Spring health care should conform to the characteristics of rising yang and the generation of everything, and "save acid to sweeten and nourish temper".
It is advisable to eat Xin San to facilitate the distribution of liver qi.
It is not advisable to eat acidic products to avoid excessive liver qi and damage the spleen.
Then after beginning of spring, eating bean sprouts (mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, peanut bud, spring buds ...) can generate yang! Beginning of spring eats more bean sprouts, which plays a great role in promoting hair growth and liver yang. Among them, spring buds are the most nourishing liver.
In addition, garlic sprouts, onions, radishes, mustard greens, garlic, leeks, Chinese cabbage, parsley and so on. You can also eat it often, which is intended to dispel the yin and cold and vent the qi of the five internal organs.
Eat more seedlings and more buds, and grow green and smart.
When I was in early spring, some vegetables sprouted. This kind of food is very beneficial to our health. It contains a lot of protein, and it comes from plants, not meat, so it will not increase our burden of digestion and absorption.
Therefore, no matter whether it is soybean, mung bean or pea, as long as it germinates, vitamin C will increase, dietary fiber will also increase, and its protein absorption rate will also increase, which not only supplements nutrition, but also does not increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
Nature also gives us a lot of food, such as bamboo shoots and garlic. Bamboo shoots contain polyphenols and dietary fiber, which is very good for us to supplement nutrition, regulate gastrointestinal tract and our metabolism in spring.
The other is that spring is easy to appear earlier, such as leeks and spinach, which are seedlings and buds that grow earlier, and they are leafy vegetables, which are very, very rich in nutrition and very good for the skin.
Take more vitamins in spring to prevent drowsiness and colds.
Vitamin supplementation can prevent drowsiness in spring and prevent some spring diseases. Vitamins are water-soluble and fat-soluble, as well as vitamins C and B, so which vitamins should be supplemented in spring?
Vitamin C is the first choice, because our skin will be a little dry in spring. Vitamin C can moisturize our skin, and some of our inner mucous membranes and blood vessel walls also need vitamin C nourishment. Moreover, there are relatively few fresh leafy vegetables in spring, so it is very important to supplement vitamin C.
It is also very important to supplement some B vitamins in spring, because B vitamins participate in the metabolism of three major nutrients. Therefore, when you are in beginning of spring, I suggest you eat some coarse grains, which contain more B vitamins and have better absorption rate.
Vitamin supplements should also be balanced. For example, vitamin A is good for skin and mucosa, including vitamin D and vitamin E, which need to be supplemented. In a balanced situation, we focus on vitamins C and B, because they are often overlooked and relatively rare in this season.
The wonderful use of onion, ginger and garlic in sterilization and influenza prevention
In spring, when some viruses are easy to be infected, onions, ginger and garlic are really good bactericidal drugs and drugs to enhance resistance.
Garlic, which we call an underground antibiotic, or more precisely penicillin, shows that it has a certain bactericidal effect. Therefore, in this spring, we are much easier to eat and have more meat. Eating a little garlic at this time is beneficial to the metabolism of fat and reduces the garbage in our body.
If garlic is cooked, its bactericidal effect will be weakened, so when it really plays the most important role in sterilization, it must be eaten raw.
Garlic sterilization depends on allicin. Activate allicin to make it more active. It is best not to eat garlic cloves, because garlic cloves contain a lot of kind of garlic, but their activity is not enough. It is generally suggested that when you want to eat garlic for sterilization, mash it, or cut it into pieces or small particles, and slightly oxidize it in the air, so that its allicin activity will be activated and its sterilization effect will be stronger.
What two things should beginning of spring do well?
1, regulating liver qi;
2, hair yang;
Why did beginning of spring regulate liver qi?
Protecting the liver in early spring is the most effective and necessary for health preservation. Chinese medicine believes that the liver controls the initiative, which is called "just dirty". In addition, the liver belongs to the wood in the five elements, which is the yang in the yin, corresponding to the natural spring.
After a winter of cold weather, people wear heavy clothes, the house has heating equipment, it is hot and dry, and there are many internal fires in the body. When spring comes, people's liver qi begins to flourish. It is a good opportunity to regulate the liver, expel internal fire, turbid qi and dredge qi and blood.
What exactly should I do?
1, stretching-protecting the liver against aging, you should always do it after beginning of spring!
The simplest way to protect the liver is stretching, which is a conditioned reflex of human self-care, especially for the health of the liver.
Because stretching the waist and expanding the abdomen requires the whole body muscles to exert their strength, combined with deep breathing, it has the functions of expelling the old and absorbing the new, promoting qi and blood circulation, and dredging the meridians and joints, which can stimulate the liver function and make the liver "move".
Action essentials:
When stretching, try to inhale; When you relax, relax all your muscles and try to exhale, and the effect will be better. It should be noted that the elderly often do this action, which can increase the elasticity of muscles and ligaments and delay aging.
2. Press Taichong point
When we watch TV, we can beat, press and stretch the liver meridian; Press and knead along the liver meridian. If you have pain points, you must beat, press, rub and moxibustion until it doesn't hurt. Otherwise, you will have a bad liver qi. "Taichong point" is the original point of the liver meridian, and it is also a warehouse for storing the vitality of the liver meridian. Massage or moxibustion for 20 minutes every day can nourish and protect the liver; Before moxibustion, it is best to massage Taichong point for 3 minutes. If your feet consciously and forcibly repeat the grasping action every day, it can also play a role in nourishing the liver.
In addition, beginning of spring protects the liver and pays attention to the following two taboos in diet:
1, beginning of spring diet avoid acid.
After beginning of spring's diet, we should consider the birth of sun be the spirit in spring, and should eat products with divergent sweet taste, not sour taste and bitter taste. In the relationship between five zang-organs and five flavors, sour taste enters the liver and converges, which is not conducive to the growth of yang and the release of liver qi. Dietary recuperation should be given to the viscera, that is, "suffering goes against its nature, so it is desirable." South Shaolin Pyrotechnics and Massage Research Institute suggested that the vegetables with sour harvest properties are: tomatoes, oranges, oranges, grapefruit, apricots, papaya, loquat, hawthorn, olives, lemons, pomegranates and ebony.
2. After beginning of spring, avoid spicy food.
Eat less spicy hot pot, mutton, barbecue and frying: After beginning of spring, eat less spicy food and fried and grilled food. Different from winter, beginning of spring should eat less spicy hot pot and mutton, because these foods may lose yang and lead to excessive internal heat.
Why must beginning of spring be Yang?
Huangdi Neijing "Nourishes yang in spring and summer and yin in autumn and winter". In spring, when the yang of human body rises, we should conform to the yin and yang of heaven and earth, and make appropriate adjustments to it in order to announce Yang Can. At this time, the human body's yang is like a seedling, and qi and blood have already come out from the internal organs. At this time, the weather is still cold, and people who are weak will have weak yang, so some methods are needed to promote the growth of yang.
How to do it specifically?
Because spring is the season when the natural yang rises, at this time, the yang of the human body also conforms to nature and has the characteristics of rising upward and outward, which is manifested in the gradual expansion of pores, vigorous metabolism and rapid growth. Combing hair in spring just meets the requirements of keeping in good health in this spring, which plays an important role in promoting qi circulation, relieving depression, dredging qi and blood, and reaching Yang Qi. The famous ancient book on health care said: "comb your hair one or two hundred times every morning in March in spring" and "dredge the meridians to generate yang and be energetic all day"! So how do you comb your hair? "Five fingers combing your hair" is highly recommended here.
Why do you strongly recommend "five fingers combing your hair"?
One: simple, anytime, anywhere;
Two: the head is the intersection of all yang, and all yang veins of the body pass through the meridians of the head, and combing the hair can help the yang to go up;
Three: early spring is warm and cold, and the human body is vulnerable to wind and evil! The Huangdi Neijing says: "The wind wounded suffer first." In other words, when wind evil invades the human body, the first thing that damages is the head. Cold in the head will not only affect the hair growth of Yang, but also cause various headaches.
Combing your hair can also "reject" wind evil. "ShengJiWei total record? It is recorded in "Fairy Guidance": "The more you comb, the more you must dispel the wind, the blood will not stagnate, and the roots will last forever. "If you can comb your hair evenly and slowly 100 times a day, and ensure that the whole scalp is sparse, it will be perfect.
The best time to comb your hair healthily: morning, noon and evening.
Comb your hair in the morning to make you energetic all day, comb your hair at noon to eliminate noon fatigue, and comb your hair at night to sleep better.
Comb time:
Comb your hair for 5- 10 minutes each time.
Beginning of spring's hair is yang, but we should also pay attention to the following two points:
1, the sun is covered in spring, and the lower part is thick and the upper part is thin.
As the saying goes, "Don't undress in spring, don't wear a hat in autumn", which means don't take off your cotton coat in early spring. In beginning of spring season, the yang is gradually flourishing, but the yin is not exhausted, and it is at the turning point when yin retreats from yang and cold turns into heat.
At this time, the pores of the human body are also in the process of closing to gradually opening, and the resistance to cold evil is weakened. If you wear less, once you encounter a cold, your pores will automatically close, and the yang in your body will not be declared, resulting in the phenomenon of "yang depression". Therefore, keeping warm and cold is still the focus of health preservation in spring. At this time, the clothing advocates "thick on the bottom and thin on the top" to help the spring sunrise.
2, go to bed late and get up early, and be happy every day.
There is a folk saying that "it rains in beginning of spring, getting up early and going to bed late", and it is also recorded in Huangdi Neijing: "Spring in March is called Chen Sheng, heaven and earth are born, everything is glorious, and getting up early at night is the response of spring and the way to keep fit, otherwise it will hurt the liver ...".
After beginning of spring, the sunshine becomes longer and longer, so we should adapt to the sunshine changes in our daily life. Compared with winter, we should go to bed late and get up early, which is beneficial to the growth of yang. Like nature, human qi and blood need to stretch freely, which requires us to overcome the habit of being tired and lazy to sleep, lie down and get up early at night, increase outdoor activities, stretch our bodies, unblock blood vessels and help promote the growth of qi.
At the turn of winter and spring, because the weather is warm and cold at first, the blood circulation is fast and slow, sometimes inward and sometimes outward, and there is a process for the five internal organs to adapt. In this period, people with poor physique and weak adaptability are prone to get sick, so beginning of spring is a relatively easy stage of the year, so we must protect the liver and yang!