I feel that time flies, and the only thing that hasn't changed is my handsome face.
Recently, many female friends in the outpatient clinic have an obvious problem, they are afraid of cold all the year round and their hands and feet are cold. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, most of them are a manifestation of yang deficiency. With this beginning of winter, I will talk to you about how to keep fit in winter.
Tonifying in winter is a concern of all of us. Tonify yang, spleen and stomach, and kidney. I've been recuperated this winter, and I'll get sick young in the coming years.
First of all, people with yang deficiency, especially female friends, are mostly spleen and kidney yang deficiency or heart yang deficiency.
This kind of people are not only afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, but also often prone to cold pain in the lower abdomen, soreness in the waist and knees, and women often have palace cold and irregular menstruation.
The formation of yang deficiency constitution is closely related to congenital constitution, staying up late for a long time, improper diet, or often eating cold drinks and cold food.
Especially like many women now, in order to pursue beauty, they wear cool clothes, and their bodies are very easy to feel wind evil and cold evil.
As the saying goes, "medicine is better than food." Taking tonics in winter is a very good opportunity to tonify yang. As usual, you can eat more warm foods, such as mutton, dog meat, pork belly, longan, leeks, walnuts, chestnuts and so on.
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Shuanghuang mutton soup (benefiting qi and nourishing blood, strengthening yang and tonifying yuan)
Ingredients: Radix Astragali, Radix Dauci Sativae, Mutton and Radix Angelicae Sinensis.
Practice: cut the mutton into pieces, blanch it, add all the ingredients, and stew it 1 hour.
Of course, people with yang deficiency have a good way to tonify yang, soaking their feet. Soaking feet can strengthen yang and dispel cold. Ginger, Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Cortex Cinnamomi can be added, which is good for people who are afraid of cold and easy to get cold hands and feet.
In addition to nourishing yang, winter tonic is mainly based on strengthening the spleen and stomach and nourishing the liver and kidney.
Kidney is dirty water, which is hidden by the essence of five internal organs. Nourishing the kidney is to hide the yang and prevent it from leaking out.
Winter is also a good time to tonify the kidney, just as Su Wen recorded that "the kidney governs the sting, seals the root, and is refined; Its flowers are in the hair, filling the bones, which is the Taiyin in the yin and the winter gas. "
In winter, the weather is cold, and yang is hidden, and cold corresponds to the kidney, which is the most likely to hurt the yang of the kidney, easily leading to cold pain in the waist and knees, susceptibility to cold, frequent urination at night, impotence and nocturnal emission.
Therefore, it is very important to maintain kidneys in winter. Tonifying kidney in winter can not only enhance the cold resistance of human body, but also improve the immunity and disease resistance of human body and delay aging.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black corresponds to winter and kidney, so we can eat more black food such as black beans, black sesame seeds, black rice, black fungus and chestnut in our daily diet.
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Black bean black chicken soup (tonifying kidney and essence)
Ingredients: black-bone chicken, black beans, red dates, ginger and medlar.
Practice: black beans are soaked in advance, black-bone chicken is blanched, and all materials are added to stew 1 hour.
Acupoint massage also has a certain kidney-tonifying effect. We can massage Shenshu, Mingmen, Yaoyangguan and other acupoints at the waist every day, which can warm our kidney yang.
Nourish liver in spring, heart in summer, lung in autumn and kidney in winter. When to replenish the spleen and stomach? All seasons can nourish the spleen and stomach.
Many people in life always say that they have taken a lot of supplements, but the effect is minimal. In the view of Chinese medicine, this kind of situation is the performance of "deficiency does not make up".
The key to the problem of "deficiency without tonic" lies in the spleen and stomach. Spleen and stomach function is normal, digestion and absorption ability is good, and tonic is effective, that is, "tonic".
People with poor spleen and stomach and indigestion due to spleen deficiency naturally have no influence, but will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach.
Therefore, the key to "being supplemented" or "not being supplemented" lies in the spleen and stomach. For those who don't make up, we should first give the spleen and stomach a conditioning process, so we can eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as yam, poria cocos, white lentils, carrots, millet and so on.
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Shensi zhudu decoction (invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach)
Ingredients: Chinese yam, lotus seeds, poria cocos, Euryale euryales and pork tripe.
Practice: Blanch pork belly and cut into pieces, add all ingredients and stew 1 hour.
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It's the right time for beginning of winter to keep in good health. When he recuperates, the little problems around him will naturally stay away from us.