How to take care of your health in spring

Prevent wind and cold spring and autumn frost February 4 will usher in the traditional festival of “spring”, spring for the twenty-four seasons of the lunar calendar in the first season, spring season when everything began to recover, opened the prelude to spring. After the spring, the temperature, sunshine, rainfall and so on are often at the turning point of the year, people will feel the day is long, the sun is warm. Therefore, in early spring, many people can not wait to take off thick clothes, change into spring clothes, wear single shoes. Unbeknownst to them, changing into spring clothes too early can cause the cold of early spring to take advantage of the situation and invade the bones and joints from the bottom to the top, from the surface to the inside, especially the exposed toes and ankles, knees and other joints. Dr. Xu Houping reminded that the beginning of spring just means that the weather is starting to warm up, not that it is already very warm. In early spring, the cold is not over, the first warm and cold, the public should not rush to take off thick clothes, on the contrary, pay more attention to keep warm. Diet and health more sweet and less acidic Spring diet is a very important thing for all generations of health care providers. Because this season of yang qi, vitality, but also a variety of germs and microorganisms reproduction, recovery season, the disease is very easy to epidemic, a reasonable diet can improve the body’s immunity, prevention of disease. The famous Tang Dynasty physician Sun Simiao in the “Thousand Gold Formula” has pointed out that the spring diet should be “save acid and sweet, in order to nourish the spleen qi”. It means that in spring, we should eat less sour food and more sweet food to replenish the body’s spleen and stomach qi. Chinese medicine believes that spring and the five organs of the liver corresponds to the liver, it is easy to occur liver qi over-exuberance, the spleen and stomach have a negative impact, preventing the normal digestion and absorption of food. Sweet food can nourish the spleen and stomach, and sour taste into the liver, the nature of the astringent, eat more is not conducive to the spring of yang qi and the excretion of liver qi, will also make the liver qi was on the high side of the liver is even higher, on the spleen and stomach to cause greater harm. This is one of the reasons why chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers and other diseases tend to recur in the spring. Chinese medicine said the sweet food, not only refers to the taste of food a little sweet, but more importantly, to have the role of tonic spleen and stomach. Among these foods, jujube and yam are the first. Modern medical research has shown that regular consumption of yam or jujube can improve the body’s immunity. If you cook congee with jujube, yam, rice and millet together, you can not only prevent the recurrence of gastritis and gastric ulcer, but also reduce the chances of suffering from infectious diseases such as influenza, so it is very suitable for spring consumption. In addition to jujube and yam, sweet foods are: rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum, Coix lacryma, cowpeas, lentils, soybeans, kale, spinach, carrots, taro, sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkin, black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, cinnamon, chestnuts, etc., each person can choose according to their own taste, and it is best to eat more. In addition, to eat less cucumber, winter melon, mung bean sprouts and other cold foods, they will hinder the spring body of Yang Qi’s development; eat more onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, onions and other warm foods, can play a role in dispelling cold Yin. Spring is a variety of chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, gallstones, hepatitis and other diseases are most likely to relapse season. Therefore, people suffering from the above diseases should pay extra attention to their diet. Usually it is best to drink more yam porridge, millet porridge, hawthorn, umeboshi and other acidic food must be respected far away. For people with gallstones and hepatitis, spring in the diet in addition to pay attention to follow the “save acid increase sweet” and “Yang” principle, but also should eat less greasy food, in order to prevent liver and gallbladder disease recurrence. Live regularly, moderate exercise after spring, in the living habits, people should gradually go to bed late and get up early. Spring is the best season for physical investment. Spring air is fresh, this environment is most conducive to spit out the old and new, and nourish the internal organs. Spring should strengthen physical exercise, more outdoor sports, such as: walking, running, hiking, gymnastics, boxing, playing ball, twisting rice-planting songs, kicking somersaults, jumping rope and so on. In addition, spring tour activities can be carried out. Spring tour is commonly known as “trekking”, it can make people by the winter confinement of the nerves can be open. To the beautiful spring field, to the green grass, to the water gurgling streams …… to receive sunbathing, air bath, in the world of flowers and the green sea, so that people’s spirits uplifted, relaxed, to achieve the cultivation of sentiment, cultivate the effect of temperament. It is important to note that this time of year sports should not be strenuous, should not be sweating, panting, otherwise it may consume Yang Qi, is not conducive to health. And because of the spring climate is still dry, exercise is also necessary to supplement the water.