First, the benefits of dry rubbing your face in the morning
Dry face washing is a health care method to promote blood circulation through the friction between our palms and facial skin. In fact, our face and internal organs have corresponding points, so dry face rubbing can not only beautify but also preserve our health:
1. Rubbing your face can open pores and let things in pores discharge normally, without acne, acne and blackheads. Make the skin more elastic.
2. There are enough Yangming stomach meridians on the front of the face, which often helps to keep unobstructed. If the stomach meridian is unobstructed, the digestion ability will be better, and the cooperation with the spleen will be better, which will help the absorption and transformation of food into nutrition.
3. Rubbing your face accelerates facial blood circulation, and facial muscles and nerves are active and nourished.
4. Rubbing the face will accelerate the blood circulation around the eyes, which can not only relieve visual fatigue, but also enhance the vitality of the optic nerve and slow down the degenerative diseases of the eyes.
Rub your face when you are tired. Not only is your face comfortable, but your eyes are brighter. You feel refreshed and comfortable.
6. Rubbing your face can not only stretch facial nerves and facial muscles, but more importantly, it can prevent facial neuritis, vision loss and scapulohumeral periarthritis.
Second, health care methods
(1) head
1. Comb your hair with your fingers
The head is the "meeting of yang", and the brain is the sea of marrow, where all yang meridians and qi meet. Comb your hair with your fingers every morning and evening to promote blood circulation.
Rub one's ears
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the ear is the opening of the kidney, and the kidney opens in the ear, and the ear is the place where the six Yang meridians converge. Rub the auricle 60 times every morning and evening, and it is advisable to have a burning sensation with ear heat. Has the effects of preventing and treating deafness, tinnitus and otogenic diseases.
3. Buckle tongue and teeth
The heart begins to understand the tongue, which is the seedling of the heart. Playing the tongue 60 times every morning and evening has a good brain-nourishing and brain-protecting effect. In addition, in addition to playing the tongue often, you should also buckle your teeth often, which can strengthen your teeth and prevent dental diseases and tooth loss.
(2) limbs
1. Massage upper limbs
The upper limb is the artery of "the vein of three yin hands and three yang hands", and it is an important part connecting the viscera with the external collateral. Massage 60 times every morning and evening, from the upper inner armpit (Jiquan point) to the inner wrist (Neiguan point) and from the outer wrist (Waiguan point) to the shoulder (Jianjing point). Regular massage of the upper limbs can dredge the meridians of the upper limbs and reconcile qi and blood, which has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on cardiovascular system, respiratory system diseases and upper limb diseases.
Step 2 massage lower limbs
The lower limbs are the arteries of "three yin feet and three yang feet". Every morning and evening, it is slapped 60 times from the lower part (Sanyinjiao-Xuanzhong) to the upper part (Zusanli-Yinlingquan) and from the lower part of the thigh (Liang Qiu-Xue Hai) to the upper part of the thigh (Shi Feng, Huantiao), which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating qi, relaxing muscles and tendons, and regulating the spleen and stomach.
(3) Shoulder and neck
1. Massage your shoulders.
Chinese medicine believes that the scapula is the intersection of the three Yang meridians of the hand, foot and mouth. Massage 60 times every morning and evening can effectively prevent and treat shoulder and neck diseases such as scapulohumeral periarthritis and cervical spondylosis.
Massage the neck
The neck is an important channel for human meridians to lead to the head and limbs. Massage 60 times every morning and evening to prevent and treat cervical spondylosis, vascular headache and cerebrovascular diseases.
(4) Abdomen
The abdomen is where any pulse passes. Put your hands on the navel (Shenque point) every morning and evening, press it clockwise for 60 times, and then press it counterclockwise for 60 times in the same way, which can improve the functions of digestive system and urogenital system. Abdominal massage has many benefits. Bian Xiao often massages.
(5) waist
Massage the waist every morning and evening can strengthen the kidney and waist, and has a good effect on treating lumbago due to kidney deficiency, rheumatic lumbago and lumbar disc herniation.
Third, healthy body food.
1, kiwifruit
Kiwi is rich in vitamin C. Every 100g of fresh fruit contains vitamin C 100 ~ 400 mg, which is 5 ~ 10 times higher than that of citrus and 20 ~ 30 times higher than that of apples and pears, so it has the reputation of "vitamin C fruit". Fruit also contains 17 kinds of amino acids, fruit acid, tannic acid, citric acid, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron and other mineral elements needed by human body. It is a unique nutritious fruit.
Kiwifruit also has high medicinal value. Clinically, kiwi fruit has a certain curative effect on acute icteric hepatitis, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, vomiting, burns and vitamin C deficiency.
2. Sweet potato
Sweet potato contains sugar, fat, protein, inorganic salts, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid and essential amino acids, among which the content of carotene and ascorbic acid exceeds that of carrots and some fruits. Sweet potato is a kind of physiological alkaline food, which can neutralize the excessive acid produced by eating meat and eggs in the body, thus maintaining the acid-base balance in the human body, and because it is rich in vitamins, it can keep the stool unobstructed, which is very effective in preventing constipation.
Sweet potato also contains chemicals similar to estrogen, which can keep human skin delicate and delay human aging. Sweet potato also contains effective ingredients such as mucin, which can enhance physical fitness, prevent fatigue and make people energetic. It can improve human immunity, promote cholesterol excretion, reduce cardiovascular lipid deposition and subcutaneous fat accumulation, and play an important role in preventing liver and kidney connective tissue atrophy and collagen disease.
3. Olive oil
Olive oil contains more than 80% monounsaturated fatty acids, and also contains squalene, sitosterol, provitamin A, vitamin E and other components beneficial to cardiovascular health. In Mediterranean countries where olive oil is the main edible oil, the incidence of cardiovascular diseases is much lower than that in other European countries.
Regular consumption of olive oil can also prevent osteoporosis and calcium loss; It can prevent digestive system diseases, gallstones, heart disease and hypertension, reduce the incidence of cancer, and reduce gastric acid and blood sugar. Therefore, olive oil is recognized as "green and healthy edible oil".
4. onions (surname)
Onion is rich in trace elements such as protein, sugar, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, selenium and various chemicals, and almost contains no fat. Onion is the only known plant containing prostaglandin A, which is a strong vasodilator, which can relax blood vessels, reduce blood viscosity, increase coronary blood flow, reduce vascular pressure, lower blood pressure and prevent coronary heart disease.
Onion contains a large number of plant fungicides, which have strong bactericidal ability and can kill and inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, diphtheria, Shigella, tuberculosis, Escherichia coli and other germs. Selenium, a trace element contained in onion, is a strong antioxidant, which has anti-cancer, anti-cancer and anti-aging effects.
5. tomatoes
Lycopene contained in tomatoes is an effective antioxidant, which can inhibit some carcinogenic oxygen free radicals. Studies have shown that eating tomatoes in large quantities for a long time can help prevent prostate cancer in men.
6. Bean products
Beans are another food rich in high-quality protein, second only to meat, eggs and milk, with low cholesterol content. Nutrients in beans help to prevent cardiovascular diseases. At the same time, soybean and its products have unique charm in preventing digestive tract cancer. Soybean is rich in trace elements molybdenum and selenium, which can reduce the damage of nitrosamines to cell genetic material, repair damaged tissues and significantly inhibit the occurrence and development of esophageal cancer.
In addition, phytosterol, soybean saponin and phytate contained in soybean can also inhibit colon cancer and rectal cancer.