Kidney in TCM is different from kidney in modern medical anatomy. According to the theory of zang-xiang in TCM, kidney storing essence has both innate essence and acquired essence, and has the function of controlling growth, development and reproduction. Kidney is combined with bone in the body, and the rise and fall of kidney essence is closely related to the natural laws of human birth, growth, strength, old age and death. Therefore, tonifying kidney and essence can not only strengthen bones and teeth.
1, go to bed early and get up late
The best time to get up is after the sun comes out. Su Wen of Huangdi Neijing pointed out: "In winter and March ... you must go to bed early and get up late, and you must wait for the sun." After beginning of winter, you should try to follow the law of going to bed early and getting up late, and then do it at sunrise, so that you can avoid the cold and ask for its warmth. Increasing sleep time in winter is to nourish yin and maintain human yang, which is conducive to the hiding of human yang and the accumulation of yin essence, and can also promote the recovery of physical strength.
Step 2 Exercise properly
In cold winter, we should "keep the skin warm and not leak", stay away from cold places and be close to warm places. Don't let your muscles open. Sweating a lot will lose a lot of yang. In winter, we should combine activity with activity, not strenuous exercise. We can choose appropriate intensity exercise, such as walking, Tai Chi, Baduanjin, yoga, dancing and so on. It is best to wait until the sun comes out for half an hour before doing morning exercises or activities. Warm up and warm up well before exercise, and the amount of exercise should be gradually increased to avoid exercising in cold, foggy, rainy and snowy weather.
3, according to the physique, appropriate tonic.
Winter is the best time to nourish and strengthen the body. In winter, the sun's spirit begins to sprout and vitality begins to sprout. At this time, the tonic effect is easy to accumulate and play the best role. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "winter supplements and spring kills tigers". Reasonable tonic can replenish qi and blood in time, resist the attack of cold, make young people sick in the future, and achieve the goal of getting twice the result with half the effort. There are many ways of tonic in winter, such as Guyuan ointment, Ejiao with some accessories, walnut kernel, black sesame seeds, red dates and so on. It has the function of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, and can also be prepared according to personal physique under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine. On the day of winter solstice, there is tonic. Warm tonic drugs prepared in advance are put into washed chicken, simmered slowly and boiled in soup, which is called "chicken medicine" by the people.
In addition to warming qi and blood, winter tonic is also a good opportunity to tonify the kidney. Kidney deficiency can be divided into yin deficiency and yang deficiency, which nourish and moisten various organs of the human body, and is called kidney yin. It is called kidney yang, which warms and promotes the activities of various organs. According to the difference between kidney yin and kidney yang deficiency, the kidney should be supplemented by corresponding methods.
People with kidney yin deficiency often have symptoms such as weakness of waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, irritability of five hearts, and red tongue. Choose Lycium barbarum, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, etc. Nourishing, you can also choose Chinese patent medicines, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill and Baizhi Dihuang Pill. People with kidney-yang deficiency often have symptoms such as chills in limbs, listlessness, backache and tinnitus, pale tongue and body fat. Therefore, they should choose Psoralea corylifolia, Cistanche deserticola and Cinnamomum cassia as supplements, or they can choose Guifu Dihuang Pill, which is recommended to be purchased under the guidance of a doctor or pharmacist.
4, the diet is salty and bitter, tonifying the kidney and nourishing the spleen and stomach, and eating more root vegetables.
As the saying goes, "medicine is better than food." Proper diet often has the effect of moistening things quietly.
Winter is the season of storing sperm. At this time, kidney qi is in season, and the diet should be bitter in Xian Yi. According to the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, salty is better than bitter, and kidney water can overcome heart fire. If you eat too salty, it will make the kidney water too strong, thus weakening the power of the heart yang. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the intake of salt and eat some bitter foods, such as celery, lettuce and bitter chrysanthemum, to nourish the heart.
After winter, you can eat more kidney-tonifying foods, such as medlar, chestnut, black sesame and walnut kernel.
For people who are very afraid of cold in winter and lack of kidney yang, they can eat more foods that warm and tonify kidney yang, such as leeks and mutton. In combination with the above herbs for warming yang, you can choose some herbs with the same origin as food, such as Lycium barbarum, sheep, Cistanche deserticola soup, velvet antler, yam, sparerib soup and so on.
In the cold winter, in order to keep out the cold, it is easy to eat too much meat, which often hurts the spleen and stomach and hinders its transport function. Therefore, in winter, we should pay attention to adding foods that strengthen the spleen and promote digestion, such as dried tangerine peel, hawthorn and grapefruit. And drink more millet porridge and the like.
In addition, eat more root food in winter. There is an old saying among the people: "Eat flowers in spring, leaves in summer, fruits in autumn and roots in winter". Root vegetables are vegetables with fleshy roots, including radish, yam and sweet potato. Radish has the name of small ginseng in winter, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach and tonify the middle qi. Yam can tonify kidney and strengthen spleen. Sweet potato, tonify middle energizer and blood, invigorate qi and promote fluid production, moisten intestines and relieve constipation. The roots of plants are sealed underground, which conforms to the seasonal characteristics of winter and is rich in nutrition. Winter is the time when a large number of root vegetables are on the market, which is cheap and good, so we should eat more of these "big guys" in winter.
5, kidney, don't forget to raise your feet.
Soaking feet with hot water before going to bed can not only tonify kidney and clear liver, but also improve sleep quality. If you do foot massage for a few minutes after soaking your feet, it will better promote the blood circulation of the body and further regulate the viscera and organs. Soaking feet can not only tonify kidney, but also dredge meridians, which is a multi-objective measure. Soaking feet before going to bed is also a good habit. At the same time, some drugs such as Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Zingiberis Rhizoma, Eucommiae Cortex and Dipsaci Radix can be added. You can massage for a few minutes after soaking your feet. You can massage Taixi point and Yongquan point more. Taixi point, known as Xue Yao for tonifying kidney, is a commonly used point in clinical treatment of kidney deficiency. In the depression between the high point of the medial malleolus and the achilles tendon, Yongquan point is the first point on the kidney meridian of the foot shaoyin, located at the bottom of the foot, and in the forefoot depression, it is the first line 1 connecting the head ends of the second and third toe lines of the sole with the heel.
If you want to raise your kidneys in winter, do it quickly. I hope everyone will do a good job of sealing and nourishing kidney essence this winter! If you think the article can help you, please forward it to your friends ~