Twenty-four solar terms and the way of health preservation

February 4th in the solar calendar is the first of the 24 solar terms. In beginning of spring season, it is very important to maintain health in season, which should conform to the characteristics that the sun is the god in spring and everything is born.

Spring belongs to wood, corresponding to liver. In terms of spring health, it is mainly to protect the liver. We can choose some herbs and foods that soften and nourish the liver, soothe the liver and regulate qi. The herbs can be Fructus Lycii, Radix Curcumae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Rhizoma Corydalis, etc. The food should be jujube, lobster sauce, onion, coriander, peanuts, etc. And the diet can be chosen flexibly, which can achieve good therapeutic effect.

Beginning of spring's diet and medicated diet should be based on "promoting tonic", and suitable diets include Shouwugan tablets, astaxanthin and Pearl Sanxian decoction, which have the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting essence and blood, blackening hair and improving eyesight, warming the middle warmer and benefiting qi.

Step 2 rain

The bucket refers to rain, the east wind thaws, and the snow and ice scatter into rain, hence the name rain. Among the five elements, liver belongs to wood, tastes sour, spleen belongs to soil, tastes sweet, and wood is better than soil. Therefore, the rainy season diet should eat less sour and eat more sweet to nourish the spleen. You can choose Toona sinensis, lily, pea seedlings, chrysanthemum, shepherd's purse, bamboo shoots, yam, lotus root, taro, radish, water chestnut, sugar cane and so on.

3. Shocked

There are 24 solar terms around March 6 in the solar calendar every year. Diet aftercare: you should eat more aphrodisiac foods, such as mutton, dog meat, chicken and venison. The principle of diet is to nourish yin and reduce yang, eat more light food, and choose supplements appropriately to improve human immunity. You can also eat some slimming porridge with the function of invigorating qi to enhance your physique.

You should also eat more light food, such as glutinous rice, sesame, honey, dairy products, tofu, fish, vegetables, sugar cane and so on. Generally, you should take supplements with the functions of regulating blood, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen and kidney, tonifying lung and strengthening brain.

4. vernal equinox

March 2 1 in the solar calendar is the vernal equinox in the 24 solar terms. The vernal equinox and solar terms divide the day and night equally, so people should also keep the balance of yin and yang in health care. For example, when cooking fish, shrimp, crab and other cold foods, the principle is that Bizot uses onions, ginger, wine and vinegar as isothermal seasonings, and when eating leeks, garlic, papaya and other dishes, it is often accompanied by eggs to nourish yin, so as to achieve the purpose of complementary yin and yang.

Suitable diets in the spring equinox season include white roasted eel, Eucommia ulmoides kidney flower, garlic roasted eggplant, etc., which have the effects of tonifying deficiency, lowering blood pressure, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

5. Qingming

April 5 or 6 of the solar calendar. The ancients said, "Eating sour, salty, sweet and bitter means not overeating. Don't eat liver in spring, heart in summer, lung in autumn, kidney in winter and spleen in four seasons. If you can't eat, these five internal organs are completely natural. " It is to warn people that the food supplement of the five internal organs should be moderate and not excessive.

Eating more foods that soften the liver and moisten the lungs, such as shepherd's purse, is good for the liver; Spinach is beneficial to the five internal organs and blood circulation; Chinese yam, spleen and lung; Light vegetables are good for yin and can nourish water and contain wood.

Qingming is the time when cold air and warm air meet alternately. Therefore, in the conditioning of soup, in addition to diuresis and dampness, proper supplementation is needed, and nourishing blood and relaxing tendons is the most important. Therefore, during the Qingming period, we should also take some tonics at the right time, such as tremella, which is sweet and non-toxic, can moisten the lungs and produce fluid, and benefit the yin and soften the liver.

6. Grain Rain

The Gregorian calendar is around April 20th. In late spring in Grain Rain, the main points of dietotherapy are nourishing liver, clearing liver and improving eyesight.

People suffering from wind, cold and dampness should not eat cold food such as persimmons, dried persimmons, watermelons, celery, raw cucumbers, crabs, snails, mussels and kelp. Patients with heat arthralgia should not eat pepper, cinnamon, prickly ash, prickly ash, ginger, scallion and white wine.