Patients with hypertension should pay special attention to protecting liver and kidney in spring. Eat moderately, adjust your mood, and walk widely in court.

1. nourishing the liver is the first step.

The liver is an important organ of the human body, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, helping the spleen and stomach digest food and absorb nutrition, and regulating emotions and qi. Therefore, properly nourishing the liver in spring will bring health and longevity all year round. So, how should we raise the liver in spring? In terms of diet, we should eat more foods that warm and nourish the yang, such as onions, ginger, garlic, leeks and mustard greens.

Studies have shown that garlic not only has a strong bactericidal effect, but also can promote metabolism, stimulate appetite, prevent arteriosclerosis and hypertension, and even have the effect of nourishing the brain. Green onions have high nutritional value and can also prevent respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases. In addition, you should eat less cold food in your diet, such as cucumber, water bamboo, lotus root and so on. , so as not to hinder the growth of Yang. Keeping healthy and nourishing the liver in spring should be based on the principle of "nourishing the liver, soothing the liver and nourishing the blood". Eating some foods such as jujube, honey, shepherd's purse, bamboo shoots, Toona sinensis, spinach, crucian carp and ducks can achieve the purpose of nourishing and protecting the liver.

2. Increase sweetness and reduce acidity

In spring, the liver functions vigorously. Eating more sour food will make the liver qi more vigorous, which will lead to the decrease of digestion and absorption ability of the spleen and stomach and affect human health. So eat less sour food to prevent excessive liver qi. Dessert foods should be eaten in spring to strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as jujube, which tastes mild and can nourish blood and strengthen the spleen and stomach. It can be eaten raw and made into jujube porridge, jujube cake and jujube rice. Yam is also a delicious food in spring, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, nourishing lung and yin, tonifying kidney and solidifying essence.

Eat more vegetables

After winter, people generally have insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis and some skin diseases in spring, all of which are due to nutritional disorders caused by eating less fresh vegetables. Therefore, when spring comes, people must eat more vegetables.

Supplement protein.

Spring diet should be supplemented with high-quality protein to enhance resistance, such as eggs, fish, beef, chicken and bean products.

A light diet can prevent people from getting angry in spring, and the liver fire will rise, which will make the lung yin more virtual, and bacteria such as tuberculosis will easily take advantage of it. Therefore, the diet should be light in spring. Xin gan's products can help the sun in the spring. You can choose duck, kelp, mung bean, sugarcane juice, water chestnut, lily and so on. To put out the fire, eat less greasy and cold food, and choose staple food and non-staple food containing vitamins B and E to nourish the spleen and stomach.

Spring health care offenders are "sleepy in spring". Don't just sleep more. Instead, we should find more reasons for "spring sleep", prescribe the right medicine and alleviate the trouble of "spring sleep". Insist on physical exercise, get up early in the morning, loosen your buttons, relax and walk slowly. In spring, you can choose gentle and soothing activities, or practicing calligraphy, or doing gymnastics, or jogging, or playing Tai Ji Chuan, moving joints and stretching limbs, which can promote stagnation, dredge qi and blood, and make Yang Can grow. As long as we follow the natural laws of the four seasons of the human body, conform to the characteristics of spring sun, supplement oxygen, stimulate the senses, adjust the mind and nourish blood, it will be effective.

Spring is the season when everything grows. Keeping in good health in spring should follow the principle of nourishing yang and preventing wind. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the spring in the five elements belongs to wood, and the liver in the five internal organs belongs to wood, so spring gas passes through the liver. In spring, the liver qi is vigorous and rising, and people's spirit does it one brace up. However, if the liver qi rises too much or stagnates, it is easy to damage the liver, and cold lesions will appear in summer. So spring is the season to nourish and protect the liver.

Because hypertensive patients need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time, some side effects of drugs will cause different degrees of damage to liver and kidney. Therefore, patients with hypertension can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables in spring to ensure a balanced nutrition. At the same time, the outdoor temperature rises in spring, which is suitable for strengthening outdoor physical exercise. Patients with hypertension can go for a walk outdoors, breathe fresh air, speed up body metabolism and enhance body immunity. On the other hand, the weather in spring is capricious, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large. Patients with hypertension should pay attention to changing clothes at any time to avoid blood pressure instability caused by hot and cold.

As the saying goes, when people are sleepy in autumn, they are easy to get tired in spring. Many people are listless and prone to respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal discomfort and skin diseases. Therefore, they should eat more light food, eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water to clear their stomachs, and eat less fried food and salty and spicy food. You can also eat more red beans to eliminate dampness and nourish blood.

In addition, it should be noted that patients with hypertension must insist on taking antihypertensive drugs and cannot stop taking them casually. Keep taking medicine even if you don't feel sick. Otherwise, it is very dangerous. If you stop taking medicine at will and wait until your blood pressure is high, it is easy to cause blood pressure to rebound. In the process of rebound, some organs of the body will be hurt unconsciously. We suggest that when the blood pressure drops to the normal range, the dosage can be reduced appropriately, but the drug can not be stopped casually. A survey abroad shows that 30% of people who insist on taking medicine will keep their blood pressure at a good level. Besides taking medicine, regular check-ups are also important, especially the observation of blood pressure. Doctors advise patients to prepare a sphygmomanometer at home and monitor their blood pressure regularly.

In short, after beginning of spring, people should stay up late and get up early, adjust their emotions, prevent internal heat from rising, eat moderately and exercise moderately.

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