the diversification of nutrition. The nourishment of the body needs a variety of nutrients, so we must ensure the diversification of diet in order to stay healthy from winter to Sunday, especially for vegetarians. It is best to choose some foods with high calcium.
Diet should be light: it is best not to eat too much greasy food in winter, especially for the elderly, whose digestive ability is weak. It is best to keep a diet list. Eat too much greasy food, avoid indigestion and be healthy. The requirement of modern nutrition for health is "three more and three less" for the elderly, and more intake of protein, vitamins and cellulose. It is best to eat less sugar, fat and salt.
Food should be warm and cooked soft: in winter, the elderly have weak spleen and stomach and weak yang. Spleen likes warm and hates cold, so it must be warm when eating, which can protect our spleen and stomach. Moreover, the elderly generally have bad teeth, like waxy soft food and hate cold hard food. Therefore, it is best to follow the principle of health preservation when eating, ensure the intake of warm cooked food, and give up raw and cold hard food.
Chew slowly: during the winter solstice, we must pay attention to moderate intake of diet. It's best to keep a full diet and don't eat too much. If you eat too much, it will have a bad effect on your digestive system. Be sure to chew slowly when eating, and it is best to ensure that the food is fully chewed, which is not only good for the spleen and stomach, but also very beneficial to the body.
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Pay attention to daily health care
Wash your face with cold water: The climate is cold in winter, so many people choose to wash their faces with hot water in the morning. In fact, washing your face with cold water in the morning can not only make people awake and energetic, but also prevent colds caused by cold air in winter. If you can touch and massage auricular points, Tang Yin points, temples, buccal cars and other points, the effect will be better.
Drink warm water: drink a cup of warm water after washing your face and brushing your teeth, on the one hand, it can keep warm and clean the gastrointestinal tract; On the other hand, it can dilute blood, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial ischemia, and together can adhere to cell permeability and promote cell metabolism.
Soaking feet with hot water: Soaking feet with hot water of 55-70 degrees Celsius before going to bed can not only relieve fatigue, but also help sleep. There are many acupoints on people's feet, which can relax tendons and activate collaterals, accelerate blood circulation, and play a role in preventing and treating diseases, especially for patients with chilblain and varicose veins of feet. You can soak your feet with traditional Chinese medicine when it is convenient. Here's a prescription. You can put a few pieces of angelica, safflower, dipsacus root and honeysuckle in water, which can promote blood circulation and tonify the kidney, and also prevent dull and chapped skin in winter.
Go to bed early and get up late: In daily life, go to bed early and get up late, and then go out for activities when the sun appears. Wear more clothes to prevent unnecessary outdoor activities and excessive consumption of yang. In addition to sleeping at night, you can take a nap after lunch, but you should prevent yourself from catching cold when you sleep. Secondly, we should pay attention to the cold.
Brush your teeth with warm water: It is best to brush your teeth with warm water in winter. The investigation of dental ecology by medical experts shows that people's teeth can be brought forth new ones normally at the oral temperature of 35-36.5 degrees Celsius. Warm water around 35℃ is a benign oral protectant, and gargling with such water will make people feel fresh and comfortable. Especially in winter, it is necessary to brush your teeth with warm water to prevent dentine hypersensitivity. The temperature of warm water should be close to body temperature. Too hot water is not good.
Suitable temperature for dressing: dressing should talk about "clothing climate", which means that the temperature between the inner layer of clothes and the skin should always be kept at 32-33 degrees Celsius. This ideal "clothing climate" can buffer the invasion of cold climate on human body. Secondly, pay attention to the warmth of your feet. Because the foot is farthest from the heart, the blood supply is small and slow, so the skin temperature of the foot is the lowest. Chinese medicine believes that cold feet will inevitably affect internal organs, which can lead to diarrhea, irregular menstruation, impotence, low back pain and other diseases.
Open the window on time: the climate is cold, and many people refuse to open the door and open the window. In addition, the number of air conditioners installed at home is also increasing. In air-conditioned rooms, it is usually closed for a long time and the air circulation is poor. Coupled with the large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor, it may be easy to form infections of respiratory diseases including influenza. Therefore, it is necessary to regularly open windows for ventilation, adhere to indoor air circulation, and reduce the proliferation of bacteria.
In winter, most people are prone to catch a cold because of their low body resistance, so they need to pay attention to both diet and daily life. In winter, everyone must follow the above health rules, especially those with old people at home, and pay more attention to their own health problems.
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What vegetarian food should I eat on the solstice in winter?
Drink more porridge. Hot eight-treasure porridge is very suitable for a warm diet in winter. Chinese medicine believes that eating porridge can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and it has a certain effect of nourishing yin, just against the characteristics of dryness in winter. In order to keep out the cold, you can choose warm or mild foods that can strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as coix seed, jujube, walnut, peanut, glutinous rice, longan, yam and tremella. And we can mix them with different patterns of porridge.
Eat five more vegetarian dishes.
Chinese yam. Since ancient times, yam has been regarded as a "tonic" with good quality and low price. Its taste is sweet and flat, benefiting qi and strengthening spleen. Amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances contained in it are beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. In addition, yam contains a lot of mucin, which can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular system and prevent arteriosclerosis.
Chestnuts. Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts are sweet and warm, and have the effects of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. According to modern research, chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content, and it is also rich in vitamins and minerals, which is beneficial to the cold resistance of human body and is very suitable for winter consumption.
In addition to being rich in nutrients such as potassium and vitamin C, taro also contains a natural polysaccharide plant gum, which can stimulate appetite, help digestion, stop diarrhea, and has the function of dietary fiber, which can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation. Chinese medicine believes that taro is beneficial to the stomach and body fluid, and it is very suitable for tonifying deficiency.
Mushrooms. It is low in calories and high in protein and vitamins. It can provide various vitamins needed by human body and promote the absorption of calcium in the body. Regular consumption of mushrooms also has a good effect on enhancing immunity and preventing colds.
Generally speaking, the principle of keeping in good health in winter should be nourishing qi and yang, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. Lycium barbarum is a good choice for tonic in winter. Lycium barbarum is sweet, which can tonify kidney, replenish essence, nourish liver and improve eyesight. In winter when the air is dry and cold, eyes are easy to dry and shed tears. Eating Lycium barbarum regularly can also alleviate these symptoms.
Buqi Ointment "Yuling Ointment" is made by adding rock sugar to longan meat, and it is simple, convenient and easy to store. According to ancient records, Lycium barbarum has the effect of "insufficient tonic and easy to turn white" ... making people live longer ". Liu Yuxi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, praised it as "the top-grade functional manna flavor, and I know that a spoonful can prolong life". Longan, also known as longan, is sweet and flat, and has the effects of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, nourishing yin and enriching blood. It is most suitable for women who are weak, palpitation and insomnia and gloomy.
The solstice of winter is coming,
Is it a custom in your to eat glutinous rice balls or jiaozi?
On February 22, 65438, I went to Zhongshan vegetarian restaurant for a buffet from the winter solstice.
Send a jiaozi to everyone!
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