How to keep in good health during the solar terms from the winter solstice?

The winter solstice is the penultimate of the 24 solar terms in China. On this day, the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn, which means that it is also the shortest day for residents in the northern hemisphere to receive sunlight. After the solstice in winter, count to nine, and the weather is getting colder every day. How to keep healthy in the cold solstice winter, let's have a brief understanding.

First of all, keep warm and cold. Diet should be warm, such as glutinous rice, dog meat, red dates, longan, sesame seeds, leeks, fungus and so on. Eat less cold drinks, seafood and other cold food. When the temperature is low in the morning and evening, the elderly should go out as little as possible, keep warm moderately, exercise moderately, avoid getting cold at the waist, and wear warm pants. In addition, soaking feet at night is also a good way of health care. As the saying goes, cold comes from the feet. According to the yin-yang nature of TCM, cold pathogen belongs to yin, and so does the lower body. Therefore, it is particularly important to keep your legs and feet warm in winter.

The second is to prevent diseases. During the winter solstice, colds or bronchitis are not easy to develop into pneumonia for a long time, so it is necessary to avoid colds and fatigue, put on warm clothes and vests, and actively treat the primary disease. Children with colds should pay special attention to early treatment to avoid catching a cold again and developing pneumonia. Cold air passes through the kidneys, so kidney diseases will get worse in winter. Friends with kidney disease should insist on winter treatment, pay attention to keep warm to prevent colds, avoid excessive fatigue, reduce the intake of salt and protein, and adjust their mentality.

Finally, nourishing yin and strengthening yang. In the face of deficiency syndrome, the principle of TCM treatment is to replenish deficiency. On the solstice of winter, Yin Qi reached its peak and Yang Qi began to sprout. In winter solstice, you should nourish the yang properly, and eat more warm medicines and foods, such as mutton, medlar and leek. Keep the law of daily life, open the window regularly for air, breathe fresh air often, and do outdoor physical exercise properly.