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Bathing is a thing that everyone has to do every day, through bathing can effectively clean the skin of oil and dirt, prevent bacterial infection, help to keep the body and mind refreshing and clean, at the same time, through taking a hot bath, you can also promote the discharge of cold moisture in the body, and reduce the burden on the body.
In fact, now the pace of life is accelerating, the pressure of work and life is getting bigger and bigger, whether it is male or female, friends have been in this high-pressure state for a long time, the body is tired, take a hot bath after going home, and then face the white wall, which can also let people release the inner pressure and alleviate the physical fatigue.
And some people will also let the body sweat and relax after taking a hot bath, which is more conducive to relaxing emotions. However, some people think that it is not suitable for bathing in the morning, and bathing in the morning will extinguish the yang that has just risen.
So many elderly people will often say. "Take a bath in the morning to extinguish the yang qi, and take a bath at night to generate moisture", which also leads many people to listen to this sentence and do not know when to take a bath, is there a scientific basis for this sentence? At what time is it better for us to take a bath? Let's take a look.
First let's understand what are yang and moisture?
What is "Yang Qi"?
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the process of maintaining health in the body is to maintain the yang in the body, if a person's yang is insufficient, even if standing in the sun, you will feel cold and afraid of cold, accompanied by palpitations and shortness of breath.
Yang qi generally refers to people's innate qi, the kidney is the basis of innate qi, the yang qi in the body mainly comes from people's kidneys filling the whole body, usually in the process of going out to bask in the sun in life, it can help the body replenish yang qi and maintain the balance of yin and yang in the body.
Second, what is moisture?
Chinese medicine also calls moisture wet evil, which can be divided into internal wetness and external wetness.
1. External wetness:
Foreign affairs are mainly related to the living environment, if you are in a relatively humid and cold environment for a long time, you are more susceptible to the wet evil of nature, resulting in human health being affected.
At this time, the lack of yang qi in the human body will lead to a large amount of moisture invading the human body, resulting in drowsiness, top-heavy, physical fatigue and weakness, and mental atrophy.
2. Internal humidity:
Internal humidity mainly refers to the endogenous wet evil caused by the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach in the internal organs, which is mainly related to the spleen and stomach.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach have the effect of transporting water and moisture, once the spleen and stomach function is abnormal, it will lead to a decline in the ability to transport water and moisture, and the evil of water and moisture will occur in the body and a series of symptoms will appear.
The interior is mainly manifested as greasy skin, sleepy and heavy body, thick tongue, sticky feeling in the mouth, and it is easier to stick to the toilet if the stool is not clean, and it is difficult to wash it off.
"Take a bath in the morning to extinguish the yang qi, and take a bath at night to generate moisture", what does it mean?
"Take a shower in the morning to extinguish the yang qi"
Just as the so-called one-day plan lies in the morning, the human body after a night of sleep and rest, waking up in the morning is also just in the state of body awakening. This is also an important time period for the body to generate yang qi.
Chinese medicine believes that if you choose to take a bath in the morning, it is very easy to hurt the vitality, and the bath itself is a physical work in the process of bathing will consume a lot of yang, so at the beginning of the day, the yang is exhausted, then the human body does not have the energy to do the day's work and study.
Especially if you get up in the morning and take a bath immediately without eating, you will consume a lot of energy when taking a bath, and for people with low blood sugar or weak physique, there may be syncope.
However, there is also a study by Harvard University in the United States that people who take a bath in the morning have a very strong ability to work, they have a unique creativity, and their energy is also relatively abundant, which is also because when people take a bath in the morning, they can maintain a high degree of mental concentration and rapid awakening, and the body remains energetic.
However, in the winter, the weather is relatively cold, the morning bath due to the opening of the pores body temperature will be reduced, if you immediately come out of the bathroom can not do a good job of keeping warm, it may lead to cold and humidity into the body, causing a cold and cold situation.
"Take a shower at night to get wet"
Most people will choose to take a bath at night and work for a busy day, and after coming home, take a hot bath at night, which can make the body feel relaxed and keep the body relaxed and fall asleep faster.
Therefore, it is said that the night bath is wet, this statement is also one-sided, if the night after the bath is not blown dry in time, wet hair sleeping, may lead to wet and cold gas into the body to cause a cold, so remind everyone to take a bath at night must blow dry the hair, the body dry, more conducive to the health of the body.
What time to wash is good
After a day of work and study, the most important thing to do is to take a hot bath, sleep comfortably, the best time to take a bath is before going to bed, it is best to take a bath between 2 to 3 hours after dinner, it is not appropriate to take a bath before a meal, and it is not appropriate to take a bath immediately after a meal.
If you are eating dinner at 6:00, then it is best to take a bath between eight and nine o'clock, this time is still 1 to 2 hours away from going to bed, you can relax your body and mind, listen to soothing music, read a book for a while, and help improve the quality of sleep.
Health knowledge expansion - summer bathing, there are 3 precautions, I hope you pay more attention!
1, bathing can not be cold
As the weather gets hotter and hotter now, many people will sweat a lot and get used to taking cold showers, but this way is not correct.
Frequent use of cold baths or baths, the water temperature below 25 ° C decontamination ability is not good, but also will lead to sudden constriction of blood vessels, is not conducive to cardiovascular health to increase the burden of the heart, and even the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents.
Coupled with the high temperature and heat in summer, the pores of the whole body are in an open state, and suddenly taking a cold bath will cause the cold to enter the air through the pores, causing abdominal pain and shoulder pain, and will also cause the risk of cold and cold, do a further contrast to control the water level, try to ensure that it is between 36 ° C and 39 ° C.
2. You can't take a shower immediately after sweating
Summer is hot, many people are out of the activity or work home, they have been sweating and soaking the body and clothes, the whole body feels sticky, they want to take a quick shower, then in fact, there are certain health risks in this way.
Just after sweating the body is producing heat, whether it is blood circulation or heart rate will be accelerated, skin blood vessels are in a state of dilation, immediate bathing, will lead to serious dilation of blood vessels.
A large amount of blood flows to the surface of the body, reducing the blood and oxygen supply to the brain and heart parts, so that there will be insufficient blood supply, ischemia and lack of oxygen, resulting in fatigue and weakness of the body, dizziness and panic, and even cause life danger.
3. You should not sleep when your hair is not dry
Many people are used to bathing and washing their hair at night, but sometimes the hair is not dry. Just go straight to sleep with wet hair, in fact, this will affect the quality of sleep.
And wet rattling hair. It will also cause a large amount of cold and humidity to enter the body, which will cause human health to be affected, and it will be easy to catch a cold when you wake up on the morning of the 2nd day. Causes a risk of headaches or colds, so remind everyone before going to bed. Be sure to dry your hair promptly or blow dry it with a hair dryer.