If you gradually feel that your physical strength and energy are not as good as before, you must make good use of these two golden periods of health care. One is one hour before going to bed, and the other is half an hour after dinner. Even if it only takes one hour, you can live for ten more years.
Half an hour after dinner
Read the Book of Longevity half an hour after breakfast.
After breakfast, you can massage your knees. Theoretically speaking, at 7:00-9:00 in the morning, the stomach meridian is called "Changshou meridian" in the meridians of traditional Chinese medicine and passes through the knee joint. About 20 minutes after a meal, rubbing your knees repeatedly with your hands can make your stomach smooth.
Don't exercise for half an hour after breakfast, otherwise it will cause indigestion. If the exercise intensity is high, it will also cause abdominal pain or gastrointestinal diseases.
Half an hour after lunch
Close your eyes and nourish liver blood.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that "liver can see blood", and the physiological function of eyes mainly depends on the nourishment of liver blood; Eyelids are like the switch of the liver. As soon as people close their eyes or fall asleep, the liver begins to rest and play a role in storing blood. Therefore, whether you close your eyes, take a nap during the day or go to bed on time at night, it is an important aspect of nourishing the liver and enriching the blood.
Close your eyes to restore sanity: the specific method is: gently close your eyes, rub your thumb out of the inner corner of your eye for 24 times, or cover your eyes with your hands and four fingers together. Rub your eyes gently from the inside out for 24 times, and then rub your eyes inward for 24 times.
Half an hour after dinner
Drink water and pat your pulse.
Cooper Institute of Aerobic Exercise found that the absorption time of human small intestine is about 30 minutes after dinner. Drinking water for half an hour after a meal can strengthen the digestive function of the body. In this half an hour, you can also tap Ren meridian, which is the middle part above the lower abdomen. There are many important acupoints here. Pat gently for 20 minutes from top to bottom after a meal, which can help digestion and strengthen the body.
An hour before going to bed
Soaking your feet helps you sleep and nourish your kidneys.
Boil or soak a thumb-sized piece of ginger in hot water. When the water temperature is suitable (about 40 degrees), soaking feet for cold patients can effectively prevent the symptoms from developing further and stop the cold. Even if people don't have a cold, soaking their feet with ginger can also play a role in dispelling cold, thus preventing colds.
Brush your teeth to prevent heart disease
A British study found that people who never brush their teeth or seldom brush their teeth have a 70% higher risk of heart disease than those who brush their teeth twice a day.
In fact, this view is not to prove that brushing once a day is definitely worse than brushing twice. After all, this is the result of two extreme comparisons.
However, if you have a heart disease, toothache and neuralgia will make your body adjust itself, which may lead to a heart attack. Doctors say that if oral hygiene is poor or gums often bleed, more than 700 kinds of bacteria will enter the human body, greatly increasing the chance of heart disease. At the same time, a large number of bacteria will stimulate the immune system, leading to inflammation and narrowing of the inner wall of blood vessels. Therefore, it is harmless to brush your teeth frequently.
Massage the abdomen and recuperate the spleen.
Modern medicine believes that "rubbing the abdomen" can increase the blood flow of abdominal muscles and intestinal smooth muscles, increase the tension of gastrointestinal inner wall muscles and the function of lymphatic system, thus strengthening the digestion and absorption of food, obviously improving the peristalsis of large and small intestine, and thus promoting defecation.
In the prevention of stomach diseases and duodenal ulcers, abdominal massage can also be used as an auxiliary treatment for ulcers. Because the occurrence of gastric ulcer is related to excessive gastric acid secretion, frequent abdominal rubbing can promote the increase of prostaglandin secretion and prevent excessive gastric acid secretion. Doing abdominal massage every morning and evening can soothe the liver and relieve depression and regulate the spleen and stomach.
Combing hair can dredge qi and blood, nourish hair, strengthen brain and ears, dispel wind and improve eyesight, and prevent and treat headaches. As early as the Sui Dynasty, the famous doctor Chao clearly pointed out that combing hair had the functions of promoting blood circulation, expelling wind and removing dampness. Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, has a deep understanding of combing his hair to promote sleep. He said, "comb your hair a hundred times and lie out until dawn."
Rub your feet for fitness and intelligence.
Rubbing your toes not only helps you lose weight, but also improves your memory.
You can grab the big toe of your foot with both hands and rub it in circles for 2 minutes several times a day. You can also rub the outside of the little toe with your hands and do circular motion. Because memory is related to the cerebellum, and the little toe is the reflection area of the cerebellum, rubbing the little toe helps to enhance memory. Knead for 2 minutes.