A year's plan lies in spring, and a day's plan lies in morning. Then spring happens to be the time when people's large-cycle qi machine runs. It is good for your whole body to climb high and look far in spring and do more outdoor activities. Spread your hair. The ancients did not shave their heads, but tied them up and put them in with hairpins. At this time, you should let your hair droop freely to adapt your mental state to the natural hair growth mechanism, so you should stay healthy in spring.
Summer is the season with the highest yang throughout the year, with a hot climate and full of vitality. At this time, the human body is in a period of vigorous metabolism, with yang exuding, yin accumulating, qi and blood running correspondingly exuberant, and nutrient consumption increasing.
At this time, "insatiable for the sun" means that you don't hate the summer sun or the hot weather. Although it is hot in summer, don't always stay at home and be afraid of the sun. It is best to use a more natural summer resort. In particular, modern people always stay in air-conditioned rooms, which is not good for the human body in the artificially created cold environment. In order to escape the heat naturally, you can go to the shade and the river. Sweating in this natural environment is very beneficial to the human body.
Pay special attention to mental conditioning in summer. Because it is hot in summer, it is often easy to make people upset and thirsty. Summer is the main heart, and summer is easy to hurt the "heart". Pay attention to prevent heart disease. In summer, the mood should be stable. If you violate this principle, your mood will not be fully nourished, which will hurt your mood and weaken the function of storing qi in the next season-autumn, and you will easily get autumn malaria, commonly known as "swinging qi". After getting sick, you will feel cold for a while and hot for a while. Summer is hot, autumn turns cold, and cold and heat alternate. If this season is not well regulated, malaria with alternating cold and heat will easily appear in the autumn next season, and it may recur in winter.
Summer diet should be warm, not too cold and too cold, and care for the spleen and stomach of the human body. When children or young people are in summer heat, they often like to be greedy and drink cold, which will slowly damage the qi of the spleen and stomach and affect the digestive function of the human body. You can also eat sour or salty products to nourish your heart in summer. Summer is easy to have a strong heart. Chinese medicine believes that salty taste enters the kidney and has the effect of tonifying the kidney. The heart fire can be regulated by tonifying kidney water, so that the heart fire is not easy to flourish. In addition, salty products can also supplement the sodium lacking due to sweat loss, thus ensuring the water-electrolyte balance in the human body.
Autumn is the turning point from yang to yin, and it is the season when everything matures and harvests. We should go to bed early and get up early, which is similar to the activity time of chickens. It is necessary to make the spirit stable and quiet, so as to reduce the influence of autumn chill on human body, make kidney qi converge, adapt to the characteristics of autumn tolerance, prevent external factors from disturbing the will, and maintain the function of clearing lung qi.
Because autumn air passes through the lungs, dryness caused by dry climate is most likely to damage lung yin and cause recurrence of lung disease. Therefore, special attention should be paid to protecting the health of the lungs this season.
Autumn is an important season for tonic. Tonifying should be warm but not hot, cold but not cold, and the so-called flat tonic method cannot be used. Anti-dryness in autumn should follow the dietary principle of "less pungent and more sour". Juice-rich food can moisten the lungs and produce fluid, nourish the vulva and resist the dry climate. Eat more white food, such as yam, lily, lotus root, Sydney, tremella, white radish, and drink white tea when drinking tea. In autumn, you should eat less dried fruits such as longan, litchi and nuts. Some fried, scalded and spicy foods will promote heat evil and increase the loss of body fluid.
Winter is the season when everything closes. We should go to bed early and get up late, and get up as soon as the sun comes out. Avoid the cold and seek warmth, and don't disturb the spirit of the sun easily, so that the spirit can be well hidden and not exposed. Don't let the skin open and lose, so the yang will continue to lose. Therefore, it is appropriate to maintain the stored gas in winter. Poor storage in winter will lead to leg weakness, cramps and hemiplegia in spring, all of which are flaccid. If kidney water does not exist in winter, flaccidity, liver disease and muscle relaxation will appear in spring. Syncope means cold limbs. In winter, the essence is insufficient, and in spring, the hands and feet are cold, and the disease in spring comes from winter. If winter is not well nourished, the power to germinate spring will be insufficient.
Dressing in winter should be light, soft, warm and comfortable. The so-called cold entering from the feet will inevitably affect the internal organs. Feet are farthest from internal organs, and blood supply is insufficient. Therefore, the skin temperature of the feet is the lowest, and the warmth of the feet is particularly important. Soaking feet with hot water is very beneficial to nourishing kidney and tonifying kidney. When soaking feet, add some Jiang Shui or cinnamon water to warm kidney and help yang, and the effect is better.
Just because winter is the season of gathering, our human energy will be firmly preserved in the body, all food will be firmly preserved in the body, and all nutrients we eat will be fully digested and absorbed, so winter is the season of nourishing, "winter supplements, spring kills tigers."
Winter diet should be based on nourishing yin and suppressing yang, increasing calories, and also follow the principle of "eating less salty and suffering more". Winter is the time when the kidney meridian is vigorous, while the kidney is salty and the heart is bitter. If you eat too much salty taste, the kidney water, which is already high, will be more vigorous, thus damaging the heart, weakening its strength and affecting human health. Therefore, eat less salty food in winter to prevent excessive kidney water; Eating more bitter food can nourish the heart and enhance kidney function.
In the five-color distribution of nature, black enters the kidney, so we should choose black food in winter, such as black rice, black beans, black sesame seeds, black fungus and so on. Of all the meats, pork is best for winter. Because pork is cold and belongs to the kidney, it is just in line with the air in winter, so it is suitable for roasting pork in winter. Secondly, nuts, because nuts are the seeds of plants, hide their most precious essence in hard shells and wait for the germination of spring, which coincides with the mechanism of human body hiding yang. After nuts are cooked, the yang is more abundant and more suitable for winter consumption.
In winter sports, you should choose aerobic exercise with small exercise range and high calorie consumption, and you can choose low-intensity aerobic exercise such as brisk walking and jogging, and you must not give up exercise.
The four seasons change, what is heaven and earth, what is everything, how you should work and rest, how you should eat and drink, and what you should do specifically, in line with the changes in heaven and earth, in order. This is the civilization of our ancestors. It is not only a classic masterpiece of traditional Chinese medicine, but also a profound cultural masterpiece. It takes life as the center and contains rich knowledge of philosophy, politics, astronomy and other disciplines. This is an encyclopedia about life problems. We should study hard, inherit, follow and make good use of it.