Every winter, southerners and northerners quarrel over bathing. Compared with the icy and snowy north, the south, which has a pleasant climate, obviously has more say in bathing. Taking a shower once a day can keep people in good shape throughout the day. But many northerners say that we prefer to scrub in the bathhouse, which is a great pleasure.
And when it comes to bathing, everyone's preferences are different. Some people like to take a shower at home before going to work in the morning, go to work refreshed, and be refreshed all day. But some people also said that at night, the wind and dust servants go home, take a hot bath before going to bed, relax, and sleep more soundly. In this regard, when do you think it is better to take a bath?
Morning bath vs evening bath, which is better for the body?
In the view of Chinese medicine, washing in the morning and washing in the evening are not good choices. Why? There is a saying: wash away the yang in the morning, and wash the moisture in the evening. After getting up in the morning, it is the time for the yang in the human body to grow, and in the early morning of winter, it is even more necessary to generate yang, and the morning bath is likely to cause damage to the yang, which is not good for the growth of yang, and it is more likely to have problems such as insufficient yang for a long time. At night, the cold and humidity of the outside world are relatively heavy, and if you rush to sleep after taking a bath, it is easier to cause moisture and cold to enter the body, and over time it is also a major threat to health.
It seems that this statement does make sense, but can't you take a bath sooner or later?
In fact, as long as you can avoid the 3 taboos of winter bathing, you don't have to worry too much about bathing.
Taboo 1: Do not take a bath after meals
Whether it is after breakfast in the morning or after eating in the evening, it is not suitable to take a shower immediately. Because after meals, people's stomachs need to get a large amount of blood supply to participate in the digestion of food. If you take a bath at this time, hot water will directly irritate the surface of people's skin, causing the blood vessels on the surface of the body to expand, redistributing the blood in the human body, and more likely to affect the digestion and absorption of food.
Especially in the elderly who have their own gastrointestinal weakening, cardiovascular disease patients with chronic diseases such as hyperlipidemia and hypertension, or people with a history of heart disease should avoid this behavior to reduce the risk of inducing diseases.
Taboo 2: Do not take a cold bath
Some people have better physical fitness, not only insist on morning running, night running, but also the habit of taking cold showers. They feel that such habits can exercise their bodies and improve their ability to adapt to changes in the outside temperature. The problem is that cold baths are not suitable for winter.
The cold climate of winters causes the yang of nature to converge. The human body itself is prone to the problem of insufficient yang qi and heavy cold and humid qi, if you take a cold bath, it is only afraid of aggravating the cold and wet qi, and the loss of yang qi is faster. From the perspective of Western medicine, taking a cold bath after exercise is also easy to stimulate the violent contraction of blood vessels, which may cause dangers such as sudden death.
Taboo three: do not dry the water after bathing
Take a shower before going to bed at night and hurry up into bed, ready for bed. But he ignored the hair that was still dripping and the water droplets on his body. Do not dry the moisture, the moisture on the surface of the skin will only be slowly dissipated, taking away the moisture and some oil on the surface of the skin, and it is more likely to have problems such as dry itching and cracking of the skin in winter.
And for people who do not like to blow dry their hair and then sleep, wet hair is more likely to fall asleep, two may lead to the head by cold and humid air invasion, affecting the quality of sleep, three wet hair may lead to pillow towels being wet, breeding mites, bacteria risk higher. After learning this, will you still wet your hair and go to sleep without drying the water on your body?
Many people bathe less frequently in winter, mainly due to the influence of the climate. But whether it is a morning bath or a night bath, you should understand these 3 taboos. If you can avoid these forbidden areas for bathing, you don't have to worry too much.
At the end of the article, you may wish to share some interesting bathing tips with you, whether you are a northerner or a southerner, you can use it.
Northerners:
After bathing, it is easy to dry and itchy skin, mainly skin dehydration, excessive keratin shedding, it is recommended to apply body lotion after bathing, etc., to help the skin lock water, thereby alleviating the problem of dry itchy skin, avoid using toiletries with too strong cleaning power, and do not blindly and excessively exfoliate.
Southerners:
The bathhouse culture and bathing culture in the north are humiliating. However, in the humid and warm environment in the south, people's backs, feet and thighs and other parts may have more stratum corneum, and regular exfoliation can indeed avoid strong oil secretion, back acne and other problems. In the south, it is okay to take a bath once a day or once a bath for 2-3 days, but bathing too frequently may also destroy the skin keratin, cause skin sensitivity, easy redness and allergies.
Overall, there is not much difference between taking a bath at night and bathing in the morning, but for health reasons, bathing should avoid 3 taboos, and if you can do it, you don't have to worry too much.
Resources: 【1】The cleaner the bath in winter? This "skin care guide" please collect People's Daily 2020/12/17 【2】How often is it best to take a bath in winter? Morning wash or evening wash? It turns out that these years have been wrong Science Popularization China 2021/11/22