Four principles of TCM diet and health preservation: first, lay a solid foundation for the day after tomorrow and eat and raise as soon as possible.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has always believed that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the human body, so promoting health care, especially diet health care, must start from youth and middle age (middle-aged diet), and maintaining the spleen and stomach through diet conditioning is actually a wonderful way to maintain health and prolong life. If the sweetness is weak, it is enough to nourish the five internal organs, so it is recommended that people eat as little cold, hot and thick diet as possible to avoid damaging the spleen and stomach. If we can take care of middle qi for a long time (that is, the function of spleen and stomach to promote hair growth) and eat properly, we can get rid of diseases and prolong life.
Second, the key to food and nutrition lies in diet.
What is the key to dieting? Jane, less, frugal, honest and taboo? Five words. The type of diet should be appropriate and reasonable, and the amount of food should not be too full. It is not advisable to eat all kinds of meat at every meal. Pay great attention to good eating habits and hygiene. Eat hungry first, but don't be too full, and stop before you are full; Drink first when you are thirsty, not too much, and be careful not to drink at night. In addition, excessive partial eclipse and omnivore are not suitable.
Third, diet therapy first, then drug bait.
Dietotherapy is beneficial to long-term use in treating diseases. Especially for the elderly, due to the weakness of five internal organs, deficiency of qi and blood, and poor transport of spleen and stomach, it is easy to achieve the effect that drugs can not achieve by adjusting diet first. Because most elderly people (food for the elderly) suffer from chronic diseases or physical weakness to varying degrees, it is difficult to insist on taking medicine for a long time, and it is easy to have adverse reactions, so it is more appropriate to carry out diet therapy first and take more medicine when necessary.
Fourth, we should follow the principle of eating early and eating late, and eating at night is more harmful.
Eat slowly and avoid gorging; It is best to be good at choosing food, control diet, and eat less greasy food (oily food), which is greasy, fishy, fragrant, dry, rich and mellow. A light diet is the most pleasant, and a light diet is better; The food should be warm, but not too hot, so it is best to burn your lips with hot water instead of ice. Hard or tough, half-cooked meat is difficult to digest (digest food), and food should be cooked and soft, especially for the elderly.
The above four characteristics and principles of dietary supplement in traditional Chinese medicine are in line with the way of nourishing health (health food) and prolonging life. Readers should have a deep understanding and practice seriously, and they will gain something.
TCM health taboo 1, avoid getting up early.
? Ketou? Which means no hat. Morning is the time when Yang was born. At this time, Yang is like a small sapling. Although it grows vigorously, it is very weak and vulnerable to cold evil. The characteristic of yang is upward, so from the human body, the head is the place where yang gathers. If you don't pay attention to keeping your head warm when you go out in the morning, it is easy to let cold evil enter your brain and cause diseases.
2, avoid yin room greed for cold
To keep healthy, a person's body must be full of yang, and yang is afraid of being attacked by yin and evil. If a room can't be exposed to sunlight, the yin will be heavier, the temperature will be lower, and cold pathogens will easily invade the body surface, and even cause a series of diseases from the outside to the inside. Of course, modern people live in buildings, and it is difficult to ensure that every room has sunshine. At this time, heating or air conditioning is needed to keep the room temperature.
3. Avoid settling in wetlands
Some people don't quite understand the diseases caused by dampness. They think that the body is protected by skin, and the skin is impermeable. How does external moisture affect the body and cause diseases? Of course, the real moisture can't directly enter the body, but the gas in the body and the gas in the outside world are mutually induced. The external moisture is a kind of stagnant gas, which induces the gas in the body to move slowly, thus producing dampness evil in the body. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid staying in a humid environment for too long.
4, avoid cold sweat clothes
In the case of low temperature, clothes will become wet and cold as soon as they sweat. At this time, the pores of the skin are opened and the resistance to external evils is reduced. Cold and dampness are likely to take advantage of it. Therefore, after sweating, you should dry your sweat in time and put on dry clothes.
5, avoid hot clothes.
Xu Wenyi thinks that clothes that have been dried for a long time are toxic to heat and should not be put on at once. This may be a bit exaggerated. After the clothes are dried, even if there is still a certain amount of heat, it will not cause any harm to health. Of course, if you are a person whose fever has not gone down, you may want to be careful not to wear clothes that have just been dried or dried.
6, avoid sweating out of the fan wind
This should also be treated flexibly. If it's dog days and your body is sweating all the time, it's normal to take a fan to cool down. This means that the temperature should not be too high. When sweating, don't fan the wind because of gluttony, or drink cold drinks immediately. Although fan wind is pleasant, it is the first of all evils, and it unconsciously enters the body with cold or wet evil.
7. Don't sleep with lights and candles on.
Some people like to sleep with the light on, which is not good either. Because the nature of light belongs to Yang, people need Yang to enter Yin during sleep. When there is light, it is difficult for the yang to sneak into the yin, which is easy to cause mental anxiety and affect the quality of sleep.
8, avoid Xia Yue cold water to wipe the mat, high temperature drying clothes in winter.
These two habits may not be so harmful, and few people are drying clothes now, but this article is still of practical significance, that is, you can't violate the seasonal laws for a moment's pleasure. Don't be greedy in summer, adjust the air conditioning temperature too low, which will easily lead to insufficient sweating and the air conditioner can't be fully opened; Don't be greedy for heat in winter. If the heating is turned on too hot, it will easily lead to excessive sweating and leakage of essence.
9. Avoid watching a play for a long time.
This article is to advise us to pay attention to spiritual cultivation. Nowadays, there are many TV network entertainment programs, and we can't be too addicted to them, because when watching the programs, our spirits will unconsciously move with them and no longer pay attention to the feelings in our bodies. What does Chinese medicine think the heart is? An official of the monarch? If the monarch pursues debauchery all day, he can't observe the people's feelings well, and his body can't feel it at any time when he is out of balance, so he should have moderate entertainment to avoid hurting his mind by watching and listening for a long time.