People with blood stasis constitution can see dull complexion, dull lips, black eye cells, dry fingernails, bruises, lumps or tingling in limbs. Women can see dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, or multiple blood clots in menstrual blood, dark tongue, or ecchymosis, heavy and astringent pulse or tight string. The above manifestations, or only one or two symptoms, or sometimes hidden, belong to blood stasis constitution. ?
The constitution of blood stasis is the basis of the formation of blood stasis syndrome, which is closely related to the occurrence of diseases such as hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis, gout, rheumatism, hepatitis, cirrhosis, dizziness and chest obstruction. To prevent or improve blood stasis, how to maintain health? ?
(a) five flavors affect physical fitness?
First, blood stasis constitution and five flavors?
Neijing clearly stipulates:? Heaven eats people with five flavors, and earth eats people with five flavors? Taste is hidden, nourishing the five internal organs is born, qi is harmonious, body fluid is born, and spirit is born. ? It shows that if the five flavors are harmonious, it can nourish the five internal organs and improve physical fitness. On the other hand, if the five flavors are partial to the food, it will lead to a long-term excess of dirty qi, which will affect the human body's physique. ?
Neijing says:? Eat more salty food, and the pulse will change color; If you eat too much, your skin will wrinkle and your hair will pull out; If you eat more spicy food, your muscles will be anxious and your claws will dry up; If you eat too much acid, your meat will swell and your lips will be exposed. If you eat more sweets, your bones will ache and you will feel weak. ?
Therefore, the formation of physique is closely related to the five flavors of diet. Take blood stasis constitution as an example, if you eat too much acid, it will converge easily and your blood will stagnate. Eating too much sweets is easy to produce phlegm, and phlegm coagulation can also lead to blood stasis; If you eat too much salt, it is easy to drain the body fluid, leading to blood stasis. ?
Second, salt and the formation of blood stasis constitution?
Eating salty food for a long time will affect the constitution of blood stasis. Salt is an indispensable condiment in daily life and a necessary substance to maintain human metabolism. According to the data of the World Health Organization, the daily sodium intake of adults is 1-2g, which is enough to meet the physiological needs, while excessive intake will be harmful to the health.
In the era of Neijing more than two thousand years ago, the sages discovered that salt is better than blood? Salt is salty. Eating too much will make blood stagnate. ?
Third, what is the cause of blood stasis caused by salty taste?
First, salty taste into the kidney?
Kidney belongs to water, heart belongs to fire, fire and water ji ji, Jun 'an. If salt enters the kidney, the kidney qi is vigorous and the heart fire is restrained, it will affect the function of governing blood vessels, which will lead to blocked blood circulation and blood stasis. ?
"LingShu? Five flavors theory:? Blood and salt coagulate? That's the reason. Zhang Jingyue, a great doctor in Ming Dynasty, commented in Jing Lei: Blood is hydrated, salty also belongs to water, and salty is related to blood, so it is necessary to draw blood for injection. If it tastes too salty, it will solidify. ?
"Su Wen? A generation of five Tibetans: So if you eat more salty food, your pulse will whimper and change color. ? Wu Kun, a great doctor in Ming Dynasty, pointed out: Salty is kidney water, and the pulse is heart fire. Eating more salty leads to excessive pulse, so it is astringent and discolored. ?
Second, salty blood?
Modern research has found that salt can lead to leakage of body fluids in blood vessels, which makes blood concentrate and stagnate. In fact, Neijing has long recognized that if a husband's salt is salty, his qi will drain his body. ? Yang Shangshan, a great doctor in Tang Dynasty:? Salt exists in the container, while liquid is discharged to the outside. Seeing liquid, we can know that salt is salty. ? Therefore, excessive consumption of salty salt will lead to blood stasis. ?
Blood stasis constitution is not achieved overnight, but slowly, after many years. If long-term excessive salt leads to poor blood circulation, it will easily lead to dull skin color and purple tongue coating, which is a sign of blood stasis. ?
(2) How to eat blood stasis constitution?
First, eat less salt?
No matter whether you have not formed a blood stasis constitution or have already formed a blood stasis constitution, you should eat less salt. There are several points to pay attention to: First, suggestions when cooking? After putting salt, put less salt? ; Second, don't put salt on the table; Third, the food soaked in salt should be washed repeatedly; Fourth, change the salty habit and try to eat lightly. For example, vinegar and plant condiments can be used to make up for the taste requirements after salt restriction. ?
Second, eat some foods that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
Such as hawthorn, walnuts, grapes, tomatoes, wine and so on. Have the effect of promoting blood circulation, and you can eat more appropriately. In addition, natural red food can enter the heart, and the heart governs the blood vessels, which helps to promote blood circulation. For example, red bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, red sweet potatoes, red apples, strawberries, red dates, old pumpkins, Redmi, persimmons and so on. ?
Third, eat less greasy and cold food?
Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and greasy and cold food will affect the transport function of spleen, leading to the decline of qi and blood biochemistry function. Moreover, greasy food will produce phlegm and affect blood circulation; However, cold hurts the yang, and the yang is damaged, and its blood circulation function will also decline.
(3) Is blood stasis a good mood?
From the analysis of traditional Chinese medicine, the five internal organs have five aspirations, and different emotions and psychology will affect the balance of the five internal organs. For example, resentment hurts the spleen, hatred hurts the heart, annoyance hurts the lungs, anger hurts the liver, and annoyance hurts the kidney. For another example, too happy and too sad, too sad for the lungs, sad for the spleen, and panic hurts the kidney. In other words, if there are negative emotions and psychology, it will lead to dysfunction of zang-fu organs, and then affect the harmony of qi and blood. ?
In psychological rehabilitation, we should cultivate optimistic mood. Cheerfulness leads to harmony of qi and blood, camp and healthy circulation, which is beneficial to the improvement of blood stasis constitution. ?
(4) Should blood stasis improve the living environment?
Plateau residents are prone to blood stasis. The investigation of 370 plateau residents' signs of blood stasis confirmed that people living in plateau are prone to blood stasis constitution. ?
The researcher thinks:? Due to the unique environment of the plateau, every plateau resident has blood stasis, and the degree of blood stasis will become more and more serious with the increase of his living time in the plateau? . Of course, plateau people belong to physiological blood stasis constitution. But as long as there is blood stasis constitution, even physiological blood stasis constitution can easily be transformed into pathological diseases. ?
To sum up, because people generally eat more salt now, it is not uncommon for people with blood stasis constitution. How to prevent blood stasis constitution, how to avoid serious diseases such as hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis, gout, rheumatism, hepatitis, cirrhosis, dizziness and chest pain. It deserves our great attention. Interested readers can also refer to the article "Improving Blood Stasis in Summer". Among them, the method of pricking collaterals and bloodletting in midsummer to improve blood stasis constitution can be used for reference with this paper. (Dong Hongtao)