Chinese New Year's Eve just passed, we resigned from the Year of the Rat and made great strides to usher in the Year of the Ugly Ox. The solar terms are still in Lichun, and it is about to rain, so how should we maintain our health in the first solar term of the new year? What to pay attention to? Let's briefly talk about the things that spring health care.
The "standing" of Lichun means the beginning, and from this day on, it enters the spring. Spring health care should conform to the characteristics of all things, and gradually transition from "autumn and winter to yin" to "spring and summer yang". The yin and yang in nature are mutually variable, and if we want to be healthy, we must adapt to this change of yin and yang. In the spring, the day begins to gradually lengthen, the yang qi begins to grow, and the liver qi begins to rise. The Five Elements Theory of Chinese Medicine believes that spring belongs to wood, corresponding to the liver, so spring health is mainly to raise the sun and protect the liver and regulate the mood. In the "Great Treatise on the Four Qis of the Inner Scriptures", it is said: "Against the spring qi, there is less yang and no birth, and the liver qi changes internally." That is, if the spring is not well maintained, the spring qi is violated, and the liver qi in the body cannot rise normally, and the lesions of the liver qi will occur.
There are also wind and evil diseases that are more common in the spring, and we must pay attention to prevention.
In the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, it is said: "The wind is also the chief of a hundred diseases." "That is to say, wind is the primary factor causing disease. In the spring, the Yang Qi rises, the pores of the skin become relatively loose, and the ability of the righteous qi in the human body to resist evil becomes weaker, and it is easy to be "exploited" by the wind and evil. The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says, "Those who are wounded by the wind will receive it first." "Because the wind is yang evil, it has the characteristics of hair growth and upward movement, when the wind evil invades the body, the first thing that is damaged is the human head, which can cause headaches, fever, bad wind, cough, asthma and other symptoms." Especially after sweating, the pores are open, and the wind and evil will take advantage of the opportunity to enter, and they will immediately suffer from the evil cold. At the same time, because the wind and evil "good deeds change", they can both travel between the meridians and muscles, and can also reach the top of the head, so in the spring it is also prone to wandering joint pain, skin rubella, rash and so on.
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classics say that "in the spring and March, this is called fa chen", hair is divergence, and chen means old. Therefore, eating some foods that can replenish yang qi and spicy foods that can generate hair is conducive to liver qi drainage. For example, onions, garlic, bean sprouts, toon sprouts, leeks, etc., through the young buds of plants, the body's accumulated qi is dissipated.
Bean sprouts are best served in cold mixing, boiling soup and stir-frying. However, the sexual taste is sweet and cold, and when making sprouts, you can put some spicy, aromatic and divergent spices in moderation. For example, adding ginger shreds can neutralize the coldness of bean sprouts, spleen and stomach deficiency and people with chronic gastroenteritis should not eat more.
Leeks belong to hair and also belong to the food that grows hair. Leeks are warm and yang, the spicy taste is divergent, and it has the function of sweating and dissolving the table. However, there is heat in the yin deficiency, and people who are often on fire should not eat it often; after surgery, ulcers, and eye disease patients are best not to eat leeks. Because the leeks are warm and divergent, they belong to the hair, and it is easy to make the wound inflamed.
Green main liver, green vegetables can nourish the yin and dryness, soothe the liver and nourish the blood. After the spring, many wild vegetables and young sprouts are listed, and you can eat more cabbage, toon, dandelion, spinach, celery and other foods. In addition, in the spring yang, exercise should be appropriately increased, you can do more aerobic exercise, slight sweating, is conducive to the rise of yang. In the spring, everything is new, the air is fresh, you should go outdoors to exercise more, which can make the qi and blood unobstructed, the depressed qi evacuated, and reduce the occurrence of diseases.
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