After the beginning of winter, it is often seen that the elderly get up before dawn to exercise in the morning, the middle-aged chicken, duck and fish are crazy to tonify, and the young people sleep all morning and go for a run in the middle of the night, and dress only about demeanor and not about temperature ......These are all ways to open the wrong winter regimen.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter are the characteristics of the four seasons in nature, and they are also the principles we should follow in maintaining our health. Winter is the season when yin energy is extremely strong and all things are collected. In the case of the human body, metabolism is also at a relatively slow level. At this time, health preservation and disease prevention can take advantage of the physiological characteristics of all things lurking in winter and not leaking, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the right and dispelling evil, adjusting yin and yang, and laying a good foundation for a healthy body in the coming year. Winter health preservation should be based on the principle of keeping out the cold and protecting the sun, and recuperate from the aspects of daily life, spirit, and diet.
1.Go to bed early and wake up late to get plenty of rest. "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" cloud: "In winter and March, lie down early and get up late, and you must wait for the sun." "In winter, everything is dormant, animals enter a state of hibernation, and the yang energy of the human body should also be closed to avoid loss, therefore, the daily activities in winter and March should be to go to bed early and get up late, sleep more and exercise less, reduce the loss of heat, and protect the yang. Go to bed early and follow the yang energy collection to nourish the qi of the internal organs. Wake up late and wait for the sunrise to avoid the cold to prevent the sun.
In winter, the weather is cold, people should avoid the cold and keep warm, pay special attention to the head, neck and feet to keep warm, do a good job of keeping warm when going out, and wear hats, scarves and other cold-proof items.
Young people can insist on washing their faces with cold water from late autumn to enhance their body's ability to resist cold. The elderly can choose soothing exercises suitable for indoors, such as Baduanjin, Yijin Jing, Tai Chi, etc., to avoid exercising in the cold, wind, fog and dew, to avoid cold, and beware of cardiovascular diseases. The intensity of exercise should be a small amount of sweating in the body, and it is not necessary to sweat profusely, so as not to hurt the sun and not conducive to winter storage.
2.Frequent sunbathing on the back, nourishing the kidneys and yang. The abdomen of the human body is yin, the back is yang, and there are many acupuncture points and meridians on the back, especially the most important pulse is located on the midline of the back. However, basking in the sun is also particular, generally 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. is the best time to bask in the sun, and the time is 20 to 30 minutes. At the same time, the time period belongs to the noon, the heart meridian is the most vigorous, the yang energy is the most prosperous at noon, and the yin energy is gradually flourishing after noon. Therefore, if you can take a short nap in the afternoon, it is not only good for nourishing the mind, but also makes you energetic in the afternoon. In winter, you should pay attention to keeping your back warm to avoid catching a cold.
3.Soak your feet before going to bed to calm your nerves and help you sleep. Soaking your feet before going to bed can not only promote blood circulation, increase the supply of nutrients to the lower limbs, and eliminate fatigue, but also help improve sleep and prevent and treat chilblains and chapped feet. The reflex area of the feet is connected to the internal organs, and after soaking the feet, it can be combined with massaging the soles and toes of the feet to double the health care effect of the foot bath.
4.Calm and calm, open-minded and optimistic. In terms of spiritual recuperation, people should conform to the nature of winter collection, calm their minds, hide their spirits inside, not expose them to the outside, and prevent bad emotions from disturbing their minds. In your spare time, you can read, listen, close your eyes, etc. In winter, the grass and trees wither, everything withers, and people are prone to depression and other bad emotions. You can spend more time in the sun, actively seek ways to relieve bad emotions, and keep your mood happy and open-minded.
5.Eat a warm diet and take proper supplements. In winter, it is recommended to eat warm foods, such as chicken, mutton, beef, crucian carp, etc., and use stewed and boiled cooking methods. In the cold winter, a bowl of hot soup warms the stomach and nourishes. However, if you eat too much warm food, it is easy to get angry. Therefore, when taking tonic in winter, it can be appropriately mixed with products to remove fire and eat, such as white radish. Adding white radish to the mutton soup can not only ease the greasy taste of the mutton, but also eliminate the fishy smell of the mutton.
In winter, you can eat more flat foods, such as lotus seeds, seeds, yams, jujubes, etc., which have neither the characteristics of cold and heat, nor the lack of greasy. In addition, in winter, the kidneys should be black, and the black should enter the kidneys, so in winter, you can eat more black foods such as black fungus, black sesame, black beans, black rice, black chicken, etc., to nourish the kidneys, and this kind of food has the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting the kidneys, filling in the essence and replenishing the marrow.