Winter is the season of storing sperm. The cold climate, cold stagnation, is easy to make the old disease relapse or aggravate. Therefore, in winter, we need to pay special attention to health care and health preservation.
Health care in winter can not be separated from five principles: first, tonify the kidney, keep warm and avoid hard food, increase bitterness and less salt, adjust sleep and pay attention to keep warm.
Chinese medicine believes that: "nourishing the liver in spring, nourishing the heart in summer, nourishing the kidney in autumn and nourishing the kidney in winter." In winter, the kidney should not only protect the body's energy consumption, but also store some energy for the next year, so it is very important to nourish the kidney at this time. Tonifying the kidney in winter can be supplemented by food, and you can also do some exercise properly.
Nourishing kidney eight-treasure porridge
Materials: Lycium barbarum 10g, Chinese yam 30g, black sesame 10g, Ginkgo biloba 5g, Euryale ferox 30g, walnut 10g, chestnut 10g, and black rice 30g.
Practice yam, ginkgo, chestnut soaked in dry products in advance, Euryale ferox and black rice soaked overnight in advance, black sesame slightly fried, and then add appropriate amount of water according to personal preference, these ingredients can be cooked into eight-treasure porridge.
Lycium barbarum L., walnut kernel, Chinese yam and chestnut have outstanding kidney-benefiting effects, Euryale ferox L. and black rice are beneficial to qi, and Ginkgo biloba can astringe lung qi and reduce defecation. Taking this bowl of eight-treasure porridge regularly can not only tonify the kidney and qi, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, but also play a role in anti-aging and preventing Alzheimer's disease. It is also helpful for amnesia, lumbago and leg pain, frequent urination and other diseases.
Bushen often does two actions.
▼ Chongdantian Yiqi
Feet are shoulder width apart, knees are slightly crouched, fists are clenched with both hands, right fist is swung forward, fist center is aimed at front abdomen, left fist is swung backward, fist back is aimed at back abdomen, and both legs hit front and back abdomen at the same time when bouncing straight.
This action should be light before heavy and coherent. Don't pause too much, repeat 26 times.
▼ Climb your feet with both hands, strengthen your kidney and waist.
Keep your feet shoulder width apart, and slowly lift your hands from the front to your head when inhaling; Then exhale, put your hands down slowly, bend over, straighten your legs, then get up and stay upright, and repeat 2-6 times.
The second movement requires pranayama between breaths, and the coordination of up and down movements can activate vitality and protect kidney and waist, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
Eating cold and hard food in winter is particularly easy to damage the spleen and stomach. If the food is too cold, it is easy to stimulate the blood vessels of the spleen and stomach, so that the blood flow is not smooth, which in turn affects the blood circulation of other viscera and harms health;
But don't eat overheated food. Food overheating is easy to damage the esophagus and may also lead to gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, the diet should be warm in winter.
1. Yam shrimp skin sauce
Ingredients: yam and shrimp skin
working methods
① Wash yam, scrape off the skin, chop it into paste, and put it in a bowl for later use;
(2) Put the pot on fire, add a proper amount of clear water, boil it on medium fire, add washed shrimp skin, yellow wine, chopped green onion and Jiang Mo, and simmer for 10 minute;
(3) Add yam paste and simmer until boiling, then add salt to serve.
Yam tonifies the middle energizer, has the function of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, and is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat before tonic. Shrimp skin is rich in calcium, and also has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, regulating qi and appetizing, especially suitable for eating in winter. Eating a bowl of yam shrimp sauce every morning and evening can enrich blood, strengthen kidney and lower blood pressure, especially suitable for hypertensive patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency.
2. Millet and red date porridge
Ingredients: millet, Ziziphus jujuba seed, honey.
Practice: put the millet in water and cook until it becomes porridge-like, add the Ziziphus jujuba seeds and continue to cook for 10 minutes, and then take out the pot. Add proper amount of honey before eating, and the taste is better.
Millet itself has the functions of sleeping with the stomach, nourishing yin and nourishing blood, and is especially suitable for people with deficiency and cold constitution who are afraid of cold in winter. Coupled with the effect of appetizing and digestion, Ziziphus jujuba seed can effectively prevent indigestion and aphtha.
It is easy to have kidney fire in winter. If you eat too salty again, it will make the kidney fire stronger, hurt the heart and affect the function. Therefore, salty food should not be eaten in winter, and bitter food should be eaten to nourish the heart and enhance kidney function.
Chicken with garlic and bitter gourd
Ingredients: 1 bitter gourd and 2 chicken legs.
working methods
(1) remove the white pulp from bitter gourd and cut it into cubes for later use;
(2) cutting chicken legs, adding cooking wine, pickling with soy sauce, and adding a little dry starch for sizing;
3. Add a little salt to boiling water, put bitter gourd in the pot and take it out after 10 second, which can add color and remove bitterness;
(4) Stir-fry the chicken leg meat in a pot, and add seasonings such as light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce and white sugar;
⑤ Add bitter gourd and colored pepper, add garlic paste, stir well and take it out.
Bitter gourd is not only rich in vitamins, minerals and trace elements, but also contains amino acids, pectin and other nutrients. Chicken is not only rich in high-quality protein, but also contains minerals and some vitamins. The combination of the two is especially suitable for winter tonic.
In winter, we should abide by the principle of "going to bed early and getting up late", go to bed early and nourish yang, and get up late to nourish yin, so that the body can get a full rest. Don't cover your head with a quilt when you sleep, and keep breathing smoothly; Also pay attention to keep warm and reduce the onset of chronic diseases.
0 1 quilt is not suitable for being too heavy.
Too heavy a quilt will increase the load of blood supply to the heart, and it is easy to have poor breathing, thus affecting our sleep quality. You can choose a lighter duvet to keep warm and not feel heavy.
Ensure the humidity of the space.
In winter, many friends will turn on the air conditioner or use heating, which will make the indoor air drier, which is not conducive to respiratory health. At this time, we can put a humidifier at home to increase the humidity of the space, so that we won't get thirsty when we get up early.
▼ Warm head
Cold in the head can lead to muscle tension, vasoconstriction, headache, cold and even gastrointestinal discomfort.
▼ Warm your neck
The neck is the "fortress" of human body. Cold neck can cause pain in the back of neck, shoulder and shoulder area, and repeated stimulation may lead to cervical spondylosis.
▼ Warm feet
The foot is the second heart of human beings. If we don't pay attention to keeping our feet warm in winter, our body's resistance will drop and we will be easily attacked by viruses and bacteria, which will lead to our illness.
Therefore, we must take warm-keeping measures in winter, wear hats and scarves when going out, and soak our feet before going to bed at night to eliminate moisture in our bodies.
As the saying goes, "tonic this winter, tiger hunting next March", winter is the best time to keep fit. At this time, paying attention to health care and tonic can improve physical function, enhance resistance and make us stronger in the spring of next year. Especially middle-aged and elderly people and sub-healthy people, their immunity is declining, so they need to pay more attention to health preservation and disease prevention.