The five elements of wood, fire, earth, gold and water, corresponding to the growth and collection of nature, spring belongs to wood, the opportunity of life, and the gas of spring wood has arrived, so it is called Li.
It is said that the plan of the year lies in the spring, and taking advantage of the starting point of spring, we have to think carefully about the health plan of the whole year.
Tao Te Ching says, human law earth, earth law heaven, heaven law Tao, Tao law nature, many times we want to live a healthy life, to conform to the way of nature, first of all, is good at observing and conforming to the changing trend of nature. At this time, the phenology of each solar term can give us a good hint.
At the beginning of the year, the east wind thawed.
Ice, frozen in winter, begins to dissolve in the spring breeze. I don't talk about the spring breeze here, but the east wind, because it is said in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Period" that the East belongs to wood, wood makes fire, and the temperature of the fire can be thawed.
Second, the stinging insect begins to vibrate.
The dormant insects are slowly beginning to wake up.
Three Hou Yu Zhi negative ice.
The ice in the river begins to melt, and the fish begin to swim to the surface, and there are still unmelted crushed ice chips on the surface of the water, floating on the surface as if they are being carried by the fish.
You see, the first thing that came was the spring breeze blowing from the east, and the wind was the first to come with the message of spring, and the ice and snow began to melt and thaw. The hidden insect sensed the breath of the spring breeze and began to slowly wake up. As the snow melts, the fish also float from the bottom to the surface.
The wind is like a command, the spring breeze arrives, and everything senses the yang energy and vitality of spring, and begins to do one thing: wake up and move.
It's the same with people, it's time to tune in. It is necessary to shift from the tranquility of winter to the movement of spring.
So how do we move to dredge the yang energy that has been hidden for a winter? It's easy to say, learn from the tree.
When a tree reaches spring, new shoots sprout from the treetops, snowflakes shake off the branches and leaves, and the ground becomes loose and soft as the snow melts.
We come from head to toe in 4 parts:
Head unblocking
The easiest way to dredge the head is to comb your hair, but the effect of doing it carefully and combing it casually is very different.
In fact, combing hair is also a kind of Taoist massage guidance, which was called sideburns in ancient times. The head is the meeting of the sun, and combing the hair can lift the clear yang and harmonize the hundred pulses. When combing your hair, you should be attentive and focus on feeling your scalp, so that qi and blood will be channeled.
The meridians on the top of the head have a Du pulse in ***, there is a bladder meridian about an inch on both sides of the midline, and the upper part of the ears on both sides of the head is the gallbladder meridian. When we comb our hair, we usually comb it from the front to the back, from the hairline in front to the hairline at the back of the neck.
Persist every day, take time to comb your hair, dispel wind and brighten your eyes, strengthen your brain and soothe your nerves, and dredge your blood. What's more, ** and the hair will slowly give off a healthy shine.
Especially for friends who have hair loss and less hair, take advantage of the opportunity of spring to dredge more blood in the head, and dead wood can still sprout in spring. Take 5 minutes every morning to concentrate on combing your hair, so that the pores of the scalp are more transparent, and there is still hope for hair volume.
Torso dredging
If you don't take care of it well in winter, often stay up late, eat spicy food, and it's time to grow after spring, the qi and blood will not be enough, and the body will be heavy and sleepy, then the following simple stretching action: the wind blows the tree, especially suitable for you.
Stand up, fold your hands above your head, keep your arms straight, close to your ears, bend your waist to the left to the limit, and feel your entire spine stretch to the left, like the wind blowing through a tree. Hold this stretch for 15 seconds, relax, then shift to the right side for the same 15 seconds.
I feel like a big tree facing the spring breeze, slowly doing this action, to feel the stretch of muscles and bones, like waking up from a long dream, everything is fresh, and like a newborn baby, happily exploring the unknown.
This action can stretch the liver and gallbladder meridians on both sides, especially for office workers with high mental pressure, it has a good effect on reducing stress and reducing fire.
Unclogging of limbs
We often say that spring and summer nourish the sun, but few people know that the limbs are the foundation of the sun. In early spring, it is essential to raise hair and maintain yang energy, and dredge the limbs. Among them, the most important and unmissable part is the Eight Voids .
The eight voids are the eight folds of the body. Two elbow fossa, two armpits, two popliteal fossa(behind the knees), and two groins (thighs), it is easy to sweat here, and the qi and blood often do not move, so it is easy to retain evil qi.
The heart and lungs retain two elbows, the liver and gallbladder retain two armpits, the spleen and stomach retain two hips, and the kidneys have two poplites.
The hand is half buckled, and the elbow fossa, axillary socket, two condyles (thigh root), and two popliteal fossa are patted in turn. From light to heavy, two beats from left to right are counted as once, and 36 beats are counted. The elbow fossa is easy to get sha, don't get cold water when the sha comes out, and wait for the sha to fade before patting.
Sometimes, when you feel empty, it's not that you don't have qi and blood, but that your qi and blood are blocked. Give them a pat and activate them. Use a slap board to get more done with less.
This slap board is specially designed to pat all meridians, all silicone material, and you don't have to worry about slapping **.
There is also a little weight on the top, there is a certain sense of slapping on the body, very good control, generally slapping one or two hundred times, the wrist does not feel sore, suitable for those of us with small hands, and there are many small protruding particles on the board, which can better stimulate the meridians.
The points mentioned above that focus on dredging can also be massaged with the protruding pointed part of the handle, and the handle is of moderate length, whether it is slapping the legs or arms, it is effortless.
All silicone material, not afraid of falling, a slap board, the whole family can use.
Padding a towel and patting it with a patting board, the force is more concentrated, and the force penetrates, but the epidermis is not so painful.
Shoot away all the negative energy that is not happy! Looking at those flowers and plants, swaying in the spring breeze, the state of freedom and nature is inherent in every life.
Back unclogging
There will be too much damp and hot gas accumulated in our body, if these are not discharged, it will be blocked in our meridians, especially the bladder meridian on the back, which is particularly easy to block, unconsciously, our back becomes very thick, a pinch is loose and loose fat, the so-called back is an inch thin, longevity for ten years, these damp heat is blocked on the back, can people be comfortable?
The bladder meridian is the longest sewage channel in the human body, the waste of our body, turbidity through the gasification of kidney yang, discharged by the bladder meridian, if the bladder is blocked, then there will be back pain and back stiffness, so the back is particularly important, the so-called winter back, live a hundred years old.
If you have the help of your family, you can pat each other's backs, which is the fastest way to drain the bladder meridian from dampness and heat, but the disadvantage is that you need to cooperate with people, and you can also use your backhand to pat it, or use the way of rolling your back, which can also stimulate the bladder meridian.
Lie on the bed or on the mat, most **, hold your knees with your hands (as pictured), roll back and forth, and roll until your back is hot.
In addition, there is another way to dredge the back bladder meridian, using moxibustion, using the warm properties of mugwort to dissolve the turbidity blocked by stasis. Compared with hot moxibustion, I prefer this cold moxibustion method of wormwood stickers, which can be directly torn and pasted, and there is no need to trouble others for a long time.
This is similar to the principle of warm moxibustion, the black part inside is mixed with a series of warm herbs such as wormwood to make a paste, and it will heat up after a while, which is the heat of the herb through ** into the meridians, the heat overcomes the cold, and also overcomes the dampness, and the places that are blocked inside are dissolved with temperature, and the meridians are dredged.
* This wet paste, mainly with mugwort leaves, mint, Sichuan Wu, dry ginger and other herbs, after the traditional master of the hand boiling, pressed into a cake, and then divided, with microporous non-woven fabric, not stuffy, good air permeability, if **sensitive and easy to allergies, it is recommended to stick a piece on the arm to try it.
It smells of a strong herbal taste, natural herbs, no pollution, all of which have undergone multiple screenings to select high-quality raw materials from the origin to ensure the effect, which can be pasted on our backs and pasted along the route of the bladder meridian to nourish the back. After persisting for a period of time, you will feel that your back is much easier, and the feeling of soreness and stiffness is less, and the warmth is very comfortable.
If you don't know which moxibustion moxibustion is you, you can also compare it with the figure below:
Plantar unblocking
It is too laborious and expensive to go for a pedicure, and the best way to dredge the soles in early spring is to take a walk.
Su Wen: The Great Treatise on the Four Tempering Spirits says: Spring and March, this is the ...... of hairWalk wide in the court, and be slowed down to make Zhisheng. Spring is the season of innovation, so take a walk in the courtyard and spread your hair to soothe your body and grow your mind.
You can also try this professional foot massage board, according to the design of the human foot line, step on it to fit the curvature of the sole of the foot, to ensure that every part can be stimulated, our feet have arches, most of the common methods are stimulated by the center of the foot and heel, the arch of the foot is difficult to stimulate.
This massage board, with the middle part higher than the two ends, can stimulate the arch of the foot well, ensuring that the reflex areas of all the organs in the body can be "stepped on".
Especially for these people:
Edema: People with edema have poor blood circulation, edema of the feet and legs, massage the soles of the feet, dilate the peripheral blood vessels, promote blood flow, and improve the edema of the legs and feet.
Cold hands and feet: cold is born from the feet. By massaging the soles of the feet, more qi and blood flow to the soles of the feet. Thus warming up.
*: The digestive system of liver and gallbladder, spleen and stomach, and intestines have corresponding reflex areas, which can be stimulated by massage, which will effectively regulate gastrointestinal function and promote fat metabolism, thereby improving digestion and body shaping.
Fatigue and high work pressure.
Chronic pain: When the body is relaxed enough, chronic pain also lessens.
Menopausal women: Menopausal women are more likely to have yin deficiency problems, restlessness, fever, etc., through foot massage, you can nourish the kidney essence and make the body less dry.
Poor sleep: Many times, press and press, and fall asleep. It would be better if it was combined with foot soaking.
Weak physique on weekdays: people grow old with their feet first, and people are strong by their feet. Massage the soles of the feet, balance the internal organs, and gradually adjust the weak qi and blood.
Bad spleen and stomach: Many people with a bad spleen and stomach dare not touch the pain on the soles of their feet, and after insisting on massage, some people gave feedback like this: I gritted my teeth and pressed hard for a while, and my stomach obviously felt a lot more comfortable. Later, when the stomach is uncomfortable, and then press the soles of the feet, there is pain, without exception. 」
Easy to get angry and have a bad mood: Bad mood is mostly because the meridians are blocked, so that many small things become big things and accumulate in the body. It is difficult for people with meridians to get angry.
Heel pain, the soles of the feet love to peel: rubbing the soles of the feet, can be well relieved.
People with sedentary back pain: the cervical and lumbar reflex areas of the feet are stimulated, and then improved.
How to press? The massage parlor is very expensive, about 100 yuan at a time, and the technician who meets the bad technique really feels super panicked, and after pressing the drowsiness, he has to force himself to get up and go home. This reflexology board can be said to be very convenient and very in-depth.
The texture is very hard plastic, round and bulging, which can give deep stimulation to the soles of the feet, but the quality is very light, light and waterproof, and it is very easy to take and wipe.
Clearly write the corresponding reflection points in each place, **If you are uncomfortable, press more**.
The advantage of massage shoes is that you can walk at any time, but there is no way to raise the top of your foot and stimulate the soles of your feet with more force. Foot massage board, quietly put there, every time you step on it, there is a special sense of ceremony, left and right, before and after, **if you are uncomfortable, step on it more**.
At home, you can do it at any time when you take a nap in the unit, and you can control the strength yourself, and many people need enough courage just to stand on it, and the users are also fully committed to it.
To get off to a good start in the Year of the Rabbit, we must first have a good spring. The following two points should be paid more attention to, and please also transfer them to the people you care about.
1. Avoid rheumatism
According to the calculation of five luck and six luck, most people are still relatively comfortable this spring. Let's take a look at the original text of the Neijing:
The beginning of the air, the earth is moving, the cold is gone, the spring is positive, the wind is coming, the cloth is all proud, the people's atmosphere is comfortable, the wind and humidity are thin, and the rain is after. People are sick and bleeding, the tendons are strong, the joints are unfavorable, and the body is heavy and the tendons are atrophied.
The first air is the four solar terms of the great cold, the beginning of spring, the rain, and the sting, that is, January 20 and March 20 this year. At this time, the earth climate changes, the cold goes to spring, and the warm spring is not sooner or later, which can be regarded as a positive spring.
The spring breeze is coming, the scene of the restoration of all things, and the people's qi and blood are also relaxed. However, because in the first half of this year, the Taiyin and damp soil was the government secretary, and when we encountered the qi of the wind and wood, the energy of the rheumatism was thin to us, and friends with rheumatism problems, especially the elderly, would have a hard time.
Wind wood corresponds to the liver, so that the diarrhea of liver qi is blocked by dampness, and the liver is the main tendon that stores blood, so it is easy to have nosebleeds, bleeding gums, as well as uncomfortable muscles and bones, unfavorable joints and other symptoms.
To avoid rheumatism do two things:
The first is to keep the environment and clothes dry and warm, and do a good job of spring covering. Don't be in a hurry**, especially pay attention to the warmth of the lower limbs.
The second is to avoid internal dampness, eat more fresh vegetables in early spring, and eat less meat and sweets, which are easy to get damp. Friends who are already damp, such as thick and greasy lace tongue, unformed poop, bad appetite, and fat, make use of tangerine peel (poke the link can be started), soak in water, and boil tea.
2. Avoid the wind.
The most important thing to say at the end is that everyone should remember that the most important thing in the beginning of spring is to avoid the wind! This is the first important point of disease prevention in ancient times. "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" says that "avoiding the wind is like avoiding the arrow", which is exactly the case.
The beginning of spring, the spring equinox, the beginning of summer, the summer solstice, the beginning of autumn, the autumn equinox, the beginning of winter, the winter solstice, these eight major solar terms, is the day of the Taiyi moving the palace, if there is more than 5 windy weather, it is called change, be sure to avoid the wind.
Especially if the wind direction of these eight solar terms is abnormal, such a wind is called the false evil thief wind, which is the most hurtful, and if the righteous qi is weak, it is almost a disease when touched, especially be careful. It is normal for easterly winds and northeast winds to blow in late winter and early spring, but if the southwest wind blows from the west and above level 5, you must take shelter.
So it's best to pay attention to the weather forecast, see the local wind direction, and try not to go out if there is a false and evil wind. If you have to go out, you should also protect yourself more on the road, and focus on protecting your head and neck.
Each seasonal change and the four seasons are the major nodes of nature's changes. Especially at the beginning of the new year, let's dredge the yang energy that has been depressed for a winter and recuperate the body.
The plan of the year lies in the spring, just as we need to clean the house to welcome the New Year, we should also pay attention to cleaning our body and mind. May you and your family have a happy and healthy New Year.