Winter solstice, commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year", is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar and the earliest of the 24 solar terms. Every year, June 65438+February 2 1-23 in Gregorian calendar is the winter solstice, starting when the sun reaches 270. On this day, the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn, which is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere.

Daily life: rub hands, dry back and warm feet.

Winter is the season of "everything is hidden but not revealed", so it is advisable to eat more "collected" things, thus enhancing the human body's ability to prevent and treat diseases. Therefore, after the winter solstice, personal care should be moderate, and as far as possible, "walk without being anxious, look without seeing, listen without listening, sit without being short, and lie without being tired". Rubbing hands often is good for health, because there are many important acupoints on people's hands. By rubbing your palms and pressing your fingers, you can fully stimulate the Laogong point located in the palm of your hand and make your heart gradually excited. Frequently stimulating the thenar point located at the root of the thumb of both hands can dredge the meridians, enhance the function of respiratory system and prevent colds.

Regular back drying can nourish yang. The back is the yang of the human body, and pathogenic wind and cold can easily invade the human body through the back, causing exogenous diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The winter solstice is cold. When the sun is full, regular back drying is helpful to supplement the body yang and prevent osteoporosis.

Warm your feet against the cold. Feet are the confluence of human meridians. Among the 12 meridians, there are three foot yang meridians ending in the foot, and three foot yin meridians starting from the foot, and there are more than 60 acupoints distributed in the foot. Cold feet will reduce the body's resistance and cause diseases such as cold, abdominal pain, low back and leg pain. Therefore, in the cold winter solstice season, we should pay attention to keep our feet warm, and we can often do running, race walking, walking and other sports, and develop the habit of soaking our feet to promote local blood circulation.

It is the right time to treat winter diseases in winter.

Wei Qinglin, chief physician, master, doctoral supervisor, a famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Gansu Province, has been engaged in acupuncture clinical, scientific research and teaching for 365,438+0 years. At present, he is the executive vice president of Huangfu Mi Acupuncture Hospital, the affiliated hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the director of the acupuncture center and the director of the research office of Qi machine, and the head of the national key specialty. Vice chairman of the evaluation and promotion Committee of Chinese medicine suitable technology of World Acupuncture Federation; Vice President and Secretary-General of the Professional Committee of Appropriate Technology Promotion at the Grass-roots Level of Chinese Acupuncture Society; Vice President and Executive Director of Gansu Acupuncture Society; Chairman of Pain Professional Committee of Gansu Acupuncture Society.

Ma Hongbin, chief physician, tutor for master students, director of department. Gansu famous TCM doctor, China outstanding TCM clinical talents, famous TCM expert Professor Li Ke's academic successor. He is currently the deputy director of the Kidney Disease Professional Committee of Gansu Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and a member of the Kidney Disease Professional Committee of Chinese Medicine Association. He is good at treating acute and chronic glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, urinary tract infection, urinary calculi, secondary glomerular diseases, gout, diabetic nephropathy and medical miscellaneous diseases.

Pay attention to diet and exercise

"Qi begins in winter", which means that after winter, it is a good time to keep in good health. Pay attention to everything from exercise to diet.

Diet should be varied and light, and pay attention to the reasonable collocation of grain, meat, vegetables and fruits. It is not advisable to overeat spicy, spicy, greasy and salty food. Eat less warm tonics and eat more lotus seeds, jujubes, gordon euryales and so on. And choose foods with high calcium. In winter, the yang is weak, and the spleen likes warm and hates cold. It is advisable to eat warm and tonic products to protect the spleen and kidney. Eat less and eat more. Pay attention to "three more and three less", that is, there are more protein, vitamins and cellulose, and less sugar, fat and salt.

It is recommended to eat some nuts in moderation. Although nuts are high in calories and fat, many people are worried about getting fat, but they have high nutritional value. Moreover, although there are many oil components in nuts, they are mainly unsaturated fats, which have the functions of lowering cholesterol, treating diabetes and preventing coronary heart disease. At the same time, nuts contain a lot of protein, minerals, cellulose and other nutrients, and contain a lot of vitamin E with anti-wrinkle effect, which is also obviously helpful for anti-aging. In addition, from a purely seasonal point of view, this is also the most suitable season for eating nuts from winter to the future. Because nuts are warm, they are easy to get angry in other seasons. Eating nuts also has a cold-proof effect, which can enhance physical fitness and prevent diseases.

After the winter solstice, exercise is based on slight sweating, and exercise should be quiet. Don't sweat too much and get discouraged. During the winter solstice, you can do some gentle exercises, such as Baduanjin and Tai Ji Chuan, to keep healthy.

Winter solstice moxibustion is a kind of solar moxibustion. At this time, moxibustion at Shenque point can strengthen this kind of primary yang in the body, grow hair and use it for the body. Chinese medicine pays attention to health preservation and "treats diseases before they occur". Therefore, health care must conform to the rhythm of nature, and good health and longevity will follow.

What diseases is "Sanjiu Sticker" suitable for?

"Winter disease is treated in winter" is a unique external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. In winter, in March and September, take the product of warming meridians and activating yang, and apply it to acupoints to achieve the effects of warming meridians and dredging collaterals, dispelling cold and removing dampness. In recent years, "March and September stickers" have been favored.

"Sanjiu Sticker" is suitable for children, women, adults, the elderly and other people of different ages who are prone to related diseases in winter. It is suitable for people suffering from respiratory diseases, including chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, repeated cold and cough in children, bronchial asthma in children, variant cough, chronic cough, chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis and tonsillitis. People suffering from bone and joint diseases include low back pain, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis. People suffering from digestive system diseases, including chronic gastritis, chronic enteritis, dyspepsia and loose stools caused by deficiency of spleen and kidney yang in children and adults; People suffering from gynecological diseases and urinary system diseases, such as dysmenorrhea in women, adnexitis, prostatic hyperplasia in men, and urinary incontinence, belong to yang deficiency; For people who are afraid of cold, wind, cold or recurrent attacks in winter, it is not easy to recover, and all kinds of colds

Then the sub-health people with aggravated pain, deficiency-cold constitution and low immunity are treated with "winter disease in winter", which has unexpected effects on strengthening physique and improving immunity.