Yesterday was a mild and cold season.

Marks the beginning of the coldest day of the year

Many people have this feeling:

No matter how thick you wear it.

In winter, my hands and feet are still cold.

Even cold and stiff hands and feet.

It is easy to have loose bowels or cough if you are not careful.

People can't lift their spirits

Why is this?

Nine times out of ten, it is the lack of yang!

Guidance expert

"Su Wen Angry God" says: "Yang nourishes the spirit." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Yang Qi has the functions of warming the whole body tissues, maintaining the functions of viscera, resisting the invasion of external evils, presiding over the opening and closing of qi, and maintaining the balance of yin and yang. However, if the yang is weak, the human body's disease resistance will decline. Insufficient yang is one of the most important physical factors for winter diseases such as chronic bronchitis, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Yang deficiency has the following manifestations:

1, loss of appetite

People with insufficient yang will have poor appetite, poor appetite and weak digestive ability. This is because the deficiency of yang qi leads to the decline of spleen and stomach transport function. Patients should adjust the spleen and stomach in time, supplement the yang, and develop good eating habits in order to make the yang gradually sufficient.

2, the body is afraid of cold

Under normal circumstances, the body will keep a certain temperature, and our hands and feet are hot. If the yang is insufficient, hands and feet far away from the heart will feel cold, and they are more afraid of cold than others.

3, poor spirit, easy to fatigue

If the yang is insufficient, the ability of life activities will decline, and symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness and pallor will easily appear.

4, decreased immunity

Yang Qi and immunization are complementary. When there is enough yang qi in the body, the health of the human body is also guaranteed. On the contrary, if the yang is insufficient, the immunity will decline, the human body's ability to resist viruses will be weakened, and cold pathogens will easily enter the body and affect health.

In the cold winter, because nature is in a state of "Yin flourishes while Yang declines", the human body is no exception. At this time, the focus of health care lies in "strengthening yang and treating cold". By supporting the human body's yang, it can dispel cold and evil spirits, enhance the body's resistance, and restore some persistent diseases, especially those that are easy to recur after catching a cold in winter.

So how to warm the sun be the spirit? Try these.

1, Sanjiu Post

Sanjiu plaster is one of the methods of acupoint application in traditional Chinese medicine. Under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is an external treatment to prevent and treat diseases by sticking drugs on some acupoints of the human body for three or nine days. Through the transdermal absorption of drugs, it stimulates local meridian points and stimulates the whole body yang, which is the continuation of the three-day patch. Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine carries out acupoint application therapy in winter all the year round (commonly known as "Sanjiu Patch"). Adhering to the ancient processing technology, the hospital smeared special Chinese medicine on specific acupoints to prevent the recurrence of chronic diseases and improve the cold constitution.

For example, the Sanjiu Sticker for Tonifying Kidney and Warming Palace introduced by gynecology has a good effect on relieving women's various pains, deficiency-cold constitution, sub-healthy people and menopausal syndrome. The warming spleen and tonifying kidney patch in General Internal Medicine can improve the symptoms of spleen and kidney deficiency, cold, soreness of waist and knees, loose stool, fatigue and fatigue to some extent. Winter is a time when various respiratory diseases are prone to occur. Sanjiu Plaster of Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is suitable for respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis, obstructive emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic pulmonary heart disease, allergic rhinitis, recurrent cold, chronic cough and chronic pharyngitis.

Second, traditional Chinese medicine foot bath

Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath is one of the important external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine. Its principle is to use hot water to promote the penetration of drugs into the human body, so that drugs can penetrate the meridian points of the foot and reach the whole body, thus playing a variety of functions such as regulating qi and blood yin and yang, dispelling cold and dredging collaterals.

Indications: dispelling cold and removing dampness, removing arthralgia, and treating arthralgia due to cold and dampness.

Third, acupoint massage.

When the weather is cold, proper massage of relevant acupoints can dredge meridians, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, encourage Yang Qi, promote metabolism and improve blood circulation.

For example, massage Zusanli can increase blood circulation, warm limbs, improve immune function and enhance disease resistance; Massage Guanyuan point can tonify yang and is effective for neurasthenia, insomnia and cold hands and feet. You can also rub your hands and massage your abdomen repeatedly, and you can also drive away the cold in your body.

Fourth, moxibustion

Moxibustion has a long history. Through smoking and burning, the medicinal properties of wormwood are brought to the diseased parts of human body through acupoints and meridians. With its warm stimulation and drug action, it warms and nourishes qi and blood, strengthens the body resistance and eliminates pathogens, and has the effects of harmonizing yin and yang, warming meridians and dispelling cold, and warming yang and benefiting qi.

Treating osteoarthralgia such as scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis, as well as gynecological pain, palace cold, asthma, chronic gastroenteritis and other symptoms caused by prolonged invasion of cold can obtain the best effect of warming yang and dispelling cold.

Fifth, get more sunshine.

The sunshine in winter is warm and soft. Sunbathing contributes to the absorption and synthesis of calcium, and can also improve immunity. It is advisable to sunbathe for about 20 minutes each time. In particular, try to bask in the back, because the back is the place where the Du meridian passes, and the Du meridian is in charge of the yang of the whole body. Sunbathing can effectively improve the yang in the body.

Sixth, avoid staying up late.

The sun is cold in winter, especially at night, and staying up late is the most harmful to the sun. Be sure to reduce staying up late, keep enough sleep and restore the lost yang. It is necessary to "go to bed early and get up late", go to bed early and nourish yang, and get up late to solidify yin essence.

Seven, mental aftercare

Chinese medicine believes that people with insufficient yang are prone to sadness. If they want to tonify yang, they must learn to adjust their emotions and eliminate bad emotions. For example, they can breathe fresh air outside their homes and accept more beautiful things.

Eight, appropriate food supplement

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, some foods help to improve human yang, such as ginger, leeks, walnuts, mutton and so on. Eating mutton in winter, in particular, is more conducive to dispelling cold, warming the body, supplementing yang, and dispelling cold in the body.