Beginning of spring: "The liver governs the spring, ... the liver is bitter and anxious, and it is slow to eat urgently, ... The liver wants to disperse, and the pungent food is used to disperse it, and the pungent food is used to supplement it, and the acid is used to diarrhea it". In the relationship between five zang-organs and five flavors, sour taste enters the liver, which is convergent, which is not conducive to the growth of yang and the release of liver qi. Diet and recuperation should be given to the viscera, that is, "it is bitter against its nature, so it is desirable." Desire is what the god of the dirty wants, that is, to make up. Those who suffer are evil by the god of the dirty, that is, diarrhea. " Clear this relationship, we can purposefully choose some herbs and foods that soften and nourish the liver, soothe the liver and regulate qi, such as Lycium barbarum, Radix Curcumae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Rhizoma Corydalis, etc., and choose jujube, lobster sauce, onion, coriander, peanut, etc., which are pungent and fragrant, for flexible formula selection.

Rain: Sun Simiao, a health care scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said in Qian Jin Fang: "On the seventy-second day of spring, save acid and increase sweetness to nourish temper." In the five elements, the liver belongs to wood, the taste is sour, the spleen belongs to soil, the taste is sweet, and wood is better than soil. Therefore, the spring diet should eat less sour and more sweet to nourish the spleen. You can choose leek, Toona sinensis, lily, pea seedling, chrysanthemum, shepherd's purse, bamboo shoots, yam, lotus root, taro, radish, water chestnut, sugar cane and so on.

Startled: The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic says: "Spring is March, which is called Chen. Heaven and earth are born, and everything is proud. Lie down at night and get up early, stride in court, and put on your hair to slow down, so as to be ambitious. " That is to say, when everything recovers in spring, you should go to bed early and get up early, and take a slow walk, which can make you happy and healthy. Pay attention to keep warm in areas with low temperature in the north and large temperature difference between morning and evening. Spring corresponds to the liver, and if you don't keep in good health, you can hurt the liver. According to modern epidemiological investigation, spring is the season of high incidence of liver diseases, so we should pay attention to nourishing and protecting the liver to prevent the epidemic of infectious diseases in spring. Diet recuperation depends on the changes of solar terms and everyone's physical condition. Mainly based on the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer", you can eat more foods that can raise yang, such as leeks, spinach and shepherd's purse. In spring, liver qi is strong and easy to hurt the spleen, so it is necessary to eat less acid and eat more sweets such as jujube, crispy rice and yam to nourish the spleen during the shock season, which can be made into jujube porridge and yam porridge.

Vernal equinox: In this solar term, you should choose a diet that can keep the body's functions coordinated and balanced according to your own actual situation, and avoid eating misunderstandings such as being too hot, too cold, too ascending and too descending. For example, when cooking cold foods such as fish, shrimp and crab, the principle must be supplemented with warm seasonings such as onion, ginger, wine and vinegar to prevent this dish from being cold and cold, and damaging the spleen and stomach after eating. For another example, in the consumption of leeks, garlic, papaya and other yang-supporting dishes, eggs are often accompanied by nourishing yin to achieve the purpose of complementary yin and yang. Keep a relaxed, cheerful and optimistic mental state in mind. In daily life, we should insist on proper exercise, regular sleep, quantitative meals, and purposefully nursed back to health in order to achieve the best effect of health preservation.

Qingming: in terms of diet adjustment, it is necessary to regularly quantify and not overeat. For obese people, it is necessary to reduce sweets, limit calorie intake and eat more fruits and vegetables. Special emphasis should be placed on low-salt diet for elderly people with hypertension. While reducing salt intake, potassium intake should also be increased, such as eating more vegetables and fruits.

Grain Rain: "The cold enters the meridian late, but you can't cry. When the guest is outside the pulse, there is less blood, and when the guest is in the pulse, he can't breathe, so it hurts." In addition, stagnation of liver qi, stagnation of fire, improper diet, food stagnation and heat generation, liver and stomach fire rushing to the face and body yin deficiency, house labor damaging essence, resulting in yin deficiency and fire flourishing, which led to the occurrence of this disease. In addition, diseases such as teeth, mouth, ear and nose can induce this disease. In the process of treatment, we should investigate its etiology and argue its symptoms. For those who feel cold, it is necessary to dredge qi and blood; Those with depressed fire in the liver and stomach can purge the fire in the liver and stomach; Those with yin deficiency and excessive fire should use the method of nourishing yin to reduce fire. Acupuncture has a good therapeutic effect on the disease.

Long summer: "Xia San Moon, this is called Fanxiu; Heaven and earth are in harmony, and everything is flashy. " This season is conducive to the physiological activities of the heart, so people should follow it when they intersect with the solar terms. Therefore, we should pay attention to the special maintenance of the heart in the whole summer. Older people should pay more attention to avoid stagnation of qi and blood to prevent heart attacks. Therefore, in the season of long summer, you should be happy, be at ease and enjoy yourself, and avoid sudden joy and sadness. Eat a little onion in the morning, and drink a little red wine for dinner to smooth blood. Specifically, in dietary aftercare, we should focus on low fat, low salt, multi-dimensional and light.

Xiaoman: "When the evil spirits pass through, the body itches and becomes addicted to rashes." Ancient physicians have long known about this disease. The etiology and pathogenesis of "rubella" are nothing more than three points: first, the skin is damp and depressed, and the wind-heat or wind-cold is repeated, which is related to dampness and depressed between the skin and fur; Second, due to the accumulation of heat in the stomach and intestines, common cold is re-felt, and it is not allowed to drain inside, and it is not allowed to penetrate outside, and it is depressed between fur and skin; Third, it is related to physical fitness. Eating fish, shrimp, crab and other foods allergies leads to disharmony between the spleen and stomach, which is caused by dampness and heat, and it is caused by depression in the skin. Rubella can occur in any part of the body, with rapid onset, and rashes of different sizes will suddenly appear on the skin, or in pieces or papules, one after another, with different densities, accompanied by abnormal itching of the skin, which will be alleviated or aggravated with the cold and hot climate. When we understand the mechanism of the disease, we can prevent and treat it in a targeted way.

Dietary care for patients with similar skin should be based on a refreshing and light vegetarian diet, and often eat foods with the function of clearing away dampness and heat, such as adzuki bean, coix seed, mung bean, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, day lily, cress, water chestnut, auricularia auricula, lotus root, carrot, tomato, watermelon, yam, snake meat, crucian carp and so on. Don't eat sorghum foods with thick taste, which are sweet, fat and greasy, and produce dampness and help dampness, such as animal fat, fishy fish, sour and spicy products, and fried and smoked things, such as raw onion, raw garlic, ginger, mustard, pepper, fennel, cinnamon, leek, eggplant, mushrooms, marine fish, shrimp and crab.

Ear seed: the key point of health care should be based on the climatic characteristics of the season. In terms of mental recuperation, you should keep your spirit relaxed and happy, and you can't be angry and depressed, so that your qi can be promoted and vented freely. In daily life, we should go to bed late and get up early, and receive proper sunlight (avoid direct sunlight and pay attention to heatstroke prevention) to conform to the fullness of yang, which is conducive to the operation of qi and blood and cheer up the spirit. In summer, the days are long and the nights are short. Taking a nap at noon can help to restore fatigue and is beneficial to health. After the awn seeds are planted, it is hot at noon, people are prone to sweat, and clothes should be washed and changed frequently. In order to avoid heatstroke, you should take a bath often after planting, which can make your skin loose and "yang heat" easy to vent. However, we should pay attention to one thing. Don't take a bath immediately when sweating. There is an old saying in China, "You can't see wet when sweating". If you "see wet when sweating, you will get acne."

In addition, while emphasizing dietary supplements, we warn people not to eat too salty or too sweet. Too salty diet, excessive sodium ions in the body, old people, small activity, will increase blood pressure, and even cause cerebrovascular dysfunction. Eating too much sweets is not good for human health. With the increase of age, the metabolic capacity of carbohydrates in the body gradually decreases, which should lead to the accumulation of intermediate products such as sucrose, which can lead to hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia, and even induce diabetes in severe cases. It can be seen that diet is an extremely important means of health preservation and disease prevention. Therefore, in summer, when the metabolism of human body is vigorous, sweat is easy to leak out, and gas consumption hurts body fluid, it is advisable to eat more diets with the functions of dispelling summer heat and benefiting qi, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Because of the decline of body function, the secretion of digestive juice is reduced in hot days, and the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are hardened to varying degrees, the diet of the elderly should be mainly tonic, supplemented by foods that clear away summer heat, relieve fever, protect the stomach and benefit the spleen and reduce blood pressure and lipid. During the menstrual period or postpartum period, although the weather is getting hotter, women should avoid eating cold and cold products to prevent other diseases.

Summer solstice: "in summer, the heart is flourishing and the kidney is failing. Although it is hot, it is not suitable to eat cold ice and snow, honey water, bean jelly and cold porridge. When you are full of cold, you will have cholera. " Heart-flourishing and kidney-failing means external heat and internal cold. Because of external heat and internal cold, it is not advisable to eat more cold food, but less is acceptable. Too much greed will definitely hurt the spleen and stomach and make people vomit. Watermelon, mung bean soup and dark plum bean soup are good for quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, but they should not be eaten chilled. According to the relationship between viscera and viscera in traditional Chinese medicine, "Fire without heart in kidney is Shui Han, and water without kidney in heart is blazing. The heart must be nourished by kidney water, and the kidney must be warmed by heart fire. "It is not difficult to see the important relationship between heart and kidney.

The summer climate is hot, and people's digestive function is relatively weak. Therefore, the diet should be light and not fat, sweet and thick, and it is necessary to eat more miscellaneous grains to cold the body, and not to overeat hot food to avoid helping heat; Cold eating melons and fruits should be enough, not overeating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach; The products with thick taste and fat should be less and not more, so as not to turn heat into wind and stimulate the disease of furuncle.

Slight summer heat: Summer is the season with frequent digestive tract diseases, so it is necessary to change the bad habits of improper diet, unclean diet and partial diet in diet recuperation. Diet should be moderate. If you are too hungry, you will have insufficient food intake and lack of chemical sources, which will lead to insufficient qi and blood, causing physical fatigue and emaciation, weak vital qi, reduced resistance, and other diseases; Oversatiety will exceed the digestion, absorption and transport functions of the spleen and stomach, leading to food stagnation, abdominal distension, putrefaction and pantothenic acid, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea and other diseases that damage the spleen and stomach. "Su Wen Bi Lun Pian" says: "Diet is self-doubling, and the stomach is hurting", which means that diet should be controlled.

Unclean diet in summer is the culprit of many gastrointestinal diseases, such as dysentery, parasites and other diseases. If you eat spoiled and toxic food, it can also lead to food poisoning, causing abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and even coma or death.

Diet addiction is one of the causes of malnutrition, and only proper diet regulation can ensure the nutrients needed by the human body. The diet is biased towards being too cold and overheated, and the five flavors are biased. Eating too much can damage the yang of the spleen and stomach, abdominal pain and diarrhea can occur due to cold and dampness, and partial eating can cause gastrointestinal heat accumulation, thirst, abdominal fullness and pain, and constipation will eventually become hemorrhoids; The deviation of five flavors means that people's spiritual qi and blood are all bred by five flavors, which correspond to the five internal organs, such as sour entering the liver, bitter entering the heart, sweet entering the spleen and salty entering the kidney. If you like a certain food for a long time, it will make the function of the zang-fu organs flourish and decline, and over time, it can damage the internal organs and cause diseases. If you are partial to salty food, your blood will stagnate and your face will be dull; Eating more bitter will make the skin dry and the hairs fall off; Eating too much spicy flavor will make the tendons tense and the fingernails withered; Eating more sour taste will make the flesh firm and shrink, and the lips dry and thin. If you eat more sweet food, your bones will hurt and your hair will fall off easily. The important thing is that excessive hobbies will not only lead to malnutrition, but also hurt the spleen and stomach and other viscera, resulting in beriberi, night blindness and gall. Therefore, the five flavors of diet (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty) should be appropriate. Usually, the diet is not partial, and the diet is taboo when you are sick.

Summer heat: "The grain, meat, fruits and vegetables are all eaten and nourished". Li Shizhen, a famous physician, especially praised the health care of medicinal porridge. He said: "Eat a large bowl of porridge every day, and you will make it on an empty stomach. The supplement is not fine, but it is extremely soft and greasy. It is compatible with the stomach and the most wonderful diet." Medicinal porridge is suitable for the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach function. Therefore, the ancients said that "the first thing in the world is porridge" and "two rice eclipses are better than a big bag of ginseng and astragalus". "Six Books on Medicine" states that "the glutinous rice porridge is used as the capital to nourish Kundan, and glutinous rice porridge is a wonderful product to warm and nourish the stomach and qi". It can be seen that porridge is important to people. Although medicinal porridge is beneficial to human body, it can't be used universally. It is necessary to choose appropriate drugs according to each person's different physique and diseases and prepare porridge to achieve satisfactory results.

In summer, water is also a very important and indispensable thing to keep fit and prolong life in the human body. As the saying goes, "man is made of water", which is not unreasonable. Water accounts for about 70% of human body weight, and traditional health care methods highly recommend drinking cold boiled water. The experimental results also show that. After a cup of ordinary water is boiled, cover it and cool it to room temperature. When this cold boiled water is boiled and cooled, the chlorine gas is reduced by 1/2 compared with ordinary natural water, and the physical and chemical properties of water such as surface tension, density, viscosity and conductivity have changed, which is very similar to the water in bioactive cells, so it is easy to permeate cells and has wonderful biological activities. According to folk experience and experimental results, drinking a cup of fresh and cold water every morning will lead to miraculous longevity after a few years. Japanese medical scientists have investigated and counted 460 elderly people over the age of 65. Among those who insisted on drinking a glass of cold boiled water every morning for five years, 82% of the elderly people were ruddy, full of energy, with loose teeth, and could walk 10 km every day. Among these people, they had never been seriously ill. From this, it is true that water is important to the human body. Besides water, wine, soup and fruit juice can all be called drinks. Reasonable selection can play a very good role in strengthening the body.

Beginning of autumn: In autumn, the lungs should be in the lungs, and the lungs are sad (worried). Sadness and worry are easy to hurt the lungs. Lung-qi deficiency will reduce the body's tolerance to bad stimuli and easily lead to feelings of sadness and worry. Therefore, when self-care is carried out, it must not deviate from the laws of nature and follow the outline of its ancients. "Make the mind calm, slow down the punishment in autumn, converge the air, and make the autumn air calm; There is no ambition, so that the lungs are clear, this autumn gas should be, and the way to raise and collect is also. "

First, the spirit of recuperation: to achieve inner peace, mental peace, ease of mind, avoid sadness, even if you encounter sad things, you should take the initiative to resolve them to avoid the cold air, and at the same time, you should converge to adapt to the calm air in autumn.

Second, the daily life is nursed back to health: The season in beginning of autumn is when the sky is crisp, so we should start to "lie down early and get up early, and have fun with chickens", so as to conform to the convergence of yang, and get up early to stretch lung qi, and to prevent excessive collection. Beginning of autumn is the season of early autumn, and the summer heat is not over. Although there is a cool breeze, the weather is changeable. Even in the same area, there will be a situation that "there are four seasons in a day and different days in ten miles". Therefore, it is not advisable to wear too much clothes, otherwise it will affect the adaptability of the body to the cold climate and make it easy to catch a cold.

Third, diet nursed back to health; "Su Wen, On the Method of Dirty Qi" said: "Lung governs autumn ... Lung converges, eats acid urgently to collect it, supplements it with acid, and purges it". It can be seen that the sour taste converges the lung qi, and the pungent taste diverges and purges the lung. It should be harvested in autumn, so try to eat less pungent products such as onions and ginger, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables. In autumn, lung gold is in order, and if lung gold is too strong, it will hinder liver wood, so the synopsis of the golden chamber has the saying that "you don't eat lungs in autumn" Dry qi in autumn is in season, which is easy to hurt body fluids, so it is appropriate to nourish yin and moisten the lungs in diet. "Eating is about to start" says: "Autumn is dry, so we should eat hemp to moisten it, and we should not drink cold". There are even those who advocate eating raw porridge in autumn to nourish yin and moisten dryness. In short, in autumn, you can properly eat sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, loquat, pineapple, dairy products and other soft foods to benefit your stomach and promote fluid production.

Fourth, exercise recuperation: Entering autumn is a good opportunity to carry out various kinds of exercise. Everyone can choose different exercise programs according to their own specific conditions. Here, I will introduce you to an autumn health-keeping exercise, that is, the "autumn breathing and body-building method" contained in "Taoist Zang Jade Axis Classic". The specific method is: after washing in the morning, close your eyes indoors and sit still, first knock your teeth for 36 times, then stir with your tongue in your mouth and wait for liquid in your mouth. When inhaling, lick the palate with the tongue and inhale through the nose, with the intention of sending it to dantian. Breathe out the breath slowly from your mouth. When you exhale, you should say the word silently, but don't make any noise. Repeat this 30 times. Persisting in this work in autumn has the effect of protecting the lungs and keeping fit.

Summer: The reason why autumn health care emphasizes ensuring sleep time is because sleep has a good health care effect. Without normal sleep, you can't maintain normal life activities well.

The role of sleep includes five aspects:

First, eliminate fatigue

During sleep, people's spirits are kept in the five internal organs. If the five internal organs are at ease, qi and blood will be in harmony, body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate will be relatively reduced, and breathing and endocrine will also be significantly reduced, so that the metabolic rate will be reduced and physical strength will be restored.

Second, protect the brain

The oxygen consumption of the brain during sleep is greatly reduced, and adequate sleep is beneficial to the storage of brain cell energy, helping to restore energy and improve brain efficiency;

Third, enhance immunity

Sleep is not only a re-creation process of intelligence and physical strength, but also an important means of disease rehabilitation. Sleep can produce more antigens and antibodies and enhance the body's resistance, so modern medicine often regards sleep as a treatment to treat intractable pain and mental illness;

Fourth, promote development

Sleep is closely related to children's growth and development, and children's growth rate increases faster in sleep, so ensuring enough sleep time is one of the conditions for children's height growth;

Five, conducive to beauty.

Sleep has a great influence on skin fitness. This is because in the process of sleep, the process of skin surface secretion and clearance is strengthened, capillary circulation is increased, and skin regeneration is accelerated, which makes the face gaunt and fine wrinkles of skin caused by overwork recover during sleep. Therefore, sleep is also the basic guarantee of skin beauty.

It is advisable to eat products that can clear away heat and soothe the nerves in summer, such as tremella, lily, lotus seeds, honey, yellow croaker, scallop, kelp, jellyfish, celery, spinach, glutinous rice, sesame seeds, beans and milk.

The Millennium: For a typical autumn climate, we have to take into account the characteristics of autumn climate-dryness, which is often referred to as "autumn dryness". We say that dryness hurts people, and it is easy to consume body fluids, resulting in symptoms such as dry mouth, dry lips, dry nose, dry throat, dry stool and chapped skin. There are many ways to prevent autumn dryness. You can take more foods rich in vitamins appropriately, and you can also choose some traditional Chinese medicines that can disperse lung, eliminate phlegm, nourish yin and replenish qi, such as ginseng, adenophora, American ginseng, lily, almond and Fritillaria cirrhosa, which have many good effects on relieving autumn dryness. Using scallion, ginger, cardamom and coriander can prevent and treat colds; Beet juice and cherry juice can prevent measles; White radish and fresh olive decoction can prevent diphtheria; Litchi can prevent halitosis caused by stomatitis and gastritis; Carrot porridge can prevent dizziness. Bitter gourd, asparagus and purslane all have anti-cancer effects.

Autumnal equinox: "Those who know it, the method is in Yin and Yang, and it is in the number of tricks, and the diet is moderate." Ancient doctors regarded black-bone chicken, mutton, donkey skin, onion, ginger and jujube as the purpose of yin and yang, qi and blood, or the purpose of regulating stomach qi; In a large number of recipes and dishes, it is not difficult to find many medicinal materials, such as medlar, yam, astragalus, poria cocos, clove, cardamom and cinnamon. When the medicine and food are properly mixed, it can improve the efficacy of food health care and disease prevention.

In the long-term life practice, ancient doctors classified the properties of food into three categories, namely, cold, flat and warm. Among them, according to the common statistics of more than 300 Chinese foods, flat foods are the most, followed by warm foods and cold foods. As far as its function is concerned, cold and cool foods have the functions of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. These foods include watermelon, melon, banana, sugarcane, mango, loquat, apple, pear, persimmon, water chestnut, water chestnut, mulberry, tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd, wax gourd and so on.

Warm foods have the functions of warming meridians, supporting yang, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, dispelling cold, etc. Among them, peppers, peppers, mustard seeds and trout are hot foods, such as cherries, lychees, longan, apricots, pomegranates, chestnuts, jujubes, walnuts, garlic, pumpkins, raw onions, ginger, leeks, fennel, eels and silver carp.

Sexual foods include plums, figs, grapes, ginkgo, lilies, lotus seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, black sesame seeds, auricularia auricula, day lilies, onions, potatoes, black, red, soybeans, lentils, cowpeas, cabbage, taro, carrots, Chinese cabbage, Toona sinensis, Artemisia annua, kohlrabi, jellyfish, and yellow beans.

Cold dew: "Autumn is dry, so you should eat hemp to moisten it." At this time, we should eat sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, dairy products and other soft foods, and at the same time increase chicken, duck, beef, pig liver, fish, shrimp, jujube, yam and so on to increase physical fitness; Eat less spicy products, such as pepper, ginger, onion, garlic, because overeating spicy food should hurt the body's yin essence.

First frost: It's best to have some seasonal fruits, persimmons, pears and apples. You can eat more, but you should avoid touching cool watermelons, because when the weather is cold, eating too much cool food will easily reduce your body's resistance and induce a cold. Mutton stoves and other tonic ginger soups, because they are too hot and dry, will add fuel to the fire in the case of thirst, so wait until the weather is colder.