Spring Health Tips

Spring is the season when all things come to life and new things are created. At this time, the snow and ice melts, the spring breeze sends warmth, the natural Yang Qi rises and everything thrives, and the Yang Qi of the human body also responds to nature and grows upward and outward. What are the spring health tips to pay attention to?

Fitness and disease prevention comb your hair more

The ancient Chinese "health theory" has "spring in March, every morning combing one or two hundred", meaning that spring is particularly suitable for combing the hair health. More hair combing can eliminate fatigue, improve sleep, prevent hair loss, improve liver and kidney function, prevent colds, and improve the spirit.

Nourish the spirit

With a bright spring and beautiful sunshine, you need to keep your mind open and optimistic, quit depression and anger, and cultivate your temperament by going to the countryside with friends and relatives on holidays, wandering and fishing in the mountains and rivers to cultivate your temperament, so that your qi and blood can flow smoothly and your spirit can flourish.

Protect yourself from wind and cold

Spring is suitable for early to bed and early to rise, more outdoor activities, stretching the body, the spirit of the whole day. In spring, special attention should be paid to preventing wind and cold, and nourishing Yang and converging Yin. As the weather is cold and warm at the beginning of spring, clothes should not be reduced immediately, because prematurely taking off winter clothes can easily hurt the lungs by cold and cause respiratory system disorders. According to the principle of "spring cover and autumn freeze", you must increase or decrease your clothes with the change of temperature to adapt to the changing climate of spring.

Diet regulation

The spring buds of the toon tree are a delicious and nutritious food with medicinal value, with high protein, calcium and vitamin C. They also contain B vitamins, carotene, phosphorus and other essential trace elements; toon has the effect of treating enteritis, dysentery and urinary tract infections.

Sports and exercise

The plan of the year lies in spring, and spring is the best season for physical investment. Spring air is fresh, this environment is most conducive to exhale the old and nourish the internal organs. Spring exercise, back to enhance immunity and disease resistance, less influenza and other diseases throughout the year, and people can think fast, not easy to fatigue, people can choose outdoor activities according to their age and physical condition, such as tai chi, jogging, kite flying, spring tour and so on.

Prevention of spring sleepiness

Spring is a beautiful day, but people feel sleepy, tired, drowsy, can not wake up in the morning, this phenomenon is what we call "spring sleepy". Spring sleepiness is not the need for more sleep, but is caused by seasonal differences in internal circulation, increased blood supply to the skin endings, increased sweat secretion, increased load on the organs, and a relative reduction in blood supply to the brain. So how to reduce and prevent spring sleepiness? First, to ensure sleep, overcome the negative lazy thoughts and emotions; second, to actively participate in exercise and outdoor activities to improve blood circulation; third, to properly increase nutrition. Research has proved that the lack of B vitamin family and excessive diet is an important cause of spring sleepiness, so it is appropriate to eat more vitamin B-rich food, eating should not be too full; fourth to keep indoor air circulation, wash your face with cold water, it will make sleepy as soon as possible to eliminate.

Anti-flower poison

In the spring comes the fragrance of a hundred flowers, but while indulging in the spring light, do not forget to prevent flower poisoning, especially for people suffering from pollen allergy. You may experience some discomfort when you are inadvertently sniffing the flowers. For example, mimosa contains mimosa base, too much exposure, will cause eyebrow thinning, hair yellow; tulip contains toxic alkali, stay in the tulip flowers, will obviously feel dizzy; azalea, daffodils contain different degrees of different kinds of toxic ingredients, can cause vomiting; and a pint of the whole plant are toxic, white latex once in contact with the skin, will make the skin appear red and swollen and other allergic symptoms.

Spring life five taboos

Avoid sleeping too much

Spring people are prone to sleepiness, some people have the habit of sleeping. Chinese medicine believes that long sleep hurts the gas. Sleep too much, no disease will also lie out of disease. Because long lying will cause a decline in metabolic capacity, nutritional disorders, poor blood flow, stiffness of the tendons and veins do not Shu, the body loss of weakness. Therefore, in the spring to go to bed early and get up early, not only to ensure sufficient sleep, but also to prevent too much sleep, generally sleep 8 hours a day can.

Avoid lazy activities

Spring is bright, it is a good time to get out of the house to participate in fitness activities. Often to the outdoor activities, you can enjoy breathing fresh air, cleanse the body of dirty gas, enhance cardiorespiratory function; can also be comfortable ice bath and warm sunshine, kill the bacteria on the skin, viruses, enhance the body's immunity.

Avoid improper clothing

Spring climate is changeable, cold and warm. In a day, the climate also has a cool, warm daytime, cold midnight changes. Therefore, do not take off the cotton clothes too early, but should be properly "covered" for a period of time in order to adapt to various parts of the body, so as to prevent cold and flu, thereby eliminating the risk of pneumonia, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease.

Avoid cold food

In the spring, we must pay attention to dietary conditioning, it is advisable to eat more nutritious and easy to digest light food, do not eat or try to eat less cold food, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal diseases. Stomach cold people drink some ginger sugar water in the morning and evening, there is a dual role of the cold stomach and prevention of colds.

Avoid going to places with a lot of foot traffic

Spring is the season of respiratory infectious diseases. The old, the weak and the young are susceptible to infection because of poor immunity. During the epidemic period, do not frequent public places with many people such as shopping malls and theaters. Gargling with light salt water, eating a few cloves of raw garlic, or smoking vinegar indoors every day are effective in preventing respiratory infections.