Dietary principles of timely health preservation in spring
Principle 1: Choose staple food with high calorie in early spring, and pay attention to supplement enough protein.
In early spring, the temperature is still relatively cold, and the human body needs to consume some energy to maintain its cold-proof function. Therefore, the nutritional structure in early spring should be based on high calories. In addition to cereals, we should also choose soybeans, sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts and other foods to supplement energy substances in time. In addition, cold stimulation will accelerate the decomposition of protein in the body, leading to the decline of the body's resistance and disease. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement high-quality protein foods in early spring, such as eggs, fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, rabbit meat and bean products. These foods are rich in methionine, and methionine has the function of enhancing the cold resistance of human body.
Principle 2: appropriately increase the proportion of fruits and vegetables in the diet to get enough vitamins and inorganic salts.
Spring is also the season when the climate changes from cold to warm, and the temperature changes greatly. Bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms begin to relapse, and their vitality is strengthened, which is easy to invade the human body and cause diseases, such as angular stomatitis, glossitis, night blindness and some skin diseases, mostly due to nutritional deficiency caused by eating less fresh fruits and vegetables. Therefore, the proportion of fruits and vegetables should be appropriately increased in the diet to absorb enough vitamins and inorganic salts. Fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, rape, bell pepper and tomato, and fruits such as citrus and lemon are rich in vitamin C, which has antiviral effect. Yellow-green vegetables such as carrots and amaranth are rich in vitamin A, which can protect and enhance epithelial cells of upper respiratory mucosa and respiratory organs and enhance resistance to various pathogenic factors. Food rich in vitamin E should also be eaten to improve human immune function and enhance the body's disease resistance. This kind of food includes sesame, broccoli, cauliflower and so on. In addition, from the perspective of scientific diet, the relative intake ratio of nutrients such as protein, carbohydrate and fat should be emphasized in spring, so as to enhance resistance, prevent overeating and avoid liver dysfunction and abnormal bile secretion.
Principle 3: The diet should be light and avoid greasy, cold and irritating food.
In spring, the thick creamy taste in winter should be changed to warm and refreshing. In animal foods, we should eat less high-fat foods such as fat meat, because greasy foods are easy to feel full after eating, and the human body will be tired. Diet should be warm, avoid cold. People with cold stomach can often eat ginger to drive away cold and warm stomach.
Principle 4: Spring diet should be sour and sweet, nourishing temper.
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Tang Dynasty, said? In spring, you should keep sour, sweeten and nourish your temper. ? It means that when spring comes, people should eat less sour and more sweet, which has the benefits of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Spring is a season of vigorous liver qi. According to the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine, liver belongs to wood, spleen belongs to soil, and soil and soil are combined, that is, hyperactivity of liver can hurt spleen and affect its digestive function. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors enter the five internal organs, the acid enters the liver, and the sweetness reaches the spleen. Therefore, eating more sour food will enhance the function of the liver, make the hyperactive liver qi more vigorous and hurt the spleen and stomach. In view of this, the diet in spring should be nursed back to health, and it is advisable to choose sweet products and avoid sour taste, mainly to tonify the temper, so you can eat more dates, yams and crispy rice.
Principle 5: Take food supplements according to the individual's physical condition and illness.
Chinese medicine suggests that spring health should be supplemented by food? . However, according to the characteristics of the gradual increase of human yang in spring, we must choose a flat and clear diet to avoid backfiring. The following kinds of people are most suitable for spring tonic: middle-aged and elderly people with premature aging; People with various chronic diseases and slim figure; Those with backache, dizziness, sallow complexion and listlessness; The climate changes greatly in spring, and it is easy to catch a cold repeatedly after catching a cold; There was a history of asthma attack in spring before, but now there is no author; In summer, there are people with low fever in summer. Anyone who belongs to the above situation can take advantage of the warm spring season in bloom, and choose appropriate food supplement methods to prevent and treat diseases according to personal physique and illness. Details are as follows:
(1) If the elderly have internal heat due to yin deficiency, they can use the clearing method first. This kind of food includes pear, lotus root, shepherd's purse, lily, turtle, snail and so on. This kind of food is cold, and it has the function of clearing away heat and fire after eating, which is helpful to improve bad physique.
② People with deficiency and cold constitution can eat more warm food, such as walnuts and medlar.
(3) Those with heavy moisture should eat moist food, such as dried lotus leaves and lotus seeds.
For children and the elderly, you can usually cook some orange peel, radish, pear or water chestnut as tea to drink, which can regulate qi and eliminate phlegm, clear away heat and moisten the lungs and protect the respiratory tract.
⑤ Generally, the tonic for the elderly who are sick or recovered from illness should be mainly cool, light, delicious and digestible, and rice porridge, coix seed porridge, red bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable puree and pork floss can be selected. Avoid eating foods that are too sweet, fried, cold and indigestible, so as not to damage gastrointestinal function.
Principle 6: A thousand dollars can't buy spring, so it's time to eliminate fat and detoxify.
Throughout the winter, most people are in a dormant state: seclusion, less exercise, and preference for rich food. After a winter, they accumulated a lot of fat and toxins in their bodies. There is an old saying:? A thousand dollars is hard to buy spring. What does this mean? Is spring a good time to eliminate fat and detoxify? .
It is worth noting that we should not blindly believe in folk detoxification drugs. In fact, simple apples and fresh milk have a very good detoxification effect. Try drinking a glass of fresh milk and eating an apple in the morning. Mild and beneficial, but also has the effect of detoxification. Other fruits, such as strawberries, cherries and grapes, also have a good detoxification effect. There is also kelp and mung bean soup, because the colloidal components in kelp can promote the discharge of toxic substances in the body, and mung beans are cold and cool, which can clear away heat and detoxify. Therefore, if you drink this soup, the toxins will naturally be discharged with defecation. The soup is delicious, and there is no need to drain so much water. Give it a try!
Basic principles of health preservation
(A) conform to nature
Man is born with the spirit of heaven and earth, and the law of four seasons is achieved. Born between heaven and earth and living by nature, man is bound to be dominated and restricted by the laws of nature, that is, man is related to heaven and earth and corresponds to the sun and the moon. This theory of correspondence between man and nature, or the unity of man and nature, is the theoretical basis for Chinese medicine to conform to nature and keep in good health at the right time. Adapting to nature health care includes adapting to the four seasons and conditioning day and night. Day and night change, compared with four seasons, the so-called dynasty is spring, the day is summer, the day is autumn, and midnight is winter. Yang predominates during the day and Yin predominates at night. People should also cope with the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons and day and night. Therefore, in daily life, we should conform to the changes of the four seasons, be dynamic and appropriate, dress appropriately and eat reasonably, reflecting the principle of nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter.
People have not only natural attributes, but also social attributes. People cannot live without society. Man and the external environment are a unified whole. The external environment includes natural environment and social environment, so Chinese medicine thinks? Knowing astronomy above, geography below, and personnel in the middle can last for a long time. ? On the one hand, social environment provides the material means of life that human beings need to meet their physiological needs, on the other hand, it forms and restricts human psychological activities. With the change of medical model, social medicine and psychosomatic medicine have made great progress, which increasingly shows the importance of attaching importance to social factors and mental health care for human health and longevity: social factors can affect people's health through their influence on their mental state and physical quality. Therefore, people must adapt to the changes of seasons and social factors and take corresponding measures to live a long and healthy life. So:? The health care of the wise must also be suitable for the four seasons, harmony between qi and wealth, harmony between rigidity and softness, and harmony between yin and yang. If so, he won't be deviant and do evil, and he will live a long life. ("Ling Shu? This god ").
(2) Physical and mental support
The unity of form and spirit, also known as the unity of form and spirit, is the life view of traditional Chinese medicine. The quality of divine form, the use of divine form; Form is the foundation of God, and God is the master of form; Invisible, god can't live, without god, form can't live: form and god do their best; Therefore, health preservation can only make life healthy and longevity. The so-called maintaining a good body shape and mental state means paying attention to both physical maintenance and mental intake, so as to make the body strong, energetic and develop in harmony with body and mind, thus maintaining a healthy and long life. There are many ways to maintain health in TCM, but in essence, in a word, nothing more than? Recuperate? With what? Cultivate appearance? Both ends, so-called? Keep the whole form of God? And then what? Conformal concentration? . Supported by form and spirit, God is the first task, and God lives in peace. God is the master of life, so he should be quiet and put it inside, not restless and wasteful. Therefore, the concept of TCM health preservation takes the adjustment of mind as the first essence and keeps the spirit full. By calming the mind and calming the nerves, regulating the mind with four qi, accumulating essence and nourishing the mind, and practicing the mind with qigong, the air can be kept quiet, the physical and mental health can be enhanced, and the unity of regulating the mind and strengthening the body can be achieved.
Form is the foundation of human life, and God is attached to form. Only with form can there be life, and only with life can there be mental activities and physiological functions. Medical education network collects and sorts out the prosperity, decline and extinction of forms. The rise and fall of the body is related to the rise and fall of essence, qi and spirit. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates training the body through exercise, taking physical exertion as the degree, using labor, dance, walking, guidance, massage and so on. To exercise the body, harmonize qi and blood, dredge meridians, dredge nine orifices, prevent diseases and keep fit.
Static to nourish the heart, dynamic to repair the shape, dynamic and static combination, rigid and flexible, dynamic and static as the degree. Nourish the body and mind, and exercise interacts with exercise, which conforms to the objective law of life movement, and is conducive to strengthening the body and preventing diseases.
(3) Protecting essence and kidney
Protecting essence and kidney refers to the use of various means and methods to regulate kidney essence, so that the essence is sufficient and the body is healthy and vigorous, thus achieving the purpose of prolonging life. Essence is the basic substance that constitutes the human body and promotes the growth and development of the human body. Sambo? Refining qi is the foundation of qi shape and spirit, and the foundation of health and longevity. Essence is congenital, born in Shui Gu and hidden in the five internal organs. The five internal organs are peaceful and autotrophic. Among the five internal organs, the kidney is congenital and mainly stores essence, so the key to nourishing essence is to maintain kidney essence. Traditional Chinese medicine health care emphasizes abstinence and storing essence, which makes essence full and beneficial to physical and mental health. Indulge in sexual desire, semen exhaustion, qi dissipation, no aging. Abstinence is not absolute desire, but sexual abstinence. There are many ways to maintain kidney essence, besides abstinence, there are also sports health care, kidney guidance, kidney massage, kidney diet and drug aftercare.
(4) regulating the spleen and stomach
Spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry, so the strength of spleen and stomach is an important factor to determine people's longevity. Soil qi is the source of everything, and stomach qi is the master of health preservation. Strong stomach is strong, weak stomach is weak, stomach is raw and stomach is dead. Is spleen and stomach the first priority of health care? ("Jing Yue Quan Shu"? Spleen and stomach). Spleen and stomach are strong, and Shui Gu's subtle sources are abundant, so the essence is sufficient, the viscera function is vigorous, and the mind is strong. Spleen and stomach are the hinge of Qi, and their coordination can promote and regulate the metabolism of the body and ensure the normal life activities. Therefore, TCM health care attaches great importance to spleen and stomach conditioning. Through diet regulation, drug regulation, mental regulation, acupuncture and massage, qigong regulation, daily rest, etc., it can achieve the purpose of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, conditioning the day after tomorrow and prolonging life.
Congenital origin in kidney, acquired origin in spleen. First, it is born the day after tomorrow, and it is naturally cultivated the day after tomorrow. The two promote each other and complement each other. Nourishing spleen and kidney is the main purpose of nourishing healthy qi and an important way to prevent premature aging.
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