Spring TCM health 1, to exercise.
Spring is the best season for exercise. Beautiful spring, fresh air, warm wind blowing gently, everything is bloom. This kind of environment is conducive to the human body to vomit the old and absorb the new, and promote the circulation of qi and blood. Because of the cold winter, people mostly move indoors and rarely move outdoors, so the functions of the thermoregulatory center and internal organs have also declined to varying degrees, and muscles and ligaments have been inactive for a long time, even shrinking. After entering the spring, you should choose suitable outdoor activities according to your physical condition, such as walking, traveling, practicing Qigong and fishing. These outdoor activities can make you fully enjoy the free double-effect negative ions in the air. They are beneficial to the growth and development of bones.
2. Go to beauty care
In spring, people should not only pay attention to health, but also pay attention to beauty problems. Outdoor activities have increased because of the warmer weather. Health network experts believe that sunlight, air and environmental climate will cause changes in skin visibility. In order to avoid skin aging, try not to climb in the sun for a long time in spring. Apply sunscreen and emollient to outdoor activities and pay attention to hydration. Water is a beauty product, so you must drink more water in spring. The way to drink water is: drink water on an empty stomach or before meals in the morning, but don't drink water before going to bed, so as not to cause eyelid edema and then develop into bags under the eyes. Mineral water and fresh fruit juice are the best drinking water, and light tea is also a good drink.
Step 3 avoid wind and evil spirits
Chinese medicine thinks? Wind, the beginning of all diseases? . It means that many diseases are often related to the common cold. The key to keeping in good health in spring is to avoid the wind. Modern medicine also attaches great importance to the relationship between airflow (wind) and health, because the change of airflow can affect people's breathing, energy consumption, metabolism and mental state. Moderate airflow makes the air clean and fresh, which is beneficial to health, while abnormal airflow is harmful to human health. Due to the windy spring, the heat exchange between air and skin is intensified, which leads to excessive heat loss in the body and the decline of people's disease resistance. Therefore, we must pay attention to wind and evil spirits in spring.
Step 4 be happy
The spirit of aftercare in spring should conform to the characteristics of all things in nature in spring. Make it ambitious? That is, by adjusting modality, the yang in the body can be sulfur-developed, and the harmony with the external environment can be maintained. Spring should be in the liver. Anger is in your mind, and it will show irritability if it is slightly stimulated. Therefore, you should be open-minded and optimistic in spiritual cultivation, and avoid anger when things happen. ? Angry? It is the leader of emotional diseases, which is extremely harmful to human health, because anger not only hurts the liver, but also hurts the stomach and lungs. This has led to various diseases, so anger is the most taboo emotion for everyone.
5. Keep warm and cold.
Spring is the transitional season of cold winter and hot summer, and it is at the turning point of yin retreating from yang and cold turning into heat. At this time, the yang is gradually flourishing, but the yin and cold are not exhausted. Due to the activity of cold air, the climate is changeable and the temperature difference is great. So? Spring cover? Namely. Aren't you busy reducing clothes in spring? It is a good self-care method to meet the needs of hair growth and prevent diseases. On the one hand, it should be loose and stretched, on the other hand, it should be soft and warm. Old and infirm people should pay special attention to keep warm. Be careful, okay? Does the cold spell hurt people? It is best to keep the room temperature above 15℃, and cover it with a thick quilt when sleeping to avoid sweating.
6. Go to bed early and get up early
The temperature rises in spring, and the spring wind blows gently, which makes people's skin relax gradually, the function of circulatory system is strengthened, the blood supply to skin endings is increased, the secretion of sweat glands is increased, and the load of various organs is increased, which has a sedative and hypnotic effect on the central nervous system and makes the body sleepy. Folk call it? Spring sleep? . Overcome? Spring sleep? The best way is to follow the law of natural changes of human body and the principle of spring health care knowledge guide: go to bed early and get up early, and ensure a certain amount of activity time and sleep. Get up in the morning, unbutton your hair, relax, take a walk in the yard and breathe fresh air, so that your ideological realm and gas field will continue to grow.
Spring diet principle Spring is not suitable for eating liver.
Gao Lian's Eight Chapters of Respect for Life? Do you have pictures of the four seasons? Don't eat liver in spring because the liver is full of qi and the temper is defeated; If you eat the liver, you will make it up, and your temper will be particularly defeated. No matter how prosperous the liver is, don't inhale into it for fear of hurting your soul. Said. Because the liver qi is high in spring. After eating the liver, the liver will be replenished, the liver qi will be strong, and the spleen will be weaker. When the liver qi is strong, eating the liver will not only hurt the spleen, but also hurt the soul (according to the five elements, the soul comes from the liver) because the dead air enters the liver. In spring, the function of the liver is particularly active, and there are bound to be a lot of undecomposed toxic substances, so it is better to eat less liver in spring. Moreover, the cholesterol content of animal liver is very high, which will increase blood lipid after eating. People with hyperlipidemia should eat less or not eat liver.
Avoid sticky cold, fat and sweet, eat less and eat more meals.
Due to the strong liver qi in spring, the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach is not good. If you eat hard, cold, fat, sweet, thick and other indigestible things (such as rice cakes, ice cream, greasy and spicy), your spleen and stomach will be further damaged, and your transportation and qi movement will be impeded, which will easily lead to phlegm and dampness, resulting in diseases.
Warming and nourishing, helping yang to grow hair
In spring, in terms of diet, we should follow the advice of Huangdi Neijing? Spring, summer and sunshine? The principle of. In other words, in spring, the yang of the human body should rise together with the yang of nature, so in terms of diet, it is advisable to eat more foods that can warm and help yang. According to the principle of sex and taste, we should eat some pungent and warm food that enters the lung meridian. Warming can replenish yang, pungent can send yang, and entering the lung meridian can also open the sweat pores of fur (because the lung governs fur), which helps to dissipate heat. Moreover, the weather is cold in early spring, and spicy food can alleviate and dispel the pathogenic wind and cold on the body surface, which is more conducive to the growth of human yang, such as leeks, garlic and onions. But people with yin deficiency or yang deficiency are not suitable for eating these things. People with stomach problems should eat less irritating food, because it will irritate the gastric mucosa.
Clearing heat and relieving depression, supplementing body fluid
Gao Lian, a health care practitioner in the Ming Dynasty, wrote Eight Records of Respect for Life? The notes of the four seasons say: Since last winter, I have been smoking clothes, cooking and drinking in the stove until spring. As a result, I was angry, which led to dizziness, cough, weakness of limbs, weakness of waist and legs. All the diseases were accumulated in winter. ? This passage means that in the long winter, in order to avoid the cold attack, people like to sleep in warm beds, cover with thick quilts and eat steaming meals. Some people also like to drink some wine to keep out the cold, and more calories are accumulated in the body. Lighter people will feel dizzy, bored, cough, excessive phlegm and heavy limbs. In severe cases, people will get fever and even form visceral diseases. What should we do? The countermeasure is to have a light diet and eat more fruits and vegetables. Such as yam, lettuce, onion, leek, garlic, pea, shepherd's purse, water chestnut, spinach, celery, Toona sinensis, purslane, Malantou, rape, cherry and so on. You can eat foods with low energy, high plant protein and low fat, such as bean products and fish. Eat more spicy food or exercise more to sweat, promote blood circulation and metabolism in the body.
Protecting liver and caring skin, reducing acid and increasing sweetness
In spring, liver qi is on the high side. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that five flavors enter the five internal organs and sour taste enters the liver. At this time, if you eat more sour food, it will further enhance the rise of liver qi, make the already high liver qi become excited, and damage the function of spleen. So eat less sour and more sweet in spring. Because sweets enter the spleen, they can tonify the temper.