However, the rainy season is characterized by heavy rainfall and occasional cold waves. At this time, the weather is warm and cold, cold and hot, and cold is wet. As the saying goes, when spring returns to the earth, the spleen and stomach are the most fragile. Therefore, rainwater health care focuses on moisture prevention and spleen and stomach conditioning.
Beware of dampness
The first thing to do to prevent moisture is to avoid it. Rain and solar terms have a lot of rain, so it's best to take an umbrella when you go out to avoid getting wet and wading in the rain, and feel the cold and dampness causing diseases.
If you accidentally feel the dampness, you should get rid of it in time. If you feel the external dampness, you can solve it from the outside, drink a cup of warm brown sugar ginger jujube tea, soak a hot foot, sweat slightly, and drive away the external dampness.
Regulating spleen and stomach
At the same time, we should also pay attention to prevent internal humidity. When it comes to internal dampness, it is inseparable from the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it emphasizes "nourishing the spleen and stomach with rain", which is rainy and humid. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and five elements belong to the soil, and they like dryness and hate dampness, and they are most easily trapped by dampness.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the "acquired foundation" and the "source of qi and blood biochemistry", and the strength of the spleen and stomach is an important factor in determining human health. Zhang Jingyue, a physician in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "rustic qi is the source of all things, and stomach qi is the master of health preservation. A strong stomach is strong, a weak stomach is weak, a healthy stomach is dead. Therefore, a health practitioner must put the spleen and stomach first. "
However, due to the rainy and humid climate, the rain solar term is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and in spring, it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach because of the liver. Therefore, rainwater health care should focus on nourishing the spleen and stomach. Regulating the spleen and stomach requires not only food supplement, but also emotional adjustment and moderate exercise.
Medicinal diet is the most commonly used method to regulate the spleen and stomach. The basic principle of rain and solar terms diet is "reducing acid and increasing sweetness". Reduce the intake of acidic food, one kind of sour taste will make the liver qi more prosperous, and the other kind of acidic astringency is not suitable for spring hair growth.
You can add some sweet porridge to your diet. "A Thousand Women's Moon Order" says that "porridge should be eaten in the first month". In spring, the liver is vigorous and the spleen and stomach are relatively weak. Porridge is digestible food. Medicinal porridge made of some medicines has a good nourishing effect on the spleen and stomach.
In the choice of drugs, it is necessary to consider nourishing the spleen and stomach. It is suggested to choose Dangshen, Yam and Coix seed porridge. Codonopsis pilosula is sweet and beneficial, yam strengthens the spleen, and barley eliminates dampness, which complement each other. Friends who love sweet food can also add red dates, which are sweet and spleen-strengthening.
In addition to diet, psychological adjustment is also very important in rainy and rainy solar terms. Rain, when it is early spring, the sun is the spirit; Spring is the season of liver, and liver qi is more vigorous. On the one hand, people are full of energy, on the other hand, they may feel too grumpy, impatient and irritable, even flushed and irritable. Others are depressed and unhappy because of stagnation of liver qi.
From the perspective of viscera and five elements producing grams, King Ganmu can suppress spleen and soil, making people "have no appetite". Therefore, rainwater health care pays attention to both form and spirit, not only to raise the body, but also to have a peaceful attitude, so that the liver-qi is not rebellious and the spleen and stomach are peaceful.
"In the spring morning, I woke up easily, and birds were singing all around." Many people yawn and feel groggy in spring, which is usually called "spring sleep". In early spring, the human body's yang begins to grow, qi and blood tend to be amateur, and the supply in the body is relatively insufficient; In addition, in the rainy season, the humidity in nature is heavy, and the spleen and stomach of the human body are trapped by dampness evil, which easily leads to insufficient middle qi and poor circulation of qi and blood, and people will have discomfort symptoms such as fatigue, fatigue and dizziness.
At this time, the best solution is not to sleep more, but to exercise properly. One is kinetic energy to generate yang, and the other is sweat to eliminate dampness. At the same time, exercise also conforms to the characteristics that yang is born in spring.
After a winter's dormancy, strenuous exercise is not suitable in early spring, and the most comfortable exercise in spring is flying kites. When flying a kite, people should keep running, pulling wires and controlling. The whole exercise process naturally moves the joints of the whole body and promotes blood circulation. After the kite rises, it is a good way to relieve the cervical vertebra for people who work at their desks for a long time. Beautiful kites are flying in the air, so people who fly kites naturally relax and feel happy, and can also play a beneficial role in regulating the spleen and stomach. It should be noted that when flying kites, you should pay attention to safety, properly protect your neck and don't lean back for too long.
Rain and solar terms nourish the spleen and stomach, so you can rub your abdomen and practice Wuqinxi. Massage the abdomen is a good way to regulate the spleen and stomach. In traditional Chinese medicine, the large intestine and small intestine belong to the "home of the stomach".
The specific method of rubbing the abdomen is to lie on your back in bed, then massage the abdomen clockwise or counterclockwise with your palm, about 30 times.
Generally, people who are prone to constipation should massage clockwise, and people who are prone to diarrhea can massage counterclockwise. Don't get it backwards. Five-animal play is a health preserving technique created by Hua Tuo, a divine doctor. It imitates the movements of five animals to achieve the purpose of health care. Its movements are gentle and powerful, suitable for daily exercise in spring.