Grain Rain originated from the old saying "Rain gives birth to a hundred valleys". It is the sixth solar term among the 24 solar terms and the last solar term in spring. The folk proverb "Spring rain is as expensive as oil" refers to the season in Grain Rain. In Grain Rain, there is a lot of rain and the temperature is rising. According to its climate characteristics, we should adjust our health and prevent diseases.
As the rainfall increases after the solar term in Grain Rain, the humidity in the air gradually increases, which easily invades the human body, causing the body to be "wet", and people will feel sleepy, tired and dizzy, which is often called "spring sleep". Air with a certain humidity is normal and is needed by normal people. However, when the healthy qi of the human body is insufficient and the resistance drops, it will become a pathogenic factor and become a "wet evil" invading the human body. Damp pathogen rarely causes disease alone, and often interacts with pathogenic factors such as cold, heat, summer heat and blood stasis, which is often lingering and difficult to heal.
Cold and wet
The seasonal temperature in Grain Rain rises, but the temperature difference between day and night is large, which makes it easy to catch a cold. If there is exogenous cold and dampness, there will be cold and dampness symptoms such as aversion to cold and fever, heavy body and sore joints and muscles. Therefore, it is necessary to keep warm in the morning and evening to avoid the invasion of cold and dampness and cause a cold. If it is exogenous cold and dampness, it can be treated by traditional Chinese medicine, scraping, cupping and acupuncture.
Prevention of digestive system diseases
There is much rain in Grain Rain, and the spleen is easily trapped by dampness, so Grain Rain is the prone period of spleen and stomach diseases. Whether it is exogenous cold and dampness or endogenous dampness, it is easy to cause dampness to block the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in gastrointestinal symptoms such as loss of appetite, bloating, vomiting, diarrhea and sticky stool. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness belongs to the spleen, and eliminating dampness should start with strengthening the spleen to avoid endogenous dampness. If you don't eat properly, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach. Usually, we should eat less cold things, avoid overeating and hunger, and avoid eating food or drugs that are irritating to the stomach, so as not to damage the yang of the spleen and lead to the accumulation of internal dampness. Eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as red beans, coix seed, poria cocos, yam, lettuce, lentils, melon and so on. Make porridge or soup to promote spleen and stomach transport and dampness. You can also use traditional Chinese medicine to warm the spleen and stomach properly, so that moisture can be discharged with defecation.
Prevention of rheumatoid arthritis
Damp pathogen is the most likely to invade joints, leading to symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis such as joint pain, heaviness and poor activity, or inducing various joint diseases. In Grain Rain, sometimes the temperature will be above 30 degrees, which makes people feel very hot. If you wear clothes like summer, moisture can easily enter the body from bare parts, especially joints, leading to arthritis. Living in a humid place or working in a humid place for a long time can also cause rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, it is necessary to keep joints warm when dressing in Grain Rain season, and avoid staying in wet places for a long time.
Grain Rain needs proper exercise to prevent diseases, especially outdoor exercise. Spring Festival travel rush can make Yang Qi rise, qi and blood run smoothly, and avoid accumulation of dampness. Don't sweat too much during exercise, and change clothes in time after sweating to avoid the invasion of moisture.
Grain Rain can carry out acupoint health massage to prevent diseases. Yinling spring is the joint point of spleen meridian and the key point of eliminating dampness. Pressing Yinling Spring can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. The acupoints are located on the inner side of the human calf, at the depression of the inner side of the tibia below the knee. When taking this point, you should take a sitting or supine posture. Massage the acupoints of the left and right legs, 60 times each time, once in the morning and once in the evening, and it is advisable to feel sore at the acupoints.
To prevent diseases in Grain Rain, we should pay attention to mental conditioning and keep a good mood. Chinese medicine says that hyperactivity of the liver leads to spleen deficiency, so it is necessary to keep the liver depressed and the spleen healthy, so that damp evil will not be born.
Wang Huan
Doctoral/master's tutor/deputy chief physician
High-level talents introduced by Baling Talent Plan of Yueyang City, director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Yueyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, leader of key specialties in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" of Hunan Province, head of the clinical diagnosis and treatment demonstration base of spleen and stomach diseases in Hunan Province, member of the World Professional Committee of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis, and member of the Professional Committee of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Hunan Province. He is good at the diagnosis and treatment of functional gastroenteropathy, esophagitis, gastroenteritis, peptic ulcer (including oral ulcer), functional constipation and other spleen and stomach diseases, with symptoms such as stomach pain, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, diarrhea, bitter taste, bad breath and constipation. Innovatively put forward the application of Chinese medicine to cultivate soil and eliminate dampness to regulate gastrointestinal tract to prevent postoperative recurrence of gastrointestinal polyps, and accumulated some treatment experience. Participated in or presided over many research projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, Hunan Natural Science Foundation, Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department, Hunan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hunan Provincial Department of Education, and Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and published more than 10 papers in domestic core journals, with 1 first author,/kloc-0 editor and/kloc-0 co-author.