1, warm feet in winter
1, hot water foot bath
The foot is the farthest place from the heart in all parts of the human body, and the blood flows the longest. Coupled with the influence of gravity, blood return is particularly difficult. And the foot gathers the meridians of the whole body. When the feet catch cold, the whole body will get cold, and the body's resistance will drop, and the disease may take advantage of it. Hot water can dilate blood vessels and speed up blood flow. If you soak your feet with moderate hot water every day, it is equivalent to adding a "pump" to the lower part of your body, which can not only help your heart, accelerate blood circulation and make your feet warm and comfortable; It can also improve the skin of feet and achieve the effect of relieving and eliminating fatigue. Adding different materials to hot water can also achieve different effects. For example, adding milk can moisturize the skin, lavender can improve sleep, and safflower can relieve cold feet and so on.
Step 2 wear socks to sleep
This often happens in life. Cover the quilt before going to bed, and you can always wake up in the middle of the night and find that your feet are cold outside. If you wear socks at this time, you won't feel cold even if you push the quilt. The temperature of feet is closely related to the quality of sleep. Dr. Helen Burgess of the United States suggested that taking off socks to sleep would lower the temperature of feet, which was not conducive to promoting sleep. After undressing and going to bed, the body temperature will definitely drop at first. If you wear socks at this time, you can keep your feet at a relatively high temperature, which is conducive to falling asleep quickly and improving the quality of sleep.
3. Keep pressing Yongquan
Yongquan point is an important point in the "Kidney Meridian of Foot Deficiency Yin" of human body, and it is also the "reflection area" of kidney in foot in reflex medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the kidney is the innate foundation", and regular massage of Yongquan point can nourish yin and kidney, strengthen the body and eliminate diseases. Specific massage method: After washing your feet with hot water every day, lie on your back and rub your feet hard until your feet feel warm. Then massage and stimulate each other with Laogong point of the hand and Yongquan point of the foot, and the heart and kidney intersect. This method can not only accelerate the blood circulation of the feet, but also improve the quality of sleep.
2. Healthy vegetables in winter
1. Winter bamboo shoots: The content of fat, sugar and fiber in winter bamboo shoots is low. Eating regularly can promote intestinal peristalsis, eliminate food accumulation and reduce the absorption and accumulation of fat in gastrointestinal tract. Winter bamboo shoots can be cooked not only with meat, poultry, seafood and other meat raw materials, but also with edible fungi and green leafy vegetables or separately.
2, mushrooms: mushrooms, also known as mushrooms, are edible fungi that people often eat in winter. Lentinus edodes is low in calories and high in protein and vitamins, which can provide various vitamins needed by human body and promote the absorption of calcium in the body. Regular consumption of mushrooms also has a good effect on enhancing immunity and preventing colds.
3. White radish: Radish can be divided into white skin, green skin and red skin. You can eat it raw or cooked. Its vitamin C content is 10 times that of pear, and it also contains interferon inducer, which has antiviral and anticancer effects. Radish is pungent, sweet and cool, and has the effects of resolving food stagnation, resolving phlegm, relieving fever and detoxifying, and is effective for bronchitis and cough.
4. Cabbage: Cabbage is slightly cold, sweet, and has the functions of detoxifying, clearing heat and benefiting the stomach. Anyone who is upset and thirsty, has poor stool and has little urine can often eat cabbage. Cabbage contains more crude fiber, vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C, etc. The cellulose in Chinese cabbage can promote intestinal peristalsis, help digestion and prevent dry stool.
5. Garlic: Winter is the most common season for colds. A new study in the UK involved 164 healthy adult participants for 12 weeks. It was found that there were 24 cases of colds in the two groups taking garlic supplements and 64 cases in the two groups taking placebo. The reason is that allicin in garlic can stimulate the growth of white blood cells and enhance the anti-inflammatory ability of human body.
3. Healthy fruits in winter
1, Apple: Winter is the harvest season of apples, and apples have a good effect on maintaining the stability of blood sugar and preventing gallstones. Apples are most suitable for infants and the infirm, especially after meals.
2. Oranges: Winter is the high-yield period of oranges. Oranges are rich in vitamin C, citric acid, hesperidin, aldehydes, alcohols, alkenes and other substances, which have always been called "good fruit for treating diseases". Moreover, oranges contain natural sugar, which can satisfy everyone's desire for sweets. Oranges contain a variety of cellulose, which is beneficial to digestion and can reduce the accumulation of endotoxin in human body.
3, winter jujube: winter jujube contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins needed by the human body, especially the high content of vitamin C, which can improve human immunity and prevent colds. In addition, it is rich in sugar and cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which can effectively protect the liver and cardiovascular system. Patients with flatulence and diabetes should not eat more. Patients with gastritis and gastric ulcer should peel raw dates when eating.
4, bananas: Eating bananas in winter can achieve the effect of moistening the lungs and nourishing, because bananas contain a lot of potassium, sodium and magnesium, which can prevent the occurrence of strokes and high blood pressure in winter and help sleep. However, people with abdominal distension and diarrhea should not eat it, which will aggravate the condition.
5, pear: autumn and winter seasons, the easiest to dry mouth and thirst, dry skin. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pear is slightly cold and sweet, which can produce fluid to quench thirst, moisten dryness and phlegm, and moisten intestines to relieve constipation. It's pear season. Pear juice is known as the "Sect of Hundred Fruits" and has a unique effect on dryness and dampness in autumn and winter.
4. Healthy nuts in winter
1, Walnut: Walnut prevents dry and chapped skin. Dry, itchy or chapped skin is easy to appear in winter. Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as walnuts, help prevent the skin from drying from the inside out, and this fatty acid can keep the skin healthy.
2, peanuts: Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are flat, sweet, and enter the spleen and lungs. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, moistening lung, eliminating phlegm, nourishing and regulating qi, clearing throat and relieving cough. Indications: malnutrition, anorexia, asthenia, dry cough, scanty sputum, hemoptysis, purple skin, puerperal lactation, and dry stool.
3, hazelnut: Although hazelnut is rich in oil, it is beneficial to the human body, helping to lower blood pressure, reduce blood fat, protect vision and delay aging. Moreover, the oil rich in hazelnut is very beneficial to the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins by human body, and has a good nourishing effect on people who are weak, weak after illness and prone to hunger.
4. Almonds: Almonds can reduce low-density lipoprotein ("bad cholesterol"). People with high cholesterol eat 74 grams of almonds every day. After a period of time, the level of low-density lipoprotein in the blood will drop by 9.4%, and the weight will not increase.
5. Pistachio nuts: Vitamin E in pistachios can protect the lungs and reduce the risk of lung cancer. Eating pistachios every day will reduce the possibility of lung cancer.
5. Healthy meat in winter
1, Mutton: Mutton is sweet and rich in fat, protein, carbohydrates, inorganic salts and essential nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Often used as a good product to protect against cold and strengthen yang in winter, it has the effects of warming middle warmer, tonifying kidney, appetizing, strengthening spleen, protecting against cold and eliminating dampness.
2. Fat fish: Fat fish is a kind of fish with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol, which has a protective effect on cardiovascular system. Fat fish is rich in phospholipids and pituitrin, which can improve memory, especially the brain of the head. If eaten regularly, it can warm the stomach, eliminate dizziness, benefit IQ, help memory and delay aging.
3. Beef: As one of the most common meats, the protein content of beef is very high, and its amino acid composition is very close to the needs of human body. It has the functions of nourishing spleen and stomach, strengthening tendons and strengthening body, and is suitable for being used as tonic food in winter.
4, crucian carp: crucian carp meat has many fat seeds and tastes delicious. There is a folk saying that "crucian carp in winter and catfish in summer", which means that crucian carp in winter and catfish in summer are more tender and delicious than those in other seasons. Moreover, Chinese medicine believes that crucian carp is sweet and flat, belonging to the spleen and stomach, and has the function of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Crucian carp soup has the function of moistening dryness and nourishing, and is suitable for cold winter.
5. Chicken: Chicken has the effects of warming the middle warmer, benefiting qi, replenishing essence and marrow, benefiting five internal organs and tonifying deficiency. It is appropriate to eat chicken tonic in autumn and winter, especially in winter. Not only can it be better digested and absorbed, it can nourish the body, but it can also resist the cold and lay a solid foundation for health in the coming year.
6, winter health tea
1, black tea: Winter is a good time to drink black tea. Black tea is made by fermentation and baking. In the process of fermentation, tea leaves turn into red oxides under the action of oxidase, so it is called black tea. Black tea is mild in nature and mellow in taste. Besides containing a variety of water-soluble vitamins, it is also rich in trace element potassium, which can enhance the blood circulation of the heart and reduce the consumption of calcium in the body.
2, medlar tea: tired, you can have a cup of medlar tea. Lycium barbarum is rich in carotene, vitamin C and so on. It has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney and improving eyesight. It is sweet in itself and can be used as a snack like raisins, which is very effective in solving the dry eyes and fatigue of office workers. Some people drink chrysanthemum and medlar together, which is very healthy.
3. Osmanthus fragrans: Osmanthus fragrans has the functions of warming the middle warmer to dispel cold, warming the stomach to relieve pain, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis, and has certain curative effect on anorexia, excessive phlegm, cough and asthma, hemorrhoids, dysentery and amenorrhea abdominal pain. Many patients with stomach problems feel cold pain in winter. Drinking osmanthus tea at this time can relieve symptoms very well.
4. Barley tea: Barley tea has the functions of calming the stomach, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, which is conducive to food digestion, benefiting color and protecting the five internal organs, and is a perfect match with the flower language "digestive yeast" of barley. Hot barley tea has the functions of nourishing stomach, warming stomach and strengthening stomach, and can reduce the stimulation of hot food on gastric mucosa.
5. Pu 'er tea: Pu 'er tea is regarded as the tea in tea, which is a sacred product to warm the stomach, reduce blood fat, invigorate qi, prolong life and taste tea, so it is perfect to drink it in winter to help warm the stomach. A cup of Pu 'er tea after each meal can effectively stimulate your metabolism and accelerate the decomposition of fat. It can effectively reduce the accumulation of abdominal fat without rebounding.