April day on earth Is a good time for health care

Spring is not to be disappointed. Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, whether it is an outing with a companion or a tomb sweep to worship the ancestors, it is inevitable to walk outdoors in the spring. The customs handed down by the ancients to this day are actually the health care experience of strengthening the body and enhancing immunity during the Qingming Dynasty. This issue of Health Weekly, especially for readers to provide readers with health care strategies during the Qingming Dynasty, I wish you a refreshing spirit in the spring light, physical and mental health.

Spring health to eat flowers

In early spring and March, hundreds of flowers bloom, like pieces of clouds, and the spring light is very colorful. Zheng Yanhua, deputy director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Panyu Branch of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, said that in fact, flowers are also a good diet, and some are particularly suitable for this season.

These flowers bloom in the spring

Peach gum

Peach gum taste sweet and bitter, flat, non-toxic, has the effect of activating blood and dissolving stasis.

In general, the foaming time of peach gum is generally 10 to 20 hours. Although peach gum is delicious, it is not easy to digest. It is recommended to take no more than 15 grams a day, avoid taking it on an empty stomach, and take a small amount in people with gastrointestinal indigestion. Pregnant women, especially in the first trimester, try not to eat peach gum, because it has the effect of activating blood and dissolving stasis.

Apricot

Apricot blossoms are edible, can invigorate blood and replenish deficiency, and can be boiled with peach blossoms and used as tea.

Its seeds, almonds, are also medicinal and edible, divided into north and south, but also sweet and bitter. Bitter almonds are also known as north almonds, and south almonds are also known as sweet almonds. Generally, the medicinal use is mostly bitter almonds, but there is a small poison and cannot be taken more. It can reduce breath, relieve cough and asthma, moisten the intestines and laxative, and can be used for coughing and wheezing, chest full of phlegm, dry bowel and constipation. In order to reduce the toxicity of bitter almonds, they must be prepared before they can be medicated. Sweet almonds are non-toxic, can moisturize the lungs, asthma, cure fatigue cough, dry bowel constipation, lung weakness and lung dry cough. Both can often be stewed with Sichuan shellfish or pig lungs to cure lung weakness and cough.

kapok

Kapok is one of the main raw materials of "Five Flowers Tea", which is a good ingredient for Guangdong folk to remove dampness, which has both dampness removal effect, peace and cleanness, and is most suitable for early spring.

Eat flowers this way to maintain health

Peach gum silver ear sugar water

Ingredients: peach gum 15 g, Sydney pear 1 pcs, rock sugar 30 g, white fungus 5-10 g.

Method: 1. Put the peach gum into water overnight until it is soft, and then wash it repeatedly with water and break it into pieces.

2. After soaking the white fungus in water for 20 minutes to become soft, break into small flowers. Peel and dice sydney pear.

3. Put the peach gum, white fungus and water into the pot, bring to a boil on high heat, then reduce the heat and continue to cook for 1 hour, at which time the soup begins to become somewhat viscous.

4. Add the diced pears and cook for 5 minutes, then add rock sugar and cook for 3 minutes, until the rock sugar is completely melted and the soup is thick.

Five-flowered tea

Ingredients: Honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, locust, kapok and frangipani 10g each, a little rock sugar

Method: Soak the flowers in water for 5 minutes, put them in a pot and then boil over high heat, then switch to a slow simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes.

Season with rock sugar and let it warm to drink. Can clear heat and dampness.

Kapok stewed pork bones

Ingredients: 3-5 dried kapok, 300-500 g pork bones, 15-20 g barley, 15-20 g red adzuki beans, 3-5 g tangerine peel.

Method: After the pork bones are blanched, put them in a clay pot; barley, red adzuki beans, tangerine peel and kapok are washed and put into the clay pot, put water into the pot and boil on high heat for an hour, put salt and drink. (Reporter Yu Yanhong Correspondent Xu Yongyi)

Qingming prevention time epidemic dampness can be eaten and cured

Spring temperatures are changeable, hot and cold, coupled with warm and humid weather, bacteria and viruses are easy to breed. Influenza surveillance data from Guangdong Province over the years show that March to July is the epidemic season of seasonal influenza. Professor Chen Ning, director of the Respiratory Department of the Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangdong Province, said that the weather in Guangdong in spring changes greatly. Spring is rainy, from time to time there is a return to the south, and sometimes the temperature rises significantly, and the chance of contracting the flu will increase.

The incidence of influenza is high from March to July

According to the results of influenza surveillance in Guangdong Province, in recent years, the influenza epidemic in the province has shown two peaks, namely winter, spring and summer (December to January, March to July). The public should pay special attention to the prevention of influenza in the next 2-3 months.

Preventing the flu is actually very simple, and the public only needs to pay attention to two methods to prevent themselves from getting the flu to a large extent. First of all, ventilation, whether at home, work, school, as long as it is indoors, closed environment, you should pay attention to ventilation. Coughing and sneezing indoors, especially with a tissue, cover the mouth and nose. Because influenza viruses are transmitted through droplets or direct contact.

Experts from the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control also pointed out that the flu is different from the common cold, and its threat to health is much greater than the common cold. In particular, high-risk groups such as pregnant women, infants, the elderly and patients with chronic underlying diseases are at higher risk of serious complications and death after influenza. Influenza vaccination is effective in reducing the risk of serious complications and death from influenza. Even if you are infected with the flu after vaccination, the symptoms will be relatively "mild".

When flu-like symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat, etc.) develop, they should be treated aggressively. At the same time, patients should self-isolate as soon as possible, go to work and class without illness, and wear masks in time to reduce the spread of the disease.

The "sometimes cold" dialectical treatment is good fast

Professor Chen Ning said that "shixing cold" belongs to the "wen disease" of traditional Chinese medicine. Spring humidity is heavy, wet evil is lingering, warm disease is not easy to treat, in the treatment of emphasis on dampness, but also need to dialectically solve the table cleaning, publicize the lungs and wet and other methods. In general, for some patients with high fever, after being carefully dialectically used by traditional Chinese medicine to cooperate with treatment, they often achieve more with less effort and their condition improves quickly.

At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine also has a good effect on influenza prevention. Chen Ning especially introduced some influenza prevention methods.

Anti-epidemic dietary remedies

Nourishing yin clear hot tea

Composition: 20 grams of raw land, 10 grams of wheat dong, 10 grams of zhimu, 20 grams of dandelion

Effect: Nourish yin and clear fire

Adapt to the crowd: long-term staying up late, overwork, etc. caused by the virtual fire, dry mouth, hot and dry, etc.

Wetting tea

Composition: 10 grams of herbs, 6 grams of cardamom, 10 grams of white root, 15 grams of coix kernels, 10 grams of cangshu, 30 grams of plantain

Effect: Remove dampness and strengthen the spleen

Suitable for the crowd: heavy humidity, fatigue, loss of appetite, white tongue people.

Ginseng burdock tea

Composition: 10 grams of taizi ginseng, 6 grams of su leaf, 10 grams of skullcap, 10 grams of burdock seed.

Effect: Strengthens spleen and dissolves dampness

Applicable people: people who are usually weak and easy to feel externally. (Reporter Zhang Hua Correspondent Li ChaoJin Xiaohuan)

Qingming dispels dampness, and health care has a wonderful trick

The high air humidity before and after the Qingming Dynasty in Lingnan, coupled with the humidity in the human body, many people will have discomfort such as stool sticky toilet, poor appetite, greasy skin, and drowsiness. Professor Lin Guohua, Director of the Rehabilitation Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, will support you.

Relieves dampness and strengthens the spleen and stomach

Professor Lin Guohua introduced that there was a lot of rain before and after the Qingming Dynasty in the south, and the external wetness was easy to invade the human body, and the body was easily trapped by wetness. However, spring is also a good time for the human body to rise from Tibet and generate yang qi, and it is a good time to discharge cold and dampness from the body. This solar term improves the body's immunity by removing dampness and protecting the sun.

To get rid of dampness, we must first adjust the spleen and stomach, the spleen is mainly transported, and the stomach is rotted. If the spleen and stomach function is abnormal, the spleen is not healthy, the sputum drinking water is wet and easy to accumulate, coughing and coughing up sputum in the lungs, and staying in the stomach is dull, bloating, stool and other discomforts. If the stomach is decomposed, the diet is easy to accumulate, and then the heat is reduced. With the prolongation of the course of the disease, symptoms of spleen and stomach deficiency may further appear, such as cold intolerance, mental malaise, abdominal pain, loose stool or constipation.

How can you get your spleen and stomach healthy in your daily life? Professor Lin recommends ginger yam porridge or maltose tea prevention. Ginger can strengthen the spleen and scatter water, yam healthy temper, the two are combined to cook porridge, easier to digest, and play a role in strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Maltose can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach yin.

Moxibustion health care is just right

In terms of health care, Professor Lin suggested that moxibustion can be done at home every day, and the qi and blood of the spleen and stomach meridians can be stimulated through the warming effect of moxibustion, so as to strengthen the spleen and promote qi, warm the stomach and disperse the cold.

Children can moxibustion the body pillar. The "columnar acupoint" is located in the middle of the human spine, in the subcanthen of the 3rd thoracic spinous process. This acupuncture point is a must-moxibustion point for children in ancient times, which can treat colds, tracheitis, pneumonia, convulsions, epilepsy, chancre and other children who are susceptible to diseases. In addition, it also has the effect of "promoting", and the daily moxibustion "body pillar points" for 10 minutes can improve the child's immunity.

Young and middle-aged people moxibustion foot three miles. As the saying goes: If you want to be safe, you often don't dry it for three miles. Zusanli can rationalize the spleen and stomach, regulate qi and blood, replenish weakness, help digestion, enhance physical fitness, and prevent colds.

The elderly can often moxibustion Guan Yuan, because of its old age and weakness, kidney and yang deficiency, moxibustion can cultivate yuan qi and treat all kinds of deficiencies.

Professor Lin suggested that when watching TV at home every day, you can rub your hands and feet, flick each finger and toe side until you feel slight pain, and tap the twelve wells of your hands (located on both sides of the nail roots of the five fingers of your hands) to enhance the yang qi in your body and achieve the effect of good qi memory and evil cannot be dried. (Reporter Chen Hui Correspondent Chen Yuexuan Chen Ziyin)

Hike the mountain and pay attention to protecting the knee joint

During the Qingming Dynasty, the rain is pouring, climbing mountains and wading through the water to worship ancestral graves. Since ancient times, China has had the custom of climbing mountains and worshipping ancestors in the Qingming Dynasty. Since the evolution of the present, many people have taken advantage of the Qingming holiday to climb the mountains and walk on the green. As a classic form of exercise, mountain climbing is considered to be health-promoting, improving cardiopulmonary function and general function. However, Chen Weijian, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, reminded that it is not recommended that middle-aged and elderly people often climb the mountain.

Climbing the mountain exacerbates knee wear in the elderly

"People are old before the knees, some elderly people have begun to have lesions in the knee joint but are not aware, climbing the mountain will aggravate the knee joint lesions."

Chen Weijian introduced that the knee joint is the joint with the largest weight on the human body, just like the spindle that is most easily worn on the car. When climbing a mountain, the weight of the knee joint is 3 to 5 times the weight of the human body, especially in the middle-aged and elderly, in the case of joint cartilage has degenerated, osteoporosis, too much weight-bearing flexion and extension activity, the joint surface of the patella and the femur repeated friction and impact, will aggravate the wear of joint cartilage, accelerate the degenerative lesions of the knee joint. In addition, in addition to their own weight when descending the mountain, the knee joint also bears the force of the downward thrust, which will increase the damage to the knee joint.

Protect the knee joint and pay attention to these details

Be well prepared before climbing, especially for lower limb warm-up exercises, such as knee flexion and ankle movement. At first, it should be slow, and after a period of time, you can gradually speed up the speed, but not too intensely, and the time is best controlled at about half an hour.

Middle-aged and elderly friends can choose a climbing stick that suits them when climbing the mountain. The cane can greatly reduces the pressure on the knee joint when climbing. At the same time, supporting the upper arm of the cane can also share the weight of the leg. At this time, the simple lower limb exercise of mountain climbing will become the overall movement of the limbs, and the human body has been fully coordinated.

"People with knee arthritis should avoid excessive exercise, but that's not to say they don't exercise." Chen Weijian suggested that middle-aged and elderly people are best not to climb the mountain often, climbing the mountain, going up and down the stairs, squatting and standing and other sports are not suitable for people with knee arthritis. To protect the knee joint, the best exercise is swimming, pedaling, etc. It is understood that swimming and cycling can not only play a role in sports exercise, but also strengthen the ligaments around the knee joint and enhance the stability of the knee joint, and it is not easy to cause further lesions. (Reporter Yu Yanhong Correspondent Wang Wei)

Source: Yangcheng Evening News