Health care is a very hot topic. Although living standards are getting better and better now, some bad living habits can lead to the occurrence of diseases. You should pay more attention to health care in daily life. Health care has different benefits in different seasons. The key point is that you need to pay attention to keeping warm during winter health care. So what are the common sense about winter health care? What are some ways to maintain health in winter?

1. Common knowledge about health care in winter

1. Avoid the cold and stay warm

The climate is cold in winter, and the shelter should be warm and windproof. Generally, it should be kept above 18℃. When the temperature drops sharply and a cold wave passes through, the elderly and the frail and sick are advised to avoid going out. If you want to go out, you should keep warm and protect yourself.

2. The head and back should be warmed

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head and back are the parts where the Du Meridian circulates, and they are the yang of yang. Winter wind and cold are most likely to invade the human body through the head and back, causing colds, lung infections and other diseases. Therefore, special attention should be paid to keeping the head and back warm to prevent Yang Qi from being damaged.

3. The diet should be warm

The diet in winter should be warm. When going out in the morning, you should drink some milk, soy milk, red date porridge, etc. to warm the body. In winter, you should choose foods that contain high-quality protein and can prevent cold and keep warm, such as lean meat, fish, chicken, eggs, and soy products.

4. Take a bath with caution

Bathing can clean the skin and promote metabolism. However, the climate is cold in winter, and the elderly and the frail and sick may easily induce the recurrence of respiratory and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases if they bathe too frequently and do not pay attention to keeping warm. Therefore, the elderly generally bathe once a week in winter.

5. Soak your feet in hot water

The feet are the root of the human body and are known as the second heart. Before going to bed, soak your feet in hot water of 40°C to 50°C (and massage for more than 10 minutes), which can accelerate blood circulation, eliminate fatigue, and have the effect of improving health and longevity.

6. Consolidate the mind and resolve

Winter is the season of hiding. We should pay attention to maintaining the spirit and consolidating the mind. The spirit should be contained but not exposed, and the emotions should not be overdone to avoid disturbing Yang. In the severe winter, when vegetation dies, some elderly people may feel depressed and in a low state of mind and body. The best way to change your mood is to be more active. In sunny weather, it is best to go outdoors for sports, play music, play and sing, and visit relatives and friends. These are all good for invigorating your spirit and stimulating your enthusiasm for life.

7. Exercise in the evening

Regular exercise can enhance physical fitness and improve the ability to resist cold and disease. Research shows that the human body's ability to resolve blood clots is lowest in the morning and highest in the evening. If you arrange fitness exercises in the evening, your immune system can reach its optimal state.

8. Appropriate supplements

The climate in winter is unpredictable. The elderly and people with diseases should take targeted nourishing and strengthening supplements under the guidance of a doctor. Traditional Chinese medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, red dates, chestnuts, walnut kernels, black sesame seeds, etc., or taking some nourishing medicinal wine according to the symptoms are beneficial to enhancing the body's disease resistance.

2. What soup to drink to warm up in winter

1. White pepper pork belly soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of white pepper, 1 pork belly, appropriate amount of salt , cooking wine, MSG.

Method:

1. Take white pepper and break it slightly. Wash the pork belly repeatedly with salt or cornstarch (you can add salt, vinegar and scald with boiling water).

2. Put the crushed white pepper into the pork belly, then tie the head and tail tightly with thread, add an appropriate amount of water, simmer for about two hours, and simmer over low heat.

3. When the soup is thick and chewy, just add an appropriate amount of salt.

4. This amount can be used for 2 to 3 people. The pork belly can be sliced ??and mixed with raw oil and soy sauce for meals.

Efficacy: Pork belly cooked with white pepper has a strong aroma and has the effect of dispelling cold and warming the stomach. It can also help treat stomach cold, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting, or cold stomach and twelve fingers. Ulcers and other diseases.

2. Astragalus Beef Soup

Ingredients: 12 grams each of Astragalus and Codonopsis pilosula, beef, appropriate amount of salt and pepper.

Method:

1. Wash 12 grams each of Astragalus membranaceus and Codonopsis pilosula, place it in a double-layer gauze bag and seal it to make a traditional Chinese medicine bag.

2. Wash and cut the beef into pieces and boil to remove the blood. Add the Chinese medicine bag, ginger and scallions to a boil over high heat and skim off the foam.

3. Add cooking wine, simmer for two hours, and finally add a little salt and pepper.

Efficacy: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the "Qi" in the human body has the function of regulating the body temperature and controlling the opening and closing of pores. Therefore, when "Qi is deficient", the body's ability to regulate body temperature is weakened, and there will be symptoms of coldness, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms of sweating. If you are blown by cold wind while sweating, you will be more likely to catch a cold and it will take longer to recover than others.

The astragalus in this soup can replenish qi and raise yang, strengthen the surface and stop sweating. Codonopsis pilosula can strengthen the spleen and lungs, replenish qi, nourish blood and promote fluid production. Beef can replenish qi and strengthen muscles and bones. effect.

3. Pepper Pork Belly and Yam Soup

Ingredients: Pork belly, 50 grams of fresh pepper, 200 grams of yam, appropriate amount of salt and cooking wine.

Method:

1. Wash a whole pig belly, mash 50 grams of fresh pepper and stuff it into the pig belly, tighten the pig belly mouth and simmer for about 1.5 hours.

2. When the soup is thick and the belly is cooked, add 200 grams of peeled and cubed yam, pick up the pork belly and cut it into shreds.

3. Put it into the soup and simmer for 20 minutes. Add salt and cooking wine and serve.

Efficacy: Pepper is warm in nature, warming the body and dispersing cold; pig tripe strengthens the stomach, nourishes the stomach, dispels cold and relieves cough. If you feel cold in the spleen and stomach, poor appetite, and cold hands and feet after catching a cold, drink pepper pork tripe soup.

4. Chestnut and South Apricot Chicken Soup

Ingredients: 1 bare chicken, 100 grams of chestnut meat, 8 red dates, 30 grams of South Apricot, 15 walnuts, and 3 slices of ginger.

Method:

1. Remove the clothing from chestnuts and apricots, and remove the cores from red dates. Wash everything and soak it for 20 minutes.

2. Wash the chicken and remove the internal organs and tail.

3. First put the chicken, red dates, apricots and ginger into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 1.5 hours.

4. Add chestnuts and walnuts and simmer for 1 hour, then add appropriate amount of salt.

Efficacy: When the weather is cold, a bowl of hot chicken soup can dispel the cold and warm up the body, because chicken contains very high-quality protein, which has the effects of replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen, and harmonizing the stomach. Chestnuts have the effects of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the muscles. Apricot amaranth is good at nourishing the lungs and relieving cough and asthma. For example, "The Origin of Medicine" says that it can "remove dryness in the lungs and cure wind-dryness in the chest and diaphragm." This soup has the effects of nourishing the kidneys, strengthening the muscles, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs.