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Ways of TCM health preservation in different seasons
The arrival of spring is the time for everything to recover, and spring health preservation is also the beginning of four seasons health preservation, so the way of spring physical health preservation is very important. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that due to the influence of the qi of four seasons, the qi, blood, yin and yang of the human body will change accordingly. In spring, yang begins, qi and blood gradually appear on the body surface, pores begin to open, and blood gas decreases slightly, so I feel "sleepy". In summer, the sun overflows, the qi and blood reach the surface, the pores are open, the sweat is excessive, and people often feel sleepy. In autumn, yang begins to decline, yin begins to grow, and qi and blood gradually enter, but it is not full, so there is still a feeling of "lack". This is the truth that "spring is sleepy and autumn is lacking, and summer is a nap". In view of this situation, Chinese medicine has formulated corresponding health preservation methods, namely, "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter". Keeping in good health in spring should conform to the characteristics of hair growth due to yang in spring, and pay attention to protecting yang. The first is mental health. We should try to avoid rage and depression, keep an open mind, be optimistic and keep a good attitude. Spring is the time when the liver is prosperous, and nourishing the liver can avoid yin deficiency in summer. According to the doctor's recommendation, you can choose some herbs and foods that soften and nourish the liver, soothe the liver and regulate qi, such as Lycium barbarum, Radix Curcumae and Salvia miltiorrhiza. And the food can choose jujube, lobster sauce, onion, coriander, peanuts and so on. Flexible formula selection with new hair stabilizing powder. However, those who are allergic to physique and susceptible to pollen allergy, urticaria and skin diseases should fast allergic foods such as mutton and crabs. Then there is diet and health. Spring is a wood, corresponding to the liver, "the body that nourishes the liver uses acid, and the qi that soothes the liver uses pungent". In spring, when the sun is young, you should eat sweet and delicious (such as soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, oranges, onions, garlic, coriander, honey, etc. ), and avoid greasy, cold and sticky food to keep up with the rise of the spirit of the sun in spring. Eat more fresh vegetables, such as bamboo shoots and spinach, to make up for the shortage of fresh vegetables and vitamins in winter. Second, matters needing attention of TCM health care in summer. Using heat to remove heat is a better health care method. ● Hot towels wipe the body. In summer, people's faces and trunks will inevitably sweat. Sweating in time can promote skin ventilation, but you must use hot towels to adapt to the cooling rhythm of the human body. ● Taking a hot bath and a cold bath in summer will shrink the skin and make it feel hotter after washing. Although bathing in hot water will sweat a lot, it can dilate capillaries and help the body expel heat. Sweating in summer is a way to conform to the laws of nature and human rhythm. Washing feet with hot water is called the second heart, and there are representative areas of the whole body and reflection points of internal organs on people's feet. Washing feet with hot water, although it felt a little hot at that time, will bring coolness and comfort afterwards. ● Drinking hot tea and cold drinks can only relieve summer heat temporarily, but not reduce fever and quench thirst for a long time. Drinking hot tea can generally stimulate capillaries to relax, but the body temperature is obviously reduced. This is a simple and easy way to cool down. It is generally advisable to go to bed late and get up early, and take a lunch break to make up for lack of sleep at night. The elderly and infirm should go to bed early and get up early, and try to keep 7 hours of sleep every day. During the summer solstice, most people will have symptoms of drowsiness, fatigue, headache and dizziness, which may seriously affect their daily life and work. The reasons are as follows: firstly, due to the high temperature in this season, the human body can only dissipate heat by sweating, resulting in a large amount of water loss. At this time, if the water is not replenished in time, the blood volume of the human body will be reduced, and the blood supply to the brain will be insufficient, which will lead to headache and dizziness. Another cause of headache and dizziness is that when people sweat, the blood vessels on the body surface will expand and more blood will flow to the body surface. This redistribution of blood can make people with low blood pressure lower, thus causing headaches and dizziness. Summer solstice is hot, and people's digestive function is relatively weak. Therefore, the diet should be light and not fat, sweet and thick, eat more miscellaneous grains to make your body catch cold, and don't overeat hot food to avoid helping heat; Eating melons and fruits in cold sex should be enough, not overeating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach; Products with strong flavor and high fat should be less than much, so as to avoid hot wind and stimulate the disease of boils. Summer is also the season of sweating. If you sweat more, you will lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be abnormal. Chinese medicine believes that at this time, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to consolidate the exterior and more salty taste to replenish the heart. Cold food should not be eaten more, but it is acceptable to eat less. Too much greed will definitely hurt the spleen and stomach and make people vomit. Watermelon, mung bean soup and ebony bean soup have good effects on quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, but they should not be eaten chilled. Exercise and recuperation is also one of the indispensable factors in health preservation. Summer exercise is best done in the early morning or evening when the weather is cool. The venue should be in a place with fresh air, such as rivers and lakes, parks, courtyards, etc., and it is not appropriate to do excessive and strenuous activities. If you exercise too much, it will lead to sweating and hyperhidrosis, which will not only hurt Yin Qi, but also Yang Qi. During exercise, when sweating too much, you can drink light salt boiled water or mung bean brine soup properly, but you must not drink a lot of cold boiled water, not to mention punching and showering with cold water immediately, otherwise it will cause diseases such as cold-dampness arthralgia and yellow sweat. 3. Matters needing attention in TCM health care in autumn after entering beginning of autumn, the weather gradually turned from hot to cold, human consumption gradually decreased, and appetite began to increase. Therefore, the solar term is the most suitable time for human body to supplement, and people can make scientific and effective nutrition intake and diet adjustment according to the characteristics of this solar term to supplement the consumption in summer and prepare for winter. In this solar term, the climate is dry. According to the principle of "dryness is moistening" in traditional Chinese medicine, the diet should focus on nourishing yin and clearing away heat, moistening dryness and quenching thirst, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and you can eat more foods such as sesame, honey, lily, tremella, dairy products, etc. which have the functions of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production. People with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion can take lotus seeds, yam, lentils and so on. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach; In autumn, lung qi should be collected but not dispersed, so at the beginning of autumn, we should eat more sour fruits and vegetables and try to eat less spicy products, such as onions, ginger and garlic. In daily life, beginning of autumn should "go to bed early and get up early, and have fun with chickens", because going to bed early can conform to the convergence of yang, and getting up early can stretch lung qi and prevent excessive convergence. Beginning of autumn is the season of early autumn, although there is a cool breeze, but the summer heat is not exhausted, so it is not advisable to wear too many clothes, otherwise it will affect the body's adaptability to the cold climate and make it easy to catch a cold. The morning after beginning of autumn is a good time for exercise. At this time, the temperature is neither cold nor hot, the climate is comfortable, and the sky is crisp, which makes people full of energy. Finding a quiet place, a river or lake, or a tree-lined road for exercise is very beneficial to people's physical and mental health. The weather in autumn is very dry, which Chinese medicine calls "autumn dryness". Lung and autumn belong to gold in the five elements, and lung also likes to moisten and hate dryness, so the most important thing in autumn is to moisten lung diligently. Autumn dryness is easy to cause cough. Because it is now in the period of seasonal alternation, the weather is cooler in the morning and evening, hotter at noon, and the temperature difference is large within one day. People with weak body and poor immunity will easily catch a cold if they don't pay attention to keep warm, and once they catch a cold, they will not recover easily, and there will be a dry cough. Autumn dryness is also easy for children to suffer from "autumn diarrhea". In summer and autumn, the weather is warm and hot, and there will be more children with diarrhea. Infection is the most common cause of diarrhea in children. Some people with sensitive skin are also uncomfortable in this season. Autumn dryness can easily make these people feel itchy and even cause allergies. For people with respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis or asthma, special attention should also be paid in this season. Some office workers will feel weak after autumn. As for the saying that "summer is sleepy and autumn is lacking", it is because the human body consumes too much gas in summer, and the gas has not been replenished in autumn. Now the climate is cool and some people will sleep for a long time. Water can relieve dryness, so the most important thing in autumn is to replenish water. The best drinks are light tea and boiled water, and you can also drink fruit juice and vegetable juice with honey. Sydney, pears, grapes and apples listed in autumn are rich in water and have the effect of nourishing body fluid and yin, so eat more. Radish has the function of promoting fluid production, and is especially suitable for being eaten raw as a fruit. You can also do more exercise, such as running, swimming, getting in touch with nature and breathing fresh air. Four. After beginning of winter, the precautions of TCM health care in autumn, it means that this year's winter has officially arrived. Vegetation withers, stingers sleep, and all activities tend to stop. Although there is no such thing as hibernation, there is a folk custom of making up for winter in beginning of winter. From the perspective of TCM health preservation, this is indeed a good time for tonic. Because after entering winter, human metabolism slows down and consumption is relatively reduced. Tonifying in winter can store the energy transformed by nutrients in the body, thus strengthening the body resistance and strengthening the body resistance. Tonic food is the best. Neijing says "nourishing yin in autumn and winter", while the northern winter climate is dry and windy. Therefore, nourishing yin essence is an important part of health preservation in winter. It is best to eat more foods such as Chinese cabbage, tremella, fungus, medlar, pear and kiwi fruit to supplement yin fluid. It is best to eat less spicy, barbecue and fried food, and pay attention to drink plenty of water to avoid getting angry. Diet should be mainly warm, such as glutinous rice, dog meat, mutton, jujube, longan, sesame, leek and so on. And eat less cold drinks, seafood and other cold food. You can eat more nuts, such as walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts and chestnuts. You can add some Radix Adenophorae, Radix Astragali and Radix Ophiopogonis to porridge and soup, but you don't need too much, because after all, it is a food supplement rather than a medicine supplement. Mutton stewed radish can be the first choice for dishes. It is more suitable for patients with soreness of waist and knees, drowsiness and fatigue, impotence due to kidney deficiency and weakness of spleen and stomach. Followed by fried mushrooms (shiitake mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus), which can strengthen the stomach, eliminate phlegm and dispel cold, enhance the immune function of the body, and are more suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia. The wind in winter is often the north wind, which is relatively cold. At the same time, "cold" is also the most important feature of winter climate change. Chinese medicine believes that catching a cold is one of the six evils, so we should pay attention to keeping warm in winter to avoid catching a cold, especially for the elderly. People should go to bed early and get up late so that they can sleep longer. It's best to wait until the sun comes out and don't do strenuous exercise. The bedroom should be properly ventilated and maintain a certain humidity to prevent upper respiratory tract infection. In addition, there are many traditional health preserving methods in winter, such as biting your teeth, taking a dry bath, rubbing your abdomen and moxibustion. It can be done in daily life, which is very good for your health. In particular, moxibustion can moxibustion health points: Zusanli, Zhongyu, Guanyuan and Qihai. You can also put some salt on the navel, moxibustion navel, that is, Shenque point, is very important for invigorating vitality.