Common sense of keeping in good health in winter, our country has a tradition of "counting nine" from the winter solstice, that is, counting from the winter solstice, every nine days is a paragraph, representing the deepening of the cold degree. The winter solstice is the first day of the "Ninth Five-Year Plan", until the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" is exhausted, and the cold is over. This cold season is called "Count Nine" and "Nine Nine", and it is also called "Count Nine Cold Days". Among them, "March 9th" is the coldest.

Wash your face with cold water

In winter, the weather is cold, so many people choose to wash their faces with hot water in the morning. In fact, washing their faces with cold water in the morning can not only make people awake and refreshed, but also prevent colds caused by cold air in winter. If you can combine massage with auricular, yintang, sun, cheek and other points, the effect will be better.

Drink warm water

Drink a cup of warm water after washing your face and brushing your teeth, on the one hand, you can warm up and clean your stomach and intestines; On the other hand, it can dilute blood, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial ischemia, and at the same time maintain cell permeability and promote cell metabolism.

Hot water soaking feet

Soak your feet with hot water at 55-70 degrees Celsius before going to bed, which not only relieves fatigue, but also helps you sleep. There are many acupoints on human feet, which can relax tendons and activate collaterals, accelerate blood circulation and play a role in preventing and treating diseases, especially for patients with chilblain and varicose veins of feet. You can soak your feet with traditional Chinese medicine when you are convenient. Here's a prescription. You can put a few pieces of angelica, safflower, dipsacus root and honeysuckle in water, which can promote blood circulation and tonify the kidney, and also prevent dry and chapped skin in winter.

Go to bed early and get up late.

In daily life, you should go to bed early and get up late, and wait for the sun to appear before going out for activities. At the same time, we should also wear more clothes to avoid unnecessary outdoor activities and prevent excessive consumption of yang. In addition to ensuring night sleep, you can take a nap after lunch, but you should avoid catching cold when you sleep. Secondly, we should pay attention to wind and cold.

Brush your teeth with warm water

It is best to brush your teeth with warm water in winter. The investigation of dental ecology by medical experts shows that human teeth can undergo normal metabolism at an oral temperature of 35-36.5 degrees Celsius. Warm water of about 35℃ is a benign oral protectant, and gargling with such water will make people have a refreshing and comfortable taste. Especially in winter, you need to brush your teeth with warm water to avoid dentine hypersensitivity. The temperature of warm water should be close to body temperature, and too hot water is not good.

Suitable temperature for dressing

Dressing should talk about "clothing climate", which means that the temperature between the inner layer of clothes and the skin should always be kept at 32-33 degrees Celsius. This ideal "clothing climate" can buffer the invasion of the cold climate on the human body. Secondly, we should pay attention to the warmth of our feet. Because the foot is farthest from the heart and the blood supply is small and slow, the skin temperature of the foot is the lowest. Chinese medicine believes that cold feet will inevitably affect internal organs, which can lead to diarrhea, irregular menstruation, impotence, low back pain and other diseases.

Timing window opening

The cold weather makes many people reluctant to open doors and windows, and now more and more air conditioners are installed in families. In air-conditioned rooms, it is often closed for a long time, and the air circulation is poor. At the same time, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is large, which may easily cause infection of respiratory diseases including influenza. Therefore, it is necessary to open the windows regularly for ventilation, keep indoor air circulation and reduce the growth of bacteria.

In addition, during the winter solstice, the yin qi flourished to the extreme, and the yang qi began to rise and gradually flourished. Because yang is born from the inside of yin, yang can be born better only when yin is strong enough. Therefore, after the winter solstice, we should pay attention to not exercising too much, but to seek quietness in motion. If a person usually exercises more, he should reduce the amount of exercise appropriately before and after the winter solstice, so as to better adapt to the changes in nature and be better for his health. During the winter solstice, you can often do gentle exercises such as Ba Duan Jin and Tai Ji Chuan to keep healthy.