With the end of the first snow, we really felt the arrival of winter. In addition to the external changes in temperature, the internal "maintenance" in winter is also particularly important, and winter is still the most suitable health season for tonic. And then what? Let's follow me to find out.

Five misunderstandings of winter health care: the more clothes you wear, the better.

Clothing itself does not generate heat, but only plays the role of isolation. It buffers the convection between the cold air outside and the hot air on the body surface, so that the heat of the human body can be stored. Physiologically speaking, wearing too much clothes will inhibit the adaptability of the body's thermoregulation function and weaken the body's ability to keep out the cold. Therefore, dressing in winter can only reach a suitable thickness.

Misunderstanding 2 of winter health care: close doors and windows, and catch fewer colds.

Some people keep their doors and windows closed all day in winter, thinking that the indoor temperature is high and people are not easy to catch a cold. Actually, it is not. According to experts, the human body will produce more than 500 kinds of chemicals in the process of metabolism, and only 149 kinds are excreted from the respiratory tract. There are a lot of bacteria, viruses, carbon dioxide and dust in the air. In this kind of air, people are prone to colds and coughs, so we should always open the windows to keep the air fresh.

Winter health misunderstanding: wear a mask to prevent colds.

In fact, the cold air inhaled by the nose is close to body temperature when it enters the lungs. This physiological function of human body is innate and can be enhanced by exercise, which can obviously improve people's cold tolerance. Wearing a mask artificially makes this physiological function not exercised, which makes people's resistance worse, and it is easy to catch a cold with a little cold.

Misunderstanding of winter health: drinking white wine can keep out the cold.

Many people think that drinking white wine can keep out the cold. In fact, people will feel hot after drinking alcohol and blood vessels dilate, but this feeling will soon disappear. Especially when the heat is released to a certain extent, people will feel cold instead. The reason why cotton-padded jackets and down jackets have long-lasting cold resistance is that they can reduce the loss of heat, and the main components of wine are water and alcohol, which not only do not produce heat themselves, but will cause heat volatilization.

Myth 5: Warm your hands and feet before entering the house from the outside.

Many people first put their frozen hands and feet on the heater to bake or soak them in hot water when they enter the room from the cold outdoor. In fact, this alternation of cold and hot is extremely unfavorable to their hands and feet, and it is easy to cause frostbite on their hands and feet. The correct way is to rub your hands and feet together to make the skin temperature rise naturally, then soak it in hot water and bake it next to the heater.

Eight winter health rules of TCM 1 Exercise properly and sweat less.

It's cloudy in winter, so it's advisable to protect * * * and excrete less body fluids. Therefore, it is necessary to "dispel the cold and warm up" in winter to prevent the cold from invading. But don't be too warm, especially avoid thick clothes, thick fur, drunkenness, and sweating. This "warmth" is achieved, but if it is too warm, it will easily lead to disease. Appropriate exercise in winter and outdoor exercise can improve the excitability of cerebral cortex, strengthen the central nervous system and body temperature regulation function, make the body balance with the cold climate and environment, adapt to the cold, and effectively improve the body's cold resistance. As the saying goes: "exercise more in winter and get sick less;" Lazy in winter, drink a bowl of medicine. "Exercise should be combined with motion and static, with slight sweating as the degree, and you can't sweat. Sweating and being discouraged is contrary to the way of hiding yang in winter. The elderly take too many baths in winter, which is not in line with the principle of keeping in good health by hiding yang. They are forced by water and heat, sweating profusely, and easily catch cold and get sick.

Health Rule 2: Exercise your feet frequently, and exercise your feet in winter.

Always keep your feet clean and dry, and wash your socks frequently. Walk for more than half an hour every day to exercise your feet. Stick to rubbing the soles of your feet in the morning and evening to promote blood circulation. It is very important to keep your feet warm in winter. Foot is the foundation of human body, the beginning of Yin San Meridian and the end of Sanyang Meridian, which connects the twelve meridians, viscera and qi and blood. As the saying goes, "cold starts from the feet", because the feet are far away from the heart, the blood supply is insufficient, the heat is low, and the heat preservation is poor, so it is very important to keep the feet warm. Besides keeping feet warm during the day, washing feet with hot water every night can also promote blood circulation throughout the body. * * * and * * * Foot acupoints can enhance your body's defense ability, eliminate fatigue and improve sleep. In addition, it is also important to choose a pair of comfortable, warm, light and hygroscopic shoes. Take care of your feet, you can get twice the result with half the effort in winter.

The third rule of health is to keep warm and prevent diseases.

The cold weather in winter is easy to induce the recurrence or aggravation of chronic diseases. Cold also leads to myocardial infarction and stroke, which increases blood pressure and aggravates symptoms such as ulcers, rheumatism and glaucoma. Therefore, we should pay attention to cold and warmth in winter, and the warm parts that the human body should pay special attention to are the neck, back and feet. First, keep your neck warm. Some people continue to cough in winter, which is not easy to cure. In fact, it is because wearing open-necked clothes exposes the neck and the cold air. The symptoms will be improved after changing into turtleneck clothes and scarf. The second is to keep your back warm. Because the back is the yang of the human body, cold and other pathogens can easily invade through the back, causing exogenous diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and so on.

Health Rule 4: Drink plenty of water.

Some people may think that in winter, when people's activities are reduced, they generally don't feel thirsty and don't need to drink too much water. This understanding is actually wrong. Although sweating and urination decrease in winter, maintaining the normal operation of brain and body organs and cells still needs the nourishment of water to ensure the normal metabolism of the human body. In winter, the daily hydration is generally not less than 2000 ~ 3000 ml.

The fifth rule of health care is to nurse.

In Huangdi Neijing, it is mentioned that "if you want to hide your ambition, if you have private interests, if you have", which means that you should avoid all kinds of bad emotions and interference from * * * in winter, so that your mood is always in a state of indifference and tranquility, and you can keep things secret, so that your mind can be quiet and free, and your inner world is full of optimism and joy. According to your health, you can choose some sports activities with different intensities, such as jogging, dancing, skating and ball games, which are all good medicines to eliminate winter boredom and recuperate your spirit.

It is very cold in winter, especially at night. The ancients advocated "going to bed early and getting up late". Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It is inappropriate to go out early in the morning and come back late at night in winter, which has offended Han Wei." Go to bed early to nourish the yang, and get up late to strengthen the yang. Therefore, to ensure adequate sleep in winter is conducive to the hiding of the sun be the spirit and the accumulation of * * * *.

Rule 6 of health is to ventilate.

Attention should also be paid to keeping indoor air fresh in winter. It is cold in winter, and some people like to close the doors and windows or sleep with their heads covered. This is a very bad habit. Indoor air pollution in winter is dozens of times more serious than outdoor air pollution, which affects health. Therefore, while adjusting the indoor temperature in winter, we should also pay attention to indoor air circulation and humidity adjustment. You should get used to opening doors and windows often to ventilate. Open the doors and windows during the day to let the air out. At night, you should also open a small transom to ventilate, purify the air, and refresh your brain.

Rule 7: drink tea and porridge, and avoid sticking cold food in winter.

Porridge has the function of increasing calories and nutrition. Nutrition experts advocate eating more hot porridge in winter. Drink hot porridge in the morning, go on a diet at dinner and nourish your stomach. Besides white rice porridge, you can often cook glutinous rice, red date porridge, eight-treasure porridge and millet porridge. In addition, you can also eat longan porridge, sesame porridge, radish porridge, Poria porridge, jujube porridge, chrysanthemum porridge and crucian porridge.

Tea is one of the best drinks for people, which contains many vitamins and trace elements needed by human body. In particular, green tea can also prevent cancer and play a very good health care role. People who have been engaged in computer work for a long time should drink tea more often. However, patients with stomach problems or those taking anemia drugs should not drink tea, especially strong tea.

Health rule 8 should be supplemented in time.

In many parts of our country, there is a proverb that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer without a doctor's prescription", which shows that diet and aftercare are very important. Health preservation in winter should be scientifically supplemented under the guidance of doctors. Tonics include food supplements and drug supplements. The method of food supplement varies from place to place. Generally, people with yang deficiency can choose mutton, chicken and dog meat. People with deficiency of both qi and blood can use goose, duck and black-bone chicken. For people who are not suitable for cold and heat, you can choose medlar, red dates, walnuts, black sesame seeds, fungus and so on. Medication must follow the doctor's advice, one person and one method, and the whole family can't take care of the actual situation. If you often feel weak limbs, mental fatigue, low voice and sweating during activities, most of them belong to qi deficiency, you can take qi-benefiting drugs such as ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, Schisandra chinensis, astragalus root and Atractylodes macrocephala.