The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term of the "24 solar terms", which is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere.
The Seventy-two Candidate Explanations of the Lunar Order said: "The winter solstice, in the middle of November, the final hidden qi is at this extreme. The ancients said that the winter solstice was: the solstice of the cathode, the beginning of the yang energy, the solstice of the south of the sun, the solstice of the short day, and the solstice of the long shadow of the sun, so it is called the "winter solstice".
After the winter solstice, the climate everywhere has entered the coldest stage, that is, people often say "into nine", since the winter solstice, "count nine", every nine days for a small section, a total of nine hundred and eighty-one days. There is a folk ballad: "1929 does not shoot, 3949 walks on the ice, 5969 looks at the willows along the river, 79 rivers open, ** Yanlai, 99 plus 19, ploughing cattle everywhere." This ballad vividly reflects the changing seasons at different times.
Sanjiu is the day when the weather is the coldest and the ground has the least amount of heat, so there is also a saying that "it is cold in Sanjiu". Lao Meiling, deputy chief TCM physician of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes of Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, suggested that we should live cautiously, adjust diet, regulate emotions, and pay attention to exercise and health care according to physical fitness.
Go to bed early and wake up late to wait for the sun.
Su Wen: The Great Treatise on the Four Tempering Spirits" in winter and March should "go to bed early and get up late". In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, and the "three nines" after the winter solstice are the coldest times, we should adapt to the time of the day, appropriately adjust the work and rest time, go to bed early to nourish yang qi, and get up late to fix yin essence. However, it is relatively good to go to bed early and wake up late in the morning, and it is generally believed that it is okay to go to bed earlier and wake up half an hour later than usual, and it is not that the more sleep the better. If conditions permit, you can also wait for the sun to rise before getting up, especially the elderly and people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, you can lie on the bed to stretch your waist, rub your arms and legs, and then get up after your body is stretched.
Warm your feet to prevent cold.
As the saying goes, "the cold starts from the feet", and the feet are closely related to people's health. Once the feet are cold, it will lead to a decrease in the body's resistance, causing colds, abdominal pain, low back and leg pain, women's dysmenorrhea and other diseases. In addition to wearing shoes and socks with good thermal performance, we should usually move our feet more, and we can often do running, walking, walking and other sports, and it is best to develop the habit of soaking our feet. Before going to bed at night, soak your feet in hot water, which can not only keep out the cold, but also effectively promote local blood circulation, increase the nutrient supply of your feet, keep your feet soft, and reduce the heaviness of your lower limbs and your whole body fatigue.
Diet and maintenance of kidney essence.
On the day of the winter solstice, because the "true yang in the kidney" sprouts, the kidney is opened, and it is the day of the year that can be replenished into the kidney, so it can be slightly supplemented by the kidney;If the tongue is slightly red, often stays up late, and is prone to repeated fire, take black sesame pills and black sesame walnut paste to replenish kidney yin;If the tongue is pale white, afraid of cold and wind, and cold hands and feet, you can drink white radish mutton soup and eat mutton or dumplings.
In the southern region, there is a custom of worshipping ancestors, feasting, and eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice, and glutinous rice is often used to make the skin of rice ballsLao Meiling said that whether it is dumplings or glutinous rice balls, they are some warm ingredients, which can warm up the body and health care, nourish the spleen and lungs.
To improve immunity, Sanjiu Tianjiu comes to help.
Sanjiu Tianjiu is one of the natural cures of summer diseases and winter treatment, it takes advantage of the specific time when the external environment is the most cold, the human body's yang qi is the weakest, and the yin qi is the most abundant, and applies Xin Wen on specific acupuncture points, expelling phlegm, walking, and passing through the meridians to relieve asthma, so as to stimulate the meridians, invigorate blood and veins, regulate the function of viscera, and achieve the effect of warming yang and dispelling cold and evil in the body, so that the human body's viscera qi and blood yin and yang are harmonized, enhance the body's ability to resist disease, prevent the occurrence of diseases and improve the clinical symptoms of diseases.
This year, the Department of Acupuncture, Pediatrics, Pulmonology and Respiratory Diseases and the Department of Otolaryngology of our hospital will continue to carry out 39 days of moxibustion**. In order to maintain air circulation and avoid excessive queuing of people, citizens who come to Tianjiu** are requested to make an appointment in advance and apply medicine on time.
In the festival of family reunion, I wish you all a healthy winter solstice!
*: Endocrinology and Diabetes.
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