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Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival to sweep graves, mourn relatives and grieve. People will pay homage to their ancestors on this day, which is also an opportunity to vent their grief, which is conducive to eliminating bad emotions and is beneficial to mental health.

Everyone who has worldly desires will have anxiety or depression. This abnormal mood can be regulated by emotional health.

There are many ways to maintain a person's emotional health, among which Qingming mourning includes solemn meditation, emotional restraint, emotional venting and exercise adjustment.

Cry or shout moderately.

Crying is a direct way to relieve stress. The fluid in the liver is tears, and the diarrhea of tears can promote the liver to control the function of qi-flowing, regulate qi-flowing, and make the liver qi relax; Modern research shows that sad tears contain two neurotransmitters-leucine enkephalin and prolactin, which are related to people's nervousness and body's numbness to pain respectively. These substances are excreted with tears, which can relieve tension.

Tilt adjustment

People can talk to their ancestors and let the talkers talk about their grievances, depression, depression, anxiety and other emotions, so as to relieve or eliminate psychological pressure.

Motion regulation

Exercise is the best way to adjust mood. Exercise can not only enhance the motivation of life, but also be a good way to vent emotions. Proper leisure and exercise can relieve patients' stress, anxiety and depression.

Physiological research shows that exercise can promote the brain to secrete endorphin)；. Sweat excretion, hormones secreted by bad emotions. Qingming outing is also a sport; Ball games, which can not only exercise, but also vent depression by hitting, is the best recommended exercise method. Of course, these sports must be done within our capabilities.

cultivate optimism

Happiness is a panacea for mental health, and optimism can be cultivated through happiness training. Mental optimism can resist negative emotions that are not conducive to human health and promote human physiological functions.

People's personalities are different, but through exercise and cultivation in life, we can gradually cultivate optimistic personality and improve health and longevity.

Kindness and gratitude time

Kindness and gratitude are the nutrients of mental health.

Time is a good medicine for mental health.

Diseases that Tomb-Sweeping Day should focus on preventing.

Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

During the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, people are easy to get emotional, especially when the elderly visit graves, they are easy to have negative emotions, or indulge in sadness and can't control themselves. Therefore, Tomb-Sweeping Day has a high incidence of myocardial infarction, stroke and other diseases.

Elderly people with a history of coronary heart disease and hypertension should not be overly sad. It is best to be accompanied by relatives and friends to avoid accidents.

Asthma prevention

Qingming is the season when flowers are in full bloom and trees are lush, and it is also the high bee period when pollen and insects cause allergies, which is easy to cause itchy throat, cough, chest tightness and breath holding. And even induce asthma attacks.

Anti-dermatosis

During the Qingming period, high pollen concentration can also easily lead to allergic skin diseases. Therefore, people with allergies go out, try not to go to places where wild flowers grow, and always wear masks to prevent overwork.

In addition, when you go to the countryside to sweep the grave, you need to be careful of the insects in the grass. Especially when the humidity is high after rain, insects breed, such as tsutsugamushi disease, which is common in spring, and people are prone to tsutsugamushi disease after being bitten. So when sweeping graves in the wild, you should avoid going deep into the grass. It is best to wear long-sleeved underwear and boots, tie your pants tightly, and apply insect repellent to exposed parts of your body just in case.

Prevent catching a cold

Qingming is at the turn of spring and summer, and cold and warm air meet alternately. The weather and temperature vary greatly, sometimes hot and sometimes cold. Pay attention to prevent colds.

About the author: Li Fangling, chief physician, director of Chinese Medicine Department of Beijing Geriatric Hospital.

Doctor of medicine, tutor of master's degree, outstanding clinical talents of traditional Chinese medicine in China, compound talents of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in Beijing, and studied under Professor Sun Guangrong, a master of traditional Chinese medicine. He has been engaged in clinical work of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 30 years, and his main research direction is senile diseases combined with traditional Chinese and western medicine. Pay attention to the combination of medicine and nursing, and be good at treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic cough, kidney and spleen and stomach diseases in the elderly.