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Cover your stomach and protect your liver in spring, protect your health in early spring.
Spring is a good season for health preservation, which can lay a solid foundation for the whole year. In addition, winter and spring alternate, and early spring is also a frequent season for some diseases, so it is indispensable to preserve health and prevent diseases in spring. Early spring needs to take care of three aspects, namely, covering spring, nourishing stomach and protecting liver.

1. Chunwu

In spring, the temperature is changeable, often plummeting, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. If the temperature rises slightly, don't undress as soon as possible. When you know that cold air is coming, put on clothes in advance to keep warm. Spring covers are mainly on the soles of feet, abdomen and back. Doing a good job of keeping your back warm can prevent the Du Meridian, the sea of Yang Meridian, from being damaged by cold and avoid catching a cold. Keeping the abdomen warm can prevent colds, diarrhea and indigestion. In addition, there is a folk proverb called "Cold starts from the soles of the feet", which means that the nerve endings on the soles of the feet are rich and sensitive. Only by keeping your feet warm can you warm your body.

Nourish the stomach

Chinese medicine believes that eating less acid and more sweet in spring can nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen. This means that the spleen and stomach are weak in spring, and the diet should be less sour and spicy, which is more suitable for eating slightly sweet foods, such as lily, yam and fungus. Chinese medicine believes that porridge is most suitable for nourishing the spleen and stomach. If you feel dull pain in your stomach, dry mouth and throat, loss of appetite, even red tongue with little fur and thin body, you can cook some lily yam jujube porridge to eat. Yam can replenish the spleen and stomach; Lily can clear away heat and moisten dryness; Coix seed and jujube have the functions of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, clearing away heat and moistening dryness, nourishing yin and nourishing stomach, and are edible. If you are in a bad mood, which leads to gastrointestinal discomfort, you can eat fried pork slices with black fungus, which is very helpful for regulating middle qi and tonifying spleen and stomach.

Protect the liver

Among the five elements, spring belongs to wood, corresponding to liver, so spring needs to protect liver. In addition to paying attention to diet and staying away from alcohol and tobacco, there is also a very simple way to protect the liver, that is, morning exercise. When the human body is sleepy, qi and blood run slowly. If you stretch your waist and abdomen, stretch your limbs, exert all your muscles and take a deep breath, you can play the role of promoting qi and blood circulation, expelling the old and sucking in the new. After stretching, the blood circulation is accelerated, which can stimulate the function of the liver and achieve good liver protection effect.