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What health knowledge do you need to know about heavy snow solar terms?

During the solar term of heavy snow, you can eat more beef, rabbit meat, mutton and other meat that Chinese medicine thinks is warmer, which helps to enhance your body's cold resistance. For people with cold constitution, when cooking these meats, you can also put some auxiliary ingredients such as onions, garlic, ginger and peppers to improve the warming effect of these meats. But for people who get angry easily, it is best to cook these warm meats with white radish to prevent getting angry. In addition, you can eat more walnuts, black sesame seeds, oranges and other foods this season, which can also play a warming role. Here are some common sense of keeping in good health in heavy snow and solar terms for your reference:

Heavy snow solar terms supplement yang according to their own conditions. People with yin deficiency, such as red face, dry mouth, dry cough, chapped lips, dry skin and dry hair, should prevent dryness and protect yin, nourish kidney and moisten lungs, eat more soft and moist foods, such as milk, soybean milk, eggs, fish, sesame seeds, honey and lily, and avoid hot and dry foods, such as pepper, star anise and fennel. If people with yang deficiency are often pale, weak, tired and afraid of cold, they should eat more warm and soft foods, such as beans, dates, yams, longan, pumpkins, leeks, celery, chestnuts and chicken. And avoid sticky, dry, hard and cold food. During the solar term of heavy snow, we should pay attention to the invasion of wind evil and cold evil, especially the head and feet. This is because the occurrence of some diseases has a lot to do with not paying attention to keeping warm. Chinese medicine believes that the head is "the meeting of all Yang". Cold weather will make blood vessels contract, and people will have headaches and dizziness. For people with cerebrovascular diseases, cold can easily induce cerebrovascular diseases. It can be seen that it is very important to keep your head warm. In addition, as the saying goes, "cold starts from the feet", the blood supply to the feet farthest from the heart is slow and less, and the subcutaneous fat layer is thin, so the warmth retention is poor. Once it is cold, it will reflexively cause the capillary contraction of respiratory mucosa, which will reduce the disease resistance and lead to upper respiratory tract infection.