What is the meaning of winter disease and summer treatment

Winter and summer treatment is one of the treasures of traditional medicine in China and an important part of the excellent Chinese culture. We all know that the three volt days to paste the three volt paste can play a health care role, in fact, this is also a kind of treatment for winter diseases and summer treatment. So what exactly is the meaning of winter sickness summer treatment?

What is winter and summer treatment?

Winter disease summer treatment is a special treatment to prevent or reduce the attack of some diseases that have frequent attacks or obvious symptoms in winter but fewer attacks or symptoms in summer, usually from July every year (before and after the three volt days of the lunar calendar) with appropriate treatment and tonic.

Principle of winter illness and summer treatment

The yang energy of the human body, like nature, is born in spring, flourishes in summer, is collected in autumn and is hidden in winter. If the human body has insufficient yang energy, it will be easily attacked by wind and cold in cold days, leading to frequent attacks or aggravation of some chronic diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Summer is the time of the year when the temperature is the highest and the yang energy is the most vigorous. This time is very conducive to supporting and nourishing Yang energy as the various functions of the body are well organized and the meridians are open. According to the idea of "Nei Jing", "Spring and summer nourish Yang", it is a good time to take care of diseases. If you take care of your Yang energy at this time, you will be able to make the body's positive energy flourish, "the positive energy memory, the evil can not dry", people's resistance to disease will also be enhanced, in the winter can be less sick or even not sick.

The method of winter and summer treatment

It is one of the preventive treatment measures, including diet therapy, natural medicine therapy, compress therapy, acupuncture therapy, massage therapy, sports therapy, etc. These methods are simple, effective and easy to operate.

Indications for winter and summer treatment

It is generally suitable for diseases that are easily attacked or aggravated by cold stimulation in winter or some diseases with Yang deficiency and Yin cold, such as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, obstructive emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, stroke, rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis, chronic gastritis, chronic sinusitis, chronic pharyngitis, frostbite, dysmenorrhea and other diseases.

Features of winter and summer treatment

Winter disease summer treatment emphasizes the combination of internal and external, comprehensive treatment, internal medicine is calm, external treatment is simple and effective. In terms of internal treatment, the first focus is on food treatment, then medicine treatment, food and medicine together. In Chinese medicine, "medicine and food come from the same source", and many Chinese herbs are originally food that we can see in our lives, such as yam and wolfberry. The advantage of this is that it is easy for patients to take it for a long time and get nourished without realizing it. In terms of external treatment, because most of the diseases targeted by winter and summer treatment are chronic diseases that have been prolonged for a long time, the condition is more complex, not overnight, a treatment can be cured, need to address the specific condition, a variety of methods of comprehensive treatment. The acupuncture point dressing therapy, which is simple and effective, is very popular among people.

Precautions

The treatment of winter and summer diseases need to be combined with their respective physical type and disease characteristics to choose different treatment methods, specific please under the guidance of a specialist for treatment, attention to maintain a light diet during treatment, less greasy and spicy things to prevent the production of phlegm and dampness, do not eat cold food, to prevent damage to the spleen and stomach, inducing disease.