Common sense of winter health, our country has the tradition of "counting nine" from winter to Sunday, that is, every nine days from winter to Sunday, representing the deepening of cold degree. The solstice of winter is the first day of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, until the Ninth Five-Year Plan is exhausted and the cold is over. This cold season is called "Counting Nine" and "Jiujiu", which is also called "Counting Nine in Cold Weather". Among them, March 9 is the coldest.

Wash your face with cold water

It 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 refreshed, but also prevent colds caused by cold air in winter. If you can cooperate with massage auricular points, Tang Yin, Sun, cheek and other points, the effect will be better.

Drink warm water

Drinking a cup of warm water after washing your face and brushing your teeth can warm your body and clean your stomach. On the other hand, it can dilute blood, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial ischemia, while maintaining cell permeability and promoting cell metabolism.

Hot water soaking feet

Soaking your feet with hot water at 55-70 degrees Celsius before going to bed can not only relieve fatigue, but also help you 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 is the prescription. You can put a few pieces of angelica sinensis, safflower, dipsacus root and honeysuckle in water, which can promote blood circulation and tonify kidney, and also prevent dry and chapped skin in winter.

Go to bed early and get up late.

In daily life, you should go to bed early and get up late, and then go out for activities when the sun comes out. At the same time, we should also wear more clothes to avoid unnecessary outdoor activities and prevent excessive consumption of yang. Besides sleeping at night, you can take a nap after lunch, but you should avoid catching cold when sleeping. 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 human teeth can undergo normal metabolism at an oral temperature of 35-36.5 degrees Celsius. Warm water around 35℃ is a benign oral protectant, and gargling with such water will give people a refreshing and comfortable taste. Especially in winter, you need to brush your teeth with warm water to avoid dentin allergy. 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.

Timing window open

The cold weather makes many people reluctant to open doors and windows, and now more and more families have installed air conditioners. In air-conditioned rooms, it is often closed for a long time and the air circulation is poor. At the same time, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is large, which is easy to cause infection of respiratory diseases including influenza. Therefore, it is necessary to regularly open windows for ventilation, maintain indoor air circulation, and reduce bacterial growth.

In addition, during the winter solstice, Yin Qi prospered to the extreme, and Yang Qi began to rise and gradually prospered. Because Yang is born from Yin, it will be born better only when Yin is strong enough. Therefore, after the winter solstice, we should be careful not to exercise too much, but to seek peace in sports. If a person usually does a lot of exercise, then he should reduce the amount of exercise appropriately from winter to around, so as to better adapt to the changes in nature and be better for his health. In winter solstice, you can often do some gentle exercises, such as Baduanjin and Tai Ji Chuan, to keep healthy.