You can't simply hide in winter.
The key to "hiding but not releasing" in TCM is to keep warm and avoid cold invading the body, not to say passively avoiding low temperature. It is necessary to adapt to the winter climate, avoid the cold and keep warm, reduce the yang in the body, keep the spirit hidden, and don't vent excessively. At the same time, we need to recuperate from daily life, sports, spirit and other aspects.
Life and recuperation
Winter health care should follow the principle of "going to bed early and getting up late, waiting for the sun" in Huangdi Neijing. Going to bed early can nourish the human yang and keep the body warm. You can nourish yin at night and get up at sunrise to avoid the cold.
Going to bed early and getting up late is not sleeping late. Too long or insufficient sleep time will lead to mental fatigue and physical fatigue, which will lead to the decline of metabolic function and endanger physical and mental health. If possible, just go to bed 1~2 hours earlier than usual and get up 1~2 hours later in winter. Soak your feet in warm water for 30 minutes before going to bed. It is best to control the heat of water between 45 and 60 degrees Celsius.
Mental rehabilitation
People's mood is easy to be in a low state in heavy snow season, so we should pay attention to mental conditioning. Pay attention to emotional peace. Many diseases are caused by emotions. Therefore, we must maintain emotional stability at ordinary times and avoid mental tension and excessive excitement. A better mental conditioning method is to spend more time in the sun, communicate with each other, and at the same time strengthen physical exercise to try to avoid the occurrence of tension, irritability, depression and other emotions.
Exercise health
Hands and feet are the pulse endings of the human body, and proper heating is also good for the body. Insist on washing feet with warm water every day, and it is best to massage and stimulate the acupoints of both feet at the same time. 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. Cold weather in winter is easy to induce the recurrence or aggravation of chronic diseases, so we should pay attention to cold protection and warmth, especially to prevent the adverse stimulation of windy and cool weather to the body, and prepare first-aid drugs. At the same time, we should also pay attention to cold-resistant exercise, improve the ability to resist cold and disease, prevent respiratory diseases and enhance the body's immunity.
A study on the onset time of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases found that 7? At 9 o'clock, it is the high incidence of sudden heart attacks and strokes such as myocardial infarction. Therefore, it is best for elderly friends to do morning exercises after 9 o'clock. At this time, the sunshine is sufficient, and the trees begin to photosynthesis, discharging a lot of negative oxygen ions. Heaven and man correspond, and all natural things rise at this time. At this time, the aerobic exercise of old friends can make the human body reach the secret of yin and yang and prepare for the vigorous development of the next spring.
Tonifying in winter is very important in food supplement.
In winter, besides proper exercise, we should eat more hot and warm food to store heat for our body. Generally speaking, you can eat some warm products, such as beef and mutton, dog meat, longan meat, dates, eggs, yam, pig blood, glutinous rice, leeks and so on. In order to take the meaning of yang long and yin long. At the same time, you can eat porridge that supplements the spleen and stomach. People have the custom of eating Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, such as radish porridge for digestion and phlegm elimination, yam porridge for lung and stomach, walnut porridge for nourishing yin and essence, Poria porridge for invigorating spleen and stomach, jujube porridge for invigorating qi and nourishing yin, etc.
Tonifying in winter can also prevent "going too far"
Tonifying Chinese medicine is a dialectical medical way formed through long-term theoretical and clinical research. It uses the bias of medicine and food to adjust the bias of human body, so as to balance the yin and yang in human body and get a healthy body. Excessive use of any medicine is harmful, and excessive tonic will increase the burden on the spleen, stomach and liver.
Many people think that the cream is a tonic, and it doesn't matter if it is more or less, and it is not taken strictly according to the doctor's advice. In fact, the use of cream is taboo. For example, there are Chinese herbs for promoting blood circulation such as angelica in the ointment, which should not be taken by women during menstruation, which will increase menstrual flow. In addition, if you have a cold, fever, cough, excessive phlegm or other acute diseases during taking the cream, you should stop taking it. If you have any adverse reactions such as constipation, diarrhea, abdominal distension and excessive phlegm, you should seek medical advice promptly.
Generally speaking, the prescriptions for conditioning and tonic in regular medical places are all based on personal physique, but a few people still have some reactions during taking them, which can be fine-tuned under the guidance of doctors. For example, some nourishing creams may affect the function of the spleen and stomach, leading to loss of appetite and physical discomfort. Can use some digestion drugs such as hawthorn, medicated leaven, abdominal distension, abdominal distension and other symptoms. You can take traditional Chinese medicine, such as Chen Lipiqi. If you have symptoms such as dry throat and dry stool, you can use chrysanthemum and honeysuckle to clear the fire.
During taking tonic, if you eat by mistake, it will often reduce the curative effect or cause adverse reactions. If you take drugs containing ginseng, astragalus and other qi-invigorating drugs, you should avoid eating radish, because radish is a product that breaks the qi and helps digestion. At the same time, you can't make tea with water, because making tea will affect the curative effect of ginseng.