Diet helps yang
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, food has different tastes, mainly including "four qi" of heat, temperature, cold and cool. Food intake is the same as medication. If it is suitable for the human body, it will eliminate diseases and strengthen the body. If it is not suitable for the human body, it will increase diseases and damage the body. Cold food can damage yang, while warm food can protect yang.
Cold foods have the functions of clearing away heat, purging fire and detoxifying, such as Coicis Semen, mung bean, wax gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, towel gourd, mustard, purslane, eggplant, lotus root, tofu, laver, kelp, snail, crab, pear, banana and watermelon.
Warm foods have the function of warming yang and dispelling cold, such as sorghum, black beans, glutinous rice, pumpkin, leek, pepper, garlic, beef, mutton, chicken, pigeon meat, shrimp, sea cucumber, litchi, longan, jujube, chestnut, walnut meat, ginger, fennel and pepper.
Flat food, which is between cold and warm, has the function of invigorating spleen and stimulating appetite, such as rice, millet, corn, soybean, pea, sesame, cabbage, carrot, potato, yam, fungus, pork, rabbit, duck, quail, bird's nest, perch, loach, fig, coconut, peanut, apple and so on.
People with yang deficiency often use dietary remedies.
Those with exogenous wind-cold manifested as fear of cold and wind, runny nose and backache can take 30 grams of ginger, 3 slices of scallion and 30 grams of brown sugar with water to help yang dispel cold.
Eating cold, abdominal pain, diarrhea likes warm pressure, and the mouth is light but not thirsty. In loose stool, ginger 15g, pepper 30g, and pork tripe 200g can be used for stewing, which can relieve pain by warming the middle.
For women with less menstrual flow and cold limbs, 20 grams of Angelica sinensis, 30 grams of ginger and 200 grams of mutton can be used to stew soup, or fresh Artemisia argyi leaves 15 grams and ginger 10 grams of scrambled eggs can be used to regulate menstruation and dispel cold.
Frequent urination at night, sore waist and knees, weakness of limbs, can use 30 grams of Morinda officinalis, 30 grams of Eucommia ulmoides, half a black-bone chicken, boiled soup to strengthen kidney and shrink urine.
Live in the sun
Su Wen, a book about siesta by ancient Chinese medicine practitioners in China, said: "You should have a regular diet and a regular life, and you should not act rashly to be in harmony with God. You can't reach the end of your life until you are 100 years old." It reminds people of the need to arrange their daily lives reasonably. In fact, our daily sleep is a good way to protect the yang. Zhu Liangchun, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, said that no matter how busy you are at work, sleeping time is the key to staying energetic. From 23: 00 pm to 65438+ 0: 00 am is midnight, which is the best time to sleep. If you continue to stay up late, you will consume the spiritual bud of the sun. If the sun is weak the next day, you can't get up even if you sleep until the next day 10. Over time, it shows the performance of yang deficiency.
There is another time in the day when Yin and Yang meet, which is noon. At noon 1 1 to 13, the yang is the most abundant and the yin is born. Sleeping at this time is to hide the yang, which can achieve the effect of protecting the yang. Health science calls these two periods of sleep "meridian sleep". Sleep has a daily cycle and an annual cycle. In Xia Zhishi in spring, the yang is rising, so it is suitable to go to bed late and get up early, and go out to suck the yang. In autumn and winter, the sun be the spirit gathers, so we should go to bed early and get up late to collect the sun be the spirit.
Sunbathing is to absorb the sun of nature and turn it into your own sun. Sunbathing is also skillful. In the early morning when the red sun rises, it is advisable to put two palms (Laogong point) in front of the sun and take a deep breath to nourish the heart and yang of the lungs. At noon when the sun is shining, especially in winter, it is the most precious time to bask in the sun. It is advisable to take off your hat and let the yang be absorbed from the top of your head (Baihui point) to nourish the yang of your heart and brain, and then lower your head to let the sun be absorbed from the back of your neck (Fengchi point), which is the source of yang in vitro. It is worth noting that the time spent in the sun is not as long as possible, just 30 ~ 45 minutes each time. In the south, summer, avoid exposure to the sun, and in the north, winter, we should also pay attention to shelter from the wind.
Timely tonifying yang
Adjust your daily life and diet according to the law of the growth and gathering of yang, and follow the trend at the appropriate time to make it flourish. As early as more than 2000 years ago, our ancestors had put forward the concept of timely health preservation. Su Wen, an ancient book of traditional Chinese medicine, puts forward that "in spring, we should adjust our emotions and maintain liver qi;" In summer, you should control your anger and keep your mood; Pay attention to rest, convergence and maintenance of lung qi in autumn; Pay attention to maintain the body in winter, be indifferent, and maintain kidney qi. "
In summer, the sun in nature is the most abundant on the ground and the sun in the ground is the most scarce. People should also respond. At this time, the yang of the human body floats on the surface and the body is empty. If at this time, due to greed, typhoid fever, staying up late and overworking, evil spirits will take advantage of it, and diseases such as facial paralysis, gastroenteritis and myocarditis are prone to occur. It can be seen that summer is the time when the yang in the human body is the weakest and must be protected from time to time. In summer, people with physical weakness can use Liujunzi decoction (tangerine peel, Pinellia tuber, Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, and Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata) to strengthen spleen, replenish qi and eliminate dampness; Ginseng (sun-dried ginseng) stews lean broth to invigorate qi and promote fluid production; Hu Aishan Lotus Seed Gordon Euryale Decoction can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, or use moxibustion at Guanyuan point and Qihai point to replenish yang according to the season. The solstice in winter is the shortest day in a year. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the winter solstice is the time when Yin Qi flourished and declined, and Yang Qi began to sprout. With the arrival of this solar term, the sun is hidden, the cathode is full, the vegetation is withered, the insects are hidden, all activities tend to stop, and energy is accumulated for the next spring in hibernation. Therefore, at this time, health is still based on rest. You can follow the principle of "nourishing kidney and fixing essence" (such as ointment).
Aphrodisiac moxibustion
Moxibustion is one of the oldest medical technologies in China. It is a method of making moxa sticks or moxa sticks with moxa sticks as the main material, and then smoking or warming the acupoints on the body surface. It has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, dispelling yin-cold and restoring yang to save adverse reactions. There is a saying that "burning moxa first" in Bian Que Heart Sutra, so moxibustion is a good way for people with yang deficiency to care for Yang Qi.
What are the manifestations of yang deficiency?
People with insufficient yang will be afraid of the cold at first. Others wear short sleeves and he wears long sleeves. Cold hands and feet, this kind of cold, whether in summer or winter, cold hands and feet, and Xia Dong two seasons blood deficiency is not the same. People with yang deficiency tend to be pale, or black in severe cases, or even black eyes, like smoke.
If it falls on a specific viscera, in addition to the overall performance mentioned above, each viscera is yang deficiency, and its own performance will be added. For example, people with heart-yang deficiency will have symptoms of chest tightness and pain; People with insufficient liver yang will be depressed and depressed; People with spleen-yang deficiency will have symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea, burping and loose stool. People with lung yang deficiency will have symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, inability to breathe, and phlegm like foam. People with kidney-yang deficiency will have symptoms such as soreness and cold pain in the waist and knees and frequent urination.