Beginning of winter takes nourishing yin, protecting yang and tonifying kidney as the main principles, and can tonify the body from two aspects, with good results.
1. food: cold weather is easy to hurt kidney yang. Beginning of winter should eat more foods that tonify the kidney, such as sea cucumber, mutton and leek, to make up its health. You should also eat warm food to keep out the cold, such as beef, chicken, shrimp, quail, etc. These foods are rich in protein and fat, and produce more calories. In addition, beginning of winter should eat more foods rich in calcium and iron. Calcium-containing foods include milk, kelp, oysters, shrimp and so on. Iron-containing foods include animal blood, pig liver, fungus and red dates.
2. Drugs: beginning of winter takes nourishing drugs to nourish his body. Drugs for invigorating qi include ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, pseudostellaria heterophylla, astragalus root, etc. Yang-tonifying drugs include velvet antler, Morinda officinalis, curculigo, etc. Yin tonics include Lycium barbarum and tortoise plastron glue, and sperm tonics include Placenta Hominis, Colla cornus Cervi, Cordyceps sinensis, Fructus Alpinae Oxyphyllae, etc. Specific supplements should be flexibly selected under the guidance of doctors according to personal physique.
Beginning of winter tonic is an important part of TCM health preservation. Reasonable body tonic can tonify healthy qi and improve weak symptoms, but we must choose relevant foods or drugs flexibly according to our own physique. Unreasonable body tonic is not good for our health. Beginning of winter should not only pay attention to eating food or drugs to improve his health, but also pay attention to his spirit, daily life and exercise. For example, he should be emotionally stable, go to bed early and get up late in daily life, and keep warm when it is cold. Beginning of winter should keep a certain amount of exercise and warm up properly before exercise.