You need to know about the winter solstice

Citizen Ms. Han: December 21 is the winter solstice, and it is also the first day of "entering the ninth", which is a very important festival of the year, and there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year". Ask the experts to introduce what you need to pay attention to after the winter solstice?

"Winter Life Point Service" column reporter: Sun Qing, director of the Health Management Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, suggested that in addition to its profound cultural background, the winter solstice is also an important day for health maintenance. Regarding these knowledge points of the winter solstice, the public must know.

Health nourishment do not blind

To the winter solstice, it is also to the winter and March closed season, the body's metabolic speed slows down, at this time appropriate supplementation, can regulate and improve the physiological function of human organs, enhance resistance, to achieve the role of disease prevention and treatment, so there is "three nine supplements a winter, the next year no pain" said. However, "Three-nine supplement" does not mean that you have to eat ginseng, deer antler velvet and other nourishing ingredients.

Due to the cold climate after the winter solstice, the dry outdoor air, coupled with the indoor heating, it is easier to hurt the body' fluids, making people's lips dry and cracked, dry throat hoarseness, dry mouth cough, dry skin and even cracked. Therefore, after the winter solstice, do not use tonics indiscriminately. You can eat some warm foods to protect the spleen and kidneys, such as green onions, onions, yams, guiyuan, chestnuts and other warm foods; high-protein, low-fat, polysaccharide shiitake mushrooms; sweet, astringent, flat lotus seeds.

Daily living to prevent colds

At present, it is the peak period of influenza, in addition to the elderly, children, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, kidney disease and other people with underlying diseases are also easy to "recruit". In this season, pay attention to personal hygiene, reduce the number of visits to public places, eat lightly, insist on exercise, and regular work and rest. In addition, you can soak your feet with hot water every day to improve the blood circulation at the bottom of the foot, dispel the cold and disperse the wind, and prevent colds, but it should be noted that the time of soaking feet should not be too long, and the water temperature should be appropriate; you can also use moxibustion and moxibustion to double foot sanli acupoints; massage temples, large vertebral points, Yingxiang points, wind pool points and other acupuncture points can improve immunity and prevent colds. If you can't find the acupuncture points, you can also perform a simple head and face massage by tuina the cheeks, rubbing the side of the nose, neck and shoulders, etc.

"Three nine stickers" is not suitable for everyone

"Sanjiu Sticker" is mainly suitable for people with repeated colds, chronic coughs, lumbar spondylosis, cervical spondylosis and other neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, chronic pharyngitis, stomach pain, stomach distension, gastrointestinal dysfunction and other digestive diseases, dysmenorrhea, postpartum headache and other obstetric and gynecological diseases, dyspepsia, asthma and other pediatric diseases.

Such as pregnant women, children under 2 years of age; pneumonia and a variety of infectious diseases acute fever, cough and asthma, etc.; extreme sensitivity to patch drugs, special constitution and contact dermatitis and other skin disease patients; patch acupuncture points local skin ulcers; diabetic patients; tumor patients and so on. Reporter Zhuang Yuan

Author: Zhuang Yuan

Source: Tonight's newspaper