As the saying goes, "Three nine days will make up for the winter, and there will be no pain in the coming year."

Appropriate supplementation in winter can improve the body's disease resistance.

At this time, people's skin is dense, they sweat less, and the nutrients they ingest are easier to store, laying a good foundation for health next spring and even throughout the year.

"Tonic" is generally used for those with "weak constitution" and the elderly. "Physically deficient" should use appropriate methods to supplement according to their qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yang deficiency, yin deficiency and other deficiencies, in order to receive good results.

Effect: Elderly people mostly suffer from kidney deficiency, so kidney tonifying is particularly important.

There are two main methods of supplementation, one is dietary supplementation, and the other is medicinal supplementation.

Food supplements are particularly important in winter.

Taking supplements in winter can prevent the occurrence of diseases and achieve the purpose of health care. Just as it is said in the "Huangdi Neijing": "Those who store it in the essence will not get sick or warm in spring." This means that taking supplements in winter can store "essence" in the body.

, you won’t get sick in spring.

While taking supplements in winter, you should insist on participating in appropriate sports. This can promote metabolism, accelerate blood circulation throughout the body, and enhance the digestion and absorption of supplements in the gastrointestinal tract, so that they can be better utilized by the body and achieve the purpose of supplementing and benefiting.

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In the cold winter season, the body is in a sealed state, the yang energy is not released indiscriminately, and the spleen and stomach functions are relatively strong. Therefore, this is a good time to nourish yin.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "nourishing yin in autumn and winter" means that it is not advisable to eat cold or raw food, nor is it suitable to eat hot food. It is best to eat meals that nourish yin and subdue yang and have high calories.

Things such as soft-shell turtle, black fungus, lotus root, sesame, etc. are all beneficial foods.

To avoid vitamin deficiencies, consume fresh vegetables.

Such as carrots, green vegetables, spinach and mung bean sprouts.

Winter is the best season for dietary supplements. There is a proverb among the people that "if you take supplements in winter, you will kill tigers in spring." It is especially best to take supplements after the winter solstice.

Because the winter solstice is the dividing line between the climate changes in winter and March, after the winter solstice, the yin energy begins to subside, and the yang energy gradually picks up, and there is lively vitality in the closed storage.

Taking supplements at this time makes it easy for the medicine to be stored and effective. It is the best time to recuperate a weak body.

Winter is the time when the kidneys govern the taste. The kidneys govern the salty taste, and the heart governs the bitter taste. Salty can overcome bitterness.

Therefore, the "Four Seasons Adjustment Photography Notes" points out: "In winter, the kidney water tastes salty, and it is afraid that the water will suppress the fire, so it is better to nourish the heart." Therefore, the taste of the diet should be reduced in saltiness and bitter to nourish the heart qi, so as to ensure the harmony of the heart and kidneys, and eat spicy foods.

The hot product uses pungent to control bitterness, allowing the lung qi to flow directly and strengthening the kidney qi.

Although it is advisable to eat hot food in winter, you should not eat too much hot food, and do not eat too much green onions, so as not to suffocate the underlying yang energy and turn it into heat.

Do not eat sticky, hard, cold food in winter. This type of food is yin and can easily damage the yang of the spleen and stomach. For example, those with kidney yang deficiency often easily cause symptoms such as depression of the middle qi, cold limbs, diarrhea and clearing the grains.

There are three suitable diet regimens: one is porridge. Ancient health experts often advocated drinking hot porridge in the morning in late winter.

According to "Yin Shan Zheng Yao", it is advisable to take mutton porridge in winter to warm and replenish yang energy.

If you add some red dates and red beans to the japonica rice porridge, you can feel warm all over and your energy will double.

There is a folk custom of eating red bean porridge on the winter solstice, "Laba porridge" on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and "eight treasure porridge (rice)" on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month.

In winter, it is advisable to eat oatmeal porridge that nourishes the heart and relieves troubles, radish porridge that eliminates food and eliminates phlegm, yam porridge that nourishes the lungs and stomach, walnut porridge that nourishes yin and strengthens essence, poria porridge that strengthens the spleen and stomach, and jujube porridge that nourishes qi and yin.

, the polenta porridge that is an appetizer, the sweet potato porridge that nourishes the liver and kidneys, etc.

Second, it should be warm and hot, in order to take the meaning of yang producing and yin growing.

For example, it is advisable to eat beef and mutton, dog meat, longan meat, dates, eggs, yams, pig blood, glutinous rice, leeks, etc.

Drinking a small glass of wine every dinner in winter is of great benefit to middle-aged and elderly people in nourishing yin.

Those with fat body should avoid fat, sweet, warm and thick taste.

Among the three suitable nuts, eat more walnuts, chestnuts, pine nuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, black beans, black rice, etc. in winter.

In winter, warm foods such as lamb and chicken are suitable as food supplements for yang deficiency.

People with insufficient Qi and Yin are better off eating duck and goose meat.

"Suixiju Diet Spectrum" points out that duck meat "nourishes the yin of the five internal organs, clears the heat of deficiency and fatigue, nourishes blood and circulates water, nourishes the stomach and promotes fluid production." "Compendium of Materia Medica" points out that goose blood "benefits the five internal organs and relieves the heat of the five internal organs.

There is also a folk saying that "drink goose soup, eat goose meat, and you will not cough all year round."

People suffering from cerebral cardiovascular arteriosclerosis should pay attention to the principles of "low salt, low sugar, low fat, low cholesterol, high protein, and high vitamins" in their diet. In recent years, domestic and foreign experts have confirmed that eating more fish, appropriate tea oil,

Corn oil, rice bran oil, black fungus, etc. are important measures to resist arteriosclerosis, eliminate peroxidized lipids, and prolong life.

The nutritional characteristic of winter diet is to increase calories. Among the three major thermogenic nutrients, the intake of protein can be maintained at the usual required level. The increase in calories should be ensured by increasing the intake of sugar and fat.

Minerals should remain at the usual level or slightly higher.

To increase calories, choose foods with higher fat content.

In the supply of vitamins, special attention should be paid to increasing the content of vitamin C.

You can eat more vegetables such as radishes, carrots, peppers, potatoes, spinach, etc., and fruits such as citrus, apples, and bananas. At the same time, increase animal liver, lean meat, fresh fish, eggs, beans, etc. to ensure that the body is able to absorb vitamin A, vitamin B, etc.

Needs for B1, vitamin B2, etc. The following are recommended winter health methods for you: The main aspects that should be paid attention to are: daily life, nourishing the heart, protecting the kidneys, adjusting food, taboos 1. In daily life, you should go to bed early and get up late, and wait.

Go outside only when the sun comes out.

At the same time, you should also wear more clothes, avoid unnecessary outdoor activities, and prevent excessive consumption of Yang Qi.

2. Nourish the heart. The key to health care is to nourish the heart.

To maintain good health, you must first cultivate a kind and generous heart, so that you can feel at ease and worry-free.