Spring breeze blows, ice and snow melt,
The air is humid, the rain is increasing,
Rainy season, here it comes.
At this time, the winter of less rain has passed, the rain has begun, and the amount of rain has gradually increased. Folk often say: "The spring is getting warmer, and the rain is busy sending fat."
Poet Du Fu Yiyun: Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening. Dive into the night with the wind, and the moisturizer is silent.
During this period, the permafrost layer becomes shallower, and the soil surface layer freezes at night and begins to re-refine, which is conducive to the green growth of wheat and other crops.
Spring wind and spring rain flowers through the eyes, Jiangbei Jiangnan water shoots the sky.
——(Song) Huang Tingjian's Excerpt from "The Dimension Ming Rhyme Sending Zi Yu"
Overnight, the thunder fell on the silk, and the light floated and the wabi was jagged.
——(Song) Excerpt from Qin Guan's "Spring Day"
There are three phenological phenomena in the rain festival: "one waits for the otter to sacrifice fish, the second waits for the wild geese to come, and the third waits for the grass and trees to sprout."
Otters began to fish and placed them on the shore as if they were sacrificed before they were eaten; after about five days, the geese began to fly back from the south back to the north; and in four or five days, in the "silent" spring rain, the grass and trees began to sprout.
Since then, the earth has gradually taken on a thriving scene. People can not only feel the mildness of the spring sun, the freshness of the spring breeze, the moisture of the gentle drizzle, but also appreciate the climatic characteristics of the early spring season of hot and cold, warm and cold, and cold tide.
Health should be cautious to avoid wind and cold
The health essentials of rain and rain should not violate the basic requirements of spring health care.
First, it is necessary to protect the cold and keep warm, nourish the yang and protect the yang, and prevent the damage of various external factors to the yang.
In the "spring and March", the "rain" festival is still in the early spring, the yang has just begun to rise, everything in nature has just begun to sprout vitality, and the cold qi has not yet completely subsided.
The human body is also in the early stage of the alternating seasonal sequence, at this time, especially attention should be paid to the yang and the protection of the sun, to prevent the invasion of wind and cold due to cold tide or when it is warm and cold.
Daily people should focus on cold protection and warmth, do not reduce clothes prematurely, do not eat cold food, and pay attention to diet hygiene. At the same time, it is necessary to conform to the changes in the timing and the vitality of spring, get up appropriately early, and pay attention to regular work and rest.
Second, it is necessary to strengthen protection, cautiously avoid wind and cold, and prevent the occurrence of spring plague and various diseases.
Spring belongs to wood in the correspondence of the five elements, and wood is easy to produce wind, wind and evil are easy to hurt people, and it is the "long of a hundred diseases". The opportunity of spring is conducive to the growth and development of all things, and it is also conducive to the increase and reproduction of bacteria.
From time to time, the evil qi is more conducive to the spread of a variety of viruses, infectious diseases and epidemic diseases, and it is also easy to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, digestive tract diseases or skin lesions, such as influenza, brain flow, pneumonia, hepatitis, enteritis, mumps, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, etc. Everyone must strengthen self-protection, pay attention to exercise, and enhance immunity.
Third, we must regulate emotions and nourish the liver and protect the liver.
At this time, there is more rain, the cold atmosphere still exists, the one-year study and work plan has just begun to be implemented, the pressure is high, the work is busy, it is easy to lead to the drainage function of the liver, the liver and gallbladder and other digestive system diseases are easy to occur, we must pay attention to regulating and comforting their emotions, maintain a pleasant mood, and pay attention to liver protection.
Fourth, we must eat and nourish and take care of the spleen and stomach.
Spring in the spicy, bitter, sweet, sour, salty five flavors corresponding to the acid, so at this time the diet should eat less sour and astringent, appropriate to eat more spicy and sweet, or spicy and cool food, or with a sweet and mild food.
food
Choose from leeks, lilies, spring shoots, potatoes, artemisia annua, cabbage, cabbage, turnips, celery, spinach, cabbage, etc.;
drugs
Choose from yam, red dates, sand ginseng, goji berries, chrysanthemums, kudzu, white fungus, black fungus;
Porridge
Choose from yam porridge, dang ginseng astragalus red date porridge, ginseng bamboo leaf japonica rice porridge.
This diet not only nourishes the liver qi, but also benefits the spleen and stomach qi to adapt to the vigorous vitality day by day. Of course, diabetics should not eat porridge and should not eat sweet things.
In addition, we should always pay attention to making the diet clean, safe, balanced and moderate.
Author | Liu Shaogui, chief pharmacist of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Audit | Expert of the National Health Science Popularization Expert Database
He Qingyong, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Planning | Tan Jia
Edit | Fan Hongyan