Winter does not hide essence, spring will be sick and warm, Chinese medicine teaches you how to cultivate Tibetan yang qi

Chinese medicine believes that "winter does not hide essence, spring will be sick and warm", "tibetan essence" is to store yin essence. Jing in Chinese medicine refers to the innate essence and the acquired essence, which is the basis for maintaining human activity. Winter is the season of recuperation, yin and yang, so in the winter, if you conform to the way of heaven and earth to protect the yin and yang, you can have enough righteousness to resist external evils and avoid illness in the coming year. Winter storage should be carried out from the aspects of spirit, diet, living, activities and medication.

Emotions should be quiet and indifferent to the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" Has clouds: "Spiritual inner guard, illness has never been safe? "If you are willing to be righteous, your spirit is straight, your soul is not scattered, your remorse is not angry, and your five internal organs are not subject to evil." The so-called "heart hides the god, the kidney hides the essence", overwork and effort, will dissipate the kidney essence, which is not conducive to winter Tibet.

In winter, we should nourish our hearts and hide our spirits, and we should keep our emotions quiet and light

If you are overexcited and agitated or sad and angry, the yang qi floats outward, which is easy to cause human diseases.

Diet needs to be moderate

The acquired essence is derived from the essence of the water valley absorbed by the spleen and stomach, and if the diet is not controlled and the spleen and stomach are damaged, the storage of the acquired essence will also be affected. Therefore, to achieve moderation in food and drink, you should eat less spicy, and eating spicy food for a long time will consume yang and hurt yin.

Winter is a good time to make up for food, but it is necessary to "adapt to local conditions". In winter, the weather in the north is relatively cold, and the supplement should be warm and warm, and you can choose mutton; the southern climate is mild, and the supplement should be mainly based on clearing, and duck, fish, etc. can be selected. In winter, you can also eat more black food to supplement the kidneys, and at the same time pay attention not to eat non-seasonal products such as watermelon to prevent phenology from being uncorresistible and damaging to the human body.

Pay attention to protecting the yang qi in your life

"Lie down early and get up late, and wait for the sun." In winter, the weather is cold and frozen, and the yang of the human body is easily injured by cold and evil, so in the winter, attention should be paid to protecting the yang, going to bed early and getting up late, and nourishing the qi and solidifying the essence. Sleeping can make the yang qi return to the root, the root is to hide the essence, lying down early can make the yang better closed, and when there is daylight, it can avoid cold and evil from hurting the human body

Yang qi, at the same time can nourish yin qi to solidify the essence. Overwork, excessive staying up late, will greatly damage the Yang Qi, hurt the qi and blood, and the sperm and blood are homologous, and the lack of qi and blood in the human body will mobilize the kidney essence to provide power, which will damage the root of the human body.

To protect the body's yang qi, it is also necessary to do a good job of cold protection, especially the neck, waist and abdomen, feet and ankles. Keeping your neck warm is to prevent the invasion of wind and evil. The feet and ankles are far from the heart, the yang qi arrives slowly, the yin qi gathers, and it is most susceptible to cold attack. On the other hand, it should also be remembered that the neck, ankles and other places of clothing should be tight and moderate, so as not to hinder the meridian qi and blood movement and get sick.

In terms of life and living, we should also pay attention to the fact that we must not "take wine as the pulp, take delusion as the norm, get drunk to enter the room, exhaust its essence, and dissipate its truth." Sexual intercourse should be moderate and not consume kidney essence.

Exercise should not be strenuous

The winter climate is cold, and it is not advisable to carry out strenuous exercise, especially to avoid strenuous exercise that sweats like rain. Sweating like rain will consume qi and hurt Jin, interfere with the closure of Yang Qi, and hurt the human body. Especially for people with poor physique and weak qi and blood, strenuous exercise will further deplete the body's qi and blood, making the body more weak. At the same time, excessive exercise makes the yang float outward, which will also cause insufficient collection.

It is recommended to choose gentle and gentle exercises for health care, such as tai chi, baduanjin, walking, yoga, etc.

It can be used to nourish the sperm and protect the kidneys with the help of drugs

Winter in March, by the kidneys when the main time. Nourishing sperm in winter is kidney protection. In winter, drugs can be used to supplement the kidneys, thereby regulating the balance of yin and yang in the human body.

As the old saying goes, "three nine supplements and one winter, there is no pain in the coming year", and the medicinal supplement can choose a mild cream for supplementation, but pay attention to the choice according to the cold and heat of the physique. Moxibustion can also be selected, using the warm effect of moxa to promote the production of yang qi in the human body and enhance the body's ability to adapt to the external environment and climate change.

In short, winter health is mainly to conform to the nature of the way of conservation. In winter, if the essence is well cultivated and stored, and in the next year, if the yang qi is sufficient and the hair is strong, then the righteous qi is stored within and the evil cannot be dried.

(Henan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liu Peimin)