Beginning of winter is the nineteenth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in winter. After beginning of winter, it means that winter is officially coming. In beginning of winter season, we should pay attention to the word "hide", with emphasis on "harvest" and "keep warm". At the same time, appropriate tonic, supplemented by exercise and mental conditioning. In the diet, we should "warm up" and eat more warm food to prevent diseases. At the same time, you can go to bed early and get up late, and often bask in the sun.

How to keep healthy in early winter?

Beginning of winter is the beginning of early winter, so we should eat less cold and eat a diet with high calorie, nourishing yin and subduing yang. It is necessary to add bitterness and less salt, and not blindly "tonic". For example, eating mild peanut and jujube soup, stewed beef with ginger and so on. In addition, drinking hot porridge in winter is also a good choice for health. Cereal porridge can nourish the heart, sesame porridge can nourish essence and yin, radish porridge can eliminate phlegm, and Poria porridge can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.

After beginning of winter, you might as well soak your feet more, which can stimulate various acupoints on your feet, thus achieving the effects of nourishing vitality, strengthening waist and tendons, regulating viscera, dredging meridians, promoting metabolism and delaying aging.

Beginning of winter solar terms, going to bed early and getting up late, are more conducive to health and the accumulation of latent yang and yin essence; It is best to wait until the sun rises in the morning to get up, to ensure adequate sleep, which is conducive to the growth of human yang, to make the mind more sober and sensitive, and to go to bed early and get up late is more suitable for the elderly.

Beginning of winter's post-exercise principle is: don't expose the skin, don't do strenuous exercise, and let the pores of the skin be completely released, otherwise it will be easy to catch a cold and cold evil invade. Keep warm during exercise to prevent colds, but don't wear too many clothes to avoid sweating. Slight sweating is appropriate. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should not do strenuous exercise; People with respiratory diseases should go out to exercise in sunny hours to avoid cold stimulation, so as not to induce old diseases. You can drink a cup of ginger tea before exercise, or soak a bottle of ginger tea in a thermos cup and carry it with you. Warm-up exercises are not afraid of cold, which can prevent colds.

Health preservation in early winter to prevent "five cold"

Prevention of cold nose: rub your nose with cold water in the morning.

After winter, "cool dryness" is more obvious, and rhinitis has become a big problem for many people. You might as well control your cold with a cold, and wipe your nose with cold water every morning or before going out. Washing the nose with cold water every morning and evening is conducive to enhancing the immunity of nasal mucosa and is a good way to prevent and treat rhinitis.

Anti-neck cold: wear a stand-up collar to keep out the cold.

Autumn and winter are the high incidence seasons of cervical spondylosis. According to experts, the neck is the "fortress" of the human body, which is not only covered with blood vessels, but also has many important acupoints. Dai Liling can not only block the cold wind, but also avoid the contraction of blood vessels in the head and neck due to cold, which is conducive to preventing hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.

Prevention of lung cold: drinking hot porridge to drive away cold

Cold and cold are the most common problems in winter Experts say that if the symptoms are mild, you can choose some ingredients that can relieve the symptoms, spread the lungs and dispel the cold. There is a song that says: "A handful of glutinous rice boiled into soup, seven onions and seven ginger cooked, mixed with half a cup of vinegar, can keep you from catching a cold."

Prevention of low back cold: rub your waist with your hands, warm your kidney and strengthen your yang.

According to experts, rubbing the waist with both hands helps to dredge the meridians and strengthen the waist and kidney. The waist is where the pulse runs, especially the lower back on both sides of the spine is where the kidneys are. Kidney likes warming and hates cold. Regular massage can warm kidney and strengthen yang, and make blood flow smoothly. The specific method is: after heating your hands, press the waist and eyes tightly, stop for a moment, and then rub down to the coccyx. Do it 50~ 100 times each time, once in the morning and once in the evening.

Foot cold: often do foot bath.

Foot bath should pay attention to three points: first, the temperature, the water temperature is preferably around 40℃, and the ankle joint is submerged by water; The second is time, soaking for 20~30 minutes each time, heating water from time to time to keep the water temperature; Third, massage, dry your feet and massage your toes and soles for 2~3 minutes. Finally, it is best to go to bed within half an hour after finishing the above three points to ensure the effect of foot bath. In addition, foot bath should not be carried out immediately after meals, and the foot bath temperature of diabetic patients should not be too high.