Little cold: nourish the heart, help the lungs and regulate the kidneys

  January 5 is the small cold season. Little cold is in the coldest time of the year, there is a folk proverb: little cold, big cold, cold into the ice mass. At this time, in health care are required to make appropriate adjustments according to the changes in the festival, smooth transition to the new year.  1, spiritual conditioning: small cold is in the winter months, at this time Yang latent, in terms of spiritual conditioning, should be calm and fixed, avoid excessive emotional excitement, maintain an optimistic state of mind, calm and fixed, do not labor and worry about things. Guangdong Provincial Hospital of liver disease specialist Chi Xiaoling 2, living conditioning: small cold is one of the coldest season of the year, at this time, in living must pay attention to keep warm. Chinese medicine believes that “cold stagnation, cold lead”, the cold weather, then joint pain, cervical spondylosis, and even cardiovascular disease are prone to develop, so pay attention to warmth, especially the shoulder and neck, feet and other parts of the easy to get cold warmth, in order to reduce the occurrence of disease. Especially the elderly, while keeping warm, pay attention to ventilation and closely guard against cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.  3, sports conditioning: as the saying goes, “winter refining three nine”, to the small cold, is also a good time to exercise, but at this time sports should be in the sunrise before starting physical exercise, before the exercise to do a good job of preparing for exercise, to be warm body and then take off heavy winter clothes for physical exercise; exercise to moderate, not to sweat out, to nourish the stomach; and exercise after to timely dressing, to avoid the invasion of cold. Exercise items can choose long-distance running, rope skipping, shuttlecock, etc.  4, diet conditioning: small cold is in the winter of December, when the earth is strong, the kidney is weak, diet should be reduced sweet increase bitter, to supplement the heart to help the lungs, conditioning the kidneys. In addition, the so-called “three nine tonic a winter”, small cold season, can be appropriate tonic, in the diet can eat more mutton, beef, sesame, walnuts, peach nuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, raisins, etc., can also be combined with medicinal meals for tonic.  Angelica ginger lamb soup Angelica 10 grams, ginger 15 grams, lamb 500 grams, salt, monosodium glutamate, onion each appropriate amount. Wash the lamb, cut it into small pieces, put it into a casserole with angelica, ginger and green onion, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with high fire, then cook it with low fire until the meat is rotten, add refined salt and MSG, then cook it for a moment. It has the effect of warming the spleen and kidney.  Quail stew with prince ginseng 250 grams of quail meat, 100 grams of lean pork, 15 grams of ginseng, 30 grams of Huai Shan, 10 grams of cinnamon meat, 15 grams of wolfberry, 10 grams of gorgonzola. Wash quail meat, lean pork, cut into pieces, party ginseng, Huai Shan, cinnamon meat, wolfberry, gorgonzola, together into a casserole, first boil over high heat, and then stew over low heat for 1 hour and 30 minutes, seasoned with refined salt. It has the effect of nourishing the five organs and benefiting the middle energy.  Far Zhi Jujube Porridge 10 grams of far Zhi meat, 10 grams of sour jujube kernel, 50 grams of round-grained rice. Put the rice into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil over high heat, then add the meat and jujube seeds and cook over low heat until the rice is rotten and the porridge is thick. It has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney, nourishing blood and calming the mind.  Steamed chicken with yam and wolfberry 1 broiler (about 1000 grams), 15 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, 20 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, 40 grams of yam, 30 grams of Chinese wolfberry, 25 grams of shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots, and the right amount of seasoning. Slaughter the chicken, wash and set aside; wash Astragalus membranaceus, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Chinese yam, Chinese wolfberry, shiitake mushroom and bamboo shoots, put them into the belly of the chicken, sew up the incision of the chicken, put it on a clean plate, steam it on a steamer for about 1 hour. It has the effect of nourishing the spleen and benefiting the kidney.  Shou Wu boiled eggs 2 eggs, 30 grams of Chinese radix, 15 grams of hawthorn, 6 grams of peel, soy sauce, star anise, salt, sugar, ginger slices in appropriate amounts. Put the eggs, soy sauce, salt, star anise, sugar and ginger slices into a casserole and boil them for 20 minutes on a gentle fire, remove the eggs, soak them in cold water and peel off the shells. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen, benefiting the kidney and nourishing the blood.