How to maintain health in late spring and early summer? 1. Diet recuperates yang.
Because the yin disappears and the yang grows in spring, you can eat more foods that warm and nourish the yang, as well as seasonal vegetables in spring, which will help to enhance the yang. Choosing warm food should take into account the principle of nourishing yang without hurting yin. Usually you can eat more longan, jujube, brown sugar, millet, yam, poria cocos, lotus seeds, coix seed and so on. Don't eat too much cold food in your diet. If there are obvious signs of getting angry, such as bitter mouth and sore throat, you can make some honeysuckle tea to drink.
At the same time, if the weather is warm and cold in early spring, the diet should not be supplemented. Should be based on helping yang and benefiting qi, you can eat more leeks and ginger.
2. do it well? Inside and outside? Keeping warm is very important.
We should focus on keeping our feet and legs warm. Don't cut down your pants and socks too early, but iron your feet with hot water. The lower body cover should be thicker when sleeping.
Some people ask, it's so hot in spring and summer, what else can we protect? This protection is of our own making. Because it is hot, people like to be greedy for cold. The performance of spring is that it takes off too fast, actually? Spring cover? Just tell you to wear more clothes in spring to cover your sweat and nourish your yang. Blowing air conditioners and eating cold drinks in summer makes me very cold. So in order to protect our yang, it is necessary to raise yang at this time.
So how to do it? Spring means wearing more clothes and doing more outdoor sports. In summer, you just can't always blow the air conditioner, eat less cold drinks and make yourself sweat every day.
But to keep a good balance, you can't wear clothes for spring, and you can't be out of breath. It is advisable to wear a little sweat every day in spring. Of course, it doesn't matter if you sweat a lot during exercise. Don't blow air conditioning directly at people in summer. It is advisable to sweat slightly in an air-conditioned room. Eat cold drinks slowly and don't eat too much at a time. Eat hot food every two weeks or once a month. In this case, it can basically meet the requirements.
3, sleep well: health care first raises the liver
Many people are in the spring of everything, but they are inexplicably in a bad mood, unhappy, often crying, sore eyes, dull nails and other symptoms, which are caused by abnormal liver function. What is the theory of TCM health preservation? Spring corresponds to the liver? Spring health should be based on nourishing the liver. When the liver function is normal, the qi and blood of the human body will be smooth, otherwise the qi and blood will stagnate and many diseases will occur.
First of all, we should pay attention to sleep, and we must rest before 1 1 at night, while the peak period of liver blood is from 1 to 3 am, especially for patients with liver diseases, we must sleep for six to seven hours. In addition, you can sleep 15-20 minutes at noon every day.
4, in a good mood: close to nature and show your body and mind.
Self-regulation and control of emotions are also beneficial to soothing the liver and regulating qi, and maintaining a happy mood is beneficial to nourishing the liver. ? Facing a lifeless computer at work and a lifeless TV after work is not conducive to recuperation? Experts suggest that insisting on exercise can relax muscles and activate collaterals and benefit the liver. You can take a walk, jog, do gymnastics, play Tai Ji Chuan, dance sword, play ball, have an outing and climb mountains.
5. Remedial measures: massage and pat.
Pat on the back: If you stay up late or are very tired, you can pat and pinch your spine. The racket style is that the fingers are close together and the palms are hollow, and it is slapped down from the shoulder and neck to the lumbosacral part. The chiropractic method is that the thumb is opposite to the other four fingers, and the skin and fascia on both sides of the back are lifted and pinched from the lumbosacral part to the shoulder and back. The pat method and the chiropractic method are repeated 3-5 times each, 1 time every day.
Massage Yongquan point: first, quickly rub your left foot with your right palm, and then quickly rub your right foot with your left palm until you feel hot. Massage 100 times every morning and evening, and then massage 100 times every toe. Many meridians of the human body gather in the soles of the feet, which are closely related to all organs, tissues and organs of the whole body. Stimulating Yongquan point is beneficial to tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, strengthening tendons and bones. Rubbing this acupoint often will promote the recovery of cold hands and feet.
Press the point of kneading Qi Chong (inside the thigh root): There is a pulsating artery below this point. Press the acupoints for kneading qi first, then the arteries, and then alternately until the legs and feet feel hot and dirty.
Press Shenshu point (waist eyes on both sides): pat each point with a little force 100.