What should winter health care pay attention to?
Keep out the cold, keep warm and nourish the yang.
In winter, the climate is cold and cold, which easily leads to poor circulation of qi and blood, and makes many old diseases relapse or aggravate. Especially those serious life-threatening diseases, such as stroke, cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial infarction. Not only has the incidence rate increased significantly, but the mortality rate has also increased sharply. We should pay attention to cold protection in winter.
In daily life, people should pay attention to protecting the yang, conserve energy, and go to bed early and get up late to wait for the sun. The winter climate is cold, which is the season when everything is full of vitality and hidden. People should not disturb the spirit of the sun. If they want to go to bed early and get up late, they have to wait until the sun comes up.
Get into the habit of soaking your feet in hot water for 20-30 minutes every night, which can not only dispel cold and dampness, but also help you sleep. But remember, healthy people can soak their feet, but special people should pay attention, such as patients with heart disease and cardiac insufficiency, people with low blood pressure and frequent dizziness, and it is not advisable to soak their feet with too hot water.
Winter sunshine is not strong and dry, but warm and appropriate, which is the most needed source of yang in cold weather. In warm and sunny weather without wind, it is also a cheap way to supplement the yang by drying the back and palms.
What are the winter health soups?
First, mutton soup
Nourishing effect: mutton soup is hot, which can warm the stomach and keep out the cold, but it is easy to get angry if you drink too much.
Exercise:
1, wash the mutton and mutton offal first, do some processing, cook the mutton and mutton offal in a pot, and add some onion and ginger. (It is not appropriate to enlarge the ingredients and cross the taste). When the mutton and mutton offal are cooked, remove them and cut them into pieces for later use.
2. Put the sheep skeleton into the pot, put water, ok and high fire, cook for about an hour, and remove some impurities floating on it. At this time, the soup is relatively pure. Add some onion and ginger and continue to cook. When the boiled soup turns milky white, just like milk. You must be willing to spend time cooking soup.
3. Put the chopped mutton and mutton offal into the bowl, put some chopped green onion, coriander, garlic and other vegetables, put some salt, and pour the cooked mutton soup into the bowl while it is hot. Ok, a bowl of mutton soup with milky white color and fresh and mellow taste can be made with Melaleuca cake or fire. It tastes really good. If you like Chili, you can put some Chili.
Efficacy:
Tonifying deficiency and strengthening yang, warming body and stomach. Generally speaking, eating mutton soup in winter is very beneficial to people who are weak and have cold hands and feet.
Second, white lotus and lily syrup
Ingredients: 60 grams of fresh lily (30 grams of dried product), 30 grams of dried lotus meat and 30 grams of sugar are taken from this bran water.
Production: Wash the fresh lily with clear water and peel off the leaves. Soak the incense in clear water, remove the skin and lotus plumule, and wash. Then put the prepared fresh lily and fragrant lotus meat into the earthen pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook for about half an hour on medium fire, and add sugar 5 minutes before cooking.
Efficacy: clear heart, moisten lung and nourish skin.
Third, Chinese wolfberry, red dates and black chicken soup.
Ingredients: 40 grams of Lycium barbarum, 20 pieces of red dates, 2 pieces of ginger, black-bone chicken 1 piece.
Steps:
1. Wash black-bone chicken, remove hair and internal organs, blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes, pick it up, wash it with clear water and drain.
2. Soak Lycium barbarum in warm water, wash it with clear water and drain it.
3. Wash red dates and ginger with water. Red dates are pitted; Scrape the ginger skin and cut it into 2 pieces.
4. Add clean water into the earthen pot, first boil the water with slow fire, then add the above materials, and when the water boils again, switch to medium fire for 3 hours.
Efficacy: nourishing blood, caring skin and benefiting eyes. Suitable for people with weak body or dry skin.
It is suggested that compared with common chicken, black-bone chicken contains 10 kinds of amino acids, with higher contents of protein, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, vitamin E, phosphorus, iron, potassium and sodium, and less cholesterol and fat. Eating black-bone chicken can improve physiological function, delay aging and strengthen muscles and bones. It has obvious effect on preventing and treating osteoporosis, rickets and iron deficiency anemia in women.
It is suitable for all people, especially those with physical deficiency and blood deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency and spleen and stomach weakness.
Fourthly, stewed black-bone chicken with astragalus root.
Ingredients: 50g of Astragalus membranaceus, 0/000g of black-bone chicken10g of onion10g of ginger10g.
Method:
1, wash, boil in boiling water, take out and wash.
2. Wash Astragalus membranaceus, put it in the belly of black-bone chicken, put it in a casserole, pour chicken soup, add cooking wine, salt, onion and ginger slices, and simmer until the black-bone chicken is rotten and tasty.
Efficacy: tonify liver and kidney, invigorate qi and blood, and assist in the treatment of male nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation.
Astragalus membranaceus has the function of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. Black-bone chicken is rich in protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and nicotinic acid. Has the functions of nourishing yin and blood, and treating gynecological diseases. Stewed black-bone chicken with astragalus has the effects of invigorating spleen and qi, nourishing yin and benefiting blood. Yuci folk use this traditional health food to treat gynecological diseases such as irregular menstruation, excessive leucorrhea, menstrual pain and dizziness caused by blood deficiency. Astragalus membranaceus is sweet, slightly warm, and enters spleen and lung meridians. Black-bone chicken, sweet in taste, flat in nature, enters the liver and kidney meridians.
Five, bone soup
Raw materials: spine1000g, bonzi bone 500g, and proper amount of water.
Seasoning condiments: ginger slices, onion segments, soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, salt.
Method:
Remember to put less soy sauce, the soup is slightly sauce-colored. The boiling time is 40-60 minutes. After the bone soup is ready, put it in a small basin and store it in the freezer of the refrigerator, and carry it with you.
Efficacy: Nutrition, calcium supplement and anti-aging.
Sixth, lotus and lily soup
Ingredients: lean meat and healthy diet in winter, one or two lotus seeds, half two lilies and four candied dates.
Efficacy: Lotus seed is a good nourishing food, which has no effect of nourishing the heart and lowering blood pressure. Lily can replenish external qi, warm lung and relieve cough. Cooking soup with two kinds of materials and lean meat can not only nourish external qi, but also moisten the lungs and beautify the face, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves; And it's delicious.
Seven, lily crucian carp soup
Recommended reason:
Crucian carp is sweet and warm, and the soup with crucian carp and lily can nourish and clear the body. It is suitable for deficiency heat, deficiency cough or lung yin deficiency, lung dryness, dry cough and consumptive cough, as well as deficiency annoyance, fright and delirium in the later stage of fever. Ingredients: Carassius auratus about1000g, Lily 200g.
Exercise:
Scales, gills and internal organs of crucian carp are removed, washed, dried in the sun, fried, boiled with boiling water and salt, and filtered to obtain soup; Removing impurities from lily and soaking in clear water for half an hour; Put fish, lily and fish soup into a casserole, supplemented by refined salt and raw oil. Bring to a boil with high fire, skim off the foam and cook with low fire. Finally, sprinkle with pepper and adjust the taste.
What should I pay attention to in winter health care?
First, drink plenty of water.
The climate in winter is relatively dry, and most people will have skin problems to some extent. If the skin itself is sensitive, the situation will be more serious, such as itchy skin, chronic eczema, chapped skin and so on. For the elderly, physical resistance itself is relatively poor, and skin problems are more likely to occur.
Don't wait until you are thirsty to replenish water in winter, and don't say that you have drunk several cups in a short time. You should take a sip of water step by step, and drink no more than 300 ml each time, so as to replenish water to the body without increasing the workload of the kidneys.
Second, keep warm.
The climate is cold in winter, and the most important thing for health preservation is to keep warm. Cold weather can easily lead to joint pain, induce cervical spondylosis, and blood vessels are also attached to the phenomenon of thermal expansion and cold contraction, which leads to high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in winter. We must do a good job of keeping warm. When doing warm-keeping work, we must pay attention to protecting the shoulders and feet that are seriously injured by cold. For the elderly, we should not neglect ventilation while keeping warm.
Third, go to bed early and get up late.
Man and nature are a whole, and the human body needs to adapt to the changes of nature and arrange its life time reasonably according to the changes of the four seasons. When the sun rises, the nerves of the human body begin to get excited, so don't stay in bed at this time. There is also a reason why the days are short and the nights are long in winter. In terms of health care, we should also follow the principle of winter storage and extend the sleep time appropriately. At this time, we should form the sleep habit of going to bed early and getting up late. For the elderly with weak yang, it is best to wait until the sun comes out, otherwise it may cause colds, coughs and even angina pectoris.
Fourth, the diet should be warmed up more.
In winter, the climate itself is relatively cold, so we should choose more warm foods to improve our diet, so as to promote blood circulation, dredge meridians and achieve the effect of keeping out the cold, while red foods can achieve the effect of warming up and promoting metabolism. Foods suitable for eating in winter with certain calories are mutton, beef, pumpkin and so on. When making, onion, ginger and garlic can be properly added, and women can eat more medlar and red dates in their daily lives, which can also achieve the effect of keeping out the cold.
What vegetables are good for your health in winter?
1, eat cabbage with vegetables in winter
Its vitamin C content is 3.5 times that of tomatoes, and its calcium content is twice that of cucumbers. Chinese cabbage also contains more trace elements, such as molybdenum and manganese, which are necessary raw materials for human body to make active substances such as enzymes and hormones. It can promote human metabolism and is very beneficial to children's growth and development. Its large amount of vitamin C can enhance the anti-cancer ability of human body.
2. Eat cabbage with vegetables in winter
Chinese medicine believes that Chinese cabbage nourishes the stomach, is mild and bitter, and is beneficial to the stomach. Chinese cabbage is rich in vitamin C and calcium, as well as iron, phosphorus, carotene and B vitamins. There is also cabbage, that is, cabbage, which tastes bitter and can benefit the heart and kidney, strengthen the spleen and stomach, relieve pain and promote the healing of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
3. Eat vegetable bean sprouts in winter
Soybeans and mung beans contain a lot of protein, fat and carbohydrates, as well as sodium, phosphorus, iron, calcium and other essential dietary trace elements. After bean sprouts, it can not only keep the original substance, but also increase the vitamin content, which is beneficial to eliminate fatigue. Chlorophyll in bean sprouts can prevent and treat rectal cancer.
What is the best vegetable to eat in winter?
4. Eat yam with vegetables in winter
Yam contains a variety of trace elements and has a good nourishing effect. Yam is also rich in vitamins and minerals, and its calories are relatively low. You need to eat more yam in winter, which is beneficial to the absorption of food nutrition. Yam is a food for invigorating the middle energizer, especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat before tonic.
5. Eat celery in vegetables in winter
Celery is cool, calming the liver and invigorating the stomach, sweet and non-toxic, and rich in sugar, protein, carotene, vitamin C and amino acids. , can promote the secretion of gastric juice, stimulate appetite and eliminate phlegm. Celery can be fried with dried shredded pork, which is bright in color and fragrant in taste.
6. Eat cauliflower and vegetables in winter
Rich in vitamin substances, every 200 grams of fresh cauliflower can provide adults with more than 75% vitamin A needed for a day's diet. The content of vitamin C is even more prominent, reaching 80 mg100g, which is 3-4 times higher than that of ordinary Chinese cabbage and soybean sprouts and 2 times higher than that of citrus.