Winter is a big season, in which people's diet, living and behavior should be considered to adjust to the change of seasons and achieve the harmony between human and nature. So how to maintain health at the beginning of winter?
Storing Yang Energy
In winter, the weather is cold, all the trees wither, the vitality is latent and hidden, and the yang energy of the human body is also hidden inside with the transformation of nature. Therefore, winter health care should follow the law of nature and protect yang by collecting yin. In the spiritual conditioning to strive for its quiet, control the emotional activities, maintain mental and emotional tranquility, learn to control bad emotions, appropriate venting. Avoid disturbances, so that the yang energy in the body can be hidden.
Expel cold and warm
After the winter, it is advisable to drive away the cold and dress in warm and comfortable clothes, so as to facilitate the flow of Qi. Winter tonic is only suitable for people with Yang deficiency or cold or damp evil, but not for people with Yin deficiency and fire and real heat. If there are symptoms of real heat such as great heat, great thirst, constipation, heart trouble, or acute diseases, tonic should be suspended.
Kidney tonic is the first thing to do
After winter, the weather gradually turns cold, "cold is a yin evil, easy to hurt yang". Since human yang energy is rooted in the kidneys, cold is most likely to injure kidney yang. Therefore, the first thing to do at the beginning of winter is to nourish the kidneys. For those with kidney yin deficiency, sea cucumber, wolfberry, turtle and silver fungus should be used as supplements. For those who have kidney yang deficiency, they should eat more mutton, deer antler, cistanches and cinnamon for tonic. For those with kidney yin and yang deficiency, they can take appropriate tonics to tonify the kidneys and benefit the qi.
Do not blindly take tonic
In the cold winter, it is advisable to consume some meals with high calorie content, such as beef, mutton, chicken, crucian carp, soy milk and milk, and to eat more fresh vegetables and soy products, such as radish, green vegetables and tofu, to avoid vitamin deficiency. In winter, the northwest region is cold, it is appropriate to supplement the warm and hot products, while the south of the Yangtze River to supplement the sweet and warm, winter tonic should be based on the actual situation, choose clear tonic, warm tonic, small tonic, large tonic, do not blindly tonic.
Prevent colds and flu
After the winter, there are often windy, cooling and cold weather with rain and snow. In such cold and warm weather, cold becomes a frequent disease, so it is especially important to do a good job of keeping warm and cold, and to enhance nutrition and balanced diet to strengthen the body and improve its ability to resist diseases.
It is not advisable to exercise strenuously
In the winter season, it is important to adhere to physical exercise, not only to keep the brain excited and enhance the thermoregulatory function of the central nervous system, but also to improve the ability of people to resist the cold. However, the temperature drops in winter, the metabolic rate slows down, so exercise should not be too intense. Walking, jogging, yoga or indoor badminton, bowling and other activities can be carried out.
