February 19 is the rainy season. The so-called "spring rain shocks the spring and clears the valley", rain is one of the six solar terms in spring, ranking second, indicating that spring is coming, everything is beginning to recover, and it needs the moisture of rain. Therefore, the ancients had a poem praising the spring rain that "good rain knows the season, when spring happens, sneaks into the night with the wind, moistens silently".
According to the "Seventy-two Candidate Explanations of the Lunar Order": "In the middle of the first month, the sky is full of water, and the beginning of spring belongs to wood. Therefore, the rain that follows the beginning of spring, and the east wind thaws, then disperses into rain. ”
The Yellow Emperor's Neijing once recorded: "Spring and March, this is the hair Chen, heaven and earth are born, and all things are glorious", and spring "is the wind in the sky, wood in the ground, and liver in the viscera." "The liver belongs to the wood, and it should be spring, so the main theme of spring health preservation is to nourish the liver. Wang Qinghai, a famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Guangdong Province and chief of the cardiovascular department of the Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangdong Province, explained that when the rain is in season, it is necessary to nourish the liver wood to help it grow, so the health preservation during the rain is still mainly to nourish the liver. "However, how to nourish the liver during the rain season is particular. Please keep in mind that rain is healthy, nourish the liver and replenish water first, and make water to strengthen the spleen. ”
Rain solar terms, insufficient water should be used to tonify the kidneys.
The liver belongs to wood, the main water of the kidney, and is the mother of the liver. Liver wood needs kidney water to nourish in order to grow hair, so in traditional Chinese medicine, there is a saying that the liver and kidney are homologous. If you enter the rainy season, the weather is dry, lack of water or the lack of kidney water (such as long-term illness and injury to yin, excessive intercourse or too much thinking and other reasons lead to kidney yin deficiency), can not be covered wood, just like the spring hair, insufficient rain, it is easy to appear soreness in the waist and knees, heat in the limbs, dry mouth, insomnia, forgetfulness, emaciation, anxiety and so on. Therefore, for people with insufficient kidney water, it is more necessary to supplement kidney water to contain liver wood during the rainy season. ）
Wang Qinghai suggested that the following three acupuncture points can be rubbed frequently:
1) Rubbing the Kidney Yu: The Kidney Yu acupoint is the key point for tonifying the kidney, located in the waist, when the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra is under, the left and right sides are opened two inches (two fingers). The method is to stand upright, feet shoulder-width apart, hands outstretched, press the kidney Yu acupoint, up and down, 50-100 times each time, with local fever as the degree. 1-2 times a day.
2) Rubbing the three yin crossing: the three yin intersection is the acupuncture point where the three yin meridians meet, located on the inner side of the calf, the upper edge of the inner ankle of the foot is four horizontal fingers upward, take a sitting position, press this acupuncture point with your fingers, and rub it repeatedly, 50 -100 times each time, 1-2 times a day.
3) Rubbing Yongquan: Yongquan acupoint is the first acupuncture point of the kidney meridian, there is a saying that "the water spring of the underground, born of Tianyi", is located in the soles of the feet, when the five toes of the feet are rolled inward, the depression of the first third of the soles of the feet. Take a sitting position, press this acupuncture point with your fingers, and rub it repeatedly, 50 -100 times each time, 1-2 times a day.
In addition, the recommended dietary prescription for kidney tonic is Cordyceps wolfberry soft-shelled turtle soup.
Ingredients: 3-5 cordyceps, 10 grams of wolfberry, 10 grams of cistanche, 1 soft-shelled turtle (about 500 grams) (1 serving).
Method: Clean the soft-shelled turtle, put it in a pot with the herbs, simmer for about 40 minutes, add a little refined salt to taste.
The rain is too wet and sleeps the spleen, so it is necessary to strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness.
According to the Five Elements, "Mu Ke Tu", while the liver belongs to wood and the spleen belongs to earth. Therefore, it is too easy to restrain the spleen and soil when the liver qi grows in spring. The spleen is mainly transported, one is to transport the water valley, and the other is to transport the water wetness. If the rain is too rainy and the air humidity is too great, the human body suffers from external dampness and internal invasion, trapping the spleen and soil; Or the liver qi is excessively restrained, the water is damp and endogenous, the qi is blocked, and the spleen and stomach transport function is impaired. At this time, the human body is mainly manifested in spleen and stomach sluggishness, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea, drowsiness and fatigue. If there is dampness in the spleen and stomach, and the digestive function of the stomach and intestines is reduced, it is necessary to strengthen the spleen and dissipate dampness.
Wang Qinghai pointed out that in the rainy season, it is recommended to strengthen the spleen, and moxibustion is recommended for three miles. Zusanli is the key acupoint of the Taiyin and Spleen meridians, and it is a necessary acupoint for spleen and stomach health. Take the acupoint in a sitting position, bend the knee, press the knee with the palm of the same hand, take the acupoint at the tip of the middle finger, and use moxa moxibustion once a day for about 30 minutes each time, or moxibustion through ginger, the effect is better.
In the diet, you can also use lean meat, pork bones, optional Huaishan, astragalus, codonopsis, poria cocos, atractylodes, barley and other medicinal materials to make soup and drink. Water dampness sleeps the spleen, drowsiness does not open the mind, sleepiness and heavy body, you can use Huoxiang, cardamom, barley, seeds, lentils, red beans and other soup to drink. ”
The recommended diet for strengthening the spleen and dispelling dampness is lentils, barley and seed porridge.
Ingredients: 20 grams of white lentils, 20 grams of barley, 20 grams of seeds, 30 grams of Huaishan, appropriate amount of millet.
Method: Wash the above ingredients and cook porridge together, 2-3 times a week, which can strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness and help digestion.
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