"Neijing" pointed out: "Spring March, this is hair Chen. Heaven and earth are born, everything to glory, night and morning, wide walk in the court, was hair slow shape, to make Zhisheng, born and do not kill, give and do not take, reward and do not punish, this spring gas should be, the way of life; against the injury to the liver, the summer for the cold change, Feng Changzhi, less". Means that the spring three months, is the main newborn, rising season. Nature is in a state of vitality, everything is thriving, flowers bloom, people should comply with the spring of this newborn, rising gas, should also sleep regularly at night, get up early every day, walk in the yard, wearing hair, loose clothing, to stretch the will, do not kill, punish and plunder. Going against this spring regimen may damage the liver and will affect summer regimen, which may lead to some seasonal diseases. Here, the ancients focused on the main points of spring health care from the aspects of living and exercise.
In fact, dietary regimen must also be responsive to the climate change that characterizes spring. The "Zhouli" divided into four medical, which has "food medicine", is to refer to nutritional medicine, indicating that the Chinese ancient people from ancient times attached great importance to the relationship between nutrition and health. But it should be pointed out that, Chinese medicine dietary therapy dietary compared to modern medicine nutrition, has its own set of mature and perfect theoretical system, which was established in the yin and yang, the five elements, the Tibetan elephant meridian, the drug four qi and five flavors of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine on the basis of the food and attach importance to food flavors, balanced nutrition, identification of dietary, etc., the content of the colorful and unique features. Chinese medicine dietary theory of food flavor, not only the nutrient composition of how? It is also necessary to clarify the yin and yang properties of food, such as hot, cold, warm and cool. Spring main hair, you can eat more toon, bamboo shoots and other appropriate food with hair growth, you can drink green tea, mint tea, mulberry chrysanthemum tea, etc., cool and transparent, to prevent spring infectious diseases. At the same time, you can eat more fruits as appropriate, such as snowflake pears, apples, oranges, etc., you can drink lily porridge, porridge with silver fungus, bird's nest porridge, or drink pear juice, almond milk, honey water, autumn pear cream, etc.. For more suitable for the cold winter tonic and mutton, dog meat and other warming effect of meat should eat less or not eat.
For the spring of the disease, such as hypertension blood pressure fluctuations, often with liver fire inflammation, you can use bitter tea, chrysanthemum, etc. to clear the stomach fire, because the bitter tea, chrysanthemum cool can clear the liver fire. Seasonal changes during the common ulcer disease is mostly liver gas offending stomach stomach pain, can use the leaf of Su Ye, Chen Pi, citron, Buddha's hand, moon flowers, etc. to ease the liver and stomach. And for the spring more wind-heat colds, manifested as sore throat, fever, thirst, etc., available honeysuckle, goldenseal, mint and other pungent and cool products, brewing water as a tea to drink frequently, in order to pungent and cool to relieve the table, evacuate wind-heat, clear heat and detoxification, and benefit the throat. Early spring is still cold, more wind-cold cold, manifested as cold, nasal congestion, runny nose, etc., you can use green onion, ginger, Angelica dahurica, Su Ye and other pungent and warm products, or boiled into a tea, or add brown sugar, or eat thin rice porridge, in order to pungent and warm to solve the table, wind dispersal of cold. For cold and wind caused by spring wind cold cold, a bowl of ginger soup, drink and cover the quilt, often can be a sweat and solution.
Additionally, I would like to emphasize here that cold drinks must be avoided after a cold. Because in the clinic can often see because of eating cold drinks, cold food and cold Chinese medicine lead to the case of delay. Chinese medicine believes that colds, whether wind-cold colds or wind-heat colds, are mainly diseases of the body's surface. The Neijing says: "If it is on the skin, sweat it out". The general idea of treatment should be to disperse the wind and evil, should be sweating to relieve the surface, advocating outward dispersion. And "sweating is not far from warm", too much use of cold, will not be conducive to the relief of surface dispersal of evil. In today's mineral water, cola, ice cream, iced tea and other cold drinks, cold food era, people after the cold is particularly easy to eat these cool things to relieve the symptoms of dry throat and mouth. So although you can get pleasure in a moment, but often can be because of cold stimulation, caused by the surface of the evil within the ambush, the disease to go in, the ancients called the "ice ambush evil", especially easy to lead to coughing condition lingering. The cold is not good, and become a cough, eating cold food is really too big a disadvantage.
There are also liver Chinese medicine prescription, such as oatmeal, sesame and wolfberry porridge, mulberry chrysanthemum tea, etc., is more suitable for elderly patients with chronic diseases. Such as liver and kidney deficiency, insufficient essence and blood, often can be manifested as hair loss, whiskers early white, etc., dietary therapy available black sesame, wolfberry nourishing liver and kidney, bruising hair. Ancient Chinese medicine has a famous formula, called "Mulberry pill", is mulberry leaves and black sesame composition, the maintenance of hair has certain benefits. Tea drink should generally drink green tea is good, women who love beauty, you can also drink some appropriate flower tea, you can take rose, moonflower, green plum blossom bubble water as tea, there is a detoxification, menstruation and beauty effect.
Of course, we can't mechanically understand the theory of Chinese medicine's four seasons. Such as the spring Yang Qi rising, the general public can not be warm, but on the plain body belongs to the cold, cold, cold, abdominal pain, like the warm crowd, appropriate warmth is still necessary, still should not be over the use of cool drinks. In short, according to the local conditions, according to the time, according to the individual, individualized health is the essence of Chinese medicine health culture, treatment of Chinese medicine health theory must not recognize the dead.