How to nourish the liver in spring
1, psychological aftercare
To make the liver-qi conform to nature, we should first pay attention to mental conditioning, maintain a comfortable mood and peace of mind. If you think too much, you will worry day and night, which will affect the excretion function of the liver, induce liver disease or lead to the recurrence and aggravation of the original liver disease. Therefore, we should pay attention to mental conditioning in spring. Being angry will hurt the liver and avoid being angry and irritable. It is also important for liver health to learn to adjust one's mentality and maintain an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards life.
2. Exercise and rehabilitation
Spring is the season when everything recovers and the weather is sunny. There are many negative oxygen ions in the air of forests and rivers, which are very beneficial to human body. People should go to these places for exercise as much as possible. In the case of adequate sleep, we should persist in physical exercise and participate in appropriate physical labor to enhance immunity and disease resistance. In spring, people often suffer from "spring sleep". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lying down for a long time and sleeping for a long time will cause slow metabolism, poor blood circulation, decreased oxygen absorption and carrying function, and toxins can not be eliminated in time, leading to physical weakness and recurrence of liver disease. Therefore, don't sleep in spring.
3, diet aftercare
Spring is a season of intense liver fire. Eating more acidic food will make the liver fire stronger and damage the spleen and stomach. You should eat more sweet and neutral foods, such as jujube and spinach. Also pay attention to supplement some foods with high vitamin and mineral content, such as sea fish, beef, wolfberry, peas, daylily and so on. To improve human immune function and help nourish and protect the liver. For people with a big temper and a strong liver fire, you can eat more foods that can help "clear the fire", such as cucumbers, oranges and bitter melons. Drinking tea can also play the role of clearing liver and purging fire, such as green tea and kudingcha.
What is the principle of vernal equinox health care?
1, easy to catch a cold, runny nose
At the vernal equinox, it is windy and windy, and it is easy to catch a cold and have a runny nose. You should exercise outdoors to enhance your immunity.
2. Have loose bowels in the morning
The vernal equinox should have been a period of balance between yin and yang, but the body with yang deficiency can't balance with yin, so the essence of yang deficiency is more easily revealed. Therefore, there are often five classes of diarrhea, also called chicken crow diarrhea, which is manifested as diarrhea after meals, that is, diarrhea that does not turn into a grain.
Those with white tongue coating, weak pulse, chills, and chills below the waist can take Fuzi Lizhong Pill or Jinkui Shenqi Pill to warm the middle and support the yang. Usually, you can often use dried ginger stew soup or eat dried ginger stew chicken soup.
3, easy to abdominal pain and diarrhea
Before and after the vernal equinox, you should prevent catching cold.
Dried ginger is often used in cooking because it can warm the middle.
Due to the strong wind in spring, Chinese medicine believes that both wind and spleen are deficient, and the tongue coating is white and prone to diarrhea, which is more prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea. It is characterized by obvious abdominal pain.
The way to preserve one's health is windy days, less exposure to the wind outdoors, and taking Lizhong pills under the guidance of a doctor.
What's the difference between the vernal equinox and beginning of spring?
Besides the time difference, there is also the temperature difference. The weather in beginning of spring will be colder, the warming will be more obvious at the vernal equinox, and there will be a phenomenon of late spring cold. Beginning of spring is the time when some plants germinate. Farmers are busy farming in the fields and are still in the preparation stage. At the vernal equinox, the wheat festival has started and people are thinking about irrigation. In some fields, crops have been growing for some time. In addition, customs are different. In ancient times, people would play cuju with a horse at the beginning of spring. Children must get up before dawn, and their main action is to welcome spring. Eating spring vegetables, drinking spring vegetable soup, flying kites and laying eggs are the custom activities of the vernal equinox.