Health preservation should be a common topic. Anyone who doesn't want to have a healthy body knows the significance of health to our life. However, the reality is that there are a considerable number of "sub-health" people in society. Statistics show that with the continuous improvement of living standards, various diseases related to diet and lifestyle among adults, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes, are increasing, and there are great problems in the physical and mental health of adolescents. Therefore, it is very important to maintain health scientifically and advocate an active and healthy lifestyle today.
Experts tell us that the essence of health preservation lies in balance, that is, promoting the balance of the body and harmony with the external environment. Traditional health preservation has existed since ancient times. Folk proverbs, such as "covering spring and freezing autumn" and "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer", are widely recognized and feasible among the people. Therefore, in order to reflect the service function of this edition, today we ask experts to provide readers with some specific methods of scientific health preservation from how to eat, drink, sleep and travel.
Traditional health preservation is an important part of China's 5,000-year cultural tradition. Learning knowledge from the traditional health treasure house is helpful to maintain a healthy body scientifically.
In fact, traditional health care is in daily life. As long as the correct methods are mastered, health care is everywhere.
Here, I will focus on the ways to keep healthy by eating, drinking, sleeping and walking.
Eat: speaking out of turn, five natures, just right.
First, the diet should be moderate and light. "Huangdi Neijing" tells a truth: the amount of food is just to replenish qi, and eating too much hurts the body; Too strong a taste is harmful to health, and light a taste can refresh you. Laozi also said in Tao Te Ching: Eating too much delicious food hurts the stomach. The second is to look at the nature of food and the needs of the body. Everything that can be eaten is sexual, and it is inseparable from the five attributes of cold, heat, warmth, coolness and flatness. When the body is hot, it will be cold, and when it is cold, it will be hot. Such as: stomach heat, should eat cold bananas; Drink hot ginger soup when your stomach is cold. If you eat backwards, you will get sick. For example, the climate between beginning of autumn and the autumnal equinox is hot and dry every year, so it is not suitable for spicy food, which may easily lead to fever in the stomach and large intestine, deafness and tinnitus.
Eating fruit properly is nutrition, but eating it improperly is harmful to your health. Don't eat fruit when the spleen and stomach are weak and relaxed, and eat more fruit when you are full of energy and dry.
Drink: There is a difference between wine and tea.
Drinking should follow the rules: first, moderate. Excessive metabolism without timely metabolism will damage internal organs. Second, beginning of spring to the vernal equinox, beginning of autumn to the autumnal equinox, be careful to drink white wine. Drinking white wine in these two periods is easy to cause internal organs to be hot and dry.
Drinking tea is good for health. One of the main functions of tea is to clear the dirty air. Drinking tea often can get rid of people's odor. However, tea is also divided into different varieties and different properties.
Green tea. Cool nature, suitable for people with stomach heat.
Scented tea is a kind of tea smoked with jasmine. Jasmine is warm, and people with cold stomachs drink jasmine tea to warm their stomachs.
Black tea. Warmth helps digestion. People with cold stomachs drink it to help warm their stomachs. Oolong tea combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea and is flat.
Sleep: There is rhythm at four o'clock.
Traditional health care thinks that sleep is the first supplement. There are many sayings among the people: "A good night's sleep is full of energy; I couldn't sleep all night and was exhausted. " "A good sleep is like eating a hen." Why is sleep so important? What Laozi said is "One yin and one yang is the Tao." Sleeping at night is to recuperate and recharge your batteries; Working and studying during the day is the release of energy. Yin and Yang are equally divided and indispensable.
We should grasp the time scientifically when we go to bed and get up. The first principle of health preservation in Huangdi Neijing is that "it must be appropriate in cold and summer." Only when people adapt to the changes of the four seasons and live in harmony with the changing time and space can they be beneficial to life and health. The same is true of sleeping and getting up.
There are four seasons in a year and four seasons in a day. Twenty-four solar terms in twelve months a year; There are twelve hours and twenty-four hours in a day. One day is a year's concentration. Therefore, the rhythm of people's daily life should be consistent with the changes of "spring, summer, autumn and winter". 9 pm to 3 am is a winter day, called Sunday winter; 3 am to 9 am is the spring of the day, called Richun; 9 am to 3 pm is a day of summer, called the sun; From 3 pm to 9 pm is an autumn day, called Riqiu.
Beginning of winter at 9 o'clock in the evening at 9 o'clock in the evening, heaven and earth fell asleep. People don't sleep, just like people are tug of war with heaven and earth. "Man's strength is not as good as that of nature", and the result of "tug of war" is that nature will win. The rhythm of human body changes is consistent with the rhythm of heaven and earth, so as to "borrow the power of heaven to return manpower"
There are two situations when you go to bed too late at night: one is that you can't sleep at night, and the other is that you don't sleep when you are sleepy. Can't sleep is the time when the sun be the spirit should be collected. Autumn is the main harvest, and it is autumn from 3 pm to 9 pm. People should gradually enter the state of harvest. "The yang is full of eyes, and the yin is full of eyes." If you do something exciting at night, the yang will not come back, and it will be difficult to sleep if the yin can't dominate. The second situation is to stay awake, which is a deviation of ideas. I don't know the truth of day and night, and I don't know how to conform to the laws of nature.
Sleeping too late at night will hurt your courage. In severe cases, people will suffer from depression. Huangdi Neijing said: "Qi encourages courage." "Eleven collectors rely on courage." 23:00- 1:00, the gallbladder meridian is the most prosperous. People accumulate bile during sleep. Not sleeping will consume bile, and when it is serious, it will appear "timidity", which is called depression in modern medicine.
9 pm to 3 am is the best time for people to sleep. Sleep in other time periods can hardly replace "day and winter".
Get up in time.
At 3 am, it is "beginning of spring" and at 6 am, it is "vernal equinox". Heaven and earth wake up at 3 o'clock, and the cells of human body wake up under the induction of this time and space. You don't need to sleep when you wake up from three to five every day, but sometimes you will get more and more tired when you sleep. People who wake up in the morning and don't get up are just like "tug of war". People can't pull out heaven and earth. If you don't get up before 5 o'clock, you won't be able to get out at 6 o'clock in the vernal equinox, and you will lose mentally.
Some civil servants often stay up late because of their work, which affects their health for a long time. Because if you sleep at night, you can kill the yang, and you can kill the yang in the morning. This is called "double kill". Therefore, even if you sleep late, you should get up before 5 am and take a nap at noon to prevent "double killing".
In addition, the bedroom should not be too big, mainly for gathering yang. Traditional health care pays attention to closing doors and windows when sleeping. Don't turn on the electric fan and air conditioner to sleep in summer, no matter how hot it is. When people fall asleep, a protective layer of yang will be formed on the body surface. If the wind blows this yang away, it will be replenished in the body. Wash Yang repeatedly, get up bored in the morning, his face is yellow, and his head is wrapped in cloth. If it is too hot in summer, you can close the bedroom door and turn on the air conditioner to blow the room cool, so that people can go to bed soon after taking a shower. The cool wind can last more than 1 hour, and people have fallen asleep. If you wake up halfway, you can do it again.
Ok: Take a moderate morning walk.
Walking should also be dialectical. When you walk, you should put all your energy on your legs. God can regulate his anger; Qi can mobilize the essence and inject it into the joints of the legs. The water flowing in the human body is called body fluid, which is relatively thin and runs through the skin.
Take the sweat gland passage when the body temperature is hot, and take the urethra when the body temperature is cold. This liquid is viscous and flows through human bones and muscles to lubricate joints. If people's walking energy is not on the legs, hip joints, knee joints and ankle joints, these "human bearings" will not get enough lubricating oil, and will wear the joints over time. Walking also needs to grasp the strength. "Life lies in exercise." This is a common saying. If you add the word "moderate", that is, "life lies in moderate exercise", this sentence will be scientific. Walk lightly, and rest when your legs are tired. Because a tired leg is like a hot engine cylinder of a car, if you start it again, it will wear out parts. Walking time should be in the morning. Morning is spring, and spring takes the initiative; The liver is active, and it should be in the spring, governing the meridians and moving the meridians in the morning.