As the saying goes: "Autumn and winter tonics, the next year to fight the tiger". Many Taoist friends want to replenish their bodies through autumn and winter.
Indeed, proper nourishment and adjustment in autumn and winter can make a good foundation for a strong body in the coming year.
There is such a passage in the Yellow Emperor's Neijing: Qi Bo said: Spring birth, summer length, autumn harvest, winter storage, is the constant of qi, people should also be, with a day divided into four hours, the morning is spring, the day is summer, the day is autumn, and the night is winter.
Whether it is nourishing in winter or going to bed early at night, there is a premise of whether it can "work".
For example, the premise of going to bed early at night is whether you can fall asleep, and the premise of winter nourishment is whether you can absorb it.
Su Wen Ling Qiu Donglan Secret Classics said: "Those with a spleen and stomach, the officials of Cangli, have five flavors." ”
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the strength of the physique has a great relationship with diet and rest.
1. How does diet, work and rest affect physical fitness?
The Yellow Emperor's Neijing says: "The five grains are nourishing, the five fruits are helping, the five animals are beneficial, the five vegetables are filling, and the smell is combined to supplement lean qi." ”
Our viscera meridians, body tissues and organs all need to be nourished by diet.
What we eat forms two things, one of which can become tangible and one that can become intangible. That is, "long shape" and "long qi".
1.Elongated
Newborns are actually about 50 centimeters in size, weighing about 5 pounds, they eat and sleep every day, sleep well and eat, through diet and sleep, gradually grow to one meter two three, weighing thirty or forty kilograms of big children, this is the shape has changed.
2.Long gas
The invisible we call it "qi".
When we were children, we struggled to take a bucket, and when we grew up, we could easily carry a bucket or even pick up one or two hundred pounds of heavy objects, this "strength" is invisible to us, and the human body has a certain amount of qi, if it has been consumed, it will face the situation of "death from exhaustion", which is what we often call "breathlessness".
Nowadays, people often feel tired, fatigue, and shortness of breath, and a big part of the problem is diet, which is not absorbed, or the absorption of diet is not good.
2. What factors will affect the effect of "tonic".
1.Eating habits
The spleen and stomach are the foundation of the acquired nature, the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and the things you eat need to be turned into water valley subtleties through the transportation of the spleen and stomach, and transported to the whole body.
Out-of-season food itself is incompatible with heaven and earth, and in the long run, the body will have problems subtly.
The law of man is heaven, the law of heaven and the earth, the law of the earth, and the law of nature" must be in harmony with nature in terms of diet and rest.
Yin and Yang should be like the Great Treatise" "Those who are deficient in essence should make up for the taste." ”
What is eaten is transformed into essence, and essence is then transformed into qi, which is also the embodiment of yang and yin.
Therefore, the premise of winter nourishment is to adjust the spleen and stomach first, and then adjust the appetite, so that you can transform qi and blood, fill qi and blood, and improve your physique.
2.Routine and rest habits
There is "gasification" in the human body and in nature.
For example, when it rains, the sun transpires on the surface of lakes and streams, and the water vapor can rise, and when it rises to a certain height, it will fall into the soil to moisten the vegetation, and finally flow back into the stream.
Such a cycle of "gasification" is created.
If there is not enough sunlight and rain, gasification will not be produced, and there will be problems with vegetation, such as deserts, which are ecological imbalances caused by insufficient "gasification".
The same is true for people, when the vaporization cycle in the body becomes weaker, the resistance will decrease, and they will become unable to withstand the "wind and rain" and be prone to illness.
At this time, we have to raise the "Kidney Yang Fire" of the lower coke, and when it becomes stronger, the fire is full and the water boils, and the essence can be turned into qi, and the qi can rise.
Qi rises in the middle, and the five organs get their nutrients. The air rises on the top, the atmosphere is the most in the canopy, the source of the flower can be lowered, and the things in the middle and bottom are moistened.
Sleeping is a process of retracting qi, which can achieve the state of "returning qi to essence", so as to store essence.
"Urgency" can respond to external reactions, so gasification is absolutely dominant in our lives.
In other words, all of our ** are for the purpose of achieving "fine naturalization" and making the body's own gasification cycle more balanced.