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 maintain health in winter.
Tonifying in winter is a concern for all of us. Tonify yang, spleen and stomach, and tonify kidney. This winter is well conditioned, and there will be less illness in the coming year.
First of all, people with yang deficiency, especially female friends, are mostly spleen-kidney yang deficiency or heart-yang deficiency.
In addition to the usual cold, cold hands and feet, this kind of people are often prone to cold pain in the lower abdomen, soreness in the waist and knees, and most women have problems of 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 nowadays, in order to pursue beauty, they wear cool clothes, which is very easy for the body to feel the cold evil in common cold.
As the saying goes, "medicine is better than food." Eating tonic in winter is a very good opportunity to replenish yang. As usual, you can eat more warm food, 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, tonifying yang and nourishing yuan)
Ingredients: Radix Astragali, Radix Dauci Sativae, Mutton, 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 by soaking their feet. By soaking their feet, they can tonify yang and dispel cold. You can add ginger, wormwood leaves and cinnamon, which is very good for people who are afraid of cold and easy to get cold hands and feet.
In addition to tonifying yang, winter tonic is still based on strengthening spleen and stomach and tonifying liver and kidney.
Kidney is dirty water, which is hidden by the essence of the five internal organs. Nourishing the kidney is to nourish and hide the yang, so as not to leak it out.
Winter is also a good time to nourish the kidney, just as Su Wen records that "the kidney is the main sting, the root of the seal, and the essence is also; Its flower is in the hair, and it is filled in the bone, which is the Taiyin in in the yin and passes through the winter gas. "
In winter, the weather is cold, the yang is hidden, and the cold corresponds to the kidney, which is the most likely to hurt the yang of the kidney, and easily leads to problems such as 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 the kidney in winter. Nourishing kidney in winter can not only enhance human body's ability to resist cold, but also improve human immunity and disease resistance and delay aging.
Chinese medicine believes that black corresponds to winter and kidney, so we can eat more black foods 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: Soak black beans in advance, blanch black-bone chicken, add all materials and stew 1 hour.
Acupoint massage also has a certain kidney-tonifying effect. We can massage Shenshu, Mingmen, Yaoyangguan and other acupoints in the waist every day, which can warm up our kidney-yang.
Nourish liver in spring, heart in summer, lung in autumn and kidney in winter. When do you nourish your 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 situation is the performance of "deficiency is not supplemented".
The key to the problem of "deficiency is not supplemented" 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 effect, 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 are not supplemented, we must 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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Sishen Zhudu Decoction (Strengthening Spleen and Nourishing Stomach)
Ingredients: Chinese yam, lotus seeds, Poria, Euryale euryales and pork tripe.
Practice: blanch pork belly and cut into pieces, add all the ingredients and stew 1 hour.
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Beginning of winter's health is at the right time, and when he recuperates his body, the minor problems around him will naturally stay away from us.