However, spring is also the season of high incidence of infectious diseases such as avian influenza, influenza, measles and hand, foot and mouth disease. In addition to staying away from the source of infection and paying attention to personal hygiene and other self-care, TCM health care emphasizes nourishing the liver and strengthening yang and regulating diet in spring, which has a very good effect on preventing diseases and strengthening the body.
Today, Chinese medicine tells you how to keep healthy in spring!
Nourishing liver, protecting spleen and regulating blood.
"Spring is wood and the liver is strong." Wang Jie, a doctor from Shanxi Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that spring is the time when the liver yang of human body is strong, so every year after beginning of spring, people are prone to anxiety and sleep badly. Therefore, in spring, we should pay attention to regulating the liver and nourishing the heart, and maintain a cheerful and positive mood, which can make the liver and qi flow smoothly, qi and blood flow smoothly, and physical and mental health.
In spring, liver fire is strong, which is easy to bind the spleen and cause spleen and stomach diseases, so as to increase sweetness to enhance temper and achieve the effect of enhancing human immunity. Spring is the season with high incidence of virus infections such as avian influenza, influenza, chickenpox, measles and hand, foot and mouth disease. Nourishing the liver can effectively regulate the body, enhance immunity and prevent diseases.
Dr. Wang Jie said-
Because the human body is an organic whole, nourishing the liver mentioned in TCM health preservation is not to maintain the liver alone, but to achieve the overall conditioning effect by nourishing the liver.
Although the temperature has picked up, Dr. Wang Jie reminded everyone that it is even more necessary to keep warm at this time. The human body has become loose and its resistance to cold evil has weakened. It is not advisable to reduce the cotton-padded jacket immediately, but to make it thicker and thinner. The common cold attacks the human body in spring, and the head, shoulders, back, elbows and other parts are vulnerable to wind pain. It is very important to keep these parts warm.
Dr. Wang Jie said-
In spring, the sun is the spirit, so it is advisable to eat sweet and divergent products in the diet, not sour. Therefore, choose products that soften and nourish the liver, soothe the liver and regulate qi in the diet.
For example, eating more green onions, ginger, leeks and onions in spring is helpful to the growth of yang in the body, and eating less mutton and spicy food.
With regard to sleep, the qi and blood of the human body need to be dredged in spring, and it is necessary to lie down and get up early at night, which means that you can sleep a little later than in winter, but you should get up early in the morning, stretch your limbs, do more outdoor activities and get out of hibernation, which will help your body and mind to be more energetic and vital.
Stretch more and comb your hair.
Stretching is a conditioned reflex of human health care, especially for liver health care. Dr. Wang Jie explained-
When the human body is tired, the blood circulation is slow. At this time, if you stretch your limbs, stretch your waist and expand your abdomen, and take a deep breath, you will have the effect of expelling the old and absorbing the new, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, and invigorating your spirit.
After stretching, the blood circulation is accelerated, the joints and muscles of the whole body are active, and there is no drowsiness. It also stimulates the function of the liver and makes the liver "exercise", thus achieving the effect of health care. "When stretching, try to stretch your body, straighten your limbs, and exert all your muscles. When stretching, try to inhale; When you relax, relax your muscles and try to exhale. The effect will be better. " For the elderly, doing this action often can also increase the elasticity of muscles and ligaments and delay aging.
In this season, the common cold rarely exists alone, changing into "wind chill" with cold, "wind heat" with heat and "rheumatism" with humidity, such as common exogenous wind chill and rheumatic joint pain. In the spring when colds frequently attack the human body, how to avoid them? Dr Wang Jie said that combing your hair can "shut out the common cold".
There are three acupoints behind the human brain, two Fengchi points and one Fengfu point. Traditional Chinese medicine has the saying that "the wind pool and the wind house can be found, and the typhoid diseases disappear for a while". Comb your hair often, which can stimulate these main acupoints, unblock qi and blood, and make a cold detour.
Dr. Wang Jie said-
When combing your hair, your body can bend forward or lean back slightly to promote blood circulation.
When you comb your hair, spread it out. First, comb the messy hair ends with a comb, and then comb them slowly. At first, comb back from the hairline of the forehead, and use a full-head comb, that is, comb from the hairline to the hair roots at the back of the neck. Then comb from the root of the back neck to the end of the hair tip, and then comb in opposite directions from the upper parts of the left and right ears respectively.
"Exercise is very important if you want to be healthy!" Dr. Wang Jie said that physical fitness should start with daily exercise. However, although it has entered the spring, the temperature difference between morning and evening is still large. Get up early to exercise, pay attention to keep warm and add clothes. "The old saying' Spring is freezing in autumn' makes sense."
Speaking of exercise, Dr. Wang Jie said that the most important thing is to choose the exercise that suits you, and choose the exercise mode according to your age, professional characteristics and living environment. "Walking" is a sport suitable for the general public, because there is always a leg that does not leave the ground when walking, and the pressure on the knee joint is relatively small. People who are overweight or have poor knee joints can do more exercise by "walking". "Be sure to remember to do it step by step, and don't give yourself too much exercise at the beginning."
"The second is persistence. As long as you keep exercising, it will be effective. " As long as we move, we will be healthier than sitting, create conditions to move more, and we will be more stay away from obesity than people who often sit, and stay away from chronic diseases, epidemics and cardiovascular diseases.