Nowadays, thyroid disorders are increasingly threatening people’s health, and on May 23-30, International Thyroid Awareness Week, Professor Xia Zhongyuan recommended some simple ways for patients to protect their thyroid gland at China-Japan Friendship Hospital on the 21st. Chinese medicine health care for thyroid disease includes spiritual health care, meridian health care, diet health care, physical health care, and living health care. 1. Spiritual health care. As we all know, bad mood is the enemy of human health. After living well, the main reason for human illness comes from mental emotions, both Chinese medicine said “gas produces a hundred diseases”. Hyperthyroidism is considered to be a “psychosomatic disease” closely related to emotions. Patients with thyroid disease often feel a thicker and more stuffy neck, swollen and painful eyes, etc. when they are angry or nervous. The need for long-term medication and the fear of not being cured are the heartbreaks of thyroid patients. Therefore, to overcome thyroid disease and prevent it, the first thing you need to do is to avoid bad emotional stimulation and maintain a good state of mind. To treat the disease as an uninvited guest, we can’t push it hard, but find its weaknesses and finally break up amicably. Here are two simple spiritual health exercises for thyroid disease patients. One is to open your eyes in the morning, immediately think in your heart “today is really good mood”, let yourself start each day with a happy mood; two is to do a very needle before going to bed to adjust the suction relaxation: sit down to exclude distractions, first as deep as possible to breathe in, and then very slowly exhale the gas a little bit, so that the complicated mind calm down, the organism get Relaxation and rest. 2, meridian health. Through self acupressure massage method to achieve the purpose of dredging the liver, spleen, kidney. The meridians are the network bridges connecting the organs, and the points are the intersections where the body’s qi and blood accumulate. Thyroid disease can be the corresponding internal organs meridian points for health care massage. Such as liver fire can choose the back of the foot Taichong points, panic can massage the hands of the Nei Guan points, hyperthyroidism choose to supplement the important points of Yin San Yinjiao, hypothyroidism can massage and moxibustion strong points Foot San Li, Kunlun, Zhaohai, Guan Yuan points. 3, diet for health. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, drugs and food have four natures: cold, hot, warm and cool, and five flavors: light, sour, bitter, sweet and pungent. The foods that hyperthyroidism patients cannot eat are: iodine-containing foods. Iodine is the raw material for thyroid hormones, so do not eat seaweed and nori. Spicy, tobacco, alcohol and other stimulating foods. They can cause hyperthyroidism to increase the metabolism of the body, increase the heartbeat and sweat more, and increase the nervousness and mental excitement. Foods suitable for hyperthyroidism patients are: turtle and tortoise can nourish the kidneys and nourish yin to disperse knots. Food such as gum and longan meat nourish blood. You can also use saxifrage, yucca, maitake and other nourishing yin products in soup, with chrysanthemum, rose, lotus seeds heart clear heat of the product bubble tea drink. Pear “raw can clear the fire of the six internal organs, cooked can nourish the yin of the five organs”. Citrus is rich in vitamin C and potassium, which is beneficial for hyperthyroidism patients to prevent periodic paralysis caused by low potassium. The patient with hypothyroidism has slow gastrointestinal motility, easy edema and high blood lipids, so it is not advisable to eat cold, greasy and salty food, the diet should be light. You can choose some warm tonic Chinese herbal soup to eat, such as angelica, astragalus, American ginseng, wolfberry, mulberry, etc. Coix rice and red beans have the effect of strengthening the spleen and reducing water retention, which is good for hypothyroid patients. In addition, hypothyroid patients are prone to constipation, which is caused by slow intestinal peristalsis and weakness in pushing, and taking heat-clearing laxatives can solve a temporary problem, but will lead to many consequences, so it is not advisable to use them. Patients with goiter and nodules should eat less cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, radish and mustard because they contain a substance that stimulates goiter, thiocyanic acid, and eating more can cause goiter to worsen. To eat more food rich in selenium, such as soybeans, tomatoes, asparagus, sesame, mushrooms, etc. 4, physical health. According to the individual physical condition of patients with thyroid disease, usually can be appropriate with some relatively calm body toning Chinese medicine. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. 5, living and health. Thyroid disease is related to bad habits and behavioral methods, such as high-intensity work, strain and tension, staying up late, etc. Therefore, the recovery of thyroid disease requires stress reduction and regular habits of life. Sleeping “meridian nap” is also an easy and simple way to maintain health, that is, go to bed before eleven o’clock at night, and rest a little at noon is beneficial to the body. Hyperthyroidism is generally heavier and more likely to recur in summer, while hypothyroidism is heavier in winter, so patients should also follow the four seasons to avoid cold and heat.