Chinese medicine believes that winter is the season of storing essence, and the period from beginning of winter to beginning of spring is most suitable for winter tonic. 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 increased significantly, but the mortality rate has also increased sharply. Therefore, winter health should pay attention to cold protection. In winter, the human body's yang accumulates, and qi and blood tend to flow inward, so the skin is dense and water is not easy to leak from the body surface. However, after the kidney and bladder are gasified, a small part of them become body fluid and spread all over the body, and most of them differentiate into water, and urine is poured into the bladder, which invisibly increases the burden on the kidney and easily leads to nephritis, enuresis, urinary incontinence, edema and other diseases.
Food supplement: mutton soup with angelica and red dates
In the cold winter when the temperature continues to drop, Hakkas living in the northeast of Guangdong, such as Shaoguan, Heyuan and Meizhou, often eat some warm food to increase their body heat. Among them, Danggui red date mutton soup is the favorite tonic soup of Hakka people in northeast Guangdong. Drinking a bowl of mutton soup with angelica and red dates in cold winter has the dietotherapy effect of warming the middle warmer, strengthening the stomach, invigorating the spleen and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and enriching blood. This nourishing soup is the favorite winter health soup of local Hakka women, especially suitable for patients with weak constitution, cold stomach, indigestion due to kidney deficiency and postpartum women with blood deficiency.
The practice of Danggui Jujube Mutton Soup: First, wash and cut the mutton and lamb chops, blanch them in boiling water, skim off the floating foam with a spoon, and then remove the mutton or lamb chops for later use. After that, the ginger is washed, peeled and sliced, the red dates are pitted, and the angelica is washed with water for later use. Finally, put all the processed ingredients into the soup pot, add a proper amount of water, bring them to a boil with strong fire, then simmer them for about 1 hour, add a proper amount of salt to taste, and then take them out of the pot for drinking.
Soaking feet: Bai Zi soaks feet to prevent insomnia. The method is: Mash 25g of Platycladus orientalis seed, add water for 20 minutes, pour the medicine juice into a basin, add appropriate amount of water to make the temperature suitable, and then soak your feet for 20 minutes, once a day/kloc-0. Soak the feet of Amomum tsao-ko to prevent stomachache: put 30g of Amomum tsao-ko in water and boil for half an hour, then remove the residue and take the juice and pour it into a basin, add a proper amount of warm water to make the water feel slightly hot, and then soak the feet for 20 minutes. Mulberry branches soak feet to prevent leg cold: boil 25 grams of mulberry branches in water for half an hour, remove residues, take juice and pour it into the footbath, first fumigate, then soak for 20 minutes when it is not hot, every other day 1 time, which can be persisted for a long time.
Sleep is an important part of winter health care: attention should be paid to the collection of yin and the improvement of sleep quality in winter health care. When the human body is in a deep sleep state, immune cells and various damaged cells, especially brain cells, are quickly repaired, and the body can carry out life activities such as nutrient absorption, energy storage and fatigue elimination, which is beneficial to the body and mind; On the other hand, if sleep is too shallow, sleep disorders such as early awakening or lack of sleep may induce or aggravate the original physical diseases, which is not conducive to health and longevity.
Winter exercise: Aerobic exercise with smaller exercise range and higher calorie consumption should be selected. Winter sports consume a lot and sweat less, so athletes can adapt to the sweating process more and increase the intensity of exercise. In winter, the temperature is low, the air is relatively clean and the respiratory tract is comfortable, which can promote blood circulation throughout the body. Naturally, it can increase the amount of exercise and accelerate the consumption of heat. Exercise in winter, pay attention to keep warm and prevent freezing. The outdoor temperature is low in the morning, so you should put on more clothes, get ready for activities, and then take off heavy clothes and pants for exercise after warming up. Put on clothes and pants in time after exercise and keep warm. Especially after winter swimming, you should immediately dry your whole body with a soft and dry bath towel, wipe your red skin, keep warm and avoid the invasion of cold evil.