Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main physiological function of "kidney essence" has two functions: first, it dominates reproduction. When the essence in the kidney develops to a certain stage, girls and boys will have reproductive ability; A series of life phenomena, such as the growth and development of the two masters, the growth and development of the human body, and aging, are closely related to the rise and fall of the essence in the kidney. Therefore, the kidney essence is full, the human body is full of essence and vitality, and it is not easy to feel exogenous pathogens and cause diseases.
The reason why the ancients emphasized "storing essence" in winter is because from the natural law, spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage are closed stages in a year, and the human body's metabolism is relatively slow, and the body is in a state of "internal movement and external static". At this time, we should pay attention to protecting the essence in the kidney, and don't bother yourself, otherwise you will get sick.
Wu Jutong, an expert on epidemic febrile diseases in Qing Dynasty, said: "If you don't hide essence, you must look at it alive and don't talk about the main house (that is, sex life). Personnel can shake their essence, that is, the weather should be cold in winter, but the yang can't be hidden, such as venting in spring and even blossoming peaches and plums. " For example, staying up late in winter, not paying attention to rest, working hard, sweating too much and thinking too much are all manifestations of not hiding essence.
The word "warm" in "spring is bound to be warm" means "epidemic febrile disease". Ancient doctors believed that if the essence was not taken care of in winter, the yang would be disturbed, and the human body would easily feel the exogenous evil, and the cold evil would turn into heat for a long time. In spring, yang will rise, and latent heat will cause "fever".
The clinical manifestations are fever, thirst, upset, short and red urine, red tongue, and rapid or thin pulse. From the point of view of western medicine, most of them are infected by bacteria and viruses, which often cause acute onset, rapid development and serious illness, and sometimes cause the spread of epidemic diseases.
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Since it is very important to "store essence" in winter, as the saying goes, "Healthy qi should be kept inside, and evil should not be done", we should start from the following three aspects:
1, go to bed early and get up late, and get enough sleep.
This is mainly because the weather is cold in winter, everything in nature is cold, and the human body is in a sealed stage. Going to bed early and getting up late can protect the yang. Therefore, in October and November of the lunar calendar, adults, especially female friends, are encouraged to go to bed before 10: 30 in the evening and sleep no less than 8 hours a day.
2, cold and warm, care for the essence
In addition to ensuring adequate sleep, the care of essence is also very important. You should try to avoid staying in a cold place for a long time. If you want to do outdoor activities for a long time, you should not only wear clothes to keep warm, but also drink a lot of brown sugar, Jiang Shui or black tea to raise your basal body temperature. At the same time, we should pay attention to the combination of work and rest to avoid cold pathogens invading the body and damaging the essence.
3, medicated diet tonic, nourishing.
An important concept of preventing diseases in TCM is to protect the land from evil. Therefore, on the one hand, we should pay attention to the care of essence, on the other hand, we should emphasize proper tonic, so that the normal viscera function of human body can be supplemented and restored.
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