Chinese medicine has the principle of "liver in spring, heart in summer, spleen in long summer, lung in autumn and kidney in winter" all year round, so winter should be the best time to tonify kidney.
1, massage nourishing kidney therapy
Massage therapy is a very good and effective method to tonify kidney in winter. It is recommended to massage and nourish the kidney: first rub the waist and eyes. Press the waist tightly after the hands are hot, and rub hard for 30 times. The so-called "waist is the house of the kidney", rubbing the waist and eyes can dredge the tendons and enhance the function of the kidney. The second is to put pressure on Tian Chan. Rub your hands and massage on your abdomen for 30-50 times. This method can enhance the immune function of human body, strengthen the kidney, and prolong life.
2. Pay attention to your daily life when raising your kidney in winter.
Keeping in good health and nourishing the kidney in winter, we should insist on going to bed early and getting up late in daily life. Avoid cold and keep warm, and the air is fresh. Because the days are short and the nights are long in winter, people should try to go to bed early and get up early, wear close-fitting soft clothes, breathe more fresh air and bask in the sun, so as to keep the temperature, physical strength and righteousness of the body.
3. Medicine and food are homologous to tonifying kidney.
Chinese medicine believes that "medicine and food are homologous", and many foods we usually eat are actually Chinese medicine, such as yam, medlar, walnut, sesame and so on. We can also eat more stewed mutton, chicken soup and duck. Chinese medicine also believes that five grains can tonify the kidney, and health care experts have always advocated a healthy diet, demanding that "five grains make up and five fruits make up", which means that people must consume a certain amount of staple food, vegetables and fruits every day. Insufficient intake of staple food can easily lead to deficiency of qi and blood and kidney qi; Five kinds of fruits are rich in vitamins, inorganic salts and cellulose. Because you can eat it raw, you can get more nutrition. Therefore, eating them regularly can help the whole grains get more comprehensive nutrition. Therefore, it is of great benefit to people in sub-health state to eat some foods that benefit kidney and nourish blood properly.
Health principle 2: Diet maintenance nourishes and keeps out the cold.
The weather is cold in winter, and it is also the peak of yin and evil, which is what Chinese medicine calls yin and evil. From the point of view of diet health, we should pay special attention to eating warm food in our daily diet to supplement our health and prevent the invasion of cold climate. Commonly used tonics include Ginseng, Astragalus, Colla Corii Asini, Cordyceps sinensis, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Lycium barbarum and Angelica sinensis. Dietary supplement should choose mutton, dog meat, pork, chicken, duck, eel, soft-shelled turtle, Spanish mackerel, sea shrimp and other foods such as walnut kernel, jujube, longan, sesame, yam, lotus seed, lily and chestnut according to the ups and downs of yin and yang. All the above foods have the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, warming kidney and strengthening yang, strengthening spleen and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and tonifying lung. Of course, people who are too hot, too solid and easy to get angry should pay attention to slow tonic and eat less.
Principle 3: Keep warm in daily life.
Slight cold is one of the coldest 24 solar terms in a year. At this time, we must pay attention to keeping warm in our daily life.
"Chinese medicine believes that' cold coagulation, cold stagnation', cold weather, joint pain, cervical spondylosis and even cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are prone to onset." Keeping warm is the first priority, especially in the parts such as shoulders, neck and feet that are easy to catch cold. For the elderly, we should pay attention to ventilation while keeping warm and strictly guard against cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Principle 4: Exercise properly, keep fit and prevent diseases.
As the saying goes, "move in winter and get sick less;" Lazy in winter, drink a bowl of medicine. "This shows the importance of winter exercise. In this dry and cold day, we should do more outdoor sports, such as jogging, skipping rope and kicking shuttlecock in the morning. Also be calm and optimistic, don't worry about trifles, be calm and add fun. In this solar term, people with heart disease and hypertension often get worse, and the number of people suffering from "stroke" increases. Chinese medicine believes that the blood in the human body is easy to flow when it is warm and easy to stagnate when it is cold. The so-called "blood coagulates when it is cold" is the truth. Therefore, warm-keeping work must be done well, especially for the elderly.