1, spring health tips
1, daily life: Neijing pointed out that in spring and March, "lie down at night and get up early, and walk widely in court." In spring, you should go to bed early and get up early, do more outdoor activities, stretch your body, conform to the characteristics of the liver, and prevent the liver from flourishing the spleen. This can make you more energetic, reduce drowsiness, enhance your heart and lung function and enhance your immune function. In addition, we should keep enough exercise at ordinary times, which can strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase the secretion of digestive juice, promote the digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients, improve the blood circulation of gastrointestinal tract itself, promote its metabolism and delay the aging of digestive system. Such as walking, jogging, playing Tai Ji Chuan and yoga.
2. Diet: Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, once pointed out in Qian Jin Fang that spring diet should "save acid and increase sweetness to nourish temper". It means to eat less sour food and more sweet food in spring to replenish the spleen and stomach of human body. Experts and doctors say that the diet should be regular, with regular meals and no overeating. Commonly used foods include yam, glutinous rice, day lily, mushrooms, chicken, quail, goat's milk, onion, garlic, lobster sauce, etc. to meet the needs of the body and keep the stool smooth; Avoid eating cold and bitter cold, greasy, minerals and other indigestible foods to hinder the spleen.
3. Emotion: In addition to diet and daily life, emotion is also very important. Expert doctors say that Chinese medicine believes that happiness hurts the liver, anger hurts the spleen, sadness hurts the lungs, and fear hurts the kidney. Under normal circumstances, everyone has mood swings, which is a physiological reaction of the human body. As long as it is properly controlled, it plays a coordinating role in the physiological functions of the body and will not cause disease. However, if the emotion is excessive and lasts for a long time, which exceeds the body's endurance, the five internal organs will suffer internal injuries. In spring, when yang rises, we should carefully nourish the qi, always maintain a kind and tolerant state of mind, so as to make the heart calm and the liver fire disappear, so as to nourish the spleen and stomach, make the spleen and stomach transport and transform normally, and achieve the purpose of strengthening the spleen.
4. Acupoints: Experts say that if there is something wrong with the spleen meridian of the foot Taiyin, there will be abdominal distension, loose stool, diarrhea, epigastric pain, belching and weakness. In addition, strong pain at the base of tongue and swelling of the inner side of lower limbs all show that the spleen meridian of foot Taiyin is out of balance. Might as well try the method of acupoint massage. Commonly used acupoints include Sanyinjiao, Yinlingquan and Xuehai. The acupoints of this meridian can treat digestive system diseases such as spleen and stomach.
Finally, experts said that nourishing the spleen and strengthening the spleen is not a one-off event. It needs long-term persistence, and the effect of soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen will be significant. In addition to the methods mentioned in the article, we can insist on drinking a cup of hot water every morning to help the physiological function of the spleen. In addition, once spleen deficiency is found to be more serious, experts and doctors suggest that we should go to a professional hospital for examination first, and after finding the root cause of spleen deficiency, we should take care of it in combination with my physical condition, so as to fundamentally solve the problem and never prescribe it by ourselves.
2, spring health recipes
1. Fried shrimps with celery and lily
Efficacy: Lily has the effects of clearing fire, moistening lung, calming nerves, moistening dryness and clearing heat, while celery has the functions of lowering blood pressure, calming, invigorating stomach and diuresis, and the combination of the two can beautify and slim down.
Ingredients: celery, fresh lily, red pepper, shrimp, egg white12, ginger slices, salt, chicken essence, water starch and a little sugar.
Practice:
Washing celery, removing roots, and cutting with oblique knife; Cut off the root of lily, break it into small petals and wash it; Wash the red pepper and slice it. Shell the fresh shrimps, wash the dried shrimps, add a little salt, cornmeal and 1/2 egg whites, and marinate for 15 minutes. Heat the pan with oil, saute ginger slices, and add celery to stir fry. Then put the red pepper and shrimp into the pot and fry together. Put the new lily into the pot, add some salt, chicken essence and a little sugar and stir-fry to taste. Pour in a little water starch and thicken.
2. Red dates and tremella soup
Efficacy: tonify deficiency, invigorate qi, nourish blood, soothe nerves, strengthen spleen and regulate stomach.
Ingredients: tremella, red dates, old rock sugar.
Practice: Cut the tremella into small pieces, remove the roots, add the soaked tremella (soaked overnight), sieve and wash the soaked tremella, drain the water for later use, cut the big red dates into small pieces, remove the stones, add water to the soup pot and add the red dates, add the soaked tremella after boiling, cook for 40 minutes on slow fire, then put the old rock sugar in and let it cool.
3. Braised rapeseed with mushrooms
Efficacy: rape is cool, sweet and bitter, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing blood and reducing swelling; Lentinus edodes has the functions of invigorating qi, tonifying deficiency, treating wind and breaking blood, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach, and is suitable for patients with hypertension.
Ingredients: 200 grams of rape, 200 grams of fresh mushrooms, a little onion and ginger, 4 grams of salt, and appropriate amount of water starch.
Practice: wash the rape and control the water, wash the mushrooms, draw a cross knife on the mushrooms, blanch in the water (add a little salt and peanut oil to the water), and put it out for use; Add oil to the hot pot, add a little chopped onion and ginger to the wok, and then add rapeseed and stir-fry until the rapeseed begins to soften; Add mushrooms, add salt and stir-fry minced onion and ginger for 30 seconds; Finally, add water and starch, thicken and take out the pan (the water starch should be thinner, not too thick).
3, the elderly spring health taboo
1, avoid sleeping too much.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lying down for a long time will hurt the gas, sleep too much, and you will fall ill without illness. Therefore, the elderly should pay attention to going to bed early and getting up early in spring, and should "lie down at night and get up early, and walk widely in court", that is, stay up late, get up early and go out for a walk, so as to adapt to the vitality of spring, absorb the vitality of nature and keep people energetic. It is necessary to ensure adequate sleep and prevent excessive sleep. Generally, you can sleep for 8 hours every day. Old people often feel sleepy, unable to wake up in the morning and sleepy after waking up. This phenomenon is commonly known as "spring sleep". To adapt to this physiological change, you should get up early and stretch your body. This can not only maintain energy, but also provide a maintenance environment for the body.
2, avoid being lazy in activities.
When you go outdoors, you can breathe fresh air to your heart's content, exhale foul air in your body, and enhance your cardiopulmonary function. It can also kill bacteria and viruses on the skin and enhance the immunity of the body. The movement should be stretched, smooth and slow, just like the germination of a hundred herbs, the wind swinging willows and splashing water. The amount of exercise should not be too large, so as not to sweat and hurt the sun's spirit, and to be energetic, relaxed and comfortable after exercise. Generally speaking, it is better to choose simple and interesting activities, such as walking, jogging, flying kites, swinging, etc., and the elderly can also choose some simple health-care exercises, such as Tai Ji Chuan and Yijinjing.
3, avoid improper clothing.
Although spring is warm, the elderly should not take off their clothes too early or too late. Because the temperature in early spring is warm and cold, cold and hot, they should be properly covered for a period of time so that all parts of the body can adapt, so as to prevent catching cold and catching cold. Especially the elderly, with weak qi and sparse bones, poor disease resistance, a little cold, are prone to chronic diseases. Because sudden cooling will cause vasospasm, blood viscosity, slow blood flow and organ ischemia, colds, pneumonia, tracheitis, asthma, arthritis, migraine and coronary heart disease will follow. Therefore, at this time, we should keep out the wind and cold, and prepare clothes at times. When it is warm, it is easy, and cotton-padded clothes can't be eaten. In spring, the clothing style should be loose and stretched, and pure cotton fabric is good in moisture absorption, warm and close to the skin, which is a suitable material for underwear.
4, avoid cold food.
Due to the acceleration of human metabolism and the corresponding increase in nutrient consumption in spring, we should eat more nutritious products, such as soybean sprouts, wheat, jujube, lean meat, fish, eggs and so on. It is also advisable to eat more nutritious and digestible light food. Because there are few fresh vegetables in winter and the intake of vitamins is insufficient, the internal heat accumulated in a winter should be distributed, so we should eat more fresh vegetables, such as bamboo shoots, rape, spinach and so on. Do not eat or try to eat cold food as little as possible, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and cause diseases. There is generally no need for tonic in spring.
5, avoid going around.
In spring, most elderly people think it is a good time to go out for a walk, but it is not. Spring is a period of frequent epidemics, and the immunity of the elderly is reduced, so it is easy to be infected. During the epidemic period, the elderly should not frequently go out to crowded public places. There is also the growing spring, and the elderly should not sit alone and feel depressed. The best way to improve the bad mood is to cultivate the good feelings of loving life and nature. On sunny spring days, we can invite friends and relatives to go out for a trip to enjoy flowers in the spring, go for a walk, swim in the stream, take a walk and practice, which will help to revitalize the spirit and forget the troubles.