In the cold winter, the north wind blows hard, the plants and trees wither, and the insects lurk. How should we preserve our health?
First of all, let's take a look at how the ancients kept in good health. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, China's earliest and most classic work Huangdi Neijing said: In winter and March, it is closed, water and ice are buried, and the sun is undisturbed. If you go to bed early and get up late, you must wait for the sun, so your ambition will be hidden. If you have private interests, you will be warm when you are cold, and angry when you are angry. In turn, it hurts the kidney, and it is flaccid and soft in spring, and there are fewer people born.
It means that winter is the season when everything hides. People should not disturb the sun be the spirit, avoid cold, pay attention to keep warm, don't make the skin sweat, affect the sun be the spirit. This is the way to maintain the gas stored in winter.
This is also the principle of winter health preservation that we should still follow today: nourishing yin in autumn and winter, that is, maintaining the collection trend of human yang in autumn and winter.
This requires us to follow the principle of nourishing yin in winter in our daily life, exercise, spirit and diet.
Daily life: Go to bed early and get up late to keep warm from the cold.
In winter, the sunshine time is short, the world is closed, and the cold is heavy in the morning and evening. It is advisable to go to bed early and get up late. Going to bed early can keep the body warm, thus nourishing the body's yang, and getting up late can avoid the cold before sunrise, thus nourishing the body's yin and essence, keeping the secrets of the body's yin and yang, avoiding the attack of cold pathogens, and being conducive to the accumulation of hidden yang and yin and essence.
Sports article: "Don't leak skin"
Winter sports should focus on "quietness", do less strenuous exercise, and do some jogging, walking, playing Tai Ji Chuan and other sports suitable for winter sports. After the activity, the body will have a slight fever and sweat instead of sweating.
Don't sweat too much. Sweat belongs to body fluid. After strenuous exercise, the pores are opened and yang is discharged with sweat.
Don't expose your skin during exercise, so as to avoid the invasion of yin and cold in winter and damage the human yang, which violates the way of keeping "hidden"
Spiritual chapter: emotional peace, peace of mind
Mental recuperation should be peaceful and quiet, so that emotions are hidden, avoiding the interference and stimulation of various bad emotions, and avoiding great sadness, great joy, great anger and great fear. Because the kidney dominates the winter season, fright and fear especially hurt the kidney, which leads to the disorder of qi, and fear leads to the leakage of yang, so we should always keep our mood indifferent and quiet, keep things secret, make our hearts quiet and free, and make our inner world full of optimism and joy.
Diet articles: nourishing yin and suppressing yang
Diet conditioning in winter should follow the principles of "nourishing yin in autumn and winter" and "not disturbing yang". Neither cold nor hot is suitable for eating. It is best to eat a diet that nourishes yin and subdues yang, and eat more fresh vegetables to avoid vitamin deficiency.
Nourishing kidney in winter
"Su Wen Jin Kui Yao lue" said that "the five zang-organs correspond at four seasons", and the kidney of the five zang-organs belongs to water in the five elements, which is in harmony with the natural winter qi. Kidney is the innate foundation, kidney essence is the material basis of life, and the process of human life activities depends on the rise and fall of essence in kidney. Kidney deficiency is the root cause of aging, and the key to health preservation lies in the maintenance of essence and qi by human kidney. Congenital kidney essence relies on the support of acquired spleen and stomach to transform fine substances in diet into kidney essence. Therefore, tonifying kidney is inseparable from diet conditioning, and winter is a good time to tonify kidney and nourish essence.
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