Mutton should be eaten for tonic of minor cold.

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the twenty-four traditional solar terms in China, which marks the coldest day of the year.

There is a folk proverb: "A little cold and a big cold make ice hockey". After the slight cold, I entered the coldest "three or nine days". Health experts suggest that we should pay attention to nourishing emotions, nourishing the heart and lungs, and conditioning the kidneys.

Eat more nuts and mutton.

The slight cold is due to the strong rural flavor and weak kidney qi in the middle of winter. In terms of diet, it is advisable to reduce sweetness and increase bitterness, nourish the heart and help the lungs, and regulate the kidneys. You can eat more sesame seeds, walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, raisins and so on. , can also be supplemented with medicated diet.

Health experts believe that in the mild cold season, we should eat more warm food to improve the cold tolerance of human body. Eating mutton during this period can play a very good health care role.

Specifically, mutton has the effects of strengthening yang, nourishing essence and blood, and treating lung deficiency, which is quite beneficial to patients with asthma, tracheitis, lung disease and deficiency-cold syndrome. In addition, mutton can also benefit kidney and strengthen yang, tonify deficiency and keep out the cold, and keep fit. Ginger mutton jujube soup, mutton yam soup, mutton lily soup, radish stewed mutton, etc. Both are very healthy combinations.

However, it should be noted that mutton is warm after all and not suitable for everyone. People with excessive fire due to yin deficiency, excessive cough and phlegm, indigestion, arthritis, eczema and fever should not eat.

In addition, it is best not to eat mutton with tea, vinegar and watermelon. Mutton is rich in protein, while tea contains more tannic acid. Drinking tea while eating mutton will produce protein tannic acid, which will weaken the intestinal peristalsis and reduce the moisture in the stool, thus inducing constipation. Vinegar has astringent effect, which is not conducive to the growth of yang in the body. Eating with mutton will greatly reduce its warming effect. Eating mutton and then eating watermelon is easy to "hurt your vitality". This is because mutton is sweet and hot, while watermelon is cold and belongs to cold products. After eating, it not only greatly reduces the warming effect of mutton, but also hinders the health of spleen and stomach.

Exercise should be after sunrise.

Slight cold is one of the coldest solar terms in a year. At this time, we must pay attention to keeping warm in our daily life. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cold coagulation leads to cold absorption", and joint pain, cervical spondylosis and even cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are prone to occur in cold weather. During this period, keeping warm is the first priority, especially in the parts that are easy to catch cold, such as shoulders, neck and feet. For the elderly, we should pay attention to ventilation while keeping warm and strictly guard against cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Slight cold is in winter, the month when the yang is lurking. In terms of mental conditioning, we should be calm, avoid being too excited, keep an optimistic attitude, and don't worry too much.

As the saying goes, "practice three or nine in winter", but the principle of exercise in the slight cold season is: first, start exercising after sunrise; second, exercise preparation should not be sloppy, and then take off your clothes when it is warm. Exercise moderately to nourish the stomach, and don't sweat. Dress in time after exercise to avoid the invasion of cold evil.

Editor: Administrator