Do a good job in health care! It can not only cure diseases, but also not get sick! What I emphasize to you at ordinary times is that you should adapt to the climate changes of the four seasons in nature and adjust your spiritual activities to meet the laws of birth, growth, education, harvest and storage in nature: nourishing the liver in spring, nourishing the heart in summer, nourishing the lungs in autumn and nourishing the kidney in winter. Patients with liver qi stagnation and kidney deficiency can adjust according to this natural law, and the effect is twice as good as usual. Even healthy patients can adjust their bodies according to the solar terms and improve their immunity. When the health care work is done, the disease will naturally not invade, the immunity will be enhanced, and the disease will naturally recover faster!
The way of keeping in good health: conform to the four seasons and adjust the spirit with four qi!
Four Qi Tunes the Spirit, which is the title of the second chapter of Su Wen in Huangdi Neijing, that is, Su Wen's four Qi Tunes the Spirit. There are 365 days in a year, which are divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Four-season health preservation, also known as "the theory of four seasons regulating spirits", mainly expounds the health preservation law corresponding to the growth and collection of four seasons.
The four seasons are talking about the change of qi. In ancient times, talking about qi refers more to solar terms, that is, 24 solar terms. There are six solar terms in each season. In the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, qi is constantly changing, showing the characteristics of "spring temperature, summer heat, autumn cool and winter cold". Similarly, the human body also has such a change corresponding to nature: "Spring is spring, summer is long, autumn is harvest, and winter is hidden".
People, born and sick, are the process of growth and collection, sunrise and sunset, eating, drinking, and getting sick. The law of keeping in good health of our bodies is closely related to the changes of nature. With the constant change of climate throughout the year, our physical condition will also be affected. Therefore, as a part of nature, we should learn to conform to nature and keep in good health at all times, and our daily life should also be adapted to it, so that we can live rhythmically and regularly, be in harmony with our living environment and truly gain health.
First of all, daily life conforms to the four seasons.
It is warm in spring, hot in summer, cool in autumn and cold in winter all year round. Living in the climatic conditions of the four seasons, we should also adjust our life rules according to the changes of nature.
It's late autumn now, and it's cool to live in autumn. We should go to bed early and get up early, and work and rest with chickens at the same time. The weather in autumn is changeable, even in the same area, there will be a situation of "four seasons in one day, different days in ten miles". Therefore, our clothes should change with the weather, we should protect our chest and back when sleeping, and we should ensure proper humidity in the room. After getting up early, don't walk in a hurry, let alone land barefoot. The foot is a part of the human body with slow blood circulation. When you get up early, your feet have the highest temperature and the fastest circulation in a day. At this time, barefoot contact with the ground will stimulate the footsteps because the ground is cold, affecting the blood circulation speed, which is not conducive to the overall blood circulation of the body. After getting up early, you should sit quietly in bed for a few minutes, so that your brain can be awake and your mind can be restored. Only in this way can you ensure that all organs of your body return to your life in an orderly manner and bring a good rhythm to your life.
It's warm in spring and March, and you should lie down and get up early at night, and usually take a walk in the yard, such as the way recommended by Dr. Jia before. Many women like to tie their hair tightly to make it look fresh and neat. However, in spring, it is suggested that our hair styles should be adjusted appropriately. If you want to help yang rise, it is best to "keep long hair", so that the head and peripheral skin are in a relaxed and relaxed state, and the blood is smooth, so that the whole person is full of vitality and echoes the breath of spring.
In Xia San month, you should stay up late and get up early, and don't hate the sun. Before that, I told our patients to go out in the sun. In summer, getting rid of dampness is very important. We use the power of the sun given to us by nature to bask in the sun more and sweat moderately, and excrete the water in our bodies in the form of sweat. Although I don't advocate sweating very much in other seasons, sweating in summer is good for our health.
In winter and March, you should go to bed early and get up late at this time. I suggest you get up after the sun comes out. Because going to bed early can maintain human yang and keep the body warm, while getting up late can nourish human yin. Do it at sunrise, get up and stop the cold, and ask for its warmth. Don't sleep with your head covered when it is warm. If the air in the bed is not circulating, there will be less and less oxygen. Over time, the air will become turbid. When people sleep in such an environment, they will feel chest tightness, nausea, or wake up from sleep with a cold sweat and feel tired the next day.
Second, diet adapts to the four seasons.
In autumn, many people have symptoms of autumn dryness, such as chapped lips, dry throat and constipation. In these cases, it is suggested that everyone eat hemp to moisten their dryness and prohibit cold drinks.
Autumn is a good time for dietotherapy tonic, but tonic should not be made indiscriminately, and it should not be made without distinction between reality and reality. Dry air in autumn is at the right time, which is easy to hurt body fluids, so it is advisable to nourish yin and moisten the lungs in diet, such as proper consumption of soft products such as sesame, glutinous rice and honey, which will benefit the stomach and promote fluid production. Another more important point of autumn diet therapy is "no cold drinks". If you overeat cold or unclean fruits and vegetables, it will lead to the accumulation of cold and dampness, which will cause diarrhea and dysentery.
Su Wen on the Method of Dirty Qi says: "The lung governs autumn ... the lung converges, and when eating acid, it is harvested urgently, supplemented with acid, and diarrhea". It is not suitable to be scattered in autumn. Try to eat less spicy products such as onions and ginger, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables, such as hawthorn, grapes, grapefruit and pomegranate. Drinking porridge in autumn is especially nourishing. After a summer of "cold drink bombing", the function of the spleen and stomach will be weakened. Coupled with the windy and dry climate in autumn, if you are not careful, you will be targeted by a cold and fever. At this time, it is necessary to choose some nourishing foods that are easy to digest, so that the body can smoothly adapt to the process from hot summer to cool autumn. Porridge has this function, which can help everyone moisten the lungs and produce fluid.
In spring and March, the diet should be "sour and sweet to nourish the temper". Spleen will be affected when liver qi is strong in spring, so the symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness are easy to appear in spring. Therefore, we should eat more sweets in spring to replenish the spleen and stomach.
In Xia San, the diet should be "bitter and spicy", that is, eat less bitter and eat more spicy. Summer is a season of intense emotion. Although bitter food has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, relieving asthma and diarrhea, it will help heart fire and control lung fire. Therefore, it is not recommended to eat more in summer to avoid excessive heart fire. For patients with fibroids, soothing the liver and nourishing the liver are particularly important in spring! Therefore, patients with fibroids need to eat some foods that help the liver detoxify, such as spinach, leeks and red dates.
In winter and March, the diet should "save salt, increase bitterness and nourish the heart". In winter, kidney qi is full, which is the easiest to restrain the heart, so it is necessary to reduce the intake of salty taste, increase bitterness and nourish the heart.
Third, the adaptation of emotions to the four seasons.
People's spiritual activities should conform to the changes of climate in four seasons. The idea of emotional adaptation to the four seasons was first seen in Neijing. For example, "Lingshu Benjing" said: "Therefore, the health of the wise must be suitable for the four seasons, harmonious with the qi, and rigid and soft. If this is the case, it will not be eccentric and will last for a long time. "
Autumn is a refreshing and pleasant season. But the climate is getting drier and drier, the sunshine is getting less and less, and the temperature is gradually dropping. Especially in the late autumn, the withering of grass leaves and flowers and leaves will often cause desolation and twilight in some people's hearts, resulting in emotional changes such as depression and irritability. Therefore, in autumn, we should keep a cool head and slow down the impact of cold air in autumn on our health. For patients with fibroids, after summer, there will be some discomfort and weakness in the body, which is more likely to affect emotions at this time, so it is particularly important to adjust emotions at this time.
Spring and March are the seasons for hair growth, and everything is thriving. Keep your emotions in your heart and don't make people angry. They should have a mental state of "living without killing, giving without taking, rewarding without punishment", and their body and mind should be comfortable, natural, relaxed, lively and full of vitality in order to "live". There is an old saying that "women hurt spring". Generally speaking, in spring, women are prone to depression and emotional discomfort. Women belong to yin, and spring belongs to yang, so women tend to reject the vitality of spring, resulting in negative emotions such as sentimentality, mood swings and depression. For patients with fibroids, it is greatly influenced by emotions! Therefore, it is particularly important to keep a happy mood in spring.
Summer and March are prosperous times. Heaven and earth are in harmony, and everything is flashy. Be happy, don't be impatient and angry, devote yourself to life and work with peace of mind, and be neither depressed nor angry. Anger seems to be an energy. When you are upset, read Buddhist scriptures, read the Bible, listen to music and practice calligraphy to slow down your body.
Winter and March are hiding seasons, and Dr. Jia said that our emotions also need to be "warm". During the physiological period of winter, women are always accompanied by nervousness, irritability and melancholy, which are often manifested as temper tantrums and quarrels. Coupled with the influence of the change of solar terms in winter, going to the next level will lead to emotional distress. If we can't eliminate the trouble of bad emotions in time, it will easily lead to physical and mental diseases. Therefore, in winter, we should get closer to nature, calm down, read books and listen to music in our spare time, and achieve a quiet and peaceful state of mind.
Fourth, sports should conform to the four seasons.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that exercise and fitness are carried out under the guidance of the holistic view of "harmony between man and nature" in the four seasons, and we should also choose corresponding exercise and fitness methods according to the law of yin and yang changes of solar terms. It should also conform to the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter" and follow the phenological laws of spring birth, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage.
Autumn has moderate temperature and good air quality, which is a good time to exercise. At this time, human activities are in a state of "harvesting" with climate change, and yin essence and yang spirit are also in a stage of convergence and internal nourishment, so autumn exercise should not be too intense. The temperature is low in the early morning in autumn, so it is not appropriate to wear light clothes to go outdoors during exercise. You should add or subtract clothes according to the change of outdoor temperature. You must be fully prepared before exercise, because the human body will reflexively cause vasoconstriction, muscle extension and the decline of the nervous system's ability to adjust the motor organs, which is easy to cause sports injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. Don't take off too much clothes at once when exercising. When you get hot, take off your extra clothes. Don't wear sweaty clothes and stay in the cold wind after exercise to prevent your body from catching cold.
Spring exercise: In the spring after the cold winter, it is necessary to strengthen exercise, because at this time, the yang of human viscera has declined to varying degrees. Exercise places should be places with fresh air, such as parks, squares, courtyards, lakes, rivers, hillsides and other places. Ball games, running, boxing, doing exercises, etc. It can be held in any form, with as many activities as possible to adapt to the rise of yang in spring and meet the requirements of "nourishing yang in spring and summer".
Exercise in summer: Due to the high temperature and humidity in summer, exercise should be carried out according to the climate characteristics, preferably in the early morning or evening when the weather is cool. Walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan, radio exercises, swimming, traveling and fishing are the best sports, and it is not advisable to do excessive exercise in summer to avoid sweating and damaging the spirit of the sun.
Exercise in winter: Although it is cold in winter, we should continue to exercise. The temperature is low and the air pressure is relatively high. So make necessary preparations to avoid catching a cold. Choose a suitable exercise place and avoid exercising in places with strong wind, cold, heavy snow, fog and air pollution. You can choose a project that suits you and do indoor exercise, so that the blood and meridians are unobstructed and the yin and yang are balanced, laying a solid foundation for next year's health.
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(The information comes from Dr. Jia's personal WeChat official account: Dr. Jia's studio, which I founded on 2017./kloc-0.12).