There is a cloud in Huangdi Neijing, which puts forward the method of keeping in good health in spring for the first time: "Spring in March means that the world is born, everything is glorious, and you lie down at night and get up early, striding in court and being slowed down, so that you can live, live without killing, give without taking, and reward without punishment. This is the way of keeping in good health." In other words, as long as you go to bed early and get up early, getting enough and high-quality sleep is the easiest way to cope with spring sleep, and it also adapts your body to natural changes. In spring, the liver and gallbladder meridians in the human body will be active and vigorous, which will affect the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach, so the diet should be light. "Preserving acid, sweetening and nourishing temper" means eating less sour food and more sweet food in spring, which can nourish the spleen and stomach of human body and improve the health of gastrointestinal system. Since the liver, gallbladder and meridians are active and vigorous, we must not eat warm tonics, so as not to aggravate the internal heat of the body and damage the healthy qi of the human body.
Such stimulation helps to promote blood circulation and enhance heat preservation after eating. It can be seen that it is a health food that is very consistent with "nourishing yang in spring and summer", but it is not advisable to eat more. After all, leek is a hot food and is not suitable for digestion. Eating more may lead to yin deficiency and excessive fire and indigestion. Pear has been called "fruit Sect" and "quick fruit" since ancient times, which shows its importance in the field of fruit. Pear can be described as a cough medicine, which has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, resolving phlegm and reducing fire, but even if it is a hundred fruits, it is not advisable to eat more. Contrary to leek, pear is a cold food, and eating too much will damage the yang.
(2) Summer
"Xia San Moon, this is called Xiangxiu, heaven and earth blend together, and everything is flashy." Summer is the season with the highest yang in a year, and it is also a period of vigorous metabolism. The yang of the human body is external, including yin, and it is particularly easy to be too greedy in summer, thus hurting the yang in the body. Coupled with the rainy season in May, the humidity is getting heavier and heavier. At this time, if the individual is in poor health, it will cause symptoms of "injury to the body", such as injury to the body and fatigue. When you are injured in summer, you will feel hot, but you may not really have a fever or increase your body temperature. It may also be accompanied by symptoms such as dry lips, thirst, dry stool, and new boredom. If the conditioning is not good, once the compensatory function of the body can't be loaded, it will consume the vitality of the human body. When "injury to body fluid" turns into "injury to qi", the human body will have symptoms such as physical fatigue, weakness of limbs, poor breathing and even weakness of speech.
It can be seen that the health fruits in summer mainly focus on clearing heat and promoting diuresis, such as bitter gourd, cucumber, watermelon and lotus seeds, which are all fruits and vegetables with sweet and cold taste and sufficient water. Sweet and cold in nature, it can clear away heat in summer, and the moisture of fruits and vegetables can supplement the moisture lost by sweating in summer. When it comes to summer, everyone can't help thinking of cool and delicious watermelons. Watermelon is a cool fruit, which can induce diuresis and reduce fever. Chinese medicine books praise watermelon as "natural white tiger soup". Watermelon can also eliminate inflammation caused by kidney and slightly lower blood pressure, which is a good food for patients with hypertension and heart disease.
(3) Autumn
"In autumn and March, this is called Rongping, and the weather is urgent and bright." Autumn is characterized by "dryness", so it is called "autumn dryness". Chinese medicine believes that these "dryness symptoms" are mainly caused by personal weakness and lack of body fluid. In this climate change, people like to eat warm food or fried food, which leads to "getting angry" and causes these symptoms. "Autumn is dry, you should eat hemp to moisten it". Hemp refers to sesame. Of course, the actual health care is not limited to eating sesame seeds, and there are many other foods that moisten the lungs and produce fluid, nourish yin and moisten dryness. Fruits and vegetables suitable for autumn health preservation are mainly "less spicy and sour", that is, eat less spicy food, such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers and so on. Because pungent taste will increase lung qi and damage liver function. Eating more sour food has the function of entering and protecting the liver, which can resist the invasion of excessive lung qi.
Fruits and vegetables suitable for autumn consumption include chestnuts, apples, sugarcane, sweet potatoes, loquat and so on. Chestnuts can nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, strengthen the waist and kidney, promote blood circulation and stop bleeding, apples can clear away damp-heat in the stomach and intestines, sugarcane can nourish and moisten dryness, and loquat can clear the lung and beautify the face and even protect eyesight. ......
(4) Winter
"Winter in March, this is called closed Tibet. Water and ice lie on the ground, not disturbing the sun. If you go to bed early and get up late, you must wait for the sun, so that you can hide your ambitions, if you have private intentions, if you have them. Eliminating cold will warm the skin, so that qi will be caught. This winter air should be the way to raise Tibet. " Winter is to cultivate the yang of human body. Due to the cold winter climate and the prosperity of Yin Qi, the whole nature is in a state of prosperity and decline. Based on the principle of "correspondence between man and nature" in traditional Chinese medicine, when Yang Qi falls, it is necessary to maintain and adopt the Yang Qi in the body. In the traditional concept, winter tonic is necessary. Some people are weak in kidney-yang, weak in physical strength, often cold in hands and feet in winter, and even blue in face. Based on the concept of "dispelling cold and warming", tonic medicine is indeed a good way to nourish blood and replenish qi, warm yang and tonify kidney. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, winter tonic
Should be based on nourishing kidney qi. There are two kinds of tonics: medicinal tonics and food tonics. In the nursed back to health in daily life, food supplement is much more important than medicine supplement, because the function of food supplement is milder and there will be no deviation caused by improper medication. Nourishing food can be roughly divided into nourishing yin and nourishing. Although the winter tonic is mostly meat, too much protein and fat can often induce many diseases, such as food injury, food stagnation, food accumulation and so on. Moreover, many fruits and vegetables not only have the function of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, but also help to clean up the stomach after big fish and meat, which shows how important fruits and vegetables are.
When it comes to the esophagus in winter, everyone will definitely think of radish. "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't bother the doctor to prescribe." The effects recorded in the medical books of traditional Chinese medicine are as follows: removing valley and harmonizing middle energizer, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, removing blood stasis and detoxicating, inducing diuresis to quench thirst, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma. In winter, people eat more meat and greasy food, which leads to the accumulation of stomach heat, so many people put some white radish in the meat to absorb the internal heat. In addition to radish, there are ginger, oranges, red dates, yam and so on. It is also suitable for eating in winter. Of course, all kinds of fruits and vegetables also have their own love. If you eat it in moderation, you can achieve the desired effect.