1, Spring Health Tips
1, daily life: Neijing pointed out that in spring and March, "lie down at night and get up early, and the court is wide." In spring, you should go to bed early and get up early, do more outdoor activities, stretch your body, conform to the characteristics of the liver, and prevent the liver from flourishing and spleen failing. This can make you more energetic, reduce drowsiness, enhance heart and lung function and enhance immune function. In addition, keeping enough exercise at ordinary times can strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase the secretion of digestive juice, promote the digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients, improve the blood circulation of gastrointestinal tract itself, promote its metabolism and delay the aging of digestive system. For example, walking, jogging, playing Tai Ji Chuan and yoga.
2. Diet: Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, once pointed out in Qian Jin Fang that the spring diet should be "sour and sweet to nourish the temper". It means to eat less sour food and more sweet food in spring to supplement the spleen and stomach of the human body. Experts and doctors say that you should have a regular diet and three meals, and you should not overeat. Commonly used foods are yam, glutinous rice, day lily, mushrooms, chicken, quail, goat's milk, onion, garlic, lobster sauce and so on. Meet the needs of the body and keep the stool unobstructed; Avoid eating cold, bitter, greasy, mineral and other indigestible foods to hinder the spleen.
3. Emotion: Besides diet and daily life, emotion is also very important. Expert doctors said that Chinese medicine believes that happiness hurts the liver, anger hurts the spleen, sadness hurts the lungs, and fear hurts the kidney. Under normal circumstances, everyone has mood swings, which is a physiological reaction of the human body. As long as it is properly controlled, it will coordinate the physiological functions of the body and will not cause disease. However, if the emotion is excessive and lasts for a long time, which exceeds the endurance of the body, the five internal organs will suffer internal injuries. In spring, when the yang is rising, it is necessary to carefully nourish the qi, keep a kind and tolerant attitude at all times, so as to calm the mind and eliminate the liver fire, thus nourishing the spleen and stomach, making the spleen and stomach transport normally, and achieving the purpose of strengthening the spleen.
4. Acupoints: Experts say that if there is something wrong with the spleen meridian of Foot Taiyin, there will be symptoms such as abdominal distension, loose stool, diarrhea, epigastric pain, belching and weakness. In addition, the intense pain at the root of the tongue and the swelling of the inner side of the lower limbs all indicate that the spleen meridian of the foot Taiyin is unbalanced. Try the method of acupoint massage. Commonly used acupoints are Sanyinjiao, Yinlingquan and Xue Hai. This meridian point can treat digestive system diseases such as spleen and stomach.
Finally, experts said that invigorating the spleen and strengthening the spleen is not an overnight thing. It needs long-term persistence, and the effect of soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen will be significant. In addition to the methods mentioned in the article, we can also insist on drinking a cup of hot water every morning to help the physiological function of the spleen. In addition, once spleen deficiency is found to be more serious, experts and doctors suggest that you go to a professional hospital for examination first, find the root cause of spleen deficiency, and then adjust it in combination with my physical condition, so as to fundamentally solve the problem, and never prescribe medicine yourself.
2, spring health recipes
1. Shrimp with celery and lily
Efficacy: Lily has the effects of clearing fire, moistening lung, calming nerves, moistening dryness and clearing heat, while celery has the effects of lowering blood pressure, calming, invigorating stomach and diuresis. The combination of the two can beautify and slim down.
Ingredients: celery, fresh lily, red pepper, shrimp, egg white12, ginger slices, salt, chicken essence, water starch and a little sugar.
Exercise:
Cleaning celery, removing roots, and cutting with a diagonal cutter; Cut off the roots of lily, break it into small petals and wash it; Wash and slice the red pepper. Shell the fresh shrimps, wash the dried shrimps, add a little salt, cornmeal and 1/2 egg white, and marinate for 15 minutes. Heat the pan with oil, saute ginger slices, add celery and stir fry. Then stir-fry the red pepper and shrimp together in the pot. Put the new lily into the pot, add a little salt, chicken essence and a little sugar and stir-fry until it tastes good. Pour in a little water starch to thicken.
2. Red dates and tremella soup
Efficacy: tonify deficiency and qi, nourish blood and soothe nerves, strengthen spleen and stomach.
Ingredients: tremella, red dates, old rock sugar.
Practice: Cut the tremella into small pieces, remove the roots, put it in the soaked tremella (soaked overnight), sieve and wash the soaked tremella, drain the water for later use, cut the big red dates into small pieces, remove the core, add water to the soup pot, add the soaked tremella, cook for 40 minutes with slow fire, then add the old rock sugar and let it cool.
3. Braised rapeseed with mushrooms
Efficacy: rape is cool, sweet and bitter, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing blood and reducing swelling; Lentinus edodes has the functions of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, treating wind and breaking blood, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach, and is suitable for patients with hypertension.
Ingredients: 200 grams of rape, 200 grams of fresh mushrooms, a little onion and ginger, 4 grams of salt, and appropriate amount of water starch.
Practice: wash the rape and control the water, wash the mushrooms, cut a cross knife on the mushrooms, blanch them in water (add a little salt and peanut oil to the water), and take them out for use; Put oil in a hot pan, add a little minced onion and ginger to the wok, then add rape and stir-fry until the rape begins to soften; Add mushrooms, add salt and stir-fry minced onion and ginger for 30 seconds; Finally, add water and starch, thicken and take out of the pot (the water starch should be thinner, not too thick).
3. Hygienic taboos for the elderly in spring
1 to avoid sleeping too much.
Chinese medicine believes that lying down for a long time will hurt the gas, sleeping too much, and getting sick without illness. Therefore, in spring, the elderly should pay attention to going to bed early and getting up early, and should "lie down at night and get up early and take a wide walk", that is, go to bed late and get up early and go out for a walk more, so as to adapt to the vitality of spring, absorb the vitality of nature and keep people energetic. It is necessary to ensure adequate sleep and prevent excessive sleep. Generally, you can sleep for 8 hours every day. Old people often feel sleepy, can't get up in the morning, and feel sleepy after waking up. This phenomenon is commonly known as "spring sleep". In order to adapt to this physiological change, you should get up early and stretch. This can not only maintain energy, but also provide a maintenance environment for the body.
2. Avoid being lazy in activities.
When you go outdoors, you can enjoy the fresh air, exhale the dirty air in your body and enhance your heart and lung function. It can also kill bacteria and viruses on the skin and enhance the body's immunity. The movement should be stretched, smooth and slow, just like a hundred herbs sprouting and the wind swinging and the willows splashing. The amount of exercise should not be too large, so as not to sweat and hurt the yang. After exercise, you should be energetic, relaxed and comfortable. Generally speaking, it is best to choose simple and interesting activities, such as walking, jogging, flying kites and swinging. Old people can also choose some simple health exercises, such as Tai Ji Chuan and Yijinjing.
3, avoid improper clothing.
Although spring is warm, it is not advisable for the elderly to undress too early or too late. Because the temperature in early spring is cold and hot, it is cold and hot, so it is necessary to cover it for a period of time so that all parts of the body can adapt to it and prevent catching a cold. Especially the elderly, with weak qi and thin bones, poor disease resistance and slight cold, are prone to chronic diseases. Because sudden cooling will cause vasospasm, blood viscosity, slow blood flow and organ ischemia, colds, pneumonia, tracheitis, asthma, arthritis, migraine and coronary heart disease will follow. Therefore, it is necessary to keep out the wind and cold at this time and prepare clothes regularly. It's easy to do when the weather is warm, and cotton-padded clothes can't be eaten. In spring, the clothing style should be loose and elastic, and the pure cotton fabric has good hygroscopicity and warmth, which is suitable for underwear.
4, avoid cold food.
Due to the acceleration of human metabolism and the corresponding increase in nutrient consumption in spring, we should eat more nutritious products, such as soybean sprouts, wheat, jujube, lean meat, fish and eggs. It is also advisable to eat more nutritious and digestible light food. Because there are few fresh vegetables in winter, vitamin intake is insufficient, and the accumulated internal heat in winter should be distributed, so eat more fresh vegetables, such as bamboo shoots, rape, spinach and so on. Do not eat or eat as little cold food as possible, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and cause diseases. Generally speaking, spring does not need tonic.
5. avoid going around.
In spring, most old people think it is a good time to go out for a walk, but it is not. Spring is a period of frequent epidemics, and the immunity of the elderly is declining, making them vulnerable to infection. During the epidemic, the elderly should not go out to crowded public places frequently. There is also the growing spring, and the elderly should not sit alone and mope. The best way to improve bad emotions is to cultivate good feelings of loving life and nature. On sunny days in spring, we can invite friends and relatives to travel, enjoy flowers, take a walk, swim in the stream and practice in spring, which will help us to refresh ourselves and forget our troubles.