Pay attention to emotional adjustment.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver belongs to wood, and it is happy to achieve the goal, which corresponds to the rise of Yang Qi in spring. If you don't pay attention to emotional regulation and liver qi stagnates, many diseases will be born. Such as emotional exhaustion, hyperactivity of liver yang and elevated blood pressure, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are also prone to stroke. Schizophrenia patients are prone to relapse in spring. Therefore, in spring, we should conform to the natural law of Yang Qi's rising, so that the liver-qi can be unblocked and "live". This requires us to learn to self-regulate and control our emotions. When encountering unpleasant things, we should restrain our anger and vent it in time to prevent stagnation of liver-qi. Cultivate an optimistic and cheerful personality and have more hobbies. There are ten pleasures in the New Book of Life, Family and Pension: reading righteousness, learning calligraphy, sitting quietly with sincere heart, talking with friends, drinking a glass and a half drunk, watering flowers and planting bamboo, listening to the piano and playing cranes, burning incense and frying tea, and going to the city to watch the mountains and play chess. In Qing Dynasty, painters were tall, but also enjoyed plowing, holding brooms and teaching children, being satisfied, being prepared for danger in times of peace, speaking freely, strolling, bathing, lying high and showing their backs. Learning from the "Ten Pleasures" of the ancients is of great benefit to nourishing the liver in spring.
Ensure the quality of sleep
Sleep, the ancients called it "sleeping food". Zeng Guofan has a famous saying that "the way to preserve one's health is greater than sleeping and eating". Shakespeare, the great British playwright, praised sleep as a tonic on the feast of life. The World Health Organization has determined that "sleeping soundly" is one of the important objective signs of health. Studies have shown that sleep is an effective regulation of human brain and the whole nervous system. In the state of high-quality sleep, a series of physiological and biochemical changes will occur in the body, which will play a role in eliminating diseases and prolonging life. Huangdi Neijing said: "People lie in blood and return to the liver". Modern medical research has confirmed that the blood flowing into the liver during sleep is seven times that when standing. Through the increase of blood flow in the liver, it is beneficial to enhance the function of liver cells, improve the ability of detoxification, and accelerate the metabolism of protein, amino acids, sugar, fat, vitamins and other nutrients, thus maintaining the stability of human internal environment and resisting the invasion of various infectious diseases in spring. Therefore, each of us should pay attention to scientific sleep. Teenagers and middle-aged people need to sleep 8 hours a day; 7 hours for people over 60 years old; Older people over 80 years old should sleep for 8 ~ 9 hours; Sick people can appropriately increase their sleep time. Insist on washing feet with hot water before going to bed. Don't be too full for dinner, and don't drink strong tea and coffee before going to bed. Pay attention to your sleeping posture. When you sleep, you should "lie like a bow", lie on your right side and sleep with your head east and feet west. Need a quiet sleeping environment, fresh indoor air, suitable temperature and humidity, comfortable bed, conducive to entering a sweet dream.
Eat warm food.
Spring diet should follow the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer" in Huangdi Neijing, and eat more foods that warm and nourish yang. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Chinese chive leaves are hot and warm, and have the same effect. When raw, it is spicy and scattered blood. Cooked, sweet and nourishing, it is a dish of the liver. " Moderate consumption of warm leek in spring can supplement the yang of human body and enhance the functions of liver and spleen and stomach. Onion is a medicine, and its leaves can benefit the five internal organs and eliminate edema; Scallion can promote yang sweating, detoxify and reduce swelling; Onion juice can detoxify, promote blood circulation and relieve pain; Onion root can cure hemorrhoids and hematochezia. Garlic has the function of detoxification and blood stasis. Eating a few cloves of garlic every day has a good effect on preventing infectious diseases in respiratory tract and digestive tract in spring, and can clean blood and be beneficial to cardiovascular health. The diet should be sweet and less sour. Chinese medicine believes that spring is a season of vigorous liver qi. Eating too much acid can easily lead to hyperactivity of liver qi, reduce spleen soil and affect spleen transport and transformation function. Therefore, Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said, "It is advisable to keep sour and sweet in spring to nourish the temper." Jujube and yam are best for spring. Li Shizhen praised jujube "sweet and flat in taste, moderate in safety, nourishing qi and calming the stomach, dredging nine orifices, helping the twelve meridians, replenishing vitality less, lowering body fluid, lacking in body and heavy limbs, which is a hundred medicines.". Long-term use will strengthen the body and prolong life. " Yam is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the liver, tonifying the lung and benefiting qi, tonifying the kidney and solidifying essence. You can use jujube, yam, rice, millet and cowpea to cook porridge, strengthen the spleen, nourish the liver and stomach, nourish yin and moisten dryness. In spring, you should eat more vegetables and wild vegetables, such as soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, coriander, spring bamboo shoots, lettuce, spinach, Toona sinensis, shepherd's purse, celery, rape, dandelion and willow buds. It can not only supplement vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, but also clear away heat and moisten dryness, which is beneficial to the discharge of accumulated heat in the body. Avoid eating greasy, cold and sticky food, so as not to hurt the liver and spleen.
Exercise regularly
Spring is a good time to nourish the liver with natural yang, and exercise is an excellent method. Chinese medicine believes that the liver is the main muscle. Insisting on exercise can relax muscles and tendons, which is beneficial to liver health. Huangdi Neijing said: "In the spring of March, this is called Chen, heaven and earth are born, everything is glorious, lying at night and getting up early, striding towards the court, putting on hair and slowing down, so as to make life." Everyone should choose suitable sports according to their physical condition. In the early morning, evening and holidays, you can stroll on the grass, dance fists and make swords in the forest by the river, or go for an outing in the suburbs, visit mountains and water, enjoy flowers and sing, climb high and look far, learn and think for a long time, and integrate your body and mind with nature, which invisibly enhances your physical and mental health.