Principles of health care for the elderly in winter
In winter and March, plants wither and insects freeze, which is the season when everything in nature hides, and people's yang should also be hidden in it. Therefore, the important principle of health preservation in winter is "hiding".
Go to bed early and get up late in winter, and it is best to get up after the sun comes out. Old people are weak. In order to nourish their vitality, we should advocate going to bed early and getting up late to ensure adequate sleep. It is best to wash your feet with hot water before going to bed, so that the blood vessels in your feet relax and the blood circulation is smooth, which is conducive to falling asleep. Clothes should be kept warm and close to the skin to prevent the cold from attacking people, damaging the yang and causing cold pain in the back.
Take part in physical exercise properly. Although it is very cold in winter, don't stay indoors all day. According to one's physical health, one should often go outdoors to do some exercise within one's power, such as playing Tai Ji Chuan, practicing Qigong, jogging and walking.
In winter, the daily diet of the elderly should be based on warming. It is advisable to eat some foods with high calorie and high protein, arrange three meals a day reasonably, and avoid or eat less cold food, irritating food and some greasy and indigestible foods. Winter is a good time to nourish and strengthen the body, and diet can't be ignored. In order to nourish yin and hide yang, we should eat more cereals, mutton, soft-shelled turtle, fungus and other foods, and eat more hot food to nourish yang.
So, how should the elderly choose supplements?
Tips for the elderly to choose supplements in winter
In view of the characteristics of strong appetite and good absorption function in winter, foods with high fever, high nutrition, strong flavor and strong nourishing should be properly selected, such as mutton, dog meat, beef, chicken and other animal supplements.
Deficiency syndrome should be diagnosed according to their own conditions, and tonic should be carried out under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine doctors all winter.
If you are already sick, you should choose the tonic appropriately, and it is best to follow the doctor's advice and not blindly make it up. For example, diabetic patients can use raw ginseng as tonic, but avoid licorice and drugs with high sugar content. Anyone suffering from hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, cholecystitis, gout and other diseases should not use high-protein, high-fat and high-sugar drugs and foods such as turtle, donkey-hide gelatin, longan, bullwhip and deer tendon. Because eating this kind of food and medicine will promote the development of diseases, increase blood lipid, blood viscosity, uric acid in blood and blood pressure, and the result will get worse and worse.
It should not be too long to choose medicinal liquor for tonic. The medicinal liquor available to the elderly include: Shiquanda tonic wine, chinese wolfberry wine, Coix seed wine, yam wine, ginseng medicinal wine, ginseng medicinal wine, cordyceps tonic wine, etc. Usually 1-2 times a day, about half a second each time. However, the elderly should pay attention to the idea of "two or three doses of wine in winter, and beginning of spring should stop". In addition, considering that most of the medicinal liquor on the market has a high alcohol content, and the influence of long-term drinking on the liver, the longer the medicinal liquor is drunk, the better.
Pay attention to prevent getting angry when taking medicine supplements. Tonics commonly used in winter are: red ginseng, velvet antler, deer fetus and Eucommia ulmoides. , yam, walnut, longan pulp, tremella, angelica, fleece-flower root, medlar, astragalus, codonopsis pilosula, atractylodes macrocephala, dodder, black beans, black sesame seeds, etc. Among them, walnut kernel, medlar, tremella and black sesame are not only nourishing foods, but also good medicinal materials, and their properties are mild and not hot. In winter, you should pay special attention not to take warm supplements such as red ginseng, velvet antler, deer fetus and placenta without doctor's advice, so as to avoid aphtha, sore throat, bad breath, dry mouth, nosebleeds, constipation, or sudden increase in blood pressure leading to stroke.
Aerobics for the elderly in winter sports
90 degrees: waist and leg movement function: increase the flexibility of the body, the contraction of the abdomen and the extension of the bones and muscles.
Shrugging your shoulders and shrinking your head: shoulder movement function: eliminating shoulder pain.
Pull your left foot with your right hand: hand and foot movement function: strengthen cardiopulmonary function and body softness.
Look up and down, look left and right: eye movement function: eliminate eye fatigue.
Neck twisting: neck movement function: prevent neck pain and restore consciousness.
Soft reproduction: table movement function: restore and maintain the softness of the body.
Vigorously: Squat stretching exercise function: strengthen waist strength, exercise toes, improve body balance, and strengthen the function of internal organs.
Old people should have health care, diet and exercise in winter.