Sunflower shadows will move to the sun, and plum blossoms will bloom before the slight cold.
-Zhu's "Winter" Song Dynasty
Winter solstice is a very important solar term. The so-called "winter solstice brings the sun" and "when the cathode arrives, the sun begins to grow". From the solstice of winter, the sun in nature begins to sprout and grow, and then the climate will enter the coldest stage. The winter solstice is a transition period of yin and yang, and it is also a good opportunity for health preservation, that is, "Qi begins from the winter solstice", when life activities begin to turn from prosperity to decline, from dynamic to static. Scientific health preservation is not only helpful for healthy winter, but also can improve the body's immunity, thus achieving the purpose of prolonging life.
Adjustment of daily life and protection from the sun.
"The weather in winter should be the way to raise Tibet." Winter is the season of hiding. Everything in nature is in hiding, and the human body is no exception. If you want to "go to bed early and get up late, you must wait for the sun". According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, going to bed early and getting up late every day, doing it at sunrise and resting at sunset, ensuring adequate sleep time is conducive to storing yang and yin essence. In winter, it is particularly important to protect the essence. It is advisable to go to bed early and get up late, especially for the elderly and patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. After waking up, they can stretch their limbs on the bed. Getting up late may be difficult for office workers, but you must go to bed early and don't stay up late.
After the winter solstice, the weather is cold, so it is necessary to add clothes in time to keep warm and protect the sun from the cold. Daily clothes should be soft, light and warm clothes such as sweaters, cotton-padded jackets, fur coats and down jackets. In addition, cotton hats, shoes, scarves, gloves, etc. It should be kept in winter, and pay attention to protect the head, neck, hands, feet and other parts that are easy to catch cold. It should be noted that although the weather is cold from winter to the future, you should not wear too warm clothes, otherwise it will be easily affected by pathogenic factors. As "the record of nourishing nature and prolonging life" said, "If you don't work hard, you will get cold." Overweight and cold-proof clothes, lack of physical exercise and cold-proof exercise, disease resistance has declined. Especially for young adults and healthy people, clothes should be slightly cold. As the saying goes, "If you want to be healthy, you must be cold." . It can not only improve metabolism, but also enhance the defense ability to adapt to cold, which is beneficial to health. In addition, it is forbidden to take off clothes when sweating, and change clothes in time after sweating to avoid cold or cold and dampness.
Diet and recuperation, storing essence and tonifying kidney
Winter solstice, the climate is cold, and the diet should be "hidden". The so-called "winter solstice tonic, spring tiger." Generally speaking, the diet should be based on aphrodisiac, essence and kidney.
Kidney should be the spirit of winter, and diet should pay special attention to tonifying kidney. "Kidney is the foundation of congenital", and the kidney governs storing essence, storing essence without diarrhea, and needs diet to nourish it. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black and salty foods, such as black sesame seeds, black beans, black rice and black wolfberry, can tonify the kidney. Modern nutrition also believes that foods rich in methionine and inorganic salts should be supplemented at this time to improve the body's cold resistance. Foods rich in methionine, such as sesame, Nostoc flagelliforme, sunflower seeds, yeast, dairy products, etc. Modern medical research shows that people's fear of cold has a lot to do with the lack of inorganic salts in their diet. Foods rich in inorganic salts, such as carrots, lilies, sweet potatoes, lotus roots, Chinese cabbage, dried shrimps, kelp and Nostoc flagelliforme. Eliminating cold and warming is another important principle of diet recuperation from winter solstice, that is, warming supplements yang. At this time, you can eat more mutton, shrimp, leeks, cinnamon and other foods in moderation. In addition, in winter solstice, there are many customs of eating jiaozi or wonton in the north, which is also a good way to supplement food in winter solstice.
It should be noted that although the winter solstice is a good opportunity for tonic, it is "too late". You can't eat too spicy food on the solstice in winter. Eating too much spicy food can only help yang to get angry, leading to the accumulation of internal heat and the stagnation of heat. Gluttony of mutton, dog meat, etc. It is fat and sweet, which easily leads to indigestion and wet phlegm. In order to maintain the balance of yin and yang in the kidney, while supplementing warm food, we should also eat some foods with the function of nourishing body fluid, such as water chestnut, lotus root, pear, radish and Chinese cabbage. Therefore, some ingredients with the function of warming and nourishing essence are reasonably matched to make soup, porridge, soup and so on. It can not only regulate and nourish the spleen and stomach, but also warm and tonify the kidney, thus achieving the effect of tonifying both spleen and kidney. Below, I recommend two convenient and quick winter solstice health porridge for everyone.
Qi Jing yam porridge
Lycium barbarum 15g, Polygonatum sibiricum 20g, Dioscorea opposita 30g, japonica rice 100g. Slice Rhizoma Polygonati and Rhizoma Dioscoreae for later use. Boil japonica rice in water until it is half cooked, then add Lycium barbarum, Polygonatum sibiricum and Dioscorea opposita, and cook together until the cooked rice porridge is thick. Eat alone or with meals. This porridge has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney and nourishing essence and blood, and is suitable for deficiency of essence and blood in liver and kidney, weakness of temper, dizziness and tinnitus, forgetfulness and emaciation, and eating less.
Walnut mutton porridge
Walnut kernel 10g, mutton 10g, rice 10g, onion powder, ginger powder, salt and other condiments. Wash and chop the mutton first. Boil rice in water, add mutton, cook until porridge is cooked, add appropriate amount of onion powder, ginger powder, salt and other condiments to taste, and serve when it is warm. This porridge has the function of warming and tonifying kidney yang, and is especially suitable for people who are afraid of cold due to yang deficiency.
Exercise adjustment, avoid cold and warm up.
"Keep out the cold without leaking skin" is a principle of traveling and exercising in winter. Because "cold is the source of all diseases" can cause many diseases. Chinese medicine believes that "cold is yin evil, which is easy to hurt Yang Qi". Yang is the basis of viscera work, and life activities cannot be separated from its promotion; Cold, as a yin evil, is most likely to hurt Yang. Once the yang is damaged, the human immunity will decrease, which will easily lead to diseases. Cold pathogen often hurts people with common cold, which is called wind chill. Therefore, when it is cold, try to go out as little as possible. Pay attention to avoid cold and keep warm when you go out. If it is cold during the day, you can make up for it by soaking your feet at night. Soaking your feet with 40% hot water before going to bed can dispel the whole body cold, and you can also add appropriate amount of ginger slices and mugwort leaves.
Moderate exercise can strengthen the body, but in winter, exercise should be quiet and not violent. Intense here refers to all sports that can make people sweat. Chinese medicine believes that "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", excessive sweating is easy to damage yin and yang and body fluid. Exercise can be mainly indoor events, and low-intensity events, such as playing Baduanjin and playing Tai Ji Chuan, should be chosen to drive away cold and evil spirits, dredge qi and blood, and enhance physical fitness.