What should I do if I am afraid of cold?

Today ushered in the last solar term of 202 1-winter solstice. Since then, China has entered the traditional "cold weather" and is about to enter the coldest period of the year.

There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "keep in good health for nine days in cold weather", and there is also a saying in Yijing that "the sun is born on the winter solstice". At this time, the sun is born in the yin pole, and the yang in the human body is strong, so it is the easiest to absorb foreign nutrition and play its nourishing role. Therefore, the winter solstice is the best tonic time of the year.

As the saying goes, "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year;" Make up for the winter season this year, and you can shoot tigers next year. "So, how can we make up for it? I'll explain it to you in an article today.

After the winter solstice, it is important to store and replenish, nourish yang, strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidney.

Everything is collected in winter, and health care should conform to the trend of natural collection, collect yin essence, condense essence and moisten five internal organs. Kidney is dirty water, which is hidden by the essence of five internal organs. Therefore, it is most important to tonify kidney in winter.

Scientifically tonifying kidney should be based on syndrome differentiation. Kidney deficiency is divided into yin deficiency and yang deficiency, which should be distinguished.

Kidney yin deficiency: tonifying kidney and nourishing yin

Kidney-yin deficiency is manifested as heat syndrome, with typical symptoms such as low fever, hot flashes, feverish sensation in five senses, night sweats, dry mouth, short urine, dry stool, red tongue with little fur, etc. In addition, there are symptoms of soreness of waist and knees and tinnitus. Men are prone to yang deficiency, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, and women have less menstrual period or metrorrhagia.

It is caused by a long illness, or lack of endowment, or overwork in the house, or taking products that are warm and dry and rob yin. Should nourish kidney and yin, you can choose Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Ecliptae Herba, Mulberry, Fructus Lycii, Corni Fructus, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, Carapax Trionycis and other medicinal materials for nursed back to health.

Kidney yang deficiency: warming yang and tonifying kidney

Kidney-yang deficiency is mainly manifested as fear of cold, which is usually prone to symptoms such as fear of cold, cold hands and feet, cold pain in the lower abdomen, and weakness in the waist and knees. Women also have problems such as palace cold and excessive leucorrhea. Men can see impotence, nocturnal emission, frequent urination, mental fatigue and so on.

Kidney-yang deficiency is related to staying up late for a long time, improper diet, or frequent eating of cold drinks and cold food, or due to kidney deficiency in old age and yang injury caused by long illness. Should tonify kidney and strengthen yang, you can choose Morinda officinalis, Cinnamomum cassia, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Herba Cistanches, Radix Dipsaci, cornu Cervi Degelatinatum, Cynomorium songaricum and other medicinal materials for nursed back to health.

Strengthening spleen and regulating stomach

In winter, the first thing to do is to tonify the spleen and stomach. Many people eat a lot of supplements in their lives, but the effect is very little. In fact, it is because "the shortage is not enough."

Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and "no tonic" is because the spleen and stomach are weak and cannot transport the essence of these tonics. Therefore, health preservation in winter should not only tonify the kidney, but also strengthen the spleen and stomach, so as to regulate the five internal organs and play a leading role in maintenance.

Drink more than three kinds of health soup in winter.

The way to preserve one's health is not before diet. How to eat? Here are three winter recipes for you.

1. Shuanghuang mutton soup

Ingredients: Radix Astragali, Radix Dauci Sativae, Mutton and Radix Angelicae Sinensis.

Practice: cut the mutton into pieces, blanch it, add all the ingredients, and stew it 1 hour.

Efficacy: benefiting qi and nourishing blood

Compendium of Materia Medica records that mutton is "bitter, sweet and hot" and can "strengthen yang and kidney, strengthen stomach and strengthen spleen". It is a good product for replenishing yang in winter. With angelica and astragalus, it can warm yang and replenish qi. At the same time, carrots can increase the supplement of vitamin A, which is suitable for people with physical weakness and yang deficiency.

But mutton is hot and easy to get angry when eaten. It is best to match cool or sweet vegetables, such as radish, wax gourd, Chinese cabbage, etc. Those with yin deficiency or body heat should eat less.

2. Black bean black chicken soup

Ingredients: black-bone chicken, black beans, red dates, ginger and medlar.

Practice: black beans are soaked in advance, black-bone chicken is blanched, and all materials are added to stew 1 hour.

Efficacy: Bushen Yijing.

This prescription takes the meaning of "Danggui black bean soup" in ancient medical code, nourishing yin and kidney, nourishing liver and kidney and enhancing immunity. In addition, Chinese medicine believes that black enters the kidney, and black food has a good nourishing effect on kidney essence. You can eat more black fungus, black sesame seeds, black beans and black rice.

3. Shen Si pork tripe soup

Ingredients: Chinese yam, lotus seeds, poria cocos, Euryale euryales and pork tripe.

Practice: Blanch pork belly and cut into pieces, add all ingredients and stew 1 hour.

Efficacy: invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach

Shen Si decoction is a famous prescription for strengthening the spleen in TCM, in which "Shen Si" refers to Poria cocos, Chinese yam, lotus seeds and Euryale euryales, all of which have the effects of nourishing spleen yin and thickening stomach. Pork belly is sweet and slightly warm. Belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian, it can replenish deficiency and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Cooking together will help digestion.

At the same time, you can also use Chinese patent medicines for tonifying kidney and prolonging life, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort. The precious medicinal materials such as red ginseng, velvet antler, hippocampus, finch brain and cistanche deserticola contained in Guilingji, which are put into the kidney meridian, have the effects of nourishing kidney, strengthening yang and benefiting essence. Can be taken according to the doctor's advice, which is a good choice for health and tonic in winter.

If you want to have a good body in winter, you should remember these three things.

In addition to daily diet, there are three things to remember if you want to have a good figure in winter!

1. Go to bed early and get up late to exercise.

Health preservation in winter should conform to the law of seclusion in nature, with gathering yin and protecting yang as the foundation. It is advisable to go to bed early and get up late to ensure adequate sleep, which is conducive to the hidden yang and the accumulation of yin essence. Generally 10- 1 1 go to sleep at night, and it is advisable to get up at 7 -8 in the morning.

In addition, physical exercise should be carried out properly in winter, but to avoid strenuous exercise, running and doing exercises can only be a slight sweat. Sweating is frustrating, which runs counter to the way yang is hidden in winter.

Keep your feet warm

In winter, keeping warm is the most important health care. All diseases start from cold, cold starts from the foot, and kidney meridian also starts from the foot. Yongquan point at the foot is its main point. So pay special attention to keep your feet warm.

Before going to bed every day, you can soak your feet in warm water and rub your feet hard. It is advisable to soak your feet for 20 minutes each time. The water temperature is 40~45℃, and the water level should at least exceed your ankle. Diabetic patients and patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should not soak their feet for too long.

3. Regular ventilation and moisturizing

It's cold in winter, and it's customary to close the doors and windows at home, which leads to poor air circulation and bacterial growth, which is easy to induce respiratory diseases. So pay attention to ventilation. Open the window for 20 minutes every morning, noon and evening to keep the indoor air fresh. In addition, a separate humidifier can be provided to maintain indoor humidity.

The solstice of winter is coming, I wish you a warm winter, eat three kinds well, do three kinds well and have a healthy winter!