How to maintain health in the first frost solar terms?
Nine health tips
1 ft warm
As the saying goes, "cold dew does not show your feet." After the cold dew, the temperature drops gradually. People should not go into battle shirtless often to prevent the cold from invading their bodies. At the same time, they can put away their sandals to prevent the "cold coming from their feet". Soaking feet with hot water at night can dilate blood vessels, speed up blood flow, improve skin and tissue nutrition of feet, reduce the occurrence of lower limb soreness and relieve fatigue. Feet have been called "the second heart of human body" since ancient times. According to the theory of health preservation, the foot is farthest from the human heart and bears the heaviest burden, which is most likely to lead to poor blood circulation. In addition, the fat layer of feet is very thin, which has poor thermal insulation performance and is easily affected by cold stimulation. Therefore, it is particularly important to keep your feet warm.
2 Add clothes at the right time
After the cold dew, the elderly, children and the physically weak should pay attention to cold and warmth, and gradually add clothes. As the saying goes, "Spring covers autumn", but the elderly and patients with various chronic diseases should pay attention to cold and warmth to prevent "freezing" from getting sick.
Don't wear too fast in different seasons, and the thickness is best matched, mainly to keep warm, and not wearing a single coat is also an important point for cold dew health. It is believed that when the ambient temperature decreases, the disease resistance of the upper respiratory tract will decrease. Therefore, it is necessary to change clothes in time to prevent colds.
3 early salt and late honey
Cold dew is the beginning of autumn with alternating cold and summer. Health experts suggest that the best diet to deal with autumn dryness is "salt water in the morning and honey soup at night".
Drinking salt water during the day and honey water at night is not only a good way to replenish human body's water, but also a good diet for health preservation and anti-aging in autumn, and can also prevent constipation caused by autumn dryness.
Modern medicine has proved that honey is effective for neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary arteriosclerosis and lung disease. Taking honey often in autumn can also play a role in moistening and nourishing the lungs.
keep early hours
After the cold dew, the days are short and the nights are long, and the "Yang" in nature begins to converge and precipitate. At this time, it is the time for people to maintain yang, so the life time should be adjusted accordingly.
Su Wen's assertion that "in autumn and March, people lie down early and get up early, and all enjoy chickens" is to tell people the truth of keeping in good health in autumn. Experts say that going to bed early can conform to the convergence of yang, and getting up early can stretch lung qi.
5 moxibustion navel nourishing autumn
If it is diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, moxibustion can be used to solve it. There are many ways to moxibustion navel. You can hang the burning moxa stick directly at about 1 cm above the navel for moxibustion, and it is appropriate to have a warm feeling.
Moxibustion lasts about half an hour each time, 1 time every day, and continuous moxibustion 1 time is1. Generally speaking, this method can be used all year round, but the effect is best in autumn and winter.
This method has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on gastrointestinal dysfunction and neurasthenia caused by physical weakness. Ginger-separated moxibustion is also a common moxibustion method for modern people. Take a slice of ginger, cut it into thick slices, put a few eyes on it, put it on your navel, light the moxa cone, and do bird pecking moxibustion on the ginger (just like bird pecking), which feels warm and comfortable.
6 nourishing yin and preventing dryness
After the cold dew, the rain is getting less and less, the weather is dry, and the day is hot and the night is cold. Many people have what Chinese medicine calls "cold dryness", that is, dry throat, dry nose and dry skin.
In terms of diet, eat less spicy, spicy, dry, smoked, roasted and other foods, and eat more foods such as sesame, walnut, tremella, radish, tomato, lotus root, lily, and adenophora with the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production.
Fruits include pears, raisins, water chestnuts and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp, seaweed and so on.
7 properly nourish the stomach
The temperature is getting colder in autumn, and the gastrointestinal tract is very sensitive to cold stimulation. Improper protection will cause gastrointestinal diseases or aggravate the original stomach diseases. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the maintenance of the stomach after cold dew.
First of all, pay special attention to keep your stomach warm, add clothes in time, and cover yourself at night. In addition, the occurrence and development of digestive tract ulcers also have a certain relationship with emotions, so we should pay attention to maintaining a happy spirit and emotional stability.
8 Appropriate exercise
Autumn has a suitable climate and good air quality. You may wish to get close to nature, do more exercise and absorb the essence of heaven and earth.
Autumn is a good time for exercise. You can exercise according to your personal situation. Long-term persistence can enhance your cardiopulmonary function. Walking and mountain climbing are all good choices, but the intensity should not be too high at first, and the amount of exercise should be gradually increased.
9 Sweep away depression
In autumn, the number of patients with clinical depression increased significantly. Experts pointed out that the cold weather in late autumn, lack of sunshine, surging clouds and falling leaves often arouse a sense of desolation, which makes people emotionally unstable and prone to sadness.
Climbing a mountain to broaden your mind is an effective way to resist autumn depression. Chinese medicine has long recognized that mountaineering is a good way to treat autumn depression. Climbing the mountain in Chongyang is a vaccination for Qiuyu.