In spring, we should pay attention to eating more sweets and less acid to nourish the spleen. Eat more sweets, such as jujube, crispy rice, yam, leek, spinach, shepherd's purse, chicken, chicken liver and so on. Eat less sour foods, such as tomatoes, lemons and oranges.
You can eat some sweets, such as yam, coix seed, lotus seed, jujube, water chestnut, tremella, lentils, gordon euryales and so on. Products that soothe the liver and regulate qi, such as using dried tangerine peel, chrysanthemum, rose and licorice instead of soaking tea in water. Patients who have recovered or recovered from illness should mainly eat sweet, light and digestible foods, such as rice porridge, lettuce porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste, fermented bean curd and pork floss.
In addition, nature provides many wild vegetables for human beings in spring, such as shepherd's purse, Malantou, Portulaca oleracea, Toona sinensis, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Auricularia auricula, etc. These vegetables are rich in nutrition and have certain therapeutic effects, so we should seize the opportunity to choose food.
It is not advisable to eat mutton, dog meat, spicy hot pot and spicy products such as pepper, pepper and pepper. It is not advisable to drink too much, and eat less indigestible foods such as greasy and glutinous rice balls.
Recommended recipe: yam porridge
Materials: fresh yam 100 ~ 200g, japonica rice100g.
Method: Wash yam, peel and cut into pieces, and cook with japonica rice.
Function: Yam can strengthen spleen, tonify kidney and moisten lung.
How to exercise in March?
Male:
Health principle: "nourishing yang in spring and summer".
In spring, people often feel sleepy and sleepy, and wake up late in the morning, which is called "spring sleep" by the people. This is a normal physiological phenomenon that human physiological function changes with the seasons.
March health care should be based on natural phenology and physical differences for reasonable mental, daily and dietary conditioning. When everything recovers in spring, staying up late, getting up early and walking slowly can make you feel happy and healthy. However, people in areas with low temperature in the north and large temperature difference between morning and evening should pay attention to keep warm.
The liver should be treated in spring. If it is not properly preserved, it may damage the liver. Modern epidemiological investigation shows that spring is the high incidence season of liver diseases, so we should pay attention to nourishing and protecting the liver to prevent the epidemic of infectious diseases in spring.
Female:
In spring and March, everything is happy, which is the most active period of physiological function and metabolism, and also a good period for women to keep fit. Female friends should eat less meat and return to light and delicious food-such as porridge cooked with all kinds of coarse grains as the staple food;
Adjust the stomach with a light soup with less salt and easy absorption; Scraping off greasy with fresh vegetables and fruits rich in crude fiber will help us recuperate and recover. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in ancient China, said: "In spring, it is advisable to keep acid and sweeten it to nourish your temper." It means to eat less sour and eat more sweet in spring. There is also a saying in the north that "a woman can't have a date for three days". For women, red dates are an ideal medicine for invigorating qi and calming nerves, and also an ideal dessert for nourishing the spleen and stomach.
Old man:
An important aspect of spring health care for the elderly is disease prevention and health care. Especially in early spring, when the weather turns from cold to warm, all kinds of pathogenic bacteria and viruses grow and multiply, and influenza, meningitis, measles, scarlet fever and pneumonia also occur and prevail.
In daily life, human qi and blood, like nature, need to stretch freely, which requires the elderly to go to bed early and get up early, participate in outdoor activities more, adapt their mental state to nature, and strive for physical and mental harmony and energy.
In order to avoid the occurrence of diseases in spring, one is to eliminate the source of infection; Second, open the window frequently to keep the indoor air fresh; Third, we should strengthen exercise and improve the body's resistance.
Special population:
Spring is coming, why are gastric ulcer and liver disease easy to recur? Why are hypertensive patients particularly grumpy? From the point of view of nature, on the one hand, the climate temperature difference in spring is large and changeable, on the other hand, when everything in nature recovers and enters the growing period, the functions of human nerves, blood vessels, endocrine and various tissues and organs will be adjusted adaptively to restore the balance with nature. For people with poor adaptability, they are prone to depression and bad mood, and there are symptoms of "stagnation of liver qi, hyperactivity of liver yang and internal movement of liver wind". From the point of view of modern medicine, digestive tract ulcers and bleeding episodes are prone to occur; Patients with chronic liver disease are prone to abnormal liver function, especially the increase of alanine aminotransferase; Patients with mental illness and depression are prone to relapse; Patients with high blood pressure and stroke are also prone to illness. Although there are many factors for the occurrence and development of diseases, emotional fluctuation is also an inducing factor, especially in spring. Therefore, it is very important to adjust mood in spring. The best way to overcome mood swings is to increase leisure activities, such as planting trees, raising flowers, playing the piano, playing chess, painting and calligraphy, fishing or short trips, so as to make people feel comfortable and harmonious.
Matters needing attention in March health care
Spring is a good time to invest in fitness.
Because in the cold winter, people are wrapped in thick cotton-padded clothes, the functions of body temperature regulation center and internal organs are reduced to varying degrees, coupled with reduced activity, muscles and ligaments can not be exercised, and people easily feel tired. Sunny spring is most conducive to the human body to spit out the old and absorb the new, absorb the essence of nature, nourish the zang-fu organs and transform them into Jingxue. At this time, you should choose exercise according to your physical strength and hobbies. If it is to prevent the premature decline of organ system function and improve cardiopulmonary function and metabolic function, you can choose endurance events such as jogging, mountaineering, climbing stairs and cycling; If you want to relax and eliminate fatigue, you can choose soft and rhythmic projects, such as walking, qigong, Tai Ji Chuan, self-care massage and so on. If it is aimed at some chronic diseases, special medical exercise methods can be carried out, such as abdominal muscle exercise for patients with gastroptosis. It should be reminded that the climate changes rapidly in spring. In early exercise, you should not wear too little clothes. Clothes can be reduced appropriately when it is hot. It is not advisable to sweat during exercise, and it is better to sweat slightly; Some elderly people with weak constitution or lack of exercise habits should exercise step by step to avoid sports injuries or other diseases; In addition, spring is also a vigorous period for the reproduction and growth of various germs. When you take part in outdoor sports, you should pay attention to health care and avoid unclean environmental places.