Severe cold means extreme cold. In the northern region, the great cold solar terms are not as cold as the slight cold solar terms; But for most parts of the south, the great cold solar term is the coldest.
At this time, the yin in nature gradually fades, the yang is budding, and the human organs are still in a cold state. Therefore, health care should not only raise yang, but also raise yin.
First, protect your head and feet from cold and yang.
The severe cold solar term, cold is easy to damage human yang, induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction, as well as joint pain and colds.
"The head is the meeting of the sun, and the cold begins with the foot." Keep these two parts warm, so that the body can really warm up and protect health. Wearing a hat, scarf, cotton shoes and soaking feet can all play a good role in nourishing yang.
Generally, the cold solar terms are mainly sunny. At this time, you can also use the sun to maintain your body.
First of all, sunbathing can give people warmth, promote blood circulation and metabolism, make people feel happy and eliminate bad emotions. Secondly, sunbathing can enhance the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and effectively prevent osteoporosis in the elderly. Furthermore, sunbathing is also beneficial to the recovery of some chronic diseases.
It is best to sunbathe between 1 1-3 in winter, and sunbathe for 30 minutes and 60 minutes every day.
Second, eat reasonably, replenish water and nourish yin.
Since the winter solstice, the precipitation has decreased, the water vapor between heaven and earth has decreased, and the vaginal fluid in the human body is also easy to be insufficient. Indoor heating facilities will aggravate this dryness. Therefore, we should pay attention to timely hydration.
For the general population, it is necessary to increase the amount of drinking water as much as possible, and at least ensure that you can drink a cup of warm water before going to bed and after getting up.
Conditional can often drink pear water to nourish yin and promote fluid production, moisten dryness and relieve cough, and prevent dry mouth and throat. You can also boil radish water to drink, which has the functions of invigorating the spleen, clearing away heat and diuresis, and promoting digestion.
You can also eat some soft foods, such as milk, soybean milk, eggs, fish, sesame seeds, honey, lilies and so on. Avoid hot and dry foods, such as peppers, peppers and fennel. In addition, eat more nourishing food such as Chinese cabbage, lotus root and mushrooms.
Affected by cold and dryness, it is very prone to respiratory diseases, and it is easy to cause phlegm to be sticky or form a dry scab, which is difficult to discharge.
Third, appropriate suffering and purging fire.
In the severe cold season, we should still give priority to "warming yang to concentrate, nourishing essence and refreshing", and warming yang to dispel cold, tonifying deficiency and benefiting blood, and nourishing essence and qi in medicine supplement and diet therapy.
According to the situation, we can choose angelica and ginger mutton soup, braised donkey meat, roasted pork feet with peanuts and red dates, pork liver porridge, lamb loin porridge, and foods with the same origin of medicine and food such as Alpinia oxyphylla, yam, cistanche deserticola, Morinda officinalis, Polygonatum sibiricum, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata. To tonify kidney yang, warm spleen and stomach, and benefit essence and blood.
But in the cold season, you can't make up for it, especially those who are too yang and are prone to constipation and get angry. Diet should turn to light. Can be properly "bitter" to stop diarrhea, such as bitter chrysanthemum, bitter gourd, celery, lettuce and so on.
Because the Great Cold is similar to beginning of spring, some ascending and dispersing foods can be added to the diet to promote the rise of yang. Such as coriander, onion, perilla leaf, ginger, garlic, onion and so on.
"It's just been a year since I caught a cold." Here, I wish every reader happiness and well-being in the new year!