What should we pay attention to in the winter solstice solar terms?

What should we pay attention to in the winter solstice solar terms?

1, Daily life: Matters needing attention in daily life from winter to Sunday.

Winter solstice is the most important solar term in health preservation, mainly because "winter solstice is born by the sun". Slight cold and severe cold are the coldest seasons in winter solstice. People with heart disease and high blood pressure often get worse, and the number of people suffering from "stroke" increases, and it is easy to get frostbite in cold weather.

Therefore, in the cold winter, patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease should be especially alert to prevent attacks and take the following preventive measures:

A. pay attention to cold and warmth. When the temperature drops below 0℃, clothes should be added in time. Clothes and trousers should be warm, soft and loose, and should not be worn too tightly to facilitate blood flow.

B. Adjust diet and daily life reasonably, and do not drink, smoke or overwork.

C keep a good mood, be stable and happy, and avoid anger, impatience and depression.

D. Take appropriate cold-proof exercises, such as washing your face with cold water at ordinary times, to improve your body's adaptability to cold and cold tolerance.

E. Observe and pay attention to the changes of the disease at any time, go to the hospital for regular examination, take necessary drugs, control the development of the disease, and nip in the bud.

2, dietary supplements: winter solstice supplements.

Don't eat too spicy food on the solstice of winter. Eating too spicy can only lead to the accumulation of internal heat, which will persist. Overeating mutton, dog meat and other fat and sweet flavors can easily lead to indigestion and dampness and phlegm. In the north, while supplementing hot food, we should also eat some foods that supplement body fluids, such as water chestnut, lotus root, pear, radish and cabbage. "It's really a three-point poison", and food supplement is the safest.

3, mental outlook: winter solstice health care pays attention to "winter storage", focusing on nourishing the heart.

The winter solstice is the year with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. After the solstice in winter, the days will get longer day by day. After the winter solstice, the climate everywhere has entered the coldest stage, which is what people often say. There is a folk saying in China that "it's cold in March and hot in dog days".

With the arrival of this solar term, all activities tend to stop. In hibernation, you can conserve your strength and prepare for the coming spring. Just as "in winter, heaven and earth are closed, blood is hidden, and people can't sweat out yang." Therefore, going to bed early and getting up late, and doing it at sunrise, to ensure adequate sleep, is conducive to hiding yang and yin and essence. Don't sweat a lot.

Health care should also be based on nourishing the heart. Before keeping in good health, we should cultivate a kind and generous heart, and have no worries at heart. Keep the spirit open and optimistic, don't worry about trifles, don't force fame and fortune, and don't suffer from loss. Children should be caring and attentive to the elderly, so that the elderly can get spiritual maintenance.

Daily health care: Pay attention to acupoints in winter solstice.

The solstice in winter is the natural transformation of yin and yang. Moxibustion at Shenque is the best time to stimulate the rise of human yang.

In the four days around the winter solstice, plus nine days from the winter solstice, you can use moxa sticks to moxibustion Shenque point for health preservation. After burning the moxa stick, take the navel as the center and smoke around it. Be careful not to burn your skin, as long as you feel warm. Once a day, each time 15-20 minutes.

Shenque point is the foundation of the internal organs. It's the place where the pulse of Ren and Chong follow, the root of Qi returning to Tibet, and the key point connecting congenital and acquired. Moxibustion at Shenque point can tonify qi and strengthen yang, warm kidney and strengthen spleen, dispel wind and remove dampness, warm yang and save inverse, warm meridians and regulate qi and blood, which is very beneficial to the body and even makes people sick in the second year.

Disease prevention: pay attention to "looking up" from winter to Sunday, and it is early to prevent and control the influenza A epidemic.

Influenza virus is surprisingly contagious, and it can be caused by directly inhaling the virus in the air or bringing the virus into the respiratory tract by hand. Therefore, to prevent influenza, we must first cut off the transmission route of influenza virus, such as finding and isolating influenza patients in time and going to crowded places less; Second, we should strengthen physical exercise, pay attention to rest and supplement vitamin C in our daily life. Third, it is necessary to vaccinate against influenza in advance if conditions permit; Fourth, you can take some effective flu preventive drugs at ordinary times.

The origin of winter solstice

The Winter Solstice Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has been passed down to this day. Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of Yin and Yang and a blessing from heaven. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was the "Winter Festival", and the government held a congratulatory ceremony called "He Dong", which was a routine festival. There is such a record in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the winter solstice, a gentleman was prepared for danger in times of peace, refused to listen to politics, and chose an auspicious day to save trouble." So on this day, the imperial court had a holiday, the army was on standby, the frontier fortress was closed, the business trip was closed, relatives and friends sent meals to each other, visited each other, and had a "quiet" holiday happily.

According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, people worship heaven in the suburbs on the winter solstice. Since the first month of the weekly calendar is 1 1 month in the summer calendar, the first month of the Zhou Dynasty is equal to our present 1 1 month, so there is no difference between celebrating the New Year and celebrating the winter. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the summer calendar that the first month and the winter solstice were separated. Therefore, it can be said that the "Winter Festival" was celebrated only after the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has existed ever since.