The ancients said that the plan of the year lies in the spring. The Great Treatise on the Four Tempering Spirits also says: "This is said to be Chen, heaven and earth are born, and all things are glorious."
Spring is the beginning of the four seasons, the opportunity for internal pregnancy and ascension, from the beginning of spring to the beginning of summer these three months, is the most important detoxification period of the year, after a winter of storage, the yang energy in the body begins to grow outward, at the same time, the toxins deposited in the body in winter will also be discharged with the function of liver excretion, spring in March, the toxins in the body are discharged, and the health and health of the whole year.
Why is detoxification so important?
It is not difficult to find that the higher the degree of industrialization, the worse the physical fitness of people in the city, the more toxins in the body, and all kinds of problems that we have never heard of when we were children have come out.
We eat all kinds of food containing additives, car exhaust that we breathe into the body every day, smog, pollution, etc., these toxins will continue to accumulate in our body, if we reach a limit value that the body can not load, the body will have big problems and grow things.
And as these toxins accumulate more and more, our ability to react and think will also decline, and it will also accelerate the aging of the body, becoming fat and bloated.
It's like having a bench at home, if we put only one brick on the bench, then the bench will not move at all, if we keep putting bricks, put thirty or forty pieces, or even hundreds, then the bench will reach a tolerable limit, and even if we put a pair of chopsticks on it, the bench will collapse.
So some of our bad habits plus time, will lead to our health getting worse and worse, people say that when we are old, all the diseases will come, and it is uncomfortable anywhere, in fact, when we were young, we did not take good care of it, and we did not regularly discharge these toxins from the body, so when we are old, when the time comes, these toxins have accumulated to the limit that the body can bear, so it will collapse.
These 3 habits make the body more and more "poisonous".
Fat, sweet, and greasy, the diet is cold
There is a saying that the disease comes from the mouth, and the fried barbecue, hot pot skewers, dessert cakes and other fatty and greasy foods that we eat are often indigestible by our spleen and stomach, and these can not be metabolized out, and the food residues excreted out will become phlegm dampness, dampness and heat and other garbage over time, which will accumulate in the body, and the "swimming ring" on our stomach has a close relationship with these.
And now many people in order to eat taste, will add a lot of additives to the food, these are harmful to the body, even if our liver is responsible for detoxification, spleen and stomach are responsible for digestion and absorption, but a large number of frequent consumption of these, our liver and spleen and stomach will be overloaded, after a long time will "strike", which also leads to the accumulation of garbage toxins in our body.
There are also some people, although they don't like these fatty and greasy foods, but they only like "cold food", cold fruits and vegetables, all kinds of cold drinks, ice cream, but these cold are the "culprits" of the formation of wet and cold garbage in our body. A sentence that teachers used to say before was that blood coagulates when it encounters cold, and the qi and blood in our body will slow down when it encounters these cold, and the meridians will also be blocked by these cold and dampness.
She said that no matter how hot the weather is and how hungry her mouth is, she will never touch a cold drink, and her children will not eat a cold drink. Regardless of men and women, if they like to eat cold, then the body is easy to become phlegm and dampness, easy to lack of qi and blood, and cold hands and feet.
I often stay up late and get more and more stupid
According to research, it only takes one night of poor sleep quality to change our brains, and if it is a long-term lack of sleep, it can lead to excessive fatigue in our brains, memory loss, and reduced intelligence.
The brain is the most important organ of our human body, and it is also the organ that consumes the most energy, although it only accounts for 2% of our body weight, but it consumes 25% of the body's energy, and in the process of brain work, it also produces a huge amount of metabolic garbage. The main tube that cleans up this part of the garbage is our cerebrospinal fluid, but cerebrospinal fluid only works when we sleep.
Because the brain is in a state of annoyance when people are awake, the "cleaner" of cerebrospinal fluid cannot enter the site to clean up the garbage, and it can only start working in the dead of night when we are asleep. In addition, studies have shown that during deep sleep, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) will open up high-speed mode to remove garbage, which can discharge more than 10 times more garbage than usual.
But don't think that this part of the brain is not important, it will reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease! Generally, people with Alzheimer's disease will have long-term sleep problems in the early stage, and due to poor sleep, the brain cannot clean up the garbage, which is easy to cause!
Sullen, emotional garbage
I saw a news before, a young mother jumped off a building with her 2-year-old daughter, and her life was gone, which required a lot of courage, according to news reports at the time, that the mother had postpartum depression before her death, and had just quarreled with her husband before jumping off the building.
This extreme practice happens from time to time, and a large proportion of people in modern times have emotional problems. If you can't be happy all day long, you are depressed, or you think too many things, and you are under the pressure of anxiety and tension all the time, and this invisible emotional problem will also produce a lot of garbage toxins.
The Yellow Emperor's Neijing also said, "Yu knows that all diseases are born from anger, anger is angry, happiness is slow, sadness is dissipation, fear is anger, cold is angry, Jiong is angry, shock is angry, labor is exhaustion, thinking is angry." "All our grievances and unhappiness will be remembered by the body.
These emotional garbage, the easiest to find viscera is the liver, the liver is drained, so it has been depressed, it is easy to stagnate liver qi, just like Sister Lin in "Dream of Red Mansions", it seems that there is a lung problem, but in fact, the source lies in the liver, long-term depression, liver qi discomfort, liver qi stagnation, often the most able to crush a person.
Roughly calculated, our body produces so many garbage toxins every day, so take advantage of spring and March, the season of innovation, to detoxify the body and clean up the garbage. If you divide it according to the viscera, you can mainly clean up these 4 places where garbage is most likely to accumulate.
4 key areas to clean up your body junk
One. Brain garbage – to clean up the need to go to bed early
Sleep problems have become the primary problem of modern people, they can't sleep at a young age, and even if they fall asleep, they always dream a lot, and when they wake up, their bodies are tired, but they are more tired.
I stayed up for half a month with my friends before, and I could only go to bed at two or three o'clock every night, but my complexion during that time was very poor, my face was like a layer of gray mist, dark circles, eye bags, and reaction ability was very slow, a little thing needs to be thought about for a long time, and my temper is not controlled, and I am particularly irritable, which is caused by lack of sleep.
Many people say that if you don't sleep at night, it's always okay to make up for sleep during the day, right? The answer is: no!
The damage caused by not sleeping at night is irreversible, during the day our yang energy needs to rise, if we can't afford to stay in bed, it will kill yang energy twice, if we don't sleep at night, we will consume yang and hurt yin, and we can't afford to do it during the day, and continue to consume yang, so we will sleep more and more tired. And it's not that our brains are free of garbage when we lie down to sleep, if we want to think quickly and flexibly, deep sleep is also very important, if you often dream, it is easy to wake up, in fact, most of the time is ineffective sleep.
If you want to sleep better, try these 3 methods:
**Relaxation Method:Many people can't sleep well, in the final analysis, because there are too many distractions in their hearts, and if the heart is not quiet, they will not sleep. Some specific sounds can help us stop those chaotic thoughts, such as the sound of rain, the sound of the waves, the sound of the pigeon cooing, these natural sounds can calm our body and mind quickly, or listen to some soft lullaby, a prelude to healthy sleep, and also help us sleep.
Sleep:The fast-paced life makes people stressful, a lot of pressure can easily affect sleep, and poor sleep will affect the next day's work status, try this sleep exercise, relax the whole body, sleep more soundly.
Kneeling:Kneel on your knees like a tatami mat and slowly lie back, stretching your arms back as well, and do it again after 30 seconds. If you are a typewriter who sits in front of a computer for a long time, this action is very helpful for you, it can relax the muscles in your arms and exercise your abdomen.
Scissor Foot Pose:Lie flat with your right foot raised at 90 degrees and your left foot at 30 degrees. Hold your feet at 90 degrees with your hands straight, and your back straight, hold one movement for 30 seconds, and then do it again. It can allow the meridians of our thighs to be stretched well.
Knee hug:Stretch the muscles at the back of your thigh by lying flat on your back and holding one of your knees as far as you can towards your body and the other foot straight.
Ankle Pose:Holding your hands on the ground, keeping your feet straight, and pushing your toes to stretch forward and in your own direction can effectively relieve the pressure on your ankles.
3.Foot Bath Relaxation:Soaking our feet in hot water half an hour before going to bed can promote qi and blood circulation and make us sleep more soundly. As the saying goes: "A pot of soup before going to bed is better than a prescription." "Traditional medicine believes that the nose is the root of the seedlings, the ears are the root of the divine machine, the milk is the root of the sect qi, and the feet are the root of the essence of the qi. The nose, ears and breasts are the three fundamentals of the human body, and the feet are the source of the body's essence.
The feet are the base camp of yin blood, and the three yin meridians are gathered here (Zushao Yin and Kidney Meridians, Zutai Yin and Spleen Meridians, and Zuque Yin and Liver Meridians) kidney blood, liver Tibetan blood, and spleen blood. Therefore, soaking your feet in hot water not only relieves fatigue, but also helps you sleep. Many people can't sleep well in spring, this is because the liver and gallbladder qi disorder, we can add some herbs that can adjust the qi, dispel dampness and dissolve phlegm when soaking our feet, so that the qi in our body is smoother, and the qi in the body is warm.
The recipe for this warm bile soup is particularly recommended, which was originally created by Yao Seng Tan, a physician of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the formula is: 30 grams of Poria cocos, 6 grams of Banxia, 6 grams of Citrus aurantium, 6 grams of boiled licorice, 9 grams of tangerine peel, and 6 grams of Zhuru.
There are many meridians on the soles of our feet, and the absorption of these herbs is better, we can match them according to the above ratio, when soaking, we only need to cut these herbs that we bought back, which is conducive to the release of ingredients, and boil these herbs with boiling water before soaking, so that you can directly absorb the nutrients in the herbs when soaking.
If you are too lazy to match yourself, you can also prepare a few boxes of this kind of well-matched warm gallbladder soup foot soaking bag, all the raw materials are cut into pieces and packed into non-woven bags, and you don't need to calculate the proportion when soaking, just take out a pack and put it in the foot soaking bucket, saving time and effort.
It is all matched according to the ancient recipe ratio, in which the citrus aurantium is used to break the qi, go down, just like the march to fight, there is always a need for the vanguard of the siege, the citrus aurantium takes the lead, and the sentence is not broken and not standing, the original liver and gallbladder qi disorder, the state of stagnation, and the state of phlegm and dampness in the body are also broken.
Banxia dissolves dampness and dispels phlegm, plus the tangerine peel that regulates qi, just like the main force of the siege, because the front citrus aurantium has straightened out the qi mechanism in our body, Banxia and tangerine peel can be used to remove phlegm, dampness, cold and stagnation in the spleen and stomach with a clear goal. Banxia's qi is downward, and the turbidity yin goes out from the lower orifices, and after Banxia dissolves the phlegm in our abdomen, it is discharged downward.
Poria cocos spleen dampness, Zhuru is mainly phlegm and heat, these two are considered aftermath, wait until the first half of the summer and tangerine peel phlegm are phlegm, these sticky phlegm will become easy to discharge dampness, at this time relying on Poria cocos and Zhuru, you can discharge these dampness in one go. Moreover, in spring, the liver is hot, and the bamboo ru clears the heat, which can extinguish the stagnation of fire in our body and clear it out.
Moxibustion licorice is responsible for harmonizing the above 5 herbs and allowing them to work together, so soaking our feet with this formula can reduce stomach qi, dispel dampness and phlegm, and smooth the qi of our whole body. When the qi in the body is smooth, we will not think about the east and the west. The herbs inside are all natural, no sulfur smoked and no over-processing, only the crushing step, cut open a package to see the real herbs inside, the taste is rich, not choking.
It is also recommended to boil the foot soaking bag in advance, and then pour it into the foot soaking bucket together with the foot soaking bag and the soup, the water level is recommended to be lower than the calf, and it is normal to burp and fart after soaking, indicating that the qi in our body is cleared. This recipe has citrus aurantium, which is breathless, so pregnant women should not use it, and children under the age of eight are not recommended to use it, but other than that.
Two. Emotional garbage - cleaning up needs to soothe the liver
In spring, many people's emotions are uncontrollable, they can't control their temper, and they are also prone to sullenness and sadness, all because of uncomfortable liver qi. It can also cause us to be tired and weak, have pain in our ribs, and have a bad appetite.
Spring is the season of liver and gallbladder qi growth and relaxation, if the emotion is depressed, the liver qi will be difficult to grow, so it is congested in the chest, causing stagnation of qi and blood, or turning into internal fire, if the mood is impatient, always angry, the liver qi will grow excessively, causing us to increase blood pressure, dizziness, so spring to soothe the liver, help the liver to detoxify.
Share a simple and fast-acting method to soothe the liver, patting the liver meridian + qi massage.
The liver and gallbladder meridian is on both sides of our thighs, the liver qi is stagnant or the liver is hot, and the toxins in the body are stagnant in the liver meridian, then the liver meridian must have stasis points, we manually help it dredge it, and the emotions will have a vent.
We can follow the route of the liver and gallbladder meridian shown in the picture below, from top to bottom, you can use your hands to beat, you can also clench your fists to beat, if you feel like me don't need to use your hands hard or your hands hurt to beat, you can also prepare such a silicone patting board.
Silicone material compared to those wood, plastic, the protection of ** is better, patting will not be painful to bear, and the elasticity is better, so that the wrist is more labor-saving, like the usual patting dredging, I generally start with 200 times, and the wrist will not be very sour when patted.
It is 360° bendable, not easy to break, even if it accidentally falls to the ground, it can be used by wiping, such a silicone slapping board will not be a problem for decades.
And there are many small protruding dots on the board, which can deepen the stimulation of our ** and meridians, and you can feel it when you beat it on your body, this force is penetrating inward, and the liver meridian is seriously blocked.
When encountering particularly serious stasis, you can also use the tip of the handle to dredge, which is more convenient, and the length of the handle is also appropriate, and it is more labor-saving to beat, not only our liver and gallbladder meridians, but also more convenient to dredge the back in the future.
In addition to dredging the liver and gallbladder meridians, we can also press the place between our big toe and the second toe, which is a place on the liver meridian that is very easy to stasis, especially when our ribs are swollen and painful or the chest is blocked, when we are angry, push here, and it can also regulate liver qi.
Three. Spleen and stomach garbage - cleaning needs to be dredged
There is more garbage in the spleen and stomach, people can't go without food for a day, so these fatty, sweet and greasy foods we eat, and various additives of food, will remain in our spleen and stomach, turning into phlegm and dampness and other garbage, endangering our health. Therefore, more and more people have bloating, food accumulation, loss of appetite, etc., all because we have too much garbage in our spleen and stomach, and it is too congested.
When our spleen and stomach are blocked, we can't go down, and it is easy to go up, then there will be bad breath, acne on the face, etc., and our belly will get bigger and bigger, and the layer by layer "swimming ring" is not only embarrassing to wear clothes, but also very harmful to the body.
Rub your belly frequently
If we want to expel these stagnant garbage toxins, we can rub our abdomen more before going to bed to rub away the phlegm and dampness blocked in the abdomen, so that the turbidity can be discharged downwards and the upper and lower qi machines can be connected. From the perspective of the meridians, behind us are the Du meridian and the bladder meridian, and in front of us are the Ren meridian, the kidney meridian, the stomach meridian, the spleen meridian, and the liver meridian.
Yin and yang, the inside and the outside, qi and blood all have a junction in the abdomen, and there is a very important place in the abdomen called dantian, which is the total engine of the human body, and after this engine is started, its power is very large.
The technique of rubbing the abdomen, one should be lightly kneaded, the second should be tight, and the third should not be rubbed violently, according to the clockwise or counterclockwise direction to knead, it is best to lie down and knead, which is the most relaxing of our abdomen.
We can follow the method shown below to knead, and it is best to knead once every morning when we wake up and before going to bed, 30 laps each time.
Clench your hands into fists and massage them in a clockwise circular motion around our navel.
With the palms of the hands as the contact surface, start from the ribs on both sides and push in the direction of the navel to form an inverted triangle route.
Start in our heart sockets and massage all the way down to the navel.
There are many people who will burp and fart after rubbing their abdomen, which is a proof that the clear qi rises and the turbidity decreases.
Eat some chicken gold
In addition to helping our spleen and stomach to demobilize from the outside and rub away these cohesive moisture, we can also use food to unblock the stasis in the spleen and stomach and expel these garbage toxins.
Among them, chicken gold is a very good ingredient, it is a layer of yellow film in the chicken gizzard, the older generation knows, usually eat support, stomach swelling, will be sun-dried chicken gold grinding into powder, add to the meal to eat together, in fact, chickens, ducks and geese have inner gold, but only chicken inner gold is the best.
We all know that chickens peck around on the ground all day long, sand, stones, insects, rotten mess and eat everything, but no matter what you eat, it can be digested, so the ancients took a fancy to this characteristic of chicken gold, conducted research, and then applied it to our human body.
Zhang Xichun, a modern Chinese medicine master, is very good at using chicken gold to nourish the spleen and stomach, and the following few short stories can be read by interested friends.
Chicken gold is so good, but why do many people still not know it? Because although the effect of chicken gold is good, the taste is very unacceptable, fishy and bitter, many people are not used to eating it, even if it is put in the porridge, it can't suppress the fishy smell, so many people give up.
In order to make the chicken gold delicious, we have made a lot of efforts, and finally after many times of blending, we have developed this crispy and crispy chicken gold yam cake, using the natural wheat fragrance and sesame aroma to cover up the original taste of chicken gold, and for the needs of modern people's spleen and stomach, add yam and poria cocos, and finally after hand-branding, make a piece of thin and uniform, crispy and slag chicken gold yam crisp cake.
The yam inside is the Wenxian Langtu iron stick yam, the nutrition is better, the maintenance of the spleen and stomach is also better, the spleen and stomach are strengthened, the yam is beneficial to the lungs, the yam is to nourish the spleen and yin, and it is very mild, tonic but not harsh, and it will not be greasy to eat.
In addition, it also added the dampness and turbidity of Poria cocos, Yunnan high mountain Poria cocos, natural sulfur-free smoke, authentic natural taste, although the taste of Poria cocos is light, but its dampness effect is not said, can dissolve the phlegm and dampness in our body, and discharge it through urine.
Sesame seeds have the effect of nourishing qi and blood, nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, and the calcium content is also high, whether it is the elderly or children, it is very good to eat sesame seeds to supplement nutrition.
Finally, this flavor of chicken inner gold, the selection of more than three years of local chicken inner gold, the effect of turbidity dredging is better, after drying and frying, polished into fine powder, to minimize its original fishy bitter taste.
Finally, it is blended with wheat flour, sugar-free and low-fat, without miscellaneous additives and preservatives, so you can eat with confidence! After hand-baking, each piece of cake is covered with sesame seeds, and when you bite into it, the wheat and sesame aroma fill the mouth, with a faint salty taste, and it is so delicious that you can't stop every time, and even the children at home like to eat it.
2 3 tablets a day, comfortable in the stomach, no sucrose, even if you can't eat sweet friends can eat with confidence, crispy and chewy without teeth!
Four. Environmental garbage - clean up to moisten the lungs
If the above three kinds of garbage are related to some of our bad habits (staying up late, eating poorly, and being angry), then the other one is an external factor that we can't get rid of, that is, the "garbage" generated by the environment.
Some people say that no matter how bad the external environment is, what does it have to do with me? As long as my home is clean, it is fine, but when we go out, it is impossible to be alone, breathing in the air, haze, car exhaust, industrial pollution, etc., will affect our body.
Especially in spring, this strong wind carries all kinds of pollutants and dust, and we feel it first when we breathe! The lungs are the main qi, the breath, and the nose is open, so in the spring, our throat is dry, the throat is sore, and the cough is constantly coughing. This throat is like a fish bone, I can't spit it out and swallow it, and I feel like I can't breathe smoothly.
Every morning is hoarse throat, and I am often awakened by thirst in the middle of the night, if it is allowed to develop, these garbage toxins accumulate in our lungs, and the lungs will become more and more "dirty", then it will manifest as a problem with the respiratory system. In addition, the work pressure is high, staying up late overtime, and a little cold, you may catch a cold and fever, especially the children at home, who have many breathing problems in the spring.
And for some old smokers, the lungs are average, plus the spring is windy, the spring dryness is serious, the fire, sore throat is commonplace, the lungs are delicate, and everyone is beautiful, with the accumulation of toxins and garbage, it will be more obvious.
So if you want to clean up the garbage for the lungs, you need to moisturize it more, as the saying goes, white into the lungs, eat more white food, can nourish our lungs. Share several kinds of white foods that can be eaten in all seasons to nourish your lungs and clean up your garbage.
Lotus seeds: nourish yin and clear heat, and the taste is sweet and flat, suitable for all ages, the effect of lotus seeds to clear heat is very good, especially lung heat, always cough on fire, at this time eat some lotus seeds can clear the lung fire.
Tremella: Dried Tremella is available all year round, and it is high in nutrition, low in calories, moisturizing yin and dryness, not greasy and stagnant, and has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat.
Barley: Barley is cool, can dispel dampness and reduce turbidity, like we inhale so many pollutants every day, we need to have an ingredient that can reduce turbidity to help us clean up the body, and barley can push these turbidity to go down and discharge through urine.
Lily: It can help detoxify the body, not only moisturize the lungs, but also have the effect of soothing the liver.
We can cook these ingredients into porridge and soup, eat them alone or in combination, if you are too lazy to study the combination, you can also try this white cake containing more than ten kinds of heat-clearing and moisturizing ingredients. The ingredients include yam, barley, lotus root, lily, white fungus, osmanthus, fat sea, loquat, pear, mint and so on.
Loquat nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records, loquat can "quench thirst, benefit lung qi, stop vomiting", can be eaten directly, or made into a variety of paste, added in pastries is really uncommon, but with the addition of loquat, the effect and taste of moisturizing and nourishing yin are better.
Lotus root powder clears away heat and removes dryness, which is suitable for people with relatively hot and dry bodies; Pears nourish yin and moisten the lungs, nourish the stomach, can also dispel phlegm and heat, and sweet and delicious, the wind and dryness in spring are very heavy, eat some pears to moisten the lungs, so that the body can also be more refreshing.
Peppermint cools and dissipates heat, has a strong mint fragrance, this aroma can also soothe people's nervous emotions, and it also has a divergent effect.
Osmanthus is warm and cold, wolfberry nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, with lilies and fat seas, the heat in the lungs can be cleaned out.
The soft and glutinous pastries are full of Q bomb, all the ingredients are beaten into very fine powder after breaking the wall, and the eating is also delicate and smooth, not at all, and vitamin C is specially added to meet our daily nutritional needs.
This pastry uses maltose, which is healthier than white sugar, olive oil, low-fat nutrition, delicious and not afraid of fat! The process of low-temperature baking, lock the nutrients in the ingredients without loss, the pastries that come out of this way are not hard, and the elderly can also chew rotten, each one is an independent small package, clean and hygienic, and easier to store, 2 or 3 pieces a day, while enjoying the deliciousness, it can also supplement nutrition and clear the garbage in the body.
Spring, the season suitable for detoxification, can focus on clearing our spleen, stomach, liver, lungs and brain of garbage, garbage clearing, body refreshment, in order to be healthy for a whole year.